I thought the lawnmower episode on Mad Men was hilarious - especially when they all talked about the guy’s advertising career being over because he lost some toes and couldn’t play golf anymore.
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The Seinfeld where Kramer adopts a highway. At the very end Kramer spills paint thinner on highway and Newman catches a mail truck on fire. He yells the same line - Oh the humanity.
That episode cracks me up every time.
My favorite Seinfeld episode was when George said he was a marine biologist and had to pull a golf ball out of a whale's throat that Kramer had hit into the ocean.
That’s a great one. I also love the Chinese Restaurant episode. Just incredible considering they hardly move during the entire episode.
Succession, "This is not for Tears," though maybe this is only epic as a finale on top of a season long build up. But the episode was the perfect bookend to the opening episode of the season and a goddamn masterpiece.
When it comes to television there are a lot of people that mistake it for a matter of preference. That is not the case.
Mad Men, while imperfect, is an objectively better show than FNL or SITC. For Zeke to insert those shows into this thread was a travesty.
Never saw GoT … but you are spot on with WKRP. I agree with the rest as well … though 24 was good not great (but still agree that timing of the show brought me into at the time)
https://www.empireonline.com/tv/features/best-tv-shows-ever-2/ Both on list of top 100 shows of all time. Objectively? Tv is subjective.
Saying which art is better is inherently subjective.
But, that doesn't really matter. The thread was about episodes, not shows. Even a bad show can have an excellent episode.
True. But Sex in the City can’t have an excellent episode.
I wouldn't know. I never watched it. But it does have some episodes show up on various "best" lists, so who knows?
I look at it this way. Some people may prefer a hanger steak from Applebee’s to a Filet from Gibson’s.
They’re not objectively wrong, but we all know they’re wrong.
Taxi - Jim gets his drivers license
Seinfeld - The Contest - “I’m out.”
Seinfeld - The Contest - “I’m out.”
You are objectively wrong. Anyone who tells you that television is anything other than a matter of preference is badly misinformed and a card-carrying member of the dreaded "cultural elite". Congrats on that though. Who knew?
This isn’t exactly an episode from a TV series, but one of the funniest I have ever seen was on the Tonight Show.
Joey Bishop was a guest host. Doug McClure was a guest on the show. McClure played a tough guy on a western. As they were sitting on the set engaged in conversation, somebody from the audience yells “McClure, you’re a hot dog!” McClure ignores him. He yells it again, and McClure looks out and yells for security. The guy does it again, and McClure jumps up, takes off his coat, and challenges the guy to come forward. The guy climbs up on stage and he and McClure start brawling. Bishop is going nuts. This goes on for a bit, Bishop is apoplectic, and then McClure and the guy start laughing their asses off. The whole thing was a gag and everybody except Bishop was in on it.
Of course the studio audience and the TV audience had no clue either.
Joey Bishop was a guest host. Doug McClure was a guest on the show. McClure played a tough guy on a western. As they were sitting on the set engaged in conversation, somebody from the audience yells “McClure, you’re a hot dog!” McClure ignores him. He yells it again, and McClure looks out and yells for security. The guy does it again, and McClure jumps up, takes off his coat, and challenges the guy to come forward. The guy climbs up on stage and he and McClure start brawling. Bishop is going nuts. This goes on for a bit, Bishop is apoplectic, and then McClure and the guy start laughing their asses off. The whole thing was a gag and everybody except Bishop was in on it.
Of course the studio audience and the TV audience had no clue either.
Ed Ames - who played Daniel Boone’s Indian pal - threw a tomahawk at a body target on Carson one night. Hit the target in the crotch and it looked like an erection. Carson lost it - but left it up.
The “in the butt” episode of the Newlyweds was memorable.
All in the Family had a lot of moments, but the night Archie met Michael Stivic was awesome.
I think we have been too American centric, the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth.
Ironically, Whitman Mayo, the actor who portrayed Grady in Sanford and Son, died in 2001 at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
FNL. A show with Adrienne Palicki and Connie Britton. Trash? Nah
The Coupling Episode where Jeff makes up the story to the woman on the train he has an amputated leg to impress her. For anyone who has not seen the British version of Coupling, the Jeff character is maybe one of the funniest characters that hit TV. I bought the DVD package of all the seasons but once he left the show it was just not the same.
The Coupling Episode where Jeff makes up the story to the woman on the train he has an amputated leg to impress her. For anyone who has not seen the British version of Coupling, the Jeff character is maybe one of the funniest characters that hit TV. I bought the DVD package of all the seasons but once he left the show it was just not the same.
I wanted to come up with a Latka or Jim episode but couldn't remember any. Those 2 were really funny.
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The Rewatchables recently did their first TV episode review:
Miami Vice: Calderone's Return
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Miami Vice: Calderone's Return
The ‘Miami Vice’ Two-Part Episode "Calderone’s Return"
Bill and Chris take their talents to South Beach to rewatch the installment from Season 1 of ‘Miami Vice’
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Here's another good photo of him (sorta):I'm still amazed the same actor could play both Argus Filch and Walder Frey so well.
Maybe Willy is drinking Poly Juice Potion.
Just started re-watching this for the first time since I was a kid. It's amazing how much more there is to the show, watching it now!!!
The subtext; issues faced by society and the cops that you just never noticed or understood as a kid .. and this is only the pilot. I don't remember a thing.
I think I only watched it back then because of Veronica Hamel, truth be told.
I always thought John Sanford used the Hill Street Blues characters as inspiration for the Prey novel characters, including the name Davenport.
Love Mike Post‘s theme music. I have it on one of my playlists. He wrote some good stuff.
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