Best TV Episodes of all time

[Someone]

just interested to see what episodes people have watched of all the different tv shows there are, and where they rate them. you might not like a certain show but one episode caught your attention, or maybe it was the cliffhanger ending etc.

nothing is off limits, drama, comedy, whatever. discussion/arguments about what tv episodes were done and executed brilliantly, keep in mind everyone will have different tastes in shows.

Il kick it off. in no particular order


NCIS - Twilight, Requiem, Patriot Down

Homeland - The Weekend, Q & A, New car smell, Marine One

HIMYM - Bad News

Law and Order: SVU - Authority, Fault, Signature

Underbelly: Suffer the Children, Best Laid Plans

Friends: The one where everybody finds out, The one with the prom video,

Greys Anatomy: Sanctuary/Death and all his friends , I saw what i saw, Now or Never

Band of Brothers: Why we Fight, Breaking Point, Crossroads

Community: Modern warfare, Digital Estate planning, Remedial chaos theory, Cooperative calligraphy,

New Girl : The Cooler, Normal, Chicago

CSI (original) - Grave Danger,

Scrubs: My Lunch, My Screw up

Packed to the rafters: Packed to the rafters, Perfect Bubble, Rest in Peace,

 

[carcharias]

Seinfeld - the contest

 

[axl rose]

Blackadder Goes Forth- Goodbyeee

 

[Springs]

Band of Brothers - Day of Days, The Breaking Point, Why We Fight

Blackadder - Goodbyeee

The Wire - Sentencing, Bad Dreams

Game of Thrones - Baelor, The Rains of Castamere

Fawlty Towers - The Germans

Scrubs - My Screw Up, My Lunch

Breaking Bad - One Minute, Salud, Face Off

The Simpsons - Flaming Moes, Last Exit to Springfield, Treehouse of Horror V, Cape Feare

The Walking Dead - Killer Within

 

[Danish]

Scrubs - My Last Words

Haven't seen a TV show tackle dying in such a realistic way before or since

 

[veggiepatch1959]

The Twilight Zone (original black and white series with Rod Serling)

The After Hours

To Serve Man

The Eye of the Beholder

 

[Munky]

The Simpsons seasons 4 - 8, almost every episode was pure gold.

 

[Pete Cash]

Seinfeld - the contest

Most of season 4 on top of that but I also like the pitch, the bubble boy and the virgin.

 

[Red Bear]

I liked the Chinese Resteraunt from Seinfeld, brilliant.

The Therapists from Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Too many Simpsons episodes to mention, but Last Exit, You Only Move Twice, And Maggie makes Three, Homer vs the Eighteenth Amendment, Much Apu about Nothing etc etc.

Stage Two and Placebo Effect from Archer

Futurama - Jurrasic Bark

Agreed with Blackadder ep mentioned.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

The Simpsons - Last Exit to Springfield. Might just be my favourite episode of any TV show ever

Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry vs Michael J Fox :lol:

Seinfeld - The Restaurant and The Parking Garage I think are the two best for being able to pull off two high quality episodes in one setting for the entire length. To make an entire episode out of losing your car in a car park is pure genius as is waiting at a restaurant.

Trailer Park Boys - The Delusions of Jim Lahey

South Park - Up The Down Steroid. So wrong but so funny

OZ - A Game of Checkers

M*A*S*H* - Abyssinia Henry - Even though I watched this some 20 odd years after it originally aired it was still a hard hitting episode to take. Brilliant and changed the direction of the show.

Breaking Bad - Freight

Game of Thrones - Baelor. Impacted me more than the Rains of Castamere tbh

Futurama - Jurassic Bark

The Sopranos - Whoever Did This

Frontline - The episode they took the piss out of Stan Grant

 

[mongoose]

4 words...

No Soup for You!

 

[mongoose]

4 words...

No Soup for You!

Honestly from Season 3 onwards, there was maybe 2 episodes of Seinfeld that were below average and they were right at the end of the series.

The one where Jerry steals the Marble rye is a classic as well.

 

[MattYg1]

Damn... i cannot think of the names of any of these episodes but

Seinfeld & Simpsons - to hard to seperate them all they have all just melded into this singularity of consciousness at this point.

Sopranos - the episode where Christopher and Paulie end up stuck in the snow trying to find that Russian... brilliant... (Edit - Pine Barrens - i think it was called)

Tony Soprano: [over the phone] It's a bad connection so I'm gonna talk fast! The guy you're looking for is an ex-commando! He killed sixteen Chechen rebels single-handed!
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Get the f**k outta here.
Tony Soprano: Yeah. Nice, huh? He was with the Interior Ministry. Guy's like a Russian green beret. He can not come back and tell this story. You understand?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: I hear you.
[hangs up]
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: You're not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.
Christopher Moltisanti: His house looked like shit.

Community - Documentary Filmmaking: Redux and Remedial Chaos Theory...

Scrubs- Bens death and My Lunch

Dexter - Last episode of season 4

House - Broken episode 1 and 2

Adventure Time - Marceline's Closet

 

[Springs]

Ah I forgot about M*A*S*H, but I thought the best episodes were Tuttle, Abyssinia Henry, Sometimes You Hear the Bullet and Goodbye Farewell and Amen. Plus any episode with Colonel Flagg.

 

[nöyd]

Ah I forgot about M*A*S*H, but I thought the best episodes were Tuttle, Abyssinia Henry, Sometimes You Hear the Bullet and Goodbye Farewell and Amen. Plus any episode with Colonel Flagg.

lol

the episode where Flagg thinks he's conspiring with Winchester to out Hawkeye as a commie sympathiser is brilliant, all the while Charles is just playing Flagg for a punk. Add in some one-liner gold from BJ and Potter and it still rates as one of the best shows ever imo

still tear up watching Goodbye, Farewell & Amen

 

[nöyd]

also the Blackadder episode (not sure what series - Elizabethan I believe) where Tom Baker guest stars, I knew the entire script word for word, so many lols

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Ah I forgot about M*A*S*H, but I thought the best episodes were Tuttle, Abyssinia Henry, Sometimes You Hear the Bullet and Goodbye Farewell and Amen. Plus any episode with Colonel Flagg.

Not sure of the name but the episode where Trapper was written out was brilliantly acted by Alan Alda and the one where their bus breaks down are favorites of mine.

Lol the episode with the antique was funny too.

 

[Bulldog Force]

I'll list my favorites...

The Simpsons: Mountain of Madness
Honorable mentions, Marge vs the Monorail, Last exit to Springfield, Nuclear Physics 101, Who shot Mr burns 1 & 2.

Futurama: The lesser of 2 evils
Honorable mentions: Jurassic Bark, Word is the H Word, Luck of the Fryrish

Rules of Engagement: Old School Jeff

How I Met Your Mother: Woo girls

Two and a Half Men: Walnuts and Demerol

2 Broke Girls: And the Blind Spot

Seinfeld: Soup Nazi

Everybody Loves Raymond: She's the one

Becker: Physician, Heal Thyself

Swift & Shift Couriers: The Dead Body, Part 1

Spin City: Snowbound

Modern Family: Caught in the act

 

[nöyd]

Love 5 o'clock charlie as well, season 1 iirc

 

[Springs]

Love 5 o'clock charlie as well, season 1 iirc

Season 2. Great episode. The mix between humour and drama was done so much better in the early seasons.

The episode when Trapper left was Welcome to Korea I think.