Classic episodes from favorite TV Series

[LynneSin]

Classic episodes are those memorable episodes that you can say a phrase or a scenario and folks automatically can visualize which TV Episode you are talking about.

For example: If I said "As God as my Witness, I thought Turkeys could fly" folks know that's probably the absolutely best episode ever of "WKRP in Cincinnati" when the radio station did a turkey drop from a helicopter with live turkeys.

Another example would be "Master of my Domain" which was a key phrase from one of the best Seinfeld Episodes "The Contest" where the 4 main Seinfeld characters wanted to see who could go the longest without, well, um, (please don't lock for a sex thread) masterbastion.

So what are other legendary/classic episodes from your favorite TV series?

[wysimdnwyg]

1. No soup for you!!!

Next!

[southpaw]

40. Totally the Soup Nazi!!!

[Insider]

2. marsha marsha MARSHA!

that's one.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. Some classic Doctor Who storylines (no surprise)

The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Tomb of the Cybermen
Spearhead from Space
The Deadly Assassin - ok, it's basically The Manchurian Candidate, but it's great
City of Death
Warrior's Gate
Kinda
The Caves of Androzani
Remembrance of the Daleks
Ghost Light

[BOSSHOG]

4. MASH

The episode where Hawkeye and BJ kept a critically wounded Soldier alive so he would not die on Christmas Day. Awesome.

[11 Bravo]

5. The Mary Tyler Moore show where Chuckles the Clown

was killed by an elephant who thought he was a peanut. "Cause of death, a busted goober."

[Richardo]

9. A little song, a little dance...

A little seltzer down your pants..."

:D :thumbsup: excellent choice, 2D2BP!

[Westegg]

30. Cry! Cry for Chuckles!

A-Ha-Ha-Ha-ha-Ha!!!!

[NightTrain]

6. All in the Family

1. "Sammy's Visit." That final shot, when Sammy Davis Jr. kisses Archie on the cheek, has to be one of the funniest moment in TV history!

2. "Edith's Problem." In which Edith goes through menopause and is transformed from her usual ditzy, good-natured self into a petulant hellbeast. The funniest moment occurs when Edith tells Archie to, "Stifle!"

[Rowdyboy]

7. Designing Women...Any of Julia Sugarbaker's tell-off rants

In the first episode she told of being at a fancy party in Washington. She asked a woman "Where are y'all from?" The woman replied "I'm from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions..." Julia replied graciously, "I'm sorry. Where are y'all from, bitch?"

[kmla]

8. "It's a dog eat dog world, Sam, and I'm wearin' Milk Bone underwear."

Norm.

A slacker when slackin' wasn't cool...

[Faygo Kid]

45. Frasier meets Lilith, and the heat is generated on a TV talk show

Laughed myself silly when the hormones kicked in between those two. Bebe Neuwirth was one hot toddy.

[Insider]

10. Golden Girls doing Chicken Little

that's another

[bigwillq]

49. Great episode

I love GG!

[pagerbear]

11. "I just saw it in a window and I had to have it!"

Carol Burnett

[Faygo Kid]

38. "Went With the Wind," Carol Burnett

I crack up just thinking about it.

[Loonman]

12. South Park: "Rainforest", "Raisins", "Mormons"

"Starvin' Marvin In Space"
"Chinpoko Man"
"Tweek Fights Craig"
"Lemmiwinks"

[Bridget Burke]

13. "Seoul Mates"--Northern Exposure (The Christmas show)

Maurice finds he's a father (& grandfather), Holling sings "Ave Maria" for Shelley, and Marilyn explains why Raven lights are popular:

"A long time ago, the raven looked down from the sky and saw that the people of the world were living in darkness. The ball of light was kept hidden by a selfish old chief. So the raven turned himself into a spruce needle. She became pregnant and gave birth to a boy, who was the raven in disguise. The baby cried and cried until the chief gave him the ball of light to play with. As soon as he had the light, the raven turned back into himself. The raven carried the light into the sky. From then on, we no longer lived in darkness."

In honor of the forthcoming Northern Exposure DVD's. The 8-episode first season is coming & eventually the rest ought to be available.

[Richardo]

17. That was such a great show...

MArilyn was one of the best-realized characters ever.

[VOX]

50. NX will be available on DVD (at last) this May!

Just a heads-up...

:toast:

[MrBenchley]

14. The "Stout Hearted Men" episode of Wonder Years

That was not a classic series, but that one episode was one of the funniest half-hours in television history....

The ski lodge episode of Frasier....

The episode of Frasier where Niles dresses like Jesus...

The dog psychologist episode of Frasier....

The bowling episode of Cheers....

Chuckles the Clown's funeral on Mary Tyler Moore....

The episode of Newhart where his talk show ends up with the world's smallest horse instead of John Cheever...(That's a dog wearing a saddle....")

[Another Bill C.]

15. "He wants to talk to you...alone."

Bob Newhart, The Jackie Story. Psychologist Bob is counseling a ventriloquist and his dummy who wants to break up the act. Ventriloquist tells Bob, "He wants to talk to you...alone."

[Toby109]

16. Newhart's last show

where he wakes up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette from his '70s show.

[Westegg]

32. Man, I hope who ever came up with that one...

...Got a big fat raise. That was brilliant!

[Faygo Kid]

39. A classic moment in TV history.

Named our daughter for Emily (Bob's wife in the original). Gawd, she's 27 now!

[alwynsw]

18. Aunt Bea's Pickles

Andy and barney save themselves from the Aunt Bea's "kerosene cucumbers" by replacing them with "good ol' store pickles". They got more than they bargained for.

[pagerbear]

20. What about the spaghetti episode?

Aunt Bea is out of town and Andy has multiple invitations to dinner on the same night--some real, some mistakes because of Goober's poor message-taking skills. He winds up eating three spaghetti dinners in one night.

[alwynsw]

31. Also a classic as is: "Citizen's arrest! Citizen's arrest!"

I know that I sound terribly old and backward when I say it, but I do miss the good old days of "moral" television.

I have no issues with most shows these days, but they (nealry) all (writers) seem to believe that they have to either shock us or beat us over the head with a script to drive home a point. It's wither that, or mindless insults. The sarcasm that passes for comedy is getting old, too.

There are a few good shows out there. They just seem to be getting fewer and farther between.

[Faygo Kid]

37. Barney's motorcycle. The cave rescue. The "fun girls" from Mt. Pilot

"Welcome, sweet springtime" (Barney joins the choir). And on and on. I still love that show (the black and white years, of course). Otis buys a car; The elderly sisters running a still; Floyd's pen pal; the haunted mansion. . .

[alwynsw]

41. Yup. Too many to list for Mayberry

almost every episode should be considered a classic.


How about Aunt Bea's "tonic"? Or Malcolm Merriweather? and I still lmao when Gomer's shotgun falls from the courthouse roof.

I guess my favorite group of Andy episodes has to be anything with the Darlings. What do you expect? I grew up in hill and holler country in KY.

[King Coal]

46. I still watch it whenever I can

Ernest T. Bass throwing rocks was always a hoot.

[Faygo Kid]

47. Glad to find another AGS rerun watcher.

You are right. Too many to list, but have to mention Aunt Bee, The Warden (poor Otis! "Andy, don't send me back to The Rock!")

[alwynsw]

56. Possibly the best show TV ever offered

Morally sound without being preachy. And we all knew someone in the ensemble right in our own neighborhood.

edited to add: reruns now. saw them all first run, too. I'm old.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

60. I love the fun girls!

"Hi'ya doll"
"Oh Bernie, you're a scream!"

[BlackVelvetElvis]

59. My only complaint about Andy Griffith

Too few episodes with the Darlins'.

[Butterflies]

19. Pooloo see bagumba

Gilligan saying "free the prisoners" to the headhunters.

[fudge stripe cookays]

62. Bingo, Bango, Bongo and Irving! It's the Mosquitoes!

Glad to see I'm not the ONLY connosieur of fine television!

"You need us....bzzzzzzz............"

[HEyHEY]

21. "Don't play dumb, you're not as good at it as I am."

Colonel Flagg - M*A*S*H

[LynneSin]

24. Anything with Col Flagg was a classic

:D

[4morewars]

36. "I think the wind just broke his leg"

[OneBlueSky]

22. on Taxe, when Rev. Jim was taking his driving test . . .

Jim: What does a yellow light mean?

Alex: Slow down.

Jim: What . . . does . . . a . . . yel . . . low . . . light . . . mean? . . .

classic stuff . . . :)

[VOX]

53. Also the one where Jim goes with Elaine to a stuffed-shirt party...

He winds up playing the piano -- "Uhhh, I musta had music lessons!"

:toast:

[Whitacre D_WI]

23. "We're not supposed to move the body!"

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. From UK "Not the Nine o'Clock News":

(presidential aide, quietly) it's incredible, isn't it ...
(president, loud and confidently) it's incredible, isn't it ...
(aide) ... that a cretin such as this ...
(president) ... that a cretin such as this ...
(aide) ... should become President of the United States.
(president) ... should become President of the United States.

Actually in response to Reagan getting elected, but if only they could have seen what happened 20 years later ...

[GAspnes]

26. "You should be on MasterMind!"

"Next contestant Sybil Fawlty. Special subject 'the Bleedin' Obvious'."

or

"All right! We'll find the rat first and deal with the sackings later on!"

or

"Don't talk about the war."

or

"There's an entire conference there."

[Papa]

27. BUFFALO BILL : The episode with all the Jerry Lewis Impersonators

Buffalo Bill was an older show from the 80's (maybe early 90's) that starred Dabney Colman. It was the first show where the Star was an unlikeable SOB.

On this particular episode, they had a contest of Jerry Lewis impersonators, and everywhere Dabney went he was accosted by the Jerry Lewis guys. It was one of the funniest things on TV ever. I was later watching some special on Jim Carey and he was one of the Jerry Lewis guys. TV Guide rated it as one of the top 10 funniest moments on TV .

I wonder if this series will ever come out on DVD.

[LynneSin]

28. That was a show that was cancelled way too early

I barely remember the episode, but I do remember that Buffalo Bill was funny as hell!!!

[MrBenchley]

29. That WAS great....

The finest moment was the "Jerry Lewis" trying to prevent the station manager from commiting suicide by "cheering him up."

Another classic moment from that series, Joanna Cassidy telling him that she was pregnant...

Dabney: "Who's the lucky father?"

And the 94 year old tap dancer....

"This man has ratted his last tat."

[Spider Jerusalem]

33. "Stop talking about the war!"

"You started it!"

"No we didn't!"

"Yes you did! You invaded Poland!"

[VOX]

51. "I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it!"

Classic, classic stuff.

-Watery Fowls-

[Sandpiper]

34. The Simpsons "Sherry Bobbins" Episode

Wickedly funny.

[GOPisEvil]

35. Edith's rape episode - All In The Family

[geniph]

55. To this day, I cannot watch that without bawling

she was such an outstanding actress. The whole studio audience stood up and cheered when she clocked him with the casserole.

[King Coal]

42. Crossfire

When Begala made Ted Nugent choke on hot venison sausage.:kick:

[Faygo Kid]

43. "Coach," where he wore the colostomy bag

And had to do a TV talk show. Wasn't my favorite show, but a good one, and never laughed harder at a single TV episode.

[VOX]

54. I remember this one -- funnier than all hell!

:toast:

[tigerbeat]

44. simpsons: "guatemalan insanity pepper"

another great drug-addled sitcom episode is the brownie episode from "barney miller"

[Nevernose]

57. With the giant, slow-mo "gabba-gabba-hey" head

That was a great episode...

[bigwillq]

48. The "Roseanne"

When Roseanne and Dan find the bag of pot and they all smoke it. Jackie was the best in that episode. Laughed so hard and no I was not high.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

61. In the bathroom of all places

who here could NOT identify with that episode?

[VOX]

52. Ed Ames throwing the hatchet on the "Tonight Show" w/ Johnny Carson...

Johnny: "Welcome to Frontier Briss."

[Dogmudgeon]

58. "The flea has chose her dog"

Larry, Darryl and Darryl have lost their new love to another denizen of Bob Newhart's world. (The world where he is the ski resort operator, not the world where he is the psychotherapist.)

--bkl

[Kat45]

63. "Taxi", Louie DiPalma's H.S. reunion; Bobby 'acted' as Louie

That one was such a riot!

Also the "Taxi" when Jim Ignatowski built Elaine a castle out or his van, and of course the one someone already mentoned when he played the piano at the high society party (and was the hit of the party)

[NoPasaran]

64. "Pat Paulsen's Half A Comedy Hour"

Where he did his walking on water stunt.

Funniest. Bit. Ever.

[Kat45]

65. "All in the Family" when Archie gets busted with the antiwar protesters

Man, I loved that one.

Also the holiday episode when Mike's old friend, who went to Canada during Vietnam, showed up and joined them for dinner. Also at the dinner was Archie's friend Pinky Peterson, whose son was killed in Nam. That was a powerful episode.

And the one when Archie constantly insulted and made fun of Mike's friend, who was sensitive and wore glasses, because he thought he was gay (he wasn't) and it turned out that Archie's friend Steve, an ex-football player, was gay.