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Scrubs, Where do you think we are?
A perfect misdirection the entire episode, us as the viewer have no idea what is happening or why Dr Cox is losing it, until it all just shatters. We experience his grief firsthand, not understanding and denying it, until the world shatters around us and reality finally forces its way through. It's perfectly done, and completely gut wrenching
Dang, I definitely remember this scene and it's been ages since I've seen this show.
The episode is "My Screw Up" (S3E14) if anyone is wondering.
I might actually prefer "My Lunch" from S5 as an episode, but they are both fantastic.
The Luck of the Fryrish - Futurama
Fry spent his life thinking his brother was a dick who was stealing his personality, when all he really wanted was to be around him. And by the time he realized it, it was too late. Having a similar relationship with my brother, this hit close to home. I keep telling myself if I ever got a tattoo, it would be a 7 leaf clover.
Community, season 3, Pillows and Blankets.
It's a campus wide pillow fight between two friends / armies done as a Ken Burns Civil War documentary.
Winger's critics suggest he merely improvised hot-button patriotic dogma in a Ferris Bueller-ian attempt to delay schoolwork. Winger decries the accusation as "A slanderous betrayal akin to 9/11." Later after the war, he would refer to the theory as "essentially accurate."
There are people who say: 'I don't get it, so it was a pillow fight.' To which I say: 'You weren't there.'
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Hush
The writing for this silent episode is just wonderful, and the whole cast’s chemistry really shines in their non-verbal acting
Mine is also from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, but the complete opposite of Hush; mine is Once More, With Feeling. The musical episode.
But I have to admit, the stabby stabby masturbation joke in Hush is one of the best jokes on the show.
Both excellent, but I have to put The Body at the top. I think that’s where I realized how excellent some of the actors in this show were, SMG in particular. Anya’s monologue has stayed with me in a way nothing else from tv or movies ever has. Would I rather enjoy a OMWF singalong? Yes, any day. But The Body felt like a one of a kind thing.
I didn't recognize the episode title, and had to Google to see which one you meant.
Now I'm crying. Fuck, that episode was powerful.
I applaud both Buffy answers and would like to add "The Body" to the mix.
The IT crowd when they go to the theater. Roy gets caught in the disabled washroom and Moss gets a new job
Thats the episode I was describing in the original post :D s02E1, The Work Outing
Brilliant
When I read “IT Crowd” that was the episode I imagined before you even described it lol
High pitched voice “I’m disabled”
...acid.
The whole thing is majestic
Will not spoil it, but I absolutely love/loved the series finale episode of Summer Camp Island. Such a wholesome ending with such a good payoff, in my opinion, to everything that happens in the later seasons when the show decided "we want to be a story driven series!" more than the first and maybe 2nd season.
Twin Peaks season 3 episode 8 comes to mind. It might not be something I want to watch over and over but it's probably the most incredible thing I've ever seen on broadcast TV. A surrealism short film in the context of a series that both has a self contained story and speaks to the broad narrative of the series. Krzysztof Penderecki's Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Nine in Nails, The Platters' "My Prayer" on the soundtrack? Amazing! Still to this day I can not believe the artistic freedom allowed by Showtime to create this. Jaw was on the floor for the entire episode. I've felt for a long time that nothing could actually be new/shocking/different on broadcast TV. This changed my mind. Nothing has even been close imho.
I watched all of Twin Peaks because I was interested in the hype around David Lynch and wanted to see his most recent work.
This episode made it all worth it.
Succession has some of the best screenwriting of any TV show or movie, IMO. S3E08 "Chiantishire" stands out to me. So much of the dialogue is passive-aggressive or euphemistic. S4E09 "Church and State" is also an absolute marvel, with the main scene being shot with 8 cameras simultaneously, and showing some of the most powerful performances in the series.
Favorite might be a strong term but definitely the most impactful was the episode or two where Bojack Horseman discussed miscarriages because I was watching through the series on a depressive streak after experiencing such a thing in my own life when I got to that part.
I've seen Scrubs mentioned before, so I'll go with the Doctor Who episode "Blink".
It's a weird one because the Doctor is barely in it, but the story's great and it's the Angel's first appearance.
MASH: "Death Takes a Holiday"... really powerful and memorable.
Timeloops, what more can I say. They're fun.
TLDR: Main Cast of Time travelers die, but no worry, we literally have time travel, so the future send another time traveler's conciousness back in time before the team dies, the time traveler take over a skydiver that historically died and averts their host's death, then races to do their primary mission of saving the main cast time traveler team, they only got 17 minutes left. But the mission fails, then they try again, and again. For almost 10 times.
Why: Because I just love watching each iteration progress. Like, imagine if life had do-overs... But its a mission instead.
(I'm horrible at explaining things, but just watch the entirety of Travlers, trust me 😉)
MORE TIME LOOPS, what more can I say? (I almost forgot about this one, but Travelers reminded me of this)
Earth goes Kaboom, but an ancient spell reverses time for 12 hours, only 2 people, specifically 2 Magicians, remember the previous loop. So they try various spells to fix it.
Why: Its more timeloops, so fun, thats why!
Stargate SG1 S4:E06 Window of Opportunity
Tap for spoiler
Groundhog Day, but Stargate.
"In the middle of my backswing?!"
Not my favorite, but it's certainly a good one.
Same. I didn't dare to say it, but since I'm not the only one... I also think that one is an outstanding episode and amongst my favorites. I think the SG-1 writers were crazy anyways. Mixing well-written episodes with the daily grind of almost the same plot happening just on a different planet... for like 10 episodes straight... Then some melodramatic stuff, or more a sitcom in-between. Sometimes it seems they just didn't give a f--- and the main actor wasn't available so they just made his character invisible... And they made an effort to also sometimes include story arcs, sometimes not, or portray single characters in an episode. All within a very limited and confined format... Because I think a lot of SG-1 has been cheap mass-production.
Star Trek:TNG, that episode where Picard has been captured and turned by the Borg.
Backstory: I've always considered myself a bit of a geek, but despite this I never watched Star Trek. From 2008 to 2012 I was working on a ship, so I needed something to watch. So I decided to start watching ALL of Star Trek, starting with the pilot, then via Kirk, etc.
Come 2010 I wad at home with my GF, and we were watching TNG together the evening before I was to fly out. And with each episode it got more and more exciting, to the point where it was 0200 in the morning and 8 had to get up early to catch a flight for work at 0900.
"OK, one more episode, and then we HAVE to call it quits for now".
Well, yeah, that was the episode that ended with the cliffhanger of Picard having been captured. I ended up not sleeping at all that night.
It's always sunny in Philadelphia - "The gang cracks the liberty bell"
'Charlie Work' is up there also. just a fantastic job.. and all those long takes are icing on the cake!
The Russian episode of The Sopranos. Dude gets shot in the head and keeps running. They look for a long time and they never find him, throw up their hands and go "well fuck, he's probably dead." And they never mention it again throughout the rest of the series. And nothing ever happens. Legendary.
Edit: episode is called "pine barrens"
X-Files: Jose Chung's From Outer Space
You will never laugh so hard at the X-Files.
Mine is recent, but I've watched the specific episode about a dozen times now because I think it's just brilliant.
S2E5 of Interview with the Vampire, "Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape". It's immaculate. I can quote the entire San Francisco argument.
Deep Space Nine: “The Visitor”
Still hard to beat the Top Gear original amphibious vehicle episode.
