New game: What's your favorite all time EPISODE in TV history?

[Bert]

Any show, any genre. Just has to have aired on TV, or streaming originals like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon are acceptable.

Not your favorite show, just 1 episode that you think is the BEST EPISODE OF ANY SHOW EVER!


Thought this one would be fun because we'll all most likely be different and it's super subjective so we can all make our case!

I would say, FOR ME: The greatest single episode of any show I have ever seen was Ozymandias of Breaking Bad (S5:E14)

Spoiler

Just the inevitability of Hank being killed, and then the events that followed; Walt telling Jesse the gut-wrenching truth about Jane's death.... Jessie being held prisoner by White Supremacists (aka Fine people) and Skylar fighting with Walt and Walt Jr. having to hold a knife on his father and call the police... I turned off this episode and just sat in my chair and thought about it for a long time after watching it. So dark, so bleak, yet so good.

Just an amazing episode in an amazing show.


So what's your favorite episode of TV in the history of TV?

 

[Cheesebeef]

Good thread idea Bert!

Ozymandias - Breaking Bad

That was the most shattering hour of drama I've ever seen.

So much for being different!

 

[Cheesebeef]

2nd Favorite might have been:

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - Sweet Dee's Dating A ******** Person

It's the first episode where Dayman was created. I repeatedly died laughing watching them come up with that song.

 

[Bert]

Good thread idea Bert!

Ozymandias - Breaking Bad

That was the most shattering hour of drama I've ever seen.

So much for being different!

It was so good, it was ridiculous. I actually hesitated to make that my pick because it felt like cheating but that's honestly my pick. It was absolutely incredible Drama.


Ya know, when making lists, I always forget Sunny, which is absurd because it's one of my fav shows. I noticed this in the Top 5 sitcoms thread I created. I didn't include IASIP in my list and I felt bad afterward. Maybe I feel subconsciously like IASIP is so far ahead of everyone else's curve that it's kida cheating to include them haha. Danny Devito cracks me up in that show because he's just like fudge it... I'm gonna play the character I've always wanted to play. lol

 

[Cheesebeef]

It was so good, it was ridiculous. I actually hesitated to make that my pick because it felt like cheating but that's honestly my pick. It was absolutely incredible Drama.


Ya know, when making lists, I always forget Sunny, which is absurd because it's one of my fav shows. I noticed this in the Top 5 sitcoms thread I created. I didn't include IASIP in my list and I felt bad afterward. Maybe I feel subconsciously like IASIP is so far ahead of everyone else's curve that it's kida cheating to include them haha. Danny Devito cracks me up in that show because he's just like **** it... I'm gonna play the character I've always wanted to play. lol

Devito is off the charts ridiculous in that show.

Third favorite episode of TV was Breaking Bad:

Half-Measures

That freaking ending when Jesse is about to kill those two corner guys who killed that kid, then Walt coming out of nowhere to SMASH them, shoot both in the head and then just look up and say one word:

Run.

Best last line in any show ever. Simple, straight to the point and delivered to Perfection.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I'm totally hijacking your thread and turning this into YOUR TOP FIVE FAVORITE EPISODES

1. Ozymandias - Breaking Bad
2. Sweet Dee's Dating A ******** Person - It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
3. Half-Measures - Breaking Bad
4. Through The Looking Glass - Season 3 Finale Lost
5. Nip/Tuck Season 2 Finale - (where the Carver cuts Christian)

Honorable Mention:

1. Goal Line - Necessary Roughness Season 1 Finale

Yes, a bit egotistic since I wrote it, but I loved and to this day still love the speech I wrote where Dr. Dani gets TK back on the field where she breaks down his issues about beating the Minefield on the field v. the Minefield's in life. I wrote that entire script in a fever dream writing surge against the tightest deadline ever, but more than anything, when I wrote that speech, it felt like the speech was writing it's damn self. And I love that I was able to write a football ending about a WR who becomes the hero by blocking the SNOT out of the Minefield and sacrificing his body for the team since he couldn't beat the guy one on one. That was a MAJOR battle to not just have TK FINALLY catch the game-winning TD and go with the ending that on the page ONLY football fans would get. Still wish we would have gotten a more solid one-on-one crackback block for the shot, but the fact that I got that ending was good enough for me. Still pissed though that they didn't use "TK BLOWS UP THE MINEFIELD!!!" and went with "TK DECKS THE MINEFIELD!!" No one calls a guy getting the snot knocked out of him DECKED in football! That one still bothers me to this day.

 

[GatorAZ]

Last episode of Six Feet Under.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Last episode of Six Feet Under.

Oh damn... that's actually definitely my number 2.

 

[Chaplin]

There's a lot, but my clear #1 is:

The X-Files - Post-Modern Prometheus

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David Duchovny's favorite episode as far as the Scully/Mulder relationship. The final dance to the Cher impersonator singing "Walking in Memphis" was improvised by the two of them when David danced with Gillian.

 

[SO91]

The Wire - Middle Ground.

 

[Bert]

Last episode of Six Feet Under.

Never saw an episode of that show. One of those I've always meant to watch but never have gotten around to it.

 

[puckhead]

'The Inner Light' on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Picard gets mind-linked to an alien probe and lives a complete life on another virtual world in a matter of minutes. He falls in love, marries, has children, and grows old. All of the things he never had time for as a Starfleet captain focused on his career. Amazing performance by Stewart and I still get chills when I hear him play that flute.

 

[puckhead]

For Sunny, it's got to be 'High School Reunion'. From Dee having to wear the back brace to finding out Mac's full name to this:

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[Stout]

Hmm...there's...

The Ram Has Touched the Wall on Rome, as well as the series finale
The Hawkeye sneezing episode on MASH (any episode with Sidney, really)
Heart of Gold and Out of Gas on Firefly
Grace Under Pressure from Hill Street Blues
The Scrubs finale (before that abortive series return)
Ned Stark execution episode on Game of Thrones.

That's a few I really like

 

[oaken1]

thats a tough call.... the episode I thought of,..well,..I hate it...and everything that it is, is based upon everything that came before. But it is a very well written and well played episode.

Sons of Anarchy..... "Stolen Huffy"

 

[Beaver]

One that immediately came to mind was "Modern Warfare" from Community.

 

[Chaplin]

The pilot for Lost is pretty close on the heels of my X-Files #1 favorite episode.

 

[Bert]

The pilot for Lost is pretty close on the heels of my X-Files #1 favorite episode.

I googled that X files episode. Looks very interesting. Will have to watch it sometime.

 

[Covert Rain]

Pilot episode of Lost. It literally set the world on fire. I remember at the time people were just like what the hell did I watch and the world was hooked after that. A more recent example has to be either the Red Wedding in Game of Thrones or even the Hodor episode where they reveal why he says that.

Loves X-files pilot was good too.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Car Pool Lane

 

[Cheesebeef]

Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Car Pool Lane

is that the one where Larry picks up the hooker to go the Dodgers game? If so, that episode actually exonerated a wrongfully sentenced man accused of murder.

http://uproxx.com/sports/curb-your-enthusiasm-carpool-lane-facts/

 

[Covert Rain]

I don't watch the show anymore but Grey's Anatomy has had some shocking episodes. The episode where there was a shooter in the hospital that took out some of the cast was shocking. So was the plane crash that did something similar. Both episodes were memorable.

Then there is killing Buffy's mom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

To me some of the best episodes are the ones with deaths that had a lasting memory.

 

[Chaplin]

I don't watch the show anymore but Grey's Anatomy has had some shocking episodes. The episode where there was a shooter in the hospital that took out some of the cast was shocking. So was the plane crash that did something similar. Both episodes were memorable.

Then there is killing Buffy's mom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

To me some of the best episodes are the ones with deaths that had a lasting memory.

I think the best of those episodes is the episode where Henry Blake dies in a helicopter crash on MASH. They had already wrote him out of the show by having him going back to the states, but it was quite a shock when they went further and killed him off.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

is that the one where Larry picks up the hooker to go the Dodgers game? If so, that episode actually exonerated a wrongfully sentenced man accused of murder.

http://uproxx.com/sports/curb-your-enthusiasm-carpool-lane-facts/

Wow! There were a million things happening with that episode.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Wow! There were a million things happening with that episode.

haha... right? That's one of my favorite "only in Hollywood" stories...