The IT crowd when they go to the theater. Roy gets caught in the disabled washroom and Moss gets a new job
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Thats the episode I was describing in the original post :D s02E1, The Work Outing
Brilliant
High pitched voice “I’m disabled”
...acid.
The whole thing is majestic
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.
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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.
That was something. We watched it with a group of friends and half the people were stunned and some had no idea whats going on, but enjoyed it regardless.
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"
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X-Files: Jose Chung's From Outer Space
You will never laugh so hard at the X-Files.
MASH: "Death Takes a Holiday"... really powerful and memorable.
- Travelers - S02E07 "17 Minutes"
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 😉)
- The Magicians - S05E06 "Oops!...I Did It Again"
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!
For the Magicians, the cause of the time loop was fucking hilarious.
Spoiler below!!!
~~The destruction of Earth lead to the breaking of a magic seal meant to hold an Eldritch being. Whales made this seal long ago, and whenever it breaks, it reverses time so that the breaking is undone. Whales are OP wizards.~~
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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.
You consider yourself a bit of a geek, but you don’t know off the top of your head that the name of that episode is “Best of Both Worlds”?
Pfft…
/s
It's cool that Hannah Montana was an inspiration for the title.
Stargate SG1 S4:E06 Window of Opportunity
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Groundhog Day, but Stargate.
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.
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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!
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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.
It's a very recent one but my answer right now has to be Arcane, season 2, episode 7. It's a brilliant show from start to finish but this episode in particular is such a gut punch it still hurts to think about.
Still hard to beat the Top Gear original amphibious vehicle episode.
Deep Space Nine: “The Visitor”
A lot of great shows aren't coming to mind, but one great show is:
Atlanta - The Goof Who Sat by the Door (Season 4, Episode 8)
Without a doubt top 5 funniest episodes of anything I've ever seen. This show was absolutely brilliant, with a lot of great episodes, but this one was... chefs kiss
They wouldn't work by themselves (for the desert island thing) but there are two season finales I love. Dark season 2 and Mr Robot season 3. Two great seasons with tension being built up and these gave just the perfect ending.
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