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3 best TV episodes of all time?

Posted on 05/19/2017 6:42:04 PM PDT by MNDude

There are probably tens of thousands of TV episodes from the different decades. Most of them are probably pretty lousy looking back, but of course a few were rather stellar.

The episode on Little House on the Prairie where Mary goes blind, nightmare at 20000 feet on the Twilight Zone, the episode with a huge battle on Game of Thrones, or the Pilot of The Wonder Years are examples of some great episodes.

In your opinion, what are the three greatest TV episodes of all time?


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To: 867V309

Aw, yer gonna make me cry. Just lost dad last year and he would always want to play his John Cleese videos.


201 posted on 05/19/2017 10:41:59 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: MNDude
"Wings" where they fly Carlton Blanchard to New Mexico to see his brother.
"All in the family" The change of life episode.
"MASH" where General Steele visits {Harry Morgan's first time on MASH but he was playing the part of a looney tunes General}
202 posted on 05/19/2017 10:44:17 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: dsm69
Maybe not a whole episode but the Tim Conway/Harvey Korman dentist sketch from the Carol Burnett Show (1969 I believe). Definitely one of the most funny sketches in TV history!

Conway went off script in that one adding some extras and caught Korman by surprise making him wet his pants. Look up Carol Burnett show outtakes on Youtube. Conway's Mr Tudball needs a secretary is also hilarious. It is not quite the same version played on TV LOL.

203 posted on 05/19/2017 10:50:56 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: BlueLancer

The last show of Craig Ferguson Late Late Show has Craig wondering who has been wearing the stupid horse costume the entire time (the horse is there every night).

The horse takes off the head and it is Bob Newhart.

“Bob Newhart!! What are you doing in the horse costume!?”

“Beats me - it’s your dream!”

Then it shows Mr. Wink (or whatever the bosses’ name was on the Drew Carey show) waking up and screaming in bed. The person next to him rolls over and it is Drew Carey!

“Oh it was horrible - I was on this crummy talk show. And you were skinny and ran a fabulous game show!”

I was watching a show called “Person of Interest” and really like one episode. The brainy guy was undercover as a math teacher, and the high school kids thought it was stupid, and they were learning PI.

The speech (below) is even better on video with the kids’ reactions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXTRcsxG7IQ

Harold Finch: Pi. Can any of you tell me what it means?

[There’s no response from the class]

Harold Finch: I’ll settle for an intelligent question here.

Lily Williams: My friend has a question, Mr. Swift. “What is any of this good for, and when would we ever use it?”

Harold Finch: Let me show you. Pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, and this is just the beginning; it keeps on going, forever, without ever repeating. Which means that contained within this string of decimals, is every single other number. Your birthdate, combination to your locker, your social security number, it’s all in there, somewhere. And if you convert these decimals into letters, you would have every word that ever existed in every possible combination; the first syllable you spoke as a baby, the name of your latest crush, your entire life story from beginning to end, everything we ever say or do; all of the world’s infinite possibilities rest within this one simple circle. Now what you do with that information; what it’s good for, well that would be up to you.


204 posted on 05/19/2017 10:59:40 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: Kickass Conservative

That was a funny skit as well. Burnett was Scarlett O’Hara. Dinah Shore was in it. Harvey Korman was Rhett Butler as well as Tim Conway. Vicki Lawrence was the hysterical slave maid!!!


205 posted on 05/19/2017 10:59:52 PM PDT by dsm69 (Boycott News Media/Hollywood Advertisers)
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To: GreenHornet
The Honeymooners: “The Golfer” (Helllooooo Ball!)

Honeymooner's doesn't count too many classics and Jackie Gleason and Art Carney are just too funny.

But the $64000 question episode where Ralph can't guess the first song after nailing every song at home family and friends through at him. I won't give it away but hilarious episode

The other that comes to mind is Ralph's diet episode: "Poor little pizza isn't good for nuttin' "!

206 posted on 05/19/2017 11:13:30 PM PDT by stig
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To: cva66snipe

Yes the first run with that skit was stale. Burnett gave Conway the OK to ab lib/improvise for the second recording and like you said caught Korman totally off guard which made the skit one of the all time best TV moments.

That dentist chair skit was also the first time Korman did a skit with Conway. I’ve been taping the Carol Burnett show reruns on MeTV lately and you can tell when Conway goes off script by seeing Korman break character and start chuckling!


207 posted on 05/19/2017 11:14:16 PM PDT by dsm69 (Boycott News Media/Hollywood Advertisers)
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To: al baby
WKRP As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly

I laugh just thinking about that episode.

"Oh the humanity!"

208 posted on 05/19/2017 11:15:41 PM PDT by stig
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To: MNDude

Dick Van Dyke show spoof of invasion of the body snatchers using walnuts.


209 posted on 05/19/2017 11:17:04 PM PDT by stig
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To: MNDude

Many have mentioned Breaking Bad’s final episode, but the third-from-last episode named Ozymandus was the greatest. It is the only item on imdb that has a perfect 5 stars, even with thousands of votes.

To appreciate the Ozymandus episode, you need to have seen most of the Breaking Bad series leading up to it. The episode just explodes the major storylines of the series in a mere 60 minutes.

1st runner up: The pilot episode (as in the first episode) of Lost.


210 posted on 05/19/2017 11:34:41 PM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: al baby
WKRP As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly

I was going to suggest the same thing. Second best line ever said on television.

"This is an ex-parrot!" is number one in my book.

211 posted on 05/20/2017 12:26:06 AM PDT by zeugma (The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
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To: cynicalman

Had to be the funniest and best ending of any show ever.


212 posted on 05/20/2017 2:43:46 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: MNDude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiWY0iRLV94

Not a sitcom, but there has been no better TV in history - “The Young Turks” (Election Day 2016)


213 posted on 05/20/2017 3:43:03 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: TChad

....but I think I preferred his “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.”


That is definitely my next favorite X-Files episode. In fact, both are close in terms of quality and originality. What breaks the tie is that Jose Chung is also part parody. Plus the all the scenes with the Men in Black (MIB) are pure gold. [In fact, this episode introduced the MIB term into popular culture]


214 posted on 05/20/2017 4:07:52 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: MNDude

Twilight Zone

To Serve Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-8BO7aGFdY

Eye Of The Beholder
https://archive.org/details/TwilightzoneEyeofthebeholder

Button, Button
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnft4iX3jfg

The Obsolete Man
https://archive.org/details/TheObsoleteManS2TwilightZoneFullEpsiode


215 posted on 05/20/2017 4:41:50 AM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fictionr)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

YUP


216 posted on 05/20/2017 4:50:58 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Wait. Janet from Three’s company? Looked pretty average to me. Then again, not a guy so wasn’t paying too much attention to her backside lol.


217 posted on 05/20/2017 4:57:00 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: Karliner

What a great actor he was in that show. Couldn’t get anyone more perfect for the role :) Edith was so good too. I forget the actress name now...


218 posted on 05/20/2017 5:02:05 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: kelly4c

Maureen Stapleton.


219 posted on 05/20/2017 5:02:49 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

Close. You jogged my memory. It’s Jean Stapleton :)


220 posted on 05/20/2017 5:13:34 AM PDT by kelly4c
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