Memorable TV show episode(s)

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SheCantGoHome@reddit

WKRP Thanksgiving episode, when they drop the turkeys from the aircraft. It gets me every time! 😹😹😹

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Pretty_Leader3762@reddit

But when Arthur ran that bike shop he ruined the good vibes from his WKRP days.

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jimonlimon@reddit

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

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SarahJaneB17@reddit

Twin Peaks pilot episode. I'm still a huge fan all of these years later.

Buffy. Hush, The Body, The Wish.

Taxi. Reverend Jim's driving test.

All of the 3rd and 4th Black Adder series, and the holiday episodes.

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shortstop_princess@reddit (OP)

I recall watching an episode or two when I was a teenager and not understanding it. Maybe I should give it a go as an adult(?)

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bendingoutward@reddit

I had that same experience and came to the same conclusion. Hopefully you learn that you're mature enough to appreciate it now.

I did not 🤣

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SarahJaneB17@reddit

My rewatch numbers are in the double digits. It has such a great atmosphere, the acting is top notch, and it's David Lynch. I love his films too.

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TheEnigmatyc@reddit

Twin Peaks was unparalleled. I still watch it regularly.

Also, Hush had me sleeping with the lights on. And 🙏🏻 to you for loving the musical! I cried my eyes out at that episode.

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I'm pretty sure Buffy was the first show to do a musical episode. The songs are catchy, the lyrics are important to each character, and it's both tragic and funny in places. I love Sweet, the demon, and his song is especially great. Plus, getting to hear Tony Head sing was an extra treat. The songs stick in my head for days afterwards. I love it.

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MareOfDalmatia@reddit

The Taxi Reverend Jim driving test was the one I was looking for. I watched that live when I was a kid and I have still never laughed so hard at a TV episode in my life since.

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SarahJaneB17@reddit

The idea itself is funny, but everyone's comedic timing in that, their expressions and reactions are perfect. I had tears I was laughing so hard.

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captain_hug99@reddit

What does a yellow light mean?

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SarahJaneB17@reddit

Slow down!

Okay...

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MNVixen@reddit

Whaaaat . . . dooooooes . . . a . . . yell-llow . . . liiight . . . mean?

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MNVixen@reddit

OMG, how did I forget Jim's driving test. That will have me howling when I see pieces of it online.

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Sharynm@reddit

The Body is the thing I watch whenever I need to have a big cry.

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SarahJaneB17@reddit

It's so well done. One of the best tv episodes ever in my opinion.

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Comprehensive_You42@reddit

For the brits, it’s the final scene of Blackadder goes forth.

It’s the best final scenein British tv.

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shortstop_princess@reddit (OP)

Someone else commented the same scene 🙂

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Comprehensive_You42@reddit

It is. Hugh Laurie was known through the 80’s & 90’s for his comedy, especially his double act with Stephen Fry. It took me a while to get used to him doing straight acting.

Rowan Atkinson’s Blackadder character is arguably more popular in the UK than his Mr Bean.

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GaryNOVA@reddit

My all time favorite show is r/Cheers ;

Thanksgiving food Fight
Woody’s Wedding
Cliff on Jeopardy
Sam and Diane kiss

Also I love the pilot and the Halloween episodes of r/MySoCalledLife

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mostlygroovy@reddit

I think the season finale of the first season is the best tv ever

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r2killawat@reddit

When they announced Coach had passed away. 😢

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mostlygroovy@reddit

The season finale of the first season of Cheers is the best network TV ever made

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CustersGhost1876@reddit

Magnum PI episode Did you see the Sunrise?

If you know you know..

https://i.redd.it/y16h35pdf1vg1.gif

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mostlygroovy@reddit

Fuck you Ivan

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sunny_gym@reddit

There's a lot, but the first one that comes to mind is the Family Ties episode where the kids rent out their rooms during the weekend of the homecoming football game, while Steven and Elyse are away. "There was a kangaroo...in my living room" is permanently etched in my brain.

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DullAmbition@reddit

Come on dad, do you plan to be mad at us forever?

That is my plan.

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sunny_gym@reddit

YES I almost added that line because it's just as funny. Michael Gross had such perfect delivery

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DullAmbition@reddit

It’s Your Move: The Dregs of Humanity

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EnjoyingTheRide-0606@reddit

The last episode of Roseann was incredibly touching and memorable for me. Growing up I was very similar attitude-wise to the character Darlene!

My fave TV series finale of all time is Lost.

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LoveIsLove75@reddit

Taxi - the episode where Elaine gets a horrible haircut from the gay hairdresser played by Ted Danson. Alex brings her to the salon to complain and Ted's character is a complete prick. The episode ends when Elaine grabs a big bowl of hair dye and threatens to spill over Ted's head. Alex calms her down and says something like "If you do this, you're not better than he is.". Louie comes in grabs the bowl and spills it over Ted's head and says "You may be better than him. But I'm not!" He walks over to the front desk and kisses the girl and they all walk out together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwwuge2Lq14

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MareOfDalmatia@reddit

This is actually from the early 2000’s, but The Everybody Loves Raymond episode where Robert’s date eats a fly stays with me. Ray’s reaction was priceless.

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JJQuantum@reddit

ER episode titled “Love’s Labor Lost” where he goes to deliver a baby and everything that can go wrong does go wrong. It doesn’t hurt that Bradley Whiford plays the dad. If that episode doesn’t get to you then you have no soul.

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Negative-Appeal9892@reddit

The episode aired in 1995, when I was pregnant with my daughter, and I remember going to the OB-GYN, terrified, and explaining what happened during the episode.He told me to take my prenatal vitamins and stopwatching t v.

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Tinsie167@reddit

I was pregnant when it aired too. That’s definitely why this episode stays in my memory.

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Negative-Appeal9892@reddit

Family Ties: A, My Name is Alex

MASH: Abyssinia, Henry

ER: Love's Labour's Lost, The Healers, Hell or High Water

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Blue_Henri@reddit

Loves labor lost! So so hard. Remember it like I saw it yesterday. The look on Anthony Edward’s face when sherry stringfield was like, you gotta let it go…

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r2killawat@reddit

Henry Blake's last episode hit hard. It just took the wind out of our sails.

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gcwardii@reddit

Oohhh that ER episode. I saw it when it first aired and will never forget it, even though I never watched it again.

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Five_String_Serenade@reddit

The Sopranos where Paulie and Christoph-uh are stuck in the snowy woods. Possibly late ‘90s so I’m throwing it in.

Cheers, with the Thanksgiving food fight. This was the episode that made me laugh the most.

All in the Family when Archie finally fesses up how much he loves Edith.

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blackpony04@reddit

That was hands down my favorite Sopranos episode of all time. Paulie's hair going crazy wild was absolutely hysterical.

I recently rewatched the series for the first time since it originally aired and the show really holds up. Heck, since my memory has always been sketchy, binge watching them really connected story lines across the seasons that I totally missed the first time.

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Five_String_Serenade@reddit

It’s my absolute favorite episode as well. I seem to remember Paulie having shoe issues, limping through the snow, and one of them getting caught by the other hoarding something goofy like Tic-Tac’s. The whole thing is hilarious. I just looked at Wikipedia to find out specifically about the shoes. It wasn’t mentioned but what I did find was that it was Steve Buscemi’s first episode to direct. Greatness. Not until Breaking Bad did we see anything remotely comparable, writing wise.

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blackpony04@reddit

Yes, Paulie lost a shoe and one of them had Tic Tacs (Christopher I think). And also ripping up that skanky van carpet to get warm. So great. But the crazy hair? chef's kiss

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Five_String_Serenade@reddit

I just Googled the hair. Extra funny since he was always coiffed. I gotta rewatch this episode! Gold.

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Express_Towel47@reddit

Hash on Barney Miller. Everyone eats homemade brownies and gets stoned.

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sammie_mozelle@reddit

China Beach and Northern Exposure, even though I was probably a tad too young to watch them.

Also, I was a hardcore Jem Girl (but the Misfits' songs WERE better). For a silly cartoon, some of those songs were awesome and well-produced.

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badmotorfinger74@reddit

Get a Life, when Chris Elliot built a submarine in his bathtub.

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gperu@reddit

There was a 2-part Laverne and Shirley where they mail their boss an I quit letter and then break in to get it back. They have to get around all these alarms and pitfalls and I thought it was so cool. We see the break in twice, first how they plan it and then how it actually goes.

I remember always checking Laverne and Shirley whenever it was on to see if it was that episode. I was almost always disappointed. Can't find it on YouTube or anything either.

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lectroid@reddit

And now we know where Troy Duffy got the idea for all those scenes in Boondock Saints!

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thorneparke@reddit

Troy Duffy lol. Watch the documentary "Overnight", it's fascinating.

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MalcolmReady@reddit

Voulez vous du buerre

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shortstop_princess@reddit (OP)

I just watched that episode 🤣 Don't you think Madeline kinda looks like Taylor Swift?

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Tinsie167@reddit

After school specials

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nixtarx@reddit

Boomer culture so inescapable we have to be nostalgic about their nostalgia...

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CanadianContentsup@reddit

A time it was, and what a time it was, it was.

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OnlyDaysEndingInWhy@reddit

I'll have you know, I closed the thread too fast, realized what I'd done, and had to open it up and scroll all the way down just to upvote your comment.

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youcantgobackbob@reddit

“Sorry, Wrong Meeting” on The Jeffersons. I will never forget this episode.

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BuckyRainbowCat@reddit

Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode 3-11 and 3-12, Past Tense parts 1 and 2. Sisko, Bashir, and Dax get stuck in a dystopian 2024. When I watched it as it aired in 1995, I was like, cool story, but no way are things gonna get that dystopian in 30 short years. Well, friends [nervous laughter], turns out the writers didn't make their predictions dystopian enough.

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MNVixen@reddit

I can think of three off the top of my head:

3rd Rock from the Sun. Dick (played by John Lithgow) is required to participate in sensitivity training. Afterwards, he shows up in his physics classroom wearing a very flowing, thin, brightly colored shirt over a black unitard. I laughed so hard . . . Lithgow was absolutely fearless in 3RFTS and I loved every minute of it.
WKRP in Cincinnati. The turkey episode. If you know, you know. Starting around November 1, my family will tell each other - as often as possible - "as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
M*A*S*H. Lt. Col. Henry Blake's last episode. Heartbreaking.

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saposguy@reddit

There's an air museum near me that does a turkey drop every year for the kids. They have the episode playing in the lobby. They are plush not real turkeys, if you were wondering.

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HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit

Classic, classic, classic WKRP in Cincinnati episode.

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Empty_Nestor@reddit

The Twin Peaks episode where we finally learn who killed Laura Palmer.

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No-Jump-9601@reddit

One for the Brits here. The final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, when they go over the top. I cried back in 89 and I cry whenever I see it now.

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SnowblindAlbino@reddit

There are probably two dozen episodes of MASH that have stuck with me since they first aired. And probably 50-60 from the Star Trek universe.

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squirtloaf@reddit

For some reason, the endng of Alice was the first thing that popped into my mind, tho I probably hadn't thought of it in 40 years until the question came up.

They all leave the diner, with Mel turning out the lights and locking the door...very final. HERE

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Purist1975@reddit

So many really too many to list I'll go with Northern Exposure.

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squirtloaf@reddit

The one where the rabbi gets in the fishing boat with Joel sticks in my mind.

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chitoatx@reddit

Night Rider was a Sunday Night movie and I remember loving it and my estatic reaction when my parents told me it was going to be a regular tv show.

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new-haven-ct@reddit

The final episode of Mash when the mother smothers her baby to protect everyone else on the bus.

And the last episode of Six Feet Under when Claire is driving off.

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Artistic_Battle98@reddit

I amSTILL haunted by that episode of MASH

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jaywright58@reddit

Pilot episode of Miami Vice. The showdown scene at the end when Crocket asks how much time have they got while In the Air Tonight is playing with them in the Daytona. I think it's one of the most iconic things of the 1980s.

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hdpeandpet@reddit

The X Files Jose Chung's From Outer Space. Season 3 ep 20. An alien abduction from 3 different viewpoints plus it had Alex Trebek and Jessie Ventura in it.

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bodybycheeseburgers@reddit

The Married With Children episode with the skydiving Santa who landed in the Bundy’s backyard when his parachute didn’t open.

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SadLocal8314@reddit

Mash:

Abyssinia, Henry

Old Soldiers

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Total-Balance2032@reddit

Yes, the Facts of Life episode where Natalie and Tootie bought a bong because they thought it was cool and they could put jelly beans in it. Every time I see a bong I say “ooh a jelly bean jar” no one gets it.

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nycinoc@reddit

I still have PTSD from the X Files episode, "The Peacock Family".

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HailLeroy@reddit

Episode name is “Home”

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jackandcherrycoke@reddit

The three (or were there four) Cosby Show episodes where do they a lip sync for Cliff's parents

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d3odorant@reddit

South Park "Scott Tenorman Must Die" It's where Cartman turns evil for good, by making a kid who sold Cartman his pubic hair... eat his parents in front of his favorite band while Cartman licked his tears off his face. And Cartman tries training a horse to bite off a penis, but can only teach the horse to perform fallatio on hot dogs. Yeah lots going on in that episode.

Sons of Anarchy "Laying Pipe" the episode involving Opie's Death. I couldn't move afterwards. Just stared at a blank tv screen for several minutes to process my emotions.

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