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What is your favourite episode of a TV show, and why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I was recently rewatching the IT Crowd, which is one of my favourite shows and after finishing Season 2 Episode 1, "The Work Outing" for the hundredth of time I realized this is probably my favourite sitcom episode of all time. I just can't get bored of the jokes and the delivery. The writing is gold, and the story escalates from funny to absolutely insane hilarious. Makes me laugh every time. Half the dialogue I quote to this day.

There are many good episodes I love, and could put here as close seconds: probably most of the Futurama series, a dozen of episodes of The Office or some classics from the Friends, I could think of.

So I would like to hear what episodes of any TV show is your favourites and why? Doesn't needs to be necessarily comedy, anything from television is fair game.

Think of it as a "what single item would you bring to a desert island with you" question, just with an episode of a TV show :)

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[–] ghostface@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Dr who The 11 hour

Having been told about Dr who, and having seen a fee episodes prior. This one encapsulated the entire series for me and explained all of the why's I had with previous doctors and previous companions

To have river song start with the 10th doctor and carry on just allowed me to inhabit any episode past or present.

Now as a whovien I will cheat and say part one and two of the pandorica was a fantastic episode.

With honorable mentions to the Christmas special with all three doctors

[–] triptrapper@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Star Trek TNG S6E21 Where Riker gets put through psychological hell in magnificent fashion. It spells out clearly everything that's terrifying about psychedelics, and mental hospitals commandeering your life with discrediting tactics.

Also I love the wrestling episode of King of the Hill because Bobby and Connie subvert expectations of warring adults in grand fashion!

The circle of life episode of Adventure time is such a blast! Very trippy.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Always Sunny, "The Gang Hits the Road".

The entire episode is just them driving around Philly with the intention of going elsewhere, but the plan gets derailed in typical gang fashion when they wind up just switching seats over and over (both in and out of the U-Haul) until they end up back where they started, and with zero interest in continuing the original plan.

[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Bo Jack - Free churro.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

!showsandmovies@lemm.ee

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

I don’t think this has been mentioned yet and might not be seen but…

The finale of Six Feet Under. It’s my favorite show, and the finale is the only episode of a show (other than maybe Futurama) that made me cry. I can’t even explain why, and there’s so many other episodes of SixFUnder that are incredible, but I’ve never in my life seen a show end that strong, and it’s my favorite show.

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

The gay episode of The Last of Us. I think it's the greatest episode of television period.

[–] Fantabread@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Babylon 5: Severed Dreams

IYKYK

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

What We Do In the Shadows, "Baron's Night Out". Absolutely hilarious. The vampires getting high drinking the blood of high people is great comedy.

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