# Best and Worst Episodes From Your Favorite TV Show(s) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220 "2012-08-21T21:49:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/41 "2012-08-25T16:07:32Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > **Drew’s Line is it Anyway** > > Best: Melissa (Party Quirks) episode or Hitler (Title Sequence) episode > Worst: David Hasselhoff > [@etv78](#): > > I’d like to ammend my picks: > > Best:Any episode that produced a call-back joke > Worst:Guest stars (save the Salute to TV) O Come On! Best episode of any TV show Evar: [Richard Simmons](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTxkxG3DF4k) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/42 "2012-08-25T16:47:31Z")
**Buffy** Best - Hush Worst - Beer Bad **Angel** Best - Epiphany Worst - Season 4 \*\*Firefly \*\* Best - War Stories Worst - Heart of Gold **Community** Best - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons or A Fistful of Paintballs Worst - Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples **Babylon 5** Best - Passing Through Gesthemane Worst - Infection ---
**Author:** ![polar\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/43 "2012-08-25T17:38:30Z")
Just to make the circle perfect: Buffy: Best: The Body Worst: Beer Bad currently Hush and The Body tied for the love and Beer Bad running away with the hate. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/44 "2012-08-25T17:43:30Z")
**Lost** Best - Live Together, Die Alone - The hatch blows up, the leaders get kidnapped, and we learn all about Desmond Worst - Stranger in a Strange Land - Jack hangs out with Bai Ling and some weird Other Sheriff who we never see again. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/45 "2012-08-25T18:21:41Z")
**Six Feet Under** Best: The glorious final episode Worst: The one where Ruth confronts her previous loves in a silly dream sequence **Roseanne** Best: the episode where Roseanne’s father dies Worst: the entire last season ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/46 "2012-08-25T18:44:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > **Doctor Who (Eleventh Doctor era)** > … > Worst: The Doctor’s Wife (The TARDIS comes to life and she and the Doctor fight like an old married couple) What is this, opposite day? There is simply no way that an episode that contains the line _“Hello, I’m Sexy!”_ and the TARDIS surprised to find that humans are “so much bigger on the inside” is the worst anything ever. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/47 "2012-08-25T21:53:29Z")
I never understood how anyone could consider Beer Bad the worst Buffy ep. It’s very funny, and there are any number of season 1 and 2 eps that are far worse. **Simpsons** Best: Cape Feare (Bob tries to kill Bart in what’s basically a Cape Fear parody) Worst: Bart Mangled Banner or E. Pluribus Wiggum (garbage politically driven eps) ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/48 "2012-08-26T01:36:54Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > **Doctor Who** > > Worst: Revenge of the Cybermen - The series took a nose dive with Colin Baker, but ROTC has lots of wandering around in caves, in circles, repeatedly, going nowhere. Nitpick: _Attack_ of the Cybermen. Revenge of the Cybermen is a Tom Baker episode. And, yeah, “The Doctor’s Wife” on the worst list? WHY? If I were to list my top 10 favorite episode of the entire series as I’ve seen it, “TDW” would be on the list, easy. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/49 "2012-08-26T05:37:09Z")
Among my favorite shows, one that hasn’t been mentioned already is **My So Called Life** , and I’d say that my favorite episode is **The Life of Brian** , while my least favorite is **Dancing in the Dark**. Oh, and my favorite episode of Buffy is **Once More with Feeling**. My absolute favoritest show of them all is **The Wire** , but the way it’s constructed makes it very hard to really pick out individual episodes as particularly good or bad. Although my least favorite episode would presumably be in season 5. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/50 "2012-08-26T17:21:56Z")
**Six Feet Under** Best: The finale. Worst: The car-jacking episode. So freakin’ stupid and contrived I started a thread about it. Seriously - who takes 4 hours to find an ATM in _Lost Angeles_? **Buffy** Best: Once More With Feeling. Worst: (Tie). The one where Buffy is in an insane asylum. Look, guys, I’m investing my time in this show, OK? Telling me _within the context of the show_ that all that time spent was wasted just pisses me off. The episode featuring that blonde vampire who had a thing for freshman. I hated that character so much I refuse to watch the episode again. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/51 "2012-08-26T22:26:08Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I hated that character so much I refuse to watch the episode again. Huh, I thought she was kinda interesting and thought it was a bit of a waste that she winds up dead at the end of the ep ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/52 "2012-08-27T16:26:54Z")
_Sherlock_: Best: **Scandal in Belgravia** : Funny, sexy, believable (comparatively), with lots of Mycroft, who I love. Also lots of cool wallpaper in Irene’s apartment. Runner-up: **A Study In Pink** : Lots of character exposition, and the pace kept at a human level. I liked the taxi driver, too. Nice fake-out on the Mycroft character introduction. Worst: **The Hounds of Baskerville** : Lots of unbelievable shite stuck together in an awkward, contrived manner. Sherlock’s even more of a dick than usual. Runner-up: **The Great Game** : Too much complex stuff (especially the planetarium scene) going on, which got confusing. However, the final swimming pool scene with Moriarty was electrifying, so I’m on the fence with this episode. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/53 "2012-08-27T17:38:13Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > **The Hounds of Baskerville** : Lots of unbelievable shite stuck together in an awkward, contrived manner. Sherlock’s even more of a dick than usual. I recommend re-watching it after you’ve seen “The Reichenbach Fall.” You’ll be amazed at how much foreshadowing there is going on. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/54 "2012-08-27T18:03:43Z")
Star Trek: TNG Best: “All Good Things…” Such a great way to end the series Worst: Darmok. I never got why people liked this. Picard and some alien with giant nostrils can’t talk to each other. Invisible lion. It sucked, just terrible. Runner up goes to Dr. Crusher and the ghost haunting her family, or the Riker love story with the shemale. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/55 "2012-08-27T19:11:05Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > You didn’t like them? I thought they were great, too. But I do agree that “crazy TARDIS woman” was awesome. I was maybe too hard on them, but I did find them problematic. Martha Jones, black maid? I thought the BBC was more aware, than to risk upsetting people with that one… > [@bouv](#): > > **Doctor Who (10th Doctor)** > Best: “Blink” > Worst: Ooh, tough call…“The End of Time” was just all over the place and stupid, but it’s hard to put into words how much I despise “Fear Her.” Agreed! > [@Mauvaise](#): > > **Buffy** > Best - it’s hard to argue against **Hush** , but I have to pick **The Body**. > Worst - Sorry, as much as I was grossed out by the Riley/Buffy sex-a-thon (hate Riley), it also featured one of my favourite scenes when the gang comes across Giles singing in the cafe _swoon_. That alone redeems this episode. > > The true Worse \*\*Buffy \*\*Episode ever: **Anne** > > As for **Angel** - I don’t know about worst, but I agree the above is the best. I can still get choked up thinking about it and I hated Angel & Buffy together! I agree that The Body is the better episode of drama, but Hush is a better representative of a Buffy episode, if that makes sense? More witty quipping and monster sleuthing and fighting, the stuff that makes Buffy buff. But yes, The Body is technically excellent, and a real slice of humanity captured perfectly. Makes me bawl everytime. I think I forget about the good bits of the sex-a-thon because I never watch it, but yes, Giles singing, and a particularly good sarcastic bit from Spike where he talks himself out of helping the Scoobies, _should_ redeem it but still… 🙂 I liked Anne. Sorry 🙂 > [@RandMcnally](#): > > But the Doctor’s Wife had my favorite exhange of the entire series. > > Amy: The TARDIS is a woman? > The Doctor: Yes. > Amy: Did you wish really, really hard? Loved that 🙂 I didn’t think I’d like Amy at first, but I think I’m going to miss her when she leaves! > [@JohnT](#): > > **Buffy** > > Best: Once More With Feeling. > Worst: (Tie). The one where Buffy is in an insane asylum. Look, guys, I’m investing my time in this show, OK? Telling me _within the context of the show_ that all that time spent was wasted just pisses me off. Yeah, it could have been done better. I can’t decide whether they watched Red Dwarf’s “Back to Reality”, or \*\*should \*\*have watched it, to see how it’s done! **Scrubs** Best - My Way Home, the Wizard of Oz spoof 🙂 Worst - the whole Season 9. ---
**Author:** ![danderson400](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@danderson400](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danderson400)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/56 "2015-09-10T02:06:30Z")
“China Beach” Best: “The World, Part 1”/“The World, Part 2” Worst: cant really find a bad episode ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/57 "2015-09-10T02:21:19Z")
Magnum P.I. Best: “Did you see the Sunrise?” Worst: “Birds of a Feather” (Back door pilot.) ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/58 "2015-09-10T13:54:45Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > **Louie** > Worst: the episode where he goes to Afghanistan and a baby duck unites the world, just the most maudlin, hackneyed crap, worse than the hoakiest of late season MASH episodes. I’m confused. Then again, I have not watched them all, so it might not have been this one… Do you mean the episode where he dreams that, while under anasthesia, while being potentially orally raped by a dentist, and then goes off and stalks an uninterested checkout girl? Didn’t strike me as hackneyed… ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220/59 "2015-09-10T14:30:12Z")
**BREAKING BAD:** Best : Ozymandias - Walt loses everything and it’s fantastic. Worst : Fly - everyone should agree with this one. **ROSEANNE:** Best : “Becky. Cut. The Cheese.” - Absolutely hysterical. “They say Hallmark makes a card for everything…what are the odds?” Worst : Roseanne’s Dream - horrible musical number that wasn’t funny at all. **DEXTER:** Best : Hungry Man - Thanksgiving in the Trinity household - terrifying. Worst : Series Finale - UGH. **SONS OF ANARCHY:** Best : NS (season 3 finale) - Agent Stahl meets her demise at the hands of Opie. Worst : The whole Belfast storyline didn’t sit well with me at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220.md?page=2)