# Best scene in Television **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [August 30, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483 "2024-08-30T19:14:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/204 "2024-09-15T06:37:13Z")
I will. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/205 "2024-09-15T09:29:41Z")
Oh god yeh. I remember watching that, blind drunk, about 20 years ago (I’d seen it before) and crying myself silly. Quite Pixar-esque really (in the best possible way). ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/206 "2024-09-16T17:56:32Z")
She saw it in the window and just had to have it. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/207 "2024-09-16T18:51:49Z")
That GWTW parody on The Carol Burnett Show had us on the floor laughing. Note that the dress included the curtain rod. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/208 "2024-09-16T19:10:21Z")
Hilarious! The curtain rod was was the perfect touch. https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7306160344454548779 ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/209 "2024-09-16T19:16:00Z")
How did you leave out the best scene in “Ozymandias”? I’m not going to link to the scene but just give what might be the most bass-ass quote in _Breaking Bad_ and maybe all of TV. > You’re the smartest guy I ever met… but you’re too stupid to see… He made up his mind ten minutes ago. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/210 "2024-09-16T21:36:16Z")
_The Expanse_ had plenty of great moments, but maybe my favorite is the “I am that guy” scene from Season 3. Amos, a hardened killer with a barely-functioning moral compass, finds himself - to his surprise - befriending a man who is in every ways his complete opposite, a meek, kindhearted botanist whose daughter has been kidnapped by some very nasty people. This is what happens when they finally catch up with her: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jjxDa6Ac7kY/maxresdefault.jpg "The Expanse - Prax, Mei & "I Am That Guy"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjxDa6Ac7kY) ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/211 "2024-09-17T01:36:31Z")
I don’t _think_ it’s been mentioned yet but what about the “Hoboken Squat Cobbler” scene from _Better Call Saul_? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KaQ-s_P5mwM/maxresdefault.jpg "Squat Cobbler | Cobbler | Better Call Saul") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaQ-s_P5mwM) ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/212 "2024-09-17T01:41:50Z")
That was an awesome scene in The Expanse. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/213 "2024-09-17T21:21:07Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > How did you leave out the best scene in “Ozymandias”? I’m not going to link to the scene but just give what might be the most bass-ass quote in _Breaking Bad_ and maybe all of TV. > > > You’re the smartest guy I ever met… but you’re too stupid to see… He made up his mind ten minutes ago. The wiki page for _Breaking Bad_ stresses that episode’s homages to the Percy Shelly poem. But that particular line is an homage to Alan Moore’s _Watchmen_. Cool! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/214 "2024-09-18T00:24:07Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > But that particular line is an homage to Alan Moore’s _Watchmen_. Cool! Specifically, a line from the book’s supervillain, a guy named… Ozymandius. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/215 "2024-09-18T00:49:10Z")
Rupert Giles: Can you move? Ben: Need a… a minute. She could’ve killed me. Rupert Giles: No, she couldn’t. Never. And sooner or later, Glory will reemerge and make Buffy pay for that mercy. And the world with her. Buffy even knows that, and still she couldn’t take human life… She’s a hero, you see… She’s not like us. Ben: Us? And then Rupert kills him. The most badass I’m going to kill you line, spoken by a fussy librarian (albeit one with a dark past). Better than Jules’ line in Pulp fiction, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/216 "2024-09-18T05:33:07Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > _The Expanse_ had plenty of great moments, but maybe my favorite is the “I am that guy” scene from Season 3. And it’s not just in how the scene plays out in the end. Amos does some real acting in the background, particularly at the moment when Prax calls him “his best friend in the world”, and Amos gives him a look that just says, “Wait, really?” as he realizes how Prax actually sees him. As a character, Amos had always been an outsider, who knew he wasn’t a good guy, but in that moment, he realizes that not everyone sees him as the bad guy. Even if he can be bad at times. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/217 "2024-09-18T22:10:04Z")
Not as well-known as the turkey scene, but here is another great one from WKRP in Cincinnati. The backstory is that DJ Venus Flytrap (the bearded guy) wants to convince his nephew to stay in school: [WKRP in Cincinnati S03E12 Venus and the Man (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khD8fvpqKYI) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/218 "2024-09-18T22:34:08Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > great one from WKRP in Cincinnati To this day, when we hear a random Billy Joel song, I make a scratching motion with my finger and say Jo-el. Can you teach me about magnets? ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/219 "2024-09-18T22:45:38Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > here is another great one from WKRP in Cincinnati. And another one: the scene where Johnny and Venus get drunk while on the air. [WKRP Comments and Requests 1 (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYbv_qZwgvc) ---
**Author:** ![vislor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vislor/32/5933_2.png) [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/220 "2024-09-19T00:10:19Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > And another one: the scene where Johnny and Venus get drunk while on the air. > > [WKRP Comments and Requests 1 (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYbv_qZwgvc) This is one that I laugh at every time. Thanks for the discussion! ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/221 "2024-09-19T15:37:18Z")
Fight scene: The street fight between Captain Turner and Dan Dority in _Deadwood_ (I don’t think anyone’s going to complain about staginess) _The Wire_: “How my hair look, Mike?” And an obscure one, but a scene I will tune in specifically to watch is the final scene in the _Law & Order: Criminal Intent_, episode, “But Not Forgotten”. Alicia Coppola goes from the supportive wife providing an alibi for her murderous husband to the orchestrator of his downfall and arrest. The final touch, to her husband as she is walking out the door and he is cuffed, “I wouldn’t raise a dog with you”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483.md?page=10)