# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/21 "2024-08-30T23:20:26Z")
“Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?” -Cheers, plus Jeopardy ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/22 "2024-08-30T23:41:38Z")
“That’s it. I’ve died and gone to hell.” > **[Cheers! | Cheers! 🍻 | By John CleeseFacebook](https://www.facebook.com/thejohncleese/videos/280736603515648/)** > > Cheers! 🍻 ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/23 "2024-08-30T23:45:18Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > **It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia**. I have never even seen the show but I watched a hilarious clip where Danny devito discovers the apartment he has been sharing with someone NOT only has a bathroom but an entire another room that is empty. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/24 "2024-08-31T00:17:40Z")
This is probably the scene in _ **Seinfeld** _ I laughed longest and hardest at: > [https://youtu.be/\_LiQXbdo8vg/](https://youtu.be/_LiQXbdo8vg/) ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/25 "2024-08-31T00:27:44Z")
Another _I, Claudius_ scene: [Quality of wits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpbzE4RqqZs) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/26 "2024-08-31T00:42:32Z")
Another scene from _ **I, Claudius** _. I love the disgust with which Derek Jacobi delivers the line “Yes, I know.” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FJQPXU-pBqg/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgWihFMA8=&rs=AOn4CLBMSYrwx7S8vCX0IGUStnbBqVlAtA "Claudius bumps into Caligula.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJQPXU-pBqg) ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/28 "2024-08-31T01:01:02Z")
I posted or attempted to, my post from 2019. So much for cut and paste. Will repeat here. House M.D. Down Low. The ending, where the undercover cop dies juxtaposed with the bad guys getting arrested to the tune of maggotbrain. ---
**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 31, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/29 "2024-08-31T01:16:39Z")
To add a third LOST scene, the ending of Walkabout when it’s revealed Locke was paralyzed before the plane crash. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/30 "2024-08-31T01:33:01Z")
Being an old guy, I have to go back to M\* A\* S\* H\* ,and an episode where each of the cast members has a dream/nightmare during a long day of surgery. Any of their scenes are worth watching, but the one with David Ogden Stiers as Charles Winchester, ending with a heartfelt (and agonizing) “damn” sticks out for me. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/31 "2024-08-31T01:45:43Z")
WKRP in Cincinnati > The 'copter seems to circling the parking area now. I guess it’s looking for a place to land. No! Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It’s a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air… There’s a third… No parachutes yet… Those can’t be skydivers. I can’t tell just yet what they are but… **Oh my God! They’re turkeys!** Oh no! Johnny can you get this? Oh, they’re crashing to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! This is terrible! Everyone’s running around pushing each other. Oh my goodness! Oh, the humanity! People are running about. The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/32 "2024-08-31T02:45:49Z")
A few of my favorites: -From _Breaking Bad_, the climactic confrontation in the desert from the third-to-last (and generally thought to be greatest) episode, _Ozymandias_ -From _The Wire_, “Where’s Wallace”? -From _The Simpsons_, the Monorail song -From _My So-Called Life_, the World Happiness dance ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/33 "2024-08-31T03:49:55Z")
Back when I was still watching _ **Big Bang Theory** _, this one had me in stitches: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dvjvYUOEjgg/maxresdefault.jpg "Howard & Raj Get Diagnosed by Leonard's Mom | The Big Bang Theory") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvjvYUOEjgg) ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/34 "2024-08-31T04:12:10Z")
The scene in the episode “Whitecaps” from The Sopranos where Tony and Carmela have their confrontation in the pool house is the finest acting tour de force ever in television history. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/35 "2024-08-31T04:20:31Z")
That’s an excellent one, but my vote goes to [the last scene in the last episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm5n27y0WmQ) of Blackadder Goes Forth, called [Goodbyeeee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbyeee). ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/36 "2024-08-31T05:10:57Z")
My votes are for: - Richard Simmons on “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/b-r4Flc_d2M/maxresdefault.jpg "Richard Simmons on "Whose Line Is It Anyway" (2003) sketch from S5 E17 -- "Living Scenery"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-r4Flc_d2M) - The Twelfth Doctor’s speech on the “Zygon Inversion” episode of “Doctor Who.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uCYobBjA1kk/maxresdefault.jpg "Doctor Who | The Doctor's Zygon War Speech Extract") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCYobBjA1kk) ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/37 "2024-08-31T05:52:42Z")
Lost gets shit on by the cool kids nowadays but there were so many iconic moments, my addition: “NOT PENNY’S BOAT” Mac’s dance in front of his convict dad in prison to Sigur Ros in Always Sunny with Frank’s reaction: “I get it.” Lt. Winters saluting the David Schwimmer character when they cross paths in Europe in Band of Brothers. The cliffhanger ending of Star Trek: Next Generation’s Best of World Worlds, Part 1 that had us hanging all summer long in 1990. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/38 "2024-08-31T06:21:33Z")
This is infinitely better than any Richard Simmons clip: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Z7bvYsBudr0/hqdefault.jpg "The Gong Show - The Popsicle Twins..."Have you got a nickel?" (1977)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7bvYsBudr0) ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/39 "2024-08-31T07:23:42Z")
[Del and Rodney Smash the Chandelier | Only Fools and Horses | BBC Comedy Greats (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFuYIi5-igc) [Reggie Perrin - Forces of anarchy (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nxo0fS2VMM) Not sure why the video box doesn’t come up. If I edit it back to just the URL Discourse tells me I can’t embed video in a post, which I never seem to have had a problem with before. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2024, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/40 "2024-08-31T07:47:00Z")
_Breaking Bad_ had so many great, memorable scenes, but if I had to choose one over any other it would be the climax to the episode _Dead Freight_ (my favourite episode), when the gang has… an unexpected visitor, and Todd responds. Chilling, shocking, harrowing. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483/41 "2024-08-31T12:26:16Z")
_The West Wing_ - the funeral for the homeless veteran and the presentation of the flag to his brother. Tears me up just thinking of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483.md?page=3)