“Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?”
-Cheers, plus Jeopardy
“That’s it. I’ve died and gone to hell.”
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.
This is probably the scene in Seinfeld I laughed longest and hardest at:
Another I, Claudius scene: Quality of wits
Another scene from I, Claudius. I love the disgust with which Derek Jacobi delivers the line “Yes, I know.”
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.
To add a third LOST scene, the ending of Walkabout when it’s revealed Locke was paralyzed before the plane crash.
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.
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!
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
Back when I was still watching Big Bang Theory, this one had me in stitches:
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.
That’s an excellent one, but my vote goes to the last scene in the last episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, called Goodbyeeee.
My votes are for:
- Richard Simmons on “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
- The Twelfth Doctor’s speech on the “Zygon Inversion” episode of “Doctor Who.”
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.
This is infinitely better than any Richard Simmons clip:
Del and Rodney Smash the Chandelier | Only Fools and Horses | BBC Comedy Greats (youtube.com)
Reggie Perrin - Forces of anarchy (youtube.com)
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.
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.
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.