Best Written Episodes of a Series you Love

Bashir seemed to switch off between Garak and O’Brien. I’m sure some fanfic writers have written extensively about this.

The newspaper headline “BALLS THOROUGHLY LICKED” just had me rolling on the floor.

I thought he had a thing for the daughter of Gul Dukat or some other Cardassian big wig.

Close. He leaped just before pulling the trigger, into the Secret Service man at the limo that ended up jumping onto the limo, saving Jackie.

Tora Ziyal. She was Garak’s girlfriend, not Bashir’s.

I was speaking of Garak, not the wimpy bio engineered doctor with an atrocious accent who cheated at darts. :rolleyes:

Bah, she wasn’t his girlfriend, she was his (forgive the term) fag hag!

Sir, you diss the guy who delivered my favorite Trek line when he shot Weyoun.

Female changling: “That was the last Weyoun clone.”
Garak: “I was hoping you would say that.”

The entire second season of *The Office *(American) was superb, so it’s hard to pick just one. But *The Injury *sticks out in my mind. What other show could make someone burning their foot on a George Foreman Grill actually plausible? And Jim in the van with the water bottle…

I could go on…

Buffy: The Season 5 finale. I cried when Buffy jumped off the tower.

ST-DS9: In the Pale Moonlight. Also The Visitor.

ST-TNG: Tapestry.

DS9: the episode with the supposed Cardassian atrocity commiter was amazingly strong for an early first season episode

I’m trying to think of the best Criminal Minds episode, but they have a bunch of really good ones, with really good guest stars.

I think my personal favorite is the one where the UNSUB was killing homeless people. Nobody gave a crap that homeless people were disappearing, but the BAU got to take on the case when the killer mailed a letter from Kansas City Kansas while the killings were happing in Kansas City, Missouri, making it a federal case.

They caught the guy who was driving the van that got the homeless people to the serial killer’s house of horros, and Aaron Hotchner (Thomas Gibson) made this wonderful speech:

There was also one where DC prostitutes were being slaughtered, and again nobody cared. One cop asked “After all, who are these people” and Hotchner answered “They are someone’s daughers, sisters, nieces. In some cases they are someone’s mothers. They are human beings.”

Forgive me if they’ve already been mentioned:
How I Met Your Mother - Slapbet (not only the start of slapbet, but our introduction to Robin Sparkles.)
My Name is Earl - Our Cops is On (the episode that got my husband and I hooked on the show - still holds up as one of our favorites)

How did he cheat? By being enhanced? Even when standing further away, he still beat O’Brien.

Sarcasm: It is a difficult concept. :dubious:

I don’t watch Criminal Minds all that often, but I really liked the episode called True Night, guest starring Frankie Muniz. It was an unusual episode of CM, because it’s told mostly from the point of view of the perpetrator and it has a different visual style. It’s about a graphic novel author who has PTSD and a psychotic break after his girlfriend is raped and murdered in front of him. He doesn’t consciously realize that he’s insane and killing people (revenge for his girlfriend) and then drawing the crime scenes into his graphic novel.

I agree, that was an excellent episode too. As Prentice said at the end: It’s the first case I’ve had when the UNSUB wasn’t the bad guy.

**The Outer Limits: Demon with a Glass Hand
(Runner-Up: Soldier)
The Prisoner: Hammer into Anvil
MASH: The One with the Clock in the Corner
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Too many Twilight Zones and Dick van Dyke Show episodes to note, and I don’t know all the titles anyway.

I don’t think I’ve laughed so hard at a TV show in my life. The final scene of them leading all the furies through the police station in cuffs is classic. :smiley: