# Greatest episodes of television ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 19, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764 "2019-06-19T18:37:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [June 20, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/101 "2019-06-20T16:53:57Z")
Mork & Mindy - [Mork Meets Robin Williams](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0651216/) > [@](#): > > Orson: I thought all stars were rich, live in mansions and drive big eggs. > > Mork: I know, sir, that’s the common misconception. But you see to get that you have to pay a very heavy price: you have responsibilities, anxieties, and to tell you the truth, sir, some of them can’t take it. > > Orson: I’m not buying it, Mork. > > Mork: Why, sir? > > Orson: It sounds to me like they have it made. > > Mork: Well, most of them do sir, but some are victims of their own fame, very special and talented people: people like Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe… Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Lenny Bruce, Freddie Prinze, and John Lennon. Excellent episode, but that list could now include Robin Williams ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/102 "2019-06-20T17:07:55Z")
> [@Scougs](#): > > The Big Bang Theory: [The Adhesive Duck Definiciency](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6tol9o) “Is that my arm?” “It doesn’t feel like an arm.” “Then maybe you should let it go.” ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/103 "2019-06-20T17:13:24Z")
STAR TREK Star Trek: TOS “The Trouble with the Tribbles” ; “Tomorrow Is Yesterday” ; “Balance of Terror” Star Trek: TNG “The Best of Both Worlds”; “Parallels”; "Yesterday’s Enterprise; “The Survivors” Star Trek: DS9 “In the Pale Moon Light”; “Far Beyond the Stars”; “Little Green Men” Star Trek: VOY “Future’s End”; “Course: Oblivion”; “End Game”; “Tuvix” Star Trek: ENT “Carbon Creek”; “Storm Front”; “In a Mirror, Darkly” CARTOONS Looney Tunes “One Froggy Evening”; “What’s Opera, Doc?”; “Duck Amuck” The Simpsons “Bart Gets an “F”” ; “The War of the Simpsons”; “Marge vs. the Monorail”; “The Joy of Sect” ; really two many to count South Park “Scott Tenorman Must Die”; “The Imaginationland” Trilogy; “Cartman Joins NAMBLA”; “Grounded Vindaloop” Futurama “Meanwhile” -the series finale; "“Overclockwise”; “Jurassic Bark”; “The Why of Fry”; “Benderama” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/104 "2019-06-20T17:22:39Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > Looney Tunes “One Froggy Evening”; “What’s Opera, Doc?”; “Duck Amuck” Greatest _cartoons_ ever could be a whole nother thread, but these weren’t originally made for television. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/105 "2019-06-20T17:47:53Z")
AS FOR OTHER SHOWS The Twilight Zone: TOS “Nightmare at 30000 Feet”; “It’s A Good Life”; Law & Order “Divorce”; “Volunteers”; “Competence”; “Double Blind”; “Menace”; “Blood”; “Damaged”; “Nowhere Man”; with twenty years on air they have really had too many great episodes to count Law & Order: Criminal Intent “The Saint”-the episode starring Stephen Colbert; “Gone”; “Homo Homini Lupis”; “Blink” Breaking Bad “Ozymandias”; “Dead Freight” ; “Felina”; “Face Off” LOST “Walkabout” The last episode of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was great too. As for an episode of TV that I thought was going to great but ended up severely disappointing—the July 9 2001 episode of WWF Monday Night Raw where they had members of ECW re-unite in the ring and former ECW Paul Heyman left the announce table to enter the ring and announced the reformation of ECW. It was a great moment that they blew at the end of show by announcing the new ECW owner—Stephanie McMahon. Turning the whole storylime into an overblown McMahon family feud. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/106 "2019-06-20T17:49:08Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Greatest _cartoons_ ever could be a whole nother thread, but these weren’t originally made for television. I first saw them on television so I apologize if people don’t think they belong here. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/107 "2019-06-20T17:58:56Z")
Law & Order: SVU: [Pique](https://lawandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Pique) Chad Lowe and Margot Kidder as a mother & son, and the ending will creep you out. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/108 "2019-06-20T18:11:08Z")
The Office - Employee Transfer In this episode, Michael struggles with the fact that his girlfriend Holly is being transferred back to her old branch in Nashua, NH, after CFO David Wallace discovers their relationship. Meanwhile, Pam and Jim’s two brothers play a prank on Jim, and Dwight irritates his romantic rival Andy by taking an interest in Andy’s old school, Cornell University. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/109 "2019-06-20T18:22:11Z")
Criminal Minds [Revelation](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0941349/). Everyone at their best. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/110 "2019-06-20T18:43:22Z")
Supernatural’s _Bad Day at Black Rock_. [Sam loses his shoe](https://youtu.be/jlNP9fFPIPI?t=77). _Jose Chung’s “From Outer Space”_ of the X-Files. [Alex Trebek](https://youtu.be/dxwQEaKVey4?t=9)! Twin Peaks episode 14 where [Leland dances with his niece](https://youtu.be/5TkHDAygVbs?t=77). “It is happening again.” ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/111 "2019-06-20T18:55:59Z")
The only single episode of a series I have on my DVR is Deep Space Nine’s _Far Beyond the Stars_. In it, Benjamin gets drawn into a vision where he is a science fiction writer in the 50s. The story is wonderful and wonderfully meta as the writer, Benny Russell, has a breakdown and starts writing a story about a deep space station. If you haven’t seen it, check out the link. It’s also very cool to see the other cast members as humans. > **[Far Beyond the Stars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Beyond_the_Stars)** > > "Far Beyond the Stars" is the 137th episode of the syndicated science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 13th episode of season 6. The teleplay was written by Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler, based on a story by Marc Scott Zicree, and directed by Avery Brooks, who also played the episode's – and series' – central character. > Set in the 24th century, the series takes place on Deep Space Nine, a fictional space station adjacent to the galaxy's only known stable wormhole. I... ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/112 "2019-06-20T22:02:53Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I was on the edge of my seat watching the episode in which Adrienne got whacked. Holy crap, you could feel the terror she was experiencing as she was dragged from the car! :eek: I thought the episode where Melfi is raped was excellent. Also, the follow-on scenes concerning that event were very well done. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/113 "2019-06-20T22:09:32Z")
**Archer** : Skytanic **Community** : Remedial Chaos Theory ---
**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:** [June 21, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/114 "2019-06-21T13:07:51Z")
As was agreed in the 2 and a Half Men thread, the best episode was “Old Flame With A New Wick.” A very funny story line delivered perfectly! ---
**Author:** ![Royal\_Nonesutch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@Royal\_Nonesutch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Royal_Nonesutch)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/115 "2019-06-21T13:37:50Z")
This thread is perfect for something I remembered the other week, something I hadn’t thought about in probably 30+ years. I was never a regular viewer of “Cheers”, but I watched it once in a while (I was in junior high when it started, finishing college when it ended) but I caught the last episode with Diane (Shelley Long’s character) that guest starred Christopher Lloyd, and for a sit-com, it was actually a really powerful, emotional send off for one of the star characters. Anyone else remember this? Anyone know a way I could watch it again? ---
**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:** [June 21, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/116 "2019-06-21T14:07:46Z")
> [@Royal\_Nonesutch](#): > > Anyone know a way I could watch it again? Cheers is available on Hulu, apparently. If you aren’t a subscriber and don’t wish to be one, you could always sign up for a free trial and then cancel. You could also try YouTube. According to IMDb, the episodes with Christopher Lloyd are S02E21 and S02E22, “I’ll Be Seeing You, parts 1 & 2.” But those don’t appear to be Diane’s last episodes, so you may be conflating two memories. ---
**Author:** ![Royal\_Nonesutch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@Royal\_Nonesutch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Royal_Nonesutch)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/117 "2019-06-21T14:30:20Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > According to IMDb, the episodes with Christopher Lloyd are S02E21 and S02E22, “I’ll Be Seeing You, parts 1 & 2.” But those don’t appear to be Diane’s last episodes, so you may be conflating two memories. That is very possible. I remember that the polt was that Diane wanted a famous painter (Christopher Lloyd) to paint her portrait, but Sam was jealous and had some hack paint one instead, which led to a huge fight (as Lloyd’s character had predicted) and the last scene was when Sam finally looked at the painting that caused Diane to leave him for good, his only word was “Wow…” (it might not sound like much, but I remember thinking how understated yet powerful and even touching it was, especially for a show like Cheers) ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/118 "2019-06-21T15:17:22Z")
**Robotech** : Force of Arms. Also most deaths in any TV show, animated or live action EVER. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/119 "2019-06-21T16:59:30Z")
> [@Royal\_Nonesutch](#): > > Sam was jealous and had some hack paint one instead, which led to a huge fight (as Lloyd’s character had predicted) and the last scene was when Sam finally looked at the painting that caused Diane to leave him for good, his only word was “Wow…” It was at the end of the second season. When she came back at the beginning of the third, she had hooked up with Frasier, who was treating her after she’d had a breakdown. ---
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken_1)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764/120 "2019-06-21T17:04:57Z")
Rick: I feel sorry for you, you zeros! You nobodies! What’s going to live on after you die? I’ll tell you: nothing! That’s what! [struggling to hang himself] Oh, this is pathetic! [he gives up trying to hang himself, then sees a jar of pills and attempts to overdose] Neil: [upon seeing Rick eating the pills] Vyv, Vyv, can you, like, actually kill yourself with laxative pills? Vyvyan: I don’t know Neil, but I’m going to stay and find out! Neil: I think I’m going up to my room for a bit! [Rick swallows pills in front of Neil as he leaves] Rick: This house will become a shrine, and punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And all the grown-ups will say, “But why are the kids crying?” And the kids will say, “Haven’t you heard? Rick is dead! The People’s Poet is dead!” [Vyvyan crouches down to watch Rick’s rear as he talks] Rick: And then one particularly sensitive and articulate teenager will say, “Other kids, do you understand nothing? How can Rick be dead when we still have his poems?” And then another kid will say… [he then farts loudly and realises what he’s been taking] The Young Ones, 2.1, ‘Bambi’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-episodes-of-television-ever/835764.md?page=7)