Just Shoot Me - Slow Donnie
Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie.
This is the ONLY stand out episode from this boring insipid show.
Ah, but you watched it (by mistake, because you assumed nothing else was on), and it was so far beneath your standards… but then the dialog between George Segal and David Spade started to get under your skin, and you started caring what happened with Maya and Elliot and Nina (and of course Donnie)…
And then almost two decades later, you’re trashing 90s sitcoms with a few friends in a bar… and you realize that you don’t have to be cool any more… You can admit to yourself *and dammit, the world! *that you wish you could go home, flop on the couch and watch an episode of Just Shoot Me right now.
(Probably starting with Slow Donnie, then the other episodes with David Cross.)
A fourth-season episode of The Streets of San Francisco called “Police Buff,” OAD Thursday, Jan. 8, 1976 on ABC.
The reason why is because I’ve enjoyed how the main protagonist, Eric Doyle (the late, great Bill Bixby), tries to set himself up as a stalwart defender of law and order by killing defendants whose court cases were dismissed on technicalities, and Stone (the late, great Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) have to stop him before he kills again!
The disc that has it in my copy of CBS’ all-in-one Streets of San Francisco DVD (Season 4, Vol. 2, Disc 1) has gotten quite a few spins on that episode for me, and may get quite a few more!
House: Season 6, Episode 10. Down Low. At the end, having the undercover cop die juxtaposed with the bad guys getting arrested to the tune of Maggot Brain.
Perfect
That’s strange. I am not at all familiar with this television show (not only have I never seen the episode you’re talking about, I’ve never heard of the show), but Michael Douglas starred in a movie with very similar plot elements.
The movie was made in 1983. Don’t know which came first, the movie or the television show.
Edit: I see you put the date in your post. Sorry. OK, the movie was made some years later.
And the Dirty Harry movie Magnum Force was even earlier, in 1973.
There was also an episode of ***TJ Hooker ***in the '80s that was virtually identical to the movie.
Yeah, imagine being pregnant when you’re watching that. My wife was pregnant with our second child when we settled down for our weekly Thursday evening cuddling and watching ER. That was a tough episode.
The baby came less than a month later and he is still going strong. Six years later, we got to live that ER episode – not with the inattentive doctor part, but with the lost baby and eclampsia. Fortunately, we had a better outcome. Lost the baby, but kept the wife.
So I just rewatched one of my favorite episodes of Law & Order—“Nowhere Man”.
In it an assistant district attorney-Daniel Tenofskie-is murdered and it looks like it was the work of two Mafia thugs Biscuit and Books in order to cover up the fact that they paid Tenofskie to drop a case-- the murder of a guy few years prior involved in a “no show job” scam they were running.
During the investigation it comes out that Daniel Tenofskie was an imposter and never went to law school. The two thugs point the finger at their mob boss and say he ordered the murders. When questioned by ADA Jack McCoy the mob boss denies any involvement at all in both murders and the “no show job” scam. While testifying at their boss’s trial, inconsistencies in the two thugs stories make McCoy suspicious and he investigates further. He then learns that thugs’ attorney attended law school with the real Daniel Tenofskie and he actually blackmailed the imposter in order to drop the case. The attorney also admits the mob boss was** not **involved in any of the murders or the “no show job” scam. He agrees to a plea so McCoy can prosecute Biscuit and Books for the murders.
The episode with ends with McCoy not really knowing who the imposter was and another attorney asks what they should do with the imposter’s personal effects. McCoy responds, “What personal effects? They were just props.”
This synopsis really doesn’t the episode justice. It’s probably one of the best of the series. And it occurred to after watching it that Biscuit and Books(and their attorney) are really f*****. They didn’t just try rat out the mob boss in order to get a better deal for themselves; they accused him of being involved in crimes he nothing to do with. Falsely accusing a crime boss seems a like a sure way to commit suicide.
One of my favorites.
It has two things that don’t quite work.
Who was the inner, real Tenofskie? The one no one ever saw? What drove him that he couldn’t bother to go to law school, but was a top notch lawyer? What was he thinking? Why did he have no life? He really was a nowhere man!
And two, there are no commercial flights to Quartzite, AZ! There’s not even an airport! It’s a blip on I10, know for two things: snowbirds, and the swap meet. There’s literally nothing else there.
OK, three things. Why did Tenofskie go there? Of all the things to have for hobbies!
But a top notch episode, nevertheless!
Definitely Did You See the Sunrise?
The Simon & Simon episode “What’s in a Gnome?”
Star Trek Voyager’s “Timeless”
The 1990s Muppet Show revival with Garth Brooks.
My standard answer is Blackadder goes forth, the final episode “Byeeeee” and then especially the final minutes.
Another contender that I watched again on TV last night is the X-files season 3 episode Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose, with impressive acting by Peter Boyle.
There have been so many great tv episodes, on ‘House’, on ‘ER’ (the one with the kid with the gun in the emergency room is another memorable one), ‘Northern Exposure’ (the Christmas episode with Marilyn’s pageant dance set to a telling of the Raven and the Sun). Not mentioned were any of ‘The Family’ skits from the Carol Burnett Show, they were only 10-15 minutes long but awesome in their hilarity/dysfunction. The one where Eunice was performing on The Gong Show (and figured that fame and fortune was hers and so her ticket outta there) … awwwwww, poor Eunice . That skit went on to become a watered down tv show, ‘Mama’s Family’.
There was a made-for-tv movie called ‘Eunice’ at the end of the run, it’s on youtube.
And a TV movie with the same theme staring a your Robert Forster.
Parks and Recreation - Season 6 finale - the Unity Concert.
With Rip Torn’s demise, I’ve been looking through episodes of The Larry Sanders Show for faves, and I don’t think anything tops “Hank’s Sex Tape,” S04E07.
Family Ties had two episodes where Elise’s brother Ned was played by Tom Hanks. Both were excellent, but my favorite was the scene where he punched out Alex P. Keaton.
And the episode where Tracey Pollen was first introduced as Ellen Reed. You could see the sparks coming off of her and Michael J. Fox.
Wrong thread.
Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Car Pool Lane.
This is one where Larry hires a prostitute so he can get to Dodger Stadium quicker and ends up taking her to the game. The episode, while hilarious, also got someone freed who had been convicted of murder because they were on camera during the time when the crime occurred.