I liked that episode of Friends where they were watching Three’s Company and Chandler said “Wait, I think this is the episode with some sort of misunderstanding.”
Then there’s that episode of Gilligan’s Island where someone lands on the island but leaves without the Castaways for selfish reasons. I saw it after that episode of Law and Order where they arrested the wrong person at first.
How about the time Frasier Crane met a girl he really liked and did something that totally fucked up their relationship?
Or when Old Leadbottom finally had the goods on McHale and his pirates, but they managed to wiggle out of it?
Or the time on Combat! when a replacement was the first guy to be killed at the start of the episode?
I really liked that episode of Seinfeld where everyone was a real loser and the individual stories all came together at the end.
Also, the episode of Time Tunnel where silver-skinned aliens were responsible for the crisis of the week. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea had one like that too.
How about the episode of That Girl where Don Hollinger was 100% pussy-whipped?
I liked the episode of House where the lead character was kind of a dick but, in the end, figured out what was wrong with the mysteriously ill patient.
I remember that episode of Three’s Company when Jack and Janet overheard Chrissy on the phone, and thought she was up to something scandalous. But then it turned out to be totally innocent.
The best episode of House was when the team misdiagnosed lupus, but House, after acting like a total ass for 55 minutes, got it right from some obscure clue in the end.
I like that Donald Bellisario show where the lead character is a super-competent white male with a connection to the military, and there’s that one older guy who’s a bit of a stick-in-the-mud, and the rest of the hero’s team are kind of jerkish or geeky but they come through for him in the end. Which one was that?