# Shows where everyone remembers one episode. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055 "2017-02-28T18:55:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/81 "2017-03-01T20:00:50Z")
> [@BeeGee](#): > > For the Dick Van Dyke Show, I’d have to go with the one where Danny Thomas is the head of an alien race that breathes water, hoards walnuts, and have eyes in the back of their heads. I was too young for the first run of the Dick Van Dyke Show and remember practically nothing from the re-runs except Dick either falling over or side-stepping the ottoman, but boy do I remember the no thumbs episode! ---
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> [@Biggirl](#): > > I was too young for the first run of the Dick Van Dyke Show and remember practically nothing from the re-runs except Dick either falling over or side-stepping the ottoman, but boy do I remember the no thumbs episode! Of all the episodes, the only ones I remember are the aliens and Laura getting her toe stuck in the tub faucet (I was playing with a drip!). And I watched that show a lot. ---
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**Buffy** - I loved “Once More, With Feeling”, but _“Hush”_ was amazing, and both scary and funny (more like the series) **Fresh Prince** - the one with Will’s Dad **Different Strokes** - the one with the bike shop, or when Arnold and Kimberly get kidnapped ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/84 "2017-03-01T20:41:29Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > The episode where the new station manager thought he and Frasier were a “thing” is another memorable one. The one where Daphne teaches Niles to dance is really good too. My favorite for gay farce on the show would be when Martin fakes being gay to let a woman down easy, then winds up on a date with a man. “You couldn’t tell he was gay?” “He’s British - they all seem gay to me!” The scene where Niles breaks up with him is hilarious. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/85 "2017-03-01T21:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Of all the episodes, the only ones I remember are the aliens and Laura getting her toe stuck in the tub faucet (I was playing with a drip!). And I watched that show a lot. Don’t toy with me, you saucy wench! 🆒 > [@](#): > > My favorite for gay farce on the show would be when Martin fakes being gay to let a woman down easy, then winds up on a date with a man. “You couldn’t tell he was gay?” “He’s British - they all seem gay to me!” The scene where Niles breaks up with him is hilarious. Ah, yes. It’s always the young ones. ☹ ---
**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:** [March 1, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/86 "2017-03-01T21:12:05Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I haven’t watched it for a few years. My favorite episode was (I think) from a Treehouse of Horrors, where Homer kept going back in time and butterfly-affecting the present. “Doughnuts”?!? What’s a “doughnut”??? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/87 "2017-03-01T21:14:12Z")
[Lexx - Brigadoom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n7iIYhjiSQ&t=1s) It’s the musical episode of the show. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/88 "2017-03-01T21:17:39Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Ah, yes. It’s always the young ones. ☹ Speaking of which, most memorable episode of **The Young Ones** , _“Bambi”_, the one where the boys appear on “University Challenge”. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/89 "2017-03-01T21:30:09Z")
As far as Dick Van Dyke (or as I refer to him on sites with heavy censorship programs, Manpart Van Lesbian) goes, I think that a lot of people also remember the “baby switching” episode. (The big gag was that the family with which Dick thinks that his baby was switched was black.) And as for ABC Movie of the Week, they did so many “Pilots” on that franchise that singling out “Trilogy of Terror”, memorable as it was, seems off the mark. The “Night Stalker” pilot would be my choice: “This nut THINKS he’s a VAMPIRE!!! He’s killed four, maybe five women. And THAT is NEWS, Mister Vinchenzo. We are a NEWSPAPER, we’re supposed to PRINT the news, not SUPPRESS it.” (That was from memory.) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/90 "2017-03-01T21:36:03Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > As far as Dick Van Dyke (or as I refer to him on sites with heavy censorship programs, Manpart Van Lesbian) goes, I think that a lot of people also remember the “baby switching” episode. (The big gag was that the family with which Dick thinks that his baby was switched was black.) > > And as for ABC Movie of the Week, they did so many “Pilots” on that franchise that singling out “Trilogy of Terror”, memorable as it was, seems off the mark. The “Night Stalker” pilot would be my choice: “This nut THINKS he’s a VAMPIRE!!! He’s killed four, maybe five women. And THAT is NEWS, Mister Vinchenzo. We are a NEWSPAPER, we’re supposed to PRINT the news, not SUPPRESS it.” (That was from memory.) Technically, it wasn’t a pilot. Yes, it was an ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week and it was based on a novel by Jeff Rice called “The Kolchak Papers” (I still have my paperback copy). The ratings were so good they made a second movie, “The Night Strangler”. Thanks to the popularity of both films they made a (short lived) TV series. ---
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NBC’s Experiment in Television during the late 1960s. Only one episode of it really stood out in my memory and it eventually turned out in a lot of people’s memories to be legendary: Jim Henson’s surreal TV play _The Cube_, which aired in February 1969. The next time I tuned in, all I can remember is a play with a character named Ishmael confronting earth, water, air, and fire on some quest, but otherwise it failed to impress and is probably forgotten. ---
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> [@terentii](#): > > “Doughnuts”?!? What’s a “doughnut”??? Oh dear, it’s raining again. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/93 "2017-03-01T22:07:13Z")
For “The Odd Couple” I would suggest the episode where Oscar is mistakenly arrested for ticket-scalping, with Felix’s famous line, “When you ASSUME, you make an ASS out of U and ME!” Another would be the one with the flashback to Oscar and Blanche and Felix and Gloria’s Caribbean vacation, in which Felix sings a Calypso song with the chorus “Oscar, Oscar, AH-AH-AH-AH-AAAAAH!” ---
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> [@h.sapiens](#): > > For “The Odd Couple” I would suggest the episode where Oscar is mistakenly arrested for ticket-scalping, with Felix’s famous line, “When you ASSUME, you make an ASS out of U and ME!” > > Another would be the one with the flashback to Oscar and Blanche and Felix and Gloria’s Caribbean vacation, in which Felix sings a Calypso song with the chorus “Oscar, Oscar, AH-AH-AH-AH-AAAAAH!” One word, Aristophanes! ---
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_Futurama_: Jurassic Bark Amazon Women in the Mood ---
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_Happy Days_: the one with Mork. _Northern Exposure_: the one with the frozen mammoth. _Good Times_: the one where whoishisface dies. (Daym, daym daym!) _The Beverly Hillbillies_: the one where Granny fights the kangaroo. (Or the one where Granny rides the ostrich.) _Angel_: Smile Time. (A slight derail, but I’d probably go with “the one with The Scum of the Earth” as the second-most familiar _WKRP_.) ---
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Several mentions of various _The Dick Van Dyke Show_ episodes. But to me the most memorable is the one where they found out they weren’t legally married because Laura had lied about her age. That and the one were Buddy insults Mel. ---
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> [@Loach](#): > > No way. I know it was watched by 2 billion people at the time but it’s largely forgettable. I would say the one episode people remember is when Henry died. > . . . People remember the finale, but they don’t call it that. They’ll get real quiet and then say, “The one on the bus, with the chicken.” Seinfeld - I’m dithering. It’s either “The Soup Nazi” or “Spongeworthy” and I’m thinking it may by gender specific. . . General Hospital - Luke and Laura on the island. . . with Rick Springfield. I still can’t believe the show survived that steaming pile of crap. The Electric Company - The “-ly” Song. The one where somebody shot JR The Love Boat - Charo’s first visit. ---
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Another \*\*Frasier \*\*show. The one where they decide to restage a classic 50’s Radio Mystery play The second half had me laughing so much I got everybody in the house, I was house-sharing with some fellow 20-somethings at the time to come down and watch the repeat that was shown a couple of hours later. ---
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> [@TruCelt](#): > > General Hospital - Luke and Laura on the island. . . with Rick Springfield. [The death of Mikkos Cassadine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2o10OdxB9g). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055.md?page=6)