# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/101 "2017-03-02T00:18:39Z")
About Frasier, the one scene I remember most is from an episode that some googling shows to be called [_Deathtrap_](http://www.kacl780.net/frasier/transcripts/season_9/episode_19/deathtrap.html): \*\*\*Lasskopf: \*\*Well, what the hell’s going on? \*\* Niles: \*\*We dug up your wife, that’s what’s going on! \*\*Lasskopf: \*_[horrified_] You dug up my wife?! \*\*Frasier: \*\*I’ll bet you thought nobody ever would, didn’t you? \*\*Lasskopf: \*\*[_truthfully_] No! \*\*Niles: \*\*Well, you didn’t count on the Crane boys. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/102 "2017-03-02T00:29:10Z")
Twin Peaks: The killer is revealed as Leland/BOB kills Maddie. Brady Bunch: Marcia takes a football to the nose. Dick Van Dyke: The cast sings “Alan Brady” for the Christmas show. M_A_S\*H: The stopwatch I Love Lucy: Lucy works in the chocolate factory Time Tunnel: Titanic (also the first show) Jonny Quest: The big spider Andy Griffith: The loaded goat Wide World of Sports: “DOWN GOES FRAZIER!” Mama’s Family: Sorry! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/103 "2017-03-02T00:38:10Z")
Wide World of Sports: The one with Evel Knievel’s failed attempt to jump the Snake River in a rocket sled. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/104 "2017-03-02T00:57:32Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Not “The one with that green dancing girl”? Or else “The one with that truly ugly baby”? > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Or the one where the guy is black on the right side. > [@terentii](#): > > Or the one where there’s a woman inside Shatner’s body. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Or the one where a lusty Spock fights Kirk on Vulcan. Or as anybody who was born and raised in Los Angeles knows it, “the one where Kirk fights the big green lizard out at Vasquez Rocks.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/105 "2017-03-02T03:53:36Z")
**Blackadder** : _Over the Top_ The guys climb the ladder and charge to their deaths, and the screen slowly fades to a modern-day green field. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > Mama’s Family: Sorry! Or, “Dans Le Garbage!” > [@cochrane](#): > > Wide World of Sports: The one with Evel Knievel’s failed attempt to jump the Snake River in a rocket sled. Naw. The only thing anybody remembers about WWoS is that pathetic ski jump fail during the opening. **The Agony of Defeat** ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/106 "2017-03-02T03:57:33Z")
> [@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. > > Magnum P.I. “Did you see the sunrise?” The episode where a crying chicken turns out to be a baby, and that the mom killed the baby because Hawkeye told her to shut it up (so they wouldn’t be found by the enemy)? Was that not the final episode? Sure, I remember Henry dying, too. But there’s no way I’ll forget the episode above as long as I live. Also, FYI, I don’t remember any of these Frasier episodes. The one that comes to mind is the one where Niles catches himself on fire while ironing and stuff, all because he’s trying to go on a date or something. It’s beautiful physical comedy. ---
**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 2, 2017, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/107 "2017-03-02T05:01:53Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Time Tunnel: Titanic (also the first show) Mobile Tic-Toc One to Tic-Toc Base! ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/108 "2017-03-02T05:17:14Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I was going to go with “The Germans” for _Fawlty Towers_ I’d have thought “The Kipper and the Corpse”. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/109 "2017-03-02T05:22:07Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _ **Cheers!** _: The one where Coach’s daughter comes to visit. My all-time favorite episode! I liked this one a lot. Allyce Beasley was adorable. > [@](#): > > _ **Frasier** _: The one where Daphne hooks up with Niles’s doppelganger. I don’t remember this one at all. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/110 "2017-03-02T05:52:12Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > _The Beverly Hillbillies_: the one where Granny fights the kangaroo. (Or the one where Granny rides the ostrich.) Geez, it’s been 50 years, and I still just laughed out loud when I thought of Jethro setting up a double-naught spy agency, and installing his two-way mirror backwards, and everybody in the next room watching him as he tried to see through it. ---
**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 2, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/111 "2017-03-02T05:54:24Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > I don’t remember this one at all. Niles and his doppelganger (Daphne’s date) arrive at Frasier’s apartment at the same time. Not only does the other guy look and dress and talk like Niles, they have exactly the same mannerisms. Marty watches in disbelief from his Barcalounger. The phone rings. Marty answers it. “Oh, hi, Duke. Listen, I’ll call you back later. Right now I’m in the middle of the Twilight Zone!” ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/112 "2017-03-02T05:56:43Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > _The Dick Van Dyke Show_ … the one were Buddy insults Mel. Hmmm, I don’t remember that one. ---
**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 2, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/113 "2017-03-02T05:58:03Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Geez, it’s been 50 years, and I still just laughed out loud when I thought of Jethro setting up a double-naught spy agency, and installing his two-way mirror backwards, and everybody in the next room watching him as he tried to see through it. I liked his Oddjob-style armored hat, and the transistor radio he taped under the heel of his brogan in an attempt to copy Bond in _ **Goldfinger** _. ---
**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 2, 2017, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/114 "2017-03-02T06:02:51Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Hmmm, I don’t remember that one. For example: \*\*BUDDY: \*\* (_Working on a sketch_) The door opens, and in walks… **[MEL COMES INTO THE OFFICE]** …Mr Potatohead! ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/115 "2017-03-02T14:01:08Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > 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. I’ve been trying to get back into Kolchak on Sunday nights at 10 but, not sure what you would call it, maybe, bad tv? No, just too many shows since then that were SO much more exciting. I loved the show back in the day, but the few I’ve watched in rerun…either bad episodes or the whole thing sucks! > [@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. HEYYYYYYYYYYY I beat you to that one! :dubious::smack:😃 ---
**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 2, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/116 "2017-03-02T14:16:32Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > Or as anybody who was born and raised in Los Angeles knows it, “the one where Kirk fights the big green lizard out at Vasquez Rocks.” Or the one with the planet full of horny retarded women. “Brain and brain, what is brain?!?” ---
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Or how about the incredibly racist episode of _ **TNG** _? “Troi! You’re my _friend_, and you \*tricked \*me!” :smack: ---
**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:** [March 2, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055/118 "2017-03-02T14:20:45Z")
The Big Bang Theory - A tossup between “The Staircase Implementation” and “The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis.” The former was laugh out loud funny the whole time, the latter had one of Sheldon Cooper’s best scenes. ---
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> [@Seanette](#): > > I’d have thought “The Kipper and the Corpse”. These sausages are off! They should have been eaten by Wednesday! :dubious: ---
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> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The Big Bang Theory - A tossup between “The Staircase Implementation” and “The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis.” The former was laugh out loud funny the whole time, the latter had one of Sheldon Cooper’s best scenes. So many great episodes, but I have to go with the one where Beverly visits for the first time. “Tell me about it, Slugger!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-where-everyone-remembers-one-episode/781055.md?page=7)