I just recently was able to catch a few episodes of Fraggle Rock. I grew up in the 80’s but not with HBO. I had always heard about Fraggle Rock and I wanted to know what it was about. My curiosity quickly changed into knowing I was watching something great. I remember the moment I made up my mind about watching more episodes or not.
Fraggle Rock:
Pilot Episode “Beginnings”, Traveling Matt is describing the fraggles as a ‘dignified race’ – while the camera shows fraggles playing and making faces at each other. One Fraggle walks along, not looking, and just totally faceplants into a stalactite
In General, the way the Humor on Fraggle Rock presents itself is amazing. There is no way the target audience ever got half of the jokes per episode. [Then again, Jim Henson was like that.]
What TV show won you over, the moment you made up your mind, and knew you would be watching the show as appointment television, and with what scene did they do it with?
I can’t remember the exact scene, but I knew the moment I saw Eddie on Frasier that I was hooked. Then the comedy and timing and writing got me even more addicted.
“I don’t know. I’ve never reneged on a proffer of sperm before.” Season one. Episode one. The Big Bang Theory. Before the opening title sequence had even started.
Episode two of Battlestar Galatica. It was so tense and very well acted. I just loved the characters from that point on.
Community: the moment when Joel McHale’s character walks into the study room and discovers that Britta has asked all the most annoying people from Spanish class to join their “study group.” Episode one.
I’ve enjoyed Modern Family from the beginning but I really fell in love when the tennis bracelet View Finder showed up. That was a such a great moment.
I got a tingling at: “We’re not gonna die. We can’t die, Bendis. And you know why? Because we are so… very… pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.”
but by “Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal” I was totally hooked.
I was hooked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the episode in the 4th season “Something Blue.”* The evil demon d’Hoffryn tries to recruit Willow. She refuses. He says, “Is that you final decision.” Willow says it is. d’Hoffryn sighs and said, “All right. Here is my sigil. If you change your mind, give me a summons.”
Like the Firefly clip, this turned a cliche inside out.
I got hooked on Arrested Development when, in the pilot, Buster (who studied geography) is handed a nautical chart and says, "OK, the blue part is land. . . . "
I got hooked on Star Trek as soon as I saw the Enterprise. You didn’t get much SF on TV in those days.
The long forgotten Once a Hero won me over when the kid who was shaking down all the other kids at school gave a rebate because one of his gang hit a kid who had paid for protection.
*I didn’t have cable, so I couldn’t see it until then.
Odd that you should ask. Tonight ABC reran the premeiere of Modern Family and I realized I was hooked when Cam introduced the Vietnamese daughter to the family with the opening from Lion King.
The opening scene of The Wire (NSFW), when the kid explains to McNulty why they kept letting Snotboogie in the craps game even though he always tried to snatch the pot.
I was hooked on Glee the minute Emma (the guidance counselor) told the girl trying to vomit (who’d said she didn’t have a very good gag reflex) that someday she’d appreciate that ability.
Dexter, I saw the “clean” version of series premiere on CBS or our canadian broadcaster for it, perhaps CTV. I thought it was funny and well done, but I wanted to watch with the full on experience. Since then I watch Dexter avidly and got others to do so based on that one “clean” version of Dexter.
I knew I was really into the Sopranos from the ep Pax Soprano–I think it was the way that Dr. Melfi handled Tony’s announcement that he had feelings for her. It wasn’t a typical, two people jump into bed–it felt real. Especially the way she handled it.
One of the first episodes I ever watched. My best friend and I laughed so hard at the ‘written’ plea of the crawling pizza monster that we nearly choaked. I decided that no other TV show would ever be this cheezy, and it would be WRONG not to embrace it.
24: I never caught any of season 1 when it first aired. I checked out the first episode of season 2, when they replayed it a couple nights after the season premiere first aired. And that episode hooked me – especially: “I’m going to need a hacksaw…”
Lost: the series premiere, more or less. But was especially hooked after the first John Locke backstory in episode 4, with the reveal scene at the end.
Arrested Development: several episodes in, when Lindsay was out trying to save the wetlands, and she actually WENT to the wetlands (and hated it) and… speared the frog.