# The "One Episode" TV Challange **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-episode-tv-challange/495599 "2009-05-06T22:19:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-episode-tv-challange/495599/41 "2009-05-08T17:34:17Z")
The Rockford Files: [“White On White And Nearly Perfect”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0688097/). Tom Selleck’s proto-Magnum exasperates Jim Rockford at every turn…classic! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-episode-tv-challange/495599/42 "2009-05-08T18:04:12Z")
I agree as to the _X Files_ episodes mentioned, but I always liked best the one with the sullen Goth genie rolled up in the rug who keeps giving out wishes that go awry. For the original _Star Trek_, “The City on the Edge of Forever,” of course. The granddaddy of great TV time-travel stories, with a killer of a moral dilemma. For TNG, the one where the ship keeps blowing up and the Universe resets after the next commercial break (;)), and they finally figure out what’s going on. For DS9, “In the Pale Moonlight” is very, very good, but I’ve always had a soft spot for “Take Me Out to the Holosuite,” where Sisko and his crew take on an all-Vulcan baseball team. For VGR, there are far too few excellent episodes to choose from, but I’d pick the one where there’s a bridge between two _Voyager_s in slightly different universes, and Harry Kim crosses over with an infant. For ENT, I wish I could pick one. But they all sucked to one degree or another. For _The Simpsons_, the one where Mr. Burns learns that he suffers from virtually every disease known to modern medical science. For _Seinfeld_, either “The Contest” or “The Soup Nazi.” For _Frasier_, the one with Niles’s wedding(s). ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-episode-tv-challange/495599/43 "2009-05-08T18:09:07Z")
ER - “All in the Family” It’s the episode after Carter and Lucy get stabbed by the crazy patient and the entire episode centers on carving Kellie Martin up like a Thanksgiving turkey. I don’t care much for Kellie Martin and I really hated the character of Lucy, so I enjoy that episode despite ER having jumped the shark several seasons prior. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-episode-tv-challange/495599/44 "2009-05-08T19:16:12Z")
Red Dwarf - Polymorph. I love the whole series and every episode makes me laugh. But the scene with Lister trying to get his shorts off still makes me laugh like a loon. “You’ll BONK anything, wont you Lister?” God, I love that episode. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-episode-tv-challange/495599/45 "2009-05-08T19:42:36Z")
**Dogzilla** said: > [@](#): > > I don’t care much for Kellie Martin and I really hated the character of Lucy, so I enjoy that episode despite ER having jumped the shark several seasons prior. I thought the point was to convince people to watch the show. I think that’s the episode that made me stop. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-episode-tv-challange/495599.md?page=2)