Cheers! had some of the best scenes ever. With Sam and Diane, there was the season finale when they were having a heated argument in his office. He flings open the door to throw her out—and EVERYONE in the bar is gathered around on the other side, listening to every word!
With Rebecca, it has to be the one where she holds a lit cigarette in her mouth (for real!) to keep Sam from finding out she’s started smoking again; otherwise, she loses a bet.
But the very best was the one between Coach and his daughter when she comes to visit, and he convinces her to dump her sleazy fiance:
I really cannot watch this scene without getting all choked up! :o
Big Bang Theory: The scene where Beverly Hofstadter psychoanalyzes Howard and Raj around the cafeteria table. I always make sure to watch this episode when it’s on just so I can catch this scene again.
Nothing beats the scene where she “disciplines” her underlings in her first appearance:
Holy dominatrix! :eek: Too bad the next line was left off: "Leo, did you remember to brush my pussywillows this morning?" :o
NB: I was watching this episode on 16 March 1966 when ABC News broke in to announce something had gone wrong on the Gemini 8 orbital mission. The astronauts were lucky to make an emergency return, cutting the flight short.
The announcement came just as Batman and Robin were approaching the Gato and Chat warehouse. The pilot of the spacecraft who successfully countered the effects of a misfiring thruster was Neil Armstrong.
Columbo: the one where the police commissioner himself is taking point.
Spoilers, obviously.
For once, the key piece of evidence comes up and we see a murderer look – well, not guilty, and not sizing the lieutenant up anew as if having underestimated him, and not working to come up with a new lie on the fly, and not any one of a dozen other things that a man who’s just been caught red-handed might do; it’s just shock that a guy would say something so off-the-wall as if it were so obvious. Because, honestly, isn’t that how you or I would react to Columbo springing the big surprise? Not with any brains, but with what-the-heck-is-going-on befuddlement?