21. Cheers: An Old Fashioned Wedding (1992): Woody and Kelly are getting married and the Cheers gang have to overcome multiple obstacles including a dead priest, killer watch dogs, and Lilith’s spoon playing.
22. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Best of Both Worlds (1990): The Next Generation changed things up. Picard is kidnapped and turned into a Borg. He helps them destroy a fleet and attack Earth. Riker uses unorthodox strategy to stop him. The two part season finale/premier won an Emmy.
23. MASH: 5 O’Clock Charlie (1973): For weeks, an incompetent North Korean pilot attempted to drop a hand held bomb onto an ammo dump. The camp takes bets on how far off he’ll be. Frank convinces General Clayton to supply the camp with a cannon. Hawkeye and Trapper then help Charlie blow up the dump before Frank can hurt someone with the canon.
24. I Love Lucy: Lucy Goes to the Hospital (1953): Lucy gives birth to Little Ricky. In one of the funniest TV moments, Lucy remains cool, but Ricky, Fred, and Ethel flip out. Chaos reigns and Lucy somehow ends up at the hospital. While Lucy is in labor, Ricky has to go to work at the club. He returns in full voodoo makeup to see his son.
25. Magnum P.I.: Home by the Sea (1983): It’s the Fourth of July, Magnum goes out on his surf ski. A motorboat capsizes Magnum and he finds himself in the middle of the ocean. No one knows he’s there. Thomas is forced to tread water and he spends the time remembering his father’s attempts to teach him to tread water. His friends sense something is wrong, but have no idea what. They eventually search for him and perform a rescue.
26. The Simpsons: Cape Feare (1993): In a parody of Cape Fear, Sideshow Bob returns to Springfield to kill Bart Simpson. Before killing Bart, Bob breaks into the HMS Pinafore and is captured by police.
27. Murphy Brown: Birth 101 (1992): Murphy Brown goes into labor in the middle of a broadcast. Once in the hospitals, the contractions hit and she goes into a loud rant against every man in the room. Where was Dan Quayle?
28. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Hush (1999): Most of the episode had no dialogue. Living fairy tales, the Gentlemen, come to Sunnydale and steal everyone’s voices. The episode received an Emmy nomination and vast critical acclaim.
29. Frasier: The Matchmaker (1994): A gay man assumes Frasier is hitting on him. Flabbergasted, Frasier wonders aloud, “What on earth could have made him think I was interested in him? All I did was ask him if he was attached, and then we talked about the theater and men's fashions. Oh, my God!”
30. Battlestar Galactica: Blood on the Scales (2009): A coup overthrows the president and Adama. Tom Zarek murders the colonial political leadership and sentences Adama to death by firing squad. Adama regains control and Zarek faces the firing squad instead.
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