Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Greatest TV Episodes #41-50

41. X-Files: Die Hand Die Verletzt (1995): Mulder and Scully meet Satan.

42. Murphy Brown: It’s Not East Being Brown (1993): Murphy needs to improve her image, so she appears on a children’s TV puppet show. The puppets taunt her, Murphy loses it on live TV, and rips the puppet off the puppeteer’s hand; scarring children for life.

43. Bewitched: Humbug Not Spoken Here (1967): In this retelling of “A Christmas Carol”, Samantha introduces the spirit of Christmas to a miserly old man. Santa even makes an appearance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW5Qh9wLs8A

44. Battlestar Galactica Mini-Series (2003): Ronald Moore reworked the 1978 cheese fest. Like the original, the Cylons break a truce and wipe out most of humanity. Unlike the original, this Galactica was gritty and filled with flawed humans as opposed to heroic figures.

45. South Park: Trapped in the Closet (2005): In one of the greatest spoofs of all time, South Park takes on Scientology by simply stating their tenants. The title refers to a R. Kelly song. In the episode, Tom Cruise is trapped in the closet.

46. Star Trek The Next Generation: The Drumhead (1991): An Admiral (Jean Simmons) loses her mind and conducts a witch hunt aboard the Enterprise. She eventually accused Captain Picard of disloyalty. He takes the stand and turns the trial around. She flips out and the witch hunt ends.

47. 60 Minutes: The Clintons (1992): Bill Clinton looked finished when the Gennifer Flowers scandal broke. With nothing to lose, he and Hillary appeared on 60 Minutes with Steve Kroft. The Clintons saved their campaign.

48. Batman: The Joker is Wild/Batman is Riled (1966): The Joker invents his own utility belt and drives Gotham City to the brink of anarchy. Batman and Robin eventually stop him.

49. The Andy Griffith Show: Lawman Barney (1962): A couple of peddlers treat Barney badly. Barney loses his confidence until Andy steps in behind the scenes. The peddlers realize Andy is full of it and confront Barney who develops a backbone and scares them off.

50. Seinfeld: The Opposite (1994): How do you get a job with the Yankees? Tell Steinbrenner off!

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