1. MASH: Abyssinia Henry (1975): “Lieutenant Colonel... Henry Blake's plane... was shot down... over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors."
2. Newhart: The Last Newhart (1990): The ending is now legendary. Bob wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette and mentions his dream about being a Vermont innkeeper.
3. Monty Python’s Flying Circus: The Spanish Inquisition (1970): Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! The inquisition ran amok appearing seven times throughout the episode.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprjmoSMJ-o
4. I Love Lucy: Lucy Does a TV Commercial (1952): Lucy is recruited to do a commercial for Vitameatavegamin. It’s a health elixir filled with 23% alcohol. After several takes, Lucy becomes Homer Simpson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1Nubw8XJw
5. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965): Charlie Brown searches for the meaning Christmas in the midst of modern commercialism. In the meantime, Snoopy wins money, money, money.
6. The Bob Newhart Show: Over the River and Through the Woods (1975): What happens when the guys are left alone on Thanksgiving? Lots of drinking!! A drunk Bob is a must see and you can’t cook a turkey at 5000 degrees. Somehow, it ends up in the dishwasher as opposed to the stove. In the end, it’s time for Moo Goo Gai Pan!
7. Cheers: Thanksgiving Orphans (1986): No one has Thanksgiving plans except Diane (which involves a Pilgrim costume). Carla invites the gang to dinner and disaster follows. Vera even shows!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgZjqa4RrLE
8. Seinfeld: The Boyfriend (1992): Keith Hernandez joins the gang. The episode contains the infamous magic loogey scene in which Newman and Kramer are spat on by a second spitter (Roger McDowell).
9. I Love Lucy: Job Switching (The Candy Factory): (1952): Anyone that has ever worked can relate to Lucy and Ethel’s predicament.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wp3m1vg06Q
10. The Civil War (1990): For five nights in 1990, people watched PBS! No one knows for sure if anyone has watched PBS since.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
The Greatest TV Episodes #21-30
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.
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.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Greatest TV Episodes of All Time #31-40
31. MASH: Tuttle (1973): Hawkeye and Trapper invent a surgeon and eventually everyone believes the guy is real. Eventually, General Clayton wants to honor Captain Tuttle. Hawkeye solves the problem by killing Tuttle. The imaginary captain jumped out of a helicopter to help wounded soldiers, but forgot his parachute. Seinfeld used the same storyline for an episode 20 years later.
32. The Munsters: Herman the Rookie (1965): Leo Durocher discovers Herman playing ball with Eddie and gives him a tryout with the Dodgers. Herman destroys the baseball field and Leo has to let him go. Despite his amazing talent, repairs to the field would cost too much if Herman played professionally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHBee9DAKYw
33. Star Trek: Balance of Terror (1966): Kirk and crew encounter Romulans and engage in a deadly cat and mouse game based on films such as Run Silent, Run Deep with the Enterprise serving as a surface ship and the Romulans as a submarine.
34. MTV Unplugged: Nirvana (1993): Nirvana appeared on MTV Unplugged in late 1993. They played a lot of covers and lesser known songs. The stage was decorated with lilies and candles as Cobain wanted it to look like a funeral. He died in April, 1994 and the CD was the band’s first release after his death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eglOHphhpcg
35. Happy Days: They Don’t Shoot Fonzies, Do They? (1976): Fonzie agrees to help Joanie and enter a dance marathon at Arnold's. Joanie wants to beat the captain of the cheerleading squad who had her cut from the team. Fonzie’s bike breaks down and he has to walk it 12 miles and is exhausted. He collapses, but comes to when threatened with a crew cut. Fonzie breaks into a Russian jig and wins the contest. This scene is later used in a Weezer video.
36. Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Inner Light (1992): Picard is zapped by a probe and lives another man’s entire life in a few minutes. He awakes to find that the people built the probe to save their culture as their star was going supernova.
37. Batman: The Purr-Fect Crime & Better Luck Next Time (1966): Catwoman steals priceless art. After the usual cliffhanger, Batman and Robin track her to a cave where Catwoman dies. Luckily, Julie Newmar has 9 lives.
38. X-Files: Jose Chung’s From Outer Space (1996): Mulder and Scully investigate the abduction of two teenagers. Meanwhile, noted sci-fi writer Jose Chung is writing a novel about the incident. Every person involved tells Chung a different story leading to an amusing episode.
39. Married with Children: It’s a Bundyful Life (1989): The bank closes on Al before he can do his Xmas shopping. When he returns home, Al decides to fix the Christmas lights. He is briefly electrocuted and meets his guardian angel, Sam Kinison. Al sees that his family would have lived a wonderful life without him. He wants to spoil it, so he returns.
40. Northern Exposure: The Aurora Borealis- A Fairy Tale for Big People (1991): The Aurora Borealis makes the people of Cicily act strangely. Joel is rescued by Bigfoot and Chris leaves the radio station to work on a sculpture. Bigfoot turned out to be a real man and not a beast.
32. The Munsters: Herman the Rookie (1965): Leo Durocher discovers Herman playing ball with Eddie and gives him a tryout with the Dodgers. Herman destroys the baseball field and Leo has to let him go. Despite his amazing talent, repairs to the field would cost too much if Herman played professionally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHBee9DAKYw
33. Star Trek: Balance of Terror (1966): Kirk and crew encounter Romulans and engage in a deadly cat and mouse game based on films such as Run Silent, Run Deep with the Enterprise serving as a surface ship and the Romulans as a submarine.
34. MTV Unplugged: Nirvana (1993): Nirvana appeared on MTV Unplugged in late 1993. They played a lot of covers and lesser known songs. The stage was decorated with lilies and candles as Cobain wanted it to look like a funeral. He died in April, 1994 and the CD was the band’s first release after his death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eglOHphhpcg
35. Happy Days: They Don’t Shoot Fonzies, Do They? (1976): Fonzie agrees to help Joanie and enter a dance marathon at Arnold's. Joanie wants to beat the captain of the cheerleading squad who had her cut from the team. Fonzie’s bike breaks down and he has to walk it 12 miles and is exhausted. He collapses, but comes to when threatened with a crew cut. Fonzie breaks into a Russian jig and wins the contest. This scene is later used in a Weezer video.
36. Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Inner Light (1992): Picard is zapped by a probe and lives another man’s entire life in a few minutes. He awakes to find that the people built the probe to save their culture as their star was going supernova.
37. Batman: The Purr-Fect Crime & Better Luck Next Time (1966): Catwoman steals priceless art. After the usual cliffhanger, Batman and Robin track her to a cave where Catwoman dies. Luckily, Julie Newmar has 9 lives.
38. X-Files: Jose Chung’s From Outer Space (1996): Mulder and Scully investigate the abduction of two teenagers. Meanwhile, noted sci-fi writer Jose Chung is writing a novel about the incident. Every person involved tells Chung a different story leading to an amusing episode.
39. Married with Children: It’s a Bundyful Life (1989): The bank closes on Al before he can do his Xmas shopping. When he returns home, Al decides to fix the Christmas lights. He is briefly electrocuted and meets his guardian angel, Sam Kinison. Al sees that his family would have lived a wonderful life without him. He wants to spoil it, so he returns.
40. Northern Exposure: The Aurora Borealis- A Fairy Tale for Big People (1991): The Aurora Borealis makes the people of Cicily act strangely. Joel is rescued by Bigfoot and Chris leaves the radio station to work on a sculpture. Bigfoot turned out to be a real man and not a beast.
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