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100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 1. "Chuckles Bites the Dust," ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show")
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: "Buffalo Bill"
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FAMILY TIES
March 12, 1987
Alex P. Keaton, whose life revolves around himself, money, family, money, school, money (and money), realizes the value of life in the one-hour "'A' My Name Is Alex," written by Alan Uger and series creator Gary David Goldberg. A friend is killed in a car accident, and Alex is overcome with grief. In "Our Town"-like flashbacks, he talks to an unseen psychiatrist and grapples with big questions about God and a person's place in the grand scheme of things. Great sitcoms are not always all about jokes. The best make us laugh till we cry, and sometimes, when they mix in tragedy with the comedy, we cry till we laugh.
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"I was sound asleep and woke up with this idea," says Goldberg. "I saw Michael talking, trying to make sense of his life. I saw it in shadows and fragments, the way it looks in dreams. I got up and started writing."
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harpuah
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 68. "My Name is Alex" (Family Ties)
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I remember this episode.. saw it when I was ten or eleven.... seriously the best Family Ties episode ever. Michael J Fox was brilliant in it.
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harpuah posted:
I remember this episode.. saw it when I was ten or eleven.... seriously the best Family Ties episode ever. Michael J Fox was brilliant in it.
In addition to this being a true statement, this episode also has one of the best sound-cued / comedic timing'd gag I've ever seen, which is when the psychiatrist attempts to test Alex's assertion that he can identify how much money was dropped on the ground...
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 68. "My Name is Alex" (Family Ties)
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"67
GET SMART
January 13, 1968
Would you believe the far-out opening of "The Groovy Guru"? Agent 86 (Don Adams) -- wearing a Beatles wig, shades, and a Nehru shirt, and brandishing a sign exclaiming "Drop Out!" -- exchanges passwords with a courier. What he doesn't know is that the courier actually works for evil KAOS's newest recruit, a renegade disc jockey (F Troop's Larry Storch) who's planning to use subliminal messages in songs to brainwash teens into overthrowing the establishment! Of course, Max and 99 (Barbara Feldon) stop this fiendish plan -- but not before we get to see 99 frug madly amid a psychedelic light show. Groovy, man."
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 67. "Get Smart"
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66
THE SIMPSONS
May 13, 1993
"Krusty the Clown has always beaten the competition. "I slaughtered the Special Olympics," he muses. But that was before the arrival of Gabbo, the ventriloquist's dummy. "Gabbo Is Fabbo," gush the trade papers. Krusty is soon reduced to standing by the road with a sign that says, "Will Drop Pants For Food." Bart and Lisa to the rescue! They plan a comeback special and recruit Johnny Carson, Hugh Hefner, Bette Midler, Luke Perry, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers for the show. It's a smash, and so is "Krusty Gets Kancelled."
A lot to choose from here...the first Sideshow Bob & Cecil episode is a candidate; so is the rap episode: "Big, Big Trouble."
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"You only move twice" has to be up there as well.
In fact, it my pic as the greatest simpson episode
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wasn't this the episode Johnny Carson guest starred in? I remember it being a big deal back then, cause he was in it.
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Zaz posted:
so is the rap episode: "Big, Big Trouble."
Uhhh what? There's no episode called that....
Also, the only rap episode I know of is Pranksta Rap from Season 16. 
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You Only Move Twice is one of my favorites, but you can't forget King Size Homer either.
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Zaz
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It's very early on, and there's a rap song at the very end.
Next: 65
NORTHERN EXPOSURE
August 30, 1990
"Who wouldn't want to live in Cicely, Alaska, the most mystical oasis in TV history? Something unusual is always happening in this border town that brims with imagination, but never more than in "The Aurora Borealis." When Bernard (Richard Cummings Jr.), a befuddled accountant, motorcycles into town, he and Chris, the DJ (John Corbett), discover they share more than a few genes. Meanwhile, Dr. Fleischman (Rob Morrow), stranded in the wild, comes face to face with the region's feared and mythical "bigfoot," Adam -- who ends up grudgingly teaching the doctor how to cook Chinese dumplings."
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 65. "The Aurora Borealis" (Northern Exposure)
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This show had lots of wonderful episodes, but I haven't seen this one yet.
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I remember it, it was good, but I always associate the appearance of Adam and his wife as the beginning of the end for the show. When I think of the best NE shows, the one where they run naked at the end comes to mind. In a non-gay kind of way.
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Zaz
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64
THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS
October 6, 1959
"Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman) was nothing if not ardent, and he was most ardent about the blond, avaricious Thalia (Tuesday Weld). In "The Best Dressed Man," Dobie, a grocer's son, only has eyes for Thalia, but she only has eyes for rich, fashionable Milton Armitage (Warren Beatty). Determined to beat the clotheshorse at his own game and win Thalia's heart, Dobie convinces the local haberdasher to outfit him in snappy duds as an advertisement for the man's store. To his sorrow, though, Dobie learns that, as far as Thalia's concerned, it takes more than clothes to make the man -- it takes deep pockets."
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TAXI
September 25, 1979
"Reverend Jim" Ignatowski, a remnant of the '60s who's eaten one magic mushroom too many, is sitting at the bar in Mario's. Bobby (Jeff Conaway) comes up to him and says, "Hey, Jim, my friends and I were wondering if you'd like to come over and join us." Jim replies, "What did you decide?" "Reverend Jim: Space Odyssey" is a rolling snowball of laughs. First the cabbies have to persuade Louie DePalma (Danny DeVito) to take Jim on. Louie takes one look at the wild-eyed ex-hippie and says, "Get him outta here!" But Jim slips a tranquilizer into Louie's coffee, and the pint-size tyrant of Sunshine Cab Co. is soon crooning, "We were sailing along…on Moonlight Bay.…" Reverend Jim is in. All he has to do now is take a driver's test. He sits down, reads the first question, knits his brow, and whispers to the waiting cabbies, "What does a yellow light mean?" "Slow down!" Bobby whispers back. "OK," says Jim, "what…does…a…yellow…light…mean?"
I don't think I've seen this one, but I have seen Rev. Jim episodes, and he's very funny.
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THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
October 14, 1964
"Part sitcom, part silent movie, "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" features the legendary Hollywood columnist, who convinces Jed Clampett (Buddy Ebsen, below, with Nancy Kulp) to buy a movie studio. She tells Clampett that to make "great pictures" he'll need "great stars" and takes him to Grauman's Chinese Theater. "Somebody has sure gone and messed up this poor man's cee-ment," Jed says. Soon he and Jethro (Max Baer Jr.) are paving over even Mary Pickford's prints. They're arrested. Hopper springs them, only to climb onto Jed's bulldozer herself: "Someday, Hollywood is going to thank me for this!"
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