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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: 41: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "The Man From the South"
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 Yeah, I'm wrong there.
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 41: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "The Man From the South"
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WKRP IN CINCINNATI
October 30, 1978
"TV shows traditionally greet holidays with a hug, but not WKRP. In "Turkeys Away," which was based on a true story, station manager Arthur Carlson (Gordon Jump) announces plans to unveil a secret promotional event, and newsman Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) shows up at the local mall to cover it live. A helicopter comes into view. Mr. Carlson is aboard. So are 20 live turkeys -- which, to Les's horror, are hurled to their deaths. "Oh, the humanity," Les wails, evoking the Hindenberg while fowl balls plummet to the parking lot. Mr. Carlson is shocked. "As God is my witness," he says, "I thought turkeys could fly."
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"Richard had tapes of the Hindenberg disaster," says Loni Anderson, who played Mr. Carlson's secretary, "and practiced his broadcast to sound real. He was a perfectionist."
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General Kenobi
Title: Comms Admin
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7/25 6:28am
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 40. "Turkeys Away" ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
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WKRP was a great show, and "Turkeys Away" is an iconic television episode.
It's too bad that we probably won't get dvd sets of WKRP with the original music due to the costs associated with covering the royalties, etc. because they lose a lot in edited form.
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 40. "Turkeys Away" ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
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THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW
November 13, 1996
"Larry (Garry Shandling) is convinced that upcoming guest David Duchovny has a crush on him. When D.D. sends him a jacket emblazoned "The Truth Is Out There," Larry panics -- until he realizes it's The X-Files' motto. Duchovny, deftly toying with his leading-man status, continues to send mixed signals and progressively unnerve Larry. Finally, Larry confronts his guest, who says he's sorry, he wishes he were gay because he finds Larry so attractive. The truth is out there: "Everybody Loves Larry," which also features a subplot about Hank (Jeffrey Tambor) feuding with singer Elvis Costello over a sports car, is a standout, even by Sanders' perfect-pitch standards.
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"I'm supposed to be this racing-car guy," says Costello, "but I didn't even learn to drive a car till I was 35, which I know is completely unbelievable to Americans: Don't you learn to drive when you're, like, 9?"
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 39. "Everybody Loves Larry" ("The Larry Saunders Show"
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MY SO-CALLED LIFE
November 10, 1994
"A far cry from Happy Days, this series took on the anguish and anticipation of high school in the '90s. "Life of Brian" begins with a dance. No one wants to go. Everyone wants to go. Geeky Brian (Devon Gummersall) wants to ask Angela (Claire Danes). She wants to go with cool Jordan (Jared Leto). Rickie (Wilson Cruz), who's gay, has a crush on Corey (Adam Biesk), who likes Rayanne (A.J. Langer). But the counselor doesn't think Rayanne, who has a drug problem, should go. It's sad and embarrassing, like high school if you're still in it, and hilarious, which is what high school becomes after you've survived it."
Never watched this show.
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 39. "Life of Brian" ("My So-Called Life")
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MY SO-CALLED LIFE
November 10, 1994
"A far cry from Happy Days, this series took on the anguish and anticipation of high school in the '90s. "Life of Brian" begins with a dance. No one wants to go. Everyone wants to go. Geeky Brian (Devon Gummersall) wants to ask Angela (Claire Danes). She wants to go with cool Jordan (Jared Leto). Rickie (Wilson Cruz), who's gay, has a crush on Corey (Adam Biesk), who likes Rayanne (A.J. Langer). But the counselor doesn't think Rayanne, who has a drug problem, should go. It's sad and embarrassing, like high school if you're still in it, and hilarious, which is what high school becomes after you've survived it."
Never watched this show.
I loved that show. iirc that episode has this excruciating thread where Brian, having invited a girl who has a big crush on him, thinks he has a shot at getting with Angela and so dumps the first one, setting himself up for a big failure, of course. Seeing Brian's inner jerk revealed and his ensuing humiliation really made me squirm, and I've always avoided the episode in reruns.
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 39. "Life of Brian" ("My So-Called Life")
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THE BRADY BUNCH
December 10, 1971
"Hey! Hey! She's a Brady -- and the president of her local Davy Jones fan club. Marcia cockily promises to get the singer to play at the prom. She and her sibs try several subterfuges, and she finally gets her man. She even gets to peck his cheek. The unstated joke, of course, is the show's choice of teen idols. The Monkees had split up two years earlier, and Jones was desperately trying to jump-start a solo career. But that sense of terminal unhipness -- filtered through Marcia's sunny personality -- is precisely why we love The Brady Bunch, and especially "Getting Davy Jones."
Never seen any of this one, either.
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 37. "Getting Davy Jones" ("The Brady Bunch")
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NYPD BLUE
October 12, 1993
"Before David Schwimmer became a household name as Ross on Friends, he left his mark on this dynamic series in "True Confessions." His twitchy, nebbishy lawyer Josh Goldstein was a neighbor of Det. John Kelly's estranged wife. When Goldstein, whom Kelly calls 4B (his apartment number), is mugged, he becomes obsessed with revenge. Though Kelly (David Caruso) tries to get him to give up his gun, 4B doesn't listen and, in a shoot-out with a mugger, gets blown away. We, too, were blown away by the emotional finality of losing a character with whom we had empathized so deeply."
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 36. "True Confessions" ("NYPD Blue")
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This was a great, great episode of NYPD Blue, one that really got me hooked on the show, and really established Caruso's character.
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 36. "True Confessions" ("NYPD Blue")
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ELLEN
April 30, 1997
"Ellen (Ellen DeGeneres) is getting ready for a date. Finally, Paige (Joely Fisher) asks through the door, "Ellen, are you coming out or not?" Indeed, Ellen's coming out to her therapist (Oprah Winfrey) and Susan was actually three years in the making and cause for much media hype. But what distinguishes this hour-long show, dubbed "The Puppy Episode" to keep its plot secret, is some of the sharpest comedy TV can offer. When an offended Ellen accuses Susan of recruiting her to homosexuality, Susan says, "I'll have to call national headquarters and tell 'em I lost you. Damn -- just one more, and I would have gotten that toaster oven!" And after Ellen accidentally blurts "I'm gay" over a loudspeaker, she says, "That felt so great -- and it felt so loud." It sure did."
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"For a lot of people, this was like Jackie Robinson in the major leagues," says David Anthony Higgins, who plays Ellen's coworker Joe. "I feel like, in my tiny part, I kind of made a little television history."
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 35. "The Puppy Episode" ("Ellen")
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MOONLIGHTING
October 15, 1985
"Hosted by Orson Welles, who died just five days before it aired, this stylized, mostly black-and-white episode of Moonlighting blended the series' trademark banter and sexual tension with an unusual homage to film noir. In "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice," a visit to a once-hot nightspot prompts Maddie and David to dream their own versions of an old, unsolved murder. In Maddie's mind, her songbird character falls for David's horn-blowing charmer, who schemes to kill her husband; his version paints him as the innocent, framed by a conniving woman. In both dreams they make love, something that would remain merely fantasy for the characters for another two years."
I don't think I've seen this one. Prefer the "Taming of the Shrew" episode of those I have.
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 34. "Moonlighting"
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Zaz posted:
"For a lot of people, this was like Jackie Robinson in the major leagues," says David Anthony Higgins, who plays Ellen's coworker Joe. "I feel like, in my tiny part, I kind of made a little television history."
Yeah, we all know gays had been traditionally shut out of the entertainment industry until this happened. What an idiotic thing to say.
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 34. "Moonlighting"
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Well, I haven't seen it, so I wouldn't know; but yeah, that does sound like self-important hyperbole.
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 34. "Moonlighting"
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SEINFELD
October 30, 1991
"In this series that set the TV industry on its ear by boasting, proudly and subversively, that it was "about nothing," "The Parking Garage" is the ultimate nothing episode. Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer can't find their car in a mall parking garage and walk around looking for it. That's it. But we've come to know the idiosyncrasies and neuroses of these characters so well that we enjoy seeing them splash down in the shallow pond of a minor dilemma and sink to the bottom, while arguing about the best stroke to use to get to shore. It's theater of the absurd: "Four Characters in Search of an Exit Ramp." The whole requires remarkable writing and acting, and a pact with the audience never to take anything too seriously. That's not nothing -- that's everything."
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 33. "The Parking Garage" ("Seinfeld")
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Because I might get Euromycitisis that's why!
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