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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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ForceJumpAnakin
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 33. "The Parking Garage" ("Seinfeld")
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lol wait, I checked the real spelling
Uromysitisis
I'm sorry I said euro.
This was a great episode because it reminds us of the times when we'd forget where we parked after a long day at the mall, or even the groceries 
I had a laugh at Elaine's attempts to save the goldfish, especially at those two bodybuilders.
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yankee8255
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Good episode, but there are so many better Seinfeld episodes. The Parking Garage was a somewhat successful attempt to recaptur the magic of the Chinese Restaurant, which was sheer brilliance, and should have been on the list. Way up on the list.
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General Kenobi
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Agreed, a very good episode, but there are probably a dozen episodes worthy of higher placement on a list like this.
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Jango10
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I really liked "The Parking Garage".
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Jango10 posted:
I really liked "The Parking Garage".
"We're like rats in some experiment!"
That was my favorite line in that episode. Classic George meltdown.
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Zaz
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HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET
October 18, 1996
"An actor at his peak, a script that burns with intelligence and compassion, and an opportunity to have art imitate life in a way that blurs the line between fact and fiction. It's all here, as the Baltimore homicide department takes on a double killing at the state prison. Lifer Elijah Sanborn witnessed the murder, but won't snitch -- until the cops dangle the future of his long-estranged son, now in trouble, in front of him. It's a heartless squeeze that propels the past back at Sanborn like an exploding rocket. What gives "Prison Riot" its teeth is Dutton, who actually spent seven and a half years in prison for killing a man on those same Baltimore streets. There's hard-earned truth in his acting, and it takes this outstanding series to a new level."
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Zaz
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THE TWILIGHT ZONE
November 3, 1961
"The premise of "It's a Good Life" is simple. A tiny town is cut off from reality by 6-year-old Anthony Freemont, who combines a child's naturally amoral selfishness with limitless mental powers. Trapped in a nightmare where a mere negative thought can get them "sent to the cornfield" (i.e., winked out of existence), the terrified townspeople struggle to stay cheerful in hell. The show's impact has never lessened: On a recent episode of The Drew Carey Show, Drew's visiting parents go missing. "Oh, no," he says, "I hope I haven't wished them into the cornfield." It was a tribute to a classic."
I haven't seen this one, but I did see the movie, in which it figures. Wonderful, witty, premise.
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Zaz
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PLAYHOUSE 90
October 12, 1956
"It's Thursday night, nearly 9:30 in New York City, and backstage the cast is nervous: After all, it's live TV. We fade to a boxing arena as a fight ends, and Rod Serling's "Requiem for a Heavyweight" steps into the ring. Jack Palance is all angles and pain as the childlike coulda-been-a-contender "Mountain"
McClintock, needing to remake his life and reeling from a low blow by a manager who'll humiliate him to square a gambling debt. The glory of the Golden Age of Television rests on the broad shoulders of this single show, which proved the medium's power and what it could do when it, like "Mount," refused to take a dive."
I think they eventually made this into a feature film, as well.
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Zaz
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THE WONDER YEARS
March 29, 1988
"No series captured that tender, awkward waltz of the father-son relationship better, and especially in "My Father's Office," as it asks: What does my father do on the job, and why does he come home so grumpy? To find out, Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage) accompanies his dad (Dan Lauria) to work. There, as Kevin thrills to his dad's command and power, the boss rips his father to mortifying shreds. Later, as the Arnold men gaze at the suburban night sky, Kevin has a bittersweet realization: This wasn't at all what his dad wanted to be when he grew up. It's enough to make you cry…every time.
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"Fred came up with the funniest thing," recalls Lauria. "When I walked into the house all mad, he followed in right behind me the same way. Everyone fell on the floor!"
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THE TWILIGHT ZONE
November 3, 1961
"The premise of "It's a Good Life" is simple. A tiny town is cut off from reality by 6-year-old Anthony Freemont, who combines a child's naturally amoral selfishness with limitless mental powers. Trapped in a nightmare where a mere negative thought can get them "sent to the cornfield" (i.e., winked out of existence), the terrified townspeople struggle to stay cheerful in hell. The show's impact has never lessened: On a recent episode of The Drew Carey Show, Drew's visiting parents go missing. "Oh, no," he says, "I hope I haven't wished them into the cornfield." It was a tribute to a classic."
I haven't seen this one, but I did see the movie, in which it figures. Wonderful, witty, premise.
Every kid in the world that has seen this episode got to see their "power over the adults" fantasy come true!  Who didn't want to be Anthony Freemont? I hated Billy Mumy for years because he got to play this role.  It's one of the episodes that has always stuck out in my mind from childhood. That image of the adult who's turned into a jack-in-the-box chills me to this day. A grotesque image to be sure and truly unforgettable. One of Serling's absolute best.
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Zaz
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Oh, exactly.
Next: "28 GUNSMOKE
October 1, 1966
"Guest stars on TV shows are usually window dressing. Only once in a very great while do they put their indelible stamp on an episode and make it theirs, and almost never does their one appearance elevate the entire series to a whole new level of excellence. But that's precisely what Bette Davis did for Gunsmoke in "The Jailer" as a crazed woman poisoned by revenge fantasies against Marshall Dillon (James Arness). From Davis's entrance -- that widow's black dress, that hoarse and crackling voice biting off and spitting out lines like, "Don't talk flippant; y'ain't in no position" (and, yes, those Bette Davis eyes) -- you can feel the power come roaring from the picture tube across the room at you. Davis takes a simple role and plays it like Medea, turning an ordinary horse opera into something akin to Greek tragedy. A peach-fuzzed Bruce Dern and an impossibly young Tom Skerritt peek out from Davis's shadow."
I think it was Kenneth Tynan who said (apropos of "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte") that Davis was a 'raging, wasted Bernhardt'). I find her mannerisms insanely irritating, but that's true. Lady Macbeth was a role she should have played, and the movies very often wasted her natural talents.
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Zaz
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THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW
September 15, 1973
"The Twin Cities become the Sin Cities when Betty White makes her MTM debut in "The Lars Affair" as Sue Ann Nivens, the Happy Homemaker. Actually, happy home wrecker is more like it. Invited to one of Mary's classically disastrous parties, the ever-smiling Sue Ann offers her hostess some cleaning tips, then sweeps up Phyllis's never-seen dermatologist husband, Lars, and leaves the party with him. Mary and Rhoda (Valerie Harper) are baffled -- Sue Ann, after all, is an unlikely seductress. In fact, she's exactly the sort of woman you'd leave for someone else. But Phyllis (Cloris Leachman) has the perfect explanation for her husband's unfaithfulness: her own inexhaustible feminine allure. "I've been too much of a real woman," she declares. In the '70s, adultery was not an issue frequently handled on television, certainly not on a sitcom, but this cheating heart was served up with wit and style."
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Zaz
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THE HONEYMOONERS
October 1, 1955
"Alice (Audrey Meadows) is dying to have a TV set. But cheapskate Ralph (Jackie Gleason) lamely claims he's holding off until 3-D TV is developed. He finally agrees to go in halfsies with Norton, rigging a coin toss so the set stays in the Kramden apartment. No sooner is the set plugged in than Ralph becomes a total zombie to the new medium, the very archetype of the couch potato: scientifically determining (in a priceless piece of physical comedy) exactly where to place his snack food so no effort is required to reach it; fighting with Norton, who wants to sit in front of the set with his space helmet on to watch Captain Video; and finally falling asleep with the tube on. "TV or Not TV" was the first episode in The Honeymooners' one and only season. All 38 shows that came after met its brilliantly simple, hilarious standard."
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TWIN PEAKS
April 8, 1990
"A bird cocks its head. Smokestacks belch exhaust. A sawmill's blades shoot sparks. A guitar plays a dreamy, sensuous adagio as white water crashes over the falls and then gently flows to Laura Palmer, the golden girl of Twin Peaks, washed up dead onshore, wrapped in plastic. This is how the self-titled premiere episode ushered us into the shocking, surreal, sui generis world of Twin Peaks, a piney realm populated with bizarre characters -- barking teens, a mystical FBI agent, a finger-snapping, dancing midget. Director David Lynch's risky, murky, over-the-top amalgam of murder mystery, soap opera, and phantasmagoria left an indelible impression on the medium.
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"The town, Snoqualmie, Washington, didn't like us being there," recalls M -- dchen Amick (Shelly) of the show's location. "But when we went back to do the film, they greeted us with open arms."
Not to mention a full-dress re-enactment of Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Zaz
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THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW
September 30, 1963
"This series was at its down-home best when it focused on the sweet relationship between Sheriff Taylor (Griffith) and Opie (Ron Howard), a bond endearingly explored in "Opie the Birdman." After accidentally killing a mother bird with his slingshot, Opie dutifully raises her three nestlings until they are big enough to fly. After releasing them, Opie sadly notes how empty their cage looks. "It sure does," answers his proud and knowing pa as he watches the birds swoop skyward, "but don't the trees seem nice and full?" And aren't our lives nicer and fuller for having dallied in Mayberry?"
My favorite episodes of this show generally involved Barney Fife doing something egregiously stupid.
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