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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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somethingfamiliar
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: "The Germans" ("Fawlty Towers")
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The bit with the moose head is my favorite.
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Mar17swgirl
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I once saw Prunella Scales essay Her Gracious Maj. Elizabeth II. Once I got over the shock--it's Mrs. Fawlty!--I thought she did a great job.
I'm probably related to her at some level. Same surname.
Scales or Windsor? 
Also, Fawlty Towers rock. 
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The Germans is hilarious.
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Zaz
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THE TWILIGHT ZONE
March 2, 1962
"Respectfully submitted for your perusal: a Kanamit," intones Rod Serling in his distinctive voice. "Height: a little over 9'. Weight: in the neighborhood of 350 pounds. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs a tale." Serling's teasing introduction notwithstanding, the Kanamits' origin is obvious enough: They're from outer space. As for their motives -- well, they're here to help. At least that's what their "spokesman" -- a big, bald fellow with hugely protruding brain lobes -- tells the United Nations. A day after arriving, these well-meaning aliens are demonstrating new fertilizers that will eradicate famine. Thanks to Kanamit force-field technology, the nations of Earth no longer need armies, and in the spirit of transgalactic understanding, earthlings by the thousand soon rocket off on all-expenses-paid vacations to Kanamit. Too good to be true? You bet. The one real clue we have to Kanamit motives is a book of theirs. A government cryptographer, played by Lloyd Bochner, and his crew have translated the title as To Serve Man (also the name of the episode). It's only as Bochner himself is about to board the ship for Kanamit that his assistant (Susan Cummings) comes up with the episode's punch line -- and with it, the essence of edginess and bitter irony that made The Twilight Zone such a memorable place to visit: To Serve Man is a cookbook!"
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THE TWILIGHT ZONE
March 2, 1962
"Respectfully submitted for your perusal: a Kanamit," intones Rod Serling in his distinctive voice. "Height: a little over 9'. Weight: in the neighborhood of 350 pounds. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs a tale." Serling's teasing introduction notwithstanding, the Kanamits' origin is obvious enough: They're from outer space. As for their motives -- well, they're here to help. At least that's what their "spokesman" -- a big, bald fellow with hugely protruding brain lobes -- tells the United Nations. A day after arriving, these well-meaning aliens are demonstrating new fertilizers that will eradicate famine. Thanks to Kanamit force-field technology, the nations of Earth no longer need armies, and in the spirit of transgalactic understanding, earthlings by the thousand soon rocket off on all-expenses-paid vacations to Kanamit. Too good to be true? You bet. The one real clue we have to Kanamit motives is a book of theirs. A government cryptographer, played by Lloyd Bochner, and his crew have translated the title as To Serve Man (also the name of the episode). It's only as Bochner himself is about to board the ship for Kanamit that his assistant (Susan Cummings) comes up with the episode's punch line -- and with it, the essence of edginess and bitter irony that made The Twilight Zone such a memorable place to visit: To Serve Man is a cookbook!"
I saw this episode in 1982 when I was 9.
In a word. . .NIGHTMARES.
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One of the all-time great Twilight Zones. I loved this one. I think the Kanamit was the same guy that played Lurch in the Addams Family(?)
I can't remember if it was in the Airplane! comedies of the 80s or the Naked Gun movies of the 90s, but in one of those crazy comedies, right in the middle of a crowd scene, the actor from this TW episode, Lloyd Bochner, wanders through the scene with a big book in his hands yelling IT'S A COOKBOOK! IT'S A COOKBOOK! It was hilarious to see it out of context! I've often wondered how many people caught that.
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THE X-FILES
October 13, 1995
"Though alien abductions, freaks of nature, and sinister conspiracies among governments-within-governments are its stock-in-trade, The X-Files is never more profound and moving than when it explores the heart in darkness: "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" is the finest achievement in a series that continues to break, then rewrite, the rules. It's a scary, sad, often marvelously goofy tale of a life-insurance salesman whose ability to predict people's deaths puts him in a serial killer's path; the premise serves as a jumping-off point for heavy-duty subjects like life after death, predestination, and the possibility of grace in a world of insane violence and despair. Peter Boyle gives an astonishing performance in this quirky death of a salesman -- his transitions in and out of trances are simply breathtaking. The episode marches to an unavoidable, but nonetheless amazing, conclusion. And when Scully (Gillian Anderson), who will soon be diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, asks Bruckman how and when she will die, he looks at her and mysteriously replies, "You don't." How can that be? How can she avoid the inevitable? What's in store for her…and us? For hard-core fans, it's The X-Files' supreme moment.
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Playing Bruckman was "a deep experience, not without struggle," says Boyle. "I'm in Vancouver, it's a cold August day, and I'm not smiling. When I play a character who has to die, it gets me a little depressed."
Iconic.
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I liked it when be bought a lottery ticket, and every number was 1 off
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This was easily a) one of the greatest X-Files (I usually put it at the top) episodes ever and b) possibly the greatest guest spot of all time in any series (yes, even over Sammy Davis Jr. -- though that's close).
I was actually just talking about this episode over the weekend with my family, due to how memorable it was. And yes, my favorite part was Bruckman discussing Mulder's possible death with Mulder... 
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Brilliant episode. This was the X-Files team hitting every note they needed to.
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I still think the episode where Scully is abducted, "Ascension", is the greatest episode the X-Files has ever had. So much emotion displayed by Anderson, but especially by Duchovny. However, Clyde Bruckman is a true classic as well.
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This one and the Eddie Van Blundt one are my favorites.
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Small Potatoes?
Yeah Clyde Bruckman was excellent
I also liked Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"
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Probably my favourite X-Files episode. Pretty much perfect.
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Zaz
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"Small Potatoes" is perhaps the most brilliant comic episodes and has already been discussed as part of this list.
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