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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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General Kenobi
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 4. "The Boyfriend" ("Seinfeld")
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One of the great comedic episodes of all time. Of course, you need to have seen JFK for the magic loogie routine to make total sense.
A few years ago, I saw a guy at a ball game wearing a golf shirt with a logo that said Vandelay Industries. It's a classic.
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dp4m
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This and The Contest are two of the best comedic episodes of all time, let alone the last couple of decades...
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General Kenobi posted:
A few years ago, I saw a guy at a ball game wearing a golf shirt with a logo that said Vandelay Industries. It's a classic.
If my girlfriend and I ever decide to get a place big enough for pets, we want to get a pair of pugs named Art Vandelay and Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabbadoo.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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It's a classic; I knew a guy once who didn't know the magic loogie routine was a reference to JFK. He still thought it was funny, which I found rather strange.
The spitting scene is a side splitter. But this isn't my favorite Seinfeld episode by a stretch. I'd take Festivus/Human Fund/Two-Face/Bagel Strike/Fake Number over this one any day. The laughs in that episode just do. not. let. up.
"And this must be the ugly girl I keep hearing about."
Also, the one where George 'kills' Peterman's mother. Also, the Elaine/Suzy episode . . . The Boyfriend is actually really far down my personal list.
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"A festivus for the rest of us!
The human fund. It's money for people.
Like the Batman Villain?!?
Hey! No bagel No bagel No bagel No bagel!"
I've never had Bosco, wonder if it's any good...
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ForceJumpAnakin posted:
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Like the Batman Villain?!?
If that helps you.
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Zaz
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ER
March 9, 1995
"Sure, we know it's just actors speaking lines from a script on a soundstage.�But tell that to your pounding heart and explain it to your rocketing blood pressure and your dry throat and your panting lungs. After the explosive, almost-too-painful-to-watch "Love's Labor Lost" -- perhaps the most riveting, harrowing, and visceral hour of medical drama ever aired -- we all could use a stay in the recovery room. What seems like a routine day in the ER -- gunshot wounds, hemorrhoids, a guy who tries to remove one of his tattoos with a power sander -- turns sour for Dr. Mark Greene. Normally a steady hand at the throttle of the racing locomotive that is the ER, Greene derails: Distracted by personal and professional problems, he misdiagnoses a pregnant woman and begins a downward spiral of missteps and questionable procedures that continues until all present are in over their heads, panic is thick in the air, and, just as in real life, bad things happen to good people -- with shocking speed. Edwards' performance in this unforgettably scorching episode is his best work in this extraordinary series."
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Zaz
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RE: 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time: 3. "Love's Labour Lost" ("ER")
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I LOVE LUCY
May 5, 1952
"Fittingly, the show is pure Lucy -- sidekick Ethel (Vivian Vance) doesn't even have a cameo. As the Vitameatavegamin Girl on a TV variety show, Lucy Ricardo is supposed to "spoon her way to health," but instead gets totally snockered on the health elixir she's promoting. In the classic "Lucy Does a TV Commercial," Ball's talent for physical comedy is at its most vibrant and resourceful. Using her usual treachery to get the job, Lucy begins to run through her spot for the director (Ross Elliot). From the first spoonful she squeamishly swallows to her early, slightly sloshed queries -- "Do you pop out at parties? Are you unpoopular?" -- to her final drunken swig right out of the "bittle lottle," Ball builds the mirth to a riotous climax. After mangling the product's name in every imaginable way, Lucy finally resorts to calling it "this stuff." By any name, this heady concoction continues to make "happy, peppy people" of us all."
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"Vitamins, meat, megetables and vinerals..." *hic*
I love this episode - not only are Lucy's mispronunciations and facial expressions increasingly hysterical, the way she interrupts Ricki's musical number was the perfect way to end the episode. Such a classic! Definitely deserving of the number 2 spot, though I'm very curious to see what beat it.
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Seinfeld - The Boyfriend is one of my favorite episodes of the show ever, though I'd never call it the best -- the second half falls a bit flat, imo. Still, alot of brilliant stuff, and I particularly love the George unemployment story line, which lead to probably my favorite scene in the history of televsion:
And you want to be my latex salesman
As for which one I'd put best, well, aside from the Contest, I'd also throw up The Outing, The Juior Mint ("Mulva?") and maybe the best of them all -- The Chinese Restaurant -- Cartwright?!
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"It's tasty, too!
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Absolutely hilarious - classic, no doubt.
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And Number One...
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THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW
October 25, 1975
"One little miscalculation can just ruin your whole day. Take Chuckles the Clown, WJM-TV's kiddie-show host. Named grand marshal of the circus parade, he shows up dressed as Peter Peanut, and, as news director Lou Grant (Ed Asner) later explains to his troops, "a rogue elephant tried to shell him." And so begins "Chuckles Bites the Dust," unquestionably the best remembered, most discussed, most supremely influential episode of all time. Chuckles' nutty demise becomes the source of dark jokes for everyone in the office -- except somber Mary, who can't see the absurdity of the incident, the humor in the clown's passing�until the funeral when, in a sublime example of poor timing, it suddenly hits her during the eulogy. Surrounded by stony-faced mourners, striving to maintain proper decorum, squirming for control, trying to cover her giggles with coughs and throat clearings, Mary, finally lets loose. Surprisingly, the preacher encourages her unseemly outburst as something the deceased would have wanted. No sooner does he say, "So go ahead, my dear, laugh for Chuckles," than Mary breaks down in tears. This unforeseen final twist, and Moore's bravura bipolar performance, make this exquisite episode a sitcom landmark and proof positive that TV can explore a social taboo with sophistication, wit, irreverence, and impeccable good taste."
REWIND "During rehearsals," recalls Moore, "I cracked up every time I had to refer to one of Chuckles' characters: Mr. Fe-Fi-Fo. That would have confused the audience terribly. We didn't know right up until the camera was on if I was going to be able to pull it off without laughing."
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dp4m
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For those who have never seen it and don't understand why this has been #1 on just about every list for the last three decades... I pity you.
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Ah, I can see how this beat out Lucy. It's quite a funny episode, from Ted's belief that Lou saved his life, to all the clown jokes ("you know how hard it is to stop after just one peanut"), and Mary's disgust. I love the funeral scene, especially the recurring joke with "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
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