Rolling Stone: The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time
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posted by HearHere at 4:46 PM on September 4 [4 favorites]
posted by HearHere at 4:46 PM on September 4 [4 favorites]
A little disappointed "One Way Out" from Andor isn't on the list...
posted by suelac at 4:51 PM on September 4 [10 favorites]
posted by suelac at 4:51 PM on September 4 [10 favorites]
It seems to be missing the legendary Spewey and Me episode of Get a Life.
posted by surlyben at 4:52 PM on September 4 [4 favorites]
posted by surlyben at 4:52 PM on September 4 [4 favorites]
Bluey was robbed.
posted by the duck by the oboe at 4:53 PM on September 4 [20 favorites]
posted by the duck by the oboe at 4:53 PM on September 4 [20 favorites]
*searches for “The Tick”*
*nothing*
No Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight? This list is lies.
posted by egypturnash at 4:59 PM on September 4 [23 favorites]
*nothing*
No Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight? This list is lies.
posted by egypturnash at 4:59 PM on September 4 [23 favorites]
I went in to command-F to search for Buffy's The Body, Mad Men's The Suitcase, and Homicide:Life on the Street's Three Men and Adena, which I watched last night for the first time in 30 years. Satisfied, I can pretty much go back and leisurely read the rest.
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 5:00 PM on September 4 [2 favorites]
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 5:00 PM on September 4 [2 favorites]
"Last Exit to Springfield" is a perfectly cromulent episode but it's no "Marge vs. the Monorail."
posted by PlusDistance at 5:13 PM on September 4 [19 favorites]
posted by PlusDistance at 5:13 PM on September 4 [19 favorites]
For BoJack Horseman they chose "Fish Out of Water"? Not "Free Churro"? Not "The View from Halfway Down"? What Does Rolling Stone Know? Does It Know Things? Let's Find Out!
posted by SPrintF at 5:13 PM on September 4 [18 favorites]
posted by SPrintF at 5:13 PM on September 4 [18 favorites]
American TV Episodes….
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:16 PM on September 4 [13 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:16 PM on September 4 [13 favorites]
ctrl-F "Everybody Loves Raymond"
It's there, #77. The list is invalid. I said what I said.
posted by cooker girl at 5:30 PM on September 4 [11 favorites]
It's there, #77. The list is invalid. I said what I said.
posted by cooker girl at 5:30 PM on September 4 [11 favorites]
ctrl-F ...
The Expanse: Gaugamela (S5.E4)
Westworld: Kiksuya (S2.E8)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Under the Cloak of War (S2.E8)
Firefly: Out of Gas (S1.E5)
No results found...
I suspect that the editors are not to keen on gritty sci-fi. :-/
posted by SegFaultCoreDump at 5:33 PM on September 4 [5 favorites]
The Expanse: Gaugamela (S5.E4)
Westworld: Kiksuya (S2.E8)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Under the Cloak of War (S2.E8)
Firefly: Out of Gas (S1.E5)
No results found...
I suspect that the editors are not to keen on gritty sci-fi. :-/
posted by SegFaultCoreDump at 5:33 PM on September 4 [5 favorites]
American TV Episodes….
Black Mirror is at #86.
posted by cooker girl at 5:35 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
Black Mirror is at #86.
posted by cooker girl at 5:35 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
This is reminding me how bummed I am by music rights keeping me from watching China Beach again as an adult. I loved that show.
posted by Il etait une fois at 5:39 PM on September 4 [5 favorites]
posted by Il etait une fois at 5:39 PM on September 4 [5 favorites]
Also, how is it possible to create any list of best episodes of television without ranking episode 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return as number one?
posted by Il etait une fois at 5:41 PM on September 4 [8 favorites]
posted by Il etait une fois at 5:41 PM on September 4 [8 favorites]
“Marge vs. the Monorail” is all well and good but it’s no “Lemon of Troy”
posted by migurski at 5:42 PM on September 4 [2 favorites]
posted by migurski at 5:42 PM on September 4 [2 favorites]
...watching China Beach...
Yeah, me too. I made time for China Beach no matter what, back when we had to do that.
posted by kingless at 5:43 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
Yeah, me too. I made time for China Beach no matter what, back when we had to do that.
posted by kingless at 5:43 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
I suspect that the editors are not to keen on gritty sci-fi. :-/
They did have Battlestar Galactica S1E1 "33" at number 28 on the list, so they're not completely uncultured.
posted by rmd1023 at 5:46 PM on September 4 [3 favorites]
They did have Battlestar Galactica S1E1 "33" at number 28 on the list, so they're not completely uncultured.
posted by rmd1023 at 5:46 PM on September 4 [3 favorites]
I have to agree with #91, Watchmen, “This Extraordinary Being”. Completely separate from the original source material but fitting in the gaps of it perfectly, this episode established what is now my unwavering head-canon for the origin of Hooded Justice.
And at 86, the "San Junipero" episode of "Black Mirror" was so good. I loved it and it's one of two episodes of that show I've watched besides S1E1 (which sort of put me off the series in general). [edited because I failed to copy/paste all of the copy/paste content when I made the reply]
posted by rmd1023 at 5:50 PM on September 4 [3 favorites]
And at 86, the "San Junipero" episode of "Black Mirror" was so good. I loved it and it's one of two episodes of that show I've watched besides S1E1 (which sort of put me off the series in general). [edited because I failed to copy/paste all of the copy/paste content when I made the reply]
posted by rmd1023 at 5:50 PM on September 4 [3 favorites]
I don’t understand why all of y’all are misspelling “You Only Move Twice.”
posted by thecaddy at 6:02 PM on September 4 [5 favorites]
posted by thecaddy at 6:02 PM on September 4 [5 favorites]
Ranking the “greatest” television episodes seems completely antithetical to the beating heart of a medium which does it best work over the years in a slow accretion of character and world building
posted by rhymedirective at 6:22 PM on September 4 [2 favorites]
posted by rhymedirective at 6:22 PM on September 4 [2 favorites]
Nothing hugely offensive. I was reminded of some episodes that I quite liked and have not thought about in a while (the St. Elsewhere pick, which I haven't seen since it first aired in the '80s but apparently still remember, tops that category.)
The episodes I didn't like are from series I didn't like, but that seems fair. And, of course, lots I haven't seen.
One peeve, which builds up on every list of TV shows ever: Take a classic genre show and lift up an episode from one that is exceptionally different from others in the show. Blink is Doctor Who without the Doctor; The City on the Edge of Forever is Star Trek without the Enterprise; The Body is Buffy the Vampire Slayer without a monster of the week; and so on with The Inner Light and maybe one or two others. These are very good episodes, no argument there. But the way these specific ones always get trotted out, it's like they're putting their Sunday best and pretending they always dress like that, instead of being comfortable in their normal clothes.
posted by mark k at 6:32 PM on September 4 [18 favorites]
The episodes I didn't like are from series I didn't like, but that seems fair. And, of course, lots I haven't seen.
One peeve, which builds up on every list of TV shows ever: Take a classic genre show and lift up an episode from one that is exceptionally different from others in the show. Blink is Doctor Who without the Doctor; The City on the Edge of Forever is Star Trek without the Enterprise; The Body is Buffy the Vampire Slayer without a monster of the week; and so on with The Inner Light and maybe one or two others. These are very good episodes, no argument there. But the way these specific ones always get trotted out, it's like they're putting their Sunday best and pretending they always dress like that, instead of being comfortable in their normal clothes.
posted by mark k at 6:32 PM on September 4 [18 favorites]
The best TV episode of all time is TOS Star Trek The Devil in the Dark:
[opening his mind-meld with the Horta]
Mr. Spock : [crying] AHH! PAIN! PAIN! PAIN!
posted by ovvl at 6:37 PM on September 4 [6 favorites]
[opening his mind-meld with the Horta]
Mr. Spock : [crying] AHH! PAIN! PAIN! PAIN!
posted by ovvl at 6:37 PM on September 4 [6 favorites]
(I spent a stretch of my life annoying people by saying that Spock mind melding with a plaster of paris rock was the best-acted moment in Star Trek. I was being obnoxious, but my affection for that episode was real.)
posted by mark k at 6:39 PM on September 4 [4 favorites]
posted by mark k at 6:39 PM on September 4 [4 favorites]
Not one episode of Northern Exposure? Come on!
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 6:41 PM on September 4 [10 favorites]
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 6:41 PM on September 4 [10 favorites]
I don’t accept that there are more than about seventy best TV episodes of all time. There may be no more than fifty. Don’t talk to me about your so-called ‘laws of arithmetic’.
posted by Phanx at 6:45 PM on September 4
posted by Phanx at 6:45 PM on September 4
Blink is Doctor Who without the Doctor
Yeah, I kinda prefer Midnight as a Doctor-centric bottle episode. Hard to argue against wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey though.
Lost's The Constant falls into the "different to the rest" bucket too, in that it unusually subverts the typical Lost flashback structure to put the flashbacks into direct conversation with the present-day scenes.
I did quite like the "wait, where's Breaking Bad then--- OH RIGHT THERE IT IS" reveal.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 6:48 PM on September 4 [2 favorites]
Yeah, I kinda prefer Midnight as a Doctor-centric bottle episode. Hard to argue against wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey though.
Lost's The Constant falls into the "different to the rest" bucket too, in that it unusually subverts the typical Lost flashback structure to put the flashbacks into direct conversation with the present-day scenes.
I did quite like the "wait, where's Breaking Bad then--- OH RIGHT THERE IT IS" reveal.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 6:48 PM on September 4 [2 favorites]
Certainly there are stronger episodes of Always Sunny, but the longest-running comedy in television history rarely gets the credit it deserves, so I'll take it.
posted by emelenjr at 6:54 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
posted by emelenjr at 6:54 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
The final episode of "Newhart" did not make this list. I am disappoint.
posted by briank at 6:56 PM on September 4 [5 favorites]
posted by briank at 6:56 PM on September 4 [5 favorites]
No Schitt’s Creek!?!? Inconceivable.
posted by pjsky at 7:17 PM on September 4 [5 favorites]
posted by pjsky at 7:17 PM on September 4 [5 favorites]
They say no one on their deathbed says "I wished I had watched more TV." But in the afterlife there's no guarantee you'll have a TV.
posted by credulous at 7:34 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
posted by credulous at 7:34 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
Nice to see News Radio on the list and just reading the synopsis of the episode had me recalling the entire episode and laughing all over again. My only problem with the entry is that they sullied it with merely a mention of Friends. That was such a shitty show and I always feel like I lost the game just by thinking of it.
posted by NoMich at 7:40 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
posted by NoMich at 7:40 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
The Leftovers, “International Assassin” (Season 2, Episode 8)
Glad to see this episode at #3. It comes to mind, unbidden, once a week or so, and it has been several years since I last watched it. It stands alone as a work of brilliance yet is inextricably part of the whole; I may need to watch the whole damn series yet again.
posted by vverse23 at 7:45 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
Glad to see this episode at #3. It comes to mind, unbidden, once a week or so, and it has been several years since I last watched it. It stands alone as a work of brilliance yet is inextricably part of the whole; I may need to watch the whole damn series yet again.
posted by vverse23 at 7:45 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
That Barry episode really is incredible.
posted by neuromodulator at 8:01 PM on September 4 [3 favorites]
posted by neuromodulator at 8:01 PM on September 4 [3 favorites]
Nice to see News Radio on the list
That show was so damn hilarious and well written.
Was curious where they’d put Ozymandias. And they got that one right. They paid off five and a half seasons of buildup in one single episode.
posted by azpenguin at 10:42 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
That show was so damn hilarious and well written.
Was curious where they’d put Ozymandias. And they got that one right. They paid off five and a half seasons of buildup in one single episode.
posted by azpenguin at 10:42 PM on September 4 [1 favorite]
Where the fuck is Father Ted.
posted by Ice Cream Socialist at 11:53 PM on September 4 [4 favorites]
posted by Ice Cream Socialist at 11:53 PM on September 4 [4 favorites]
What’s that? This listicle suffers from the same problem as all the other listicles, namely a shallow pool of inspiration because of the cultural backgrounds of the writers, and the willingness of the publication to court the public. It’s not like they’re going to say the best episode is some daytime cooking show where the cook made a delicious meal and everybody was happy, or episode 30 of an adaptation of the bhagavad gita.
posted by The River Ivel at 12:32 AM on September 5
posted by The River Ivel at 12:32 AM on September 5
Not one episode of Northern Exposure? Come on!
Indeed, this is a glaring omission. This list seems to mostly be the best episode of a show, there are two episodes that are kind of amazing, and both seem to center on Chris. One, Chris loses his voice, and is told he has to sleep with a beautiful woman to lift the curse. Meanwhile, Ed is in communication with an Indian spirit guide (or something.) "The Big Kiss."
The other great one is when Maggie's house burns and Chris builds a catapult to fling the piano. "Burning Down the House." Oh! And also the one where Joel comes down with "glacier dropsy" and the last scene is stolen from The Wizard of Oz.
So many great moments in that show. It's slow paced, thoughtful, deliberate, uncanny, and often just weird. They don't make em like that anymore, and I wish I had the time for a binge of the whole thing.
posted by zardoz at 1:07 AM on September 5 [4 favorites]
Indeed, this is a glaring omission. This list seems to mostly be the best episode of a show, there are two episodes that are kind of amazing, and both seem to center on Chris. One, Chris loses his voice, and is told he has to sleep with a beautiful woman to lift the curse. Meanwhile, Ed is in communication with an Indian spirit guide (or something.) "The Big Kiss."
The other great one is when Maggie's house burns and Chris builds a catapult to fling the piano. "Burning Down the House." Oh! And also the one where Joel comes down with "glacier dropsy" and the last scene is stolen from The Wizard of Oz.
So many great moments in that show. It's slow paced, thoughtful, deliberate, uncanny, and often just weird. They don't make em like that anymore, and I wish I had the time for a binge of the whole thing.
posted by zardoz at 1:07 AM on September 5 [4 favorites]
Any time there’s even a slight mention of Northern Exposure (which I dearly loved), my brain immediately jumps to Key West, which, as far as I remember, only ever got one season, if that, and was positioned as a “if you like Northern Exposure, you’ll love this” kind of thing, and, according to my incredibly hazy childhood memories, it was just utterly magical.
Top 100 episodes of all time level? Probably not, but I loved it so much.
posted by Ghidorah at 4:51 AM on September 5 [1 favorite]
Top 100 episodes of all time level? Probably not, but I loved it so much.
posted by Ghidorah at 4:51 AM on September 5 [1 favorite]
I mean, Everybody Loves Raymond is okay. But until Ray is crucified, ascends to Heaven and becomes an archangel, then because of his compassion is trapped in Hell and becomes the arch-demon that tips the balance of power in the ultimate battle, I don't think it can touch the "Fallen Angel" episode of Xena: Warrior Princess.
posted by jabah at 5:18 AM on September 5 [3 favorites]
posted by jabah at 5:18 AM on September 5 [3 favorites]
Nice to see News Radio on the list
That show was so damn hilarious and well written.
Great show, but very, very, very, very cursed. I'm sorry to say it, but we'd probably be living in a much better timeline if NewsRadio had never aired.
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:59 AM on September 5 [3 favorites]
That show was so damn hilarious and well written.
Great show, but very, very, very, very cursed. I'm sorry to say it, but we'd probably be living in a much better timeline if NewsRadio had never aired.
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:59 AM on September 5 [3 favorites]
I still remember watching the "er" "Love's Labor Lost" ep when it first aired. It took me a good fifteen minutes to unclench all the muscles in my body once it was over, it was that compelling.
Glad to see the finale of "Six Feet Under" on the list as well - fantastic.
posted by sundrop at 6:03 AM on September 5
Glad to see the finale of "Six Feet Under" on the list as well - fantastic.
posted by sundrop at 6:03 AM on September 5
Not one episode of Northern Exposure? Come on!
So many great moments in that show. It's slow paced, thoughtful, deliberate, uncanny, and often just weird. They don't make em like that anymore, and I wish I had the time for a binge of the whole thing.
The best one is when Adam saves Maurice's ass at the party by cooking. We watch it every Christmas. I quote Adam all the time:
"I, Adam, am hungry! I want to eat! And what do I want to eat? Something that you made? NO. I want SOMETHING GOOD. I want something that I MADE! My smoked sturgeon with poached egg on frisée. The hollandaise blending with the runny yellow yolk... counterpointing the crispness of the fresh greens. My ratatouille, my coulibiac of bass! My Chicken Pojarski! The cream and the brandy and the paprika...blending with the juices of my mouth... moving me to the pinnacle... of gustatory ecstasy!"
I wish somebody would stream this show, but I think it's probably got to do with the music rights? That always seems to be the thing.
posted by valkane at 6:22 AM on September 5
So many great moments in that show. It's slow paced, thoughtful, deliberate, uncanny, and often just weird. They don't make em like that anymore, and I wish I had the time for a binge of the whole thing.
The best one is when Adam saves Maurice's ass at the party by cooking. We watch it every Christmas. I quote Adam all the time:
"I, Adam, am hungry! I want to eat! And what do I want to eat? Something that you made? NO. I want SOMETHING GOOD. I want something that I MADE! My smoked sturgeon with poached egg on frisée. The hollandaise blending with the runny yellow yolk... counterpointing the crispness of the fresh greens. My ratatouille, my coulibiac of bass! My Chicken Pojarski! The cream and the brandy and the paprika...blending with the juices of my mouth... moving me to the pinnacle... of gustatory ecstasy!"
I wish somebody would stream this show, but I think it's probably got to do with the music rights? That always seems to be the thing.
posted by valkane at 6:22 AM on September 5
Anyway, I've got most of it on disk. You know The Sopranos guy (David Chase) took it over in the last couple of seasons. He also worked on The Rockford Files. Just in case you were interested.
posted by valkane at 6:31 AM on September 5
posted by valkane at 6:31 AM on September 5
Northern Exposure is streaming on Amazon in USA. I think most of the music rights problems were resolved?
posted by jabah at 6:36 AM on September 5 [3 favorites]
posted by jabah at 6:36 AM on September 5 [3 favorites]
The 100 Greatest Heavily US-Centric Episodes Of All Time A Lot Of Which Aren't Even With That Taken Into Account
FTFY
posted by GallonOfAlan at 6:56 AM on September 5
FTFY
posted by GallonOfAlan at 6:56 AM on September 5
And at 86, the "San Junipero" episode of "Black Mirror" was so good. I loved it and it's one of two episodes of that show I've watched besides S1E1 (which sort of put me off the series in general).
This is just so wrong! San Junipero is perfectly fine, a nice little story. But so much of the impact for me anyway was that it was an episode of Black Mirror.
You need to watch The National Anthem and The History of You and White Christmas. You need to marinate in the show's cynicism. You need to be deep into the alienation of each of us from everyone, the oppressiveness of technology.
And *then* you watch San Junipero. Waiting the whole time for the twist that's going to be horrible, for the awful exploitation, for the torture. And then Brooker gives us *that* ending and the whole glass structure shatters.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 6:59 AM on September 5 [5 favorites]
This is just so wrong! San Junipero is perfectly fine, a nice little story. But so much of the impact for me anyway was that it was an episode of Black Mirror.
You need to watch The National Anthem and The History of You and White Christmas. You need to marinate in the show's cynicism. You need to be deep into the alienation of each of us from everyone, the oppressiveness of technology.
And *then* you watch San Junipero. Waiting the whole time for the twist that's going to be horrible, for the awful exploitation, for the torture. And then Brooker gives us *that* ending and the whole glass structure shatters.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 6:59 AM on September 5 [5 favorites]
Ooh, I get to mention once again (maybe not here, but on the internet in general) that Seinfeld has a very small footprint in Japan. The first four seasons are on DVD but that's about it. American sitcoms are defined by Friends and Full House (and maybe Bewitched for a much earlier generation). Now with streaming, people can watch Curb but the Japanese title is Larry's Mid-Life Crisis.
Went through the list, not really my sort of thing. No nuns getting shot or anything like that.
posted by LostInUbe at 7:16 AM on September 5 [1 favorite]
Went through the list, not really my sort of thing. No nuns getting shot or anything like that.
posted by LostInUbe at 7:16 AM on September 5 [1 favorite]
And *then* you watch San Junipero. Waiting the whole time for the twist that's going to be horrible, for the awful exploitation, for the torture. And then Brooker gives us *that* ending and the whole glass structure shatters.
I don't know—I watched S1 of Black Mirror, got turned off the show, and then watched "San Junipero" a few years later "because it actually has a happy ending" and, well, does it?
It's a super literal implementation of "kill your gays" and the last shot is not our two characters reveling in their digital afterlife, but of their brain chips on a motherboard. I know Brooker has said that the two characters really are experiencing what it looks like they are, but to me it feels just as depressing as the end of any other episode of the show.
posted by thecaddy at 8:03 AM on September 5
I don't know—I watched S1 of Black Mirror, got turned off the show, and then watched "San Junipero" a few years later "because it actually has a happy ending" and, well, does it?
It's a super literal implementation of "kill your gays" and the last shot is not our two characters reveling in their digital afterlife, but of their brain chips on a motherboard. I know Brooker has said that the two characters really are experiencing what it looks like they are, but to me it feels just as depressing as the end of any other episode of the show.
posted by thecaddy at 8:03 AM on September 5
well, does it?
Yes.
Is it a happy ending relative to "They were all miraculously cured and rejuvenated and danced on forever in meatspace and also Yorkie's family were forcibly given psychological and neurological adjustments to stop being such bigoted fuckwits or maybe just ground up into cat food?" Eh. Maybe not.
Is it a happy ending relative to "This woman who was locked in and was being kept alive by her notional next of kin as a form of torture just kept on being kept alive and suffering until her body finally suffered irreparable failures, and this other woman died of painful cancer, and neither of them knew who each other were even though they would have loved each other had they met and they just died and that was the end of it?" Is it a happy ending to that story, a happy ending relative to the world we live in?
Yup.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 8:39 AM on September 5 [1 favorite]
Yes.
Is it a happy ending relative to "They were all miraculously cured and rejuvenated and danced on forever in meatspace and also Yorkie's family were forcibly given psychological and neurological adjustments to stop being such bigoted fuckwits or maybe just ground up into cat food?" Eh. Maybe not.
Is it a happy ending relative to "This woman who was locked in and was being kept alive by her notional next of kin as a form of torture just kept on being kept alive and suffering until her body finally suffered irreparable failures, and this other woman died of painful cancer, and neither of them knew who each other were even though they would have loved each other had they met and they just died and that was the end of it?" Is it a happy ending to that story, a happy ending relative to the world we live in?
Yup.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 8:39 AM on September 5 [1 favorite]
My favorite piece of trivia for Northern Exposure is that James Marsters was in two episodes. He was a bellhop in one and a Lutheran minister in another.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 8:58 AM on September 5 [3 favorites]
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 8:58 AM on September 5 [3 favorites]
San Junipero has a happy ending so long as the server farm isn't eventually purchased by a private equity firm or a sociopathic billionaire who decides to make a hobby of torturing all the simulacra, who of course have no human rights. Luckily, that could never happen in an episode of Black Mirror!
posted by kittens for breakfast at 9:47 AM on September 5 [1 favorite]
posted by kittens for breakfast at 9:47 AM on September 5 [1 favorite]
Not the 100 Best TV Episodes *I've* ever seen.
(but I've only seen 16 of these)
posted by mazola at 10:01 AM on September 5
(but I've only seen 16 of these)
posted by mazola at 10:01 AM on September 5
You need to watch The National Anthem and The History of You and White Christmas. You need to marinate in the show's cynicism. You need to be deep into the alienation of each of us from everyone, the oppressiveness of technology.
Thank you for taking one for the team. I appreciate that you've watched those episodes and I enjoy reading about how you found the "happy" episode to be so much more intense and cathartic after having seen all those horrible things the show depicted, but this is not an experience that I wish to partake in.
posted by RonButNotStupid at 10:52 AM on September 5 [1 favorite]
Thank you for taking one for the team. I appreciate that you've watched those episodes and I enjoy reading about how you found the "happy" episode to be so much more intense and cathartic after having seen all those horrible things the show depicted, but this is not an experience that I wish to partake in.
posted by RonButNotStupid at 10:52 AM on September 5 [1 favorite]
You're the Worst: no episode of that show was actually the best of anything.
Bob's Burgers: No. School camp is the best episode.
The Last Of Us: preppers are so cliche, and all that show did was take cliche to 11.
How I Met Your Mother: Slap bet was dumb. Robin was super famous in Canada, but none of them had heard of her and no-one ever mentioned it before hand? Sure.
Parks & Rec Flu Season: no. Didn't Parks & Rec create "Treat Yourself", which is still going strong a decade later? That episode deserves some props.
posted by The_Vegetables at 3:01 PM on September 5
The fact that they ranked an episode of How I Met Your Mother over an episode of Scrubs tells me plenty about their lack of quality judgment.
posted by grubi at 5:04 AM on September 6
posted by grubi at 5:04 AM on September 6
Wow, I've seen ten of the top twenty, and only five of the next eighty. My TV behavior is validated.
posted by Scarf Joint at 2:14 PM on September 6
posted by Scarf Joint at 2:14 PM on September 6
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