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Detectorists final episode.
You got one?
Inside No. 9 - 12 Days of Christine
Oh god... spine tingling, just thinking of both of those.
Last episode of Blackadder
The Canadian cop drama 19-2: series 2, episode 1. Felt like I held my breathe for the entire shooting! Peerless tension.
Also The Office (US) · S5 E13. Dwight's fire drill is funny every time. While I prefer the Detectorists this single episode is supreme!
Fringe final episode.
Been watching the detectorists for my second time over this week, had the final episode last night, it left me wanting to see them do the gold dance
Blackadder IV finale, as above.
All of Yes Minister/Prime Minister, especially The Moral Dimension and The Key.
Elementary Series 1 - Ep 22 - 24
Just brilliant acting from Jonny Lee and Natalie Dormer and her smirk
the whole of true detective series 1
Flashy beat me to it, the last episode of Blackadder 4
🙂😆☹️😭😭😭😭😭
That episode of the new Twin Peaks.
You'll know the one if you watched it.
The consecutive 'Stag Do' then 'the Wedding' episodes of Peep Show are absolute perfection. Virtually unwatchable in places due to the cringe factor, but the highlights being barbecuing the dog 'Mummy' and Jeremy pissing himself in church. "Piss yourself, don't piss yourself, what is it you want me to do Mark?!"
And the Speed episode of Father Ted with Pat Mustard. "Let me put my massive tool in your box"
I also think this is a thing of beauty..
Best episode of the whole thing.
Then the piste de la resistance..
Last episode of Ashes to Ashes
Oh and...
"So what is it?"
The clubbing episode in Spaced.
IT Crowd, Peter File.
"I'm Peter File, I'm Peter File!"
"He's not actuallya paedophile"
The Wire, S1, most episodes, but especially the one in which Bunk and McNulty are reinvestigating the shooting scene in the low-rises.
Last episode of Blackadder
Thread could have ended there
The Sopranos episode with the Russian in the woods.
The season 2 finale of the Deadwood when they snuck round and murdered all the bad guys.
Pretty much every episode from season 4 of The Wire
Came here to say the clubbing episode of spaced but beaten to it. Se1E06. Epiphanies. Now on Netflix btw.
OI OI, YOU LUCKY PEOPLE!
This Country
Series one, Ep 3 - Oven Space.
Perfect one room episode.
The Constant
Sopranos: Pine Barrens, Chris, and Paulie get lost in the woods after chasing the Russian Valery.
The finale of The Americans.
The Wire - most episodes. I read one comment that said while some TV series have a quotable line in every episode, The Wire has a quotable line in every scene.
Drac had it
Inside No. 9 – 12 Days of Christine
A Quiet Night In is also very good
Ron goes to Lagavulin
Doctor Who - Blink
GoT - Hardholme
And talking of Natalie Dormer and her smirk, the episode where King Joffrey meets his fate.
Last episode of the second series of Hannibal.
The finale of The Americans.
Yes, this was excellent - I like a finale which wraps up a long-running drama properly.
That episode of Eastenders when it was just Dot, Ethel and little willie. 😆
Blackadder IV finale, as above.
I don't know about that, I thought it was a bit OTT...
Buffy tVS: Hush / The Body / Once More With Feeling.
Recently...
What We Do in the Shadows, season 2, ep.6 "On the run"
Had me wetting myself 🙂
a bit OTT
ISWYDT
The finale of The Americans.
Forgot that, add it to my list above.
The final episode of Generation Kill, particularly the final scene, watching the film footage, while playing Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around. Unbelievably powerful
The last 3 episodes of the Shield.
Also, and this probably doesn't count, but Jonny Vegas on Room 101.
ISWYDT
Thank you, one (appropriate) person.
Jonny Vegas on Room 101.
Was that the one where he was on about an Internet chat room?
Yup. And courtroom drawings.
Didn't realise hols2 also put the same sopranos episode 🙂
Porridge - A Night In (S01E03)
Such a brilliant two-hander with humour and pathos abound. For only the third episode of the show Barker and Beckinsale absolutley nail their characters
Band of Brothers - 'Day of Days' or 'Bastogne'.
Hill Street Blues - pick an episode.
I don't think you've quite grasped the thread's core concept...
Hill Street Blues – pick an episode.
Episode 1. A lot of the show is dated now, but it really foresaw the BLM thing.
Doctor Who - Blink
Another vote for 12 Days of Christine here
It brings a lump to my throat years later if I think about it. I could not watch it again I don't think
The first Father Ted I ever saw was the "kicking the bishop up the arse" one
I may have been a bit pissed but, man, that was the funniest thing I'd seen in ages
The work of unbridled genius
Doctor Who – Blink
Possibly. But also "Rose".
Most of the one I would have chosen have been done. But as Doctor Who is featuring I’ll go with The Girl in the Fireplace which I much prefer to Blink
I was going to say the Buffy musical episode.. but Cougar beat me to it.
So instead, I'll say the episode where the girls lose their mother... that hit really hard, as it should. Completely different style and level of seriousness to all the other episodes... you could feel the loss and the being lost.
Is that Shadows episode the one with Mark Hamill in it? That was hurt funny.. although I didn't have a clue that it was him 'till the credits.
Plenty to choose from in Toast, but I particularly enjoyed "Addictive Personality" - the one with the extreme hoarder and "Brucie".
Also The IT Crowd, "Work Outing" - the one where they go to the theatre.
If you make it through all the rest, the final episode of Mr Robot is sublime. One of the few series finales that really delivered on the whole premise, tying it together without selling out
Strange innit, one person's perfect episode (of Fleabag: the dinner) was for me the only duff one of both series'.
I watched one yesterday, I doubt anyone else saw it - but the last of "Betty", skateboard series on Sky. Blubbed me stupid eyes out!!
Not an episode but a series.
Red Dwarf II
Star Trek TNG - Best of Both Worlds
Mr Robot, Season 3 Episode 8. Don’t delete me.
If you make it through all the rest, the final episode of Mr Robot is sublime
I thought Mr Robot was brilliant until I watched Fight Club (I was otherwise occupied in the nineties).
The negative reality inversion episode of the Young Ones.
Magnum vs Murder She Wrote
The last episode of SW Rebels
+1 Blink
Parkinson 8th January 1988
The cannibal dinner party in Hammer House of Horror
Redbull - The Horn (Is safe for work)
I was going to say the Buffy musical episode.. but Cougar beat me to it.
So instead, I’ll say the episode where the girls lose their mother…
I beat you to that as well, that's The Body. (-:
Star Trek TNG – Best of Both Worlds
Objection, that's two episodes.
I beat you to that as well, that’s The Body. (-:
Pick one, damn you.
= ;87)
I liked The Girl in the Fire Place mainly because it had Sophia Myles in it. and I blame that on Underworld.
The Grand Tour Series 3 Episode 13
Objection, that’s two episodes.
Overruled. It’s one, two-part episode.
Black Books – The one with the piano teacher.
Black Books is an oft-overlooked gem. Bill Bailey swallowing the Little Book of Calm slays me every time.
Pick one, damn you.
I picked three. Fight me.
Overruled. It’s one, two-part episode.
I fear we need an adjudication from the OP here.
The episode of Startrek TNG where Picard lives a whole life in a few hours. I still think about the themes in that thirty or so years on from first seeing it.
Fargo S2 most episodes and some of the Sherlock episodes with Moriarty.
Cougar picked some good BtVS, I'll add "Enemies"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemies_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)
Faith: What can I say, I'm the world's best actor.
Angel: Second best.
I fear we need an adjudication from the OP here.
I'm somewhat torn as I've picked two...however.
I did space them out in the thread. So in summary it's a respectful nudge for one episode per post.
Interesting, the subjectivity involved in likes and dislikes. One man's treasure is another man's trash.😃
Is that Shadows episode the one with Mark Hamill in it? That was hurt funny.. although I didn’t have a clue that it was him ’till the credits.
Yep, that's the one.
"I'm Jackie, Jackie Daytona."
If you make it through all the rest, the final episode of Mr Robot is sublime. One of the few series finales that really delivered on the whole premise, tying it together without selling out
Totally agree, beautiful ending, manages to be extremely logical whilst making you rethink everything that has happened up to that point.
I'm going to go for:
Samurai Jack - S5E10. My favourite animated series, so many fantastic stories to bring it to this conclusion.
Archer - Heart of Archness. OK, so technically it's technically 3 episodes. But it's Archer as a Pirate King!!!
Blackadder 2 - Potato. Fair enough perhaps there is a pirate theme.
WestWing series 2 finale: Two Cathedrals. My favourite piece of TV drama with a stunning soundtrack.
Any Inspector Montalbano or any Sweeney episodes...
The very first episode of six feet under is absolutely amazing and must be the best pilot I've ever seen.
Sopranos S1 E12 where Tony is shaken out of his depression by a bodged assassination.
Also Sopranos where Ralphie loses his wig.
Brass Eye drugs episode.
must be the best pilot I’ve ever seen.
That's probably a thread in itself. There's been some great pilots which failed to deliver or never got a series at all, and some of the greatest ever shows have had first eps that were shockers.
Thanks t3ap0t I felt like I was the only person in the world that watched 6 foot under, it was indeed superb 😊.
A lot of good ones already mentioned, thought the first few episodes of Skins and Misfits got it right, and at the time were so original..