Best Episodes Ever

Of Any Show.

Are there any particular favorites that you have of television shows that are a cut above all the rest?

In particular I know a couple.

LOST
Season 3 Finale "Through The Looking Glass"

- An AMAZING work of television. Finding out that Jack and Kate will eventually get off the island, the death of Charlie Pace, and all the other craziness of that episode made it a classic piece of tv. WHO'S IN THE COFFIN!?!?

FUTURAMA
Season 3 - "The Luck of the Fryrish"

- Possibly one of the best episodes of Futurama, because A.) It's hilarious - like all the episodes, and B.) because it's one of the emotional and heartwarming episodes, dealing with Fry's brother Yancy, and what it was like for Fry's family after he was frozen. Definitely worth checking out.

24
Season 5 - "6:00 pm - 7:00 pm" and "7:00 pm - 8:00 pm"

-Mindblowing two hours. Toxic nerve gas being released INSIDE CTU? The deaths of main characters all around? Almost Certain death? Tony's attempted revenge on the man responsible for his wife's death? All kick-ass.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
Season 2 - "Motherboy XXX"

-My favorite episode of the series. Absolutely hilarious. Carl Weathers and Tobias having a business lunch at Burger King, Fonzy jumping a shark? George Michael being kidnapped by his grandmother and forced to go to "Motherboy" the mother son dinner/dance, while Michael and Buster frantically try to save him in the mission inappropriately titled "Operation Hot Mother?" Go. See. This. Episode.

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So what do you guys think? What are some of your favorite episodes, of any show, be it comedy, drama, action, you name it.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

"The Son Also Rises"
Season 3 finale(s) "Crossroads", both parts.

STARGATE SG-1

"Window of Opportunity"

the penultimate and final episodes of the shield was, for me, the pinnacle of television. I've never been so engrossed in a tv show in my life.

Homicide: Life on the Street - Three Men and Adena: Possibly the best episode I've ever seen in any program. Consists of two detectives interrogating the main suspect in a child murder case and trying to break him within 12 hours, or else they have to let him walk. The cat and mouse dynamic of power constantly shifts between the two sides and the acting throughout is amazing. The entire episode takes place within an interrogation room which creates a claustrophobic and tense atmosphere that holds solid through the entire hour.

Oz: A Game of Checkers - Season 1 finale. Great and powerful finale involving a prison riot. Sets things up nicely for Season 2.

Oz: You Bet Your Life - Halfway point of Season 4 which was basically split into two archs. Has an absolutely jarring ending.

The Simpsons - Mother Simpson. The most moving episode of the series, proved what made The Simpsons so magical during its golden era, combining sidesplitting laughter with truly moving and tender moments. I still get a lump in my throat when I watch this episode.

Sounding good. I'll have to check out these episodes.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

Season Four:
Hush
Restless

Season Five:
The Body
The Gift

Season Six:
Once More, With Feeling

BONES:

Season Two:
Aliens in a Spaceship

Season Three:
Widow's Son in the Windshield
Knight on the Grid
Pain in the Heart

Season Four:
Con Man in the Meth Lab

Heroes: Company man (obviously)

Boston Legal
"Son of the Defender"

Exelent show, very moving.

"The Constant" Lost. Supernatural "The Monster at the End of This Book", "In the Beginning", "On the Head of a Pin" and basically supernatural's main storyline episodes in general

The West Wing, Issac and Ishmael. Great episode that exists out side of the context of the rest of the series. Aired after 9 11 We get the cast of the show interacting with a group of high school seniors and juniors during a crash (A perceived breach of security) at the White House. Bradly Whitford gets the majority of the screen time out of all of the regular cast but all are given ample screen time in this superb play and we get to see Leo in a new light.

Sports Night The Apology. While it is hard to choose a best episode from this great show it's second episode is one of my favorite. Dan's near break down at the end of the show is a touching moment and it is a pretty brave seen for this guy we haven't yet come to know. His break downs in the episodes "Kafelnikov" and "The Local Weather" are great as well.

Farther Ted

The Chinese/Nazi one

Had me in fits of laughter, must admit season 3 was the best just a shame it ended there.

Originally posted by Mairuzu
Heroes: Company man (obviously)

Good man, agreed.

XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS
The Price
One Against an Army
The Ides of March
To Helicon and Back

SOUTH PARK
Scott Tenorman Must Die
Make Love, Not Warcraft

BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES
Mad Love

Originally posted by BackFire
The Simpsons - Mother Simpson. The most moving episode of the series, proved what made The Simpsons so magical during its golden era, combining sidesplitting laughter with truly moving and tender moments. I still get a lump in my throat when I watch this episode.

Originally posted by Walker.I
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

Season Four:
Hush
Restless

Season Five:
The Body
The Gift

Season Six:
Once More, With Feeling

Originally posted by Mairuzu
Heroes: Company man (obviously)

you guys freakin' rock for these!!!!

but for me personally:
Batman Beyond: Lost Souls, Mind Games, Babel and Eyewitness

just about all of the XAS season 1-4 episodes.

there is that episode of the power rangers where the pink ranger dies. that was cool. you know; in a macarbe way.

so yeah.

The Office Christmas Specials

Heroes. Five years gone
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Hush
Oz. You bet your life
The Sopranos. Pine Barrens (obviously) & the episode where Joe Pantoliano dies
All X-Files episodes.
All The Sheild Episodes.
All The A-Team episodes.
Angel. The episode where he becomes a puppet!
Firefly. Pilot (almost as good as the film)
The Corner. Dope fiend's blues
Seinfeld. The Contest and The Virgin.

That's all for now.

The best Firefly episode isn't the Pilot... Not by a long shot. Out of Gas is the best serious episode... and Jayne's Town is the best silly.

And Serenity didn't match up to the programme at all. (Even though it was alright)

LOST
Season 3 Finale "Through The Looking Glass"

This by a country mile.

ANGEL:

Reprise, Reunion, Darla, Blind Date, To Shanshu In LA, Lullaby, Destiny, Damage, You're Welcome, Why We Fight, Smile Time, A Hole in the World, Shells, Underneath, Origin, Time Bomb, Power Play, Not Fade Away

BUFFY:

Prophecy Girl, When She Was Bad, Surprise/Innocence, Passion, Becoming (I & II), The Wish, Enemies, Choices, Graduation Day (I & II), Hush, The Body, Forever, The Gift, After Life, Conversations With Dead People, Lies My Parents Told Me

BOSTON LEGAL:

'Til We Meat Again, Tortured Souls, Death Be Not Proud, the Black Widow, Shadenfreude, Witches of Mass Destruction, Truly, Madly, Deeply, Gone, Legal Deficits, The Cancer Man Can, Helping Hands, Smile, Live Big, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Deep End of the Poole, Squid Pro Quo, Whose God Is It Anyway?, the Nutcrackers, Angel of Death, The Bride Wore Blood, Son of the Defender, Guantanamo By the Bay, Beauty and the Beast, Innocent Man, and too many to count.

Originally posted by §P0oONY
The best Firefly episode isn't the Pilot... Not by a long shot. Out of Gas is the best serious episode... and Jayne's Town is the best silly.

And Serenity didn't match up to the programme at all. (Even though it was alright)

Yes I was torn between the pilot episode or Out Of Gas and went with the pilot just because of it's feature length, character identification and overall storyline development, I thought it was a good pilot and I can watch it as a stand-alone as if it were a movie on it's own.

Originally posted by Gideon
ANGEL:

Reprise, Reunion, Darla, Blind Date, To Shanshu In LA, Lullaby, Destiny, Damage, You're Welcome, Why We Fight, Smile Time, A Hole in the World, Shells, Underneath, Origin, Time Bomb, Power Play, Not Fade Away

Faith+Willow = droolio