Greatest TV show moments ever (Spoilers Inside).

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-05-23 04:45pm

Ah yes, "Trading Spouses." Classic.

And who could forget, "Cocaine's a hell of a drug."

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-05-24 02:01am

Daltonator wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:Babylon 5: "Get the hell out of our galaxy!"

also the following: minbari cruisers coming in to support the station at the last moment when earthforce is about to attack them to take it back.
DELENN: Only one human captain has ever survived battle with the Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else.

Big difference between B5 and a lot of what we saw in ST. When someone tried to be a badass they'd usually succeed.

Shinzon: "Dispose of them."

I used to write short stories where the bad guys would talk like that when I was about 8.

Coalition · Post by **Coalition** » 2004-05-24 03:04am

Futurama:

"Luck of the Fryish"

The whole episode, you see Fry angry that his brother (who wasn't frozen) performed the following actions:

1) First man on the moon
2) Struck oil in the back yard of the
3) mansion he won in a lottery
4) worldwide fling with a supermodel
5) philanthropist

Essentially, he was buried in a heroes graveyard, in a special grave, with his luck 7-leaf clover buried with him.

At the end of the episode though, you find out that it was not his brother (Yancy Fry), but his nephew (Yancy's son) who was named Philip J Fry, and did everything.

Fry then tosses the clover back in, and walks away. You then hear the song, "Don't you, forget about me" (by Simple Minds).

Good episode.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-05-24 03:18am

I loved that episode.

There have a been few Simpsons episodes which do a similar thing; I'm thinking of the episode where Bart and Lisa become antagonists in a hockey game. THe episode ends when they look into each other's eyes and remember all the little capers they used to get up to together, and they leave the hockey ring arm-in-arm while all the spectators go insane and trash the place, and Homer cries because he thinks they're both losers.

Funny, sentamental and sad, all wrapped up at once.

CDiehl · Post by **CDiehl** » 2004-05-24 03:48am

The moment that convinced me Chappelle's Show kicked ass, was the first episode, when Dave played Clayton Bigsby. Especially the part when a Klan rally finds out he's black.

The last episode of Babylon 5 is replete with great moments, such as Vir telling the story about the Pakmara singing, and Delenn's last moment with Sheridan, which always makes me tear up. I always stand and salute as B5 is detonated.

Some other great moments include:

Cheers - When Diane left Sam, and he said after she walks out, "have a good life."

Family Guy - When the Griffins fight it out and get out all their anger at each other.

Simpsons - When they show the wall Homer sits facing at work, covered in photos of Maggie, covering up a plaque so the remaining letters spell out "Do it for her."

Star Trek - When Spock reacts to learning he didn't kill Kirk in "Amok Time."

The Cosby Show - In the pilot, when Theo tells Cliff why he's not cut out for college, and Cliff says, "son, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life."

Behind the Music - When Leif Garrett is reunited with his friend who was paralyzed in a car crash.

Futurama - When Fry decides not to clone his dog, assuming he had a happy life, and they show his dog waiting the rest of his life for him to return.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-05-24 09:26am

Oh, I almost forgot the B5 episode with the serial killer whose mind had been wiped and became a monk. The scene with Brother Theo giving him the Last Rites is very moving and a testament to all that is good in Christianity.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-05-24 09:38am

CDiehl wrote:Simpsons - When they show the wall Homer sits facing at work, covered in photos of Maggie, covering up a plaque so the remaining letters spell out "Do it for her."

That was beautiful, given the context of the story; Homer finally got to do something he always wanted, but gave it up voluntarily for Maggie. It's occasions like these that make The Simpsons a delight to watch.

Durandal wrote:Oh, I almost forgot the B5 episode with the serial killer whose mind had been wiped and became a monk. The scene with Brother Theo giving him the Last Rites is very moving and a testament to all that is good in Christianity.

B5 has a lot of great moments, the above being one of them. I'm particularly impressed by that episode, written as it was by an athiest.

Also because it was Brad Dourif. Almost every character I've known him to play usually get's killed off.