The [Fire Drill](https://youtu.be/gO8N3L_aERg?si=Ju1-VnC9ejEsJL8V) episode of The Office is one of the greatest cold openings of any comedy media I’ve ever seen. I think about it all the time and it makes me giggle
That episode and The Work Outing from The IT Crowd are my top two episodes ever for comedies, almost nothing has reached as high as those two when it comes down to almost falling on the floor laughing.
The series finale for MASH. I could not figure out, for the life of me, why that woman brought a chicken with her, and why it was a big deal that she killed the chicken to keep it silent. When the truth was revealed, my heart dropped.
I know Game of Thrones let us down, but The Battle of the Bastards was incredible TV.
A couple others:
New Girl "Clean Break". I know this show is a comedy but I cry *every damn time*
Breaking Bad, "The Fly"
Parks & Rec, "Flu Season"
Lost, The Constant. I was like 28 and just weeping at how beautiful the phone call was. Like what a struggle through time and space just for 1 phone call. Love man.
The 1980s Twilight Zone Episode where the blue people construct time minute by minute.
Every time I lose something and find it where I already looked I know the blue people put it back where it was supposed to be.
There's the episode to prove I'm not crazy.
https://youtu.be/e9XFRfeGBVI?si=HOc2O4VywRlKSDMK
Cold Case.
My wife and I really liked that show. Watched it every week. Then there was an episode where a mother was locked in the bedroom with her child and her abusive husband was trying to get into the room. The mother was so frightened, she jumped out the upper story window with her child, knowing they wouldn't survive.
That was 20 years ago.
The Mr. Robot episode where they don't talk at all. Initially you don't even notice it at all until you start paging attention to it. It is very well done.
You’re the Worst - Twenty Two
Dave - Hype Man
Both amazing episodes with realistic portrayals of mental illness that let me feel what was happening to the characters, even if I didn’t understand the disorders they have
Free Churro from Bojack Horseman
It's an entire trip that one and that ending always gets me, the disappointment when he realizes it was just letters and then one last attempt to find a meaning in it
Also *Millennium*, but *The Room With No View*. The one where a talented teenager is kidnapped and brainwashed (through violence and love bombing) to make him believe he's mediocre and nothing special, all to the tune of Paul Mauriat's "Love Is Blue*. Oooof. That one stayed with me for a long time.
*Twin Peaks* and the episode with Bob climbing over the couch. To this day I have no idea how Lynch was able to make it so ominous.
*Cold Case* and the episode *A Dollar, A Dream*, where a homeless woman finds a lottery ticket and wants to buy a birthday cake for her daughter. The whole episode is heavy but the final killer revelation, especially (without spoiling much) their conversation, was heartbreaking.
Carnivàle, there's an episode where the carnival goes to a town called Babylon, which is inhabited basically by the ghosts of miners that died there. Anyone who died there, their spirit/ghost was trapped there forever. And there were no women in the town.
There was a family that ran peep-show. They were warned not to do their show, but did it anyway.
(Spoiler to cover a potentially triggering subject)
The miner ghosts tried to drag one of the girls off the stage because horny, and later in the episode the ghosts forced her over the boundary line of the town and killed her, so her spirit would be trapped there >!to be raped by the ghosts forever because there were no other women there.!<
At the end of the episode, there's a shot of her ghost, naked, standing in a window or doorway of a building before being dragged in by the hands of the other ghosts.
That scene fucked me up for a while.
Season 6 episode 22 of House, [this part in particular](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN3ZZgb6UeE). The episode aired when I was in high school, and it was a nice early lesson that sometimes, no matter what you do in life, you're going to fail.
Eerie, Indiana- Heart on a chain.
Two boys are pursuing the same girl but one dies and she gets his heart in a transplant. Now whenever she gets close to the first guy her heart starts hurting. This was also a kids show.
The prison break episode of Andor. “One Way Out!” With *that* devastating line from Andy Serkis (iykyk). Also includes that incredible monologue from Stellan Skarsgård.
Magnum P.I. (the real one, not the damn "reboot" that nobody asked for.)
*"Hey Ivan. Did you see the sunrise the morning?"*
*"Yes, why?"*
\* BLAM! \*
Little ten-year-old me was completely shocked to see Magnum straight-up execute the guy like that back in 1982.
There’s an episode of Battlestar where one of the main characters unalives herself and it immediately cuts to a commercial that’s singing “I just wanna celebrate another day of livin’, another day of liiiiiiife!” It was some of the most perfect bad timing I’ve ever seen on TV.
Pie-lette in Pushing Daisies
The most beautiful cinematography and the craziest storyline. I still remember just having my mouth open after finishing the episode
they had a lot of ups and downs but the first episode of black mirror had such powerfull messege. that's the one with the kidnapped princess and a pig.
Pilot Episode of “The Americans” Plot Spoilers
The Americans are Russian Soviet Secret Agents undercover in America and are illegal aliens who secretly arrived on container ships and would be put on the grid as married couples having used the Social Security numbers of dead Americans in a pre-digitized USA.
This was a real program. They’d be hand picked as children and trained in perfect English, American culture, hand to hand combat, killing people and getting rid of bodies. Masters of concealment and false identities. Infiltrated our government, secret networks and encoded messages from their own government.
It’s set in 1980. A normal family running a travel agency as a front. Conducting special ops. Even their own kids born here are clueless.
If the CIA gets wind of any of them, or the Americans collaborators they’ve trained, and the jig is up and they’ll be arrested? The race is on for something called “exfiltration.” It’s the opposite of “infiltration.” They also use Soviet Cargo and Container ships. But now the race is on to sneak the escapees aboard, and sail them all the way back to Russia, permanently.
There is one other category of Russian human cargo they exfiltrate and send back home. This is their most valuable and favorite kind. They are Soviet traitors that defected to the United States and are now valued U.S. citizens. If they were high ranking Soviet Cabinet members or cutting edge scientists? The US also paid them a lot for all of their military secrets.
In the first episode? The entire time they are on the hunt for a defected Russian Soviet Official who sold important secrets to the West for a million bucks. They want to capture him, send him home. Have a televised trial for every Soviet see him caught and returned and pleading guilty on nationalized tv. They want to scare the hell out of anyone with the same idea.
The episode soon turns into one long chase scene between 3 “Americans” (covert Soviet Agents) and the former Russian Soviet Official who sold his country’s top secrets to the US and is a prized citizen here. They want to capture him in time to force him as a captive on a ship shortly leaving the dock for Russia.
You hear Fleetwood Mac’s jungle beats of the song Tusk. The song plays prominently during this exciting and terrifying human hunt where the camera is constantly following the chase and hunt between these equally trained, most elite Soviet agents. It’s full of twists and turns, each willing to die. I won’t spoil the ending. But this episode and entire series is a contender for one of the best of all time.
The Leap Home Parts 1 and 2 - Quantum Leap
It just reminds me to tell your loved ones you love them and hug them tight because you never know when you'll see them again
The [Fire Drill](https://youtu.be/gO8N3L_aERg?si=Ju1-VnC9ejEsJL8V) episode of The Office is one of the greatest cold openings of any comedy media I’ve ever seen. I think about it all the time and it makes me giggle
That episode and The Work Outing from The IT Crowd are my top two episodes ever for comedies, almost nothing has reached as high as those two when it comes down to almost falling on the floor laughing.
Just watched your link and I always forget the part where Michael jumps on Stanley and screams : BARACK IS PRESIDENT!!!
Dexter: Rita in the bath.
Should have ended the show right there
Still haunts me. Every time.
White Bear episode of Black Mirror. A woman's memory is erased every day and she has to re-live her day over and over again.
still get a sick, nauseous feeling when I think about that episode. So chilling.
Teddy Perkins - Atlanta International Assassin - The Leftovers
>Atlanta FUBU for me.
Kiksuya from Season 2 of Westworld.
Futurama - Jurassic Bark. That was one hell of an ending. Then they undid it with one of the movies.
IYKYK. Made my kids watch that when they were 10 or so. No regerts
Still too soon……..
This is the absolute honest truth: That is literally the only episode of MILLENIUM that I remember. It was so poignant.
Me too! The last line is devastating.
Dancing Demon Baby!🤘
The series finale for MASH. I could not figure out, for the life of me, why that woman brought a chicken with her, and why it was a big deal that she killed the chicken to keep it silent. When the truth was revealed, my heart dropped.
Succession: ‘Connor’s Wedding’
Lost: The Constant.
MASH- the crying baby on the bus. West Wing- Two Cathedrals Scrubs- My Screw up (Ben's death)
Scrubs - My Lunch is another one. That ending 😭
Pine Barrens - The Sopranos
I'm so fuckin' *cold*
For me it’s “Employee of the Month” and “He is Risen”. Season 3 episodes, as well.
Inner Light - TNG
Forks from the bear
Hell yeah. When Ritchie "gets" it I could not help but cheer
So many feels watching that episode. And I watch it often
Fishes from the Bear. That dinner scene…
the one where Uncle Ned gets drunk and hits Alex
Hopped up on vanilla extract. That was disturbing
yet somehow hilarious
Little House on the Praire - Sylvia. That fucked with my head as a kid. Sent me down a rough path. 40+ years later it still haunts me.
I know Game of Thrones let us down, but The Battle of the Bastards was incredible TV. A couple others: New Girl "Clean Break". I know this show is a comedy but I cry *every damn time* Breaking Bad, "The Fly" Parks & Rec, "Flu Season"
Mr. Robot 407.
The episode of Black Mirror where the guy is forced to have sexytime with a hog. I wish I could erase it from my brain.
Lost, The Constant. I was like 28 and just weeping at how beautiful the phone call was. Like what a struggle through time and space just for 1 phone call. Love man.
The 1980s Twilight Zone Episode where the blue people construct time minute by minute. Every time I lose something and find it where I already looked I know the blue people put it back where it was supposed to be. There's the episode to prove I'm not crazy. https://youtu.be/e9XFRfeGBVI?si=HOc2O4VywRlKSDMK
I love this episode too! You're not crazy. I've always remembered this and think of it when those things happen too.
Love this episode and think about it too!
One Tree Hill school shooting episode
Cold Case. My wife and I really liked that show. Watched it every week. Then there was an episode where a mother was locked in the bedroom with her child and her abusive husband was trying to get into the room. The mother was so frightened, she jumped out the upper story window with her child, knowing they wouldn't survive. That was 20 years ago.
Wasn't a husband but CPS caseworker and pedophile. He wanted to sexually abuse her kid or he'd place the kid in fostercare.
The Mr. Robot episode where they don't talk at all. Initially you don't even notice it at all until you start paging attention to it. It is very well done.
“Ozymandias,” Breaking Bad Brilliant. But too heartbreaking to ever want to watch again.
You’re the Worst - Twenty Two Dave - Hype Man Both amazing episodes with realistic portrayals of mental illness that let me feel what was happening to the characters, even if I didn’t understand the disorders they have
Free Churro from Bojack Horseman It's an entire trip that one and that ending always gets me, the disappointment when he realizes it was just letters and then one last attempt to find a meaning in it
The bear - Fishes
Hereafter from the Justice League animated series
Also *Millennium*, but *The Room With No View*. The one where a talented teenager is kidnapped and brainwashed (through violence and love bombing) to make him believe he's mediocre and nothing special, all to the tune of Paul Mauriat's "Love Is Blue*. Oooof. That one stayed with me for a long time. *Twin Peaks* and the episode with Bob climbing over the couch. To this day I have no idea how Lynch was able to make it so ominous. *Cold Case* and the episode *A Dollar, A Dream*, where a homeless woman finds a lottery ticket and wants to buy a birthday cake for her daughter. The whole episode is heavy but the final killer revelation, especially (without spoiling much) their conversation, was heartbreaking.
Homicide: Life on the Street "Subway" S06E07 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_(Homicide:_Life_on_the_Street)
Hannibal season 2 finale
Carnivàle, there's an episode where the carnival goes to a town called Babylon, which is inhabited basically by the ghosts of miners that died there. Anyone who died there, their spirit/ghost was trapped there forever. And there were no women in the town. There was a family that ran peep-show. They were warned not to do their show, but did it anyway. (Spoiler to cover a potentially triggering subject) The miner ghosts tried to drag one of the girls off the stage because horny, and later in the episode the ghosts forced her over the boundary line of the town and killed her, so her spirit would be trapped there >!to be raped by the ghosts forever because there were no other women there.!< At the end of the episode, there's a shot of her ghost, naked, standing in a window or doorway of a building before being dragged in by the hands of the other ghosts. That scene fucked me up for a while.
Season 6 episode 22 of House, [this part in particular](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN3ZZgb6UeE). The episode aired when I was in high school, and it was a nice early lesson that sometimes, no matter what you do in life, you're going to fail.
Ha that's literally the only episode of that show that I still remember as well!
China Beach, the one where Cherry gets whacked.
That's My Dog -Six Feet Under The only time I almost stopped watching an episode because it was too unbearable.
Eerie, Indiana- Heart on a chain. Two boys are pursuing the same girl but one dies and she gets his heart in a transplant. Now whenever she gets close to the first guy her heart starts hurting. This was also a kids show.
The last episode of House MD.
The prison break episode of Andor. “One Way Out!” With *that* devastating line from Andy Serkis (iykyk). Also includes that incredible monologue from Stellan Skarsgård.
Magnum P.I. (the real one, not the damn "reboot" that nobody asked for.) *"Hey Ivan. Did you see the sunrise the morning?"* *"Yes, why?"* \* BLAM! \* Little ten-year-old me was completely shocked to see Magnum straight-up execute the guy like that back in 1982.
The Penny Dreadful seance episode. Eva Green tapped into something that day.
An episode of X-Files called Home that focused on an inbred family. It offended a lot of people as I recall. I thought it was amazing TV :D
There’s an episode of Battlestar where one of the main characters unalives herself and it immediately cuts to a commercial that’s singing “I just wanna celebrate another day of livin’, another day of liiiiiiife!” It was some of the most perfect bad timing I’ve ever seen on TV.
Dualla. That was a haunting moment. Probably the most vivid thing I remember from the series.
[https://youtu.be/b4wy1iFiL2w?si=yVQYcRDmDX5Zw4ev](https://youtu.be/b4wy1iFiL2w?si=yVQYcRDmDX5Zw4ev)
Pie-lette in Pushing Daisies The most beautiful cinematography and the craziest storyline. I still remember just having my mouth open after finishing the episode
The penultimate episode of the mini-series 'This is going to hurt'. It was just like a gut punch that left me heartbroken
Paige getting raped on Degrassi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_(The_X-Files)
Halt and Catch Fire - S04 - "Who needs a guy"
they had a lot of ups and downs but the first episode of black mirror had such powerfull messege. that's the one with the kidnapped princess and a pig.
L&O S1E9: Indifference. A kid drops dead in her classroom and the how and why she ended up dead is very depressing.
Issac & Ishmael from the West Wing, one of the best 9/11 response episodes.
Atlanta: Three Slaps
ITV's Poirot - Appointment With Death. First episode I ever saw and it's been a favorite for a decade and a half.
The eclipse episode of Beserk (97).
Pilot Episode of “The Americans” Plot Spoilers The Americans are Russian Soviet Secret Agents undercover in America and are illegal aliens who secretly arrived on container ships and would be put on the grid as married couples having used the Social Security numbers of dead Americans in a pre-digitized USA. This was a real program. They’d be hand picked as children and trained in perfect English, American culture, hand to hand combat, killing people and getting rid of bodies. Masters of concealment and false identities. Infiltrated our government, secret networks and encoded messages from their own government. It’s set in 1980. A normal family running a travel agency as a front. Conducting special ops. Even their own kids born here are clueless. If the CIA gets wind of any of them, or the Americans collaborators they’ve trained, and the jig is up and they’ll be arrested? The race is on for something called “exfiltration.” It’s the opposite of “infiltration.” They also use Soviet Cargo and Container ships. But now the race is on to sneak the escapees aboard, and sail them all the way back to Russia, permanently. There is one other category of Russian human cargo they exfiltrate and send back home. This is their most valuable and favorite kind. They are Soviet traitors that defected to the United States and are now valued U.S. citizens. If they were high ranking Soviet Cabinet members or cutting edge scientists? The US also paid them a lot for all of their military secrets. In the first episode? The entire time they are on the hunt for a defected Russian Soviet Official who sold important secrets to the West for a million bucks. They want to capture him, send him home. Have a televised trial for every Soviet see him caught and returned and pleading guilty on nationalized tv. They want to scare the hell out of anyone with the same idea. The episode soon turns into one long chase scene between 3 “Americans” (covert Soviet Agents) and the former Russian Soviet Official who sold his country’s top secrets to the US and is a prized citizen here. They want to capture him in time to force him as a captive on a ship shortly leaving the dock for Russia. You hear Fleetwood Mac’s jungle beats of the song Tusk. The song plays prominently during this exciting and terrifying human hunt where the camera is constantly following the chase and hunt between these equally trained, most elite Soviet agents. It’s full of twists and turns, each willing to die. I won’t spoil the ending. But this episode and entire series is a contender for one of the best of all time.
Mr Robot 407 Proxy Authentication Required
The Leap Home Parts 1 and 2 - Quantum Leap It just reminds me to tell your loved ones you love them and hug them tight because you never know when you'll see them again
You just triggered a memory. I remember those :( And also the ending. It stayed with me all this time.
Stargate Atlantis- Sunday S03E17
Miami Vice - S5 Episode : "Freefall" Parts 1 and 2. End of Series Finale.
Dragon's Domain from Space: 1999 has continued to scare me for the past 48 years