Your all-time favorite sitcom episodes
 

I stole this topic from another forum I frequent—here are some my faves (and yes, I'm dating myself with some of these :D) ...

I Love Lucy: Vitameatavegamin

All in the Family: Edith causes a freak car accident with a can of cling peaches ... in heavy syrup

Mary Tyler Moore: Chuckles the Clown's funeral—"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"

The Golden Girls: The girls crash a high school reunion as Susan Armstrong, Cindy Lou Peeples, and Kim Fung Toy

Designing Women: Anthony goes undercover as "Cindy Birdsong" to rescue the girls from a grueling wilderness weekend

Roseanne: The weed episode

Frasier: The ski weekend

Absolutely Fabulous: "Fat," "Hospital," and "Poor"

Curb Your Enthusiasm: An obituary has "beloved aunt" misprinted as "beloved c_nt"

Mary Tyler Moore: Chuckles's funeral - Mary is trying desperately not to laugh.

Roseanne: Darlene reads her poem "The Brain-Dead Poets Society" episode.

Dharma & Greg: "Dharma Drags Edward Out of Retirement" episode - Dharma gets Edward involved in an dotcom company that sells women's clothes. For men. To wear.

Newsradio: Dave & Bill attempt to give up coffee and smoking. "What we need around here is an anti-whining ordinance!"

Coupling: "Jane and the Truth Snake" - Sally's reaction to "Jake the Snake"

Martin - Suspicious Minds. The 3rd act (Martin and his "dog") are hilarious. The others tried so hard not to laugh.

Golden Girls - The Case Of The Libertine Belle. The "Murder Mystery" episode. I crack up every time Dorothy demonstrates slitting a throat.

King Of Queens - Pole Dancing Episode. Doug convinces Carrie to take a pole dancing class at the gym, but she ends up being terrible. Hearing how her father is affected and watching Doug pole dance = hilarious.

Law and Order: SVU - 911 Episode. Olivia tries to find an abused young girl who is speaking on a dying cell phone that can't be traced. Amazing.

This is all I can think of right now lol

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Rob dreams Laura is an alien

A Different World: Dwayne and Whitley's wedding

Living Single: TLC guest stars as the subjects of Overton's dreams

The Cosby Show: Vanessa gets drunk for the first time and the whole family ends up taking "shots."

Grey's Anatomy(not technically a sitcom but still): Gosh, you name it and I loved it. The bomb episode, the shooting, Meredith getting her appendix out...Meredith on morphine was epic. "It wasn't a date so much as a disasterously uncomfortable sexual experience.....Dr. Bailey, all my boyfriends are here!" :p

Meant to include this one in my OP:

Everybody Loves Raymond: Marie takes up sculpture and makes something that looks like a large-scale rendering of the female nether regions.

"Oh my God—I'm a lesbian!"

YES YES YES! Oh, how I loved that episode.

Ally McBeal: The Christmas episode when Larry sings, lets down his guard, and talks about his child... it makes me tear up a bit.

Seinfeld: When George's wires get crossed with a girl named Donna Chang, his mom talks to her for a bit and is talked out of a divorce because she's Chinese, and, well, Chinese people are wise. They flip when they find out she's just a white Jewish girl from Queens that changed her name from something like Changstein.

Modern Family: When Claire and Phil roleplay at a hotel bar.

Fawlty Towers: The Germans.

Father Ted: When they go on holiday in a caravan, but leave all of the stuff they packed behind by mistake. Graham Norton has a cameo in that one, and him singing "The Whole of the Moon" is classic.


I was also on a tv show (a half hour, you could say I was the main person in it), so I love that one. ;) But I won't say what it is in the open- too much identifying information, ya know? :) But that one is definitely a favorite of mine.

Agreed. That's the first SVU episode I ever saw and it has remained my absolute favorite.

The Office - Stress Relief

The Odd Couple - Felix & Oscar go to a monastery.

Family Ties - Alex asks 2 girls to the prom & ends up running back & forth changing his boutinniere all night.

Seinfeld - The Junior Mint. The Shmoopie/Soup Nazi episode.

I Love Lucy- Grape Stomping, Parisian Hats, Lucy wants to be a Chorus Girl and The Operetta.

The Odd Couple- Oscar and Felix go to a Caribbean Island.

Andy Griffith- Barney buys a car.

Fawlty Towers- The Germans and The Fire Drill.

Father Ted- The Carnival, The Caves and The All-Priest Talent Show.

The Cosby Show- any episode where the family lip-synched to old records.

Black Adder- The Spanish Infanta, Lord Flashheart

Keeping Up Appearances-Yachting

Frasier(so hard to choose)-Frasier writes his theme song, Niles is at Frasier's and is preparing for a date, cuts finger and keeps passing out at the sight of blood, any episode with Daphne's brother Simon.

Seinfeld-The Soup Nazi, The Poppyseed Muffin, The Hamptons(you godda see the bay-bee), Festivus

The Office- Michael goes to Jamaica(It's all inclusive, and you know what that means!), Dwight and Jim plan Kelly's birthday party, The Middle-East Christmas party where Meredith catches her hair on fire.

News Radio-Matthew goes Punk, The Cane, The Therapist(John Ritter), Jimmy James runs for President.

Flight of the Conchords-Mugged, Drive By

Arrested Development- Every Single Episode!

Friends- the episode where monica and rachel play against joey and chandler to see who knows each other best. "Growing up joey had an imaginary friend, what was his name?.. maurice!.. occupation?.. space cowboy!" Hilarious.

The Office- diversity day. Hands down.

thanks jen!

I love all of these, and I can still hear Edith emphasizing the heavy syrup. And the car belonged to a priest.

The Andy Griffith Show: "The Beauty Contest." Andy gets to judge a beauty pageant for the annual Mayberry Founder's Day celebration.

Henrietta Swanson: She's been going to Mrs. Wellington's School for Girls in Raleigh. She was voted young lady most likely to become charming.
Andy: Well, say now. Becoming charming - that is something to look forward to, ain't it.

The Andy Griffith Show: "Citizen's Arrest." After getting pulled by Barney for making an illegal U-turn, Gomer accuses Barney of making an illegal U-turn.

Andy: What's goin' on?
Barney: Oh, this boob, here...
Gomer: Boob? Why that's an insult in the face of the public. There oughta be a number law that covers that.
Andy: Barney you can't insult people in public, you've got to set an example. Now what happened?
Barney: Oh nutsy come running after me screaming (imitating Gomer) Citizen's Arrest!, Citizen's Arrest!

Shoot, I could fill this thread just with favorite Andy Griffith episodes -- the Two Fun Girls from Mount Pilot, the Darlings and Ernest T. Bass, Ffloyd the barber . . . .

Friends - The One with the Prom Video

The "Gordon Gartrelle" episode of The Cosby Show, when Denise makes Theo the shirt and it looks so busted! :D

oh heavens, mysticcat, how ever could i forget the 2 fun girls, the darlings or "it's me, it's me, it's ernest t.".

My favor-rite ernest t. episode is when he goes to school to complete his education so he can marry his romena(rowena). i take that back, it is when he tells andy and barney that he was engaged once to Hog (i forgot the last name)'s daughter, Hogette, but he heaved a rock at her to show his love one time and it hit her in the haid, and she ran off with the taxidermist what sewed up her haid.

"HULLO, DOLL!" LOL

LOL. "She called me a creachture -- I ain't no creachture!"

Taxi: Rev. Jim takes his Driver's Exam

Personally, I think that this is possibly the funniest bit ever seen on regular tv!

I think I've said this here before, but Soap had some great ones, including the memorablel line about when Jody (the first openly gay man on tv - played by Billy Crystal) was marrying a hooker, and a family member was appalled. His mother said, "Well, his father was abducted by aliens, his brother talks through a ventroliquist dummy, his grandfather still thinks he's living during World War II, and she's a hooker. I think he's marrying up!"

I loved The Andy Griffith Show when the two little old ladies are making moon shine!*

*My mother watched Andy Griffith every chance she got. After she passed away, if her little dog heard the theme song, he'd go running to the tv!

Laverne & Shirley: "Betty, please!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7oHvQu-dc4

Star Trek the Next Generation
Season 1
"Where no man has gone before"
"Lonely among us"
"Justice"
"Skin of Evil"

Season 2
"Where Silence has Lease"

Season 4
"Suddenly Human"

Season 6
"Second Chance"

Season 7
"Force of Nature"

Star Trek Deep Space 9
Season 3
"Past Tense" parts 1 and 2

Season 4
"Starship Down"
"Little Green Men" (the best!)

Season 5
"The Ascent"

Star Trek Voyager
Season 1
"Eye of the Needle"
"Emanations"

Season 2
"Twisted"
"Tattoo"

Season 3
"The Swarm"
"Futures End" parts 1 and 2

Season 5
"Night"
"Timeless"
"Gravity"

Season 6
Blink of an Eye (this one is the best)

There are some Battlestar Galactica episodes I also like, but I don't have time to list them.

Arrested Development - Bringing Up Buster, Pier Pressure and Key Decisions - but the show as a whole just makes me smile.

How I Met Your Mother - The Sweet Taste of Liberty, Slutty Pumpkin

Mr. Show - What To Think, Patriotism. Peppers. Professionalism

Frasier - My Coffee With Niles, Halloween, Ski Lodge, RDWRER

My two favorite Mr. Show episodes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmNApZRy3wk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GfgnBEZsj4

This is the first episode that came to mind - the scene where he is demonstrating in their bedroom was too funny!

Modern Family - Valentine's Day episode.

Star Trek is considered a sitcom now? :p


How could I forget:

Seinfeld: "The Strike" -- Hardly anyone remembers Kramer's strike, but it's still a Festivus for the rest of us: The Airing of Grievances, the Feats of Strength . . . "I got a lot of problems with you people!" A true Festivus miracle.

Seinfeld: "The Contest" -- "I am master of my domain." "I am king of my castle." I can still remember watching this one -- and my wife and me laughing so hard we were both crying -- the first time it aired.

Oops.:o

"and you want to be my latex salesman!"

How I Met Your Mother - Zip, Zip, Zip, The Pineapple Incident, The Playbook

That 70's Show - Dine and Dash

Scrubs - I don't remember the name, but it was in the 1st season and JD sleeps with Dr. Cox's ex-wife. Most of them are amazing, but the last episode always gets me.

"Hilary Banks..."

"YES TREVOR!!"

"Will you marry m--ooph.

*stunned silence*

When she dyed the wedding dress black, iRolled. :o

I think my fave ep of Boy Meets World was the last one. Where all the best moments of the entire series culminated in one great good-bye. And lots of the Feeny call. :p

Golden Girls - The Birthday Episode. The ladies are discussing their favorite birthday memories. This one really makes me tear up when Rose celebrates her first birthday after Charlie dies by making herself a cake and letting his spirit know she's leaving Minnesota for Florida.

Mr. Belvedere - The Halloween episode. Heather dresses up as a sexy French maid & the older brother (can't remember his name) as a knight. By the end of the party, she made him switch costumes. Lol!

Out of This World - The one where Evie has her Sweet 16 & has the choice of a new power but she chooses none.

Small Wonder - The one where Lyle Alzado guest stars. The obnoxious aunt who supposedly knows everyone in Hollywood really does know him.

I Love Lucy - The Charm School Episode.

Married with Children - The episodes where they're in London always make me laugh.

Two & A Half Men - It's a tie. I LOVE the episode where Charlie pretends to be gay & Allen is his partner so he can continue to get the business of a rich gay businessman.
The other episode is the one where Jake is watched by his grandma & in a short time, he manages to spill spaghetti all over her living room, cause water damage to her ceiling & break her spirits. LOL!

one more seinfeld episode to add-the Chinese restaurant episode.

"Cartwright..........party of 4"

Oh yeah!

This reminds me of the ep of Designing Women where Eugenia Weeks, one of Suzanne's old pageant rivals, comes out, and "not at a cotillion," as Julia says. The girls agree to meet Eugenia at a restaurant called "Uncle Gertrude's," where Mary Jo freaks out and asks Julia to pretend to be her girlfriend.

*like*

"My Bad" :cool:

AWESOME!

The Office - "Dinner Party". So painful to watch but soooo funny!

I'll have to spend a little bit of time thinking of my favorite Seinfeld & Scrubs episodes.

The Office: "Diversity Day" -- "Welcome to my convenience store. Would you like some gookie gookie?"

Designing Women is in a class of its own: Designing Women thread, thanks to wrigley!

Maybe there should be a Seinfeld one, too

Cheers: The episode when Woody sings a song for Kelly...and it's just the name "Kelly" in a loop.

Seinfeld: "You made out during Schindler's List?!"

It's hard for me to come up with my favorite episode of a show that's still on...:confused:

Ditto to whomever mentioned any Cosby episode involving lip synching!

M*A*S*H "Adam's Ribs" (and probably another 100 or so I could list, I adore this show)

WKRP in Cincinnati "Turkeys Away"

Designing Women "The Beauty Pageant"

Not slightly a sitcom, but the "Puppet Show" episode of Angel is probably one of the funniest 44 minutes of TV ever.

right now since my mind is on HIMYM (rewatching my dvds)

there really are way too many to name but:

Swarley, Zip, Zip, Zip, Slapsgiving, The Plantinum Rule, The Naked Man, How I Met Everyone Else....

Ok, I think that is enough...I love this show....

I don't have a particular episode, but my top 5 sitcoms are:

Martin
King of Queens
The Jeffersons
Happy Days
Brady Bunch

Woody: Now, I should tell you right up front that I'm not really a professional singer. I'm more of a vocal stylist.

Mr. Gaines: The song, Woody!

Woody: Oh, right.

Kelly my darling, you are my sunshine;
When we're together I feel fine.
Your smile is so lovely; your hair is so clean;
You make me feel that the whole world is mine.

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly,
Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, K-E-L-L-Y ...
Why? Because you're

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly,
(pause) Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly,
Kelly of mine!

(applause)

Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine,
Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine,
... Mine!

Kelly: Woody that was beautiful.

Woody: You really liked it?

Kelly: Oh, I liked it more than anything.

Woody: Thanks.

Kelly: So, where's my gift?

:D

Found it here: http://home.online.no/~espenas/cheers/kellysong.htm