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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: tyme on June 05, 2010, 11:20:41 AM
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What are yours?
(trying to avoid spoilers as much as possible)
House M.D., 4th season, the two part ep dealing with House's amnesia and the bus accident (that or the two-parter starting with the cop who laughs hysterically in season... 2?)
Angel, Not Fade Away (the final episode)
Miami Vice, 2nd season, the one with Russians trying to track down Gretsky and his wife
Firefly, Mrs. Reynolds
La Femme Nikita, I Remember Paris
Dark Angel, Berrisford Agenda
Babylon 5, The Coming of Shadows
SG-1, S03E05, Learning Curve
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Gilligan's Island: The episode where they were all stuck on an island and the skipper got mad at Gilligan and the professor made a gadget out of coconuts. Oh yeah, and I remember the Howells were all in denial and kept expecting people to cater to them. Ginger flirted with Gilligan to try to get something from him, and Mary Ann just ran around in her Daisy Dukes looking innocent and cute and making pies.
Yep, that was one great episode!
DD
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speaking of X-Files...my favorite episode is "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Best of Both Worlds, parts 1 and 2
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Babylon 5: The episode where Vir had his wish granted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47DfQcHMYLY
Runner Up:
Babylon 5: Delenn to the rescue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFvkgfBXHPA&feature=related
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Firefly- Out of Gas
House M.D.- The end of the fifth season, the episodes dealing with hallucinations
Doctor Who- The Girl In the Fireplace
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What are yours?
Babylon 5, The Coming of Shadows
That was great, and on my list too.
I probably have a lot more, but a few others off the top of my head:
Babylon 5, Severed Dreams
Taxi, when Rev Jim got his driver's license ("what does a yellow light mean?")
Firefly, well, most of them actually
Parks & Rec, season 2 finale (Ron Swanson is my mentor in govt work, also in food choices)
Edit Ha! - found the YouTube clip of the Taxi episode!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvn-tBeLpCk
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Since Star Trek was mentioned, here are a couple that come immediately to mind:
Star Trek - TOS: Balance of Terror
Star Trek - TOS: The City at the Edge of Forever
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Babylon 5: The episode where Vir had his wish granted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47DfQcHMYLY
"Ahhh! Mr. Morden! I see they found you. Good, good. You're looking well -- all healed?......"
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Gilligan's Island: The episode where they were all stuck on an island and the skipper got mad at Gilligan and the professor made a gadget out of coconuts. Oh yeah, and I remember the Howells were all in denial and kept expecting people to cater to them. Ginger flirted with Gilligan to try to get something from him, and Mary Ann just ran around in her Daisy Dukes looking innocent and cute and making pies.
Yep, that was one great episode!
DD
One great, very long, episode! :lol:
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The one where Rob is having a dream within a dream thing about aliens and laura ends up with eyes in the back of her head. :lol:
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Babylon 5 - The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
ST:TNG - The Inner Light
Farscape - Cracker's Don't Matter
The X-Files - X-Cops
ST:Voyager - Memorial
Stargate SG1 - Abyss
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Star Trek DS9: In the Pale Moonlight
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The one where Rob is having a dream within a dream thing about aliens and laura ends up with eyes in the back of her head. :lol:
I really like the one where they are all sitting around the livingroom and Rob gets up for some reason and trips over the ottoman/footstool. That and the one where Richie learns about why he is named after a sled.
stay safe.
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Firefly: Tie between Ariel and Out of Gas
Band of Brothers: Bastogne
Venture Bros.: I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills
... that's all I can think of off the top of my head at the moment.
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That and the one where Richie learns about why he is named after a sled.
Rosebud? ;)
How about the one where the Beav and Larry Mondello stop to watch the construction on the way to school and their lunch boxes get run over by a dump truck. The alligator epidode was good too. Cap'n Jack went on to be Uncle Joe down at the Junction.
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Gilligan's Island: The episode where they were all stuck on an island and the skipper got mad at Gilligan and the professor made a gadget out of coconuts. Oh yeah, and I remember the Howells were all in denial and kept expecting people to cater to them. Ginger flirted with Gilligan to try to get something from him, and Mary Ann just ran around in her Daisy Dukes looking innocent and cute and making pies.
Yep, that was one great episode!
DD
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And when Fred Flintstone gets observed by space aliens and they send down an alien disguised as an earthling that looks just like Fred and says "Yaba-daba-do" in a flat monotone.
That's my favorite TeeVee show of all time, that one.
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Bugs Bunny: The Rabbit of Seville
Bugs Bunny: Bus is a matador, by accident of course. After Bugs gets botted out of the bull-ring by the bull, bugs says, "Of course you know... this means war." Two more of my favorite words/phrases from Bugs: "Nin-cow-poop," and "Gulli-bull."
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The X-Files: "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" (but there were several runners-up)
The Simpsons: "E-I-E-I-(annoyed grunt)"
Diff'rent Strokes: the one where Arnold said "Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis"
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Firefly, Mrs. Reynolds
I don't know if it's my favorite (tough field), but the first half of that episode is definitely as funny as anything ever aired. Special hell, coming to a middle, pretty floral bonnet, and so on. My wife pointed out that, after Mal says something mean, you can see Jane's hand patting Saffron's shoulder, soothingly. It kills us every time.
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Firefly: So many good ones. Our Mrs. Reynolds is good, but I love Jaynetown, too. ("Me, Jayne Cobb!" "I know your name, jackass")
Fawlty Towers: The German episode. I was on the floor crying I was laughing so hard. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6669914129956242491#
X Files: Bad Blood. Vampire episode- told from Mulder and Scully's points of view. The funniest X-files. "I was drugged!"
ST TNG: Chain of Command: "THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!" However, I also like the episodes with Mark Twain. And the alternate universe where the war between the Federation and the Klingons never ended.
WKRP: "As God is my witness, I thought turkey's could fly" http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi254935065/
Wings: I'm torn between "This Old House" and "Four Dates that will live in Infamy" Dang it I forgot about "Murder She Roast"
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"I knew I should've taken that left at Albuquerque" ;)
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"How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away"
Bicycle Repair Man;
Dim of the Yard;
Nudge Nudge;
The dirty fork;
Rant against Communism;
And now,
Number one
The Larch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hkD_zkvolk
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Fawlty Towers: The German episode. I was on the floor crying I was laughing so hard.
"Don't mention the war!"
The dead guest episode. When they walked into the room with the guy inflating a girl doll, I fell off the chair laughing. Only time I've ever done that.
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Firefly - Out of Gas
What an amazing episode.
I never heard of Firefly until early 2005, three years after Firefly ran on Fox TV. I found about it because many of the very diverse Internet forums I frequented were raving about it. The firearms web sites, the coin collecting web sites, the computer geek web sites -- they were all talking about it.
My wife and I had been renting DVDs from Netflix for about three years at that time. Movies, of course, but lots of tv shows, especially British mystery series.
We also watched all of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes.
We tried Babylon 5 twice, but couldn’t get past the first few episodes. I hear it gets really good -- by the second year.
Next: Farscape. This show had interesting stories, but finally I couldn’t take the aliens: they were muppets, and the more muppets, the less interested I was in the show.
Battlestar Galactica was really good ... the first couple years.
Firefly: love at first view. I got it immediately. I watched every episode in order, as I rented each disk from Netflix.
Firefly Disk 3, episode 1: Out of Gas. Out of all the tv series my wife and I watched on our Netflix DVDs, most of which would have four hour long episodes on a DVD, this was the first and only time I watched an episode a second time before proceeding to the next episode. Usually with a tv series on DVD it’s just click-click-click-click, watch an episode, then the next three, then send the disk back to Netflix. I was immediately struck by the astonishing brilliance of what I had just seen, and wanted to see it again. Just amazing: the story; the background filler of Jayne, Inara, Kaylee, and Wash; the fantastic way the writers had fit three separate timelines together (emphasized with three different color highlights) with wonderful segues from one to the next; the music soundtrack.
Objects in Space; Ariel; War Stories; Trash; and Serenity (the pilot episode) are also extremely good.
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Something that I'm really getting into is the new Stargate series, Stargate Universe. Much darker and less goofy that SG-1 and Atlantis. I love both of series and wish Atlantis would have lasted at least a few more season. But it's interesting to see a Stargate series that has none of the campyness or even humor of the other series. Dare I say it's more "realistic"? There's really no "monster of the week" or "disaster avoided at the last second" plots. Not to mention the total lack of "forehead aliens". It feels like the new Battlestar Galactica, only with Stargate and without all the goofy religious crap.
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We tried Babylon 5 twice, but couldn’t get past the first few episodes. I hear it gets really good -- by the second year.
The first year lays foundations and does a lot of foreshadowing.
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The first year lays foundations and does a lot of foreshadowing.
True....I actually found it better to watch the second and third season before watching the first....made the first season more understandable....
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True....I actually found it better to watch the second and third season before watching the first....made the first season more understandable....
"Watch your back, Garibaldi."
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OH!, OH!
The one where Fonzie jumped over a shark with his motorcycle!!
More shows should do something like that... >:D
DD
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Dead Like Me
When Mason has to take the soul of his Guitar Hero. Tied with Roxy and the homeless guy who starts a religion because Roxy grabbed his soul and shock it.
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The episode on Everybody Loves Raymond in which Marie takes a sculpture class.
On The Andy Griffith Show:
Barney and The Choir
Mr. McBeevee
A Black Day for Mayberry
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I liked the Andy Griffith when Andy was called away for a while and Barney was on vacation, so he had to deputize Goober and Goob had to stay at the courthouse and work on Gilly Walkers car.
He disassembles it and puts it back together inside the sheriff's office, which totally amazes Floyd.
I liked that one and the SpongeBob Squarepants episode BR-129 when Squidward uses a time machine to get some peace and quiet.
"Everything is chrome in the future!"
That's the one that shows Squidward invented jellyfishing.
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I liked the Andy episodes when the Darlin's came to town. Ernest T Bass was another favorite. =D
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Bugs Bunny: The Rabbit of Seville
Bugs Bunny: Bus is a matador, by accident of course. After Bugs gets botted out of the bull-ring by the bull, bugs says, "Of course you know... this means war." Two more of my favorite words/phrases from Bugs: "Nin-cow-poop," and "Gulli-bull."
What about Kill the Wabbit?
I was thinking of that episode of Highlander where he gets in the swordfight and ends up cutting the guys' head off.
(I guess that is too easy)
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The Wonder Years episode in which a new music teacher enters the boys' choir class in a singing competition. (Men, men, men, men....)
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Well, if we're going back that far, how about the episode of No Time for Sergeants where they decided to feed all the guys in Will Stockdale's barracks whortleberry root juice in the hopes that they'd all get as strong as Stockdale? Or what happened to the jet when they filled it with Pappy's Elixer? (Pappy was a - wink, wink - moonshiner.)
Or the episode where Pvt. Stockdale was promoted to 2-star general because someone accidentally stepped on an IBM punch card (remember those?) with golf shoes and put a couple of extra holes in it? (Doggone it, I wasn't even 10 years old when this show was on, and I can still remember these parts!)
Or the episode of Beverly Hillbillies where Banker Drysdale took the Clampetts skeet shooting . . . IIRC, Jed tried to only shoot chips off the clay pigeons "so they could use 'em again" and Ellie May was breaking birds with a slingshot . . .
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I remember "No Time" but not THAT well. =D
I liked when the Clampett's played, "Ricochet" in the back yard. Always wanted tor try that. Or when jethro was going to be a major league pitcher until they foud out it was bear grease on his fingers that made him throw so good. :laugh:
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Jethro - "I's gonna be a double-nought spy" =D
I loved that episode.
One of my all-time favorite tv characters - Festus Hagen from "Gunsmoke".
from imdb:
Dr. Galen 'Doc' Adams: [Festus offers to buy Doc a beer with a silver dollar that he earned from shoeing horses in episode "Whelan's Men".] Why don't you take that money and invest it in something? Why don't you do that?
Festus Haggen: Invest it in what?
Dr. Galen 'Doc' Adams: There's wonderful land values outside of Dodge. Now why don't you go out there someplace, look around, and buy yourself a lot?
Festus Haggen: A lot of what?
Dr. Galen 'Doc' Adams: A lot! A lot of land!
Festus Haggen: Well fiddle, I can't afford to buy a lot of land. You probably could the way you've been a bilking and gouging...
Dr. Galen 'Doc' Adams: Oh, hush up! I'm trying to help you, for heaven sakes. It don't cost a whole lot to buy a little lot.
Festus Haggen: What do you mean it don't cost a whole lot to buy a little, or a whole lot to buy a lot, what do you mean?
Dr. Galen 'Doc' Adams: Well, I mean,... a little lot of land!
Festus Haggen: But there ain't no such a thing. A little's a little, and a lot's a lot, there ain't no little lot, or lot of little, don't you see? Now you want that beer or don't you?
Dr. Galen 'Doc' Adams: No I'm... I'm all worn out.
Festus Haggen: [and as Doc walks away Festus Hollers] If you change your mind me and Newly will be over at the Longbranch having a whole lot of little beers.
[Chuckles and flips his silver dollar]
Festus Haggen: Now I'm buying.
or the episode where the snake oil salesman comes to town -
Speaking to Marshal Dillon "Matthew, don't you think we oughta make sure that stuff is safe for public conniption?" =D
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"The Trouble With Tribbles." Original Star Trek.
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Angel, Not Fade Away (the final episode)
Firefly, Mrs. Reynolds
Babylon 5, The Coming of Shadows
^^^Will you get out of my brain!!!!!
I'll mention three from Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Hush
Once More With Feeling
Season Three Finale (Senior class vs the mayor)
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Hush is my all time favorite Buffy episode. For a somewhat goofy show, that one was truly creepy.
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Watching "Our Mrs Reynolds" right now.
"...but if your hand touches metal I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you."
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"The Trouble With Tribbles." Original Star Trek.
That episode is Pure Win.
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Honestly, in terms of story-arc Babylon 5 had some of the best writing bar none.
The examples given are excellent. Completely buried under the often execrable visual design and hammy acting.
IMO, some imaginary Sci-Fi show with the better acting and cleaner visual style of Star Trek, the story arc of B5, the grittiness and quasi-documentary look of the new Battlestar Galactica, and the Banter of Firefly would be the best thing ever put to television..
I don't know the name of the episode, but the first X-Files written by William Gibson was really really good. (The second 'First Person Shooter' was pretty weak...)
The programmer trying to track down/destroy the rouge AI getting killed by the AI setting up a cross fire with fake phone calls to police and a gang was great. (As was the duct-tape make shift look of his laptop and cell-modem in the pre-WiFi era..)
And the hacker-girl making her way around the world in an office hidden in a shipping container was cool as well. Her militant leather-look was obviously a homage to "Jane" the augmented "Street Samurai" of his early novels.
The "does not exist" SDI platform the AI commandeered to kill people was great too. How it zoomed in with a "Google Maps" like view of the target 10 years before such a thing existed was cool.
And at the end how the AI was just a bunch of server racks in a little camping trailer in the middle of the desert tended by "robots" made of re-purposed RC cars was really neat. It was connected to the rest of the world via a single fiber optic line on a row of lonely telephone poles was both funny and creepy at the same time. And you understood how vulnerable it was once discovered, because as Agent Mulder approached, all it could do was flare spotlights, and emit an electronic shriek through a loudspeaker as he stepped closer.
It all looks dated now, but it was a rather semi-realistic and thoughtful treatment of how a malevolent AI would have to manipulate people and resources "behind the scenes" to achieve it's ends. Much better than the entire Terminator franchise.
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I don't know the name of the episode, but the first X-Files written by William Gibson was really really good.
I remember that one, it was pretty good. Wikipedia has all the episodes listed.
"Kill Switch"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_%28The_X-Files%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_%28The_X-Files%29)
episode list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_X-Files_episodes
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THE NAKED CITY --
"The Rydecker Case" and "Which is Joseph Creeley?"
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Something that I'm really getting into is the new Stargate series, Stargate Universe. Much darker and less goofy that SG-1 and Atlantis. I love both of series and wish Atlantis would have lasted at least a few more season. But it's interesting to see a Stargate series that has none of the campyness or even humor of the other series. Dare I say it's more "realistic"? There's really no "monster of the week" or "disaster avoided at the last second" plots. Not to mention the total lack of "forehead aliens". It feels like the new Battlestar Galactica, only with Stargate and without all the goofy religious crap.
I'm generally enjoying SG-U, but I could do without the whole, "Hey look, there's SEX on Stargate!!!!" bit... ;/ If it makes sense, I don't have a problem with it. Most of what they've shown, IMO, is the above bit. But overall, that's a fairly-minor quibble.
I too liked both previous series. I do miss RDA as a main-focus character, though. His humor really made SG-1 shine, IMO. Browder tried, but wasn't QUITE as good, in that respect, and neither was Flanagan (on SG-A). My wife always laughed at his (Flanagan's) hair - here's a character who's a relatively-high-ranking military officer, and he can't get a milspec haircut? Then again, I'd laugh at HER, because Atlantis would just put her out like a light - twenty minutes in, and she'd be snoring. We joke about that to this day - whenever we stumble across it in the listings or flipping through the channels, one of us will look over at the other and she'll start snoring. :laugh:
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Yeah, they did have a lot of soap opera themes early on in the season, though as of late that seems to have been toned down quite a bit. I do agree that the humor was a great part of the SG1 and SGA, especially Daniel/Jack banter and McKay. But The near lack of humor of SGA is surprisingly enjoyable. It's certainly nothing like the other series. I never really felt like things would end any way but good with SG1 or SGA. No matter what the story arc or cliffhanger, one always knew that in the end they'd wrap it up and tell a few jokes along the way. SGU doesn't have that feel at all. SGU really seems like things could go bad and just stay bad. After a combined total of 15 seasons of Stargate, it's kind of a refreshing change.
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I'm generally enjoying SG-U, but I could do without the whole, "Hey look, there's SEX on Stargate!!!!" bit... ;/ If it makes sense, I don't have a problem with it. Most of what they've shown, IMO, is the above bit. But overall, that's a fairly-minor quibble.
Could you also do without all the gratuitous violence of the SG* series?
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Could you also do without all the gratuitous violence of the SG* series?
I couldn't. Shooting P90s is what SG is all about =)
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Firefly: Out of Gas and Objects in Space
Dr. Who: Blink
And way too many episodes of the West Wing.
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I couldn't. Shooting P90s is what SG is all about =)
...and don't forget that showdown scene b/t Sheppard and Robert Davi's character in SGA....pure fun... =D
...though, if I were going to alien worlds on a regular basis, I wouldn't be packing anything less than a FAL or SOCOM-16..... :cool:
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SGU isn't my favorite of the SG series - some of the characters are beginning to annoy me. And lest we forget . . . they didn't bring along anything they couldn't carry. It's the second season now, they seem to have plenty of ammo left, the women haven't run out of makeup, and everyone's clothes are still fresh.
Well, if I'm going to suspend my disbelief and watch a show about intergalactic travel, I guess these are minor issues.
NEW SHOW TOPIC:
Favorite episode of Hill Street Blues. Detective Buntz (Dennis Franz) had gotten clobbered by a bad guy, and Capt Furillo laid down the law - no retaliation.
Well, one day Buntz sees the bad guy looking suspicious - and discretely tails him. Turns out the BG went into a small store to commit an armed robbery. Det. Buntz enters, announces himself, and tells the BG (who's holding a gun on a store clerk) to drop it. BG doesn't. and instead takes a shot at Buntz - missing him. Buntz shoots back . . . and doesn't miss. BG is DRT. :police:
During the investigation, Buntz gives his statement, while the Clerk is gushing to investigators how Buntz saved his life. Capt Furillo arrives on scene, and tells Buntz that he'd been warned against any retaliation. Buntz tells Furillo, "Captain, I followed procedure, there's a witness, it'll go down as a good shoot."
Furious Furillo says "You may be OK with the shooting review board, but you're NOT OK with me!"
Buntz replies, in a very offhand manner, "I can live with that" and walks away from a seething Furillo. =D
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SGU isn't my favorite of the SG series - some of the characters are beginning to annoy me. And lest we forget . . . they didn't bring along anything they couldn't carry. It's the second season now, they seem to have plenty of ammo left, the women haven't run out of makeup, and everyone's clothes are still fresh.
Well, if I'm going to suspend my disbelief and watch a show about intergalactic travel, I guess these are minor issues.
The clothes thing may be right, but as for ammo, keep in mind in the first episode they were throwing A LOT of crates and other gear through the gate before it closed. Who knows what was in all those boxes.
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A few more (thanks to episode lists on Wikipedia):
Star Trek OS: The City on the Edge of Forever
Star Trek, TNG: Genesis, Where No One Has Gone Before, Parallels, Frame of Mind, Tapestry, Ship in a Bottle, Schisms, Relics, Time's Arrow I and II, and so many others
Venture Bros.: 90% of the entire series
M*A*S*H: 99% of the entire series