Greatest scenes in TV history

The Jeffersons flashback episode when George opens the store the same day MLK is assassinated.

The Coach when Bob Golic, playing a former player of Hayden, showed up to tell Hayden he was dying of cancer related to steroids. Christine tells Hayden not to beat himself up, he couldn't have known the player was on roids.

Hayden: "But I did." Fade to black. My dad and I sat there, our jaws agape.

And of course the Growing Pains where Sandy gets into a crash while driving drunk and tearfully tells Carol he'll never do it again. He dies while Carol and her parents are on their way home and Mike has to break the news to her.

"what about Sandy? What about his second chance?"

I remember my mom was typing my research paper (yes, I'd written it) and my sister was working on some homework but by the end of that episode the three of us were watching it, silent and wondering why the room got so dusty.

 

magnum PI - Did you see the sun rise?

 

Been a while since I've used it, but ...

End. Of. Thread.

 

Great scene. Gangsters should never try sensitive.

 

This has shot to near the very top of best thread subjects ever, for my money.

 

I cannot find the clip on Youtube, and I am not sure if it has been mentioned, but Jim asking Pam to dinner following his job interview in New York was pretty darn good.

 

"Hey, uh, can I talk to you about something?"

"About when you wanna give me more of your money? Did you want to do that now? We can go inside. I'm feelin' kinda good tonight."

"I was just, um ... I'm in love with you."

"What?"

"I'm really sorry if that's weird for you to hear, but I needed you to hear it. Probably not good timing, I know that, I just ..."

"What are you doing? What do you expect me to say to that?"

"I just needed you to know. Once."

"Well, I, um, I ... I can't."

"Yeah."

"You have no idea--"

"Don't do that."

"What your friendship means to me."

"C'mon. I don't wanna do that. I want to be more than that."

"I can't. I'm really sorry if you misinterpreted things. It's probably my fault."

"Not your fault. I'm sorry I misinterpreted, uh, our friendship."

(Sorry about the music in the background. Couldn't find a clip without some music added.)

The nonverbal acting by John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer in that scene -- especially John Krasinski -- is among the best I have ever seen. Plus, it's written so realistically -- the way a real person would lay it all on the line. Every time I watch it, I feel like I'm watching real life, not a TV show. Absolutely perfect ending to one of the best seasons in TV history.

 

Just watched that. Goose-bump scene. That was right around the time I started watching regularly, and somehow, I had missed that moment.

 

True, thanks to the magic of youtube. Although I'm a little surprised at the focus on the poignant tearjerker type scenes. I was expecting more humor from this crowd.

 

No Trek listed yet, but I'll nominate this one, the ending to "City On The Edge Of Forever" which, with the Tribbles, are the best episodes.

 

Maybe I'm an insensitive bastard, but that's the one KRP episode I can do without, because it's NOT FUNNY. I always hated when sitcoms resort to that preachy "very special" episode shit. Their purpose is to be funny, the last thing I need is a damn sitcom trying to educate me about life and "real" issues.

That's part of what made Seinfeld, Cheers and the Simpsons great, they never took themselves seriously and resorted to that sanctimonious crap. And that's what turned MASH from a once great show into a nauseatingly insufferable show its last few years.

But it appears my view's in the minority around here.

 

I don't know if it's in the minority. I just know, growing up, the "preachiness" of M*A*S*H never knocked me over the head like it did a lot of people in here. It remained funny to me, and yet dealt with real-life situations and emotions.