After brief discussion, we have identified our top television show episodes of all time. This is based on some programs that are or were once our favorites, and those shows that stick out in our minds because they were hilarious, classy, memorable, strange, depraved, or just downright awesome. In alphabetical order — because how can you really rate them? — they are:
- Alias – “Facade” – Victor Garber interrogates Ricky Gervais by strangling him, then bringing him back to life with a defibrillator. Go Spy Daddy!
- Angel – “Smile Time” – Look at the frowny puppet face. And he gets his stuffing ripped out by a werewolf!
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer – “Once More With Feeling” – Yes, it put a song in our hearts. Or several.
- Firefly – “Jaynestown” – “This must be what going mad feels like.”
- Gilmore Girls – “You Jump, I Jump, Jack” – In omnia paratus!
- Heroes – “Five Years Gone” – The Hiro/Peter fight scene!
- How I Met Your Mother – “Robin Sparkles” – Seriously, let’s go to the ma-a-all!
- Lost – “Pilot” – Doesn’t it seem like there should be others? Or do we mean Others?
- Psych – “American Duos” – “I feel like an angel baby swaddled in a cocoon of cloud candy.”
- Veronica Mars – “Look Who’s Stalking” – Being ON THE LAMB?
