The Best Worst
Welcome to Night Vale's Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink consider the Golden Age of Television, at its best and its worst. Each episode, we consider a classic show by watching first its worst IMDB user rated episode, and then its best. What can we learn by watching the best and worst of classic TV? Let's find out together.
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August 11, 2026 • 10 mins
Glee
2009-2015
114 episodes
Middlest episode: S1.E14 ∙ Hell-O
Did you know that dolphins are just gay sharks
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August 4, 2026 • 50 mins
Glee
2009-2015
114 episodes
Worst episode: s5e8 Previously Unaired Christmas
Best episode: S5.E3 ∙ The Quarterback
Sorry Lea, lighting was a little off can we take that again from the top.
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July 28, 2026 • 8 mins
Girls
2012-2017
62 episodes
Middlest: s2e9 On All Fours
I think the title might be about sex stuff.
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July 21, 2026 • 49 mins
Girls
2012-2017
62 episodes
Worst episode: s6e10 latching
Best episode: S5.E6 ∙ The Panic in Central Park
Roy: Girls! It's about girls.
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July 14, 2026 • 10 mins
Doctor Who (2005)
2005-
175 episodes
Middlest Episode: s4 christmas special Voyage of the Damned
Angels are bad again.
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July 7, 2026 • 59 mins
Doctor Who (2005)
2005-
175 episodes
Worst episode: s12 e3 Orphan 55
Best episode: S3.E10 ∙ Blink
Blink is 19 years old. It can vote now.
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June 30, 2026 • 10 mins
No Reservations
2005-2012
144 episodes
Middlest episode: s2 e2 South Florida
In which Anthony makes a wish.
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June 23, 2026 • 59 mins
No Reservations
2005-2012
144 episodes
Worst episode: s3 e4 Namibia
Best episode: s2 e14 Beirut
Unwashed warthog rectum.
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June 16, 2026 • 6 mins
The Cosby Show
1984-1992
197 episodes
MIddlest epiosde: s1 e20 Back to the Track Jack
This time, it's Joseph who falls asleep.
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June 9, 2026 • 47 mins
The Cosby Show
1984-1992
197 episodes
Worst episode: s8 e22 You Can't Stop The Music
Best episode: S2.E22 ∙ Theo's Holiday
Hey so I don't know if you heard about this but
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June 2, 2026 • 22 mins
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Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
264 episodes
Middlest episode: s1 e 5 (or 7?) Lovers and Other Killers
We all want to be Jessica Fletcher's sugar baby.
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May 26, 2026 • 57 mins
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
264 episodes
Worst episode: s7 e18 Where Have You Gone, Billy Boy?
Best episode: S1.E18 ∙ Murder Takes the Bus
Being Old has never looked so good.
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May 19, 2026 • 7 mins
Roseanne
1988-1997
221 episodes
Middlest episode: s2 e16 Born to be Wild
Born to work with Steppenwolf and the Delacorte Theater
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May 12, 2026 • 48 mins
Roseanne
1988-1997
221 episodes
Worst episode: s9 e9 Roseambo
Best episode: s5 e13 Crime and Punishment/s5 e14 War and Peace
Roseanne is Good? Except for the worst episode, which is Bad.
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May 5, 2026 • 6 mins
Grey's Anatomy
2005-
462 episodes
Middlest episode: s6e4 Tainted Obligation
Yes we did watch the one with the bomb in the chest too.
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April 28, 2026 • 57 mins
Grey's Anatomy
2005-
462 episodes
Worst episode: s16 e16 Leave a Light On
Best episode:S6.E23 ∙ Sanctuary/ S6.E24 ∙ Death and All His Friends
Hear me get choked up describing a scene of television.
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April 21, 2026 • 8 mins
Scrubs
2001-2010
182 episodes
Middlest episode: s2 e10 My Monster
Peeps is on the fritz.
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April 14, 2026 • 60 mins
Scrubs
2001-2010
182 episodes
Worst episode: s9 e11 Our Dear Leaders
Best episode: S3.E14 ∙ My Screwup
We were wrong then, but we can do better now.
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April 7, 2026 • 11 mins
Dawson's Creek
1998-2003
128 episodes
Middlest episode: s6 e14 Clean and Sober
Apparently Jen once killed a girl???
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March 31, 2026 • 68 mins
Dawson's Creek
1998-2003
128 episodes
Worst episode: s6 e19 Lovelines
Best episode: s3 e23 True Love
The worst one was a hard watch this week.
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