December 4, 2025 • 19 mins
On the Wednesday December 3, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...
- We run through a list of some of the best TV episodes of all time!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Not just the best, but the best of the best
of the best of the best.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's one more thing. I'm one more.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
So.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The folks at the Ringer dot com whatever that is,
came out with a list of the greatest TV episodes
All Time a few years ago. I think it was
as far back as twenty eighteen actually, and they decided
to update that it's the greatest episodes of all time,
not the greatest shows of all time, although obviously it's
a similar.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Question of all time or of like this century, or
of all I'm pretty sure it's going back to I
Love Lucy.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I Well, gosh, I don't you know, I haven't gone
through the entire list because they go at the top
one hundred. Among their rules were only one episode per show,
so you don't have like seventeen different sopranos episodes for instance. Anyway,
you know, I was tim to go off on a tangent,
and I think I will. It's funny how Hansen and
(01:02):
a lot of people say the sopranos. Even though I've
been singing choral music since I was a little kid,
I've never heard anybody refer to the high voice as
the soprano. It's always soprano, and in the show he
fing calls himself Tony soprano.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
So why do you say soprano? Are you trying to
sound sophisticated or what? They just explain it to me.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I don't know, but this is a perfectly normal thing
to be angry about. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I watched a great episode of The Flintsteins last night
where Fred and Bartie we're arguing over this this giant
dinosaur steak Scenefeld. Very funny, right, Jerry Seenfeld, He is
so funny. Yes, All in the Family starring Archie Bounquet,
Oh so groundbreaking, totally reasonably right, right, So we can't
(01:54):
go with all one hundred obviously. The most surprising thing
I will tell you this is, and we will get
to the top ten to a second because we've got
a little audio to go with each one, is the
number of shows I haven't watched at all that made
it into the top twenty.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So we'll just zip through those number two.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Just thinking about that, my son is like obsessed with
House right now?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Now?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
When was that quite a few years ago? He loves it,
can't wait to watch the next couple of episodes every night.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It's a great show. You know, there's a quirky doctor drama.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
There's time fillers that are still out there that will
take care of the rest of my wife, probably since
I haven't seen most game. Oh, you'll definitely get the
idea by the end of this list, So number twenty
we'll just do the top twenty is an episode called
b An of Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The Donald Glover Vehicle.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The most memorial line from this episode the price is
on the can though need illegal context for that. One
nineteen and there's a great deal of commentary explaining why
the series was groundbreaking, or the particular episode was so important,
or change TV is a New Family Jersey Shore season one,
(03:04):
episode one, and it talks about its effect on reality
TV and how the idea of it wasn't bringing a
bunch of different people together. Was bringing a bunch of
people from a subculture together and everybody watching them and
saying I'll be damned.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Right and that. Yeah, that led to so many different
examples of that sort of thing. Sure, I still quote
that show.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
You know, I never watched it because I thought it
would drain my IQ from my head. But we all
have our guilty pleasures.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, the Paully from the show.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Every time the cabs would show up, he'd.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Go the CAB's here.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Is that anytime a cab would come.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So this is gonna take a long time to get through.
But anyway, what's the most memorable line from the episode.
The shock of the Jersey Shore premiere was so profound
that many one line utterances have gone on to live
an infamy. Snooky arrived declaring the potties here, Jenny aka
Jwow explained herself by way of a mission statement, after
(04:05):
I have sex with a guy, I will rip their
heads off. And then the one line that had to
be discussed at nauseum was Mike Sorrentino explaining.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
My abs are so ripped. It's called the situation.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Oh Roy, that's where that came from.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Okay, number eighteen, What the hell did I do?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Is the name of the episode from the Jinx That
was the series about that Robert Durst murderer. Oh right,
who was miked up when he admitted I killed them
all of course, Yes, yeah, craziness Number seventeen, episode three
of Adolescents. I read a review that really said it
(04:45):
was kind of woke in Lefty in Illinois. You and
I haven't gone there. It's on Netflix right now. Sixteen
two Cathedrals from The West Wing. Judy and I watched
that show years and years ago, absolutely loved it.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Do you think that would hold up? I never saw
a minute of The West Wing.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah it would. I mean it's yeah, I think it would.
I haven't watched it in a long time. But as they
point out, it's for all the melodrama, Shakespearean expression of doubt, arrogance, guilt,
and anger from one of TV's last great non anti
heroes of the century, Jed Bartlett, who was a sincere man.
(05:26):
I disagreed with this politics on the show, but you know,
he seemed to be a decent enough film.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
That was Charlie Sheen's old man.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Indeed, yeah, some call him Martin Sheen. Let's see number
thirty to fifteen Losing My Religion from Grey's Anatomy. Interesting.
Never watched that one. Number fourteen One Way Out and.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I had a lot of girlfriends. I love Grey's Anatomy
and that was very popular.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Number fourteen one Way Out from Andor, which I'm about
to watch. I think, oh, that's season one, the last
episode of season one. I think I loved and Dora,
I'm about to watch it for the third time.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It's crazy, flee.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It's the Star Wars vehicle about an obscure revolutionary and
common people fighting back against fascism. Actually, I mean it's
all a metaphor for totalitarianism.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And then they end number thirteen the Way we Are
from Severance, which I loved. My wife got tired of.
It was too weird and mind bending, for that was
the your You go into work and you go into
an elevator.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Your mind is blanked and there's work.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You as you come out of work gets blanked again,
and there's not at work you and not at work
you has no awareness nor memory of what happened at work,
and vice versa.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, it's all about the nature of identity and it's
really good. It is a pardon me mind fuck, But
I can't enjoy that Number twelve the pilot from the
OC huh never saw number eleven this extraordinary being from
(07:08):
Watchman season one. I read the graphic novel. I have
not seen the book better than everyone. Yes, thank you
for acknowledging that. Finally, here's your top ten. This is
the final four episode from Survivor season one.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Oh wow, I feel we all went to the island's
spirits that we have learned to come to know. So
let it be in the end the way mother nature
intended it to be.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
For the snake to eat.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
The wrap.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
And then they hurled them into a volcano. What happened?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Then? That's my recollection of it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yes, number nine, I think a Survivor kicked off lots
of that kind of shows. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
that was an US hit back in the day.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Do they give a year for that? I don't remember
the year.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Because I remember our old news person long before Katy Green,
Jamie Coffee was trying to get on that show way
back in the day.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh that's right, I'd forgotten about that.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, number nine the episode middle Ground from the third
season of The Wire.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You still don't get it too, huh? Seen a bounch
of money, bro, the boy gave you up, that's right,
and we had to touch his asthlee though.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I would definitely want to watch a wire. So many
people I like loved The Wire. That's about what h
catching drug kingpins or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh yeah, it's about the drug trade and uh and
gritty urban life in Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Number eight Connor's wedding from the fourth season of Succession
is dead.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Okay, so we're gonna go see him?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Do you want to?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Shouldn't we?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean, it's not gonna get angry if we don't.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Some fine atmospheric sound there. Wow, that was really compelling.
Is that the show that's about Ruper Burndock's family?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Kind of yes?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Loosely yes, indeed. Number seven greatest TV episode of all time?
Episode two point four of Chappelle's show, season two.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
What are the five fingers side of the face? What?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I great?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That's right? The fire? What did the fingers say to
the face?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Slap, followed by Chappelle cementing his legend by declaring, for
the tenth time of the skit, I'm Rick James bitch.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Chappelle is such a weird dude. That's before he went
crazy right and disappeared to another country and then came
back and went on Oprah and stuff. He is a strange, strange,
creative dude.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And just when I thought he was a hero of
truth telling him the rest of it, he went off
with his go to Saudi Arabia saying you can tell
him she was more here than in the US Jackass
episode number six, the awesome Mandius episode of Breaking Bad.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He want me to beg the smartest guy I ever met.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You're too stupid to see.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
He made up his mind ten minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Did everybody here watch Breaking That?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
But me?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I'm watching it again right now. Oh, it's such a
good show. I watched the finale first saw when the
finale are right, I'll watch that. I had no idea
what was going on because I've never seen it botally, And.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Then I know I know the one person on earth
any trailer.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Then years later, when my wife dump me, I started
watching the show because I needed something to do, and
I got about halfway through the first season.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I just don't have time as a father to.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Get into it.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
But it's fantastic. Absolutely loved it. Same with Better Call Saul.
Just both those shows fantastic. I'll get to them someday.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
All right, here's a question that's way out of date,
but the episodes that focused on their domestic domestics drive
Do you eat that like your vegetables or do you
skip it? Do you push it to the side of
the plate and go to the next episode. Oh maybe,
maybe exactly, it's eating your vigtuals. All right, here's your
(11:56):
top five number five, fab weird, quirky The Pine Barons
episode of The Sopranos.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
The guy you're looking for is an ex command though
he killed sixteen chech and rebel single handed. Get the
fuck out of here. Nice. He was with the Interior Ministry. Guys,
so I've got a Russian greenbow.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Ray.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
This guy cannot come back to tell this story, do
you understand?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Oh, now he doesn't get to the next best line
where he tells he tells him. Yeah, he's some sort
of interior decorator or something.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, oh god, that was funny.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
The Sopranos is so freaking good. I mean, it's just
mind boggling how good that show was.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, direct you that direct episode directed by Steve Buscemi,
by the way, Yeah, yeah, it was wild and offbeat
in the different pace at the time.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I'm kind of controversial, but.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
So Chris Christopher, So Pollie says to Christopher when Polly
gets off the phone. There, he says to Christopher, Yeah,
you won't believe this. He was a Green Beret. He's
an interior decorator or something, and Christopher says that's something.
His house looked like shit.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
He s what the interior department.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Oh never, oh fu interior decorated His.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
House looked like shit.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And then they mentioned the Soprano's Funniest Hour wasn't directed
by the Coen Brothers, but feels like it could have been.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And it was actually Steve be sent me as I mentioned,
uh four who goes there?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
From True Detective season one, which a lot of my
friends raved about.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Tell so.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It was a long tracking shot that's quite a second
scene or storm through the Stash house raids sequence staged
in a single wandering take by Kerrie Fukaga and a cinematographer. Anyway, Uh, yeah,
I've heard over and over again the True Detective season
(14:20):
one was really really good.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, I'll watch that someday too.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Hanson says, you got to see that scene. It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I believe it.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, I'm trying to what was the True Detective? Which
was the show with Woody Harrelson and uh.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Who the hecke wasn't it? Michael shut up? No, Woody Harrelson.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Oh and uh all right, all right, all right, that's
the show, right.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Oh it was okay, I did see that, all right,
that's funny. Oh, let's well it did. It was just
years ago. Let's see all right.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Number three, Uh, the Reins of Castamir came a throne
season three.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
My king has married and I owe my new queen
and wedding gift.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, that's your red wedding episode. Ooh o bloody, it's
so shocking.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I never saw a moment of Game of Thrones either,
but I look forward to that watching that someday.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
There's dragons in it.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Number two episodes.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I've seen a lot of blues clues during that period.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Mmm, couple of little kids. What's your greatest episode of
blues clues when the.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Male shows up? Always liked that.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh, those are always good.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Katie spit, Katie spit or coffee god.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Let's see episode number two the Suitcase from another show
I was acutely aware of, but never watch more than
like twenty minutes of Mad Men season four.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
That's the way it works. There are no credits on commercials.
You got the klio. It's your job. I give you money,
you give me ideas. You never say thank you. That's
what the money is for. You're young, you will get
your recognition. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I never really got into that show. I saw the
first episode though, and I remember what a great hook
that was. Like the opening part of the first episode.
I don't know if you remember it, but it's it
starts basically with him having this sex scene with this
hot chicken everything like that, and you're making all these
assumptions about what this show is about. And then he
walks into his house with a different woman who is
his wife, and his kids and everything like that, and
you're like, Okay, what's going on here? That was one
(16:48):
of the great hook pull you in, make you wonder
what's coming next openings I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
That's number two, number one. The name of the episodisode
is the Constant, And they had lost me as a
hardcore fan by now. It's from the fourth season of Lost.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I've been on an island. That copenny? Is that really cute? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yes, it's me.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You believe me, You still care about me? Large trying
to hear those two are back together.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Unfortunately, you'd reach me easier with like the fourth episode
from two thousand and two, s Face the Nation would
be more likely if I watched it, but so everybody
loved Lost. Everybody I know didn't like the way it ended.
Did they write themselves into a corner on Lost? Like,
did they start with an idea and then didn't know
how to end it?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Or interestingly, well yes, interestingly they make the point that
most of the main characters were shoved way to the side,
and it was about those two character in the final season.
I didn't get there because it was the sort of tantalizing,
just out of reach, weird mystery, what's really going on here?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
What?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Episode after episode after episode? They were never pay it
off it like it at all.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Yeah. I think the best TV shows of all time
have tended to be where they've got the whole arc
of the story figured out ahead of time, an as
opposed to you get picked up for a season and
you think, what are we gonna do next year?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
For as screwed up as Britain is in a lot
of ways, that's that's really the model is they will
have a limited run series and it will be eight episodes,
and maybe they will do another season, but it will
be an eight episode arc, as opposed to the never
ending Hey we.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Got renewed again?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
We ought to string along the dumb bastards for other
twelve episodes.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Well, well, and you can understand why, you know, why
would you want to give up the money the original
Office which became however, many seasons of the Office we
had in the United States. It was only two seasons
in Great Britain, and Ricky Gervais had a story arc
with an ending, and it was fantastic. But I could
understand why, you know, he or whoever was paying and
would want to keep it going if you had a hit,
(19:11):
can't can't one of the characters have a baby and
we keep this going as opposed to just end it.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And if people want to watch it, that's your answer. Sure,
I mean that is your answer. I might prefer the
other thing because of autistic.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
First, you read this book as established earlier.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Exactly, we didn't have this trouble on Blues Clues. You
always kind of kind of knew what was going to happen.
Oh yeah, the end was the end exactly, I was
according to Jim on that list. I'm just curious.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Prominantly featured in the thirties, Michael, you just missed it.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Well, I guess that's it.
Not just the best, but the best of the best
of the best of the best.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's one more thing. I'm one more.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
So.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The folks at the Ringer dot com whatever that is,
came out with a list of the greatest TV episodes
All Time a few years ago. I think it was
as far back as twenty eighteen actually, and they decided
to update that it's the greatest episodes of all time,
not the greatest shows of all time, although obviously it's
a similar.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Question of all time or of like this century, or
of all I'm pretty sure it's going back to I
Love Lucy.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I Well, gosh, I don't you know, I haven't gone
through the entire list because they go at the top
one hundred. Among their rules were only one episode per show,
so you don't have like seventeen different sopranos episodes for instance. Anyway,
you know, I was tim to go off on a tangent,
and I think I will. It's funny how Hansen and
(01:02):
a lot of people say the sopranos. Even though I've
been singing choral music since I was a little kid,
I've never heard anybody refer to the high voice as
the soprano. It's always soprano, and in the show he
fing calls himself Tony soprano.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
So why do you say soprano? Are you trying to
sound sophisticated or what? They just explain it to me.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I don't know, but this is a perfectly normal thing
to be angry about. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I watched a great episode of The Flintsteins last night
where Fred and Bartie we're arguing over this this giant
dinosaur steak Scenefeld. Very funny, right, Jerry Seenfeld, He is
so funny. Yes, All in the Family starring Archie Bounquet,
Oh so groundbreaking, totally reasonably right, right, So we can't
(01:54):
go with all one hundred obviously. The most surprising thing
I will tell you this is, and we will get
to the top ten to a second because we've got
a little audio to go with each one, is the
number of shows I haven't watched at all that made
it into the top twenty.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So we'll just zip through those number two.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Just thinking about that, my son is like obsessed with
House right now?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Now?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
When was that quite a few years ago? He loves it,
can't wait to watch the next couple of episodes every night.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It's a great show. You know, there's a quirky doctor drama.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
There's time fillers that are still out there that will
take care of the rest of my wife, probably since
I haven't seen most game. Oh, you'll definitely get the
idea by the end of this list, So number twenty
we'll just do the top twenty is an episode called
b An of Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The Donald Glover Vehicle.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The most memorial line from this episode the price is
on the can though need illegal context for that. One
nineteen and there's a great deal of commentary explaining why
the series was groundbreaking, or the particular episode was so important,
or change TV is a New Family Jersey Shore season one,
(03:04):
episode one, and it talks about its effect on reality
TV and how the idea of it wasn't bringing a
bunch of different people together. Was bringing a bunch of
people from a subculture together and everybody watching them and
saying I'll be damned.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Right and that. Yeah, that led to so many different
examples of that sort of thing. Sure, I still quote
that show.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
You know, I never watched it because I thought it
would drain my IQ from my head. But we all
have our guilty pleasures.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, the Paully from the show.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Every time the cabs would show up, he'd.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Go the CAB's here.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Is that anytime a cab would come.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So this is gonna take a long time to get through.
But anyway, what's the most memorable line from the episode.
The shock of the Jersey Shore premiere was so profound
that many one line utterances have gone on to live
an infamy. Snooky arrived declaring the potties here, Jenny aka
Jwow explained herself by way of a mission statement, after
(04:05):
I have sex with a guy, I will rip their
heads off. And then the one line that had to
be discussed at nauseum was Mike Sorrentino explaining.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
My abs are so ripped. It's called the situation.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Oh Roy, that's where that came from.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Okay, number eighteen, What the hell did I do?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Is the name of the episode from the Jinx That
was the series about that Robert Durst murderer. Oh right,
who was miked up when he admitted I killed them
all of course, Yes, yeah, craziness Number seventeen, episode three
of Adolescents. I read a review that really said it
(04:45):
was kind of woke in Lefty in Illinois. You and
I haven't gone there. It's on Netflix right now. Sixteen
two Cathedrals from The West Wing. Judy and I watched
that show years and years ago, absolutely loved it.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Do you think that would hold up? I never saw
a minute of The West Wing.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah it would. I mean it's yeah, I think it would.
I haven't watched it in a long time. But as they
point out, it's for all the melodrama, Shakespearean expression of doubt, arrogance, guilt,
and anger from one of TV's last great non anti
heroes of the century, Jed Bartlett, who was a sincere man.
(05:26):
I disagreed with this politics on the show, but you know,
he seemed to be a decent enough film.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
That was Charlie Sheen's old man.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Indeed, yeah, some call him Martin Sheen. Let's see number
thirty to fifteen Losing My Religion from Grey's Anatomy. Interesting.
Never watched that one. Number fourteen One Way Out and.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I had a lot of girlfriends. I love Grey's Anatomy
and that was very popular.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Number fourteen one Way Out from Andor, which I'm about
to watch. I think, oh, that's season one, the last
episode of season one. I think I loved and Dora,
I'm about to watch it for the third time.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It's crazy, flee.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It's the Star Wars vehicle about an obscure revolutionary and
common people fighting back against fascism. Actually, I mean it's
all a metaphor for totalitarianism.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And then they end number thirteen the Way we Are
from Severance, which I loved. My wife got tired of.
It was too weird and mind bending, for that was
the your You go into work and you go into
an elevator.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Your mind is blanked and there's work.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You as you come out of work gets blanked again,
and there's not at work you and not at work
you has no awareness nor memory of what happened at work,
and vice versa.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, it's all about the nature of identity and it's
really good. It is a pardon me mind fuck, But
I can't enjoy that Number twelve the pilot from the
OC huh never saw number eleven this extraordinary being from
(07:08):
Watchman season one. I read the graphic novel. I have
not seen the book better than everyone. Yes, thank you
for acknowledging that. Finally, here's your top ten. This is
the final four episode from Survivor season one.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Oh wow, I feel we all went to the island's
spirits that we have learned to come to know. So
let it be in the end the way mother nature
intended it to be.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
For the snake to eat.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
The wrap.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
And then they hurled them into a volcano. What happened?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Then? That's my recollection of it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yes, number nine, I think a Survivor kicked off lots
of that kind of shows. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
that was an US hit back in the day.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Do they give a year for that? I don't remember
the year.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Because I remember our old news person long before Katy Green,
Jamie Coffee was trying to get on that show way
back in the day.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh that's right, I'd forgotten about that.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, number nine the episode middle Ground from the third
season of The Wire.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You still don't get it too, huh? Seen a bounch
of money, bro, the boy gave you up, that's right,
and we had to touch his asthlee though.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I would definitely want to watch a wire. So many
people I like loved The Wire. That's about what h
catching drug kingpins or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh yeah, it's about the drug trade and uh and
gritty urban life in Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Number eight Connor's wedding from the fourth season of Succession
is dead.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Okay, so we're gonna go see him?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Do you want to?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Shouldn't we?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean, it's not gonna get angry if we don't.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Some fine atmospheric sound there. Wow, that was really compelling.
Is that the show that's about Ruper Burndock's family?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Kind of yes?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Loosely yes, indeed. Number seven greatest TV episode of all time?
Episode two point four of Chappelle's show, season two.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
What are the five fingers side of the face? What?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I great?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That's right? The fire? What did the fingers say to
the face?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Slap, followed by Chappelle cementing his legend by declaring, for
the tenth time of the skit, I'm Rick James bitch.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Chappelle is such a weird dude. That's before he went
crazy right and disappeared to another country and then came
back and went on Oprah and stuff. He is a strange, strange,
creative dude.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And just when I thought he was a hero of
truth telling him the rest of it, he went off
with his go to Saudi Arabia saying you can tell
him she was more here than in the US Jackass
episode number six, the awesome Mandius episode of Breaking Bad.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He want me to beg the smartest guy I ever met.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You're too stupid to see.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
He made up his mind ten minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Did everybody here watch Breaking That?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
But me?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I'm watching it again right now. Oh, it's such a
good show. I watched the finale first saw when the
finale are right, I'll watch that. I had no idea
what was going on because I've never seen it botally, And.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Then I know I know the one person on earth
any trailer.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Then years later, when my wife dump me, I started
watching the show because I needed something to do, and
I got about halfway through the first season.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I just don't have time as a father to.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Get into it.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
But it's fantastic. Absolutely loved it. Same with Better Call Saul.
Just both those shows fantastic. I'll get to them someday.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
All right, here's a question that's way out of date,
but the episodes that focused on their domestic domestics drive
Do you eat that like your vegetables or do you
skip it? Do you push it to the side of
the plate and go to the next episode. Oh maybe,
maybe exactly, it's eating your vigtuals. All right, here's your
(11:56):
top five number five, fab weird, quirky The Pine Barons
episode of The Sopranos.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
The guy you're looking for is an ex command though
he killed sixteen chech and rebel single handed. Get the
fuck out of here. Nice. He was with the Interior Ministry. Guys,
so I've got a Russian greenbow.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Ray.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
This guy cannot come back to tell this story, do
you understand?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Oh, now he doesn't get to the next best line
where he tells he tells him. Yeah, he's some sort
of interior decorator or something.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, oh god, that was funny.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
The Sopranos is so freaking good. I mean, it's just
mind boggling how good that show was.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, direct you that direct episode directed by Steve Buscemi,
by the way, Yeah, yeah, it was wild and offbeat
in the different pace at the time.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I'm kind of controversial, but.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
So Chris Christopher, So Pollie says to Christopher when Polly
gets off the phone. There, he says to Christopher, Yeah,
you won't believe this. He was a Green Beret. He's
an interior decorator or something, and Christopher says that's something.
His house looked like shit.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
He s what the interior department.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Oh never, oh fu interior decorated His.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
House looked like shit.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And then they mentioned the Soprano's Funniest Hour wasn't directed
by the Coen Brothers, but feels like it could have been.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And it was actually Steve be sent me as I mentioned,
uh four who goes there?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
From True Detective season one, which a lot of my
friends raved about.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Tell so.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It was a long tracking shot that's quite a second
scene or storm through the Stash house raids sequence staged
in a single wandering take by Kerrie Fukaga and a cinematographer. Anyway, Uh, yeah,
I've heard over and over again the True Detective season
(14:20):
one was really really good.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, I'll watch that someday too.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Hanson says, you got to see that scene. It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I believe it.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, I'm trying to what was the True Detective? Which
was the show with Woody Harrelson and uh.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Who the hecke wasn't it? Michael shut up? No, Woody Harrelson.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Oh and uh all right, all right, all right, that's
the show, right.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Oh it was okay, I did see that, all right,
that's funny. Oh, let's well it did. It was just
years ago. Let's see all right.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Number three, Uh, the Reins of Castamir came a throne
season three.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
My king has married and I owe my new queen
and wedding gift.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, that's your red wedding episode. Ooh o bloody, it's
so shocking.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I never saw a moment of Game of Thrones either,
but I look forward to that watching that someday.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
There's dragons in it.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Number two episodes.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I've seen a lot of blues clues during that period.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Mmm, couple of little kids. What's your greatest episode of
blues clues when the.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Male shows up? Always liked that.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh, those are always good.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Katie spit, Katie spit or coffee god.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Let's see episode number two the Suitcase from another show
I was acutely aware of, but never watch more than
like twenty minutes of Mad Men season four.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
That's the way it works. There are no credits on commercials.
You got the klio. It's your job. I give you money,
you give me ideas. You never say thank you. That's
what the money is for. You're young, you will get
your recognition. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I never really got into that show. I saw the
first episode though, and I remember what a great hook
that was. Like the opening part of the first episode.
I don't know if you remember it, but it's it
starts basically with him having this sex scene with this
hot chicken everything like that, and you're making all these
assumptions about what this show is about. And then he
walks into his house with a different woman who is
his wife, and his kids and everything like that, and
you're like, Okay, what's going on here? That was one
(16:48):
of the great hook pull you in, make you wonder
what's coming next openings I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
That's number two, number one. The name of the episodisode
is the Constant, And they had lost me as a
hardcore fan by now. It's from the fourth season of Lost.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I've been on an island. That copenny? Is that really cute? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yes, it's me.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You believe me, You still care about me? Large trying
to hear those two are back together.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Unfortunately, you'd reach me easier with like the fourth episode
from two thousand and two, s Face the Nation would
be more likely if I watched it, but so everybody
loved Lost. Everybody I know didn't like the way it ended.
Did they write themselves into a corner on Lost? Like,
did they start with an idea and then didn't know
how to end it?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Or interestingly, well yes, interestingly they make the point that
most of the main characters were shoved way to the side,
and it was about those two character in the final season.
I didn't get there because it was the sort of tantalizing,
just out of reach, weird mystery, what's really going on here?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
What?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Episode after episode after episode? They were never pay it
off it like it at all.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Yeah. I think the best TV shows of all time
have tended to be where they've got the whole arc
of the story figured out ahead of time, an as
opposed to you get picked up for a season and
you think, what are we gonna do next year?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
For as screwed up as Britain is in a lot
of ways, that's that's really the model is they will
have a limited run series and it will be eight episodes,
and maybe they will do another season, but it will
be an eight episode arc, as opposed to the never
ending Hey we.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Got renewed again?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
We ought to string along the dumb bastards for other
twelve episodes.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Well, well, and you can understand why, you know, why
would you want to give up the money the original
Office which became however, many seasons of the Office we
had in the United States. It was only two seasons
in Great Britain, and Ricky Gervais had a story arc
with an ending, and it was fantastic. But I could
understand why, you know, he or whoever was paying and
would want to keep it going if you had a hit,
(19:11):
can't can't one of the characters have a baby and
we keep this going as opposed to just end it.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And if people want to watch it, that's your answer. Sure,
I mean that is your answer. I might prefer the
other thing because of autistic.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
First, you read this book as established earlier.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Exactly, we didn't have this trouble on Blues Clues. You
always kind of kind of knew what was going to happen.
Oh yeah, the end was the end exactly, I was
according to Jim on that list. I'm just curious.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Prominantly featured in the thirties, Michael, you just missed it.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Well, I guess that's it.
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