December Daily: TV episodes

[resonant]

celli - Top five TV episodes of all time

Oh, boy, this really does not play to my strengths. You'd be amazed how much TV I've forgotten. How about this: two episodes:

MASH -- Comrades in Arms 1 & 2. Hawkeye and Margaret get trapped in a hut together, and both of them are trying to live out a story, but their stories don't match, and they disappoint each other and enrage each other, and then they tell some truths (I vividly remember Margaret saying, "When you've lost sight of his photograph because you've covered it with kisses -- and then to find out you're 'sturdy.'"), and then at the end Margaret has a new story, which she plans to use to fool her cheating fiance.

Star Trek: The Next Generation -- The Measure of a Man. That moment when the researcher goes from calling Data 'it' to calling him 'he.' (Which also reminds me of him in another ep correcting Pulaski's pronunciation of 'Data': she says, "What's the difference?" and he says, "One is my name. The other is not.")

And three moments:

Harry Kim, on Star Trek:Voyager, this character who so far has basically seemed like what a cute popular boy would be if his entire school was made up of nerds -- sitting in the mess with disgraced pilot Tom Paris and saying, "I don't need anyone to pick my friends for me."

Fraser and Vecchio, doing ridiculous disco dances in due South's "Some Like It Red." That was the moment I trusted the show not to mine the "Fraser in a dress" premise for misogynistic cheap laughs, but instead to mine it for more universal laughs.

The very first time in Buffy that you saw the little blonde girl walking down the dark alley with someone dangerous following her -- and then she wisecracked at him and killed him. It was easy to get inured to it, but that first time was an incredible rush.






Upcoming prompts below the cut.




13 duffy - Top 5 OTPs in television or movies. Could be romantic or friendship. (Canon is NOT a requirement!)
14 minoanmiss - Top five poets? top five titles?
15 the_future_modernes - top five things you look forward to as you grow older
16 clevermanka - Five pieces of treasured advice
17 dine - Top five ice cream flavors
18 rhi Five favorite Christmas treats (cookies to make, mulled cider, Advent calendars, e.g.)
19 china_shop - Top five devices/appliances/bluetooth thingies/whatever :-)
20 dorinda - Top 5 comfort movies? Or comfort reads, if you'd rather
21 summerstorm - because it puts me in mind of blackjack, do you play any card or board games regularly? Or videogames? top 5 games?
22 summerstorm - top 5 poems?
23 fox - Top five Advent carols, maybe
24 fox - Top five Christmas carols
25 break for Christmas
26 ride_4ever - top 5 dS fanworks other than fic (arts, podfics, vids)
27 azurelunatic - 5 reasons you enjoy a party in the dark times of the year
28 james - Top 5 places in the past you would like to visit. Top 5 places in the present you would like to visit.
29 laurenthemself - Top five snack foods (sorry, the requested date got taken between the time you posted and the time I edited)
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31 mergatrude - what five complements/encouragements would you give your young self.

Comments

[resonant]

We watched it every week as a family when I was a kid. A big occasion, with popcorn. Mom was worried about the blood and the violence, which just made it better.

When I saw it in reruns I was surprised at how well some of it had held up.

[lunabee34]

We watched it in syndication; it came on every night after dinner.