What are the best TV scenes/moments of all time?

[diabeticman]

My wife happens to be watching West Wing on Netflix and it happens to be the Episode Two Catherdrals. Anyways after Bartlett does his rant in the church my wife turned to me and said that THAT has to be one of the best moments in TV history.


Got me wondering...

What do you think one of the best scenes or moments from TV history.

My wife also said at one time she absoutely loved this ending scene to a show I never saw. Newhart:

I personally will have to think of my own never thought about it.

[Chan790]

1. This one I've always particularly loved as a writer. Six Feet Under. FINALE. *Spoilers!*

It's the only way 6 Feet Under could have ended. Any other ending would have felt false and had too strong of an element of avoidance. The entire series was about death as a part of life and the process of living, not to be avoided but something without which living would have little meaning; to not have the series end on a 50-year-arc covering the deaths of the characters and how these deaths led into and contributed to the lives of those who survived them would have been a cop-out. It would have been dishonest to the viewers.

It's also hands-down one of the best dialogue-less scenes ever written and it makes me sad every time I see it but totally worth it.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Agreed. I watched that series and the ending was perfect.

I just sat and wept. It made me really think about how we are all just... human.

[Loryn]

27. I thought that ending was perfect.

I still tear up.

[bigwillq]

36. That song is so amazing.

I love Sia.

[Spike89]

40. Loved that show, as uneven as it was at times, they nailed the finale

My wife and I watched the first few (3) seasons as a marathon--about an episode a night--then watched on schedule until the finale. There may have been better shows over a five year period, but few have come close on delivering the perfect ending.

[1-Old-Man]

3. There used to be a TV show called "LA Law", and one called "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"

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At the end of one episode of a show called LA law one old geezer in the firm has, as I recall, just proposed marriage to a slightly younger partner. Its late at night and they are leaving the high-rise building the law firm is located in. She accepts and they turn to go into the elevator. The next scene hits you like a lightening bolt.

But then there is the scene in Mary Hartman Mary Hartman in which her somewhat drunk and drugged (cold medicine) husband drowns in a big bowl of chicken soup. He is in the background flailing around as in the foreground Mary chats with the neighbor who brought the soup to help him through a bout of the flu. It is utterly hilarious.

[solara]

32. Re: LA Law - I didn't watch the show but Rosalind's death was the topic

of conversation between most everyone I knew for months

ROSALIND SHAYS (Diana Muldaur), L.A. Law (1991)
The detested litigator hired to reverse falling revenues at powerhouse law firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney, and Kuzak, Roz Shays (Diana Muldaur) was eventually forced out in a battle that nearly destroyed the firm. But in the end, it was the firm's building that did her in: In a move only writer David E. Kelley could have orchestrated, Roz comically, and shockingly, stepped into an empty elevator shaft and plummeted to her death. —Ari Karpel


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[pinboy3niner]

4. Best sight gag ever:

Carol Burnett's 'Went With the Wind' skit...


"I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist it.”

[NCarolinawoman]

19. Yes!

[pinboy3niner]

21. Tim Conway did some hilarious bits on the show, too

This one is a classic...

[lastlib]

29. That guy was a comedy GENIUS!!

[Stuart G]

5. There was an I Love Lucy show...

Lucy is on some assembly line...and she is trying to do something., and the line speeds up., and she goes bananas.. It has been shown hundreds of times, maybe thousands..great moment.. I am sure a lot know this one.

[1-Old-Man]

6. It was pies hurling by if I remember correctly.

and wasn't Ethel somehow involved?

[Stuart G]

7. I recall she had a chef's hat on..

and she was eating a pie, and trying to keep up with the line...and this look on her face. What a talent.

[pinboy3niner]

8. It was candy--here's the scene...

[Stuart G]

9. Thanks for putting this up...

I laughed again. If you don't know this one...please watch. It is magic.
.thank you

[pinboy3niner]

12. Lucy's Vitameatavegamin commercial is also a classic...

[NCarolinawoman]

15. I remember something about Lucy stomping around in a vat of grapes, and

getting into a fight with the other lady "grape-stomper". They were supposedly in Italy.

I like all the ones that have been posted.

[pinboy3niner]

20. That's 'Lucy's Italian Movie'

Short version (8:38):
http://www.cbs.com/shows/i_love_lucy?pid=ETZhEKFHRhuE

Full episode (25:32):
http://www.cbs.com/shows/i_love_lucy?pid=ETZhEKFHRhuE

[magical thyme]

24. eating chocolates....she's supposed to be wrapping the candies

They speed up the line and she can't keep up. She's shoving them into her mouth, down her blouse

[cyberswede]

10. A little song...

A little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.

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[magical thyme]

25. just about every MTM episode was a classic....

Ted unable to add up a series of numbers in his head, until Murray tells him to put a $ sign in front, and he becomes a math whiz

Mary has insomnia and ends up with the news crew jammed into her bathroom checking up on her... while she's in the tub.

Betty White poisons the entire staff to get rid of her younger replacement model.

So many great, great moments in so many great episodes...

And what about the time Mary accidentally destroys all the famous people, pre-written obituary files, so has to write new ones pronto. Pulls an all-nigher, gets all punchy, and starts writing crazy ones. Next day a famous person dies, and Ted goes on the air... and reads it... (and a few decades later, in a real life imitates art episode, somebody releases the airplane crash press announcement with the names of the pilots and crew, and a real life Ted Baxter reads it on the air .)

[Brother Buzz]

11. WKRP "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" belongs on the short list

[HarveyDarkey]

13. That is my all time favorite too

With Lucy at the chocolate factory second.

[Brother Buzz]

16. This bit from The Honeymooners still cracks me up

I use Ed's money line on the golf course when my fellow Raccoons and I play the Mystic Knights of the Sea.

[HarveyDarkey]

18. I'd forgotten that one

still totally hilarious.

[LWolf]

34. Both of those.

[Rowdyboy]

14. Mary Tyler Moore Show: The funeral of Chuckles the Clown....

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mary+tyler+moore+clown+funeral&view=detail&mid=413EF575C41B6C9270AF413EF575C41B6C9270AF&first=0&FORM=NVPFVR


Carol Burnett in her Scarlett scene...

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=carol+burnett+scarlett+o%27hara&view=detail&mid=9AE3F2EE1267ED636ECA9AE3F2EE1267ED636ECA&first=0&FORM=NVPFVR

Julia Sugarbaker on the night the lights went out in Georgia....

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=julia+sugarbaker+tirades&view=detail&mid=7AA2D004A6F3C08F4F427AA2D004A6F3C08F4F42&first=0&FORM=NVPFVR

[Joe Shlabotnik]

17. It'd have been hillarious if only Nixon, Reagan and the like tuned out that night.

[davidpdx]

22. The Two Cathedrals episode was an intense one

There are many other scenes from shows that I could probably think of if I had the time. The last scene of MASH was probably one. Blair and Chuck finally getting married on Gossip Girl is another.

[sgsmith]

23. Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

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[OmahaBlueDog]

26. If I had to pick a M*A*S*H* moment, it's when Henry's death is announced.

From what I understand this scene was shot last and it was shot "cold", meaning Gary Burghoff wasn't given the script in advance of the scene and the cast wasn't told what Radar would say. To me, it's the most powerful scene in the series.

[lastlib]

30. ...and they had to keep operating after he told them....

A very powerful emotional scene!

[dr.strangelove]

38. The Cast knew - this was actually the second take of the scene

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/mash.asp

The cast was told before the scene was shot, but many crew members did not know. A boom mike incident led them to have to re-shoot it. They say the second take was better than the first. I would love to see the first.

[OmahaBlueDog]

41. oops!

I'd always heard that they hadn't known. Live & learn.

[dr.strangelove]

47. Its a pretty well known urban legend, I think most people think the urban legend is truthful

but they told the cast after the rest of the episode was shot, did a readthrough as they always do, then shot it twice.

[Generic Brad]

28. Jim's driving test on "Taxi"

This still cracks me up.

[RiffRandell]

42. That was such a great show. nt

[HappyMe]

31. Rose Nylund!

I love this character.

Back in St. Olaf.....

http://stolafstories.tumblr.com/

[LWolf]

35. I love all of them. nt

[Bucky]

33. The sniper episode of MASH when Radar dropped his towel & mooned America

No one was expecting THAT in 1978

[Bertha Venation]

37. Last scene of last episode of "Newhart" -- hilarious. n/t

[Corgigal]

39. that impacted me

[RebelOne]

43. Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965), also starring Jane Fonda.

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.

Lee Marvin played a total alcoholic. There was a scene in the movie where he was drunk as a skunk and walked into a funeral where there were candles burning and sang Happy Birthday to You. I think it was the funniest scene ever in a movie. You would have to see the movie to appreciate it.

[pinboy3niner]

44. One of the classic images from the movie...

[Scuba]

45. Great movie, thanks for reminding me.

[elleng]

46. The West Wing, 'Dr.' Laura: