100 Favorite Shows: Episodes
“Success comes from standing out, not fitting in.”
Before we get into the conclusion, I thought I could list the episodes I took notes on for each show here, in case anyone wanted to revisit them:
11.22.63: “The Day in Question,” “The Rabbit Hole”
30 Rock: “Funcooker,” “Greenzo,” “Leap Day,” “Live Show,” “Rosemary’s Baby”
American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson: “100% Not Guilty,” “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia”
American Vandal: “Climax,” “The Dump”
The Americans: “The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears,” “START”
Animals.: “Rats (3),” “The Trial,” “Turkeys,” “Wallet”
Arrested Development: “Afternoon Delight,” “Good Grief,” “Meat the Veals,” “Pier Pressure,” “Pilot,” “S.O.B.s”
Atlanta: “Alligator Man,” “Barbershop,” “Champagne Papi,” “The Club,” “Teddy Perkins”
Avatar: The Last Airbender: “The Desert,” “The Tales of Ba Sing Se,” “Zuko Alone”
Band of Brothers: “Crossroads,” “Why We Fight”
Barry: “Loud, Fast, and Keep Going,” “Ronny/Lily”
Better Call Saul: “Bad Choice Road,” “Chicanery,” “Magic Man”
Big Little Lies: “Somebody’s Dead,” “You Get What You Need”
Black Mirror: “Be Right Back,” “San Junipero”
Bob’s Burgers: “Crawl Space,” “The Equestranauts,” “Fort Night,” “Li’l Hard Dad,” “O.T.: The Outside Toilet,” “Turkey in a Can”
BoJack Horseman: “Fish Out of Water,” “Let’s Find Out,” “Surprise!,” “That Went Well,” “Time’s Arrow,” “Underground,” “The View from Halfway Down”
Breaking Bad: “Face Off,” “Ozymandias”
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: “Adrian Pimento,” “The Box,” “Greg and Larry,” “HalloVeen,” “Honeymoon,” “Moo Moo”
Catastrophe: “Episode 4 (1),” “Episode 2 (3),” “Episode 6 (4)”
Cheers: “Bar Wars VII: The Naked Prey,” “Coach’s Daughter,” “I Do, Adieu,” “An Old-Fashioned Wedding,” “Thanksgiving Orphans”
Chuck: “Chuck Versus the Beard,” “Chuck Versus the Best Friend,” “Chuck Versus the Colonel,” “Chuck Versus the Goodbye”
Community: “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas,” “Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design,” “Cooperative Polygraphy,” “Curriculum Unavailable,” “Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television,” “Remedial Chaos Theory,” “Repilot”
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: “Josh’s Sister Is Getting Married!,” “Will Scarsdale Like Josh’s Shayna Punim?”
Curb Your Enthusiasm: “The Carpool Lane,” “The Doll,” “Elizabeth, Margaret, and Larry,” “Officer Krupke”
Deadwood: “Sold Under Sin,” “A Two-Headed Beast”
The Dick Van Dyke Show: “Coast to Coast Big Mouth,” “Never Bathe on Saturday”
Dickinson: “Alone I Cannot Be,” “There’s a Certain Slant of Light”
Drake & Josh: “Honor Council,” “Josh Is Done,” “Tree House”
DuckTales (1987 & 2017): “Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System!,” “Dinosaur Ducks,” “The Duck Knight Returns!,” “Where No Duck Has Gone Before”
Fargo: “The Castle,” “The Law of Non-Contradiction,” “Loplop,” “Morton’s Fork”
Fleabag: “Episode 1 (2),” “Episode 3 (1),” “Episode 6 (2)”
Flight of the Conchords: “Mugged,” “Unnatural Love”
Fosse/Verdon: “Glory,” “Providence”
Freaks and Geeks: “Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers,” “Discos and Dragons”
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: “I, Clownius,” “Papa’s Got a Brand New Excuse”
Friends: “The One with the Embryos,” “The One Where Everybody Finds Out,” “The One Where No One’s Ready,” “The One Where Ross Got High,” “The One Where Ross Is Fine,” “The One with the Unagi”
Full House: “The House Meets the Mouse,” “Silence Is Not Golden”
Galavant: “Dungeons and Dragon Lady,” “A New Season aka Suck It Cancellation Bear”
Game of Thrones: “The Climb,” “Kissed by Fire,” “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” “The Winds of Winter”
Gilmore Girls: “The Deer Hunters,” “The Lorelais’ First Day at Yale,” “They Shoot Gilmores, Don’t They?”
Girls: “Bad Friend,” “I Love You, Baby,” “The Panic in Central Park,” “What Will We Do This Time About Adam?”
Glee: “Dream On,” “Pilot,” “Swan Song”
GLOW: “The Dusty Spur,” “Outward Bound”
The Golden Girls: “Beauty and the Beast,” “Break In,” “The Way We Met”
The Good Place: “The Answer,” “Chidi Sees the Time-Knife,” “Michael’s Gambit,” “Rhonda, Diana, Jake, and Trent,” “Somewhere Else,” “Whenever You’re Ready”
Happy Days: “Guess Who’s Coming to Christmas,” “The Motorcycle,” “They Call It Potsie Love”
Happy Endings: “Blax, Snake, Home,” “The Butterfly Effect Effect,” “The Marry Prankster,” “The St. Valentine’s Day Maxssacre”
The Haunting of Hill House: “The Bent-Neck Lady,” “Two Storms”
High Fidelity: “Fun Rob,” “Uptown”
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: “The Auditions,” “Opening Night,” “The Tech Rehearsal,” “Thanksgiving”
House of Cards: “Chapter 14,” “Chapter 44”
How I Met Your Mother: “Come On,” “Doppelgangers,” “Ducky Tie,” “How Your Mother Met Me,” “Slapsgiving,” “Subway Wars,” “The Ten Sessions,” “The Time Travelers,” “Vesuvius”
I Love Lucy: “L.A. at Last,” “Lucy Does a TV Commercial,” “Lucy Goes to the Hospital,” “Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her,” “Paris at Last”
Insecure: “Hella Disrespectful,” “High-Like”
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: “Charlie Work,” “The Gang Buys a Boat,” “The Gang Gets Trapped,” “The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis,” “The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award,” “Mac and Dennis Move to the Suburbs”
The Larry Sanders Show: “Arthur After Hours,” “Everybody Loves Larry,” “Life Behind Larry”
Laverne & Shirley: “Look Before You Leap,” “Oh Hear the Angels’ Voices”
The Leftovers: “Don’t Be Ridiculous,” “It’s a Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt World”
Lost: “The Constant,” “Pilot,” “Through the Looking Glass”
Love: “Magic,” “Shrooms”
Love Life: “Augie Again,” “Claudia Hoffman”
Mad Men: “In Care Of,” “Person to Person,” “The Suitcase,” “Waterloo,” “The Wheel”
Man Seeking Woman: “Bagel,” “Gavel”
The Mandalorian: “Redemption,” “The Sin”
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: “Chuckles Bites the Dust,” “The Dinner Party”
M*A*S*H: “Death Takes a Holiday,” “Dreams,” “Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler,” “Sometimes You Hear the Bullet”
Master of None: “Amarsi Un Po,” “Parents,” “Thanksgiving,” “The Thief”
Mindhunter: “Episode 5 (2),” “Episode 10 (1)”
The Mindy Project: “Danny and Mindy,” “The Desert,” “Josh and Mindy’s Christmas Party,” “You’ve Got Sext”
Mrs. America: “Gloria,” “Phyllis”
Never Have I Ever: “Pilot,” “Said I’m Sorry”
New Girl: “Background Check,” “Cooler,” “The Landlord,” “Menzies,” “Quick Hardening Caulk,” “Spiderhunt”
Normal People: “Episode 8,” “Episode 11”
The Office (U.K.): “Charity,” “Christmas Party,” “Downsize”
The Office (U.S.): “Beach Games,” “The Deposition,” “Dinner Party,” “Diversity Day,” “Drug Testing,” “Goodbye, Michael,” “Initiation,” “The Injury,” “The Job,” “Niagara,” “Paper Airplane,” “Threat Level Midnight”
Parks and Recreation: “April and Andy’s Fancy Party,” “Bowling for Votes,” “The Comeback Kid,” “The Debate,” “The Fight,” “Leslie and Ron,” “Moving Up”
Party Down: “Celebrate Ricky Sargulesh,” “Steve Guttenberg’s Birthday”
Psych: “100 Clues,” “Dual Spires,” “Extradition: British Columbia,” “Lassie Jerky,” “Mr. Yin Presents”
Rugrats: “Kid TV,” “Mother’s Day,” “A Rugrats Chanukah”
Run: “Run,” “Trick”
Santa Clarita Diet: “The Queen of England,” “Strange or Just Inconsiderate?”
Scrubs: “My Fallen Idol,” “My Finale,” “My Lunch,” “My Overkill,” “My Screw-Up,” “My White Whale”
Seinfeld: “The Bubble Boy,” “The Caddy,” “The Chinese Restaurant,” “The Contest,” “The Marine Biologist,” “The Slicer,” “The Voice”
Silicon Valley: “Bad Money,” “Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency”
The Simpsons: “22 Short Films about Springfield,” “Cape Feare,” “HOMR,” “Last Exit to Springfield,” “Marge vs. the Monorail,” “Mother Simpson,” “Selma’s Choice,” “Treehouse of Horror I”
The Sopranos: “Long-Term Parking,” “Pine Barrens”
The Spoils of Babylon: “So Sweet the Bells,” “The War Within”
SpongeBob SquarePants: “Band Geeks,” “Christmas Who?,” “Dying for Pie,” “Pizza Delivery,” “Rock Bottom,” “Something Smells,” “Wet Painters”
Stranger Things: “The Battle of Starcourt,” “The Bite,” “Holly, Jolly”
Succession: “Prague,” “This Is Not for Tears”
True Detective: “Form and Void,” “Who Goes There”
The Twilight Zone: “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” “The Passersby”
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: “Kimmy’s in a Love Triangle!,” “Kimmy Meets a Drunk Lady!”
Veep: “Election Night,” “Kissing Your Sister,” “Library,” “Mother,” “Running”
The West Wing: “Let Bartlet Be Bartlet,” “Two Cathedrals”
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp: “Activities,” “Auditions,” “Day Is Done,” “Electro/City”
What We Do in the Shadows: “The Trial,” “On the Run”
Wilfred (U.S.): “Answers,” “Happiness,” “Identity,” “Questions,” “Resistance,” “Respect”
The Wire: “Clarifications,” “Middle Ground”
You’re the Worst: “Other Things You Could Be Doing,” “Spooky Sunday Funday”
