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post #1 of 130
12/6/09 at 1:20am
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Let's do this shit:

"Matt, Matt, you're being glib. You don't understand the history of psychology. I do."

"Every man, at some point in his life, is going to lose a battle. He's going to fight, and he's going to lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself."

"This never happened. It will shock you how much this never happened."

Justin Kirk at the end of Angels in America: "You are beautiful creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More life. The great work begins."

Warren Zevon's last appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, 2002

"Get on with it, motherfuckers!"

"Don't tell me what I can't do!"

Jon Stewart and Letterman's 9/11 monologues. Stewart on Crossfire. Colbert at the correspondent's dinner ("Hindenberg.")

More to come as I think of it. Add your own!
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post #2 of 130
12/6/09 at 1:23am
Vic Mackey, laying it all out.

I guess all of The Wire.

And a number of Adama's speeches.
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post #3 of 130
12/6/09 at 1:25am
  • Michael Richards' post-meltdown apology on Letterman is the real standout for me. Just a disaster on every level. Because Michael Richards is so naturally hilarious, his awkward pause after "I said some pretty nasty things to some Afro-Americans" elicits only laughter from the confused studio audience, at which point Jerry Seinfeld snaps at them; "STOP LAUGHING, IT'S NOT FUNNY!"

  • The part in Nip/Tuck when Sean's girlfriend took a shit in his hot tub.

  • Rosie O'Donnell getting attacked by an eagle and crashing her hang-glider in Nip/Tuck.
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post #4 of 130
12/6/09 at 1:37am
Richard Hatch winning the original Survivor season.
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post #5 of 130
12/6/09 at 1:55am
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Originally Posted by Paul McCartney View Post
  • The part in Nip/Tuck when Sean's girlfriend took a shit in his hot tub.

  • Rosie O'Donnell getting attacked by an eagle and crashing her hang-glider in Nip/Tuck.
You're forgetting the doctor who fucks couches.
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post #6 of 130
12/6/09 at 1:57am
The very last minutes of the season three finales of Lost and Battlestar Galactica.
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post #7 of 130
12/6/09 at 2:19am
Doctor Who's "The Empty Child" and "Blink" episodes.

Simply for the heralding the return of the long-missed 'Doctor Who Child Safety Position' (ie - peering out from behind the couch).
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post #8 of 130
12/6/09 at 2:40am
The Kodak Carousel pitch and Don coming home to an empty house while "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" plays in Mad Men's "The Wheel".

In Deadwood:
Trixie opening her blouse while she marched to shoot Hearst.. That was some powerful shit.

Al's "give some back" speech.
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post #9 of 130
12/6/09 at 4:47am
Angel: "Let's go to work!" Cut to black.
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post #10 of 130
12/6/09 at 5:42am
Governor Jim McGreevy coming out of the closet on national TV: The shock of it was huge.

Will I am appearing via Hologram in November 2008. I thought we were in the 23rd century for a second.

Axel destroying the legacy of Guns and Roses at the VMA's.

Lems death on The Shield
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post #11 of 130
12/6/09 at 6:33am
Bullock hangs a horse thief in the opening scene of Deadwood.
"That's a deal, ya loud-mouth cocksucker!"
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post #12 of 130
12/6/09 at 5:49pm
The death toll from the 7 seasons of 24... and Jack's kill count.... and the cougar. Hell, 24 in general.

"I'm Rick James, bitch."

"Gonna have you naked by the end of this song" *rip* --> Janet Jackson's bare boob with ornate decorative accoutrements around the nipple seen around the world.

You all everybody... You all everybody!
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post #13 of 130
12/6/09 at 5:53pm
Obama at Grant Park 11/04/2008. That was a great moment. I had the pleasure of watching it at the house of my district's precinct captain with my coworkers.
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post #14 of 130
12/6/09 at 5:56pm
Jon Stewart announces Obama's victory during Comedy Central's election night coverage.

The reveal that we've been flashing forward during the Season 3 finale of Lost.

The Adama maneuver.
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post #15 of 130
12/6/09 at 6:40pm
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Originally Posted by Paul McCartney View Post
  • Michael Richards' post-meltdown apology on Letterman is the real standout for me. Just a disaster on every level. Because Michael Richards is so naturally hilarious, his awkward pause after "I said some pretty nasty things to some Afro-Americans" elicits only laughter from the confused studio audience, at which point Jerry Seinfeld snaps at them; "STOP LAUGHING, IT'S NOT FUNNY!"

  • The part in Nip/Tuck when Sean's girlfriend took a shit in his hot tub.

  • Rosie O'Donnell getting attacked by an eagle and crashing her hang-glider in Nip/Tuck.
All great, but I'm partial to when Christian fucked that HIV-positive lady so hard on a roof that she fell off the ledge and died.

My favorite Nip line of the decade was from Vanessa Redgrave this season:

"Was it me you thought of as you masturbated into my granddaughter's panties?"

Oh, and of course when Obama won.
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post #16 of 130
12/6/09 at 6:51pm
Charlie Crews finally out of prison, at the end.

Riggins saying goodbye to Street.

Smash leading the team cheer, one last time.
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post #17 of 130
12/6/09 at 6:53pm
Any of Danny DeVito's moments in this season's Sunny.

-The Trashman ".... and then, I start eatin garbage!"
-Frank emerging from the couch
-Frank's thought's on his burial "Whaddya mean 'bury me'? When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash!"

I'm convinced Danny DeVito is method acting at this point
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post #18 of 130
12/6/09 at 6:55pm
Alec Baldwin pretending to be Tracy Jordan's mother, father and Hispanic Neighbour in 30 Rock is probably one of my favourite comedy moments this decade.

Bunny Colvin's brown paper bag speech in Season 3 of the Wire is a great example of why I love that show so much.
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post #19 of 130
12/6/09 at 6:56pm
The last 2 hours of The Wire Season 3 are about the best 2 hours of TV I've seen.
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post #20 of 130
12/6/09 at 7:02pm
"Don't stop believin! Hold onto to that feelin! Streetlight, people, ohhhohh! Don't stop."
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post #21 of 130
12/6/09 at 7:07pm
The Shield season 7 - Claudette's rant about a young banger's use of the word "nigger".

"I wouldn't waste the word 'nigger' on someone as empty and Godless as you. Too many of our people have died being treated like 'niggers' for me to belittle their suffering."

Small scene but it was absolutely incendiary stuff thanks to the brilliant C. C. H. Pounder.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - "WILD CARD, BITCHES!"

The Wire - Bubbles entire story arch.

Matt Saracen's breakdown at the dinner table in the latest Friday Night Lights. Hell, every scene with Sarcen in that episode would place.
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post #22 of 130
12/6/09 at 7:09pm
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Originally Posted by Moltisanti View Post
All great, but I'm partial to when Christian fucked that HIV-positive lady so hard on a roof that she fell off the ledge and died.

My favorite Nip line of the decade was from Vanessa Redgrave this season:

"Was it me you thought of as you masturbated into my granddaughter's panties?"

Oh, and of course when Obama won.
Other magic Nip/Tuck moments:
  • When Christian identified that Famke Janssen was a post-op tranny by having sex with her, and realising thanks to his big horse cock that her vagina was not deep enough to be natural.

  • Matt setting himself on fire while freebasing.
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post #23 of 130
12/6/09 at 7:32pm
Matt's character throughout the entirety of Nip/Tuck, I don't think I can even remember all the shit they have put that character through but my favorites:
-His attempted self-circumcission
-His long fling with the post op tranny mentioned above
-Getting beat up and peed on by a gang of pre-op trannies/cross dressers
-Sexual relationship with his long lost half sister

From Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles:
-The lead singer from the band Garbage as a T-1000 type terminator.

From Lost:
-The ending of the episode "Walkabout" where it is revealed that John Locke was confined to a wheelchair before the plane crash.
-4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.... fuuuuuuuck
-Locke bangs on the mysterious Hatch in the jungle, "I'VE DONE EVERYTHING YOU WANTED ME TO DO... SO WHY... DID YOU DO THIS... TO MEEE!?"
*light then turns on in the hatch*
-Dr. Arzt and his rant about how unstable old dynamite is, followed by him exploding.
-"Well see, the thing is... We're gonna have to take the boy."
-The "Make your own kind of music" brilliant fakeout opening to season 2.
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post #24 of 130
12/6/09 at 7:32pm
"Lem I'm sorry".

"Bet That"

Finger guns on Spaced

Don Drapers Carousel Monologue

Jimmy McNulty crashes his car while driving drunk, gets out analyzes how it happened and recreates it.
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post #25 of 130
12/6/09 at 7:54pm
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Alec Baldwin pretending to be Tracy Jordan's mother, father and Hispanic Neighbour in 30 Rock is probably one of my favourite comedy moments this decade.
This and Spaceman in several appearances (like assisting Geiss in a coma).

Carnivale, the boy healing the little girl and taking out an entire crop in the last minutes of the premiere.

Threshold, Carla Gugino running in pijamas in the middle of the night.
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post #26 of 130
12/6/09 at 9:03pm
Arrested Development:


On Supernatural, giant teddy bear fails to commit suicide.

And, on a more serious note, "She said 'no', by the way".
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post #27 of 130
12/6/09 at 9:47pm
Lazy Sunday on SNL

Just about everything on The Wire and Friday Night Lights

"He killed my father! HE RAPED ME!" On Veronica Mars and Logan's brief look of rage where you think he might kill Beaver.

Gemma telling Clay and Jax about the rape on Sons of Anarchy.

Just about everything on The Shield. Too hard to choose.

Carmela and Tony's fight on The Soprano's in the season 4 episode Whitecaps. Also, all of College.


Rome: "THIRTEEN!"

Robin Sparkles.

"I'll take my chances." Season 2 finale of Burn Notice.

Chrismukkah on The O.C.

"I'm the crazy bitch around here!" Season 1 finale of Gossip Girl.

All of Alan Shore and Denny Crane's relationship on Boston Legal

Before it became a comedy: "I loved you the most." when Shawn found out Matt was Christian's son and the look of horrified realization on Christian's face on Nip/Tuck

"Black's only" Water fountain on Better off Ted.

Too many to count on Scrubs, but standouts are My Old Lady, My Lunch, My Fallen Idol, My Screwup. So many others.

"I know kung-fu" on Chuck.

Agrestic burns down on Weeds.

Doakes finds out who Dexter really is.
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post #28 of 130
12/6/09 at 9:52pm
Rome, penultimate episode of the first season.

THIRTEEN!!!
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post #29 of 130
12/6/09 at 10:03pm
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The Adama maneuver.
The atmospheric drop? Fuck yes.

And Rome's Thirteen call was fantastic.
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post #30 of 130
12/6/09 at 10:26pm
I agree with many of these- Dr Who Blink episode, the Library (spoilers!) episode and of course The Wire.

Something that I thought was great was on Psych: last season they made the theme song "Telemundo-ized" for an episode (spanish soap opera ep) and this season they had the theme song "Bollywood-ized".
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post #31 of 130
12/6/09 at 10:33pm
It's been ahwile since I've seen Rome. I know there were a lot of moments I thought were great... The first one that comes to mind is the scene where Pullo assassinates Cicero.
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post #32 of 130
12/6/09 at 10:54pm
Yea Rome's thirteen has to be my favorite, that was pure awesome.
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post #33 of 130
12/6/09 at 10:59pm
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Just about everything on The Shield. Too hard to choose.
You're right. "Your wife's pussy tasted like sweet butter" warms my heart though.

Also, Forrest Whitaker's character's "He's pissing on us!" rant about Mackey was pretty great.

Oh, and the fake name that Shane always used, "Cletus Van Damme"
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post #34 of 130
12/6/09 at 11:27pm
From West Wing

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Originally Posted by Jed Bartlet
You're a son of a bitch, you know that? She bought her first new car and you hit her with a drunk driver. What? Was that supposed to be funny? "You can't conceive, nor can I, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God," says Graham Greene. I don't know whose ass he was kissing there, 'cause I think you're just vindictive. What was Josh Lyman - a warning shot? That was my son. What did I ever do to yours but praise his glory and praise his name? There's a tropical storm that's gaining speed and power. They say we haven't had a storm this bad since you took out that tender ship of mine in the North Atlantic last year. Sixty-eight crew. You know what a tender ship does? Fixes the other ships. It doesn't even carry guns. It just goes around, fixes the other ships and delivers the mail. That's all it can do. Gratias tibi ago, domine. Yes, I lied. It was a sin. I've committed many sins. Have I displeased you, you feckless thug? 3.8 million new jobs, that wasn't good?

Bailed out Mexico. Increased foreign trade. Thirty million new acres of land for conservation. Put Mendoza on the bench. We're not fighting a war. I've raised three children. That's not enough to buy me out of the doghouse? Haec credam a deo pio, a deo iusto, a deo scito? Cruciatus in crucem. Trus in terra servus, nuntius fui, officium perfeci. Cruciatus in crucem. Eas in crucem.
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post #35 of 130
12/6/09 at 11:38pm
From The Wire:

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Originally Posted by Bunk Moreland
Bullshit, boy. No victim? I just came from Tosha's people, remember? All this death, you don't think it ripples out? You don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about. I was a few years ahead of you at Edmondson, but I know you remember the neighborhood, how it was. We had some bad boys, for real. Wasn't about guns so much as knowing what to do with your hands. Those boys could really rack. My father had me on the straight, but like any young man, I wanted to be hard too, so I'd turn up at all the house parties where the tough boys hung. Shit, they knew I wasn't one of them. Them hard cases would come up to me and say, "Go home, schoolboy, you don't belong here." Didn't realize at the time what they were doing for me. As rough as that neighborhood could be, we had us a community. Nobody, no victim, who didn't matter. And now all we got is bodies, and predatory motherfuckers like you. And out where that girl fell, I saw kids acting like Omar, calling you by name, glorifying your ass. Makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fell.
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post #36 of 130
12/7/09 at 12:09am
Mime Matt.
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post #37 of 130
12/7/09 at 12:25am
-Matt killing his cellmate after his cellmate became enraged at Matt for trying to slip medication into his Ho-Hos that would kill his sex drive. This after Matt's cellmate tried to force Matt to get Christian to give him breast implants.

-Dina Meyer as the lady afraid of getting breast cancer who cut her own tit off in the McNamara/Troy waiting room (Choice Christian quote from that one: "Those are two of the healthiest tits I've ever put my dick between.").
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post #38 of 130
12/7/09 at 12:30am
Slap bet!
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post #39 of 130
12/7/09 at 12:38am
Terri Bauer's death on 24

Buffy: The Body.

Comedy Central pussing out in the second part of Cartoon Wars on South Park

On the 08 election side of things: Stewart and Colbert both breaking character to get teary eyed telling the world Obama won.
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post #40 of 130
12/7/09 at 2:55am
The Federer/Nadal 2008 Wimbledon final.

Adrian Brody mouth-raping Halle Berry upon winning his Oscar.

U2's 9/11 tribute version of Where The Streets Have No Name during the 2002 Super Bowl halftime show.
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post #41 of 130
12/7/09 at 3:01am
* When Kimber loaned Sean a Realdoll created in her likeness, and then Sean had sex with it, and when Kimber came round to his house the next morning to pick it up he had forgotten to clean the cum out of it.

* Matt being alarmed to find that the post-op tranny he had picked up in a nightclub was actually a pre-op tranny, and savagely beating her.
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post #42 of 130
12/7/09 at 9:23am
-Many think it's one of the weaker seasons of the show, but the final couple minutes of the penultimate episode of Season 2 of The Wire gave me goosebumps and had me rabidly awating the finale.

-Mike Kellerman getting shot in the face in the series premiere of The Shield...I did not see that coming
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post #43 of 130
12/7/09 at 9:35am
The Columbia disaster. I remember watching it start as local coverage of a routine shuttle landing, and the slow realization that something terrible had happened as it became a network story.
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post #44 of 130
12/7/09 at 9:48am
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-Mike Kellerman getting shot in the face in the series premiere of The Shield...I did not see that coming
Also from the first episode of The Shield. Mackey walks into the interrogation room with a beat up paper bag and pulls out, a phone book, a box cutter and a bottle of whiskey.
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post #45 of 130
12/7/09 at 9:52am
Spooge's death on Breaking Bad.
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post #46 of 130
12/7/09 at 11:00am
I have to third the 'Thirteen' scene from Rome and add the "I am a son of Hades, I fuck Concord is her ass!"

As for BSG I'd add the entirety of '33' and the attack on the Cylon home base to the atmospheric drop.

'Fuck' from the Wire should of course be mentioned.

And Stewart's "Fuck all y'all" in response to Palin's speech about real Americans.
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post #47 of 130
12/7/09 at 11:15am
From THE SHIELD: Season 2 finale. With 'Overcome' by Live playing, Vic walks down and sees the huge pile of cash from the Money Train, and his look of greed quickly changes when he sees everyone else is shit-scared.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, last season finale:

Adama's last big speech before they storm the Cylon baseship looking for Hera:

"Be under no illusions! This is likely to be a one way trip!!!"

Season 2: When they find the temple of Athena and see the stars the way they look from Earth. Adama's wistful line about system M8: "That's a long way from here."" Although this is diminshed now that we realise the Earth they are talking about is a dead, nuked planet.
Also from Season 2, In THE FARM when Starbuck leaves Anders, thinking it's probably the last time she'll see him. Not realising he's a Cylon.

Tons of others.
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post #48 of 130
12/7/09 at 11:27am
Jed Bartlet verbally destroying a Conservative Christian homophobe at a meet-and-greet.
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post #49 of 130
12/7/09 at 12:13pm
Another one for Rome "Thirteen!"
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post #50 of 130
12/7/09 at 12:16pm
"Criss Angel is a Douchebag" (episode title from Supernatural)

"Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and welcome to Jackass"
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