30 Days of Telly Meme - Days 08 & 09
Still catching up:
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch:
Given how different everyone is, can there be such a thing? However, a show I think everyone should at least try Episode 1 of is Life on Mars. I'd call it the show of the decade without question save that it probably needed Spooks and Doctor Who paving the way for it, but still... for the UK, anyway.
It's different, strange as any TV show has ever been, scary, killingly funny and the cast are great, especially Philip Glenister. (The US remake has already proved the impossibility of recasting Gene Hunt.) (And it has this Camberwick Green moment, which is possibly one of my favourite things I've ever seen on TV ever.) I perfectly understand people finding it too peculiar, too British, too regional, but worth a shot. Yes.
Day 09 - Best scene ever:
What, just the one? I could do top twenty DW scenes and still kick myself for missing things, but off the top of my head, here are some, from different shows (& I couldn't find YouTube clips of any of them, and darn it, there used to be for The gateau from the Chateau!)
Serious - Doctor Who: Ace confronting the Doctor in Ghostlight. "We all have a universe of our own terrors to face..." (With so many First Doctor, Ian and Barbara scenes, Four in Genesis, with his two bits of wire, Two and Victoria in Tomb "That's the exciting thing..." and so many, many others, you could do a Meme of 30 Days of Great Doctor Who Scenes and still not be done.)
Honorable mention goes to both scenes between Ruth and Tom in Spooks 2.5 - the one in which she quotes Henry V at him: "Lay all your sorrows on the king... You don't get to do that. Leaders don't have feelings." and his reaction to her "I am my job!": "Oh, no Ruth, you're much more than that." Ruth: "No, I'm happy with that." Actually, can I count that whole episode as one scene? It sort of is, you know. And the whole thing is amazing. *cough* (Plus, Ruth and Harry's mixed messages telephone call in 4.5 is priceless in its own way.) And every moment with Jools Siviter in S1.
As I've already mentioned, Margaret's first sight of the mill and Thornton in North and South is stunning.
And then there are other TV shows, too. Where do you start, and where do you stop?
Humorous - Allo Allo: I'm sure I could think of something cooller, but for funny scenes, the build-up of silliness in this is hard to beat, and I love the scene between Capt Hans Geering (Sam Kelly) and cafe-owner Rene (Gordon Kaye) in which they discover that everyone has been trying to assassinate General von Klinkerhofen on the same day:
Geering: The Colonel gave you a pill. Where is it?
René:I have the pill in the till.
Geering: Where is the vine for the General?
René: It is here in this jug.
Geering: The pill contains a drug.
René: The pill in the till?
Geering: Take it and put it in there.
René: Put the drug in the jug?
Gruber: (Comes in with the Gateau) We nearly forgot the most important thing.
René: (panic) Oh, my God! The Gateau from the Chateau!
Geering: What about the Gateau from the Chateau?
René: It contains a bomb!!!
Geering: A bomb in the Gateau from the Chateau???
René: It is to blow up the General! You must not let anyone light that fuse.
Geering: But where is the fuse?
René: It is the candle with the handle.
Geering: You do not need to kill the General, we have already arranged to kill the General... Do you not see? That if we kill him with the pill from the till by making with it the drug in the jug, you need not light the Candle with handle on the Gateau from the Chateau!
René: Simple plots are always the best.
(Plus, Rene's eventual solution of tipping sand over the cake: "In memory of when the dear Kaiser was buried.")
With an honourable mention for the Press Gang S5 episode in which Colin goes on a date with Julie in an effort to learn how to be normal... and succeeds in disposing of all of her pets in five minutes, thanks to a passing bank note. (I could definitely do with a clip to explain that one.) And that wasn't even a comedy...
Also if I could count the whole part of Marooned from Red Dwarf with just Rimmer and Lister and everything about it, that would go here. But I think it comes outside the definition of 'scene'. And the bar tidy from the previous episode... That at least I managed to find a clip of here. If there's anyone uniniated into Red Dwarf, you need to remedy that one, too. Heh.
I'm going to stop or this will be very, very long.
Days of Telly Meme:
Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled: Blake's 7
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching: Spooks
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season): The West Wing
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever: Doctor Who
Day 05 - A show you hate: Big Brother/ Who Wants to be a millionaire?
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show: Robots of Death / Ghostlight
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show: 42.
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch: Life on Mars
Day 09 - Best scene ever: DW - Ghostlight "I can't stand burnt toast."
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series: BBC North & South
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch:
Given how different everyone is, can there be such a thing? However, a show I think everyone should at least try Episode 1 of is Life on Mars. I'd call it the show of the decade without question save that it probably needed Spooks and Doctor Who paving the way for it, but still... for the UK, anyway.
It's different, strange as any TV show has ever been, scary, killingly funny and the cast are great, especially Philip Glenister. (The US remake has already proved the impossibility of recasting Gene Hunt.) (And it has this Camberwick Green moment, which is possibly one of my favourite things I've ever seen on TV ever.) I perfectly understand people finding it too peculiar, too British, too regional, but worth a shot. Yes.
Day 09 - Best scene ever:
What, just the one? I could do top twenty DW scenes and still kick myself for missing things, but off the top of my head, here are some, from different shows (& I couldn't find YouTube clips of any of them, and darn it, there used to be for The gateau from the Chateau!)
Serious - Doctor Who: Ace confronting the Doctor in Ghostlight. "We all have a universe of our own terrors to face..." (With so many First Doctor, Ian and Barbara scenes, Four in Genesis, with his two bits of wire, Two and Victoria in Tomb "That's the exciting thing..." and so many, many others, you could do a Meme of 30 Days of Great Doctor Who Scenes and still not be done.)
Honorable mention goes to both scenes between Ruth and Tom in Spooks 2.5 - the one in which she quotes Henry V at him: "Lay all your sorrows on the king... You don't get to do that. Leaders don't have feelings." and his reaction to her "I am my job!": "Oh, no Ruth, you're much more than that." Ruth: "No, I'm happy with that." Actually, can I count that whole episode as one scene? It sort of is, you know. And the whole thing is amazing. *cough* (Plus, Ruth and Harry's mixed messages telephone call in 4.5 is priceless in its own way.) And every moment with Jools Siviter in S1.
As I've already mentioned, Margaret's first sight of the mill and Thornton in North and South is stunning.
And then there are other TV shows, too. Where do you start, and where do you stop?
Humorous - Allo Allo: I'm sure I could think of something cooller, but for funny scenes, the build-up of silliness in this is hard to beat, and I love the scene between Capt Hans Geering (Sam Kelly) and cafe-owner Rene (Gordon Kaye) in which they discover that everyone has been trying to assassinate General von Klinkerhofen on the same day:
Geering: The Colonel gave you a pill. Where is it?
René:I have the pill in the till.
Geering: Where is the vine for the General?
René: It is here in this jug.
Geering: The pill contains a drug.
René: The pill in the till?
Geering: Take it and put it in there.
René: Put the drug in the jug?
Gruber: (Comes in with the Gateau) We nearly forgot the most important thing.
René: (panic) Oh, my God! The Gateau from the Chateau!
Geering: What about the Gateau from the Chateau?
René: It contains a bomb!!!
Geering: A bomb in the Gateau from the Chateau???
René: It is to blow up the General! You must not let anyone light that fuse.
Geering: But where is the fuse?
René: It is the candle with the handle.
Geering: You do not need to kill the General, we have already arranged to kill the General... Do you not see? That if we kill him with the pill from the till by making with it the drug in the jug, you need not light the Candle with handle on the Gateau from the Chateau!
René: Simple plots are always the best.
(Plus, Rene's eventual solution of tipping sand over the cake: "In memory of when the dear Kaiser was buried.")
With an honourable mention for the Press Gang S5 episode in which Colin goes on a date with Julie in an effort to learn how to be normal... and succeeds in disposing of all of her pets in five minutes, thanks to a passing bank note. (I could definitely do with a clip to explain that one.) And that wasn't even a comedy...
Also if I could count the whole part of Marooned from Red Dwarf with just Rimmer and Lister and everything about it, that would go here. But I think it comes outside the definition of 'scene'. And the bar tidy from the previous episode... That at least I managed to find a clip of here. If there's anyone uniniated into Red Dwarf, you need to remedy that one, too. Heh.
I'm going to stop or this will be very, very long.
Days of Telly Meme:
Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled: Blake's 7
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching: Spooks
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season): The West Wing
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever: Doctor Who
Day 05 - A show you hate: Big Brother/ Who Wants to be a millionaire?
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show: Robots of Death / Ghostlight
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show: 42.
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch: Life on Mars
Day 09 - Best scene ever: DW - Ghostlight "I can't stand burnt toast."
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series: BBC North & South
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death