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Welcome to Night Vale's Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink consider the Golden Age of Television, at its best and its worst. Each episode, we consider a classic show by watching first its worst IMDB user rated episode, and then its best. What can we learn by watching the best and worst of classic TV? Let's find out together.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1990-1996
148 episodes
Worst episode: s3 e16 Bundle of Joy
Best episode: s4 e24 Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse
In which Will Smith's tax bill results in him eventually becoming a movie star.
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The Sopranos
1999-2007
86 episodes
Middlest episode: s5 e4 All Happy Families
I'm just here having my normal snack of wine and peaches.
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The Sopranos
1999-2007
86 episodes
Worst episode: s4 e3 Christopher
Best episode: s5 e12 Long Term Parking
Because tramps like us, baby we were born to run
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Sex and the City
1998-2004
94 episodes
Middlest ep: s4 e16 Ring a Ding Ding
Don't be too proud to accept help!!
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Sex and the City
1998-2004
94 episodes
Worst episode: s3 e4 Boy Girl Boy Girl
Best episode: s4 e2 The Real Me
When kissing Alanis Morissette makes you biphobic.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987-1994
176 episodes
Middlest episode: s6 e6 True Q
There's a new Q in town, and she's a teen.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987-1994
176 episodes
Worst episode: s7 e14 Sub Rosa
Best episode: s5 ep 25 The Inner Light
Ghost sex in Space Scotland.
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The Simpsons
1989-
788 episodes
Middlest episode: s24 e13 Hardly Kirking
Eat my shorts again!
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The Simpsons
1989-
788 episodes
Worst episode: s23 e22 Lisa Goes Gaga
Best episode: s8 e23 Homer's Enemy
Eat my shorts!
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ER
1994-2009
331 episodes
Middlest Episode: s7 e17 Survival of the Fittest
No, where the HELL is George Clooney?
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ER
1994-2009
331 episodes
Worst episode: s12 e1 Cañon City
Best episode: s6 e14 All in the Family
Where the hell is George Clooney?
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MASH
1972-1983
251 episodes
Middlest Episode: s4 e16 Dear Ma
This one has feet stuff, but not that kind of feet stuff.
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MASH
1972-1983
251 episodes
Worst episode: s4 e18 Hawkeye
Best episode: s1 e15 Tuttle
Definitely the weirdest name for a tv theme song of all time!
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Law & Order
1990-
525 episodes and counting
Middlest episode: s9 e20 Empire
Julia Roberts???
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Law & Order
1990-
525 episodes and counting
Worst episode: s12 e8 The Fire This Time
Best episode: s6 e21 Pro Se
DUH DUH
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Seinfeld
1989-1998
172 episodes
Middlest episode: s6 ep15 The Beard
In which the show is not as homophobic as we were afraid it was going to be.
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Seinfeld
1989-1998
172 episodes
Worst episode: s3 e4 The Dog
Best episode: s4 e11 The Contest
This a show about something (that something is Seinfeld).
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1997-2003
145 episodes
Middlest episode: s5 e3 The Replacement
I'm seeing two Xanders here!
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1997-2003
145 episodes
Worst episode: s4 e18 Where The Wild Things Are
Best episode: S6 e7 Once More With Feeling
There's a monster at the end of this show.
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I Love Lucy
1951-1997
181 episodes
The Middlest Episode: S2 e26 The Ricardos change apartments
It's the same set with some decoration differences.
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Welcome to Night Vale's Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink consider the Golden Age of Television, at its best and its worst. Each episode, we consider a classic show by watching first its worst IMDB user rated episode, and then its best. What can we learn by watching the best and worst of classic TV? Let's find out together.
