Inspired by this brief conversation:
I’d love to watch The Office (US) again but I don’t necessarily want to watch all nine seasons. Same goes for Bojack Horseman and a few others.
Not sure how feasible this is but feel free to create a ‘Best Of’ list for a show you like - maybe with brief (spoiler-free or spoiler-blurred) description.
Ooh, I’ll start with the US Office then!
The Office is the first one I thought of too
Scott’s Tot’s is a brave choice.
Regularly quote this song at home 
the first eight episodes of Cracker until
Jimmy jumps off the hotel
and then turn it off.
this is basically how I got into Seinfeld - grabbed a collection of some key episodes, stuck it on while me and my friend tidied up our final uni flat before moving out, made us instant fans
Excellent list, this
The Pitch might not have been in there originally, but think it’s a good one to include looking back
other standouts I’d consider would be The Square (Elaine has bathroom woes) and The Sponge (Elaine has contraception woes) and The Big Salad (Elaine has salad woes)
The Race would have to be in it for me. Best episode. Obviously lots of good ones in the above selection.
Big fan of The Jimmy, might swap The Maestro for that
Isn’t that about eighteen episodes in?
I vividly remember visiting my brother and convincing him to watch it. I pointed out that my favourite character was bilborough and then at the end of that episode Robert Carlyle stabbed him to death.
not even one i remember, but then there are too many with standout moments to really keep track of
It’s the one with the guy who sells the weird basketball shoes that refers to himself in the third person
Someone do one for Frasier
A Bob’s Burgers primer
S1E10: Burger Wars - Bob has to drum up business before his rival, Jimmy Pesto, can take over the restaurant’s lease.
S2E2: Bob Day Afternoon - Bob and Linda decide to take an opportunity to promote their restaurant when a bank robbery/hostage situation explodes across the street, but the robber, a low-level criminal named Mickey ends up taking Bob as a hostage.
S3E6: The Deepening - In this parody of Jaws , Mr. Fischoeder buys a mechanical shark that was used in a movie shot at Wonder Wharf. Teddy, who worked on the movie when he was young, has to battle the shark when it threatens the town’s safety.
S3E12: Broadcast Wagstaff School News - Tina vows to find the “mad pooper” running rampant at the children’s school. Meanwhile, Gene starts dressing and acting like Bob.
S4E17: The Equestranauts - Tina attends her first Equestra-con, a convention based on her favorite animated pony show, The Equestranauts . To her surprise, many of the other attendees are middle-aged men called “Equesticles”, one of whom swindles Tina out of a rare doll. Desperate to see it again, Tina turns to Bob for help.
S5E1: Work Hard Or Die Trying, Girl - Gene’s musical based on Die Hard isn’t selected as the school’s fall play, so he, with help from Louise, stages a production to run on the same night as Wagstaff Middle School’s performance of a Working Girl -inspired musical that features Tina.
S5E12: The Millie-churian Candidate - Tina and Louise volunteer to run Jimmy, Jr.'s class president campaign in order to prevent Millie from winning, and ruining the school. Meanwhile, Bob becomes obsessed with a $300 knife.
S6E19: Glued, Where’s My Bob? - Gene, Louise, and Tina’s goop war causes Bob to end up in a sticky situation, where he learns that a journalist is coming to the restaurant to do a story on it, and the whole town ends up getting involved.
S7E15: Ain’t Miss Debatin’ - Tina unexpectedly finds success and a relationship with Henry when she is recruited by Wagstaff’s debate team. Meanwhile, Gene and Louise convince Bob and Linda to help fund their stop-motion film.
S13E10: The Plight Before Christmas - It’s a Christmas crisis, as Bob and Linda try to do the seemingly impossible - attend all three of their kids’ end-of-year talent shows, which are all happening at the same time in widely-spread locations. Can the Belcher parents pull off a Yuletide miracle?
Wow, this is heavily front-loaded. If you’re coming to Bob’s Burgers fresh this is a good overview but don’t be put off by the lack of later episodes. From series seven onwards its got into a comfortable regularity where there aren’t too many massively brilliant episodes but the bar remains very high indeed.
Edit: it also misses out my favourite episode - S3E10 ‘Mother Daughter Razor Lazor’ which for some reason other people don’t like nearly as much as I do
ah I have the DVDs where the broadcast hours (45 min with ads removed) are compiled into ‘episodes’ around the story, which makes more sense. but technically yes, you are right.
I think the bit where
Jimmy goes to see Bilborough’s wife and she’s now married to his brother, also played by Chris Ecclestone
is absolutely haunting
this is such a good episode of anything
Also has the best b-story of any programme ever broadcast:
PEEP SHOW
S1 Ep4 - Mark Makes a Friend - A great entry point and you get to the core of all characters, as well as a razor sharp look at a Certain Kind of Englishman, and it’s very memeable
S2 Ep1- Dance Class- Some of us are so rainbow rhythms.
S2 Ep4 - University Challenge - It’s a caper, but it’s heartfelt, and it’s very close to the bone to anyone ever in a band
S3 Ep 6 - Shrooming - Incredible depiction of recreational substance abuse merging with how people who are ill should not go to work.
S4 Ep 5 - The Holiday - The most bizarre and eventually depraved ‘‘stag do’’ ever committed to film.
S4 Ep6 - The Wedding- An episode that feels more like a proper ending even though it went on 4 more seasons. It’s got everything, a dissection of English politeness, crushing sorrow, pissing yourself. It’s a classic.
S5 Ep 6- Mark’s Women - Jeremy joins a cult.
S7 Ep 4- the Netherzone - One of those episodes where it’s almost all in 1 place, a locked hall, except then at the end you’re trapped in a shower.
S7 Ep 9 - Season’s Beatings - the only Christmas episode, and it’s a corker. Mark’s dad a tour de force for one episode only.
S9 Ep 3 - Threeism - Just the most disastrous dinner party, incredible