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Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
But trust me, if you have a love of Mexican wrestling (not the lousy American stuff) and all the peculiar retro sci-fi junk that went with it (Seriously, luchadores were totally turned into comic book heroes in their day, fighting monsters and stuff -- kind of like what Americans were doing with Kiss in the '70s) and that particular sense of humor: Oh yes. There is much, much love.
I mean, you don't have to know anything about wrestling to love a line like "The devil has built a robot!"
And you don't have to know anything about wrestling to hate it, either. Just saying.
I was pissed off that I rushed home in order to see that episode.
I love it, myself. I even own the t-shirt. Signed by Bell.
This is the single best hour of television ever created. Bar none.
Firefly's Out of Gas. IJS.
So I gave in and rewatched "The Puppet Show" last night, and ... well ... it wasn't as bad as I remembered it. Of course, this is the only episode of "BtVS" that I've only watched once, I hated it so much the first time.
And I still hate the fucking dummy, particularly how lame he looks stabbing the demon. But you know, the rest of the episode makes up for a lot.
Firefly's Out of Gas. IJS.
Much as I love Joss and Tim, for me it'll always be "Jose Chung's From Outer Space". "Restless" gives it a good run for its money though.
No opinion on the worst Angel ep. Nothing really stands out for badness.
Buffy? Gotta be "Doublemeat Palace." Hands down.
I actually think The Body is better than Out of Gas, but I love them both.
I watched Doublemeat Palace the other day, and it wasn't as bad as all that. I think, though, it may have benefited from me watching episodes back to back. I also have a very wrong love for Season 6, so...
I think the best hour of Jossverse TV was "Home" but I think the best hour of TV I've seen this last 10-11 years was either "In My Time of Dying" or "What Is And What Should Never Be" even though both of those have the dubious honor of raising expectations on a show where you should have the bar set the same as you'd set it to, say a Keanu Reeves movie, so you can be pleasantly surprised when it's enjoyable.
(Best Hour of TV, 1980s US editon: that one Magnum PI that I can't remember the name of. Best Hour of TV, early to mid 90s editon: Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose. All rankings totally subjective, natch.)
Buffy? Gotta be "Doublemeat Palace." Hands down.
I give it a lot of points for showing just how awful the service industry can be. I'd nominate "Bad Eggs" for worst Buffy ep. Not even the Wild Bunch shout-out makes it worth watching again.