15 Classic TV Episodes We Are Still Thinking About

With so many great dramas and sitcoms over the decades, it’s not always easy to remember them all. But we dove into some of television’s greatest series to choose the outstanding episodes, and even moments, that we all remember and love. There’s the funny: Carol Burnett descending a grand staircase as Starlet O’Hara wearing an even grander gown that looks suspiciously like a window curtain on The Carol Burnett Show; Mary Richards laughing uncontrollably at a funeral for Chuckles the Clown on The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Sammy Davis Jr. planting a kiss on Archie Bunker on All in the Family; Seinfeld‘s Soup Nazi yelling “No soup for you!” There’s the dramatic: young Laura Ingalls’ painful regret for not praying for a sick brother on Little House on the Prairie and Sgt. Phil Esterhaus unexpectedly passing away on Hill Street Blues. And then there are some of the most-watched episodes ever, like when we all found out who shot J.R. on Dallas and when the doctors and nurses of M*A*S*H left Korea for good.