"With you all the way JH - and thanks for the reminder about the girls in the office 'going native'. Madness."

Yes but such good madness... We pretty much watched both series of Green Wing and the special back to back and it was such a heavy influence on the first draft of Strictly Love my editor made me cut loads out. She hadn't seen it then. She has now, and finally gets what I mean.

Other very very good Green Wing moments include:

The slave auction in series 1, Boyce/Statham realising they miss one another at the end of the special, Statham and Joanna running off naked into the sea, and Sue White giving birth to a lion cub...

Feel a Green Wing watching fest coming on!

With you all the way JH - and thanks for the reminder about the girls in the office 'going native'. Madness.

Thanks to Lisa's blog I remembered another favourite - actually it's several cos I got started on a Green Wing track, so that's all you're getting:

The moment when Mac and Caroline kiss outside the hospital

Sue White in pretty much any kind of ranting mood.

Joanna hiding in a Statham's cupboard saying it's all gone dwarf.

Karen learning to whistle through her nose when she has orgasms

When the girls in HR go native

and finally. My ultimate all time romantic TV moment ever...

When Caroline says to Mac You know what I mean, and he says, I've always known what you mean. Aaaahhh.

(Well I do write romantic fiction.)

That's pretty much what I meant.

Rev/Views: "Futurama - Jurassic Bark's closing moments. The episode's impact has blunted somewhat over time"

Also blunted by the ret-con of the scene in one of the Futurama movies...

Favourite TV Moment?

The closing scene of The Shield. Just amazing, it's rare that a TV show manages to deliver such a satisfying final scene.

Close behind it would be the closing montage from Six Feet Under. Wow that one is just hard to top.

Others which have stuck with me:

The Wire - Sobotka's meeting with The Greek at the end of season two. I also like Slim Charles and Cheese's scene in the series closing montage.

The Dead Zone - The entire of the episode Perspiration is amazing, but the final moment in it just crystallises the brilliance of the episode. Even if you've not seen the rest of the show or don't plan to that episode is a must watch imo.

The West Wing - The initial reveal as to the identity of PotUS.

The Office (USA) - Jim and Pam at the garage rest stop, the entire moment swings in the opposite way to what I was expecting.

Boston Legal - Jerry's breaking of the fourth wall by singing the theme song in 'Guantanamo by Trial'.

Futurama - Jurassic Bark's closing moments. The episode's impact has blunted somewhat over time, but as an ex-house mate of mine said 'I didn't expect a comedy cartoon to make me cry'.

Arrested Development - The Mr. F. reprise/reveal.

Seinfeld - Jerry's pitch perfect impression of Kramer in 'The Chicken Roaster'.

Spaced - The imaginary gunfighting.

Nip/Tuck - End of first season, where Escobar finds out who MacNamara/Troy have re sculpted him to look like.

The Green Wing - Sue White's improvised rant - the one that's so NSFW that I can't even mention the topic she talks about.

Lost: The opening crash scene where that guy gets sucked into the jet engine.

Red Dwarf - The big reveal in Back to Reality.

Doctor Who - Tennant's performance in Family of Blood (is it)? Where John Smith breaks down realising that he's going to die.

Ahhh! I forgot one, which I was going to add after the 'West Wing' moment -

In the 1st season finale of 'Slings & Arrows', when the young actor nails all of the checkpoints for playing 'Hamlet' in his debut. That actually had me thrusting my fist in the air and shouting "Yeah!"

Well I had a stab at it - I probably forgot loads which I will later remember though

http://iriswildthyme.blogspot.com/2009/05/favourite-telly-moments.html

I should really do one of Worst Telly Moments from Otherwise Decent Programs, since there's a surprising amount of those...

Okay, just to get some true TV moments out of the way:

The big good-bye scene in 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show': When Lou's voice cracks with "I treasure you people", the lump in my throat is almost unbearable.

From 'The West Wing': "I serve at the pleasure of the President." Always makes me want to join their merry band and throw my lot in with them.

'The Prisoner' - from the finale, but not the Big Reveal of Number One. It's the road trip afterwards as they head back to London.

'Lost' - from the first season finale as they launch Michael's boat. It's that swell of Michael Giacchino's music that sells it for me.

Thanks, Rob, for mentioning Uncle Bryn's reading of the letter.

Boy, I'm going for some sappy ones here. But if they can affect an old cynic like me, they have to be good.

It wouldn't be proper not to have a 'Who' mention here - "Blink", the goodbye to Billy scene leading into Sally galvanizing for action (again, music helps.) But for instant shock value, when she stands up from getting the key and the angel behind her has changed position.

And then my first exposure to 'Monty Python' courtesy of a US summer replacement show called 'Comedy World' - presented as a fake news program. The two sketches shown were of the flasher with the "Boo" sign and of the milkman enticed to come upstairs. At the time I wanted to see more - if there was the promise of seeing Carol Cleveland in lingerie again. Of course later that took a back seat to the off the wall humor.

Okay, here's my TRUE favorite TV moment - and it didn't even happen on TV!

July, 1969 - I'm at Boy Scout camp in Connecticut when one of the counselors stands up at dinner and makes an announcement:

"I have some very sad news to report...." And immediately my mind leaps to the moon landing which was going on but being at camp, I couldn't see it! I'm thinking the crew is all dead on the Moon.

"Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion is dead."

Probably my first case of a TV double-fake. Later it did hit me for what it was, as I liked that show 'Daktari'......

Actually, I have another one of similar nature. I was up at the Lake cottage with my family, back in the 80s, when I was watching an episode of 'Cagney & Lacey' with my Dad and one of my brothers.

It's the episode in which Cagney sparred with a famous hotel burglar named Grand; he even wrote a book about his exploits. You can probably guess the title of the book.....

Suddenly, my Dad turns to me and AJ and says, "I just want you guys to know that I love you."

Dad wasn't one of those touchy-feely new age Dads who would say something like that. We were caught off-guard by it and were only able to just mumble an "I love you" in return. But that's something I treasure and if TV sparked it, I'm grateful.

I've gone over that episode in my head ever since and hope to see it again someday, but I can't figure out what may have inspired him to say it.

The Wire - Well its a spoiler bit but I'll say when one character gets a hit put on him.

The Shield - Again a character gets killed and you can't believe the person who does it

Doctor Who -Loads. Each ep when the Dr Who credits and theme tune arrive (its a cheat but I really do love it)!

Also the Genesis of the Daleks when Davros mocks the Dr about being a killer. Earthshock as Adric pilots the ship to his doom.

Red Dwarf - Better than life, the whole god damn thing!

Deadwood - The fight scene between the two henchmen (I've yet to see anything as violent and disturbing on tv)

Dexter - First episode when he is handing out doughnuts. Looks down and says 'Hum an empty box.. just like me' Chilling.

Final one... Starfleet (ok its geeky I know) when the DiX finally confronts Commander MaCara and as she talks it simply smashes her with its fist. I laughed at the for weeks.

I really do watch too much tv.. ;)