Favorite Episode…?
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Davidux — 17 years ago(December 18, 2008 08:21 PM)
I think that "Most Improved Station" is my favourite episode, too. The scene in the bullpen with the entire cast bickering at one another is the funniest moment in the entire series. Carlson: "Now there's a woman who can disarm Patton in a second!". Les, rubbing his hands in glee, talking to Bailey and Jennifer: "Yes, get used to another's bodies!"
Good times. -
hyuen — 19 years ago(August 26, 2006 03:08 PM)
This show is definitely in the top 5 of my all-time favorite TV shows. I think I've watched every episode since it came on 1978 until it ended. The episodes are consistently so good it is not easy to pick out the best. I have to mention a few. I agree that Turkey Away is very funny and probably tops most viewers favorite. I like "The Consultant" which gives almost everyone a chance to play totally different characters. Another one of my favorites that no one has mentioned yet is the one Jennifer pretended married to Johnny because her childhood friend came to visit and claimed that she had promised to marry him when they grow up.
I believe that episode is the first, perhaps the only one, to mention Jennifer's middle name. One of the guys seemed a bit amazed that the initials for Jennifer Elizabeth Marlow is GEM. I think that man is a real life country music singer. At the end they helped him to record a song which begins with "You've got a knife, I've got a gun; lets have a little fun.".
The one that Big Guy used cocaine as foot powder is very funny. That man asked Andy what Carlson is going to do and Andy said "Carlson is no fool. He's going to put it on his foot!". -
this_is_a_dumb_screen_id — 19 years ago(September 13, 2006 10:52 PM)
I honestly don't know if it's possible to pick a "best" or a "favorite" episode when it comes to a show this ingenius, but a tentative list might include (in no particular order)
"Turkeys Away" ("HappyThanksgivingfrom WKR")
The Tornado Episode ("You're not supposed to move an injured person!")
The Pilot ("Booger!")
The Episode where Herb dresses up as the "WKRP Carp" ("On the air? I am the air! I am the wind")
And probably pretty much every other episode ever made. -
beckeis — 19 years ago(September 20, 2006 07:38 PM)
I also like the episode where Johnny has a lizard infestation
I think the funniest part is when Johnny gets an idea of romance himself, he and Bailey hold each other colse, and she shuts him down with a sudden "Goodnight." and goes to her room. She's completely oblvious that he had anything else in mind! -
cyberchic987 — 19 years ago(September 24, 2006 07:08 PM)
I like the episode where a state trooper gets Johnny and Venus drunk while on the air and tests their motor reflexes by having them both tap a bell after each drink to prove that alcohol slow thems down.
While they got drunker and drunker, Johnny got faster and faster, and Venus got silly. I don't know the name of that episode and I don't remember much about the rest of what was going on, but that one scene always sticks out in my mind when I think of that show.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this will be released on DVD, but I'm not gonna hold my breath. -
linda_hylke — 19 years ago(September 26, 2006 08:52 AM)
I love the episode where the guys decide to break into the photographer's office to steal the nude pictures he took of Jennifer without her knowledge. The scene where they're in the dark, trying to jimmy the lock and then just decide to bust through the window is a scene that makes me LAUGH MY ASS OFF every time I see it. I also LOVE it that when they get back to the station, Andy comes in and says that he's glad he had a spare pair of jeans in his office, meaning he pee'd himself when they heard the sirens in the photographer's office. It's not the funniest episode of WKRP, but the parts that are funny make me laugh harder than any other episode
By the way, my favorite line EVER from an episode is in the Hoyt Axton episode, when Johnny says, with full paranoia, "CHIPS ARE FALLING! CHIPS ARE FALLING!" We use that line all the time in our house when something is going wrong.