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So many shows, so much ''awesome''! |
So many shows, so much ''awesome''! |
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== Live-Action TV shows with their own Awesome pages == |
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See the list at [[:Category:Live-Action TV/Awesome]]. |
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== Pages that have not yet been confirmed to be in [[:Category:Live-Action TV/Awesome]] == |
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* [[Faerie Tale Theatre/Awesome|Faerie Tale Theatre]] |
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* [[Falling Skies/Awesome|Falling Skies]] |
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* [[Family Feud/Awesome|Family Feud]] |
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* [[Family Matters/Awesome|Family Matters]] |
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* [[Farscape/Awesome|Farscape]] |
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* [[Fawlty Towers/Awesome|Fawlty Towers]] |
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* [[The Finder/Awesome|The Finder]] |
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* [[Firefly (TV series)/Awesome|Firefly]] |
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* [[Fraggle Rock/Awesome|Fraggle Rock]] |
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* [[Frasier/Awesome|Frasier]] |
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* [[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air/Awesome|The Fresh Prince of Bel Air]] |
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* [[Friday Night Lights (TV series)/Awesome|Friday Night Lights]] |
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* [[Friends/Awesome|Friends]] |
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* [[Fringe/Awesome|Fringe]] |
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* [[The Fugitive (film)/Awesome|The Fugitive]] |
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* [[Game of Thrones/Awesome|Game of Thrones]] |
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* [[Gilmore Girls/Awesome|Gilmore Girls]] |
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* [[Glee/Awesome|Glee]] |
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* [[Grimm (TV)/Awesome|Grimm]] |
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* [[The Golden Girls/Awesome|The Golden Girls]] |
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* [[The Goodies/Awesome|The Goodies]] |
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* [[Gossip Girl/Awesome|Gossip Girl]] |
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* [[Grey's Anatomy/Awesome|Greys Anatomy]] |
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* [[Happy Days/Awesome|Happy Days]] |
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* [[Harper's Island/Awesome|Harpers Island]] |
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* [[Have I Got News for You/Awesome|Have I Got News for You]] |
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* [[Haven/Awesome|Haven]] |
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* [[Hawaii Five-O/Awesome|Hawaii Five O]] |
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* [[A Heart of Gold/Awesome|A Heart of Gold]] |
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* [[Heroes (TV series)/Awesome|Heroes]] |
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* [[Highway to Heaven/Awesome|Highway to Heaven]] |
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* [[Hogan's Heroes/Awesome|Hogan's Heroes]] |
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* [[The Hollywood Squares/Awesome|The Hollywood Squares]] |
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* [[Home Improvement (TV series)/Awesome|Home Improvement]] |
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* [[Homicide: Life on the Street/Awesome|Homicide Life On the Street]] |
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* [[Hornblower (TV series)/Awesome|Hornblower]] |
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* [[House (TV series)/Awesome|House]] |
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* [[How I Met Your Mother/Awesome|How I Met Your Mother]] |
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* [[How to Rock/Awesome|How to Rock]] |
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== Other Shows == |
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Don't forget to check the [[:Category:Live-Action TV/Awesome|index]] first and make sure the show you're adding doesn't have its own page. |
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* [[Kaboul Kitchen/Awesome|Kaboul Kitchen]] |
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* [[Kaamelott/Awesome|Kaamelott]] |
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* [[Kaiketsu Zubat/Awesome|Kaiketsu Zubat]] |
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* [[Kamen Rider/Awesome|Kamen Rider]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider Black/Awesome|Kamen Rider Black]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider Blade/Awesome|Kamen Rider Blade]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider Decade/Awesome|Kamen Rider Decade]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider Den-O/Awesome|Kamen Rider Den-O]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider Double/Awesome|Kamen Rider Double]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight/Awesome|Kamen Rider Dragon Knight]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider Faiz/Awesome|Kamen Rider Faiz]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider Fourze/Awesome|Kamen Rider Fourze]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider Kiva/Awesome|Kamen Rider Kiva]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider Kuuga/Awesome|Kamen Rider Kuuga]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider OOO/Awesome|Kamen Rider OOO]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider Ryuki/Awesome|Kamen Rider Ryuki]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider Super-1/Awesome|Kamen Rider Super-1]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider Stronger/Awesome|Kamen Rider Stronger]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider the First/Awesome|Kamen Rider the First]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider the Next/Awesome|Kamen Rider the Next]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider V 3/Awesome|Kamen Rider V 3]] |
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** [[Kamen Rider X/Awesome|Kamen Rider X]] |
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* [[Kitchen Nightmares/Awesome|Kitchen Nightmares]] |
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* [[Smallville/Awesome|Smallville]] |
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* [[Space: Above and Beyond/Awesome|Space Above and Beyond]] |
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* [[Spaced/Awesome|Spaced]] |
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* [[Spartacus: Blood and Sand/Awesome|Spartacus Blood and Sand]] |
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* [[Stargate SG-1/Awesome|Stargate SG-1]] |
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** [[Stargate Atlantis/Awesome|Stargate Atlantis]] |
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** [[Stargate Universe/Awesome|Stargate Universe]] |
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** [[The Ark of Truth/Awesome|The Ark of Truth]] |
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** [[Stargate: Continuum/Awesome|Stargate Continuum]] |
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* [[Star Trek/Awesome|Star Trek]] |
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** [[Star Trek: The Original Series/Awesome|Star Trek the Original Series]] |
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** [[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Awesome|Star Trek the Next Generation]] |
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** [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine/Awesome|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]] |
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** [[Star Trek: Voyager/Awesome|Star Trek Voyager]] |
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** [[Star Trek: Enterprise/Awesome|Star Trek Enterprise]] |
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* [[The Star Wars Holiday Special/Awesome|The Star Wars Holiday Special]] |
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* [[State of Play (TV series)/Awesome|State of Play]] |
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* [[Still Game/Awesome|Still Game]] |
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* [[Suits/Awesome|Suits]] |
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* [[Supernatural (Anime)/Awesome|Supernatural]] |
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* [[Survivor (TV series)/Awesome|Survivor]] |
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'''MOD:''' Better yet, put the example on the show's Awesome subpage directly instead of here. Create a subpage if you have to ([[All The Tropes:Works Pages Are a Free Launch|Works Pages Are a Free Launch]], after all), and include [[:Category:Live-Action TV/Awesome]] so that it will show up on the index. |
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=== ''Super Sentai'' === |
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* [[Super Sentai/Awesome|Super Sentai]] |
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** [[Dai Sentai Goggle Five/Awesome|Dai Sentai Goggle Five]] |
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** [[Choushinsei Flashman/Awesome|Choushinsei Flashman]] |
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** [[Choujuu Sentai Liveman/Awesome|Choujuu Sentai Liveman]] |
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** [[Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman/Awesome|Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman]] |
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** [[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger/Awesome|Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger]] |
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** [[Gosei Sentai Dairanger/Awesome|Gosei Sentai Dairanger]] |
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** [[Gekisou Sentai Carranger/Awesome|Gekisou Sentai Carranger]] |
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** [[Denji Sentai Megaranger/Awesome|Denji Sentai Megaranger]] |
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** [[Rescue Sentai Go Go Five/Awesome|Rescue Sentai Go Go Five]] |
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** [[Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger/Awesome|Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger]] |
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** [[Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger/Awesome|Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger]] |
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** [[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger/Awesome|Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]] |
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** [[Mahou Sentai Magiranger/Awesome|Mahou Sentai Magiranger]] |
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** [[Juken Sentai Gekiranger/Awesome|Juken Sentai Gekiranger]] |
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** [[Engine Sentai Go-onger/Awesome|Engine Sentai Go-onger]] |
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** [[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger/Awesome|Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]] |
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** [[Tensou Sentai Goseiger/Awesome|Tensou Sentai Goseiger]] |
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** [[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger/Awesome|Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]] |
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** [[Tokumei Sentai Gobusters/Awesome|Tokumei Sentai Gobusters]] |
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** [[Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger/Awesome|Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger]] |
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===Other Shows=== |
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* ''[[Mind of Mencia]]'': Say what you will about [[Carlos Mencia]]. However, he had his moment when he describes his encounter with a Bin Laden supporter who tried to threaten him out of doing middle eastern jokes. His response: http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/1037365820 {{dead link}} |
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* [[Live Action TV/Awesome/Other Shows|Other Shows]] |
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* A Crowning Moment of Awesome and Sexy in the short-lived ''Grace and Favour'' (also known as ''Are You Being Served Again?'') happens in the final episode when the beautiful but naive farmer's daughter, Mavis Moulterd, mentions a few drinks makes her wild and pulls the neckline of her dress down with a sexy grin. |
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJriqSXO9BI Reggae Reggae Sauce] on ''[[Dragons' Den]]'' not only provided a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for the show itself but went on to become a successful product in its own right. |
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* ''Neverwhere'': There are three or four Crowning Moments of Awesome for two different characters in the TV show (with one being in the book as well). First, the Marquis de Carabas, while being {{spoiler|tortured slowly to death}} by two psychopaths, manages to {{spoiler|''spit blood in his killer's face''}}. Later, still recovering from the aforementioned, he {{spoiler|takes down a just-fed vampire with his bare hands}} and, shortly afterwards, {{spoiler|faces down the canonical best fighter in the Underside with a crossbow and some well-chosen words and takes her hostage}}. Hunter also gets her moment when, having been {{spoiler|gored and trampled by the giant sharp-hooved Beast she's after}}, she ''gets up and calls it back''. |
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* Almost everything Jack Frost, the titular character in ''[[A Touch of Frost]]'' (not the small ice-guy), qualifies for a CMoA. |
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* The pilot of ''[[The Adventures of Brisco County Jr]]'' starts its climax with Brisco strapping a saddle to a rocket, riding the rocket to a train that's being robbed, then lassoing the caboose, tying the rope's other end to the saddle horn, and climbing hand over hand to the train. All done completely for real with no CGI, and an undeniable statement about the show's seamless blend of western and sci-fi. |
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* On a Roast of Emmitt Smith, Doug Williams comes up and makes lame, kinda offensive jokes about everyone but Emmitt. Jamie Foxx starts mock laughing and then uses his own clip mike to start out joking Emmiet. He pretends to be his "conscious" and trolls the stuffing out of what'shisname, Doug. NSFW due to cussin' http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=B_L-gbpKZpo |
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* You can debate whether a characters first appearance can be a crowning moment of awesome, but if it can [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmxRdx7HMME Vyvians first entrance] in [[The Young Ones]] definitely qualify. |
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* ''[[Bill Nye the Science Guy]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhGkSgL02PI The Grunge Band Of Science.] That is all. |
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* On ''[[The Law of the Playground]]'', comedian Lee Mack displayed his old school report, in which it was written that he spends too much time joking and will never get anywhere like that. Then he said "and here's another of my school reports. Oh no, sorry, that's my ''Bafta''". |
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* ''[[Bonekickers]]'': out of context, the statement "Don't mess with me, I'm an archaeologist!" sounds laughable, I know. I giggled when I saw the trailer. But in context... |
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** No, no, the real Crowning Moment Of Awesome in that sequence is the amazing "Call yourself a Bonekicker?! You know NOTHING!!!" ...Admittedly, I think the show is [[So Bad It's Good]]. |
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*** I always thought of it more as [[Narm Charm]], but [[Your Mileage May Vary]]. |
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* The Middleman, star of, well, ''[[The Middleman]]'', has done may awesome things - hostage rescue from the Underworld, almost beating one hundred masked wrestlers in a straight fight, "Muscle memory, bitch", taking down Ida - but his crowning moment was the entire pilot episode. In just under 45 minutes, he tasers a monster made of body parts, lays down the exposition like nobody's business, walks (unarmed) into the [[Bad Guy Bar|most notorious den of wiseguys in the city]], causing everyone else to run out. Then he tortures a hardcore mobster with a glass of milk. He walks into the villain's hideout, KO's a mook with one punch, and disarms a man from six feet away. While held at gunpoint, he pulls a [[Batman Gambit]] on the [[Big Bad]] with her own damn gun, ''and then'' he gives Wendy back her dad's lighter for bonus [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming]] points. And all while not swearing. In fact, if you didn't cheer for the Middleman at any point in the pilot, hang your head in shame right now. |
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** Impressive, but to some, none of that matches up to Wendy's "please hold." |
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* ''Kasou Taishou'', a Japanese game show featuring hilariously amazing puppetry shows, the most famous being [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dcmDscwEcI Matrix Ping Pong]. This could double as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] for this show as well. |
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* After spending two seasons as the idiotic, yet sympathetic, news host on "[[Frontline]]", Mike Moore completely shocks the audience by {{spoiler|actually researching the interview topic and humiliating the wrongful guest}}. What really makes it a CMoA is the question he asks beforehand, which made the guest admit he wouldn't fire Mike if he asked an inappropriate question. |
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** Oh, and did we mention that this guest was the ''boss of the station''? As in, the guy who could pull the show off air at a whim? |
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** It's especially impressive when you consider how the writers lead you to believe this will go the way of previous episodes where Brian or Sam either talks him out of doing research or easily manipulates him into giving up under the pressure (i.e., Mike's failed attempt at reading the professor's supposedly racist textbook in "Heroes and Villains"). Up until the climax, there is nothing to indicate than anything in the documents Sam gave him will register. |
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** Mike's victory on the game show Jackpot, completely unaided despite Sam's attempts to help him cheat. |
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* The made-for-TV movie called ''The Vernon Johns Story'' was about a civil-rights campaigning Pastor, played by [[James Earl Jones]]. Johns' moment comes when he's forced by the church administration to perform the funeral of the town drunk, whose family gives a lot of money to said church. |
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{{quote|Michael Jones was a worthless drunk. He went around town daring somebody to slit his throat. Last week somebody finally obliged him. He lived like a dog, he died like a dog. ''Undertaker, claim the body!''}} |
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* In the ''[[Taggart]]'' episode "Knife Edge", Jim Taggart is faced by about five burly leather clad Hells Angels, one of whom spits on his shoes. Without changing expression at all, the five foot nothing Taggart calmly replies 'The last person who did that to me wore their balls home as earrings" |
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* In the classic comedy series ''[[Porridge]]'', the scene in which Fletcher calmly talks down a mentally unstable gunman who is holding the main characters hostage. The moment is in no way diminished by the fact that {{spoiler|Fletcher thought the gun wasn't loaded}}. |
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Jessica]] [[The Ditz|Tate]] driving away the Devil (who had possessed her infant grandson) with a [[The Power of Love|Power of Love]] speech in the season 2 finale of ''[[Soap]]''. |
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* ''Spooks'' (or ''[[MI 5]]'' as it's known in America) has quite a few of these, but few are quite as awesome as Malcolm's in the first episode of series five. {{spoiler|Colin, a member of the cast since series one, is [[Anyone Can Die|executed]] by two rogue MI-6 agents. When Harry states that Section D will have to let them get away with it for now to uncover the larger plot, Malcolm bursts out with, "Shut up, you pompous fool! He wasn't just some geek who did crossword puzzles! He was my bloody best friend!}} |
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** "I've got a terrible crick in the neck, y'see." |
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* Malcolm's true moment of awesome comes in the first episode of season eight. {{spoiler|He realizes that the child of a former MI-5 employee is in danger, but the agency decides it can't intervene lest it blow a sensitive operation by taking any action. So Malcolm goes off the grid, and walks to the house where the child is being held. Malcolm offers himself in exchange to the child. When that offer fails and Malcolm is taken hostage, he then proceeds to '''talk the gunman guarding the child out of killing him'''. The gunman walks away, probably to go work in a soup kitchen somewhere. Malcolm then retires from the secret service -- the first character in eight seasons to do so of his own volition, on his own terms -- to go read books by the sea.}} Did I mention he's a desk jockey, not a field agent? |
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* ''[[Interceptor]]'': [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=62pIoQtO-DY The tractor ambush]. The Interceptor is a supremely [[Magnificent Bastard]]. |
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* ''[[The Odd Couple]]'': Felix is defending himself and Oscar in court after they've been arrested and charged with scalping tickets. Calling to the stand the woman to whom he'd offered an extra ticket (for free), he gets her to concede that he'd refused the $15 she'd offered for it before she claims he'd "held out for more". Felix tells her to think carefully, and asks if he'd really asked her for more money. "Not exactly", she admits, "I just assumed...", and Felix pounces on this: |
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{{quote|Felix: Your Honor, may defense counsel use that blackboard? |
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Judge: Yes. |
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Felix: Thank you, Your Honor! Miss Olem, you should never "assume", because when you "ASSUME" (writing the word on the blackboard), you make (circling) an "ASS" of "U" and "ME"! }} |
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* [[The Glass House]]. Oh, the Glass House... |
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** The Jason Byrne penguin scene, which is impossible to describe unless you watch it... [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=6NT-n-8gy0M\] |
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** And the Lauren Burns vibrator scene... 2005 best of, if you want to see it on [[YouTube]]. |
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* Rufus Hound's rap version of the plot of ''Gears of War 2'' on ''[[Playr]]''. |
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* From ''[[Who Wants to Be a Superhero?]]?'': Monkey Woman's crowning moment from her tragically short run. After nearly being eliminated in the first episode, she (and the rest of the contestants) faced a challenge of making it across a lawn in a heavy padded suit, with two trained dogs trying to stop them. Every other would-be superhero either succeeded or admitted defeat and cried "uncle" to make the dogs stop in under a minute. When Monkey Woman's turn came, she spent nearly ''ten minutes'' fighting her way forward or being dragged around by the dogs and made it through. Even [[Stan Lee|Stan]] was stunned. |
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** Although as far as "eternal loyalty from the fans" is concerned, there are reports of this coming as early as the first major challenge, in which she "changed" into her superhero costume... in a tree. |
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* ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'' has one in one of the final episodes, where Junior Gorg has spent the entire episode in the Fraggle world learning about the universe after freaking out about becoming king someday. Not only is he {{spoiler|the first one to actually figure out all three levels of their codependant ecosystem}}, he then proceeds to go home to his [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]] and uses his first decree to immediately {{spoiler|declare the universe can take care of itself and abolish the centuries-long useless monarchy}} while his blowhard father looks on and can't do a thing about it. |
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* The Discovery Channel series ''Guinea Pig'' involves a former circus performer named Ryan Stock who executes dangerous feats in the name of science. Stock's crowning moment comes in an episode where he must test less lethal weapons designed to stop rioters and criminals. He must withstand the power of a sonic frequency generator that causes severe nausea, headaches and body pain after a few seconds. After being told that the only person who made it past 30 seconds standing in front of the device was a Marine drill sergeant who would "smile if he had a root canal", Stock and his co-star/fiancee Amber stand in front of the device. Ryan and Amber walk up to the machine, and Amber flees after a few seconds, complaining of serious pain. Ryan, however, ''kneels in front of the device'', and crouches in front of it for more than ''three minutes''. The looks on the generator's designers' faces are priceless. |
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** While we're on the subject of Discovery Channel, if [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62D88RIR94c this] doesn't make you want to shout victoriously and punch the air, then either 1) you're not human, 2) you're at work, or 3) you're angry that Anthony Bourdain wasn't in this video (a valid complaint, but still). |
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* ''[[The Closer]]'': Dept. Chief Brenda Johnson gets a truly spectacular one in "You Are Here". Having brought in a perp who carjacked and killed a judge, she promises him that, if he writes down the name of the person who paid him, "the State of California will not charge [him] with any crime." So his face is priceless when the episode closes with this exchange: |
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{{quote|'''Lawyer:''' "So my client is free to go?" |
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'''Brenda:''' "Ah, not exactly... I said I wasn't going to charge him with anything, and I won't, but there's a new law making carjacking a federal offense, and I believe it has the death penalty attached to it. Mr. Howard here will explain all the details." }} |
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** An arrogant teenager who killed his maid has fled to Mexico with the help of his parents. Mexico won't extradite a prisoner who will face a possible death sentence. When he refuses to return, Brenda hands him over to the Federales... and then reveals that the maid was a ''Mexican citizen''. Have fun spending the rest of your life in a Mexican jail. |
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* ''Moving Wallpaper''. Annoying internet guy calls Kelly a "cheap whore". Carl -- the middle-aged nice guy who's too shy to act on his crush on Kelly -- immediately steps forward and ''punches him out''. |
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{{quote|'''Tom:''' "I didn't even know you knew how to make a fist." |
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'''Carl:''' "Neither did I." }} |
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* New Zealand (and anywhere else) tropers who have seen ''Seven Periods With Mr Gormsby'' will know that the fifth episode from season 2, "Camp Tepapawai" was an entire ''episode'' of awesome. But the highlight was {{spoiler|Hohepa sawing through the boards of Steve's part of the latrine trench so that when Steve went to the toilet, he fell into the trench, and then Gormsby made him walk to the other end of the trench so they could pull him out.}} Fuckin' awesome. |
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* On the 2008 ''[[Spicks and Specks]]'' Christmas special, there's a classic scene at the end starring Tex Perkins and the Ladyboyz singing a completely over-the-top version of Wham!'s song 'Last Christmas.' |
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** In addition to the 2009 episode featuring Tim Minchin, when, in one of the games, Alan Brough (team captain 1) commented that every clue Adam Hills (the host) gave them was crap, on which Adam turned around, crossed his arms and what happened next was as follows: |
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{{quote|'''Adam:''' Go ask your own questions then! |
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''[Tim walks up and tips the chair over, knocking Adam onto the floor. He sits in the chair and smiles at the audience, but he doesn't say anything. Adam picks himself up with the help of Myf Warhurst (team captain 2)]'' |
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''[Tim leans over to help]'' |
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'''Tim:''' Here, let me help- |
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''[Adam slaps his hand away]'' |
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'''Adam:''' Stuff you! I'm gonna stay with Myf! ''[he hugs her]'' |
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'''Myf:''' Oh, look what you did to my Adam! |
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''[Tim goes back to his chair, Adam sits back down]'' |
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'''Tim:''' I just froze up, I don't know how you do it... |
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'''Alan:''' It's the reading. }} |
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** Adam's true Crowning Moment Of Awesome came with his first appearance on ''[[Mock the Week]]'', and the entire conversation about his artificial foot. |
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{{quote|'''Dara O'Briain:''' And thank you Adam, for what could have descended into freak show territory, but you held it together with an enormous amount of dignity as we basically said "SHOW US THE WEIRD THING! SHOW US THE WEIRD THING NOW! LET US SEE THE UNUSUAL LIMB!"}} |
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* In ''[[Dark Angel]]'''s second season finale Joshua finds himself face to face with the man who killed his beloved Annie, realizes who it is and cuts loose (an odd show of strength aside he never got a fight scene like Alec or Max did, making this doubly awesome), beating him senseless and then stretching him over his back until Max talks him out of breaking him. |
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* ''[[The Unit]]'' is made of these, but Tiffy's turning an invitation from an anti-war group into the debate equivalent of a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] in "Old Home Week" was ''awesome''. |
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* ''[[Higher Ground]]'': |
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{{quote|'''Walt''': Where are you going? |
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'''Shelby''': I'm going to open the door for the police. }} |
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* [[Six Feet Under]] had Ruth at the self-help seminar: "And fuck you too, for not letting me buy that Snickers!" |
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPZtApJ9Zbs God just shoved your stomach into your lungs and I'M here to celebrate!] |
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* ''[[Sale of the Century|Temptation]]'': Yolanda Stopar's 8-day run, where she nailed the "Top Ten" bonus round all 7 times before [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMBlEGj-xcU retiring undefeated after her 8th win]. Only 6 other contestants out of the 1,000+ to appear on the show in its four-season run have reached the limit of 8 wins, none of whom have ever duplicated Yolanda's feat of a perfect streak in the bonus round. She walked away as a grand champion with the maximum possible $800,000 plus $132,577 worth of prizes. |
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* In ''[[Beakman's World]]'' when the title character confronts the frightening environmental problem, ozone layer depletion, head on with understanding and balance while still explaining how serious it is with the empowering address to scared viewers, "Let's turn that fear into knowledge!" |
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* ''[[Harry Enfield and Chums]]'' has one of these, oddly, for a sketch show. Stan Herbert, an upper class man who has spent the entire series making fun of his relative, Frank and his middle-class family for having less money than him (His ''[[Catch Phrase]]'' throughout the series has been "We are considerably richer, than ''you''"). Gets his comeuppance in a big way when Frank drives his wife into Stan's driveway in an incredibly expensive sports car, casually walks into the house wearing a black suit, and announces magnificently, that he is "now considerably richer, than ''you''" (due to winning the lottery). |
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* ''Kings'' deserves a mention, being an awesome [[Friday Night Death Slot|and underappreciated]] show: |
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** ''That shot'' of an unarmed David standing in front of the [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Goliath]]. |
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** Silas is a walking CMoA ''in general'', as he is played by Ian McShane, but his [[Unflinching Walk]] in the finale up the steps of the capitol in front of dozens of armed soldiers all supposedly sworn to obey {{spoiler|Cross}} was just awesome. Even better? David showing up {{spoiler|with a bunch of Goliaths loyal to him and Silas}} and telling the soldiers to move. |
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** Also from the finale, Rose standing in the middle of the hallway when Silas returns with {{spoiler|the true crown in her hands}}. |
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** From "Javelin": |
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*** David refusing Reverend Samuels' offer of escape when he's about to be put on trial for treason. |
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{{quote|'''David''': If I go with you, everything Silas says about me is true. |
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*** Jack standing up to his father in the middle of David's trial, knowing the consequences and still choosing (for possibly the first time in the series) to go with [[Honor Before Reason]]. |
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* ''[[Blackadder]]: Back and Forth'': Blackadder punches out Shakespeare for all the schoolchildren who ever had to study his works. |
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** A little more metafictional but the entire episode 'Goodbyeee.' It's a sitcom episode about the First World War that was seen as fit to be played on Armistice Day and no one batted an eyelid. |
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** As much as a chauvinist pig Flashheart is, it's impossible to dislike the character when he not only helps George save Blackadder, but then helps him get revenge on Darling. He doesn't even like Blackadder! And, although it feels a little mean to label it as awesome, nonchalently shooting von Richthofen in the middle of the latter's [[Worthy Opponent]] speech, with the words "What a poof!" Basically, Flashheart is walking Awesome, who could probably get away with just about anything and remain awesome, just for his attitude. |
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* Peo has one in the Swedish kid's show ''[[Vintergatan]] 5A'' (''Milky Way 5A'') when he punches his way through hordes of mutants to save Henrik and Mira. |
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{{quote|'''Peo''': PEOPEOPEOPEO!}} |
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* Of all the the things in the world, an MTV Movie Awards opening skit managed to pull off a comedic [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. The premise, played out through several preceding skits, is that [[Austin Powers|Doctor Evil]] and his son Scott, played by Mike Myers and Seth Green, have captured Billy Crystal (playing himself, of course) in their latest bid to rule the world. At one point, Scott asks Billy Crystal to sing a song and he gives a lackluster performance, to which Scott shakes his head and replies "you've lost the magic, Mr. Crystal". To which a familiar voice replies "that's cause I'm ''not Billy Crystal'', baby!" and "Billy" rips off a latex mask. Dr. Evil and Scott both give a hilariously over-the-top "Austin Powers?!?" and Austin quickly thwarts them with a fight scene worthy of the '60s Batman series. |
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* In the Season Six pilot of [[Numb3rs]], Charlie calculates the location of the sniper ''who is currently shooting at them'', using only a pencil, paper, some gun stats supplied by Colby, and his brain. It only feels like a few steps from here to [[Firefly|killing them with mathematics]]. |
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* ''[[Foyle's War]]'': |
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** One of the many [[Karma Houdini]]s in the series, an American businessman who is instrumental in a movement to bring America into the war, is about to hope on a plane when Foyle 'asks to say goodbye'. The businessman smugly gloats about it, leading Foyle to calmly retort that it's the war that's keeping the businessman from receiving punishment -- but wars end, and when this one does the businessman will still be a proven murderer, and Foyle still has the proof that he's a murderer: "You're not escaping justice. Merely postponing it. ''Au Revoir''." The businessman suddenly looks a lot less pleased with himself. |
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** His driver, Sam Stewart, gets one as well. At her new job in a map-making facility, she's overheard a potentially incriminating conversation between a suspect with something to hide and another party. That night, she's preparing to go home when the suspect suddenly appears behind her, [[Shame If Something Happened|suggesting that it'd be a lot healthier and safer for her if she just forgot about the whole thing]]. Sam calmly replies that she'd actually forgotten about the whole incident, "but since you're so worried about it you've come out here to try and bully me, I'm going to mention it to everyone I can." She then rides off without a backwards glance, leaving the gobsmacked suspect with an [[Oh Crap]] expression and the thought that maybe trying to intimidate her wasn't his best idea. |
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* The Adventures of [[Sherlock Holmes]] features [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjKXFBkNE10L this] delicious scene of Holmes effortless wiping the floor with the local ruffian. It was awesome enough in the book, played by Jeremy Brett only enhances its awesomeness. |
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* I can't believe [[CSI: NY]]'s season three finale hasn't been mentioned yet. To recap: Flack and other police officers take down a drug ring and make the largest haul in New York City history go into police hands. The remainging gang members want it back, but it's safely in the vault at the labs. They torture Adam to get information on how to get into the labs, and then Danny gets caught by them as well. Then a group of them infiltrate the labs and set off a fire alarm to evacuate the building. Everyone but Mac, Stella and Hawkes leave. Then, as they attempt to take back the drugs that belong to them, Stella and Mac start taking them down while Hawkes gets a guy in the coroner's office. Meanwhile, Danny hatches a plan to get Adam to get something he needs for them to escape, and willingly lets his hand get crushed to let that happen. Adam gets what he needs to get, and when the police storm the warehouse and almost shoot two cops who were set up to look like the hostage takers, Adam saves them by getting in their line of fire. Finally, back at the labs, it's Mac versus the gang leader, and Mac sets up laser trip wires and gets the bad guy to trip one of them, blowing up the lab while Mac escapes to safety. If that isn't one of the best [[Die Hard on an X]] moments ever, I don't know what else is. |
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* [[LazyTown]] has quite a few of those. If were talk about each one Sportacus has we'd be here all day. But some highlights include: Sportacus kicking "RottenBeard's" ass in RottenBeard. Pixel making Robbie's feet go crazy in Defeeted. Ziggy kicking a Dinosaur (Robbie)'s ass in Cry Dinosaur. |
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* During the fiasco involving [[Conan O'Brien]] and ''[[The Tonight Show]]'', Jimmy Kimmel hosted a full episode of his show (''Jimmy Kimmel Live'') while doing an impersonation of Jay Leno. Jay invited Kimmel onto his show (''The Jay Leno Show'') the next night, and when given the opportunity, Kimmel [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axwO6BkCtIo verbally eviscerated Leno] ''to his face'' about the massive screwjob he and NBC had delivered to O'Brien. |
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** And there's the already infamous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WONb88w5aQ $1,500,000 sketch] where the Conan crew dresses up a ''Bugatti Veyron'' to look like a mouse, using "Satisfaction" as its backing theme. Within a day it's already featured on three of the ten Google search suggestions under "Conan", and two for "Bugatti". A screw you to NBC's budget indeed. |
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** But wait, there's more from that same episode. When Conan reminisces about things in Hollywood that lasted shorter than his ''Tonight Show'' stint, he mentioned the on-air absence of his not-11:35-PM-friendly character, the Masturbating Bear... which prompts the Bear to come out on stage. And yes... he does. |
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* There was an special on the Discovery Channel a while ago devoted to utterly ''demolishing'' the various conspiracy theories behind 9/11. The best part was that each claim they took to pieces, they actually presented the findings to a group of conspiracy theorists, and each time their [[Hand Wave|rebuttals]] sounded feebler and feebler. Pure. Ownage. |
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** [[National Geographic]] did something similar with the moon landing conspiracies. After an entire episode of tolerating their nonsense, they shot down all of the theories in the last ten minutes, topping off with the guy who runs a laser that bounces off reflectors left on the moon, and he points out that no conspiracy theorists ever come to ask ''him'' anything. |
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* You might wonder how the psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, who's been a semi-ubiquitous presence most of our lives, ever became famous. The answer is that she was only the second contestant to successfully answer ''The $64,000 Question'' back in the 1950s. That's not the awesome part. Most quiz shows of that period were fully or partially rigged for popular contestants. ''The 64k Q'' was a partially rigged show. No contestant was given the answers beforehand, but if the sponsor liked a contestant, they were given fairly easy questions. If the sponsor didn't like a contestant, they were given ultra-hard questions in an effort to get rid of them, and the sponsor didn't like Brothers at all. Her category was boxing, so she was asked at one point to name the ''referees'' of certain title bouts. She confounded the sponsor and correctly named them. As a result, Brothers was the one famous Fifties quiz show contestant whose star actually rose when the later quiz show scandals broke out exposing just how rigged most of those shows were. Her quiz show had been specifically rigged against her and she still managed to win fair and square. |
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* [[Nurse Jackie]]'s chat with the insurance agent in the S2 premiere. |
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* The 2010 Emmys pulled this off in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjkDxlhleN8 opening sketch.] Joel McHale, Amber Riley, Jane Lynch, Lea Michele, Cory Montieth, Chris Colfer, Tina Fey, Jon Hamm, AND Betty White? And they're singing "Born to Run"? Mind = blown. |
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* ''[[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]'' has a ''lot''. The {{spoiler|fight against Theokoles}} is an in-universe one, referenced by other characters several times after it happens. |
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* The penultimate episode of ''[[The Unusuals]]'' had a chase scene set to Daler Mehndi's "Tunak Tunak Tun". If you're at all familiar with that song (and [[Memetic Mutation/Music|it's very possible]]), it's just as awesome as you would imagine. Particularly because the song just suddenly shows up completely unegxpected. |
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* "[[Quantum Leap]]": Sam has leaped into a rape victim, but the rapist is a [[Karma Houdini]]. He comes by her place to taunt her (unaware that Sam has leaped into her) and to try it again. So Sam tells Al "Now I know what I came here to do," and proceeds...to beat the crap out of the rapist. |
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* The ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs]]'' series and its spinoffs have loads of these. "Cruel Sea" and its Liopleurodon are probably some of the best. |
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* The short-lived ''Commander-in-Chief'' may have had its issues - but '''no one''' can deny that Mackenzie Allen's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq4SkdEeiVU speech to Congress] at the end of the first episode is a CMoA for her, for Geena Davis, and for the show itself. |
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* In [[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'s first season, we see a two-part story about Rob's brother, Stacey (played by Jerry Van Dyke). He is a shy, timid fellow with a serious sleepwalking problem that turns him into the life of the party. Rob decides to {{spoiler|record Stacey in somnambulance and play it back when he wakes up.}} Later, Rob throws a party for his coworkers (including Alan Brady), and Stacey does a brilliant comedy bit. Rob talks to him in the kitchen and discovers that {{spoiler|Stacey was awake the whole time. He had listened to himself on the tape recorder and learned to channel the comedic energy while wide awake.}} |
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* [[Koichi Yamadera]]'s ''a cappella'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9iaa99KLHg performance] of [[Stevie Wonder]]'s "Superstition" on the variety show ''Monomane Battle''. |
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* The prehistoric dragon mother in [[Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real]]. She had a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment in saving her son from a T-Rex, [[Death From Above|coming from above]] and slashed the head of the T-Rex with her claws. She finally managed to drive off the T-Rex, by [[Kill It with Fire|burning the T-Rex with her fire breath]]. As the T-Rex went away, the [[Narrator]] said that the T-Rex will not live long after the fight. |
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* Jem Stansfield's creations on family-friendly science show [[Bang Goes The Theory]] are often awesome to varying degrees, to the extent that it's often worth watching the show just for his bits. Triumphs included constructing a musical road [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_road] to play the Wedding March, going 360 degrees on a playground swing and climbing a building using nothing but suction pads. And although his boat made of reinforced ice was a failure, it was still an awesome failure. (Also: co-presenter Yan Wong got his own MoA when in the course of a film about human perception of movement, it turned out that beneath the quiet geeky persona, he is one badass dancer.) |
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* If there's one person on ''[[Quincy]]'' you'd never expect to have a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], it's Quincy's superior Dr. Robert "[[Status Quo Is God]]" Asten. And yet in the episode "Hot Ice," our hero - following a successful undercover job in Las Vegas (long story) - has been stabbed with a poisoned umbrella and is on the verge of death. Having ID'd the man responsible, Asten and Brill go to confront him, he tries to escape... and Asten promptly ''judo flips the guy and gets him in a headlock'' before assuring him if he doesn't tell them what poison he used (without which they can't find the antidote) he'll regret it. Needless to say, it works. |
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* HGTV's show ''Income Property'' has had a few. |
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** In one, host Scott McGillivray learns that the couple he is helping have become victims of identity theft while in the middle of renovations and have lost thousands of dollars - in fact, most of their savings. Scott gathers the crew, speaks to them, and they agree to work extra hours so that the project will be completely done, even to the extras, before the deadline, in order to save the homeowners the exact amount they lost. |
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** In another, the wife of the couple being helped mentions that her husband thought that Scott was just the pretty-boy host and didn't actually do any work. Scott blinks, laughs, walks into the bathroom where the husband is unsuccessfully trying to drain the heavy old toilet that has just been removed. Scott takes the toilet and drains it effortlessly, then carries it out to the balcony and throws it across the sidewalk into the dumpster as the husband watches gaping. For the record, Scott is not a big guy. Also doubles as CMoF since Scott and the husband bust each others chops though the entire episode without actually offending each other once, and as Scott leaves the bathroom, he's yelling "Clear the way! Pretty face coming through!" |
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So many shows, so much awesome!
Live-Action TV shows with their own Awesome pages
See the list at Category:Live-Action TV/Awesome.
Other Shows
Don't forget to check the index first and make sure the show you're adding doesn't have its own page.
MOD: Better yet, put the example on the show's Awesome subpage directly instead of here. Create a subpage if you have to (Works Pages Are a Free Launch, after all), and include Category:Live-Action TV/Awesome so that it will show up on the index.
- Mind of Mencia: Say what you will about Carlos Mencia. However, he had his moment when he describes his encounter with a Bin Laden supporter who tried to threaten him out of doing middle eastern jokes. His response: http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/1037365820 [dead link]
- A Crowning Moment of Awesome and Sexy in the short-lived Grace and Favour (also known as Are You Being Served Again?) happens in the final episode when the beautiful but naive farmer's daughter, Mavis Moulterd, mentions a few drinks makes her wild and pulls the neckline of her dress down with a sexy grin.
- Reggae Reggae Sauce on Dragons' Den not only provided a Crowning Moment of Awesome for the show itself but went on to become a successful product in its own right.
- Neverwhere: There are three or four Crowning Moments of Awesome for two different characters in the TV show (with one being in the book as well). First, the Marquis de Carabas, while being tortured slowly to death by two psychopaths, manages to spit blood in his killer's face. Later, still recovering from the aforementioned, he takes down a just-fed vampire with his bare hands and, shortly afterwards, faces down the canonical best fighter in the Underside with a crossbow and some well-chosen words and takes her hostage. Hunter also gets her moment when, having been gored and trampled by the giant sharp-hooved Beast she's after, she gets up and calls it back.
- Almost everything Jack Frost, the titular character in A Touch of Frost (not the small ice-guy), qualifies for a CMoA.
- The pilot of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr starts its climax with Brisco strapping a saddle to a rocket, riding the rocket to a train that's being robbed, then lassoing the caboose, tying the rope's other end to the saddle horn, and climbing hand over hand to the train. All done completely for real with no CGI, and an undeniable statement about the show's seamless blend of western and sci-fi.
- On a Roast of Emmitt Smith, Doug Williams comes up and makes lame, kinda offensive jokes about everyone but Emmitt. Jamie Foxx starts mock laughing and then uses his own clip mike to start out joking Emmiet. He pretends to be his "conscious" and trolls the stuffing out of what'shisname, Doug. NSFW due to cussin' http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=B_L-gbpKZpo
- You can debate whether a characters first appearance can be a crowning moment of awesome, but if it can Vyvians first entrance in The Young Ones definitely qualify.
- Bill Nye the Science Guy: The Grunge Band Of Science. That is all.
- On The Law of the Playground, comedian Lee Mack displayed his old school report, in which it was written that he spends too much time joking and will never get anywhere like that. Then he said "and here's another of my school reports. Oh no, sorry, that's my Bafta".
- Bonekickers: out of context, the statement "Don't mess with me, I'm an archaeologist!" sounds laughable, I know. I giggled when I saw the trailer. But in context...
- No, no, the real Crowning Moment Of Awesome in that sequence is the amazing "Call yourself a Bonekicker?! You know NOTHING!!!" ...Admittedly, I think the show is So Bad It's Good.
- I always thought of it more as Narm Charm, but Your Mileage May Vary.
- No, no, the real Crowning Moment Of Awesome in that sequence is the amazing "Call yourself a Bonekicker?! You know NOTHING!!!" ...Admittedly, I think the show is So Bad It's Good.
- The Middleman, star of, well, The Middleman, has done may awesome things - hostage rescue from the Underworld, almost beating one hundred masked wrestlers in a straight fight, "Muscle memory, bitch", taking down Ida - but his crowning moment was the entire pilot episode. In just under 45 minutes, he tasers a monster made of body parts, lays down the exposition like nobody's business, walks (unarmed) into the most notorious den of wiseguys in the city, causing everyone else to run out. Then he tortures a hardcore mobster with a glass of milk. He walks into the villain's hideout, KO's a mook with one punch, and disarms a man from six feet away. While held at gunpoint, he pulls a Batman Gambit on the Big Bad with her own damn gun, and then he gives Wendy back her dad's lighter for bonus heartwarming points. And all while not swearing. In fact, if you didn't cheer for the Middleman at any point in the pilot, hang your head in shame right now.
- Impressive, but to some, none of that matches up to Wendy's "please hold."
- Kasou Taishou, a Japanese game show featuring hilariously amazing puppetry shows, the most famous being Matrix Ping Pong. This could double as a Crowning Moment of Funny for this show as well.
- After spending two seasons as the idiotic, yet sympathetic, news host on "Frontline", Mike Moore completely shocks the audience by actually researching the interview topic and humiliating the wrongful guest. What really makes it a CMoA is the question he asks beforehand, which made the guest admit he wouldn't fire Mike if he asked an inappropriate question.
- Oh, and did we mention that this guest was the boss of the station? As in, the guy who could pull the show off air at a whim?
- It's especially impressive when you consider how the writers lead you to believe this will go the way of previous episodes where Brian or Sam either talks him out of doing research or easily manipulates him into giving up under the pressure (i.e., Mike's failed attempt at reading the professor's supposedly racist textbook in "Heroes and Villains"). Up until the climax, there is nothing to indicate than anything in the documents Sam gave him will register.
- Mike's victory on the game show Jackpot, completely unaided despite Sam's attempts to help him cheat.
- The made-for-TV movie called The Vernon Johns Story was about a civil-rights campaigning Pastor, played by James Earl Jones. Johns' moment comes when he's forced by the church administration to perform the funeral of the town drunk, whose family gives a lot of money to said church.
- In the Taggart episode "Knife Edge", Jim Taggart is faced by about five burly leather clad Hells Angels, one of whom spits on his shoes. Without changing expression at all, the five foot nothing Taggart calmly replies 'The last person who did that to me wore their balls home as earrings"
- In the classic comedy series Porridge, the scene in which Fletcher calmly talks down a mentally unstable gunman who is holding the main characters hostage. The moment is in no way diminished by the fact that Fletcher thought the gun wasn't loaded.
- Jessica Tate driving away the Devil (who had possessed her infant grandson) with a Power of Love speech in the season 2 finale of Soap.
- Spooks (or MI 5 as it's known in America) has quite a few of these, but few are quite as awesome as Malcolm's in the first episode of series five. Colin, a member of the cast since series one, is executed by two rogue MI-6 agents. When Harry states that Section D will have to let them get away with it for now to uncover the larger plot, Malcolm bursts out with, "Shut up, you pompous fool! He wasn't just some geek who did crossword puzzles! He was my bloody best friend!
- "I've got a terrible crick in the neck, y'see."
- Malcolm's true moment of awesome comes in the first episode of season eight. He realizes that the child of a former MI-5 employee is in danger, but the agency decides it can't intervene lest it blow a sensitive operation by taking any action. So Malcolm goes off the grid, and walks to the house where the child is being held. Malcolm offers himself in exchange to the child. When that offer fails and Malcolm is taken hostage, he then proceeds to talk the gunman guarding the child out of killing him. The gunman walks away, probably to go work in a soup kitchen somewhere. Malcolm then retires from the secret service -- the first character in eight seasons to do so of his own volition, on his own terms -- to go read books by the sea. Did I mention he's a desk jockey, not a field agent?
- Interceptor: The tractor ambush. The Interceptor is a supremely Magnificent Bastard.
- The Odd Couple: Felix is defending himself and Oscar in court after they've been arrested and charged with scalping tickets. Calling to the stand the woman to whom he'd offered an extra ticket (for free), he gets her to concede that he'd refused the $15 she'd offered for it before she claims he'd "held out for more". Felix tells her to think carefully, and asks if he'd really asked her for more money. "Not exactly", she admits, "I just assumed...", and Felix pounces on this:
- The Glass House. Oh, the Glass House...
- Rufus Hound's rap version of the plot of Gears of War 2 on Playr.
- From Who Wants to Be a Superhero??: Monkey Woman's crowning moment from her tragically short run. After nearly being eliminated in the first episode, she (and the rest of the contestants) faced a challenge of making it across a lawn in a heavy padded suit, with two trained dogs trying to stop them. Every other would-be superhero either succeeded or admitted defeat and cried "uncle" to make the dogs stop in under a minute. When Monkey Woman's turn came, she spent nearly ten minutes fighting her way forward or being dragged around by the dogs and made it through. Even Stan was stunned.
- Although as far as "eternal loyalty from the fans" is concerned, there are reports of this coming as early as the first major challenge, in which she "changed" into her superhero costume... in a tree.
- Fraggle Rock has one in one of the final episodes, where Junior Gorg has spent the entire episode in the Fraggle world learning about the universe after freaking out about becoming king someday. Not only is he the first one to actually figure out all three levels of their codependant ecosystem, he then proceeds to go home to his Awesome Moment of Crowning and uses his first decree to immediately declare the universe can take care of itself and abolish the centuries-long useless monarchy while his blowhard father looks on and can't do a thing about it.
- The Discovery Channel series Guinea Pig involves a former circus performer named Ryan Stock who executes dangerous feats in the name of science. Stock's crowning moment comes in an episode where he must test less lethal weapons designed to stop rioters and criminals. He must withstand the power of a sonic frequency generator that causes severe nausea, headaches and body pain after a few seconds. After being told that the only person who made it past 30 seconds standing in front of the device was a Marine drill sergeant who would "smile if he had a root canal", Stock and his co-star/fiancee Amber stand in front of the device. Ryan and Amber walk up to the machine, and Amber flees after a few seconds, complaining of serious pain. Ryan, however, kneels in front of the device, and crouches in front of it for more than three minutes. The looks on the generator's designers' faces are priceless.
- While we're on the subject of Discovery Channel, if this doesn't make you want to shout victoriously and punch the air, then either 1) you're not human, 2) you're at work, or 3) you're angry that Anthony Bourdain wasn't in this video (a valid complaint, but still).
- The Closer: Dept. Chief Brenda Johnson gets a truly spectacular one in "You Are Here". Having brought in a perp who carjacked and killed a judge, she promises him that, if he writes down the name of the person who paid him, "the State of California will not charge [him] with any crime." So his face is priceless when the episode closes with this exchange:
- An arrogant teenager who killed his maid has fled to Mexico with the help of his parents. Mexico won't extradite a prisoner who will face a possible death sentence. When he refuses to return, Brenda hands him over to the Federales... and then reveals that the maid was a Mexican citizen. Have fun spending the rest of your life in a Mexican jail.
- Moving Wallpaper. Annoying internet guy calls Kelly a "cheap whore". Carl -- the middle-aged nice guy who's too shy to act on his crush on Kelly -- immediately steps forward and punches him out.
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- New Zealand (and anywhere else) tropers who have seen Seven Periods With Mr Gormsby will know that the fifth episode from season 2, "Camp Tepapawai" was an entire episode of awesome. But the highlight was Hohepa sawing through the boards of Steve's part of the latrine trench so that when Steve went to the toilet, he fell into the trench, and then Gormsby made him walk to the other end of the trench so they could pull him out. Fuckin' awesome.
- On the 2008 Spicks and Specks Christmas special, there's a classic scene at the end starring Tex Perkins and the Ladyboyz singing a completely over-the-top version of Wham!'s song 'Last Christmas.'
- In addition to the 2009 episode featuring Tim Minchin, when, in one of the games, Alan Brough (team captain 1) commented that every clue Adam Hills (the host) gave them was crap, on which Adam turned around, crossed his arms and what happened next was as follows:
- Adam's true Crowning Moment Of Awesome came with his first appearance on Mock the Week, and the entire conversation about his artificial foot.
- In Dark Angel's second season finale Joshua finds himself face to face with the man who killed his beloved Annie, realizes who it is and cuts loose (an odd show of strength aside he never got a fight scene like Alec or Max did, making this doubly awesome), beating him senseless and then stretching him over his back until Max talks him out of breaking him.
- The Unit is made of these, but Tiffy's turning an invitation from an anti-war group into the debate equivalent of a Curb Stomp Battle in "Old Home Week" was awesome.
- Higher Ground:
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- Six Feet Under had Ruth at the self-help seminar: "And fuck you too, for not letting me buy that Snickers!"
- Temptation: Yolanda Stopar's 8-day run, where she nailed the "Top Ten" bonus round all 7 times before retiring undefeated after her 8th win. Only 6 other contestants out of the 1,000+ to appear on the show in its four-season run have reached the limit of 8 wins, none of whom have ever duplicated Yolanda's feat of a perfect streak in the bonus round. She walked away as a grand champion with the maximum possible $800,000 plus $132,577 worth of prizes.
- In Beakman's World when the title character confronts the frightening environmental problem, ozone layer depletion, head on with understanding and balance while still explaining how serious it is with the empowering address to scared viewers, "Let's turn that fear into knowledge!"
- Harry Enfield and Chums has one of these, oddly, for a sketch show. Stan Herbert, an upper class man who has spent the entire series making fun of his relative, Frank and his middle-class family for having less money than him (His Catch Phrase throughout the series has been "We are considerably richer, than you"). Gets his comeuppance in a big way when Frank drives his wife into Stan's driveway in an incredibly expensive sports car, casually walks into the house wearing a black suit, and announces magnificently, that he is "now considerably richer, than you" (due to winning the lottery).
- Kings deserves a mention, being an awesome and underappreciated show:
- That shot of an unarmed David standing in front of the Goliath.
- Silas is a walking CMoA in general, as he is played by Ian McShane, but his Unflinching Walk in the finale up the steps of the capitol in front of dozens of armed soldiers all supposedly sworn to obey Cross was just awesome. Even better? David showing up with a bunch of Goliaths loyal to him and Silas and telling the soldiers to move.
- Also from the finale, Rose standing in the middle of the hallway when Silas returns with the true crown in her hands.
- From "Javelin":
- David refusing Reverend Samuels' offer of escape when he's about to be put on trial for treason.
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- Jack standing up to his father in the middle of David's trial, knowing the consequences and still choosing (for possibly the first time in the series) to go with Honor Before Reason.
- Blackadder: Back and Forth: Blackadder punches out Shakespeare for all the schoolchildren who ever had to study his works.
- A little more metafictional but the entire episode 'Goodbyeee.' It's a sitcom episode about the First World War that was seen as fit to be played on Armistice Day and no one batted an eyelid.
- As much as a chauvinist pig Flashheart is, it's impossible to dislike the character when he not only helps George save Blackadder, but then helps him get revenge on Darling. He doesn't even like Blackadder! And, although it feels a little mean to label it as awesome, nonchalently shooting von Richthofen in the middle of the latter's Worthy Opponent speech, with the words "What a poof!" Basically, Flashheart is walking Awesome, who could probably get away with just about anything and remain awesome, just for his attitude.
- Peo has one in the Swedish kid's show Vintergatan 5A (Milky Way 5A) when he punches his way through hordes of mutants to save Henrik and Mira.
Peo: PEOPEOPEOPEO! |
- Of all the the things in the world, an MTV Movie Awards opening skit managed to pull off a comedic Crowning Moment of Awesome. The premise, played out through several preceding skits, is that Doctor Evil and his son Scott, played by Mike Myers and Seth Green, have captured Billy Crystal (playing himself, of course) in their latest bid to rule the world. At one point, Scott asks Billy Crystal to sing a song and he gives a lackluster performance, to which Scott shakes his head and replies "you've lost the magic, Mr. Crystal". To which a familiar voice replies "that's cause I'm not Billy Crystal, baby!" and "Billy" rips off a latex mask. Dr. Evil and Scott both give a hilariously over-the-top "Austin Powers?!?" and Austin quickly thwarts them with a fight scene worthy of the '60s Batman series.
- In the Season Six pilot of Numb3rs, Charlie calculates the location of the sniper who is currently shooting at them, using only a pencil, paper, some gun stats supplied by Colby, and his brain. It only feels like a few steps from here to killing them with mathematics.
- Foyle's War:
- One of the many Karma Houdinis in the series, an American businessman who is instrumental in a movement to bring America into the war, is about to hope on a plane when Foyle 'asks to say goodbye'. The businessman smugly gloats about it, leading Foyle to calmly retort that it's the war that's keeping the businessman from receiving punishment -- but wars end, and when this one does the businessman will still be a proven murderer, and Foyle still has the proof that he's a murderer: "You're not escaping justice. Merely postponing it. Au Revoir." The businessman suddenly looks a lot less pleased with himself.
- His driver, Sam Stewart, gets one as well. At her new job in a map-making facility, she's overheard a potentially incriminating conversation between a suspect with something to hide and another party. That night, she's preparing to go home when the suspect suddenly appears behind her, suggesting that it'd be a lot healthier and safer for her if she just forgot about the whole thing. Sam calmly replies that she'd actually forgotten about the whole incident, "but since you're so worried about it you've come out here to try and bully me, I'm going to mention it to everyone I can." She then rides off without a backwards glance, leaving the gobsmacked suspect with an Oh Crap expression and the thought that maybe trying to intimidate her wasn't his best idea.
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes features this delicious scene of Holmes effortless wiping the floor with the local ruffian. It was awesome enough in the book, played by Jeremy Brett only enhances its awesomeness.
- I can't believe CSI: NY's season three finale hasn't been mentioned yet. To recap: Flack and other police officers take down a drug ring and make the largest haul in New York City history go into police hands. The remainging gang members want it back, but it's safely in the vault at the labs. They torture Adam to get information on how to get into the labs, and then Danny gets caught by them as well. Then a group of them infiltrate the labs and set off a fire alarm to evacuate the building. Everyone but Mac, Stella and Hawkes leave. Then, as they attempt to take back the drugs that belong to them, Stella and Mac start taking them down while Hawkes gets a guy in the coroner's office. Meanwhile, Danny hatches a plan to get Adam to get something he needs for them to escape, and willingly lets his hand get crushed to let that happen. Adam gets what he needs to get, and when the police storm the warehouse and almost shoot two cops who were set up to look like the hostage takers, Adam saves them by getting in their line of fire. Finally, back at the labs, it's Mac versus the gang leader, and Mac sets up laser trip wires and gets the bad guy to trip one of them, blowing up the lab while Mac escapes to safety. If that isn't one of the best Die Hard on an X moments ever, I don't know what else is.
- LazyTown has quite a few of those. If were talk about each one Sportacus has we'd be here all day. But some highlights include: Sportacus kicking "RottenBeard's" ass in RottenBeard. Pixel making Robbie's feet go crazy in Defeeted. Ziggy kicking a Dinosaur (Robbie)'s ass in Cry Dinosaur.
- During the fiasco involving Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel hosted a full episode of his show (Jimmy Kimmel Live) while doing an impersonation of Jay Leno. Jay invited Kimmel onto his show (The Jay Leno Show) the next night, and when given the opportunity, Kimmel verbally eviscerated Leno to his face about the massive screwjob he and NBC had delivered to O'Brien.
- And there's the already infamous $1,500,000 sketch where the Conan crew dresses up a Bugatti Veyron to look like a mouse, using "Satisfaction" as its backing theme. Within a day it's already featured on three of the ten Google search suggestions under "Conan", and two for "Bugatti". A screw you to NBC's budget indeed.
- But wait, there's more from that same episode. When Conan reminisces about things in Hollywood that lasted shorter than his Tonight Show stint, he mentioned the on-air absence of his not-11:35-PM-friendly character, the Masturbating Bear... which prompts the Bear to come out on stage. And yes... he does.
- There was an special on the Discovery Channel a while ago devoted to utterly demolishing the various conspiracy theories behind 9/11. The best part was that each claim they took to pieces, they actually presented the findings to a group of conspiracy theorists, and each time their rebuttals sounded feebler and feebler. Pure. Ownage.
- National Geographic did something similar with the moon landing conspiracies. After an entire episode of tolerating their nonsense, they shot down all of the theories in the last ten minutes, topping off with the guy who runs a laser that bounces off reflectors left on the moon, and he points out that no conspiracy theorists ever come to ask him anything.
- You might wonder how the psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, who's been a semi-ubiquitous presence most of our lives, ever became famous. The answer is that she was only the second contestant to successfully answer The $64,000 Question back in the 1950s. That's not the awesome part. Most quiz shows of that period were fully or partially rigged for popular contestants. The 64k Q was a partially rigged show. No contestant was given the answers beforehand, but if the sponsor liked a contestant, they were given fairly easy questions. If the sponsor didn't like a contestant, they were given ultra-hard questions in an effort to get rid of them, and the sponsor didn't like Brothers at all. Her category was boxing, so she was asked at one point to name the referees of certain title bouts. She confounded the sponsor and correctly named them. As a result, Brothers was the one famous Fifties quiz show contestant whose star actually rose when the later quiz show scandals broke out exposing just how rigged most of those shows were. Her quiz show had been specifically rigged against her and she still managed to win fair and square.
- Nurse Jackie's chat with the insurance agent in the S2 premiere.
- The 2010 Emmys pulled this off in the opening sketch. Joel McHale, Amber Riley, Jane Lynch, Lea Michele, Cory Montieth, Chris Colfer, Tina Fey, Jon Hamm, AND Betty White? And they're singing "Born to Run"? Mind = blown.
- Spartacus: Blood and Sand has a lot. The fight against Theokoles is an in-universe one, referenced by other characters several times after it happens.
- The penultimate episode of The Unusuals had a chase scene set to Daler Mehndi's "Tunak Tunak Tun". If you're at all familiar with that song (and it's very possible), it's just as awesome as you would imagine. Particularly because the song just suddenly shows up completely unegxpected.
- "Quantum Leap": Sam has leaped into a rape victim, but the rapist is a Karma Houdini. He comes by her place to taunt her (unaware that Sam has leaped into her) and to try it again. So Sam tells Al "Now I know what I came here to do," and proceeds...to beat the crap out of the rapist.
- The Walking with Dinosaurs series and its spinoffs have loads of these. "Cruel Sea" and its Liopleurodon are probably some of the best.
- The short-lived Commander-in-Chief may have had its issues - but no one can deny that Mackenzie Allen's speech to Congress at the end of the first episode is a CMoA for her, for Geena Davis, and for the show itself.
- In The Dick Van Dyke Show's first season, we see a two-part story about Rob's brother, Stacey (played by Jerry Van Dyke). He is a shy, timid fellow with a serious sleepwalking problem that turns him into the life of the party. Rob decides to record Stacey in somnambulance and play it back when he wakes up. Later, Rob throws a party for his coworkers (including Alan Brady), and Stacey does a brilliant comedy bit. Rob talks to him in the kitchen and discovers that Stacey was awake the whole time. He had listened to himself on the tape recorder and learned to channel the comedic energy while wide awake.
- Koichi Yamadera's a cappella performance of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" on the variety show Monomane Battle.
- The prehistoric dragon mother in Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real. She had a Big Damn Heroes moment in saving her son from a T-Rex, coming from above and slashed the head of the T-Rex with her claws. She finally managed to drive off the T-Rex, by burning the T-Rex with her fire breath. As the T-Rex went away, the Narrator said that the T-Rex will not live long after the fight.
- Jem Stansfield's creations on family-friendly science show Bang Goes The Theory are often awesome to varying degrees, to the extent that it's often worth watching the show just for his bits. Triumphs included constructing a musical road [2] to play the Wedding March, going 360 degrees on a playground swing and climbing a building using nothing but suction pads. And although his boat made of reinforced ice was a failure, it was still an awesome failure. (Also: co-presenter Yan Wong got his own MoA when in the course of a film about human perception of movement, it turned out that beneath the quiet geeky persona, he is one badass dancer.)
- If there's one person on Quincy you'd never expect to have a Crowning Moment of Awesome, it's Quincy's superior Dr. Robert "Status Quo Is God" Asten. And yet in the episode "Hot Ice," our hero - following a successful undercover job in Las Vegas (long story) - has been stabbed with a poisoned umbrella and is on the verge of death. Having ID'd the man responsible, Asten and Brill go to confront him, he tries to escape... and Asten promptly judo flips the guy and gets him in a headlock before assuring him if he doesn't tell them what poison he used (without which they can't find the antidote) he'll regret it. Needless to say, it works.
- HGTV's show Income Property has had a few.
- In one, host Scott McGillivray learns that the couple he is helping have become victims of identity theft while in the middle of renovations and have lost thousands of dollars - in fact, most of their savings. Scott gathers the crew, speaks to them, and they agree to work extra hours so that the project will be completely done, even to the extras, before the deadline, in order to save the homeowners the exact amount they lost.
- In another, the wife of the couple being helped mentions that her husband thought that Scott was just the pretty-boy host and didn't actually do any work. Scott blinks, laughs, walks into the bathroom where the husband is unsuccessfully trying to drain the heavy old toilet that has just been removed. Scott takes the toilet and drains it effortlessly, then carries it out to the balcony and throws it across the sidewalk into the dumpster as the husband watches gaping. For the record, Scott is not a big guy. Also doubles as CMoF since Scott and the husband bust each others chops though the entire episode without actually offending each other once, and as Scott leaves the bathroom, he's yelling "Clear the way! Pretty face coming through!"
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