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* 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

* Sebastian Stark had his CMoA during the first season finale of ''Shark''. It was also a perfectly executed [[Xanatos Roulette]].

* In ''[[Laverne and Shirley]]'', Shirley's boss promotes her to beer tester in hopes of getting her drunk and having his way with her. When it doesn't work, he tries to rape her and Laverne shows up with Carmine Ragusa, aka the Big Ragoo. The boss threatens the Big Ragoo with firing him; the Big Ragoo informs him that he doesn't work there. When the boss says he's going to leave, the Big Ragoo says that he'll help him out. When the boss asks why he needs help, Ragusa answers "I have the feeling you're going to fall down a couple flights of stairs." You don't piss off the Big Ragoo.

** His awesomeness was not limited to ''[[Laverne and Shirley]]''. In the ''[[Happy Days]]'' episode "Joanie's Weird Boyfriend", Joanie tries to join local gang the Red Devils, but when Richie finds out that her initiation will involve necking with all eight male Red Devils, he confronts them at the school gym before they can begin the initiation. When they point out their superior numbers, Fonzie, Potsie, and Ralph come out of lockers (though Ralph's locker seems to stick, or he's holding it closed) as backup. But when that's not enough to intimidate the gang, the Big Ragoo comes out, and together he and Fonzie deliver a mulekick to the Red Devils.

* In ''As Time Goes By'', Lionel calmly convinces a highly disturbed criminal with a gun to give him the gun. He later doesn't think it's a big deal because he recognized that either the gun wasn't loaded or it was a replica.

* ''[[Brass Eye]]'''s paedophilia special was pretty much Chris Morris' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

* ''[[NYPD Blue]]'': Det. Andy Sipowicz and co. have just brought in a violent criminal, who's repeatedly spitting out the ol' "If I wasn't in chains, I'd show you" line. He calls out Andy in particular, calling him "a bitch" who's only that brave around him because of the handcuffs and backup. Andy - [[Diabolus Ex Machina|who'd been sucker punched by the universe repeatedly lately]] - decides to cowboy up and put the thug in his place. He turns off the interview room's camera, uncuffs the perp, and opens a window (with a visible fire escape), then tells the thug to take his best shot; get past him to that window, he's home free. The thug makes every excuse in the book not to rise up ("It's a set up", "There's cops waiting outside the window", etc.) When it's clear the thug isn't going anywhere, Andy recuffs him and delivers the verbal [[Coup De Grace]]:

** The team gets psychologically evaluated. When it's Delinda's turn, she asks the evaluator which of several psychological theories he's going to use, complete with pros and cons of each one, before telling the poor guy she used to be a psych major. "Are we done?"

** How is Danny punching Ed for not listed?

* 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.

* ''[[Murphy Brown]]'' versus Dan Quayle. Enough said.

* 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''".

* The whole of the ''[[The Twilight Zone|Twilight Zone]]'' episode ''The Obsolete Man'' is a CMoA for Romney Wordsworth.

** Just about any of the dying millionaire's dialogue in "The Masks", especially his [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] against his greedy family.

* ''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...

** 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 (ie, 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.

* Following three seasons of hearing about Benton Fraser's [[Informed Ability|skill at marksmanship without any demonstration]] (as he was unlicensed to use a firearm in the United States), the Mountie hero of ''[[Due South]]'' gets a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] at the climax of "Mountie on the Bounty, Part II" when the ship on which he is being held prisoner crosses into Canadian waters.

** The six minutes or so leading in to this are an extended [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], as Benton, Ray and a crew of mounties overtake the ship with a small wooden ship, completely taking down the villain's crew. Came complete with [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]. "THIRTY-TWO DOWN ON THE ROBERT MCKENZIE!"

'''Carl:''' "Neither did I." }}

* 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.

** 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:

{{quote|'''Adam:''' Go ask your own questions then!

* ''[[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''.

* ''[[Spaced]]''. "Well, Sarah ''obviously'' does!"

** "It's not a bedsit. It's a flat!"

* ''[[Higher Ground]]'':

* 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.

* 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.

* It's not often you see a villain get one of these where you can actually cheer them on in doing so, but thanks to the nature of the plot (a [[Dragon with an Agenda]] who betrays the [[Big Bad]] and starts an [[Enemy Civil War]]), ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'' gets to have one of these for the [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bitch]] the Evil Queen. After her [[Batman Gambit]] to bring down the Troll King, ah, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bears fruit]], we get this exchange at the Merrypips Apple Orchard, worth quoting in its entirety:

{{quote|'''Troll King''': [[Come Alone|I am alone and unarmed]].<br />

::''gives a bow'' Your Majesty, ''I read your book!''

* 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.

** 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 [[Hand Wave|rebuttals]] sounded feebler and feebler. Pure. Ownage.

* 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.

* Both Jim and Artie had plenty of CMoAs in the course of ''[[The Wild Wild West]]'', so just one example each - in "The Night of the Human Trigger" two bad guys have Jim flanked on both sides, so if he gets one the other'll finish our hero off...{{spoiler|he gets one with his regular gun and the other with his sleeve-held Derringer.}} And Artie has a rare action scene all to himself in "The Night of the Big Blast" when he has a swordfight with one of the villains - also a CMoA for Ross Martin, as it's clearly him in some (though not all) of the shots.

* HGTV's show ''Income Property" has had a few. In one, host Scott [[Mc Gillivray]] 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!"

* This legendary piece of Vital Information from ''[[All That]]'':