I have a shit ton of long posts to do for this blog and a few here and there for other blogs. I have to get a set of annual posts done and pretty much only big projects are left. Anyways, I am going with this post out of all of them since this was exactly 30 years ago that this year happened and it was relevant. I think that I will do something like this every year from this post forward. I was going to do a top ten, but I could not remember enough episodes of shows to work so a top five will have to do. Anyways, here we go with the five best episodes from this year. Each show will only get one episode. Here we go:
#5 Percy’s Promise from Thomas the Tank Engine: There isn’t much to say about why I liked this episode out of all of them that aired in 1991 from this show. It was possibly the best episode that year because it took a simple promise and showed the determination that Percy took to get it done. There wasn’t any accident to teach them a lesson or anything too over the top. It was also kind of simple so not worth a spot higher on this list.
#4 The Way We Was from The Simpsons: With a lot of potentially good episode to choose from, it seems that this was the best of them since it was the first flashback episode which sought to explain more of what was going on with The Simpsons family from back in high school regarding how they met and then became who they were today. I enjoy a lot of the flashback episodes of this show, at least from early on when they didn’t contradict too much of themselves (versus today’s flashback episodes).
#3 The Parking Garage from Seinfeld: I almost went with the episode with them at a Chinese restaurant instead, but this episode is practically the epitome of a show about nothing. The characters are lost in a parking garage and lots of weird things happen. But it is also a great story to see in the end.
#2 Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: With almost a great nod to all of the British shows that end a season with a Christmas episode, we see the last official adventure of Pooh and friends as they await Christmas. While they are all set to receive gifts, it is then revealed that Pooh never asked for one. He seeks to rectify this, but the letter gets lost. He then wants to play Santa to give all of his friends their gifts himself. After things go awry, they realize that friendship is more important as they still get the gifts they wanted to in the end.
#1 The Defense from Matlock: In my mind, the best episode of Matlock, we get deep questions that just aren’t seen as much in shows back then. What if killing someone was the only way to save someone else? That question is at the heart of the trial as a man seeks to justify killing his father in order to protect his mother from her husband’s abuse and almost death. While people seek to find a way to get justice for those involved, it is nice to see the serious topic of domestic abuse being brought up even back then in an episode much ahead of its time. Some exceptional episodes of today wouldn’t have been seen without something like this as a guideline of what to do.
That’s it for this blog post. Like I said in the introduction, there are a lot of huge posts for this blog that I have put off doing and now I will need to do all five of them in the end with only a short one among the five of them with a sixth needing to be done for next year right away. I don’t expect all of this to make sense to everyone. Now the cheat that used to apply to this one isn’t in it anymore which is why you did not see this last week if that wasn’t already explained. Anyways, here’s the last of this post.
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