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Specific extra special television moments that will stay with you forever

Shardovan

...by which I mean not the whole show or even an episode, but a scene or exchange or fragment of the thing where you got chills because it was so perfectly done:

One I just thought of:

The moment in Northern Exposure Season 6 when Joel has this sudden epiphany while visiting a patient in a remote Native American village to treat a patient, and spontaneously decides - even to his own surprise - to stay. There and then. Instantly off grid. He's about to head off down river, and is talking to a villager on his way back to the boat. The exchange goes something like:

Joel: 'So, you ever gonna get running water put in here?'
Villager: 'No'
Joel: 'What about having a line put in?'
Villager: 'No'
Joel: 'Huh. What about cable?'
Villager: 'No'
[beat of total silence, camera subtly zooms in]
Joel: 'Can I live here?'

I got goosebumps the first time, and I still do. Peak television that show, and that was one of those touchstone moments that tilted the world.

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  • The moment at the end of Life on Mars where Sam Tyler looks down at his hand and realises he can't feel anything and he remembers Nelson's words "You're alive when you can feel" and he decides to go back to 1973 and Bowie is playing in the background. Wow. Also the moment at the beginning of Life on Mars where he wakes up in 1973 for the first time to the sound of the same song. 
    I have always identified with that show, I think it's something about being lost in a strange world which I relate to. Nelson the barman has given me some of the quotes I have always lived by. As well as the one I just mentioned there is also

    "you're where you are and you've got to make the best of it" I have carried that through life a bit 

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  • The moment at the end of Life on Mars where Sam Tyler looks down at his hand and realises he can't feel anything and he remembers Nelson's words "You're alive when you can feel" and he decides to go back to 1973 and Bowie is playing in the background. Wow. Also the moment at the beginning of Life on Mars where he wakes up in 1973 for the first time to the sound of the same song. 
    I have always identified with that show, I think it's something about being lost in a strange world which I relate to. Nelson the barman has given me some of the quotes I have always lived by. As well as the one I just mentioned there is also

    "you're where you are and you've got to make the best of it" I have carried that through life a bit 

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