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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 real T.V. moment that really changed me happened when I was about 6 or 7.

    I'd seen something the previous evening on the avengers and thought I'd learned something useful. I can't remember exactly what it was unfortunately, but that does not matter. What mattered to me profoundly at the time was that when I applied it at school the following day, it failed so spectacularly, that I learned instantly that T.V. information is not to be trusted, and the device is for mindless entertainment only and not fro learning about life, unless it's clearly presented as such.

    Later I learned that even that information is not guaranteed to be reliable.

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  • The real T.V. moment that really changed me happened when I was about 6 or 7.

    I'd seen something the previous evening on the avengers and thought I'd learned something useful. I can't remember exactly what it was unfortunately, but that does not matter. What mattered to me profoundly at the time was that when I applied it at school the following day, it failed so spectacularly, that I learned instantly that T.V. information is not to be trusted, and the device is for mindless entertainment only and not fro learning about life, unless it's clearly presented as such.

    Later I learned that even that information is not guaranteed to be reliable.

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