Questions tagged [identify-this-episode]
For questions about identifying a specific TV episode. Use alongside the relevant TV show tag when available. Include details like approximate air date, character descriptions, visual elements, dialogue snippets, or network to help others identify the episode you're looking for.
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TV episode, probably of a horror anthology, with a native or voodoo prisoner who mystically escapes while being escorted and hunts down the cop
I'm looking for a TV episode, probably of a horror anthology, with a native or voodoo prisoner who mystically escapes while being escorted and hunts down the cop.
The basic plot as I remember it was ...
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A South Park episode with a circular hand gesture
Please, help me find the South Park episode. There was a girl (or even several characters) who did a certain hand gesture: moving a forearm like a hand of a clock. The girl was eco activist or some ...
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90's sitcom episode where a guy remembers (and then forgets) calling a girl "Lefty"
There was a sitcom on American TV in the mid to late nineties that I saw one or
two episodes of, and I can really only remember one episode, detailed (as much
as possible) below. The show followed a ...
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Trying to identify a Quincy episode that mentioned a dangerous drug combination
In this episode the titular doctor talks to a teenager who occasionally smokes pot — something in itself he does not pass judgement on, but during the conversation he (Quincy) learns a deceased ...
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Killer's love interest finds a trophy (necklace? ring?) in his nightstand that leads to a physical altercation
The love interest accidentally opens his nightstand and finds jewelry that belonged to one of the women, or try to use his phone and he says "i wish you hadn't done that". I think the woman ...
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Scene in old 1970's detective/police show with very early depiction of a laser-sighted rifle
I remember seeing part of an episode of a TV show in the 1970's where a group of robbers uses a stolen laser-sighted rifle to rob a supermarket. At the time, this was presented as an extremely exotic ...
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Animated episode about a new classmate who does everything perfectly
I'm looking for a cartoon series that was running around the 00's (maybe on Nickelodeon?). It had a memorable episode where a new male kid arrived in the class. He was a single-episode character, and ...
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"Baretta" episode where Baretta's gun jams and there's a bad guy on a wrecking ball
I am trying to identify an episode of Baretta (1975–1978 TV series) where Baretta was trying to shoot his gun, but it got jammed! There is a bad guy on a wrecking ball trying to hit him; that is all ...
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Which South Park episode mocks Henry Cavill leaving The Witcher?
This YouTube video, "Henry Cavill CONFRONT Witcher 4 Creators After South Park Destroyed The Show Live On TV!?" by Buzzline, about the drama of Henry Cavill not participating in the fourth ...
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Prisoner coffin escape story and its equivalence with Hitchcock’s "Final Escape"
Many years ago, when I was in college, the professor in Visual Communication told us a story, from what I remember:
In a prison, there's a plague that's wiping out the inmate population en masse, and ...
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TV Show where an older male character, possibly poisoned, is walking around and occasionally lifting his hand, making a floppy disk appear
My brain wants to say this was an episode of MacGyver, but I watched a variety of TV shows when I was a kid, and they all meld together a bit. It could also be an episode of Scarecrow and Mrs King or ...
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When was God featured in The Simpsons?
I was curious as to where this scene from a TikTok clip/edit can be found in The Simpsons. Whether that be the movie or which season and episode.
It appears to be God coming down from heaven. However, ...
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CSI: Las Vegas episode where a woman uses her son to attract young women for purposes of prostitution
Someone on Reddit /r/TooAfraidToAsk, in a discussion, Why are Madames Usually Depicted More Sympathetically than Pimps? mentioned this CSI episode but didn't specify the title. As the poster described ...
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X-Files episode where the Smoking Man advises his son: "Never chase anyone's ideas; always act in your own interests."
I'm trying to identify The X-Files episode where the Smoking Man crosses paths with his son and gives him advice. (I think the son was Jeffrey Spender, who, as I understand it, is unaware that the ...
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Episode where people are lured/trapped and kept by an unseen experimenter
I saw an episode of some show on broadcast (not cable) TV in Denver, Colorado in the 1980s. Some people were enticed into a brick(?) building on plausible but false pretext. Once inside, they were ...
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