8. Aqua Teen Hunger Force, season 6 episode 4, "Hoppy Bunny"
Here's what happens: Carl orders a flute from a TV infomercial; the flute is called "Recorder Wizard: Vagina Domination." When he tries to play it, the instrument sprouts all manner of wires that embed themselves in his body, controlling it and forcing him to dress like an elf and play over and over a woodland fairy song. He also must hop back and forth as he plays. Men dressed as furry forest creatures--giant squirrels and such--show up on his lawn and begin to dance to his music. Carl tries to commit suicide by lying down in the street and waiting for a car to run him over, but because he can't stop playing the flute, his song continues, his dancing continues, though horizontal now, and the forest creatures continue to prance on the lawn. Master Shake rents out Frylock's room as a parking garage for the lawn dancers, then decides that this was a mistake. He then seduces Frylock with a body massage, taking advantage of the relaxed mood by stealing Frylock's magical laser crystal, which he then attempts to use against the forest creatures, rising into the air and exclaiming, "I have the power of a thousand suns!" Beams of fire shoot out randomly, and Master Shake gives up. Cut to a pawn shop, where Master Shake is selling the magical crystal. Shake returns home with cash money, where forest creatures continue to dance to Carl's elfin bop. As the episode ends, we see the pawn shop owner flying over Carl's house, exclaiming, "I have the power of a thousand suns!" I regret only that I do not have a thousand number one slots for this episode to dominate. 9. Man on Wire
This movie is fantastic, but I liked it even more after realizing that it takes its title from the police report filed against Philippe Petit for his stunt. They didn't know how else to describe his crime, so they just wrote "complaint: MAN ON WIRE." And as if to convey the seriousness of the charge, the officer wrote it in all capital letters.
10. Jon Stewart interviews Mike Huckabee, aired 8 December 2008
Because he's a decent man with a good, clear head and a fair heart, Mike Huckabee can make bad ideas sound curiously good; which is why Jon Stewart tasked him in the gentlest way during this final episode of 2008. While discussing the recently passed, and as recently regretted, Proposition 8, the men clashed cleanly and respectfully, neither condescending to petty pleas or chopshop logic. In an age of hyperactive simplicity and instant information, their conversation seemed quaint and dignified, and oddly melancholic, as if, as they performed their homage to the favor of forgotten oratory, they ruminated on its passing away from public ceremony, to be replaced by something sophistical and empty. In the end, neither could convince his opponent, but persuasion didn't really seem to be the point, not when two men from different cultures with competing political ideologies, who cannot agree on a solution to such a simple problem as how to define a union between persons, did agree on the soundness and equity of the procedure both employed in their pursuit of such definitions. To those of us who watched that night, the agreement uplifted us, even as we witnessed its obsolescence. As the program ended, the two men thanked and wished each other the best. Then, as I surmise from this photo, Jon Stewart went hunting with Davy Crockett.
This movie is fantastic, but I liked it even more after realizing that it takes its title from the police report filed against Philippe Petit for his stunt. They didn't know how else to describe his crime, so they just wrote "complaint: MAN ON WIRE." And as if to convey the seriousness of the charge, the officer wrote it in all capital letters.10. Jon Stewart interviews Mike Huckabee, aired 8 December 2008
Because he's a decent man with a good, clear head and a fair heart, Mike Huckabee can make bad ideas sound curiously good; which is why Jon Stewart tasked him in the gentlest way during this final episode of 2008. While discussing the recently passed, and as recently regretted, Proposition 8, the men clashed cleanly and respectfully, neither condescending to petty pleas or chopshop logic. In an age of hyperactive simplicity and instant information, their conversation seemed quaint and dignified, and oddly melancholic, as if, as they performed their homage to the favor of forgotten oratory, they ruminated on its passing away from public ceremony, to be replaced by something sophistical and empty. In the end, neither could convince his opponent, but persuasion didn't really seem to be the point, not when two men from different cultures with competing political ideologies, who cannot agree on a solution to such a simple problem as how to define a union between persons, did agree on the soundness and equity of the procedure both employed in their pursuit of such definitions. To those of us who watched that night, the agreement uplifted us, even as we witnessed its obsolescence. As the program ended, the two men thanked and wished each other the best. Then, as I surmise from this photo, Jon Stewart went hunting with Davy Crockett. 
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