That first breakup episode set the standard for all breakup episodes. There wouldn’t be a Friends Ross and Rachel fight without it. How it pivots from good zings, to the (problematic now) slap fight, to gradually getting deadly serious and nope, this is for real. Long and Danson both look so hollowed out at the end of…

Does ending a marriage count? Don and Betty Draper calling it quits and breaking the news to the children absolutely kills me every time.

Yes, this. I just think of Diane repeating “I’ll be back in six months!” with a bemused, why-dont-you-believe-me look on her face - while Sam’s expression is one of resigned sadness because he knows the truth. Great scene.

I’ll disagree on Schitt’s Creek. It was the first time Alexis had started to do anything for herself in her whole life, and going with Ted would literally have meant sitting around every day while he worked on his research project...for a couple of years. 

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Im shocked at the lack of Sam and Diane in this list. They may be a cliche now, but they're the couple that the cliche was named after for a reason.

The I’ve turned into a grumpy old Bollocks category:

It occasionally hits those heights - particularly in Tomkinson’s School Days.

Palin has always had some serious Good Uncle energy.

You know, when you’re chewing on life’s gristle, don’t grumble, give a whistle, and this’ll help things turn out for the best.

He got better . . .

“Terry Gilliam is also in agreement with this.”

Michael Palin’s diaries are really eye opening to how things were within the group and notably, Eric Idle was always very focused on the business side to the point of the others failing to recognize why that mattered so much (and he’s not wrong, tbh, but you can tell the others are either not happy with compromising…

Cleese is like Chevy Chase...it’s funny he’s an asshole but it’s also not really an act.  Eric Idle has always been too obsessed with famous people and money.  Gilliam has always been crazy and irresponsible.  Chapman was always a huge superior asshole.  Terry Jones was always a tyrant.  And Michael Palin was always…

Yes, I’m sure all the remaining Pythons, who have no other way of communicating with the outside world other than through you, all secretly agree with you, John Cleese.

Michael Palin and Terry Jones were always my favorites. I just finished Ripping Yarns, and although it doesn’t hit the heights of Python, it’s still really good.

In the words of Raylan Givens, if you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.

In response to “What happened with the other Pythons.. [sic] Seen a few tweets from Eric. Did yous [sic] fall out of touch with each other?”, Cleese tweeted, “We always loathed and despised each other, but it’s only recently that the truth has begun to emerge.”

Cleese appears to be an egotistical bigot, while Idle seems like a cranky bastard who apparently has issues with every other living member of the troupe.  Shocking that this apparently made for a tense working environment.

Whatever my feelings about present day Cleese or Idle, it’s not exactly a secret that the Python gang has always had multiple internal tensions. I mean, Cleese has spent 40 years complaining about the drama around his final season of Flying Circus and The Meaning of Life.