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8.3
The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970)
6.7
2 Broke Girls

2 Broke Girls (2011)
7.0
The Crazy Ones

The Crazy Ones (2013)
6.9
Alice

Alice (1976)

Episode Power Rankings

The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.

#1
S2E4 9.5
Killing All the Right People

"Killing All the Right People" is the 26th episode of the sitcom Designing Women. Originally airing on October 5, 1987, as the fourth episode of the second season, it features Tony Goldwyn as Kendall Dobbs, a young man dying of AIDS who asks the women to design his funeral. Series creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's mother died of AIDS and her experience with her mother's disease and the prejudice associated with it inspired the episode.

#2
S4E11 9.2
They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?

Fat as a feminist issue surfaces when Suzanne endures cruel jokes about her weight at her high-school reunion; Anthony enlists Julia and Mary Jo to join him in a two-day fast to focus attention on world hunger.

#3
S1E18 8.8
Oh, Suzannah

Suzanne becomes the foster mother to a Vietnamese boat girl for a month while the papers for her adoption by a Birmingham couple are being cleared. However, they become so attached that they don't want to split up.

#4 Stranded S2E10 8.8
#5 Bernice's Sanity Hearing S4E7 8.8
#6 The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century: Part 2 S4E14 8.8
#7 There She Is S4E3 8.7
#8 Foreign Affairs S4E24 8.7
#9 La Place sans Souci S4E28 8.7
#10 The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century: Part 1 S4E13 8.6

▼ Lowlights

#163 S6E12 Real, Scary Men 5.0

The women go antiquing in the Georgia mountains. Due to the torrential rain, their car breaks down at a cabin where they find a men's primitive movement. Anthony gets blamed for ruining its men-only sanctity by bringing the women, for which the men intend to punish him.

#162 Shovel Off to Buffalo S7E17 5.3
#161 Trial and Error S7E10 5.5
#160 The Vision Thing S7E9 5.8
#159 The Odyssey S7E12 5.9

The Quality Arc

Each point is an episode, plotted in order. Colored bands mark season boundaries. Look for the rise, the plateau, or the decline.

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Episode Engagement

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Series Trajectory

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Season Momentum

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Season Consistency

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If You Liked This

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8.3
The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970)
6.7
2 Broke Girls

2 Broke Girls (2011)
7.0
The Crazy Ones

The Crazy Ones (2013)
6.9
Alice

Alice (1976)