ER on Anthony Edwards' last day on the job.

Annoying hypochondriac: "Dr., I have a hangnail."
Edwards: "Well, I have a brain tumor. I win. Goodbye."

A few people up thread have mentioned Two Cathedrals and Let Bartlet be Bartlet for West Wing HY! moments, but I've always liked the scene at the end of the third act in Take out the Trash Day.
Actually, that episode is full of HY moments, but I'm talking about the speech Mr. Lydell gives C.J and Mandy when CJ (who I want to be when I grow up and who was totally given the wrong information by stupid dumb ass Mandy) asks him if he wasn't supporting the Hate Crimes Bill 'cause he was embarrassed that his son was gay then wants to know if they support the President;

Mr. Lydell:


And then Allison Janney delivers one of the best "Oh Shit!" faces in the history of television.

Just watched BtVS's "This Year's Girl". The very end, when Joyce asks Faith-in-Buffy if she's all right, and F-i-B answers "...Five by five." Damn, I love Faith.

In AtS, I love the end of "The Trial". Darla makes her peace with dying, Angel pledges to stay by her side... and then the commandos and Lindsey barge in, incapacitate Angel, and revamp Darla by bringing in Dru. Maybe not a "hell yeah" moment by most people's standards, but I love it. What is it about seeing title characters suffer with me?

The death of Luther Mahoney on Homicide: LOTS:
Mahoney (after lowering his gun): What are you gonna do, detective? Read me my rights?
Kellerman: You have the right to remain silent. (BANG!)

A definite "Hell, yeah!" moment, even though it was the beginning of the end for Mikey.


Another one from Oz:
Sister Pete: Do you believe in Jesus, Cyril?
Cyril: That's a silly question. It's not up to me, believing or not believing. We don't
choose God, God chooses us.

Hell, yeah, you just know Sister Pete will tear up her Church release papers after that.

Okay, I just confused "incapacitate" and "decapitate". Now that would have really made him suffer. And also die. Probably why it didn't happen and I had to re-read the sentence. Carry on!

Loudest 'HELL YEAH!!!' on my block. It had taken 3 long years, baby but it was worth the wait. Too bad Stompy didn't finish his job.

I just saw the ER ep where Elizabeth figures out that Mark's tumor has come back. The exchange between her and Romano totally rocked! Although Romano was usually an annoying little prick, this particular scene really showed what an awesome actor that Paul McCrane is.

Bygones

Not sure if this is appropriate forum, but big props to the folks at TCM for the superb clip montage promo for January 2004 cinema events. It's just as fine as any of the montage moments made for the Oscar® events. Kudos!

Decormaven, did you say "Hell Yeah!" when you saw it? Then this is an appropriate forum.

Topic: Celebrity Poker Showdown. When Lady Luck smiled on Nicole Sullivan and filled her gut-shot straight with a King on the river to beat Paul Rudd's trip sixes.

Whenever Stone Cold Steve Austin tells me to.

"Let's make sure history never forgets the name Enterprise!"
(Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Yesterday's Enterprise")

"You cannot stop one who's been touched by Vorlons."
"You're not the only one who's been touched by Vorlons."
(Babylon 5, "Wheel of Fire")

Sue Hawk's "Rat and Snake" speech in the Survivor 1 finale.

Edited to link to the full text of the Rat and Snake speech, which Omar G transcribed in its entirety for his recap.

When my mom forced me to watch Meredith Viera's crappy Who Wants to be a Millionaire? today, I was reminded of the first time anyone won on that show (the original primetime one, with Regis).

I loved the way the guy didn't use any of his life lines until the last question. And only then, he called his dad to say something along the lines of, "I don't need any help Dad...I'm just calling to let you know that I'm about to be a millionaire." Cheesy, I know, but the guy played it so cool :)

That was AWESOME.

There are so many HY! moments I could include, but these are my favourites:

Total word to the Rachel smackdown on This Life - she so had it coming to her. I loved the ‘It wasn't me...’ Bam!

Angel:

In the episode ‘Orpheus’, when Faith gets out of the Orpheus coma, realises Connor's gone to stake Angel, rushes down to the basement, grabs his wrist and ‘Break off a switch son, there's gonna be a whuppin'...’, and then proceeds to wipe that smirk off his face with an ass kicking. Hell yeah! I think Vincent Karthesier is a great actor and Connor was a good addition to the show, but someone needed to take him down a peg or two, and after seeing Faith just getting beaten down by Angelus and the Beast in the last three episodes, I'm so glad it was her who got to do it. Eliza Dushku is so cool as Faith.

Also, in ‘Rm w/a Vu’, when the ghost of Mrs Pierson is trying to get Cordy to hang herself by making her feel worthless and calls her a bitch and then Cordy realises ‘I'm a bitch...’ and gives ‘Polygrip’ the verbal smackdown. That was such a total HY! moment that I watch it any time I feel down.

Agree with all the posters who nominated the Class of '99 fighting back in ‘Graduation Day Prt II’ on Buffy. I love when the head vampire shouts ‘Get the kids!’ and then gets a total shit-scared look on his face when he realises the kids are gonna get him.

Any scene where Stabler metes out wall-to-wall counseling on a suspect is a HELL YEAH moment.

Last night, during Dubya's State of the Union address...he was talking about the Patriot Act and how it expired this year. He paused before going on to urge Congress to renew it, but some people in the audience took advantage of his halting speech and broke into applause after the words "the Patriot Act will expire this year" left his mouth. Dubya's head whipped around and he was visibly pissed. And, in my house, us Clark supporters gave a hearty "hell yeah!" to those people who seized the moment and clapped for the end of the Patriot Act.

And members of the audience at home were clapping along, I assure you.

And even the chick who watched it this morning on the news - on the other side of the earth (well kind of - Denmark, anyway) yelled "hell yeah" and continued in the voice of Susan from DOOL "take that you evil, evil, evil man!"

Just watched the Angel episode Sanctuary, and I gave a bit "Hell Yeah" when Angel punched Buffy right in the mouth.

Yeah - oddly, from Connor's sake as well as hers - because he'd gotten to respect Faith, and I'm glad he was stopped by someone he respected.

But almost everything in that whole little arc makes me say hell yeah: when Faith tells Wesley to stand back from the glass; when she vetos any attempt to kill Angelus because Angel had never given up on her; when Angel finally gets to call Angelus a jackass to his face.

Several people have mentioned Julia's rants on Designing Women, and I do love them, but a big Hell Yeah! moment for me was when the women were all taking a self defense class and Mary Jo just couldn't bring herself to be assertive, and she was all wigged out by it, but then at the end of the episode, she thought the guy in the parking garage was following her and she stood up to him and then screeched "911!".

Also when that slimy client tried to rape her and she clocked him over the head with a vase. I love me some Mary Jo.

Just now, during the NBA All-Star weekend...

They just had Nona Gaye sing the national anthem along with the recording of Marvin Gaye at the '84 all-star game (also in LA), a version widely regarded as one of the best/most controversial ever done. Amazingly well done and surprising move from the NBA considering the original controversy.

L&O: SVU. "Abomination." In searching for the killer of a gay man, Benson and Stabler come across a man who is so a stand-in for Fred Phelps, right down to the funeral protesting. They drag Rev. NotPhelps in for questioning, and he, in the process of ranting and raving, says something very similar to what Phelps himself said about 9/11 being God's will.

Stabler responds by sloooowly pushing aside the interrogating table, staring into NotPhelps' face, and priming for a smackdown. I respond by raising by fists to the heavens and yelling, "Aw, yeah, baby!"

Finally got around to renting Season 5 of SATC, I use to have HBO but gave it up 'cause it was draining me and bugging me with the cable box. Someday I will move to a land that doesn't need a really old cable box that messes up with the VCR. Okay, back on topic, I want to give it up to Samantha in "Anchors Away" when she posts Cheater/Liar handouts all around Richard's neighborhood and then the female police officer lets her continue. Oh hell yeah!

Last night on 24 when Jack finally kills Nina. Appropriately she spent her last moments lying on the floor, her hand inching toward a gun while trying to worm yet another deal in exchange for info. This time Jack wasn't haven't it. And the fact it was in the same room that Nina killed Teri in back in Season 1. Sweet.

This is going to sound really stupid to any non-Brits and in retrospect it is really stupid, but my favourite Hell Yeah moment is when Will won the first series of Pop Idol. From the final ten onwards it had become a two horse race between Will and Gareth and somehow Will had come to represent real music and Gareth represented manufactured pop. Us real music fans thought we didn't have a chance because we thought all the 13 year old girls would vote for Gareth because he was 17, cute and had a stammer. However, people you would never expect to get involved in a pop show voted and in the week leading up to the final the whole country was engrossed, it was even discussed in the House of Parliament, and when Ant said Will's name I just felt sooooooooo happy because i never thought Will would actually win. I told you it would sound stupid.

(Oh and Northern Ireland beating Spain in the 1982 World Cup to get to the quarter finals was a real Hell Yeah for the country, even though I wasn't born yet!)

This week's S&TC - which I only just saw last night - the whole scene in the coffee shop with Big and Carrie's friends, from his line about "You're the real loves of her life, any guy would be lucky to come in fourth" all the way to Miranda's "Go get our girl" was one big "Hell yeah!" moment for me.

squiggles, I was exactly the same. I was sure Gareth was going to win and was utterly hating Pop Idol because of it. When Will was announced as the winner, combined with the look of shock on his face, I was jumping around like a lunatic. Definitely a hell yeah moment.

On CNN yesterday they showed a lesbian couple getting married in San Francisco, and at the end of the ceremony, instead of saying, "I now pronounce you husband and wife," she said, "I now pronounce you spouses for life."

It choked me up big-time. HELL YEAH to spouses for life!

Choked-up word. Take that, President Shrub, and all the narrow-minded who think two people who love and cherish each other aren't good enough for the sacred institute of marriage, which must be reserved for people like Brittney Spears.

Tonight's Angel : Puppet!Angel doing the slow-mo bad-ass hero walk down the hall.
(In fact, all of Puppet!Angel was a Hell Yeah.)

Ditto for the Nina one. Just as I was thinking the writers were yet again going to trot out the "she has information we need so we can't kill her" card, Jack says "No you don't" and plugs her in what looks to be the same room she killed his wife and unborn child in.

Another one from last night's Angel: Spike showing up just long enough to get a manbeating from Puppet Angel. That ruled.

My fave moment in "Smile Time" was when Puppet!Angel vamped out. Not enough Hell Yeah! in the world to cover that one, especially with his little puppety wonky fangs!!

Oh, the VampPuppetFace was such as Hell, Yeah! moment. Also:

"Looks like you got a little demon in you."
"I got a lot of demon in me."

Count me on the HellYeah! boat for last night's Angel. I STILL want a PuppetAngel of my very own to cuddle with all day. Because I would.

Ditto for Nina on 24.

And a huge ditto for SATC and Miranda. I literally clapped and pumped my fist when she said, "Go get our girl!" I clapped and cheered the first AND second times I watched. Hell yeah!!!

I started an Angel season 4 marathon today, and this had me cheering and cackling evilly:

(From "Deep Down")

LINWOOD: This is outrageous! Are you actually telling me that you went over my head?

(Lilah taps on her Palm Pilot of Death, activating a blade that decapitates Linwood, sending his head rolling onto the conference table)

LILAH: Just under it, actually. Mr. Suvarta didn't think Linwood's corner of the sky was sunny enough. You're all reporting to me now. Get out.

Hell yeah! Lilah is so gleefully evil, it's actually kind of infectious. Fuck, I wish I could do stuff like that in my meetings at work.

ETA: Oh yeah, I loved PuppetAngel's vampout from "Smile Time" too...that was the best moment of the episode.

Lex getting the boot he so richly deserved on Survivor: All-Stars is enough for me to bump this back up. Watching him become a hypocritical little ass moments before being shown the door was really fun.

When Lisa told Josh off on Big Brother 3.

Lisa: You're juggling, baby, and you're dropping your balls.
[Lisa turns to walk out of kitchen]
Josh: First of all, you shut the f*ck up...
Lisa: [turns back around] You know what?
Josh: What?
Lisa: I keep my mouth shut and my eyes open, and I know a lot more about this house than you think I do. So don't tell me to shut the f*ck up.

That was the turning point in the game. The audience and select players knew Lisa was getting wise, but she didn't let on fully until that point.

Smallville, "Legacy" (last night's episode, that is). Pa Kent and Pa Luthor finally set aside the platitudes and the snotty comments and just kick the living crap out of each other. That? Ruled.

Four words.

"One in five bitch!"

Yeah, I gotta pimp for M*A*S*H. There's an episode where the guys do something out of bounds, as usual, and only grudgingly go along with whatever Potter told them to do. As usual, Potter was right and his solution fixed everything.

B.J. (paraphrasing) "You knew all along this would happen? Why didn't you just say something?"

Potter: "Because when they give you this [pointing to the eagle on his lapel that signifies his rank as a colonel] they also the remove the part of your brain that makes you explain orders."

Hell yeah.

Another "pulling rank" moment is when a sergeant is sitting right outside OR smoking a cigar.

Hawkeye: "Hey, put that out. There's ether fumes all around this area."
Sgt.: "Hey, I'm a sergeant, fella."
Hawkeye: "Yeah? Well, I'm a captain, fella, which means that if this building blows up I'll fly higher than you."

M*A*S*H* had a couple, including the first full episode with Charles.

They've decided to haze him on his first day, and to get revenge on him for his utter pomposity. They interrupt his classical music (to which Charles responds "shh...Mozart"), call him "Chuck", make fun of him in the OR, and talk behind his back. Also, earlier, they put a fake snake in his bed.

At the end of the episode, Charles is once again listening to his music after a long session in the OR. Hawkeye stumbles in bleary-eyed from the day, and gets into bed. He screams, jumps out of bed, and eventually realizes that the fake snake has been switched to his bunk. Hawkeye glares at Charles.

Charles (not even bothering to open his eyes): "Shh...Mozart".

Hell, yeah!!!

The snake in the bed actually happened right after the OR session. Charles had gotten a bit of a comeuppance in OR wherein Hawkeye had to take over because Charles was taking too long on a patient due to inexperience in combat surgery. Afterward, he's sitting dejectedly in the changing room and says to Potter, B.J. and Hawkeye that "I felt like a resident in there." They offer to buy him a drink to cheer him up but he replies wants to be alone. Potter tells B.J. and Hawk to let up on Charles for awhile until he gets used to the place. They fall about laughing saying that they wish he had something before they put the snake in his bed.

Then at the end of the episode Hawkeye comes in and the snake had been put in HIS bed by Charles. It definitely signaled a new era, the "Charles Will Not Take Your Crap" Era.

No one has a moment from Band of Brothers? I like when they blow up the Tiger (?) in "Carentan." Hell yeah.

Mary Lou Retton sticking her vault landing. Twice. Perfect Ten - Gold Medal.

On Buffy, I think it's a tie between the "Me" line when Buffy's fight Angelus at the end of Season 2, and the "second best" actor line from Angel to Faith. I think I had more time to enjoy the "second best" line though, because the "me" line when straight to more fighting, and then more crying...

Pacey on Dawson's Creek. After that awful teacher made poor gay Jack cry, and then he told Pacey that trying to teach him was like spitting in the the face of education, and then Pacey showed him what spitting in the face really was. And thus my Pacey love was born...

Alex on L&O: SVU. In her final episode, she's in the room with that psycho columbian drug lord who murdered his girlfriend (the undercover agent). And she's not quaking in fear of him, and talking about how he's going to be found guilty, etc. And the crazy drug guy gets all upset, and asks his lawyer if he's going to let this bitch talk to him like that, and Alex responds "Yes, you'll find that in America I'm allowed to address you in any manner that I see fit. You'll also find out that here, when a woman makes fun of your sex drive, you're not *actually* allowed to kill her". Awesome. I miss Alex...

The pilot episode of Alias. There were three "Hell Ya" moments that convinced me this was going to be my new favorite show. First, when the Evil Dentist of Aisian Persuasion asked for Sydney to tell him who she worked for, and she had him write down E.M.E.T.I.B, and then reverse it. Then, when he started to remove her teeth, she started making noise like she was going to talk, so he stopped, and she simply asks him to start with the teeth in the back. And finally, when doped up on the truth syrum, she tells him how she's going to escape, and then flips her chair backwards over him and does just that. Hell freaking Ya.

And finally, during the last season of Felicity, when Ben is ripping into Noel, and telling him to give it up with Felicity, and that "you're never going to have her!" and Noel replies back "I already did". Made my day. It's still doesn't make up for Felicity choosing Ben in the end, but it still brings a smile to my face and an inner "helll ya" every time I think about it.

Last week on the Apprentice where Amy and especially Nick had their characters completely DESTROYED by Donald's interviewer people to their face and then were fired, especially after Nick's pompous comments basically saying "Bill and Kwame should be nervious but I don't need to be"

This thread is awesome. I'm saying "Hell yeah!" and I don't even watch half of these shows.

I forget the episode but the X-Files where the CSM learns that Albert Halsteen is translating the DAT tape.

CSM: What is this?
Skinner: This is where you pucker up and kiss my ass, you son of a bitch!


Also, again I don't know the episode (bad TV viewer, bad!), on Chicago Hope when Jeffrey Geiger returns and Kate tells him that she's had all his music thrown away. He starts singing without it and all the nurses join in. I love Geiger and hated Kate. It was beautiful.

Oh WORD! Thanks for reminding me bamf Best. Scene. Ever.