The moment you were "sold" on a show

[That Phat Hat]

With TV shows you watch regularly, can you point to a moment when you were sold, when you knew this was a show you were going to watch every week, buy the season DVD, whatever?

Here are a few of mine:
* Arrested Development - "Illusions, Dad! You don't have time for my illusions!" from the pilot episode
* 30 Rock - "Jenna and Ghostface Killah and Yo Yo Ma to the stage please for 'Muffin Top'." Either that or Jack's "It's after 6. What am I, a farmer?" line.
* Mad Men - end of "Golden Violin", when the camera pulls away from Don sitting in the company break room, very Hopper-esque (yeah, I'm a recent convert)

I'm trying to remember when I got hooked on The Office (NBC version) or Lost, but having trouble pinpointing a single moment.

[billyireland]

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[Motterman]

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[That Phat Hat]

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Watch the volume (language) if you are at work.
Holy crap, I was going to mention that scene and it slipped my mind. They're absolutely perfect.

I would have loved to been at the table reading for the scene.

[billyireland]

The funny part is that I hadn't seen The Wire at all when I saw this scene (it got/gets as good as no airtime/advertising over here... which is really odd since HBO shows tend to be very popular in the UK/Ireland), and thought it was fairly 'meh'. Didn't really get it. I downloaded the series early in the summer and when I saw it again it was like 'oooooohhhhhh.... oh wow!'

[metroflip73]

Opening scene of Mad Men, when Draper is talking to the guy and asks him why he smokes a particular cigarette.

Either that scene or the one where Joan Holloway makes her first appearance.