The original post: /r/television by /u/darinani on 2024-05-15 13:24:20.
When asked “what episode represents the series the most accurately” people will either say the best episodes (way better than the average episode of the show) or even the most special ones (very different from the rest). It should be the average goodness of the show. I don’t mean mid. Think about your favourite show. Imagine every episode has a number representing how good it is. Now you make an average. This is what an representative episode is like. In the Buffy sub, people often claim that the representative episode is Hush, OMWF or The Body. Three very unique episodes. Way more experimental than 90% of the rest. Only two or three other episodes can be called that experimental or unusual. None of them represents what the show overall is like.
Edit: I am NOT talking about an episode that represents the heart of the show OR episode that is best to show to people when trying to convince them to watch it.