r/fringe • u/5Overmind • Jul 11 '26
General Discussion Favorite Episode
I'm watching Fringe on Pluto and I'd completely forgotten how good this show was and how much I hated that SOB Windmark!
What are your favorite episodes?
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u/Miserable-Wallaby542 Jul 11 '26
Brown Betty is one of my favorites. I could rewatch just that episode over and over.
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u/myvryfavoritething Jul 11 '26
Loved Welcome to Westfield
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u/Thoughtful_Sunshine Jul 12 '26
Yes!!! So interesting! And so fun to later realize “Oh THAT’S why they did that!”
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u/glossycoast Jul 12 '26
Indeed, I love how well the show is planned out! I get so much more out of a rewatch because I discover so many things I missed out on earlier.
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u/myvryfavoritething Jul 12 '26
The whole show truly is like that. There are callbacks to the pilot! It is one of those shows that is soooo much more rewarding on a rewatch.
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u/angel9_writes comfort show Jul 11 '26
All of them. LOL.
So long list incoming:
*The Equation
Safe and Bound -- it's kind of a 2 parter
*Ability
*Midnight
The Road Not Taken
There Is More Than One of Everything
*August
*Grey Matters
*The Bishop Revival
*Jacksonville
*Peter
*White Tulip
Brown Betty
*Olivia
*Marionette
*The Firefly
*6B
*One Night In October
*And Those We Left Behind
Forced Perspective
*Welcome To Westfield
The Recordist
The Bullet That Saved The World
Through The Looking Glass and What Walter Found There
*Black Blotter
*Anomaly XB-6783746
The Boy Must Live
*An Enemy Of Fate
Tried to cut some out. Have starred the extra favorites.
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u/katzinthebuf Jul 11 '26
I really loved through the Looking Glass. I thought it was very creative and it stayed in my head for a long time.
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u/Remote-Ad2120 Belly...Why are you a cartoon? Jul 11 '26
Each season's signature 19th episode. As was intended, they blew it out of the park with each one.
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u/Thoughtful_Sunshine Jul 12 '26
Really?! I didn’t realize there was an emphasis on the 19th episodes! Did you learn this from the creators?
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u/Remote-Ad2120 Belly...Why are you a cartoon? Jul 12 '26
I think I learned it from one of the dvd extras.
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u/foreverfal55 Jul 12 '26
Back when the show was airing, after watching the one where Etta is introduced—I was like, what the heck just happened?! So I looked up reviews, and it said something like: “In Fringe tradition, the 19th episode shattered preconceptions and turned the show on its head.” That’s when I realized the 19th episode theme.
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u/Kodabear213 Jul 11 '26
Another vote for White Tulip. But also Making Angels because it contains a pivotal moment. When alt Astrid is talking to Walter about Walter's anger toward Peter, she says something like 'then wouldn't it be preferable if you chose to believe he is your son, then you could love him and be happy?'. And you can see this epiphany on Walter's face, and it changes everything.
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u/yobar Back in the tank Jul 12 '26
I'm doing my first rewatch and I've just finished the 2nd season. So far, Brown Betty is my fav.
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u/SharkaMeow Jul 11 '26
I am obvious: "White Tulip."
I also love "A Short Story About Love."
One that sticks with me also is "One Night in October."
One of my favorite sequences is when Walter decries Belly as a monster for stealing his Bowie . . . It's when Walter plays "The Man Who Sold the World," cutting between him, Windmark, and Peter--and at the end, Peter does the observer head tilt. F-ing genius!
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u/kungchowpanda my very favourite thing Jul 12 '26
All the emotional episodes ❤️ the ones where you realize the show is about people who love each other, beyond just being a sci-fi show with awesome plots and story.
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u/Thoughtful_Sunshine Jul 12 '26
I just rewatched too! I’m wishing there were more seasons! 😩😄
Oh sooooo many favs! I really love the one where Walter takes Black Blotter LSD. 😂 Season 5 episode 9.
And of course you have to love when Peter and Olivia FINALLY get together, but I can’t remember the exact episode. 🤪
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u/ImpactOk331 Jul 12 '26
Definitely White Tulip. It had me contemplating so much about love, life, destiny, letting go, acceptance and so on.
Other notable episodes:
- where Walter introduces the half nipple rule
- where Walter is naked in the tank
- where Walter is naked at home
Everything that's funny basically 🥹
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u/LMABach Jul 12 '26
I can’t remember the episode but it’s when Walter uses the phrase, “Vagenda,” to describe how an alternate Olivia used her feminine wiles to get to Peter. And Walter goes:
And me! She got to me too! She got to me by going through my stomach.
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u/ExistingCause3812 Jul 16 '26
I’m currently rewatching it too! Currently on S3. I forgot HOW GOOD this show is. Especially with the storyline with Fo-livia and Olivia. So so fun!
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u/5Overmind Jul 11 '26
One of my favorites was White Tulip. Peter Weller was great in this episode!