The Chris Gethard Show: 15 Greatest Moments

I'll be honest, I don't know how many people consider this episode the best. But every time I go back to it, it just feels like a perfect show, in which TCGS reaches a sort of interactive peak. It feels like a triumph. It feels like the most warm, welcoming episode of television ever produced and yet it is centered around a Skype call. Something has kept me thinking about this one in particular ever since I first watched it. 

A couple of episodes prior, TCGS produced an episode titled "We Watch You." The premise involved the cast of the show video chatting with their fans and getting a closer look at how they watched the show. Some showed off their pets, some came prepared with bits, but one person in particular stood out. His name was Mike and he called in from his university's library in Ithaca, New York. A willingness to submit to the challenges of the panel immediately won him over with the rest of the audience and the TCGS crew decided to center an episode around him several weeks later involving an extended version of this interaction. 

Every instance of chaos caused in the library feels worthy of celebration. It stirs up a lot of goofy emotions in me whenever something over the top happens and that's why this episode is so important to me. It feels like the ultimate realization of the show's interactive qualities and it needs to be acknowledged.