Favorite "Very Special Episode"?

Oh, there are several. I always loved VSE's because they were so damn odd. What would normally be a fluffy sitcom suddenly turned into a drama, and very rarely were the writers or actors equipped to deal with that stuff meaningfully. The result was usually horrible but hilarious. Loved them.

- In the 80's there was an epidemic of kids getting trapped in refrigerators, so Punky Brewster did a special episode that dealt with one of the kids getting trapped in a fridge while playing hide and seek.


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I think I read that back then sitcoms weren't taken seriously and the only way that the actors could get some notice was to have a dramatic episode