Luckily I grew up in the UK and we have the best television in the world.
Not so luckily, this means I have way too much to choose from.
Someone mentioned Blackadder, that great BBC comedy series.
In Blackadder series four, the whole thing was played out in the trenches of the first world war but was still very funny, despite the setting.They played the whole series for laughs, until the final episode when all the characters you had come to know and love were about to go over the top for yet another pointless gesture from the generals running the show.
Suddenly everything became serious and all the characters knew they were almost certainly going to die.After an entire series of laughter you realised that war in no joke, and as everything goes into slow motion as they rush headlong into the machine gun fire, it's hard not to cry for all the people you have become so fond off.
It was incredible to turn everything around at that last minute, just to make a point about war.Brilliant stuff.
Another great series in the UK was Spaced, by the same guys that made the movie Sean of the dead.In the second series there is an episode where everyone plays around in pretend gunfights like a Sam Pekinpah movie, only no one has any guns, there is no blood, and it is only people pretending to be in slow motion, it's hard to accurately describe just how funny it is.
I'll probably think of a hundred others in the next five minutes.