20. NORTHERN EXPOSURE
''Fish Story'' (1994)

Give this one credit for thinking big. When Maggie wants to make a Passover Seder for Joel, he balks. Later, while fishing, he hooks local Cicely legend, Goony, a sturgeon said to weigh half a ton. While following the fish in a rowboat, Joel has a dream in which he and his rabbi from New York have a serious chat inside the belly of the beast. By the time his Jonah moment is over, Joel realizes he's been pushing Maggie away. In a lesser show's hands, a mid-stream biblical allegory might've sent fans fleeing.