Best Filler Episodes?

[Darkflare]

Originally posted by: ScudBoy
"filler"is what action junkies call "plot"
You want filler? look at any us produced scifi series in the last 30 years- 40% of every episode is true filler- useless long shots, overacting charavter actors making constipated faces while screeching "tension" music plays, or just endless repeditive corridor walking, sometime in slow-mo even. You could easily take almost any one hour show & cut it down in to a 20 min ep w/actual pacing.
Some people will complain about "filler" in anything- look at the freaking clone wars episodes- 5 min each- go look at the theforce.net forums about the episodes & you'll find guys bitching about 10 seconds of wasted "filler" in almost every episode. One guy even weant so far as to actaully say in one scene mace windu stared for .5 seconds too long at his light saber. litteraly, 1/2 of a second.
Do some people really have that short of an attention span?
For god sakes smoke something narcotic & take your riddlen children

indeed i think kilzo is right when he says you have a different idea of what filler is. around these here parts, filler is just random stuff they make an episode into that has nothing to do with the plot of the story and whatnot. its just filling in for the empty spaces between the plot driving episodes

[Death BOO Z]

as far as i know, filler are parts in the anime which didn't appear in the manga...
for example:
about everything after shishio's arc in Rurouni kenshin (i think 63\64 was in the manga, and after that it was all filler), as well as the 'pirates" and the "train" arcs.
In Ranma 1\2: about half the times akane gets kidnapped or Ranma gets challenge by a complete stranger, and the entire Sasuke charecter...
in Inuyasha: about half the times a random demon challenges Inuyasha or kidnappes Kagome, and the entire Ayame charecter, also, the way he defeated Bankoutso (episode 120 or something) was diffrent from the manga...

anyway, the best filler episode I know is DBZ 110 (125 in jap version), it was one of the fast-paced eps, and it was really funny, with Chichi getting pissed on Piccolo for leaching on them... good stuff! beside the fact goku went SSJ to save some nerdy school kids, which was stupid..

[Gods_Son]

"Pierrot Le Fou," episode 20 of Bebop would be my favorite. I would actually consider most of the Cowboy Bebop episodes to be filler, other than the ones with Vicious and a few others.

[kilzo]

True, Cowboy bebop isnt very extensive with the storyline. i almost forgot about that episode. for those who havent seen it, best to watch it late at night with no lights on. pretty creepy stuff.

[Darkflare]

Originally posted by: Death BOO Z
as far as i know, filler are parts in the anime which didn't appear in the manga...
for example:
about everything after shishio's arc in Rurouni kenshin (i think 63\64 was in the manga, and after that it was all filler), as well as the 'pirates" and the "train" arcs.
In Ranma 1\2: about half the times akane gets kidnapped or Ranma gets challenge by a complete stranger, and the entire Sasuke charecter...
in Inuyasha: about half the times a random demon challenges Inuyasha or kidnappes Kagome, and the entire Ayame charecter, also, the way he defeated Bankoutso (episode 120 or something) was diffrent from the manga...

anyway, the best filler episode I know is DBZ 110 (125 in jap version), it was one of the fast-paced eps, and it was really funny, with Chichi getting pissed on Piccolo for leaching on them... good stuff! beside the fact goku went SSJ to save some nerdy school kids, which was stupid..

i wouldnt say that its stuff not in the manga because for one, some animes dont come from a manga, and also, because sometimes the storyline of the anime strays from the original storyline a little. in the cases where the storyline follows very close to the manga, then filler episodes probably are the parts that are not in the manga.

[iminyourbrain]

that cowboy bebop episode was just on tonight on adult swim, hehe... really cool

the toys in the attic episode

[kilzo]

LoL yeah, soon as it came on last night, i just laughed. had no idea it was going to be that episode.