Creator's Favorite Episode

Whenever you have a series that's really adored by the fans, it's natural that many different fans are going to have their own favorite episodes. At the same time, creators and others involved with the shows can definitely feel a sense of pride with their work, and as such, will find a particular episode that they feel really stands out that they favor. Many creators particularly favor ground-breaking episodes.

In some instances, the creator's choice might be a case of Magnum Opus Dissonance.

Not to be confused with Creator's Favorite, which covers creators' favorite characters — but it may overlap.

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• Live-Action TV
• Western Animation

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• Billy Ray has written numerous acclaimed films like Shattered Glass (which he also directed), Breach (ditto), The Hunger Games, and Captain Phillips (which got him an Oscar nomination). His favorite line that he's ever written, however, is "somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this" from AMC Theaters' We Make Movies Better ad, one of many over-the-top, melodramatic lines that quickly turned the ad into an instant camp classic.

Anime & Manga

• Aka Akasaka stated that his favorite chapter of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War was chapter 43, "Chika Fujiwara Really Wants to Eat".
• Gosho Aoyama has been asked his favorite Case Closed case multiple times over the years, and has consistently answered The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages.
  • Kappei Yamaguchi's favorite case is The Locked Room in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case. Perhaps not surprising, considering it's one of the few cases where Shinichi is in focus the whole time.
• Hayao Miyazaki named Howl's Moving Castle as his favorite of his films.
• Hirohiko Araki considers JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable his favorite part of the series.
  • Billy Kametz, the voice of Josuke in the Dub, said that his favorite episode was "Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food".
• Hello! Sandybell: Several people working for Wendros AB who produced the Swedish dub, including the company's founder Christer Hagström, have stated that Hello! Sandybell was their favourite anime dub project (along with Candy♡Candy).
• A special airing of the Kirby: Right Back at Ya! episode "Delivery Dilemma" was put up in memory of Maddie Blaustein, the voice of Chef Kawasaki and Waddle Doo, as it was her favourite episode.
• Yoh Yoshinari considers episode 8, Akko's Adventure in Sucyworld, to be his favorite episode of Little Witch Academia (2017).
• Time Stop Hero: In an interview, the author, Yasunori Mitsunaga, said his favorite chapter was Chapter 9 "Realm and Stop", for the epic scene where Kuzuno Sekai freezes time to evacuate everyone in the city and save them from a meteor shower. The editor said his favorite chapter would either be Chapter 3 "Disarm and Stop", for the hilarious scene where Sekai freezes time to strip Clau Belltree and her party naked in an instant, or Chapter 10 "Orison and Stop", for the scene where Sekai strips Zaraza and then goads her into making sexy poses with an audience watching.

Audio Plays

• Alexander Vlahos has said that his two favourite audios from The Confessions of Dorian Gray were "The Heart That Lives Alone" and "Murder On 81st Street".

Comic Books

• Hergé called Tintin in Tibet as his favorite Tintin story.
• René Goscinny named Asterix and Cleopatra as his favorite Asterix story while Albert Uderzo named Asterix in Corsica as his favorite story.
• Grant Morrison considers The Filth to be their best work in comics.
• Some of Bill Watterson's favorite arcs in Calvin and Hobbes are the arc where Hobbes gives Calvin a haircut (he burst out laughing when drawing the Epic Fail results of the haircut, and the arc also introduced Tracer Bullet) and the arc where Calvin creates five duplicates who all frame him for their antics (the story went completely out of control and repeatedly surprised Watterson.)

Fan Works

• Paradoxus (Winx Club, World of Warcraft''): Since it has several authors (for fanfic standards, anyway), each author has her own favorite chapter.
  • Crowgirl's is the sixth as she thinks the transition between the Bergström and Oathdir families (who are the same people under different aliases) is very smooth and cool.
  • Phoenix Daybreak's preferred chapter is the twenty-third because it's the moment when Trisha finally bites back, turns into a fallen keeper of the Dragon's Flame, and thus her more unhinged, raw side is depicted. All in all, when the consequences of her psychological wounds are fully blown in our faces.
  • Bloom_Farella favors chapter twenty-four by virtue of being the point where everything in the plot converges. The events of the half nightmare, half flashback prologue are finally disclosed, which fully explains the character's motivations and personalities (both thanks to severe trauma) and how they ended up in their current predicament.
  • Popsicle leans towards the twenty-fifth chapter since Altalune confronts her aunt Daphne in it. The former discovers she and her sister were the nymph's Unwitting Pawns all along and feels understandably miserable about it. It doesn't help that she lost badly against the Big Bad. Like her sister two chapters ago, this is the turning point in her Character Development.

Films — Animation

• Rowan Atkinson stated in a Reddit AMA that the film that he's the most honored to be involved in is The Lion King.
• Ralph Bakshi's favorite of his movies is Heavy Traffic.
• Walt Disney's favorite piece of animation his studio worked on is the transformation of Cinderella's tattered outfit into a Pimped-Out Dress.
• Michael Eisner has stated that his favorite film in the Disney Animated Canon is The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
• Writer Matthew Fogel said The Super Mario Bros. Movie was his favorite thing he ever worked on, especally since he's a fan of the games.
• Disney animator Ward Kimball said his favorite film he animated on was The Three Caballeros because he wasn't given any real direction for the title song so he just did whatever he wanted. He thought for sure he'd get fired but to his surprise, Walt approved of it and it got to stay.
• John Lasseter describes A Bug's Life as "One of the most beautiful movies we ever made".
• James Woods is very fond of his role as Hades in Disney's Hercules and will gladly voice him at every opportunity.

Films — Live-Action

• Ingmar Bergman named Persona (1966) and Cries and Whispers as the best films he's ever done.
• Alfred Hitchcock often cited Shadow of a Doubt and The 39 Steps (1935) as his favorites.
• Jimmy Stewart's favorite of the films he did for Hitchcock was Rear Window, while The Far Country was his favourite of the westerns he did for Anthony Mann.
• When Akira Kurosawa was asked what his favorite of his films was, he'd always reply, simply, "The next one." That was until he made his masterpiece Ran, which became the answer to that question for the rest of his life.
• John Ford's favourites among his works were Young Mr. Lincoln, The Fugitive, Wagon Master and The Sun Shines Bright.
• The Three Stooges:
  • Curly's personal favorite was "A-Plumbing We Will Go".
  • Moe and Larry both cited You Nazty Spy! as their favorite.
  • Shemp's favorites were "Fright Night" (his first after replacing ailing Curly) and "Who Done It".
• John Woo named The Killer (1989), Bullet in the Head, and Face/Off as his personal favourite films of his own.
• Groucho Marx named A Night at the Opera as his favourite Marx Brothers film.
• James Bond:
  • Producer Albert R. Broccoli named his three favourite Bond films as From Russia with Love, Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me.
  • Sean Connery named From Russia With Love as his favourite Bond film of his own.
  • Roger Moore named The Spy Who Loved Me as his favourite of his own.
  • Timothy Dalton loved the script for Licence to Kill, calling it the best since Thunderball, though he preferred The Living Daylights as a film.
  • John Barry named Goldfinger as his personal best score for the series, while "We Have All the Time in the World" from On Her Majesty's Secret Service was one of his favourite Bond compositions, saying it was the finest piece of music he had written for a Bond movie; also because of the pleasure of working with Louis Armstrong.
  • Lois Maxwell's favourite was From Russia with Love.
  • Desmond Llewelyn named Licence to Kill as his favourite due to his expanded role.
  • John Glen named Licence to Kill as his favourite of the Bonds he directed.
  • Daniel Craig declared No Time to Die as his favorite of his Bond movies.
• Buster Keaton's favourite film of his own was The General. Prior to this, he felt The Navigator was his best. He was also very fond of ''The Railrodder", his last ever film performance.
• Jerry Lewis' favorite Martin and Lewis film is The Stooge (1951) because "...it came closest to capturing what Dean and I had as a team".
• Simon Pegg's favorite of his movies is Hot Fuzz.
• The Wachowskis consider Cloud Atlas to be their most profound work.
• John Landis named An American Werewolf in London as his masterpiece.
• Charlie Chaplin initially felt The Gold Rush would be the film he would be remembered for. He regarded City Lights as his favourite of his own films. Later, he named Monsieur Verdoux as "the cleverest, most brilliant film I have ever made".
• Richard Donner, Mel Gibson and Danny Glover all named Lethal Weapon 2 as their favourite in the series.
• Speaking of Mel Gibson, he named Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior as his favourite entry in that series.
• Clint Eastwood named The Outlaw Josey Wales as his favourite film of his own. His favourite Dirty Harry film was Magnum Force.
• Woody Allen's favourite films of his own are (in order) Match Point, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Stardust Memories, Broadway Danny Rose, and Manhattan Murder Mystery.
• Francis Ford Coppola's favourite films of his own are The Rain People, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Rumble Fish and Youth Without Youth.
• Rob Reiner considers Stand by Me the best film he's ever made.
• Sylvester Stallone's favourite installments of the Rocky and Rambo films were the first ones.
• Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige considers Black Panther to be their best film.
• Guillermo del Toro has said that The Shape of Water is the film he's most proud of.
• Ron Howard named Apollo 13 as the film he's most proud of.
• Frank Capra named It's a Wonderful Life as his masterpiece.
• Jimmy Stewart named Harvey as his favourite film of his own.
• Wesley Snipes named Blade II as his personal favourite of the Blade Trilogy.
• John Carpenter has named The Thing (1982) as one of the best, if not the best film he made, lamenting that it took so long to get its deserved recognition.
• Johnny Depp named Black Mass as his favourite film of his own.
• Steve McQueen named The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) as his favourite of his own films. He even named Faye Dunaway as the best actress he ever worked with.
• Howard Hawks named Scarface (1932) as his favourite film of his, stating that it was a movie he had complete freedom to achieve what he wanted.
• Carl Weathers' favourite entry in the Rocky series is Rocky III, because of how well Apollo Creed is humanised in it.
• Orson Welles was most proud of either Chimes at Midnight or The Trial.
• Sam Peckinpah named The Ballad of Cable Hogue as his personal favourite of his own.
• Christopher Lee regarded The Wicker Man (1973) as the best film he ever did. When it came to Hammer Horror, his personal favourite was The Devil Rides Out.
• Kirk Douglas regarded Lonely Are the Brave as his favourite film of his own. Michael Douglas also named it as his favourite of his dad's films. As for his own, that was Falling Down.
  • In a 2014 article, Kirk cited The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Champion, Ace in the Hole (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful, Act of Love, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Indian Fighter, Lust For Life 1956, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lonely Are the Brave, and Seven Days in May as the films he was most proud of throughout his acting career.
• Errol Flynn's favourite film of his own was the boxing picture Gentleman Jim.
• Steven Spielberg's favourite Indiana Jones film is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He named E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as his most personal film and Schindler's List as his most important.
• Tim Burton regards Ed Wood as his best film, though Edward Scissorhands is his personal favourite.
  • Speaking of which, Danny Elfman regarded his score for Edward Scissorhands as his best.
• Steven Soderbergh named Ocean's Twelve as his favourite film in the Ocean's Trilogy.
• Chevy Chase named Fletch as his favourite film of his own because it allowed him to be himself.
• Paul Verhoeven named Starship Troopers as his favourite film of his own.
• Henry Fonda regarded The Grapes of Wrath, The Ox-Bow Incident and 12 Angry Men as the best films he ever made.
• Rutger Hauer named Blade Runner as the best film he was ever involved with.
• John Wayne named The Searchers as his favourite film of his own, with She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and The Quiet Man being his other favourites.
• John Goodman named The Big Lebowski as his favourite film of his own.
• Rock Hudson claimed that Ice Station Zebra was his favourite film of his own.
• James Cagney felt that Yankee Doodle Dandy was his best.
• Sean Connery and Michael Caine named The Man Who Would be King as their best.
  • Of Connery's career choices in The '90s (pretty much his last decade in film), The Rock and Entrapment are the films he liked the most.
  • Caine considers his performance in Educating Rita to be his best.
• Roger Moore regarded The Man Who Haunted Himself as his favourite film of his own.
• Upon viewing The Misfits, Clark Gable felt it was his best film because he was "finally allowed to act". It turned out to be his final film before his death.
• The members of Monty Python regard Life of Brian as their best work.
• Oliver Reed regarded The Devils as the film he was the most proud of.
• Jack Nicholson claims his personal favorite performances are his works in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Batman (1989), Hoffa and As Good as It Gets.
• Michael Keaton named Mr. Mom, Gung Ho, Clean And Sober, Beetlejuice, Batman (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Paper and Live from Baghdad as favorite films of his own, with Beetlejuice as his top pick.
• Alec Guinness always felt that the only screen performance with which he was completely satisfied was in Hitler: The Last Ten Days.
• Gregory Peck named To Kill a Mockingbird as his favourite film of his own.
• Robert Mitchum named The Night of the Hunter as his favourite film of his own and that Charles Laughton was the best director he ever worked for.
  • Shelley Winters said that this was "the most thoughtful and reserved performance I ever gave".
• Michael Madsen is only proud of a handful of his own films - Thelma & Louise, Reservoir Dogs, Free Willy, Donnie Brasco, Species and Kill Bill.
• Malcolm McDowell named If and its follow-up O Lucky Man! as his personal favourite film of his own, lamenting that the latter was overlooked on release.
• Carry On:
  • Sid James, Joan Sims, and Angela Douglas named Carry On Cowboy as their favourite.
  • Kenneth Williams' favourite was Carry On Up the Khyber.
  • Barbara Windsor's favourite was Carry On Henry.
  • Leslie Phillips named Carry On Nurse as his funniest film. It was also the only one that Kenneth Connor rewatched because his son was in it.
  • Peter Rogers' favourite was Up the Khyber, while Gerald Thomas' favourite was Carry On Camping.
  • Jacki Piper and Valerie Leon's was Carry On Up the Jungle.
  • June Whitfield's was Carry On Abroad.
  • Jack Douglas' was Carry On Dick.
• Both Julie Andrews and James Garner listed their first film together, The Americanization of Emily, as their personal favourite.
• Emeric Pressburger named The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as his favourite of the films he made with Michael Powell.
• Jack Lemmon said Glengarry Glen Ross contained the greatest acting ensemble he had ever been part of. This is also both director James Foley's and Alec Baldwin's favorite film of their own.
• Ray Harryhausen regarded Jason and the Argonauts as his best film.
• George Sanders' favourite film of his own was All About Eve.
  The critics and the trades loved it. It was a film of distinction: witty, sophisticated, and brilliantly written and directed.
• Kevin Smith regards Chasing Amy as his favourite film of his own.
• George A. Romero regarded Day of the Dead (1985) as his best movie, as well as his favourite in the Living Dead series, while Tom Savini considers it his best work.
• Molly Ringwald named Pretty in Pink as her favourite film of her own.
• Paul Thomas Anderson has repeatedly claimed that The Master is his favorite film that he has made to date.
• Douglas Fairbanks considered The Thief of Bagdad (1924) to be his best film.
• James Woods considers Once Upon a Time in America to be the best film he's ever been in.
  • For that matter, Sergio Leone himself considers Once Upon a Time in America to be his greatest work ever.
  Once Upon a Time in America’ is my best film, bar none—I swear—and I knew that it would be from the moment I got Harry Gray’s book in my hand. I’m glad I made it, even though during the filming I was as tense as Dick Tra­cy’s jaw.
• Al Pacino's favourite films of his own are The Godfather, Serpico, The Godfather Part II, Scarface (1983) and Looking For Richard.
• Matt Dillon named Drugstore Cowboy as his favourite film of his own.
• Steve Martin and John Candy named Planes, Trains and Automobiles as their favourite film of theirs.
• M. Night Shyamalan named Unbreakable as his favourite film of his own.
• Matt Damon named The Talented Mr. Ripley as his favourite film of his own.
• Samuel L. Jackson named The Long Kiss Goodnight as his favourite film of his own, while his favourite collaboration with Quentin Tarantino is Jackie Brown.
• Nicolas Cage named Vampire's Kiss as his favourite film to work on.
• Martin Sheen named Badlands and Apocalypse Now as his favourite films of his own.
• Adam Sandler named Happy Gilmore as his favourite film of his own.
• Tom Hanks named A League of Their Own, Cast Away and Cloud Atlas as his favourite films to have worked on.
• Harrison Ford said that his two collaborations with Peter Weir - Witness and The Mosquito Coast - were the best experiences of his career.
• Gene Wilder considered Young Frankenstein to be the best film he made. Mel Brooks named it the best film he ever directed, but rates it number three amongst his funniest, after Blazing Saddles and The Producers.
• In an Ask Me Anything on Reddit, Nicolas Cage named his three favourite films of his own as Leaving Las Vegas, Bringing Out the Dead and Pig.
• Cary Grant named Indiscreet as his favourite film of his own.
• Quentin Tarantino named Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as his favorite of his movies.
• Leslie Phillips' favourite Doctor film was Doctor in Clover as he thought it had the best script of the series and didn't require any mugging.
• Fred Dekker considers The Monster Squad to be his best film and is grateful that it was Vindicated by History.
• Robin Askwith's favourite film in the Confessions of a... Series was Confessions of a Window Cleaner.
• On the Buses films:
  • On the Buses was Reg Varney's favourite; he thought being the first one made it the freshest and had the best performances.
  • Holiday on the Buses was Anna Karen's favourite of the three films as she had the best memories filming it.

Literature

• Bernard Cornwell's favourite Sharpe book was Sharpe's Siege, while The Warlord Chronicles is his overall favorite of his works.
• Charles Dickens's favorite novels were Martin Chuzzlewit, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.
• Harlan Ellison's favorites of his stories were "Grail" and "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore."
• Stephen King's favorite of his novels is Lisey’s Story.
• In an interview with BBC Four, John le Carré named Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Tailor of Panama and The Constant Gardener as his four best novels.
• Helen Lester's favorite of her books are Author, Tacky the Penguin, and Hooway for Wodney Wat.
• H. P. Lovecraft's favorite stories were "The Colour Out of Space" and At the Mountains of Madness.
• Rex Stout's favorite Nero Wolfe novel was Some Buried Caesar.
• L. Frank Baum considered The Scarecrow of Oz as his favorite book he wrote, at least of the Oz series. This may be because it heavily features Trot and Cap'n Bill, two characters he created for a fantasy series he was hoping to replace the Oz series with, but was forced to discontinue due to low book sales and other financial troubles.
• Isaac Asimov
  • The Rest of the Robots: In the preamble to "Galley Slave", Dr Asimov describes how it had been inspired and claims that this is his favourite Susan Calvin story.
  • The Complete Robot: During the blurb for Two Climaxes, Dr Asimov admits that his favourite robot story is "The Bicentennial Man".
• Arthur Conan Doyle considered "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" to be the best Sherlock Holmes story in the entire series. Fan polls indicated that many readers agreed with him.
• Stephenie Meyer stated in a 2020 interview that if she had to choose, she'd regard The Host (2008) as her "most important story in a lot of ways" and the one she'd want to be remembered for (though she also added that she knew it was likely The Twilight Saga that everyone would remember).
• China Miéville regards The Census-Taker as the book he hopes to be buried with.

Music

• GaMetal's creator, Jonny Atma, stated in an interview that his favourite GaMetal songs are Hyrule Temple, Punch-Out!, Dark Star Core, Deoxys, The Legend of Mario and Fierce Battle, among others.
• The Beatles:
  • Ringo Starr has said that "Rain" contained the best drumming he ever did.
  • John Lennon's favourites of the Beatles songs he wrote were "In My Life", "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "I Am the Walrus" and "Across the Universe". His favorite of Paul McCartney's Beatles songs was "For No One", which he called "a nice piece of work." Lennon also picked The White Album as his favourite Beatles record.
  • Paul McCartney's favourite Beatles song is "Here, There and Everywhere", followed by "Yesterday".
  • Both Lennon and McCartney praised George Harrison's "Something" as one of the best Beatles songs of all. Lennon called it the best song on Abbey Road and McCartney said it was the best song Harrison ever wrote.
  • Harrison's favourite album was Rubber Soul.
• David Bowie listed The Buddha of Suburbia as his personal favorite album of his in a 2003 interview, lamenting that it failed to make a dent in the album market when it first released in 1993.
• All four members of The Smiths name Strangeways, Here We Come as their personal favorite of their four albums.
• Tupac Shakur named Me Against the World as his favourite album of his own.
• The Sisters of Mercy frontman Andrew Eldritch claims Vision Thing is his favorite of his albums.
• The official ABBA Spotify account features playlists of all four members' top five favorite ABBA songs. "The Winner Takes It All" and "Dancing Queen" appear on three lists each.
• Noisey's "Rank Your Records" feature asks musicians to rank their entire discography, with their personal favorite of their albums coming up on top. Results include the following:
  • Jonathan Davis' favorite Korn album is their 1994 self-titled debut.
  • Likewise, Corey Taylor's favorite Slipknot album is their 1999 debut album.
  • Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield's favorite of their albums is 1996's Everything Must Go.
  • mewithoutYou lead singer Aaron Weiss' favorite of their albums is 2006's Brother, Sister. His brother Michael, the band's guitarist, listed 2004's Catch Us for the Foxes as his favorite; It wound up at number four, out of five albums, on Aaron's list.
  • New Order drummer Stephen Morris named their 1985 album Low-Life as his favorite.
  • Ride lead guitarist Mark Gardener's favorite of his band's albums is 1992's Going Blank Again.
  • Including both his solo career and the albums he made with Ben Folds Five, Ben Folds named the Five's self-titled 1995 debut as his favorite of his albums.
  • Motion City Soundtrack lead singer Justin Pierre named 2005's Commit This to Memory as his favorite
  • Blur drummer Dave Rowntree's list was topped by 1993's Modern Life is Rubbish. Bassist Alex James also named that his favourite, while guitarist Graham Coxon named 1997's Blur as his favourite.
  • Spoon bassist Rob Pope named 2007's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga as his favorite, and his list also included high showings for albums released before he joined the band — he had been a fan before he became their bassist.
  • John Rzeznik, lead singer of Goo Goo Dolls, named 2013's Magnetic as his favorite. In the article, he also made positive remarks about their first two albums, which he had not been very kind about in the past.
  • Lush lead guitarist Emma Anderson named their 1992 debut full length Spooky as her favorite, and listed two compilations ahead of their final album Lovelife, which came in last.
  • Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante's list was topped by 1987's Among the Living.
  • Suede frontman Brett Anderson named his favorite album as 1994's Dog Man Star despite its Troubled Production.
  • Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie declined to rate his band's entire discography and only rated seven: the list included a B-sides compilation and was topped by 2000's XTRMNTR.
  • Moby selected his 1996 New Sound Album Animal Rights as his favorite of his albums. He said that even though the album was trashed by critics and fans and nearly destroyed his career, that he took "deep pride" in it, and that it was the album he is the proudest of.
  • Barenaked Ladies singer Ed Robertson named their late-period, Band Minus The Face album Grinning Streak from 2013 as his favorite.
  • Dinosaur Jr.. frontman J. Mascis named their classic 1988 album You're Living All Over Me as his favorite.
  • Teenage Fanclub leader Norman Blake selected 1995's Grand Prix as his favorite.
  • Rapper Master P named 1996's Ice Cream Man as his personal favorite.
  • Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley chose 2011's Screaming Bloody Murder as his favorite.
  • Placebo singer Brian Molko chose none of the band's studio albums for his top spot, instead selecting their 2015 MTV Unplugged recording as his favorite.
  • Los Campesinos! frontman/lyricist Gareth Campesinos! and guitarist/songwriter Tom Campesinos! chose 2010's Romance is Boring as their favorite.
  • Superchunk bassist Laura Ballance named 1993's On the Mouth as her favorite.
  • Pavement co-founder and guitarist Scott "Spiral Stairs" Kannenberg named the band's classic 1992 debut Slanted and Enchanted as his favorite of their albums.
  • The Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson named the band's 1990 final album All Shook Down as his favorite, despite its less-than-stellar reception with the band's fans.
  • Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor named 2009's Crack the Skye as his favorite.
  • Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace picked 2014's Transgender Dysphoria Blues.
  • Belle and Sebastian guitarist Stevie Jackson chose their 1996 debut Tigermilk as his favorite.
  • Franz Ferdinand lead singer Alex Kapranos picked 2009's Tonight: Franz Ferdinand.
  • Frightened Rabbit lead singer Scott Hutchinson named 2013's Pedestrian Verse as his favorite of the band's albums. His article was notable because it was one of his last interviews before his death in May 2018.
  • Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell named Dirt as his favorite of their albums.
  • Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard picked 2003's Transatlanticism.
  • Murder by Death frontman Adam Turla chose 2009's Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon.
  • Interpol singer Paul Banks chose their second album Antics.
  • Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner chose 1991's Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge.
  • Low guitarist Alan Sparhawk chose 2007's Drums and Guns.
  • Tony Hawk, although not a musician, was asked to rank his favorite soundtracks from the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater video game series. His list was topped by the one for the original 1999 game.
  • Deerhunter leader Bradford Cox picked 2013's Monomania.
  • The National bassist Scott Devendorf chose 2005's Alligator.
  • Titus Andronicus singer and guitarist Patrick Stickles picked 2015's The Most Lamentable Tragedy
• Barenaked Ladies bassist Jim Creegan said his favorite song of theirs was "If I Had $1000000", which former frontman Steven Page later agreed with.
• R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe said his favorite album is New Adventures in Hi-Fi, later changing his answer to Reveal in 2021.
• In a 2016 web video for Wired magazine, Ice Cube stated that his favorite song overall and to perform live is "It Was a Good Day".
• In a rare example where the creator agrees with the fans, Dean Ween of Ween has stated multiple times that The Mollusk is his favorite Ween album and that it was the album he was most proud of when it was released.
• Brian May named Queen II as Queen's finest work.
• David Gilmour and Richard Wright of Pink Floyd named Wish You Were Here their favorite album, despite the Troubled Production of recording it. Meanwhile, Roger Waters listed The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, tossing them in with his 1992 solo album Amused to Death as what he saw as his three most essential albums.
• Jonny Davy named Sun Eater as his favorite Job for a Cowboy release and emphasized just how much work they put into it to make sure that it was their Magnum Opus.
• Steve Wariner, at least in 1980s interviews, claimed that "Some Fools Never Learn" was his favorite single.
• In an October 2013 interview, Kanye West revealed that "Can't Tell Me Nothing" is his favorite song to have been released by him.
• Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters has said that his favorite song the band made was "A320", which they recorded for the film Godzilla (1998). Given how despised the movie became, even by the band themselves, Dave was relieved to see it at the tail-end of the credits. Unfortunately, Sony BMG are the current holders to the rights of the song, preventing the band from rereleasing it as part of any albums or singles outside of the initial release on the film's soundtrack, despite the fact that the band have been signed to Sony record label RCA Records since 1999. Though, during their first five years at the label, RCA was owned by BMG before BMG merged with Sony Music to become Sony BMG in 2004.
• Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads named "Love → Building on Fire" as one of his favorite songs by the band to play live, despite the fact that it was their only song released before he joined the band.
• Bob Dylan cited Blonde on Blonde as the album he's most proud of.
• Nile Rodgers says that his favorite Chic production is We Are Family by Sister Sledge.
• The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards has said that if he were only allowed to play one riff for the rest of his life, he'd pick "Jumpin' Jack Flash".

Professional Wrestling

• Nunzio (Little Guido Maritato) called the match where he defeated Juventud Guerrera to regain the WWE World Cruiserweight Title at WWE Road To Survivor Series 2005 Tour Rome, November 15, 2005, which was held in Rome, Italy, the best match of his career because it meant that he had won a World Title in Italy.
• Mick Foley cites his matches with Shawn Michaels at Mind Games in 1996, and his 2004 Backlash match with Randy Orton as his best matches.
• This picture of Heidi Lovelace and her parents all sticking their tongues out together, as Heidi wrote about how great it felt to have her parents at the show and cheering her on as she did what she loves.
• The Undertaker named his two Wrestlemania matches with Shawn Michaels as the best of his career.

Theatre

• Samuel Beckett regarded Endgame as his most significant work.
• Stephen Sondheim stated that, except for one brief passage, Assassins is "perfect."

Video Games

• Mega Man 2 is Keiji Inafune's favorite Mega Man (Classic) game.
• Richard Garriot named Ultima IV and Ultima VII as his favorite single-player Ultima installments.
• Final Fantasy series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi considers Final Fantasy IX to be his personal favorite in the franchise. Series composer Nobuo Uematsu likewise considers the OST to be his greatest work, and the one he had the most fun with.
• Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life was said by Yasuhiro Wada to be his favorite game in the Harvest Moon series. This is because it's the closest to his ideal vision of the series: he wanted Harvest Moon to be a relationship-based game that uses farming as its backdrop, not a farming simulator with life sim elements. A Wonderful Life is very much themed around the relationships between characters, while the farming and ranching is very bare-bones compared to other titles in the series.
• Roberta Williams said that Phantasmagoria was her favorite of the games she developed.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Co-creator Yuji Naka considers the first Sonic the Hedgehog game to be his personal favorite Sonic game, due to the production being memorable to him.
  • Shiro Maekawa, a former writer at Sega and Sonic Team, has stated that his favorite games he worked on were Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic and the Black Knight. With Adventure 2, it's due to being the first game he wrote and the debut of Shadow the Hedgehog, his favorite character, while Black Knight is the story he's most satisfied with as a whole.
  • Takeshi Iizuka, the current head of Sonic Team, considers Sonic Adventure 2 to be his favorite Sonic game that he worked on, with Sonic Mania and Sonic Colors being his favorites to play.
  • Composer Jun Senoue has cited Sonic Adventure 2 as his favorite Sonic game that he worked on, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 as his favorite to play.
  • Artist and current creative director Kazuyuki Hoshino considers Shadow the Hedgehog his favorite to have worked on, and Sonic Heroes his favorite to play.
  • Current character designer Yuji Uekawa's favorite title that he worked on is Sonic Adventure, and his favorite to play is Sonic the Hedgehog.
  • Art director Hiroshi Nishiyama's favorite title to work on was Sonic Adventure 2, with his favorite game to play being Sonic Heroes.
  • Ryan Drummond, Sonic's original English voice actor, considers Sonic Adventure to be his favorite game in the series.
  • Sonic co-creator and designer Naoto Ohshima has stated Sonic Superstars to be the best Sonic game he has worked on in one interview.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Shigeru Miyamoto considers his favorite Zelda game to be the original NES game.
  • Series director and producer Eiji Aonuma has stated that The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is his favorite Zelda game, as it's a game he personally proposed, and was one of the first major Zelda games he served as a producer on, so it's very sentimental to him. He also stated that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess are his second and third-favorite, respectively, Ocarina of Time due to it giving him an opportunity to create a 3D world and Twilight Princess due to it being his first attempt to outdo Ocarina of Time.

Web Animation

• Dinosauria: In a pinned comment on the teaser for "Our Frozen Past", the creator of the series David Armsby says that that episode is "easily my favorite of the series". "Sea and Sky" is his second favorite as well.

Web Video

• Economy Watch: "American Dollars" is David's favorite episode.
• Who Killed Markiplier?: Mark stated in his "I EXPLAIN EVERYTHING" stream that his favorite episode of Who Killed Markiplier? was 3.
• The Completionist: In the 2014 NormalBoots Panel at SGC, Greg states that his favourite episode is "Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow", and Jirard states that his is "Dark Souls".
• The Nostalgia Critic. In 2012, Doug Walker released his list of his Top 11 favorite Nostalgia Critic episodes, which were (from 11 to 1): Patch Adams, The Animaniacs Tribute, The Haunting, North, The Neverending Story III, The Legend of the Titanic, all three "Commercials" specials, A Simple Wish, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Casper, and Moulin Rouge!. Later on, his reviews of The Cat in the Hat and Mad Max: Fury Road bumped the other episodes down. Rob, meanwhile, has The Force Awakens as his favorite.
• Brad Jones's favorite episodes of The Cinema Snob are Wired, Bushwhacked, and Miss Velmas Most Incredibly Magnificent Christmas Week. Previously, his all-time favorite was Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom for showing what the character stands for, a mockery of The Movie Buff who likes pretentious True Art no matter if it is making him physically ill.
• Wrestling With Wregret: For his four-year anniversary, Brian counted down his Top 8 Favorite Episodes. They are (from 8 to 1): "Grand Masters of Wrestling", the "No Mercy" music video, "Million Dollar Tough Enough", "NWF Kids Pro Wrestling", "Cornette Gets It Wrong!", "The Jesse Ventura Story", "Heroes Of Wrestling", and "Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy".
• Todd in the Shadows:
  • He considers "OMG" to be his funniest review. The "stalking Lupa" joke was also his favorite until he did a British Kanye West in "N****s in Paris".
  • In his "Shut Up and Talk" with Doug Walker, he considered his "Turn Up the Music" review^note in which he barely discusses the song itself and goes in-depth on Chris Brown, Team Breezy, and their failure to learn from the Rihanna incident to be the episode he's most proud of.
  • On Twitter, he stated that his review of Edgar Winter's Mission Earth album is his favourite.
• Atop the Fourth Wall had a 2017 countdown list of this trope, with the review of JLA/Titans: The Technis Imperative. This comic is also mentioned to be Linkara's favorite comic of all time.
• Arby 'n' the Chief: Jon Graham has said his two favorite episodes are "Digital Fruitcakes" and "Cradle To Grave".

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