Both times that Ed investigates something in the style of a Film Noir detective (missing radios in season 2 and Insurance Fraud in season 6).
Season 1
"The Russian Flu" — Marilyn cures the epidemic with a foul-smelling concoction called "Hio Hio Ipsanio."
Maggie is calm and supportive when her boyfriend Rick's medical tests show he might have a dangerous condition, but almost the second that Joel reveals he's fine, she reads Rick the riot act for having spent the episode blaming what happened on her infamous Doom Magnet status.
Season 2
"War and Peace" — a desperate Joel knocks down the Fourth Wall to prevent Maurice and Nikolai from duelling to the death.
"Slow Dance" ends with Joel breaking the shunning Maggie has been getting due to her perceived Doom Magnet status and asking her to dance with him (in a platonic fashion) in front of the whole town.
Season 3
In "Oy, Wilderness", Joel fixes Maggie's broken plane despite having no experience as a mechanic by looking at the engine problems through a medical lens.
Joel passes circus performer Enrico "The Flying Man" Bellati while driving through town, but Enrico somehow beats him to the other side of town, either on foot or by flying.
In "Wake-Up Call," guest star Arthur catches a fish with his bare hands like a bear would with its paws, a feat that somehow becomes even more cooler after The Reveal that he may be a shapeshifting bear.
Season 4
The array of costumes and stunts at the Day of the Dead parade in "Thanksgiving" feel like something more at home in a big city than Cicely.
The moment Chris unveils his massive homemade Christmas lights display at the end of "Northern Lights."
In "The Big Feast":
Adam (a Supreme Chef whose claims of being a well-traveled Retired Badass are viewed skeptically) gets corroboration for some of this backstory in a doozy of a Noodle Incident when he and the head chef at Maurice's party turn out to know each other. Adam accuses the other man of stealing a recipe from him. The other chef replies that he thought Adam was dead at the time, and Adam rants about being Reduced to Ratburgers for three weeks in a bombed-out basement until he was able to use his gold fillings to pay "three opium merchants and a German shepherd" to dig him out.
Shelly and Eve recreate the flavor of a rare bottle of champagne Shelly broke in just a few hours by mixing together some ingredients they find in the bar.
In "Kaddish for Uncle Manny," the moment where Maurice methodically describes a search strategy to find the necessary Jewish observers to sit Shiva for Joel's uncle, given how Joel is the only Jew in Cicely.
Maggie's Doom Magnet status finally ends in "Mud and Blood" when ex-lovers and other people in her life start experiencing remarkable luck.
In "Sleeping with the Enemy", Holling recalls an incident where he strangled a moose for food and swam through a freezing lake when he was stranded in the wild mid-winter during his Hunter Trapper days.
Season 5
In "The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop":
Joel calmly and logically explains how Maggie has been misinterpreting a series of innocent events to create a mystery scenario and gets her to calm down and admit there is nothing really suspicious happening.
At the end of the episode, Maurice does a high dive off a waterfall as brash music plays to signify his refusal to surrender to old age, then surfaces triumphantly, no worse for wear.
In "Birds of a Feather," a visiting Mrs. Fleischman manages to survive a fall off a hundred foot cliff by angling herself in the wind to glide down like she is flying, based on a story Marilyn told her.
In "A Cup of Joe":
Marilyn figures out who robbed the petty cash drawer with a casual Sherlock Scan.
Joel acts dismissive, but takes her seriously enough to talk about how determined he is to catch the thief in front of the person Marilyn named, while adding that he'll expose the thief, whoever it is, to public humiliation unless the money is returned.
When Hayden, Joel and Marilyn's suspect, acts calm during Joel's speech, Joel thinks he is innocent, even after the money is mysteriously returned until Marilyn does another Sherlock Scan of the envelope.
Marilyn refuses to use her deductive skills to do more favors for Joel, cutting through his speech about the deeper meaning behind it to bluntly tell him that all he cares about is his favor and that she's not going to use her brains to be a cop.
In "A Bolt from the Blue," after Adam scares away Maurice's (large) fireworks crew due to insisting their leader tried to kill him during the Iran-Contra scandal (a story which may or may not be true and also involves him being part of a team that fought their way out from behind enemy lines under hard circumstances), he fills in for them and singlehandedly sets up a breathtaking display that was probably better than anything that crew could have done.
In a Deleted Scene from that episode, Adam makes Maurice back down from his plans to commit Adam by reeling off lots of details about Maurice's past that he couldn't possibly know without at least some involvement with the CIA.
One scene in "Northern Hospitality" shows a town debate about whether to censor Chris's show after an unstable listener got depressed by a song and killed himself. Marilyn is one of Chris's most vocal and passionate defenders, and the bumbling and occasionally shifty Hayden gets one of the best monologues of the episode by casually citing the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville while arguing against giving into blind anger or panic.
In "Fish Story," Joel spends several hours trying to reel in a sea monster or fish he hooked on one of his rare fishing trips.
Maggie builds and flies an ultralight in "A Wing and a Prayer."
In "Blood Ties":
Joel gets into a fistfight with Maggie's old boyfriend over how the boyfriend’s hunting hawk killed a local dog and makes it clear that he views that as the unforgivable last straw rather than how the man has been throwing condescension at Joel for the whole episode and trying to drive him and Maggie apart.
Maurice wins a blood drive contest against a bigger town by diverting a cruise ship to the docks near Cicely and getting more tourists to come out from local campsites with bribes to get donations from those people.
In the season finale, Holling lends his services to help with a manhunt and tracks down an escaped mental patient in just a couple of hours.
Season 6
* In "Shofar, No Good," Ruth-Anne grants "sanctuary" to a fox hunt fox and staring Maurice down.
Much of Joel's mid-season arc of Going Native and thriving in the wilderness outside of town as a Mountain Man is both impressive for the character and beautifully filmed.
A lot of the scenes where Ed further develops his shaman skills.
In "The Letter," he is able to partially see the outline of a vision manifestation that Maggie is having and even chats with her about it.
In "Sons of the Tundra," Ed is able to see a vision of the future showing himself being injured and starts working out the medical treatment beforehand.
In "The Great Mushroom," he uses herbs to cure shingles (although he forgets the ingredients), and starts making a computer database of his work with mentorship from Walt.
In "Sons of the Tundra," Michelle wades up to her torso into a freezing river to retrieve a lost computer part rather than have an injured Ed do it.
In "Realpolitik", newly elected Mayor Maggie O'Connell refuses to take advantage of Chris's new infatuation with her to win a town council vote when she sees how his crush is making him act against his principles. She calls him out on what he's doing and gives him a chance to change his vote (which he does) by citing an obscure council bylaw.
"The Mommy Curse" reveals that flighty socialite Mrs. O'Connell has taken up day trading Like a Duck Takes to Water and is making more money at it than her husband did after years of doing it for a living.
Chris Stevens' Masters' thesis defense in "The Graduate." He prepares a dense, deconstructive analysis of "Casey at the Bat," but over the course of the episode, comes to question this approach. At the appointed time for his defense, he summons his advisors to a baseball field, where he takes the role of the pitcher, and one of the advisors takes up a bat. Chris strikes him out while reciting the poem, with each pitch and strike at the appropriate point in the poem. Chris walks up to him, and points at his midsection. "That's what 'Casey at the Bat' is about. That feeling in your gut."
City Mouse Michelle turns out to be the star of the new bowling team in "Balls", despite having not bowled in nearly a decade.
In "Let's Dance", Marilyn teaches a dance class, calls out another student for making fun of the novice Chris, and then assigns that girl to be Chris's personal dance partner as a lesson.
In the series finale, Joel's Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane rabbi parachutes into town while still wearing a suit to give Michelle some important advice.
