A true fan of any show should always revisit that first episode to see where all the magic began. Even if that means a great character like Brooke is somehow absent from proceedings. One Tree Hill's pilot is exactly the perfect blend of intense melodrama, hype basketball scenes, and flustering flirtations that made fans fall madly in love with the show.

Epitomizing everything that made One Tree Hill so great, the Season 1 finale is full of gasp-worthy, super dramatic moments. There's a wedding, a heart attack, a terrifying stalker, and a sweat-inducing basketball game, and that's all before the jaw-dropping cliffhanger which sees Lucas and Keith leaving town. It's a lot, you guys.

It featured an entire plot line leading up to a guest performance by Jimmy Eat World — it was early '00s angst-ridden perfection. But as if that wasn't enough, this first part of the Season 2 finale was just absolutely thick with emotional speeches, emotional montages, and emotional epiphanies. The likes of which make for some A-grade teen TV viewing.

Probably one of the core episodes that Brucas shippers will already have ear-marked as essential viewing, "The Leavers Dance" is also notable for the mystery of its cliffhanger ending as the dealership goes on fire with Dan still inside. No matter how many times you've seen the episode, it's still an emotional roller coaster.

Does this darkness have a name? One Tree Hill's school shooting episode is still immensely powerful. It's raw, it's upsetting, and the last five minutes are basically impossible to watch without crying as Jimmy comes to terms with his actions and turns the gun on himself. Not to mention, the final twist as Dan savagely shoots Uncle Keith, right after he's tried to save the kid's life.

It's another classic One Tree Hill finale, folks. There's Peyton and Brooke's big fight, Dan finding out that Deb is the badass that tried to fry him, and Haley and Nathan having the happiest day of their lives ruined when Rachel steals their wedding limo with Uncle Cooper in it and swerves off a bridge. This show had the best finale cliffhangers ever.

While there were a cluster of great episodes in the middle of Season 4, this one is the perfect blend of light and dark. There's a Full Monty-esque plotline involving Nathan, Skills, and Mouth trying to raise money by stripping. But it's also the episode where Deb's addiction takes one hell of a dark turn.

Not only is it graduation day, but Haley finally gives birth, Dan winds up finally going to prison for killing Keith, and there's an impromptu dance tribute to the Spice Girls. It's a full-on victory lap of an episode.

Bringing us back into the show with a well executed time jump (and a whole lot of back story), the Season 5 premiere shows how the lives of the Tree Hill gang have changed since we last them, and where things have gone horribly wrong. Everyone is kind of being a successful grown-up (but also kind of not), and it's perfection.

Lucas' disastrous wedding day to Lindsay brings the old gang together in the best, and worst, way possible and it's absolutely glorious. Here's to having to explain the hidden meaning of your groom's book to him at the alter, and right in front of his ex-girlfriend who he's blatantly still in love with.

Not only is it Lucas and Peyton's wedding day, but Nick freakin' Lachey also happens to be in attendance as Brooke's date. And then there's also Peyton's dramatic collapse at the end of the episode to shake things up for us, too. It basically ticks off the entire check list of teen TV drama essentials.

It's rare that One Tree Hill would do a finale without slamming a few dozen shocking twists and cliffhangers into it for good measure. So this one, in which there isn't a single cliffhanger and everything kind of ends pretty happily, is shocking in it's own delightful way. Lucas and Peyton even ride off into the sunset together for the ultimate swoon-worthy ending.

The whole gang take a revelation provoking road trip to Utah to watch Julian's new film, he proposes to our girl Brooke, and it's just fuzzy feelings central.

This episode is non-stop high tension as a supreme storm sweeps in and basically tries to take out the entire gang. Lauren has a car accident, Brooke's nearly killed, and Katie tries to murder Quinn. It all goes off big time.

With the previous episode being so intense, it's always a pleasure to follow it up with this fun little number. Brooke's bachelorette party gets way out of hand and everyone tries to piece together their memory of the night in their messy, hungover haze. It's so good and painfully relatable.

Many of the final episodes of Season 9 really hyped up the heartbreak for viewers. But it was "Danny Boy" that really tugged at our heart strings the most as Dan and Nathan have a difficult heart to heart right before Dan's death.

Saying goodbye is always so difficult, and hot damn, did One Tree Hill have fans beaming, chuckling, and bawling all at once with this final episode.

Is it too late to arrange for One Tree Hill to be a permanent fixture on Netflix? Just for a little while longer? Because this all feels too soon. Fans already had to say goodbye to the show back in 2012, and that was rough. But to say goodbye to it on Netflix is a whole new kind of heartbreak.

Editor's Note: A previous version of this story incorrectly summarized what happened with the limo in Season 3, Episode 22.