A tribute to 2 of my favorite writers from LOST.
Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.

Kitsis and Horowitz were hired at the end of the first season of LOST and have written episodes in all 5 seasons. They have written together since college and their tv credits include Felicity, another JJ Abrams series. They also helped write the screenplay for the Tron movie coming out later this year.

My favorite Kitsis and Horowitz episode would be Tricia Tanaka is Dead.

I think this episode best features all their writing strengths. They do comedy well. The Reyes family is a good example of this. They played on the running gag of the golden Jesus statue, the bit with the fortune teller, even Hurley's dad and the chocolate bars, which crossed over to back story too for Hurley. There was also the conversation of the only 3 things a woman needs to hear between Sawyer and Jin. This episode had a lot of pop culture references which are witty and smart.

They can do genuine, emotionally honest scenes well too. Examples would include Hurley bearing his soul to Libby at her grave site. Hurley calling Charlie out from his worrying, proving their friendship. Strong male bonding scenes between Hurley, Sawyer, Jin and Charlie. They even spend a little time on the couples coming back together in a music montage at the end.

I think they do what I would call hopeful, feel good scenes well. The entire episode was about restoring hope. Hope for the Losties by just having some fun together. Hope for Hurley that the numbers really weren't cursed and his father was a changed man and didn't come back for just the money. Throwing Vincent in the day helped add another layer of feel good for us animal lovers.

My other top episodes would include Greatest Hits, Expose, Born to Run, Dave and Something Nice Back Home. Some of their weaker episodes, in my opinion, would include Every Man for Himself (my least favorite Sawyer episode), D.O.C., and Fire + Water. But I don't hate any of these episodes. Their other episodes include Everybody Hates Hugo, Three Minutes, The Economist, Ji Yeon, The Lie, This Place is Death, He's Our You and The Variable.