IT’S hard to play favorites when it comes to “Sex and the City.” With six seasons, 94 episodes and countless Cosmos, picking only 10 great moments is like picking a favorite department at Bendel’s – there are just too many good options.

Every Sunday night, for an uninterrupted 28 or so minutes, Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha made us laugh, cry and declare that the best part of the morning after is dishing about it with your friends.

While ladies everywhere have their pearl thongs in a twist over Friday’s release of the movie, here, in no particular order, is the Best. Sex. Ever.

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1. Carrie Is ‘Fashion Roadkill’

After begrudgingly agreeing to walk as a “real person” in a charity fashion show, Carrie freaks after being informed of a last-minute wardrobe change that has her wearing a tiny pair of bejeweled panties. Samantha gives her the go-ahead with a little “you’re fabulous” nudge, but as she confidently starts her runway walk, she trips in the “higher-the-better” stiletto sandals that she wanted to wear and falls flat on her face. Heidi Klum steps right over her, inspiring Stanford’s tragically funny comment, “She’s fashion roadkill!” In a display of characteristic chutzpah, Carrie gets back up and finishes her catwalk to triumphant cheers from the crowd. (Season 4: “The Real Me”)

2. The Post-It Breakup

Carrie wakes up in an empty bed – after receiving pink carnations, followed presumably by a make-up orgasm, both from Berger – only to find a little yellow stickie on her computer that reads: “I’m sorry. I can’t. Don’t hate me.” She pauses in shock, then slams the bouquet of flowers, which are then strewn all over her studio. It’s a slow-motion shot, but its impact comes fast and hard. (Season 6: “Hop, Skip and a Week”)

3. Samantha’s Dye Job

After finding a gray hair “down there,” Samantha decides to give herself a dye job. Alas, the ‘Nice-n-Simple’ experiment goes awry, and she ends up with a bright orange “Bozo Bush.” Later, during Brady’s first birthday party, Sam drags Carrie into the bathroom, flashes her nether regions, and exclaims, “This is not supposed to get old!” Carrie gasps, buries her head in her hands and comes up for one last look at the fearsome firecrotch. (Season 6: “One”)

4. Carrie Begs Forgiveness

The most tenderhearted moment of the Carrie-Aidan saga is when they try to reconcile after Carrie’s affair with Big. Earlier, Aidan exposed his vulnerability by shouting, “You broke my heart!” (in “Baby Talk is Cheap”). But when Carrie opens herself up, pleading, “You have to forgive me. You have to forgive me!” the intensity of their relationship is at its greatest height, or lowest low. Eventually, she melts into his chest and he accepts her. (Season 4: “Time and Punishment”)

5. Carrie Registers for Shoes

At a friend’s baby shower, Carrie’s asked to take off and leave her fabulous Manolos in a pile of worn-out slingbacks by the door. Upon leaving, she realizes they’ve been stolen. In an effort to reclaim them, she’s “shoe shamed” when her friend passes judgement on their “extravagant” $485 price tag. Then, Carrie spectacularly tells her friend she’s getting married – to herself – and is registered at Manolo Blahnik. (Season 6: “A Woman’s Right to Shoes”)

6. Miranda’s Single at the Grave

When Miranda’s mother dies, not only is she faced with her death, she says “I didn’t realize I needed a date for my mother’s funeral. Ignore the coffin, there’s a 35-year-old single woman walking behind it.” Walking alone in the procession, Miranda loses it. Without even thinking, Carrie steps in, grabs her hand and walks beside her. (Season 4: “My Motherboard, Myself”)

7. Charlotte’s ‘Exhausted’

On the ferry ride home from Staten Island, where Carrie judged the Fire Department’s “Calendar Contest,” the typically pristine Charlotte drunkenly declares this the year she will finally get married. The morning after, while trying to keep her head up from exhaustion and her food down from a hangover, she cries, “I’ve been dating since I was 15. I’m exhausted. Where is he?” (Season 3: “Where There’s Smoke…”)

8. Big meets ‘hubble’

After Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda go on and on about “The Way We Were,” and how crazy it is that Samantha’s never seen it, Carrie realizes she’s just like “complicated K-k-k-katie” herself. So when she spots Big and Natasha leaving their engagement brunch at the Plaza, she re-enacts the movie’s most famous scene by delicately moving Big’s hair away from his face and saying, “Your girl is lovely, Hubble.” In return, he says, “I don’t get it.” And Carrie, in a moment of bittersweet revelation says, “And you never did.” (Season 2: “Ex and the City”)

9. Big Gets the Go-ahead

While Carrie’s in Paris with the Russian, Charlotte hears Big leave a love confession on her answering machine. She then invites him to the coffee shop to speak his piece to the rest of the girls where he admits he “f – – – ed it up – many times.” He then says, “You’re the loves of her life and a guy’s just lucky to come in fourth.” After what feels like an eternity of silence, Miranda, leans forward and says, “Go get our girl.” (Season 6: “An American Girl in Paris [Part Une]”)

10. Smith and Samantha Shave

When Samantha’s diagnosed with cancer in Season 6, her hair loss ruins a passionate moment with beau Smith Jerrod just days before his red-carpet movie premiere. In a rare glimpse of Samantha’s emotionally vulnerable side, she admits to being scared, and boldly shaves her hair off. In an act of solidarity, Smith shaves his head, too. As if we needed another reason to lust after this “absolute hunk.” (Season 6: “Out of the Frying Pan”)

‘My favorite episode is the one where Natasha falls down the stairs after finding Carrie in her apartment. It was hilarious and yet so, so painful to watch. I think Carrie finally realized she was hurting someone by sleeping with Big – but she needed to cause the poor thing physical pain to realize the extent of her harm.” (Season 3: “Running With Scissors”)

– Robyn, 26, Brooklyn

‘My favorite moment was when Carrie invites Big up to Aidan’s cabin after being dumped and the two guys get into a fight in the mud. It just demonstrates how high school New York guys can be. Carrie tries to be the bigger person [by lending her friend some sympathy], and the guys (literally) muck it up.” (Season 4: “Belles of the Balls”)

– Summer, 32,Queens

‘The episode where Miranda makes a chocolate cake and starts eating the whole thing, so she quickly throws it in the garbage. But that doesn’t stop her: She starts eating it out of the garbage! After that, she grabs some dishwashing soap and pours it over the cake. Seriously, what woman can eat just one piece of homemade cake – especially if you’re the only one home! If no one else is there to see you eat it, does it count? I think not!” (Season 4: “What’s Sex Got To Do With It?”)

– Kathy, 29, Manhattan

‘I love the episode when Carrie gets busted for smoking pot. I mean, what are the odds? Even the cop feels sorry for her [when she tells him about the Post-it], which adds insult to injury in a humane way. Then, while wolfing down a sundae in the coffee shop with the girls, she says, in a slightly stoned way, ‘Oh! Hear that? It’s midnight. The official end to what will now be known as the day I got arrested for smoking a doobie.’ I love the way she says, ‘smoking a doobie.’ She’s loving the fact that she still can be a ‘bad’ girl.” (Season 6: “The Post-it Always Sticks Twice”)

– Jodie, 45, Manhattan

‘sex’ talk

MAGNOLIA cupcakes, name necklaces and flower pins weren’t the only things fans discovered from “SATC.” The spot-on dialogue made for some utterly repeatable language.

* baby blue (n.): Viagra

* bed arrest (n.): being forced into post-coital cuddling

* clam mouth (n.): when a guy’s tongue just lays in your mouth

* deja f – – – (n.): the odd sensation that you’re sleeping with someone you’ve slept with before

* frenemy (n.): a competitor with whom one maintains tense social relations

Goldic – – – s (proper n.): a woman looking for a guy with a perfectly sized package

* goody drawer (n.): the place where a person keeps their lovemaking accessories

* Island of Lost Men (proper n.): where guys wind up when they ask for your number but don’t call

bouncing up and down like a rabbit

* loathe of your life (n.): your most-despised ex

* mid-’30s power flip (n.): when successful single men realize that they’ve now got the upper hand

* modelizer (n.): a man who’s obsessed with models

* naked dress (n.): the dress a girl wears on a night she plans to have sex with someone

* reproductively challenged (adj.): infertile

* real estate bride (n.): a woman who marries for an apartment

* Sapphic slump (n.): a low point in a lesbian relationship

* see you next Tuesday (slang): Charlotte’s way of calling another woman something naughty

* sharpei (n.): a man’s uncircumcised appendage

* yogasm (n.): an orgasm that occurs after yoga class

Source: “Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell” (Pocket Books) by Amy Sohn