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I am far from the most knowledagble here but a couple of really quick and easy ones would be
Jupiter (Obvious and really really easy to find, and getting to be in a reasonable position to observe as soon as it gets dark)
47 Tucanae Globular cluster, near the small Magellanic cloud and visible to the naked eye.
Tarantula nebula in the Large Magellanic cloud
M42/Great nebula in Orion.
All pretty big and bright and easy to find and all with some wow factor. I had my scope out last night for the first time in weeks and observed all of them in the couple of hours darkness I had before I had to go to bed (First clear night in ages would be a Sunday night wouldn't it) The transperancy was not too flash and was falling off anyway so it was time for bed or time to wait a few hours (Not sure about anywhere else but we do seem to get a fair bit of haze a couple of hours after dark where I am and it then often clears later in the night)
For a relative newbie it was a bit of a thrill to actually see the great red spot for the first time with my own eyes! And no amount of knowing that Jupiter has a roughly ten hour day prepares you for realising that you have noticed it move visually across the disc of the planet in the time you have been observing (I went back to Jupiter a couple of times over an hour or two so assuming roughly ten hours rotation that is about 36 degrees an hour!)
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