TOP 10 TV SHOWS!

[roshan]

Beast Wars

Spin City (the old ones)

Survivor (First 2 seasons only)

Desperate Housewives

24

Lost

The OC

Family Guy

 

Thats not in order.

Edited February 25, 2006 by roshan

[astr0creep]

Not surprisingly, this is turning on the rather particular tastes of this board.  Very little that aired more than 20 years ago... Lots of mediocre scifi being ridiculously overrated just because it's scifi... Nostalgia making people believe that the 1980s had any kind of redeeming value... People appreciating Hercules and Xena in a non-ironic fashion... 

 

To go a bit more mainstream, here's what TV Guide had to say on the matter a few years ago (the best link I could find was to CBS news, so all the CBS shows are annoyingly bolded). 

 

Personally, I'd break it into categories:

 

Talk Shows:

Meet the Press (so I'm a policy wonk...)

Ed Sullivan (before my time, but you've got to acknowledge its influence)

Letterman, pre-CBS

 

Sitcoms:

All in the Family

Taxi

The Simpsons

Seinfeld

 

Dramas:

Not a big watcher of these.  I suppose the Sopranos is pretty universally acclaimed (I only saw the first 2 seasons).  I admire the Law & Order formula-- consistently watchable, but it's not can't-miss stuff.

 

Miscellaneous:

MST3K (the scifi show I prefer to ridiculously overrate)

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Anyone here could say the same about your taste or lack of it.

 

To each his own.

[Surreptishus]

I think you missed his point.

[Laozi]

Mystery Science Theater 3000

 

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[astr0creep]

I think you missed his point.

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And you missed mine.

[Surreptishus]

Doubtful.

[LadyCrimson]

Not surprisingly, this is turning on the rather particular tastes of this board. 

People will generally list stuff from their generational influence as favorites. It's a rather human thing to do, not just something from 'this board.'

 

There's a lot of very old stuff I admire for media/format impact, mostly from my parents influence, but they don't spring to mind immediately because I haven't seen them in years and years and typically it's the more recent that pops into your head when you're answering some random forum poll. Plus a lot of stuff that you thought was great when you first saw it - especially if you saw it when you were a kid/early teen - doesn't 'age' very well in the memory, no matter how 'classic' it may be considered to be. I Love Lucy was huge and influential but....

Edited February 25, 2006 by LadyCrimson

[Leferd]

In order of most recent:

 

Battlestar Galactica

Firefly

The West Wing (The Aaron Sorkin years)

SportsNight

Band of Brothers

Batman the Animated Series

Seinfeld

The Simpsons

Cheers

M*A*S*H (early years)

[Ewen Brown]

i think all this thread demonstrates is that tv sucks

[kumquatq3]

i think all this thread demonstrates is that tv sucks

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If you wern't a spy for the British, and likely have a liceanse to kill, I'd say somthing meanish

Edited February 26, 2006 by kumquatq3

[Enoch]

Not surprisingly, this is turning on the rather particular tastes of this board. 

People will generally list stuff from their generational influence as favorites. It's a rather human thing to do, not just something from 'this board.'

 

There's a lot of very old stuff I admire for media/format impact, mostly from my parents influence, but they don't spring to mind immediately because I haven't seen them in years and years and typically it's the more recent that pops into your head when you're answering some random forum poll. Plus a lot of stuff that you thought was great when you first saw it - especially if you saw it when you were a kid/early teen - doesn't 'age' very well in the memory, no matter how 'classic' it may be considered to be. I Love Lucy was huge and influential but....

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I didn't mean that this is the only place on the internet where people have 'forgotten the classics.' I was just observing that it is interesting to see the ways the crowd here differs from more mainstream opinion in pretty consistent ways. The subset of the population who really liked, say, Angel and Farscape is pretty small (whence their cancellation) but rather heavily represented here.

 

(And then I took a swipe at the 1980s, Xena/Hercules, and mediocre scifi shows, which made some people angry. Yeah, it's subjective, but I'm standing by it as backed up by a consensus of hoity-toity intellectual elitists. )

 

Lastly, I'd like to add 2 categories to my list:

 

Childrens:

Old-school Loonie Tunes*

Spongebob Squarepants

 

Documentary:

Nova

 

 

* This might not count considering they were originally made for theatrical release, but I'm betting that everyone here saw them on TV.

Edited February 26, 2006 by Enoch

[Hurlshort]

Actually Buffy and Angel were critically acclaimed and major draws for the WB and UPN. They didn't bring in "American Idol" numbers, but they brought in enough to run for 13 seasons combined (I think...8 for Buffy, 5 for Angel?) They were top competitors in their time slot. They definitely appealed to a certain demographic, which is also the demographic you'll find on the internet. Hence the fact you don't see many advertisements for old people on either one.

[Deraldin]

Childrens:

Spongebob Squarepants

 

Documentary:

Nova

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Nova

 

Spongebob

[Kelverin]

I don't watch much TV these days, but here are my top 10. (Not in order)

 

Seinfeld

Cheers

M*A*S*H

All in the Family

The Spranos

The Twilight Zone

Happy Days

Sanford and Son

Soap

Taxi

 

 

Honorable Mention

 

The Simpsons

The Rockford Files

Six Feet Under

Leave it to Beaver

I Love Lucy

[Laozi]

Ewwwww the Rockford Files....sweet!!!

[Jora]

Veronica Mars

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Angel

[LadyCrimson]

I was just observing that it is interesting to see the ways the crowd here differs from more mainstream opinion in pretty consistent ways.  The subset of the population who really liked, say, Angel and Farscape is pretty small (whence their cancellation) but rather heavily represented here. 

Mainstream in terms of Neilson ratings? Those never really say much...have they re-vamped that system yet?

 

I find on most game forums over the years - all of them, but particularly RPG type ones - that a large percentage of the "population" likes a lot of fantasy/sci-fi shows/entertainment, both good and bad. The seeming correlation always made sense to me, particularly given the average age range. Forums I've been to where the majority of the users rarely play video games tend to show a different genre/taste range - but still not always 'mainstream'. So yeah, sometimes different forum "groups" can seem like mini-demographic indicators.

 

Most of those WB shows I've never liked personally, but I kinda stopped paying attention to most popular TV 10+ years ago...kinda like music. I'm turning into my parents. *the horror* :ph34r:

Edited February 26, 2006 by LadyCrimson

[Ewen Brown]

i think all this thread demonstrates is that tv sucks

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If you wern't a spy for the British, and likely have a liceanse to kill, I'd say somthing meanish

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the second week of training has a strict tv disappreciation course, failure to score above 98(out of 100) in the final test results in removal from the program

[ramza]

The only shows I may watch on TV (or rather on my pc) are animes

[Maedhros]

Hm, my top 10 would be:

 

South Park

Futurama

Fullmetal Alchemist

Ghost in the Shell: SAC

Rurouni Kenshin

Lost

King of Queens

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Monster

Cowboy Bebop

[WITHTEETH]

Rome

Jeopardy

Sopranos

Daily Show

Good Eats

Iron Chef

Attack Of The Show

Bill Maher

Xplay

Tech Tv before it became G4TV had a series that was called something like "minds of tomarrow" Anyone know what im talking about, and what happened to it?

[Laozi]

No, but Iron Chief is a great show.

[6 Foot Invisible Rabbit]

My top 10 in no particular order...

 

Doctor Who (new and old)

Red Green

Smallville

Star Trek TNG

NCIS

Are You Being Served?

Angel

Firefly

Battlestar Galactica

Red Dwarf

[Hurlshort]

Many Star Trek episodes are based off classical literature. You can find the same themes in Greek and Roman mythology, as well as Shakespeare and many other famous authors. The writing really was superior, although I don't think it fared as well after TNG.

[astr0creep]

Many Star Trek episodes are based off classical literature.  You can find the same themes in Greek and Roman mythology, as well as Shakespeare and many other famous authors.  The writing really was superior, although I don't think it fared as well after TNG.

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Agreed.

 

TOS was fun, TNG was smart, the rest was filler. And R. Berman killed it.