The Mofo Top 100 Television Shows

[Harry Lime]

I've watched every episode many times and it never gets old. I think that's a sign of a great television show. The Simpsons are like that up until season 9 or 10, maybe even a couple season after that, which is why I had Seinfeld at #3 and The Simpsons at #4 - because Seinfeld knew when to call it quits.

[The Gunslinger45]

Never really cared for Seinfeld. Sorry Jerry.

[Camo]

GOT didn't make my list, but it's a good show. Still i'm very dissapointed to see it above shows like The Sopranos and The Wire. Seinfeld didn't make my list for two reasons, fistly because i haven't watched it in a few years so it isn't as fresh in my mind as some of the others i voted for. Also unlike some of the others i didn't think it needed my help to make the top 10.

I think i may rewatch some of my favourite episodes soon, if i was to make a top ten it'd probably look something like this:


1.The Merv Griffin Show

2.The Library (purely for Bookman :D)
3.The Marine Biologist
4.The Soup Nazi
5.The Chinese Restaurant
6.The Pez Dispenser
7.The Subway
8.The Outing
9.The Hamptons
10.The Sniffing Accountant

[Godoggo]

Seinfeld wasn't on my list but that was a case of what was I thinking? It's consistently funny, outrageous and inspired a lot of future sitcoms.

I agree with Harry; it just doesn't get old. I could watch the one about Lloyd Braun and the gum over and over.

[Chardee MacDennis]

The Wire would've been my number 1, just ahead of Twin Peaks.

The Wire is flawless while the second season of Twin Peaks let it down a little. Everything leading up to finding out who killed Laura is the best tv I've seen.

Tough to say how high i would've put GoT because it's not finished. Probably 6th. Id be surprised if it wasnt top 3 by the time it finished though. Easily the best thing on television at the moment. Anyone who hasnt given it a decent shot is missing out.

[gbgoodies]

3. Seinfeld (1989 - 1998)

"The Chicken Roaster": Kenny Rogers Roasters gave the show permission to use their name in the episode and even provided a meal for the cast. Although they didn't make it in America the chain is still open in parts of Asia.



I know that I'm in the minority, but I'm not a fan of "Seinfeld". The funny thing is that before the show ever aired, I was a fan of Jerry Seinfeld as a stand-up comedian. I thought that he was a very funny guy, but the show just never made me laugh. I found the characters to be obnoxious and self-centered.

I knew the show had the potential to end up in the top 5, but I'll never understand why. :confused:

However, in reference to Kenny Rogers Roasters, I really miss their chicken pot pie. It was served in a bread bowl, and it was delicious.

[Harry Lime]

1.The Merv Griffin Show
3.The Marine Biologist
These are probably my two favourite episodes.

[Iroquois]

I had Seinfeld at #5. Excellent show, even if there is a slight drop in general quality during the last two or three seasons.

[Miss Vicky]

I've seen a few episodes of Seinfeld (I think reruns of it came on before or after something else I was watching?) and don't think I laughed a single time. Just not my kind of show.

[Sexy Celebrity]

What else needs to show? I know one is The Simpsons, but what's the other one?

[Iroquois]

Breaking Bad.

[Sexy Celebrity]

Breaking Bad.

Haven't seen a single episode of that and -- allow me to transform into Miss Vicky here -- don't really want to see a single episode of it, either.

Unless you think there's something I should check out.

Anyway, here is my full list. I know it's a teensy bit early, but this countdown is basically done. I have The Simpsons at #11.

BOLD made the official list.

SEXY SHOWS

1. The Golden Girls
2. Keeping Up Appearances
3. Big Brother
4. Sex and the City
5. ALF
6. Married with Children
7. Roseanne
8. Seinfeld
9. Bewitched
10. I Love Lucy
11. The Simpsons
12. Full House
13. Saved by the Bell
14. Jackass
15. 3rd Rock From The Sun
16. The Price is Right
17. Wheel of Fortune
18. Project Runway
19. The Jerry Springer Show
20. Larry King Live
21. Inspector Gadget
22. Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.
23. Mama's Family
24. Family Guy
25. Max Headroom (1 point show)

[Sexy Celebrity]

Oh. And I predict that The Simpsons is #1.

[Miss Vicky]

SEXY SHOWS

1. The Golden Girls
2. Keeping Up Appearances
3. Big Brother
4. Sex and the City
5. ALF
6. Married with Children
7. Roseanne
8. Seinfeld
9. Bewitched
10. I Love Lucy
11. The Simpsons
12. Full House
13. Saved by the Bell
14. Jackass
15. 3rd Rock From The Sun
16. The Price is Right
17. Wheel of Fortune
18. Project Runway
19. The Jerry Springer Show
20. Larry King Live
21. Inspector Gadget
22. Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.
23. Mama's Family
24. Family Guy
25. Max Headroom (1 point show)

No Queer As Folk?

Also: I enjoyed what I have seen of Breaking Bad. I'm not crazy about it like a lot of people and didn't vote for it, but it's good. Judging by what you've voted for though I'm not sure it'd be your cup of tea.

[Sexy Celebrity]

No Queer As Folk?

Wasn't sure how I felt about it. Loved the first three seasons when it came on, hardly saw much of 4 & 5, and haven't revisited it much in a decade.

[Miss Vicky]

I haven't revisited QAF in quite awhile myself, but I absolutely loved it when I saw it last.

I didn't use rewatchability as a criteria for this list because aside from Blackadder and Roseanne, I typically don't rewatch any television or if I do, it'll just be to brush up on the previous season before the new one starts.

[gbgoodies]

I didn't use rewatchability as a criteria for this list because aside from Blackadder and Roseanne, I typically don't rewatch any television or if I do, it'll just be to brush up on the previous season before the new one starts.


Rewatchability was one of the most important pieces of criteria for me for this list. A show can be a great show, but if it's not rewatchable, it's not likely to make my favorites list.

That's why most of my favorite shows didn't make the list.

[Harry Lime]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OD9_HOjrVg

[Harry Lime]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_pqnsKWlpc

[Harry Lime]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnX9k0U9oE

[Harry Lime]

Ah, The Simpsons in the 90s. They could do no wrong.

[Sexy Celebrity]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OD9_HOjrVg

Very hypnotic.

[Gatsby]

Ah the Simpsons... why did it have to go so downhill :(

[Iroquois]

On a long enough timeline, the quality of everything drops to zero.

[Harry Lime]

(xTime + lots$) x (>= 51%Critical Praise) = Artisitc Failure

examples: Star Wars prequels, The Godfather Part III, Terminator 3 and 4, The Matrix sequels, James Cameron, and so on.

edit: or what Iro said.

[TylerDurden99]

Seinfeld was my #1. No other tv series has come close to the perfection that it is. Other than the very short first season, it was consistenly hilarious and entertaining right until the finale. I quote Seinfeld so much that it's probably a large percentage of my daily talking output.


I was really gunning for it to be #1 on this list, but at least it sits in the top 3. The greatest show of all time (in my opinion, of course).

[Iroquois]

(xTime + lots$) x (>= 51%Critical Praise) = Artisitc Failure

examples: Star Wars prequels, The Godfather Part III, Terminator 3 and 4, The Matrix sequels, James Cameron, and so on.

edit: or what Iro said.

This comic (http://www.cracked.com/article_18696_the-lifespan-every-tv-show-ever-5Bcomic5D.html) illustrates my point nicely.

[Godoggo]

They've been showing the older Simpsons lately. A couple of days ago Mountain of Madness was on which is an episode I love.

[christine]

Have watched some Seinfeld over the years to see what the fuss is about, but still don't find it funny at all.

[MovieMeditation]

I think we all know number one... And no it ain't f*cking Simpsons haha.

[Iroquois]

Even though I did vote for Breaking Bad and not for The Simpsons, I'll still feel weird about the former outranking the latter for some reason.

[seanc]

I went to bed early last night. In my head was dread, that The Simpsons was going to beat Seinfeld. I awake to my fears becoming reality. Just a little more of my faith in humanity has died.

Seinfeld is the greatest comedy of all time. I don't even really think its all that close. I have seen every episode a solid ten times. I still laugh consistently. This show still comes up in my daily conversations. I still find time for four or five episodes a week while eating dinner or for back ground noise. I will do a top ten tonight or tomorrow.

[Sedai]

Catching up a bit late...

I tried to watch The Wire, but it didn't grab me after 3-4 episodes, so my GF and I just sort of blew it off. I do plan on jumping back in and giving it another chance, but at first blush, it seemed like a pretty standard police show, so I just grouped it in with CSI and all the rest of those potboilers.

Seinfeld is a sitcom, and I am not a fan of sitcoms. Definitely not on my list. Moving on...

Damn...I went and screwed up another one of these countdowns, and I think I may just stop participating in these because I make egregious oversights when I compile my lists. Either that, or I need a new method of adjusting my lists when I make changes. When I started, I was waffling back and forth on whether Game of Thrones should be in the top 5 for me, or sit just on the bubble at around 6 or 7. I just checked the list I submitted and IT'S NOT ON THE LIST AT ALL. While shuffling titles around, I somehow left it off, which is just stupid. Game of Thrones is most certainly one of the best television shows ever produced, and most certainly one of my favorites of all time. It should be a place or two higher, but lost a stack due to my asshattery.

Anyway, I would put Game of Thrones at number 6, and I am not sure how the countdown would change, if at all, with the addition of the show to my list.

[cricket]

Seinfeld wouldn't appear to be my brand of humor, but it somehow works for me. I think it's great and had it at #9. That'll be it for my list.

1. Survivor
2. The Shield
3. Saturday Night Live
5. Married With Children
6. True Detective
7. All in the Family
9. Seinfeld
23. Cheers

[Yoda]

Sedai freaking out when he realizes he left something off a list is one of my favorite MoFo traditions.

[Holden Pike]

I probably won't be around much the next few days, and I think everybody knows what the top two shows are, so here's my entire list. I had "Seinfeld" at number eleven, "Breaking Bad" at ten, and "The Simpsons" as my number three.

1. "The Rockford Files"
2. "Moonlighting"
3. "The Simpsons"
4. "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
5. "Arrested Development"
6. "Monty Python’s Flying Circus"
7. "The Larry Sanders Show"
8. "Cheers"
9. "Peep Show"
10. "Breaking Bad"
11. "Seinfeld"
12. "Lonesome Dove"
13. "The Bob Newhart Show"
14. "The Colbert Report"
15. "The Office" - UK
16. "Deadwood"
17. "The Kids in the Hall"
18. "The Office" - US
19. "St. Elsewhere"
20. "Parks & Recreation"
21. "Barney Miller"
22. "Mr. Show with Bob & David"
23. "All in the Family"
24. "Get A Life"
25. "Have Gun, Will Travel"

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I had eight not make the Top 100. "Have Gun - Will Travel" was already revealed as my one-pointer, that nobody else voted for. The only no-show from my top twelve is all the way up as my second overall choice, the wonderful "Moonlighting". It has some dated '80s elements, to be sure, but apart from those aesthetics, it holds up extremely well, and there is no doubt why Bruce Willis became a star overnight. Taking the fast-talking, overlapping, rat-a-tat-tat witty dialogue and banter from the '30s and '40s Screwball era and infusing it into a (then) modern day detective show which relentlessly and cleverly deconstructed not just that genre but the television medium itself in often anarchic gags and references that owe their lineage to the diverse likes of Ernie Kovacs, Mel Brooks, Barry Gordy, and the Looney Tunes, all wrapped around two great lead actors born to play their characters. It's a groundbreaking show that is also endlessly entertaining. To me, anyway.

"The Bob Newhart Show" and "Barney Miller" are two of the very best sitcoms of the 1970s, without a doubt, but I'd rank them up there among the best ever. Great writing and perfect ensemble casts are the not-so-secret ingredients to their success. "St. Elsewhere" had a huge and eventually rotating ensemble, and in the hands of creators Joshua Brand and John Falsey, who would go on to create "Northern Exposure" next, their combination of off-center, often very dark humor and empathetic humanity, in this case coming together in the genre of a hospital show, worked swimmingly. I think at the time and even now it is sort of linked in many minds to Stephen Bochco's "Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law", which accomplished many of the same things in a similar style and on the same network, running concurrently for many seasons. But "St. Elsewhere" was just a little weirder, and for me rises as the best network drama of the decade.

In my book, after "Monty Python's Flying Circus" the two sketch comedy programs that belong anywhere near the discussion of greatness are not the endless "Saturday Night Live" nor even the hilarious "The Carol Burnett Show" or the incredibly influential "SCTV" but rather "The Kids in the Hall" and "Mr. Show with Bob & David", which both had such consistent quality and also picked up the mantle of the greats before them while adding their own voices and spin. Great damn stuff, and so many indelible characters and belly laughs.

And then lastly, Chris Elliot's Get A Life", which was so relentlessly bizarre and often insane, and somehow stayed on the air for two seasons in the early 1990s. Taking his sarcastic anti-comedy brand of humor from "Late Night with David Letterman" with his friend and co-creator Adam Resnick, plus enlisting sitcom veteran David Mirkin, Chris Elliot created one of the weirdest and funniest shows network television has ever seen, and he happily brought his father, the legendary comedian Bob Elliot who had been one of the most influential voices in comedy in the 1950s and '60s with his writing and performing partner Ray Goulding, along for the ride. Chris Elliot's later film Cabin Boy has become something of a cult hit, but if you like the brand of comedy there, seek out and enjoy this take of a 30-year-old paperboy who lives in his parents' garage and has some ridiculous and hilarious adventures, often very cartoonlike in nature, but done live action. Or at least, Chris Elliot action.


So there.

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[honeykid]

Seinfeld is a sitcom, and I am not a fan of sitcoms. Definitely not on my list. Moving on...
Yeah, and not a funny one either.

. When I started, I was waffling back and forth on whether Game of Thrones should be in the top 5 for me, or sit just on the bubble at around 6 or 7. I just checked the list I submitted and IT'S NOT ON THE LIST AT ALL. While shuffling titles around, I somehow left it off, which is just stupid.
I did the same thing with Blackadder Goes Forth

[Miss Vicky]

I think we all know number one... And no it ain't f*cking Simpsons haha.

I don't think that's true at all. I would actually be surprised if Breaking Bad takes the top spot. It may have a higher number of rabid fans on this board than Homer and company, but I'd venture to say that The Simpsons has more fans overall and those points can add up to make a big difference.

[christine]

Wait a minute, what happened to The Muppets ? :(

[honeykid]

I've expected Breaking Bad to be the #1 pick since this started. The only other two that I thought would take it were The Soprano's and The Wire. It didn't occur to me that The Simpson's would be #1, but I'd love it to be.

No Muppets? Again, I'm really surprised. Did it not appear earlier on? The biggest omission for me has been I, Claudius. I really thought it'd make it. When it hadn't appeared in the first 30 I got my hopes up and started to think it'd be top half. By the time we hit 30, I was positive it'd missed out. :(

Did anyone watch it for the list? What did you think?

[honeykid]

Wait a minute, what happened to The Muppets ? :(

They didn't make it and they're not happy about it.

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[Miss Vicky]

I didn't watch I, Claudius specifically for the countdown, but I've seen it and it's in my DVD collection. A friend introduced it to me years ago (the same friend who introduced me to Blackadder). I think it's excellent and it made my ballot.

[Holden Pike]

No Muppets.

"Sesame Street", "The Muppet Show", "Fraggle Rock", "Muppet Babies", and "Muppets Tonight" may have split their votes, too much.


Plus, grown ups. So most of us couldn't even see Mr. Snuffleupagus.

[Miss Vicky]

I didn't vote for any Muppets. Though I considered including Sesame Street for nostalgia's sake. I also considered Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, but ultimately left it off too.

[gbgoodies]

"The Bob Newhart Show" and "Barney Miller" are two of the very best sitcoms of the 1970s, without a doubt, but I'd rank them up there among the best ever. Great writing and perfect ensemble casts are the not-so-secret ingredients to their success. "St. Elsewhere" had a huge and eventually rotating ensemble, and in the hands of creators Joshua Brand and John Falsey, who would go on to create "Northern Exposure" next, their combination of off-center, often very dark humor and empathetic humanity, in this case coming together in the genre of a hospital show, worked swimmingly. I think at the time and even now it is sort of linked in many minds to Stephen Bochco's "Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law", which accomplished many of the same things in a similar style and on the same network, running concurrently for many seasons. But "St. Elsewhere" was just a little weirder, and for me rises as the best drama network drama of the decade.



"Barney Miller" was on my list at #8, and I'm sad to see that it didn't make the countdown. It's much better than a lot of shows that made it.

"The Bob Newhart Show" was a show that I wanted to include on my list, but I just didn't have room for it. It was definitely a candidate for my list.


Wait a minute, what happened to The Muppets ? :(


"The Muppet Show" was another show that I wanted to include, but I just couldn't find a spot for it, so it ultimately got cut.

[Citizen Rules]

Almost none of my shows made the list. Too bad because many of them were all time greats.:p

I've only watched a few minutes here and there of Seinfeld, not my top of show the characters seemed whiny. The only character I liked was the short guy in the glasses.

[Modine]

I don't WANT to like Seinfeld. It's a sitcom, the characters are mean and selfish, I LOATHE Jerry Seinfeld, and there was an appalling lack of minorities on that show. Despite that, it really is a brilliant show and I laugh despite myself. Humour cuts through politics I guess.

[Yoda]

It's not really inconsistent with those politics anyway, since the whole point is that they're insular, self-absorbed, terrible people.

[TheUsualSuspect]

I had Seinfeld at #2. Funniest show of all-time. I quote it daily...maybe hourly.

[TheUsualSuspect]

My final list. I had breaking bad at #4 and Simpsons at #13.

1. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
2. Seinfeld
3. Lost
4. Breaking Bad
5. Arrested Development
6. The Wire
7. Game of Thrones
8. Batman: The Animated Series
9. Firefly
10. Sons of Anarchy
11. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
12. Community
13. The Simpsons
14. Futurama
15. The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
16. Titus
17. Curb Your Enthusiasm
18. Sherlock
19. Pushing Daises
20. Six Feet Under
21. Spider-man (1994) Fox
22. The Walking Dead
23. How I Met Your Mother
24. True Detective
25. Dexter

[seanc]

I don't WANT to like Seinfeld. It's a sitcom, the characters are mean and selfish, I LOATHE Jerry Seinfeld, and there was an appalling lack of minorities on that show. Despite that, it really is a brilliant show and I laugh despite myself. Humour cuts through politics I guess.

When comedy is at its best it is making fun of everyone and everything never pulling punches. Seinfeld was fantastic in that regard. I don't know Seinfeld's politics and don't want to. If I were to take a guees it would be based on the perception of Hollywood as a whole, and would have nothing to do with the show. Yoda is right, the whole point of the show is that they are horrible people. For me the best comedy points out the absurdity of our culture. Seinfeld takes the cake.

[MovieMeditation]

My full list looks like this. ;)

1. Breaking Bad (2008)
2. Dexter (2006) #20
3. Game of Thrones (2011)*#4
4. Band of Brothers (2001) #17
5. Fanny & Alexander (1983) #32
6. House of Cards (2013) #38
7. Hannibal (2013) #39
8. True Detective (2013) #15
9. Riget (1994)
10. Mr. Bean (1990)
11. Six Feet Under (2001) #55
12. Twin Peaks (1990) #5
13. Klovn (2005)
14. Top Gear (2002)
15. Life (2009)
16. Broen (2011)
17. Fawlty Towers (1975) #13
18. Planet Earth (2006) #90
19. Cowboy Bebop (1998) #91
20. Lost (2004) #14
21. The Sopranos (1999)*#7
22. The Simpsons (1989)
23. Police Squad! (1982)
24. Keeping Up Appearences (1990)
25. King of Queens (1998)

[seanc]

25. King of Queens (1998)

Somebody else voted for this.:up::up:
Infinitely rewatchable comedy.

[christine]

MovieMeditation - nice to see you had Broen (The Bridge) on your list , I did too and I had Borgen as well.

[MovieMeditation]

Would probably have voted for Borgen if had seen it. Heard it was very good so I got that up next! :up:

[christine]

Would probably have voted for Borgen if had seen it. Heard it was very good so I got that up next! :up:

Glad to hear that, it's very good :)

[honeykid]

Yeah, Borgen is fantastic. Much better than The Bridge. Especially the first series.

TUS: your list looks a lot like I imagined most of the lists submitted would look.

[Iroquois]

Well, if we're already posting full lists...

1. Mystery Science Theater 3000
2. Freaks and Geeks
3. The Wire
4. Fawlty Towers
5. Seinfeld
6. Chappelle's Show
7. Daria
8. Arrested Development
9. The Simpsons
10. Twin Peaks
11. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
12. Regular Show
13. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
14. Blackadder II
15. Star Trek: The Next Generation
16. The Thick of It
17. Breaking Bad
18. The Sopranos
19. Black Books
20. Spaced
21. Cowboy Bebop
22. The X-Files
23. Blackadder Goes Forth
24. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
25. Burn Notice

In hindsight, I probably didn't take my choices all that seriously. As for the ones that didn't make it...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 was an obvious favourite because it was just some of the purest fun I've ever had while watching a show. The show had a ludicrous premise - a mad scientist traps a lovable everyman into space and forces him to watch the worst movies ever made as part of his plan for world domination - and it knew it, but it was the perfect excuse to have Joel (later Mike) and his robot friends make all sorts of cracks, both out of affectionate amusement and scathing cynicism and all points in between. The "host segments" were also home to a variety of hilarious skits and the interplay between our nominal heroes and villains was always a highlight. Despite my talking earlier about how shows generally go downhill after about seven seasons, Mystery Science Theater 3000 somehow managed to maintain an impressive degree of quality across eleven seasons and so many cast changes that by the time the show ended there wasn't a single main cast member from the first season left. That's a testament to the strength of the show's convoluted yet simple formula and the writing on offer, to say nothing of the actors involved.

Chappelle's Show was a strong if short-lived sketch show that sadly got cut short due to a variety of factors - rigourous shooting schedules, executive meddling and, of course, meatheads turning "I'm Rick James, bitch" from a great parody of celebrity excess into an incredibly tiresome catch-phrase. Though you could make the argument based on the "Lost Episodes" that the show was starting to lose its spark due to the various aforementioned problems, but the first two seasons still make for some of the best sketch comedy I've ever seen. Leaving aside season 2's entire Rick James episode (which, even without it being run into the ground by people quoting it all the time, is still one of the show's greatest moments), there's plenty of comedy gold where Chappelle will either provide some clever social commentary or just mine acceptable targets for easy laughs. The white supremacist who is actually a blind-since-birth black man, a dramatisation of Prince beating Charlie Murphy at basketball, Wayne Brady trashing his nice-guy image in a horrifying parody of Training Day...it's all there and it's all good.

I didn't really start watching Daria until it finally got released on DVD a few years back. An extremely turn-of-the-millennium animated sitcom about the titular teenage misfit and her misadventures involving self-absorbed family members, incompetent teachers, idiotic classmates and many more. It's a much more down-to-earth cartoon than Beavis and Butt-Head and all the better for it.

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (the U.S. version, I had to clarify after I submitted this list) was another show that was important to me because of how rapid-fire and frantic some of the scenes could be. Such a simple formula - each episode consists of a series of improv sketches framed as a sort of game show, even though "the points don't matter" - but it was capable of guaranteeing some serious laughs. The fact that the U.S. version locked it down the four-person ensemble to three regulars and a constantly changing guest somehow managed to guarantee quality comedy rather than stifle it. The interplay between Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie was always great, and there were plenty of times when Wayne Brady performed a show-stopping number on the spot that made you question whether or not it really was made up on the spot. It's not grandiose drama or whatever, but it's plenty entertaining.

Regular Show was a long shot and deep down I knew it was probably never going to make the list. Not even Adventure Time made the list, so what hope did this have? In any case, it's just a show that speaks to my sensibilities with its blend of mundane slacker comedy and nightmarish surrealism and it just keeps getting better and better with every new season. I can only hope it goes out on top rather than fall apart like SpongeBob did.

The Thick of It seemed like it had a real shot at being in. The best way I've heard it summed up is "Yes, Minister meets The Office" due to its combination of mid-level politics and cynical mockumentary antics, but that doesn't quite do it justice. The very naturalistic performances aid a very dark comedy about the inner workings of government departments make for some great moments - especially thanks to Peter Capaldi's iconic turn as incredibly acerbic spin doctor Malcolm Tucker - that had the sense to go out on a high note. I guess now I should start watching Veep.

Black Books, well, at its heart it's a pretty simple work-com about a small bookshop run by Bernard Black, a chain-smoking alcoholic misanthrope, who's assisted by Manny and Fran, his new hire and best/only friend respectively. There are familiar sitcom tropes all over the place - the "replace a broken treasure without the owner finding out" plot, for instance - but it's got some clever writing here and there. It took forever to grow on me because seemingly everyone in my friend circle thought it was the best show ever, and now that I finally admit liking it enough to put on the list, I realise that in hindsight I shouldn't have included it.

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was probably the longest shot of all. A six-episode series about the titular Stephen King wannabe creating his own horror TV show back in the '80s. The show-within-a-show about a haunted hospital was deliberately designed to be so-bad-it's-good, and that would've worked fine on its own. More of the show's strength came from Garth and his publisher Dean giving retrospective interviews about how they think that the show was an underappreciated masterpiece when the actual footage shows that it's anything but. i guess I have to admit that it was starting to lose a bit of its pull during the last episode of two (which isn't good when there are only six episodes), but it was just too charming in its own way. I guess this was another one that could've afforded to be dropped off the final list.

Burn Notice...well, it's a fun show, but reading the write-ups on The Rockford Files really drove home just how derivative of older shows it really was (both shows do involve the main character trying to outsmart his opponents on a weekly basis while also having a parent in the supporting cast). The fact that I still managed to watch six seasons despite being aware of how it wasn't all that original probably says something. Given that this didn't make the one-point list, I have to wonder who else voted for it.

[Godoggo]

Catching up a bit late...

I tried to watch The Wire, but it didn't grab me after 3-4 episodes, so my GF and I just sort of blew it off. I do plan on jumping back in and giving it another chance, but at first blush, it seemed like a pretty standard police show, so I just grouped it in with CSI and all the rest of those potboilers.

Seinfeld is a sitcom, and I am not a fan of sitcoms. Definitely not on my list. Moving on...

Damn...I went and screwed up another one of these countdowns, and I think I may just stop participating in these because I make egregious oversights when I compile my lists. Either that, or I need a new method of adjusting my lists when I make changes. When I started, I was waffling back and forth on whether Game of Thrones should be in the top 5 for me, or sit just on the bubble at around 6 or 7. I just checked the list I submitted and IT'S NOT ON THE LIST AT ALL. While shuffling titles around, I somehow left it off, which is just stupid. Game of Thrones is most certainly one of the best television shows ever produced, and most certainly one of my favorites of all time. It should be a place or two higher, but lost a stack due to my asshattery.

Anyway, I would put Game of Thrones at number 6, and I am not sure how the countdown would change, if at all, with the addition of the show to my list.


Not to make it worse for you, but Game of Thrones was 1 point behind Seinfeld. You would have pushed it to the number three spot by voting for it.

[Citizen Rules]

Interesting choices, I like em too.Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Daria.

I forgot about both of those shows. I like the original host of MST3K better, the new guy is good too.

[Miss Vicky]

Burn Notice

Given that this didn't make the one-point list, I have to wonder who else voted for it.

I did.

[Godoggo]

Wait a minute, what happened to The Muppets ? :(

I'd have to got back and look to know for sure, but I think you and I were the only ones to vote for them. Someone else may have, but I have to get the next entry together so I don't have time to look right now.

The entire 548 title list will be open very soon for people to browse through.

Also it's almost time to find out who won that top ten prediction.

[The Gunslinger45]

Well here is my list.

1. Firefly (Number 8)
2. South Park (Number 12)
3. Twin Peaks (Number 5)
4. Justice League
5. Law & Order (Number 41)
6. The Slayers
7. Cowboy Bebop (Number 91)
8. The Simpsons 1 or 2
9. Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Number 23)
10. Drawn Together
11. Whose Line is it Anyway? (British)
12. ER
13. The Critic
14. Dragonball Z(Number 98)
15. Dragonball
16. Deadliest Warrior
17. X-Men: The Animated Series
18. Batman: The Animated Series (Number 34)
19. Celebrity Deathmatch
20. Full Metal Panic
21. Animaniacs
22. Tiny Toons
23. Rocko’s Modern Life
24. Outlaw Star
25. Agents of SHIELD

[Iroquois]

Interesting choices, I like em too.Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Daria.

I forgot about both of those shows. I like the original host of MST3K better, the new guy is good too.


I am still torn on whether or not I prefer Joel or Mike. I think in a pinch I'd say Mike because I've seen more episodes with him in them and he presided over the show once it had hit its stride while Joel had to contend with the extremely rough early seasons.

[gbgoodies]

As long as everyone else is posting their full lists, here's mine. There are probably a bunch of shows here that most of you haven't even heard of, but they're still my favorites.
(The shows in red made the MoFo list.)

1) The Big Bang Theory (2007 - Current) (#31)
2) Castle (2009 - Current)
3) The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961 - 1966) (#71)
4) Stark Raving Mad (1999 - 2000)
5) Once Upon A Time (2011 - Current)
6) Columbo (1971 - 2003) (#86)
7) Star Trek (1966 - 1969) (#37)
9) My Favorite Martian (1963 - 1966)
10) Becker (1998 - 2004)
11) Quantum Leap (1989 - 1993) (#63)
12) Ben Casey (1961 - 1966)
13) Monk (2002 - 2009)
14) The Carol Burnett Show (1967 - 1978)
15) Siskel & Ebert aka "At the Movies" (1986 - 2010)
16) Nowhere Man (1995 - 1996)
17) The Practice (1997 - 2004)
18) Midnight Caller (1988 - 1991)
19) Early Edition (1996 - 2000)
20) Shark (2006 - 2008)
21) CSI: New York (2004 - 2013)
22) No Ordinary Family (2010 - 2011)
23) Justice (2006 - 2007)
24) Dawson's Creek (1998 - 2003)
25) Mad About You (1992 - 1999) (This was listed as a 2-point show. One other person had it as their #25.)

[seanc]

1 The Sopranos #7
2 The Shield #30
3 Mad Men #16
4 Seinfeld #3
5 The Office #22
6 Breaking Bad #1 over The Simpsons (fingers crossed)
7 Friends #19
8 Band Of Brothers #17
9 Lonesome Dove #60
10 Friday Night Lights Shocked it didn't make a 100 list
11 The Wire #6
12 Arrested Development #9
13 John Adams Didn't expect it, but I think it is fantastic
14 Northern Exposure #69
15 Six Feet Under #55
16 Saturday Night Live #48
17 The Pacific Nearly as good as Band Of Brothers, people should see this
18 The King Of Queens Extremely funny and re-watchable for me
19 That 70's Show #84
20 Everybody Loves Raymond #49
21 Dexter #20
22 Game Of Thrones #4
23 Parenthood Big fall off the last two seasons, but I love the first three
24 Fargo Maybe living in the moment with this one but I really enjoyed it
25 Quantum Leap #63

[Citizen Rules]

I like that list. It's good to see shows other than newer shows:)

Kudos for Siskel & Ebert aka "At the Movies"
Those two guys are legend!

3) The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961 - 1966) (#71)
6) Columbo (1971 - 2003) (#86)
7) Star Trek (1966 - 1969) (#37)
9) My Favorite Martian (1963 - 1966)
11) Quantum Leap (1989 - 1993) (#63)
12) Ben Casey (1961 - 1966)
14) The Carol Burnett Show (1967 - 1978)
15) Siskel & Ebert aka "At the Movies" (1986 - 2010)

I bet I have more older shows on my list!

[Citizen Rules]

8 Band Of Brothers
9 Lonesome Dove
13 John Adams
17 The Pacific

I've seen all of those mini series, excellent choices Sean.:)

[mark f]

1 The Simpsons
2 All in the Family
3 Twin Peaks
4 The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
5 The Andy Griffith Show
6 The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
7 I Love Lucy
8 Sanford and Son
9 The Twilight Zone
10 Northern Exposure
11 Berlin Alexanderplatz
12 The Dick Van Dyke Show
13 Get Smart
14 Star Trek (Original)
15 The Carol Burnett Show
16 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in
17 Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
18 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
19 Soap
20 MP’s Flying Circus
21 Picket Fences
22 Jeopardy!
23 Hill Street Blues
24 24
25 Saturday Night Live (Early Years)

[gbgoodies]

I like that list. It's good to see shows other than newer shows:)

Kudos for Siskel & Ebert aka "At the Movies"
Those two guys are legend!

3) The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961 - 1966) (#71)
6) Columbo (1971 - 2003) (#86)
7) Star Trek (1966 - 1969) (#37)
9) My Favorite Martian (1963 - 1966)
11) Quantum Leap (1989 - 1993) (#63)
12) Ben Casey (1961 - 1966)
14) The Carol Burnett Show (1967 - 1978)
15) Siskel & Ebert aka "At the Movies" (1986 - 2010)

I bet I have more older shows on my list!


I was surprised that more people didn't have Siskel and Ebert on their list. I watched that show every week before deciding what movies to see in the theater. I usually agreed with Siskel a lot more than Ebert, but my Mom usually agreed with Ebert more than Siskel.

What older shows did you have on your list? There were a few that I wanted to list, but I just didn't have room on my list.

[rauldc14]

I didn't take this list very seriously, in all honesty.

1. Big Bang Theory
2. Monday Night Football
3. The Hills
4. Survivor
5. Boy Meets World
6. Full House
7. Seinfeld
8. Laguna Beach
9. Sliders
10. Two and a Half Men
11. Match Game
12. Family Matters
13. Bates Motel
14. Golden Girls
15. The Office (U.S.)
16. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
17. Americas Got Talent
18. Step by Step
19. Friends
20. The Beverly Hillbillies
21. Little House on the Prairie
22. Smallville
23. Legends of the Hidden Temple
24. Pawn Stars
25. The Bachelor

[gbgoodies]

1 The Simpsons
2 All in the Family
3 Twin Peaks
4 The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
5 The Andy Griffith Show
6 The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
7 I Love Lucy
8 Sanford and Son
9 The Twilight Zone
10 Northern Exposure
11 Berlin Alexanderplatz
12 The Dick Van Dyke Show
13 Get Smart
14 Star Trek (Original)
15 The Carol Burnett Show
16 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in
17 Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
18 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
19 Soap
20 MP’s Flying Circus
21 Picket Fences
22 Jeopardy!
23 Hill Street Blues
24 24
25 Saturday Night Live (Early Years)


It's nice to see someone else had "The Carol Burnett Show" on their list. That was one of the shows that I was surprised didn't make the list.

It's also nice to see these shows:

13 Get Smart
18 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
19 Soap
24 24 ("24" at #24. Was that a coincidence, or did you plan it that way?)

[Harry Lime]

Post the last two dammit!

Please.

[gbgoodies]

I didn't take this list very seriously, in all honesty.

1. Big Bang Theory
2. Monday Night Football
3. The Hills
4. Survivor
5. Boy Meets World
6. Full House
7. Seinfeld
8. Laguna Beach
9. Sliders
10. Two and a Half Men
11. Match Game
12. Family Matters
13. Bates Motel
14. Golden Girls
15. The Office (U.S.)
16. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
17. Americas Got Talent
18. Step by Step
19. Friends
20. The Beverly Hillbillies
21. Little House on the Prairie
22. Smallville
23. Legends of the Hidden Temple
24. Pawn Stars
25. The Bachelor



Kudos for having "Big Bang Theory" at #1 on your list. :up:

It's also nice to see some love for these shows:

9. Sliders
10. Two and a Half Men (This would have made my list before Aston Kutcher joined the show.)
13. Bates Motel
17. Americas Got Talent
22. Smallville

[gbgoodies]

Well here is my list.

1. Firefly (Number 8)
2. South Park (Number 11)
3. Twin Peaks (Number 5)
4. Justice League
5. Law & Order (Number 41)
6. The Slayers
7. Cowboy Bebop (Number 91)
8. The Simpsons 1 or 2
9. Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Number 23)
10. Drawn Together
11. Whose Line is it Anyway? (British)
12. ER
13. The Critic
14. Dragonball Z(Number 98)
15. Dragonball
16. Deadliest Warrior
17. X-Men: The Animated Series
18. Batman: The Animated Series (Number 34)
19. Celebrity Deathmatch
20. Full Metal Panic
21. Animaniacs
22. Tiny Toons
23. Rocko’s Modern Life
24. Outlaw Star
25. Agents of SHIELD


BIG + rep for having these shows on your list:

21. Animaniacs
22. Tiny Toons
25. Agents of SHIELD

I considered all three of them for my list, but I just couldn't find a way to fit them in.

[Citizen Rules]

Kudo to Mark's list too, great choices. Some were on my list to. I was surprised that more people didn't have Siskel and Ebert on their list. I watched that show every week before deciding what movies to see in the theater. I usually agreed with Siskel a lot more than Ebert, but my Mom usually agreed with Ebert more than Siskel.

What older shows did you have on your list? There were a few that I wanted to list, but I just didn't have room on my list. I NEVER thought about Siskel and Ebert, or I might have made that my number 1.

I grew up on that show and started watching it when it was on PBS back in 1981 or 1982. Those guys are like my heroes and I can't believe there gone now. I watched it almost every week. I use to agree with Ebert more, but now that I love old classics I'd probably agree more with Siskel, he really loved old Hollywood B&W films.

[gbgoodies]

My full list looks like this. ;)

1. Breaking Bad (2008)
2. Dexter (2006) #20
3. Game of Thrones (2011)*#4
4. Band of Brothers (2001) #17
5. Fanny & Alexander (1983) #32
6. House of Cards (2013) #38
7. Hannibal (2013) #39
8. True Detective (2013) #15
9. Riget (1994)
10. Mr. Bean (1990)
11. Six Feet Under (2001) #55
12. Twin Peaks (1990) #5
13. Klovn (2005)
14. Top Gear (2002)
15. Life (2009)
16. Broen (2011)
17. Fawlty Towers (1975) #13
18. Planet Earth (2006) #90
19. Cowboy Bebop (1998) #91
20. Lost (2004) #14
21. The Sopranos (1999)*#7
22. The Simpsons (1989)
23. Police Squad! (1982)
24. Keeping Up Appearences (1990)
25. King of Queens (1998)


+ rep for having "Police Squad!" (1982) on your list. The show only lasted 6 episodes, but they were very funny episodes. :up:

[Citizen Rules]

My oldies but goodies list:)

1 Laverne & Shirley
2 Star Trek Deep Space Nine
3 Star Trek Voyager
4 Star Trek The Next Generation
5 Star Trek The Original Series
6 Outer Limits (1995-2002)
7 Playhouse 90
8 The Simpsons
9 Soap
10 Monty Python Flying Circus
11 Outer Limits (original series 1963-1965)
12 The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)
13 Third Rock From the Sun
14 SCTV (Second City Television)
15 Gilligan's Island
16 Bewitched
17 Kung Fu
18 M*A*S*H
19 The Honeymooners
20 Leave it to Beaver
21 Happy Days
22 The MythBusters
23 The Waltons
24 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
25 Donna Reed Show

How quickly they forgot...

"Laverne & Shirley premiered in the 1975–76 TV season... By its second season it had become the most-watched American television program, even surpassing the ratings for Happy Days...It retained its Number One position throughout the 1978-1979 season."

[Godoggo]

2. The Simpsons ( 1989- )

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Quotes: Kids, just because I don't care doesn't mean I'm not listening. ~ Homer

Theme song (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-cOdYyx1oKI)

Marge: Homer, it's easy to criticize.
Homer: Fun, too.

Hi, Super Nintendo Chalmers! ~ Ralph

Oh, I'm in no condition to drive. Wait a minute. I don't have to listen to myself. I'm drunk. ~ Homer

An animated sitcom about a middle-class family living in Springfield.

It is the longest running sitcom, animated program and scripted prime time program in American television history.

It's run has earned it a total of 31 Emmys.

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Origin: It began as a short on The Tracy Ullman Show

D'oh: In French it's T'oh and in Spanish it's Ouch!

It has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary but there it is spelled Doh. Matt Groening prefers that spelling.

Do the Bartman: In 1990 it topped the UK's charts. It was written by Michael Jackson and Bryan Loren.

In the episode "Stark Raving Dad" that really is Michael Jackson voicing a character, however it is an impersonator singing, "Happy birthday, Lisa"

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24601: This was Principal Skinner's prisoner number in Vietnam. It was also Hank Jennings prisoner number in Twin Peaks.

Theme Song: It's perfect for The Simpsons and only took Danny Elfman two days to record it.

McBain: The Movie: If you watch all the McBain clips together it forms a coherent story. McBain (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyANa71gvU)

Sam Simon: He hasn't been a producer for over fifteen years now, but still gets credited each episode as a thank you for laying down the foundation of the sitcom and his part in making The Simpsons so successful.

Sam Simon now spends his time rescuing dogs from the pound and training them to be companions to the deaf. Sam Simon is my new hero.

Now I know why they killed Maude: the actress felt she wasn't being payed enough and left the show. She eventually came back, but too late to save Maude.

Dustin Hoffman: He voices Lisa's substitute teacher in the episode "Lisa's Substitute" but is credited under a pseudonym.

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Points: 438

Placements: 4 1st, 3 6th, 3 8th, 2 2nd, 2 5th, 2 20th, 2 22nd, 1 3rd, 1 9th, 1 10th, 1 11th, 1 12th, 1 13th, 1 14th, 1 23rd, 1 25th

[gbgoodies]

My oldies but goodies list:)

1 Laverne & Shirley
2 Star Trek Deep Space Nine
3 Star Trek Voyager
4 Star Trek The Next Generation
5 Star Trek The Original Series
6 Outer Limits (1995-2002)
7 Playhouse 90
8 The Simpsons
9 Soap
10 Monty Python Flying Circus
11 Outer Limits (original series 1963-1965)
12 The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)
13 Third Rock From the Sun
14 SCTV (Second City Television)
15 Gilligan's Island
16 Bewitched
17 Kung Fu
18 M*A*S*H
19 The Honeymooners
20 Leave it to Beaver
21 Happy Days
22 The MythBusters
23 The Waltons
24 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
25 Donna Reed Show

How quickly they forgot...

"Laverne & Shirley premiered in the 1975–76 TV season... By its second season it had become the most-watched American television program, even surpassing the ratings for Happy Days...It retained its Number One position throughout the 1978-1979 season."


I wanted to put Star Trek: TNG and Voyager on my list, but I didn't have room for a bunch of Star Treks, so I only included the original series.

I was surprised that "Happy Days" didn't make the list. The Fonz is such an iconic character that the show should have been a lock for the Top 100 list.

I really wanted to include "Soap", "Third Rock From the Sun", and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" on my list, but I just ran out of room.

[Citizen Rules]

I didn't take this list very seriously, in all honesty.
I will rep you for having the courage to include Little House on the Prairie. I like that show too:cool:, it's been years but I might watch it again some day.

I actually seen this show, Pawn Stars, every time I'm on vacation in a hotel. I like it!

[Godoggo]

1. 1. Breaking Bad (2008 - 2013)

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Theme Song (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U0g3Wja-Zqg)

Quotes: Like I came to you, begging to cook meth. ‘Oh, hey, nerdiest old dude I know, you wanna come cook crystal?’ Please. I’d ask my diaper-wearing granny, but her wheelchair wouldn’t fit in the RV. ~ Jesse Pinkman

Just because you shot Jesse James doesn't mean you are Jesse James. ~ Mike Ehrmantraut.

He knows like everything there is to know about chemistry. He's patient with you, he's always there for you. He's just decent. And he always does the right thing and that's how he teaches me to be. ~ Flynn

‘I am the one who knocks.’ ~ Walter White

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Your number 1 television show. Exactly half of the people that sent in a list voted for this show. It beat The Simpsons by a whopping 136 points.

Breaking Bad is a drama series about a chemistry teacher that becomes involved in the meth trade after being diagnosed with cancer.

It won sixteen Emmys during its run and in 2014 was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for being the highest rated show of all time.

Spin Offs: Better Call Saul will be airing as a prequel to Breaking Bad. It is set to air 2015.

The White's Home: It is an actual inhabited home by a woman named Fran.

Bryan Cranston murder suspect: a long time ago he and his brother worked in a Florida restaurant. The chef, which nobody liked, was found murdered. As he and his brother had just resigned, the two became suspects.

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The X-Files Connection: Not only was Vince Gilligan a writer for the show, Bryan Cranston was in one episode. Remember the man who had to travel west at a high speed or his head would explode? That was Cranston.

The Seinfeld connection: Everyone who watched Seinfeld remembers
Cranston's role as the dentist who coins the term "regifting" and converts to Judaism for the jokes. Anna Gunn had a stint as Jerry's cheating girlfriend and Bob Odenkirk played Elaine's sexual frustrated boyfriend.

King Cranston: Gina Torress is the list Queen, but with roles in three of the top ten shows, Cranston rules the top ten.

New Mexico: It's happy about the show. Tourism has boosted and stores happily sell blue meth candy and blue meth donuts.

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Points: 574

Placements: 4 1st,4 2nd 4 4th, 3 5th, 3 6th, 2 7th, 2 10th, 2 11th, 2 17th, 1 3rd, 1 8th, 1 20th, 1 24th

[Harry Lime]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C10bE4yGPMw

[The Gunslinger45]

Surprised as hell Simpsons was number 2. Saw the first few episodes of Breaking Bad and I have no desire to see the rest.

[seanc]

Best TV show ever bitches!

It had to be done.

I really love Breaking Bad. Obviously a lot of you love it more than me, but it is fantastic.

[Citizen Rules]

10 years from now Breaking Bad won't be remembered like The Simpson is today.

[Sexy Celebrity]

10 years from now Breaking Bad won't be remembered like The Simpson is today.

I was literally thinking this same thing yesterday -- was gonna make the same comment -- in case Breaking Bad wound up being #1.

[Citizen Rules]

We might be telepathically linked;)...What am I thinking now?

[Godoggo]

It took me three or four attempts to get into Breaking Bad, but boy am I glad of persevered. The first few episodes of the first season leave you no clue as to how good this is going to get. By the time it really gets rolling, it's amazing. I'm so glad I didn't watch it as it was aired because I couldn't watch it without watching at least three episodes at a time. I eventually caught up to it and it was painful waiting for the next episode.

Many of is grew up with The Simpsons and can't remember life without it. It's always praised for being exceptionally funny, which it was but underneath it all was a really good warm family show.

My big but here is that I have to say good things about The Simpsons in the past tense and it's a current show. That made voting for it tricky and ultimately I opted out. You got to know when to end a show and that time is come and gone.

[gbgoodies]

1. Breaking Bad (2008 - 2013)



I'm not surprised at all that "Breaking Bad" landed at the #1 spot on the list. I didn't watch it when it originally aired, but I heard so much about it that I bought the DVDs and watched the whole series as a marathon over about a week or two.

The show is definitely a top quality show, and it deserves the #1 spot. If this was a list of the best quality shows, it might have been #1 on my list, but as a list of favorite shows, it didn't make my list. That's not because I didn't enjoy the show, because I loved it. Every time an episode ended, I couldn't wait for the next episode to start, and I was glad that I wasn't watching it on a weekly basis.

However, it didn't make the list of my favorite shows because it's not a rewatchable show for me. Now that I've seen it, I'm glad that I watched it, but I have no desire to go back and watch it again.


And just for the record, I hate "The Simpsons", and I'm surprised that it landed this high on the list.

[Miss Vicky]

MoFos, you disappoint me. Again. Breaking Bad is a very good show, but better than The Simpsons it is not. :tsk:

Here are my votes:

1. Blackadder II IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088484/)
2. Roseanne IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094540/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
3. Queer As Folk (American Version) IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262985/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
4. Dexter IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0773262/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
5. Daria IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118298/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
6. Sherlock IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
7. Blackadder the Third IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092324/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
8. The Big Bang Theory IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898266/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
9. Arrested Development IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367279/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
10. Blackadder Goes Forth IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096548/?ref_=nv_sr_2)
11. Night Court IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086770/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
12. Jack of All Trades IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220906/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
13. Nash Bridges IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115285/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
14. Archer IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486217/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
15. The Ren and Stimpy Show IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101178/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
16. The Tudors IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758790/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
17. Married With Children IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092400/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
18. Burn Notice IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810788/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
19. The Girls Next Door IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468424/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
20. The Simpsons IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096697/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
21. House, M.D. IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/?ref_=nv_sr_2)
22. Roots IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075572/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
23. I, Claudius IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074006/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
24. Mr. Bean IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096657/?ref_=nv_sr_2)
25. The Black Adder IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084988/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

[Godoggo]

I'm not surprised at all that "Breaking Bad" landed at the #1 spot on the list. I didn't watch it when it originally aired, but I heard so much about it that I bought the DVDs and watched the whole series as a marathon over about a week or two.

The show is definitely a top quality show, and it deserves the #1 spot. If this was a list of the best quality shows, it might have been #1 on my list, but as a list of favorite shows, it didn't make my list. That's not because I didn't enjoy the show, because I loved it. Every time an episode ended, I couldn't wait for the next episode to start, and I was glad that I wasn't watching it on a weekly basis.

However, it didn't make the list of my favorite shows because it's not a rewatchable show for me. Now that I've seen it, I'm glad that I watched it, but I have no desire to go back and watch it again.


And just for the record, I hate "The Simpsons", and I'm surprised that it landed this high on the list.

I'm like you in that shows must be rewatchable for me to think of them as favorites, but I differ in that I do think Breaking Bad is rewatchable. How many times is the question for me so I ranked it low. I will be able to revisit it again but it won't be something I can watch over and over like Buffy, Angel, The X-Files or Little House on the Prairie.

[Sexy Celebrity]

3. Queer As Folk (American Version) IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262985/?ref_=nv_sr_1)


I was close.

[TheUsualSuspect]

10 years from now Breaking Bad won't be remembered like The Simpson is today.

Obviously, they are two totally different shows.

Breaking Bad WILL be remembered ten years from now. It has the HIGHEST rated episode of television, ever. Bryan Cranston is unbelievable in the role of a lifetime and it did NOT fumble the series finale like so many other shows have. A more reasonable comparison would be The Sopranos or The Wire.

The Simpsons is LEGEND. So many shows owe their style and success to the Simpsons. There are people on this board who have never been in a world where there are not new episodes of the Simpsons. Yet with the brilliance, comes the bad. I don't even remember the last time I saw a new episode of the show. Probably 5-10 years.

[Miss Vicky]

I was close.

I actually started rewatching Season 1 last night. I'm on episode five and I definitely still love the show. Such a great mix of humor, sex, and emotion. Plus Gale Harold and Hal Sparks are really hot.

[TheUsualSuspect]

Yeah, Borgen is fantastic. Much better than The Bridge. Especially the first series.

TUS: your list looks a lot like I imagined most of the lists submitted would look.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? :p

[gbgoodies]

MoFos, you disappoint me. Again. Breaking Bad is a very good show, but better than The Simpsons it is not. :tsk:

Here are my votes:

1. Blackadder II IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088484/)
2. Roseanne IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094540/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
3. Queer As Folk (American Version) IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262985/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
4. Dexter IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0773262/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
5. Daria IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118298/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
6. Sherlock IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
7. Blackadder the Third IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092324/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
8. The Big Bang Theory IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898266/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
9. Arrested Development IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367279/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
10. Blackadder Goes Forth IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096548/?ref_=nv_sr_2)
11. Night Court IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086770/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
12. Jack of All Trades IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220906/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
13. Nash Bridges IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115285/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
14. Archer IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486217/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
15. The Ren and Stimpy Show IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101178/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
16. The Tudors IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758790/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
17. Married With Children IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092400/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
18. Burn Notice IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810788/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
19. The Girls Next Door IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468424/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
20. The Simpsons IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096697/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
21. House, M.D. IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/?ref_=nv_sr_2)
22. Roots IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075572/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
23. I, Claudius IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074006/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
24. Mr. Bean IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096657/?ref_=nv_sr_2)
25. The Black Adder IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084988/?ref_=nv_sr_1)


+ rep for including these shows on your list:

8. The Big Bang Theory IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898266/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
11. Night Court IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086770/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
12. Jack of All Trades IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220906/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
13. Nash Bridges IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115285/?ref_=nv_sr_1)


I haven't seen "Jack of All Trades" in quite a while, but as I recall, it was a very good show. I may even have to pick it up on DVD so I can watch it again.

I only recently saw a few episodes of "Nash Bridges", but I liked what I saw. That's another show that I'll have to watch some more of, and maybe even look into buying it on DVD.

[Godoggo]

Two more announcements:

The winner of the top 10 prediction with a score of nine:

Frightened Inmate # 2

Here were your predictions in case you forgot:

1. Breaking Bad
2. The Simpsons
3. The Sopranos
4. The Wire
5. Friends
6. Seinfeld
7. Game of Thrones
8. Twin Peaks
9. The Big Bang Theory
10. Doctor Who

Congrats Inmate!

Also for anyone to browse this is the entire list with all the shows and everyone that voted for them Tv list (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls075828179/)

[Miss Vicky]

I haven't seen "Jack of All Trades" in quite a while, but as I recall, it was a very good show. I may even have to pick it up on DVD so I can watch it again.

It's a very Bruce Campbell show, which is why I love it.

I only recently saw a few episodes of "Nash Bridges", but I liked what I saw. That's another show that I'll have to watch some more of, and maybe even look into buying it on DVD.

Sadly, only the first three seasons got released on DVD. It definitely had some low points, especially once Yasmine Bleeth came on full time, but it also had some really great, funny and emotional episodes. I watched it religiously when it was on the air. I really wish the rest of it would be released.

[mark f]

People who say "The Simpsons" has been lousy for the last half of its run don't watch it so how do they know? I've never stopped watching it because I've never gotten the hip hate, and I'm usually rewarded with the miniscule effort I put into it to get some laughs or tears. But I'm old-fashioned because I watch shows when they're on. What else do I have to do, Guap? :)

gbg - How many times have you watched "The Simpsons", when and why do you hate it?

[Harry Lime]

People who say "The Simpsons" has been lousy for the last half of its run don't watch it so how do they know?
That's wrong in two ways. Most of us don't say it's lousy, we say it's nowhere near the quality it used to be. Not even close. Second, we watch it, just not religiously.

[Swan]

Both were high on my list. I was obsessed with old Simpsons as a kid, and as a late teen/young adult Breaking Bad was hugely inspiring and quite a profound experience. I think it most certainly will live on for a long time for the simple fact that it was such an experience for so many people, and will be a great experience for more to come who have yet to see it. I don't care if I'm jumping the band wagon. Breaking Bad is brilliant, genius, one of the best shows of all-time and has the best episode of a television show ever made.

I put Breaking Bad lower at #5 on my list, but it's so low because I knew it would be #1. If my list was more accurate, I would have had it at #2. There was a time when I called it my single favorite show of all-time. I still think it is the most well-made thing ever put to the small screen. Many sleepless nights were spent anticipating the next episode.

The Simpsons was #6. There was a time, when I was a kid, when it was my favorite thing. However, I now admire it more nostalgically. I just never really watch it anymore. Still, I admire it's humor, it remains a fantastic show in my mind and it's place on this list is deserved. Homer is definitely one of the great characters in television history, and Grandpa is just as funny.

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[Harry Lime]

And my list:

1. The Wire
2. Dekalog
3. Twin Peaks
4. Seinfeld
5. The Simpsons
6. Fanny and Alexander
7. Planet Earth
8. Band of Brothers
9. Berlin Alexanderplatz
10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
11. Arrested Development
12. Cosmos
13. Game of Thrones
14. Mad Men
15. Stargate SG-1
16. Northern Exposure
17. The War
18. The Sopranos
19. Utopia
20. The Corner
21. Chappelle's Show
22. Batman The Animated Series
23. Civilisation
24. Frontline
25. Louie

Breaking Bad would have been roughly 30-40. Probably closer to 40.

And yes, Stargate SG-1. It's flawed, and I may have been generous ranking it to get it some points, but I still am a big fan.

[gbgoodies]

It's a very Bruce Campbell show, which is why I love it.



Another great Bruce Campbell show was "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.".

[Citizen Rules]

Also for anyone to browse this is the entire list with all the shows and everyone that voted for them Tv list (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls075828179/)

Impressive! I just checked out the link. You must have spent a lot of time working on this.

Godoggo, a BIG THANK YOU for your time and effort on this list!

[Miss Vicky]

Another great Bruce Campbell show was "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.".

I tried getting into it but the Sci-Fi aspect put me off. I have the show on DVD though so I might give it another chance at some point.

[Swan]

Oh yeah, great job Godoggo. :cool:

[gbgoodies]

And my list:

1. The Wire
2. Dekalog
3. Twin Peaks
4. Seinfeld
5. The Simpsons
6. Fanny and Alexander
7. Planet Earth
8. Band of Brothers
9. Berlin Alexanderplatz
10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
11. Arrested Development
12. Cosmos
13. Game of Thrones
14. Mad Men
15. Stargate SG-1
16. Northern Exposure
17. The War
18. The Sopranos
19. Utopia
20. The Corner
21. Chappelle's Show
22. Batman The Animated Series
23. Civilisation
24. Frontline
25. Louie

Breaking Bad would have been roughly 30-40. Probably closer to 40.

And yes, Stargate SG-1. It's flawed, and I may have been generous ranking it to get it some points, but I still am a big fan.


+ rep for including "Stargate SG-1" on your list. I bought the first few seasons at a garage sale last year, and I got hooked. I ended up buying the rest of the series on DVD. I haven't finished watching it yet, but I'm enjoying it so far.

[Harry Lime]

Yup. Thanks Godoggo for running this thing. Great job! And thanks to JiraffeJustin for the work he did too.

[TheUsualSuspect]

I had 6 of the top ten in my top ten.

My number 1 just missed it.

[gbgoodies]

I tried getting into it but the Sci-Fi aspect put me off. I have the show on DVD though so I might give it another chance at some point.


I think Bruce Campbell is great in everything he does, but I haven't seen the Evil Dead movies because I don't like horror.

[Harry Lime]

+ rep for including "Stargate SG-1" on your list. I bought the first few seasons at a garage sale last year, and I got hooked. I ended up buying the rest of the series on DVD. I haven't finished watching it yet, but I'm enjoying it so far.
You should watch all the shows and movies and use this as a guide for the order: http://www.gateworld.net/news/2009/05/stargate-recommended-viewing-order/

Sure the other shows aren't as good, but they're good enough and returning characters make it worthwhile.

[gbgoodies]

I had 6 of the top ten in my top ten.

My number 1 just missed it.


With your avatar, I'm surprised that "Breaking Bad" wasn't your #1 show.

[Swan]

I haven't seen the Evil Dead movies because I don't like horror.

Oh, gb!

Oh!

Oh, oh! Gb! No!

[Citizen Rules]

.."Stargate SG-1"... I bought the first few seasons at a garage sale last year, and I got hooked... I haven't finished watching it yet, but I'm enjoying it so far.

Someone else told me if you like sci fi with good story lines, Stargate SG-1 is a great show. I've never seen it myself.

[Citizen Rules]

I don't like horror shows/movies, my wife won't watch them either.

[Swan]

I don't like horror shows/movies, my wife won't watch them either.

Oh no, Citizen! No! Oh, oh!

No!

[gbgoodies]

You should watch all the shows and movies and use this as a guide for the order: http://www.gateworld.net/news/2009/05/stargate-recommended-viewing-order/

Sure the other shows aren't as good, but they're good enough and returning characters make it worthwhile.


Thanks for the info, and the link. I saw the movie Stargate, but I wasn't too impressed with it. I haven't seen any of the other Stargate shows except SG-1. I'll look into them after I finish SG-1.

[Miss Vicky]

I think Bruce Campbell is great in everything he does, but I haven't seen the Evil Dead movies because I don't like horror.

Well it's a good thing they're not really horror. Well The Evil Dead is super low budget B horror but Evil Dead II and especially Army of Darkness I'd classify more as comedies.

[gbgoodies]

Well it's a good thing they're not really horror. Well The Evil Dead is super low budget B horror but Evil Dead II and especially Army of Darkness I'd classify more as comedies.


But are they gory comedies?

[Swan]

But are they gory comedies?

Nah, they are really tame actually. Especially Evil Dead 2. Very minimal use of blood and gore. I also recommend Dead Alive, which is similar.

[Harry Lime]

Thanks for the info, and the link. I saw the movie Stargate, but I wasn't too impressed with it. I haven't seen any of the other Stargate shows except SG-1. I'll look into them after I finish SG-1.
Well, yeah, that's why I gave you the link - there's a specific, preferred, order and there are other movies besides the first Roland Emmerich flick. But I also know people who watched it in a different order and they didn't seem to miss out so watch however you like.

[Godoggo]

Impressive! I just checked out the link. You must have spent a lot of time working on this.

Godoggo, a BIG THANK YOU for your time and effort on this list!

Thanks. JJ started doing it that way and I thought it was a great idea to have something people could look at and see every show that received votes and who voted for them.

Some of my surprises: 30 Rock. It's a funny show that I thought would receive more love.

Mork & Mindy I did not expect it to make the list, but I thought it would get one vote, at least.

How I Met Your Mother As much as it gets talked about I thought for sure it would make the list. I've recently seen the last season out of curiosity and I feel for you fans of the show. I would be raging if I had been a fan. I read about it so I knew what happened but seeing it was something more. Worst last season ever.

[gbgoodies]

Well, yeah, that's why I gave you the link - there's a specific, preferred, order and there are other movies besides the first Roland Emmerich flick. But I also know people who watched it in a different order and they didn't seem to miss out so watch however you like.


I bookmarked the link so I can read through it later, but I'll make sure to check it out before I watch the next episode of "Stargate SG-1".

[Miss Vicky]

But are they gory comedies?

Maybe a little? It's been awhile since I last watched Evil Dead II, but I don't recall much gore. Army of Darkness has him mostly battling an army of skeletons. I don't think there's much blood to it.

Have you seen Bubba Ho-Tep? That's another Bruce Campbell horror-comedy that's much more comedy than horror. And there's hardly any blood or anything in it.

[Swan]

Thanks to my bae JJ for getting this going. Ended up being quite awesome.

[gbgoodies]

Nah, they are really tame actually. Especially Evil Dead 2. Very minimal use of blood and gore. I also recommend Dead Alive, which is similar.


I'll have to look into them before watching them, but I rarely like blood & guts movies. The only one I can think of offhand that was a bit gory, but I liked it anyway, was An American Werewolf in London.

[Citizen Rules]

How long did it take to do just the IMDB part of it? I see there is 548 shows all rated at IMDB list and with the names of us who voted for them. Good grief! that must have taken some time, how long?

BTW who is Amy Lee?

[Godoggo]

Yup. Thanks Godoggo for running this thing. Great job! And thanks to JiraffeJustin for the work he did too.

Yes, I want to thank JJ too. He set me up real nice and it was easy to jump right in. I loved the IMDB list idea and it was easy way to go back and check something to make sure no mistakes were made.

If I ever do another list, I'm doing the IMDB thing again.

[Miss Vicky]

BTW who is Amy Lee?

Godoggo

[Swan]

Godoggo

Also an emo.

[gbgoodies]

Maybe a little? It's been awhile since I last watched Evil Dead II, but I don't recall much gore. Army of Darkness has him mostly battling an army of skeletons. I don't think there's much blood to it.

Have you seen Bubba Ho-Tep? That's another Bruce Campbell horror-comedy that's much more comedy than horror. And there's hardly any blood or anything in it.


Is Army of Darkness also a video game? I vaguely remember a game at Dave & Busters that was about battling an army of skeletons, but I don't know the name of it.

I've heard of Bubba Ho-Tep, but I've never seen it. I didn't know that Bruce Campbell was in it. All I remember about it is it looked like it might have been some kind of an Elvis spoof from the DVD cover.

[Citizen Rules]

Ahh...that explains why Amy Lee voted for all 548 shows! (I thought it was something like that)


Night all.:)

[Swan]

Godoggo, I didn't know you were an emo singer!

[OMEGA5]

10 years from now Breaking Bad won't be remembered like The Simpson is today.

And neither will the Simpsons. Because it will still probably be on the air and if possible will be worse than it is now

I used to love The Simpsons. But unlike Seinfeld or BB it simply doesn't know when to call it a day. It would be the worst show currently on television if not for Family Guy.

BB on the other hand was a fantastic experience. When the last half of the final season aired I could not stop thinking about it. But I also think it should have been lower. If not for The Sopranos, a show like BB would never exist. It is still a great show and does deserve top 5 IMO, but I think there are several candidates that deserve the top spot more.

[Miss Vicky]

Is Army of Darkness also a video game? I vaguely remember a game at Dave & Busters that was about battling an army of skeletons, but I don't know the name of it.

Possibly. I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me.

I've heard of Bubba Ho-Tep, but I've never seen it. I didn't know that Bruce Campbell was in it. All I remember about it is it looked like it might have been some kind of an Elvis spoof from the DVD cover.

That's Bruce as Elvis.

Here's the Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXGP07vrab8

[Swan]

When the last half of the final season aired I could not stop thinking about it.

Yep, that just about sums it up for me as well. Obsession to the max.

[Harry Lime]

What imdb list thing? What did I miss?

[Godoggo]

How long did it take to do just the IMDB part of it? I see there is 548 shows all rated at IMDB list and with the names of us who voted for them. Good grief! that must have taken some time, how long?

BTW who is Amy Lee?

I really don't know. The real work was taking all the info from JJ and copying it to my list. After that it was easy. As soon as someone would send me a list I would add all their shows. If it was a list that had a lot of shows already on the list it took me maybe fifteen minutes to a half hour to add their list. If it was a list that I had to add a bunch of new shows then maybe an hour. So I would estimate 20 to 30 hours?

[gbgoodies]

Also for anyone to browse this is the entire list with all the shows and everyone that voted for them Tv list (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls075828179/)


Thanks for the link. It looks like it will take some time to read through it, so it must have taken you a very long time, and a lot of work, to put that together.

Thanks for all of your hard work. You did a great job running this list. :up:

[Godoggo]

What imdb list thing? What did I miss?

I put the link in the first post. It's at the very bottom.

[Harry Lime]

I put the link in the first post. It's at the very bottom.
Cool!

[Godoggo]

Ahh...that explains why Amy Lee voted for all 548 shows! (I thought it was something like that)


Night all.:)

I used to hate my name because it sounds like an adverb and both names are so common. I've made piece with it.

[Harry Lime]

Going through the list...dargh! I forgot The IT Crowd. Might not have made it, but close.

rating_5 for setting up the list on imdb, Godoggo.

edit: Dang it. World on a Wire.

[gbgoodies]

Only 5 of my shows made the list, so I missed with 20 of my favorite shows. Did anyone miss with more shows than that?

[Godoggo]

I think some did. I remember adding lists and feeling really bad for people because hardly any of their shows were going to show up.

[gbgoodies]

I think some did. I remember adding lists and feeling really bad for people because hardly any of their shows were going to show up.


I'm pretty sure that I was one of them, but it doesn't bother me because they're still my favorite shows. The only way it would bother me if my shows didn't make the MoFo list would have been if I had voted strategically to try to have more of my shows on the final list, and they still didn't make it.

As long as I make my list using my heart instead of my head, it will never bother me if my favorites aren't everyone else's favorites.

[Frightened Inmate No. 2]

1 Arrested Development
2 The Simpsons
3 The Colbert Report
4 Louie
5 Breaking Bad
6 The Office (US)
7 True Detective
8 Game of Thrones
9 Cheers
10 Portlandia
11 24
12 The Daily Show
13 Spongbob Squarepants
14 Frasier
15 Married… with Children
16 Parks & Recreation
17 Conan
18 The X-Files
19 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
20 Bored to Death
21 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
22 Soap
23 SNL
24 Sanford and Son
25 The Bob Newhart Show

I go back and forth between whether The Simpsons or Arrested Development is my favorite show of all time, and I guess on this day I was feeling AD. I've loved The Simpsons for as long as I can remember and it still holds up. I stopped watching after season 24 because it's unbearable now, but the first 8-10 seasons are some of the best television ever. I could've knocked it down a few spots for staying on the air too long, but I prefer to just forget the last 10 years exist.

Breaking Bad is a great great show too, but it's a little too flawed for me to consider it the best show of all time. Oh well, I can't really complain since I do love it.

Can't believe 24 didn't make it. Also I just started season 3 of Six Feet Under and I wish I had watched it sooner. I probably would've placed it around #7.

[Pussy Galore]

I can't believe How I Met Your Mother is not on the list it's really a shame.

Other than that, I am young and do not come from the USA so I've never heard of 90% of this list haha

[christine]

Well done Godoggo for all your hard work, you're. a star xxx

Just read through the IMDb list, really interesting. I can't believe I'm the only person who voted for Nurse Jackie - has anyone else watched it? It's really good.

[Miss Vicky]

Just read through the IMDb list, really interesting. I can't believe I'm the only person who voted for Nurse Jackie - has anyone else watched it? It's really good.

I've seen the first few seasons and really enjoyed it, but didn't keep up with it after that. I did consider it for my list but ultimately left it off.

Bones is another I considered but ended up cutting.

[Godoggo]

I've seen a few episodes and thought it was really good. I don't get Showtime and haven't gotten around to finding it to watch all of it yet, but I intend to. I just haven't seen enough of it to vote for it.

I've been inspired by this list to take some of my Christmas money and get a few seasons of some shows. Nurse Jackie is on that list.

[Godoggo]

I've seen the first few seasons and really enjoyed it, but didn't keep up with it after that. I did consider it for my list but ultimately left it off.

Bones is another I considered but ended up cutting.

I considered Bones as well. Ultimately, I think I like Emily Deschanel more than I do the actual show, so I cut it. I do watch it every Sunday though.

I feel about it the same way I do Sleepy Hollow. It's a nice show to have on and it's better that a lot of shows not on cable, but I'm not overly crazy about it.

[Miss Vicky]

I considered Bones as well. Ultimately, I think I like Emily Deschanel more than I do the actual show, so I cut it. I do watch it every Sunday though.


I like the show a lot, but I was really upset by what they did with Zack's character. Then they added insult to injury by replacing him with Daisy - who is absolutely unbearably annoying. I don't much care for Sweets either and ultimately those two characters are what made me leave it off my ballot.

I'm behind quite a ways on it though. The last episode I remember ended with Bones on the run with Christine.

[Godoggo]

I missed the whole Zack thing. I never knew what happened to him, but I don't like Daisy either.

Since I watch it in syndication most of the time I'm watching it out of order so a few characters have come and gone without me knowing why.

[Miss Vicky]

I missed the whole Zack thing. I never knew what happened to him, but I don't like Daisy either.

Since I watch it in syndication most of the time I'm watching it out of order so a few characters have come and gone without me knowing why.

In season 3, it was revealed that Zack was the Gormogon killer's apprentice. The team discovers this when Zack tries to kill them with an explosive but ends up injuring himself instead. His character is then committed to a mental institution.

It was ridiculous. It didn't fit with his character at all and I didn't understand the reason for writing him out of the show. The actor that played him had no intention of leaving the show and had no idea that he'd basically been fired until he got the script for that last episode. Then in a later season, they had a really stupid episode where he escaped from the mental institution to help them solve a case.

[Godoggo]

What? That sounds ridiculous and it doesn't fit his character.

They did a similar thing on Law & Order SVU. It felt really out of left field.

[MovieMeditation]

By the way, thanks for the awesome hard work Godoggo!!! :up:

[Miss Vicky]

What? That sounds ridiculous and it doesn't fit his character.

They did a similar thing on Law & Order SVU. It felt really out of left field.

Yeah, it was really stupid. I liked Zack a lot, too. :(

[gandalf26]

It would be nice if next time we do a list that results could be released at a more UK friendly time. Most results for this countdown have been around 3 am ish it seems so you have to wake up and scroll back through and miss most of the discussion.

This isn't a big issue and maybe it isn't possible for the person doing the list, not sure what time zone they are in but a 5-6 pm Eastern time would be 10-11 pm UK time.

Well done Godoggo on a well run list!

[gandalf26]

Think breaking Bad whilst undeniably great has benefitted from being a recent show if all TV shows were released 20 years ago then I think the list would look different.

[Tacitus]

Breaking Bad at the top was unsurprising, sadly. I like what I've seen of it but always figured that the people who said it was the best TV show of all time really needed to watch some more TV. ;)

Thanks Godoggo for a great thread. :)

Here's my list, for what it's worth:

1. Deadwood #27
2. The Wire #6
3. Inspector Morse
4. I'm Alan Partridge #51
5. Edge of Darkness
6. The Sopranos #7
7. Porridge
8. GBH
9. The X Files #10
10. The West Wing #63
11. Yes Minister
12. House of Cards (original)
13. House of Cards (remake) #38
14. Starsky & Hutch
15. Planet Earth #90
16. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1980s version with Jeremy Brett)
17. Father Ted
18. Carnivale
19. The Singing Detective
20. Cheers #35
21. Prime Suspect
22. Tutti Frutti
23. Brass Eye
24. Drop The Dead Donkey
25. The Professionals

[christine]

Happy to see Porridge was on your list Tatty, that's the one programme I kicked myself for forgetting. Glad to see like me you had the Singing Detective :)

[Tacitus]

For years I'd said that Porridge was the best sitcom I'd ever seen but in the last couple have come to the conclusion that Partridge just shades it.

I'm surprised there wasn't any love for Morse. ;)

[christine]

I do like Morse. If hy husband had done a list there would've been Morse and the Professionals on there and The Sweeney along with most other British police/crime programmes. I think you had The Sweeney too didn't you Tatty like I did? I was the only Z Cars lover tho ;)

[Tacitus]

The Sweeney was a little before my time, whereas The Professionals (and its repeats) came along just as I was beginning to take notice of cops & robbers - My grandad had a Capri, which helped build the bond. Neither was as good as Starsky & Hutch to my young eyes. ;)

[Thursday Next]

My list:

Pride and Prejudice (BBC, 1995)
The Mighty Boosh
My Mad Fat Diary
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
In the Flesh (BBC 2013)
The Office (UK)
Firefly
Blackadder Goes Forth
Spaced
Ashes to Ashes
Sherlock
Blackadder II
Peep Show
Parks and Recreation
This Life (1996)
Father Ted
Doctor Who
Black Books
Friends
The Thick of It
Fingersmith
Flight of the Conchords
Queer As Folk (UK)
Dead Set (2008)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks

More than I expected made the countdown.

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

My list:


1.Star Trek: The Next Generation
2.Breaking Bad
3.Game of Thrones
4.Only Fool And Horses
5.The X-Files
6.The Simpsons
7.Star Trek Deep Space Nine
8.I'm Alan Partridge
9.Battlestar Gallactica (reboot)
10.South Park
11.Red Dwarf
12.Star Trek: Voyager
13.Star Trek: The OrIginal Series
14.Black Adder Goes Forth
15.The Office (UK)
16.Allo Allo
17.Columbo
18.The Royal Family
19.Bottom
20.Keeping up Appearances
21.Fringe
22.Dexter
23.Cosmos (1980)
24.Planet Earth (BBC)
25.Firelfy

[cricket]

I like The Simpsons a lot but didn't vote for it. I have never seen Breaking Bad, but would like to. I had 8 of my picks show up-

1. Survivor (50)
2. The Shield (30)
3. Saturday Night Live (48)
4. Cops*
5. Married With Children (44)
6. True Detective (15)
7. All in the Family (24)
8. Three's Company*
9. Seinfeld (3)
10. The Honeymooners*
11. Rock Star*
12. America's Most Wanted*
13. The Dukes of Hazzard*
14. Melrose Place*
15. The Fall Guy*
16. The A Team*
17. Knight Rider*
18. The Amazing Race*
19. Family Feud*
20. Laverne and Shirley*
21. Happy Days*
22. The Jeffersons*
23. Cheers (35)
24. The Benny Hill Show*
25. Sanford and Son

Favorites that I forgot to include were The Apprentice and Jackass. I had The Three Stooges very high on my list originally but I guess it's not considered a TV show.

Great work as always, Godoggo!

[Voigan]

I watched a couple episodes of BB but couldn't get into it it. Might have give it another try at some point. At least The Simpsons wasn't #1. Never got why that show is so popular. :shrug:

My list:

1. Avatar: The Last Airbender (#79)
2. Puella Magi Madoka Magica (#52)
3. The Legend of Korra
4. Gargoyles
5. Teen Titans
6. The Muppet Show (Seriously, how did this not make the list?)
7. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
8. Charmed
9. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
10. Xena: Warrior Princess
11. Sherlock (#21)
12. Blackadder II (#29)
13. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (#11)
14. Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
15. Blackadder Goes Fourth (#46)
16. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
17. Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
18. The Beverly Hillbillies
19. Firefly (#8)
20. I Love Lucy (#62)
21. Justice League
22. The Andy Griffith Show (#76)
23. Saturday Night Live (#48)
24. X-Men: The Animated Series (1992-1997)
25. Samurai Jack

[Yoda]

It's interesting, because Breaking Bad and The Simpsons serve as a good proxy for a fundamental question about rating TV shows: how much do you factor in quality dilution? One of the reasons BB does so well is that it doesn't have a bad season; it told a story precisely the size it was prepared to tell, and didn't overstay its welcome. The Simpsons has probably produced more entertainment, but with more gaps in quality.

That's without even getting into how different the shows are, even superficially. Comedy and high-octane drama, live action and animated, etc. I had The Simpsons higher for cultural impact alone, but both are fantastic shows, and I love that they're back-to-back, because together they're a great example of how varied TV can be.

Anyway, that said, great job Amy! :) Thanks for doing this.

Here's my total list:



The Wire
The Simpsons
Breaking Bad
The West Wing
South Park
Community
Arrested Development
The Sopranos
Firefly
Friday Night Lights
The Twilight Zone
Scrubs
LOST
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Game of Thrones
Frisky Dingo
30 Rock
Seinfeld
The X-Files
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Veronica Mars
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Frasier
Deadwood
Battlestar Galactica

[Miss Vicky]

This isn't a big issue and maybe it isn't possible for the person doing the list, not sure what time zone they are in but a 5-6 pm Eastern time would be 10-11 pm UK time.

You're really not going to like it when the animation list starts. I'm on Pacific time and I work a full time job where I often don't even get home until 7:30 p.m. I expect I'll be posting around 8:30 or so most nights.

Haven't received a ballot from you though...

[Voigan]

It's interesting, because Breaking Bad and The Simpsons serve as a good proxy for a fundamental question about rating TV shows: how much do you factor in quality dilution? One of the reasons BB does so well is that it doesn't have a bad season; it told a story precisely the size it was prepared to tell, and didn't overstay its welcome. The Simpsons has probably produced more entertainment, but with more gaps in quality.


Well, I probably haven't seen enough Simpsons episodes to judge the show overall but I didn’t think the episodes I saw were particularly funny. I liked them better than Family Guy but I didn’t The Simpsons was nearly as funny as The Muppet Show or I Love Lucy. Heck, in my opinion there are several shows that aren't even primarily comedies that have funnier scenes and episodes like Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Girls und Panzer, the Hercules and Xena shows, and Teen Titans. I don’t think The Simpsons is a terrible show but I definitely wouldn’t call it one of the best ever either.

As far as quality dilution goes, I generally judge TV shows by season rather than a whole. The first season of Legend of Korra is pretty rocky but it still placed third on my list since season 2, 3, and so far 4 are fantastic and Teen Titans went off the rails a bit with season 5 but I still love the first four.

[Citizen Rules]

I like The Simpsons a lot but didn't vote for it. I have never seen Breaking Bad, but would like to. I had 8 of my picks show up-

1. Survivor (50)
2. The Shield (30)
3. Saturday Night Live (48)
4. Cops*
5. Married With Children (44)
6. True Detective (15)
7. All in the Family (24)
8. Three's Company*
9. Seinfeld (3)
10. The Honeymooners*
11. Rock Star*
12. America's Most Wanted*
13. The Dukes of Hazzard*
14. Melrose Place*
15. The Fall Guy*
16. The A Team*
17. Knight Rider*
18. The Amazing Race*
19. Family Feud*
20. Laverne and Shirley*
21. Happy Days*
22. The Jeffersons*
23. Cheers (35)
24. The Benny Hill Show*
25. Sanford and Son


Yah! another vote for Laverne and Shirley:D Great list I use to watch alot of those. Loved Sanford and Son.

[TheUsualSuspect]

Whose list had the most shows appear on the too 100??

[Godoggo]

I think that would be me. I had eighteen make it.

[gandalf26]

You're really not going to like it when the animation list starts. I'm on Pacific time and I work a full time job where I often don't even get home until 7:30 p.m. I expect I'll be posting around 8:30 or so most nights.

Haven't received a ballot from you though...

It isn't a big issue, just if it was possible it would be good with these lists to get a new post at a sociable hour so you could get involved in the discussion.


Not sure if I'm going to do an animation list as there's loads of flicks I haven't seen. I try to watch what comes on TV at Christmas like "Up" last year was really good but its just not my thing. Anime allowed?

[Miss Vicky]

Anime allowed?

Films, yes. Television, no.

[gandalf26]

True Detective and the Wire purchased! Also I bought Twin peaks on Amazon for I think £20, then go to shopping cenetr today and it's £11.99 DOH!!!


If the Wire sucks I will be pursuing a small claim against all those who voted for it. :)

[gandalf26]

My humble opinion on top 25 TV shows.


1. Smiley's People (1982)
2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
3. The Shield
4. The Sopranos
5. Band of Brothers
6. Game of Thrones
7. Breaking Bad
8. Sherlock (BBC latest version)
9. The Office- UK of course
10. Phoenix Nights
11. The World at War
12. Sharpe (ITV 1993-97)
13. The X-Files
14. South Park
15. Thundercats (1985)
16. I'm Alan Partridge
17. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
18. Thunderbirds
19. Family Guy
20. Star Trek-Voyager
21. House of Cards (2013-14)
22. Peep Show
23. Only Fools and Horses
24. The League of Gentlemen
25. Red Dwarf

[Tacitus]

Phoenix Nights wasn't far off my 25. I always thought it was a far superior show to the adversarially scheduled Office.

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

Nice to see another Red Dwarf fan on the forum, Gandalf. :up:

[sarah f]

My list:

Pride and Prejudice (BBC, 1995)
The Mighty Boosh
My Mad Fat Diary
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
In the Flesh (BBC 2013)
The Office (UK)
Firefly
Blackadder Goes Forth
Spaced
Ashes to Ashes
Sherlock
Blackadder II
Peep Show
Parks and Recreation
This Life (1996)
Father Ted
Doctor Who
Black Books
Friends
The Thick of It
Fingersmith
Flight of the Conchords
Queer As Folk (UK)
Dead Set (2008)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks

More than I expected made the countdown.


I love a lot of the shows on this list, but I'm really happy there's some love for Dead Set! It's such a great show. I'm kind of in love with Charlie Brooker though, and will watch anything he's involved in. They're fairly consistently great shows, but that's coming from an obsessive fan. He always plays so cleverly with genre and the role of technology and/or the media in our lives, and is just really funny, or heartbreaking, as the case may be. I put one of his on my list, but not Dead Set, and I undoubtedly put it too high, I mean, above The Twilight Zone? That seems ridiculous, past me. :D

Anyway, here's my list, if anyone's interested.

1. The Simpsons (1989)
2. Gilmore Girls (2000)
3. All in the Family (1971)
4. Twin Peaks (1990)
5. The Mighty Boosh (2004)
6. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
7. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967)
8. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
9. The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)
10. Black Mirror (2011)
11. Doctor Who (2005)
12. The Twilight Zone (1959)
13. Green Wing (2004)
14. Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969)
15. Northern Exposure (1990)
16. Black Books (2000)
17. Parks & Recreation (2009)
18. Game of Thrones (2011)
19. The West Wing (1999)
20. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
21. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976)
22. Peep Show (2003)
23. Get Smart (1965)
24. Breaking Bad (2008)
25. Riget (1994)

I, actually, for quite a while purposely left off Breaking Bad because I knew it was going to get a lot of love from everyone else. I ended up only giving it 2 points, which wouldn't have made a difference, but could have meant giving some love to a show like The Good Wife or Space Ghost Coast to Coast. But my dad asked me about Breaking Bad, though, and when I started describing it to him, talking about how Walt and Jesse's journeys are almost the inverse of each other, I just started remembering how great it is and decided to put it back on my list.

[sarah f]

And yeah, a lot of mine showed up. I think it was 16, which seems crazy high.

[christine]

This was mine:
1.Boys from the Blackstuff
2. Play for Today
3. The Sopranos
4. Breaking Bad
5. The Morecambe and Wise Show (BBC1968-1977)
6. This is England 86
7.Arena (BBC documentary series )
8. MadMen
9.The Old Grey Whistle Test
10. The Wire
11. Borgen
12. The Sweeney
13. X Files
14. Life on Mars
15. The Singing Detective
16. Fawlty Towers
17. The Walking Dead
18. Z Cars
19. Nurse Jackie
20 I’m Alan Partridge
21 True Detective
22 Brideshead Revisited
23 Top Gear
24 The Muppet Show
25 The Bridge (Bron/Broen)

[teeter_g]

Here is my list. The ones in blue didn't make it and the red one was my 1 pointer.


1. Doctor Who
2. TNA iMpact Wrestling
3. Rizzoli & Isles
4. Supernatural
5. NFL Monday Night Football
6. N.C.I.S.
7. Criminal Minds
8. Law and Order: SVU
9. Black List
10. Dollhouse
11. The Stand
12. Archer
13. South Park
14. Total Divas
15. Swamp People
16. Captain Planet and the Planeteers
17. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
18. Tru Calling
19. Fringe
20. Flashpoint
21. Deadwood
22. Sons of Anarchy
23. The Walking Dead
24. Angel
25. Eric and Jessie: Game On

[honeykid]

This was my list (I think). I'm not sure if I rearranged things or not before sending it off.

1. Neighbours
2. Friends
3. The Sweeney
4. Charlie's Angels
5. Have I Got News For You?
6. Touch Of Cloth
7. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
8. The Ricky Gervais Show
9. Blackadder II (this was meant to be Blackadder Goes Forth)
10. Derek
11. The Good Life
12. Cybil
13. Veronica's Closet
14. Garth Marenghi's Dark Place
15. Charlie Brooker's Newswipe
16. The Great British Bake Off
17. Mad Men
18. 8 Out Of Ten Cats
19. Beverley Hills 90210
20. Takeshi's Castle
21. House Of Cards (This was the UK version, but was included as US. I don't think it mattered either way)
22. I, Claudus
23. Bagpuss
24. Gavin & Stacey
25. Room 101

I lost a few programmes because I was trying to organise this bloody thing. In the end, after about #5 or #6, I just left it as it was. This meant that The Simpson's, Blackadder Goes Forth and The Professionals (at least) were left off

Thanks for JJ and Godoggo for all the hard work they did. :)

[TheUsualSuspect]

I think that would be me. I had eighteen make it.

That's it? Pfft, 20 of mine made it. :p

[Godoggo]

I guess you win then. :p

[TheUsualSuspect]

I guess you win then. :p

Anyone get anymore? Speak up...

[donniedarko]

My list

Prison Break
Seinfeld
Everybody Loves Raymond
Peep Show
Mr. Bean
Breaking Bad
Fawlty Towers
Beavis and Butthead
Modern Family
Shark Tank
Hannibal
Whose Line Is it Anyways (original)
Judge Judy
Orange is the new black
The O’Reilly Factor
The Black Adder
Fishing with John
House M.D.
Kitchen Nightmares
Jailbait (Crackle, miniseries)
Friends
Simpsons
League of Gentlemen
Lie to Me
Community

lots of guilty pleasures here, and towards the end of the list I either just kind of excited joy the show or only enjoyed the earlier seasons. Only show I would've included had I watched it on time is the US Office.

[Thursday Next]

The first Black Adder over all the other seasons?

[Miss Vicky]

The first Black Adder over all the other seasons?

I don't get that, either.

[neiba]

My list:

1. The Simpsons
2. Friends
3. Dragon Ball Z
4. Monthy Python’s Flying Circus
5. Game of Thrones
6. Boston Legal
7. Seinfeld
8. Suits
9. House of Cards
10. Cosmos (1980)
11. Family Guy
12. Cheers
13. The West Wing
14. South Park
15. Californication
16. Entourage
17. Rome
18. Spartacus: Blood and Sand
19. The Big Bang Theory
20. Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
21. Two and a Half Men
22. Frazier
23. Shameless (UK)
24. How I Met your Mother
25. C.S.I. (Las Vegas)

[honeykid]

9. House of Cards
I'm assuming that's the US version. Have you seen the original version? If you like it, there's a trilogy of them.

Pleased to see Suits on your list, too. Love that show. :)

[OMEGA5]

I think that would be me. I had eighteen make it.

I had 19 ;)

1. The Sopranos
2. Six Feet Under
3. Homicide: Life on the Streets
4. Arrested Development
5. Hannibal
6. The Colbert Report
7. Breaking Bad
8. Law & Order
9. True Detective
10. The Twilight Zone
11. The Daily Show
12. The X-Files
13. Fawlty Towers
14. Deadwood
15. 30 Rock
16. Blackadder II
17. Seinfeld
18. Fringe
19. Modern Family
20. Twin Peaks
21. House of Cards
22. Battlestar Galactica
23. Frasier
24. Blackadder Goes Fourth
25. Original Dr. Who

[neiba]

I'm assuming that's the US version. Have you seen the original version? If you like it, there's a trilogy of them.

Pleased to see Suits on your list, too. Love that show. :)

I didn't know there was an UK version, I'll check it out! Thanks HK!

Suits is probably my absolute favourite TV Show airing now, it's addicting!
I just realized I forgot The Newsroom on my list!!! :eek: It should be on my top10!

[honeykid]

The Newsroom is great. I'm going to miss it.

[cricket]

Me and wifey just watched the first episode of The Wire. We both enjoyed it and are going to continue watching it. We both think that it wasn't as good as the first episode of The Shield.

[Godoggo]

It gets a lot better. Like Breaking Bad, I don't think it's something that immediately jumps out and grabs you but once you start to get into it it builds up into something and then you're hooked.

[cricket]

Breaking Bad is the other one we want to start watching, and perhaps Deadwood. I also wanted to try the one about the redneck baseball pitcher.

Right now, she's watching Hung.:facepalm:

[Godoggo]

I just looked that up. Doesn't look all that appealing. edit* referring to Hung.

There are so many shows I want to watch. I finally just finished Dexter season 7. I didn't think it was as bad as I had heard. The storyline got old though. The other storylines needed to be juiced up a bit.

I'll still take Hannibal any day of the week.

[cricket]

I forgot about Hannibal; MovieGal recommended that to me. I'd like to see that.

[The Gunslinger45]

Breaking Bad is the other one we want to start watching, and perhaps Deadwood. I also wanted to try the one about the redneck baseball pitcher.

Right now, she's watching Hung.:facepalm:

Oh you poor man.

[The Gunslinger45]

A show I should have listed but didn't was a show I loved from the Sci-Fi Channel called The Invisible Man.

About a thief named Darien Fawkes who gets a gland put in his brain that allows him to turn invisible. He is then recruited by a spy agency that is absorbed an fronted by various agencies such as Fish and Wildlife, The Bureau of Indian Affairs and even the Postal Service. And excellent blend of espionage, action, sci fi and comedy. And episodes in full are on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4e6mwLS9BU

Also

SHUT UP EBERTS!

[Kristyangeljackets]

For me there are only 5


On top Sherlock
Supernatural
Dr.Who
Hank Moody
Demon Da Vinci

Howz That? ;)

[Godoggo]

I forgot about Hannibal; MovieGal recommended that to me. I'd like to see that.

There have only been two seasons (26 episodes) so far, but it's been amazing so far. I can't wait for the third season to start.

[jiraffejustin]

Breaking Bad is the other one we want to start watching, and perhaps Deadwood. I also wanted to try the one about the redneck baseball pitcher.

Right now, she's watching Hung.:facepalm:

I've heard Hung is a good show. :shrug:

You definitely need to get to Breaking Bad though.

[cricket]

I saw a bit of the first episode of Hung just now, and at least it has Thomas Jane. She liked it.

[honeykid]

I saw a few episodes of Hung. I thought it was OK.

[donniedarko]

The first Black Adder over all the other seasons?

Only one I saw at the time. I'm almost done with the second, but I don't think it would've made my list.

[honeykid]

Wow. You really preferred the first series of Blackadder to the second? How about the rest? Have you seen those?

[Holden Pike]

I liked "Hung" for the first season and a half or so. I think it petered out.



Thank you. Tip your waitresses.

[Sedai]

Well done, Godoggo! Thanks for putting all the time and effort into the list!

[Godoggo]

I'm going to be emptying my tv list folder soon, so if you want yours for any reason let me know. Don't forget that you can look through the entire list of 548 titles and who voted for them anytime you want. The link is at the bottom of the first post.

I had a lot of fun running the list and thanks everyone for participating. Hopefully I did a good enough job that I can run one in the future. I really enjoyed doing it. :)

[seanc]

You did a great job godoggo. I'm glad you did it, would have been a shame if it had died.

[Godoggo]

Yeah, you know I live for doing stuff like that. The part before the reveal was lots of fun for me.

[Tacitus]

Porridge was 154th. I was the only person to vote for Morse and Edge of Darkness, and probably a host more but I became sad and yearned for a happy place .....

.... which I found in Kung Fu at 180 - I knew Toose still served a purpose! ;D

[JayDee]

As usual I'm a bit behind everyone (what can I say I'm a little slow). Anyway excellent job at bringing the whole thing together G-Dog. Great effort. :up:

In the end I did pretty well with my list, with 15 out of my 25 making it. Though there were a few I hoped would have been higher. Angel at #66 seems harsh considering how high Buffy and Firefly were. And a show as legendary as MASH not even making the top 50 seems somewhat sacriligeous

And of the shows that didn't make it I'd say my biggest disappointment would be Taxi. To me (and many others) that's one of the great sitcoms of all time so no sign of it was a bit surprising. For me it's got 3 of the greatest and funniest TV characters of all time - Louie De Palma, Jim Ignatowski and Latka Gravas; all in one show!!! Oh and Marili Henner was smoking hot as Elaine

1. The X-Files (#10)
2. Boy Meets World (#75)
3. Quantum Leap (#63)
4. Stargate SG-1
5. Star Trek: The Next Generation (#25)
6. Angel (#66)
7. South Park (#12)
8. Frasier (#42)
9. Scrubs (#85)
10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (#11)
11. Band of Brothers (#17)
12. Game of Thrones (#4)
13. Taxi
14. MASH (#57)
15. Boston Legal
16. Psych
17. Chuck
18. Spin City
19. 3rd Rock from the Sun (#93)
20. Moonlighting
21. Futurama (#28)
22. Eerie Indiana
23. Twilight Zone (#18)
24. Home Improvement
25. Mad About You


Had I had more time the list may have been significantly different but it was really a last minute rush job and for my picks I basically just looked at my DVDs for inspiration, so shows I don't have on DVD and stuff like chat shows and panel shows never came into my mind really.

[Godoggo]

We had six shows in common; The X-Files, Buffy, Angel, M*A*S*H, Futurama and Game of Thrones.

I agree that M*A*S*H seems low, but there are probably a lot of youngins' that haven't seen it. My dad and grandpa both loved that show so I was watching it from a very early age.

I would love to do another Mofo Tv list in two or three years and compare the two. I know the members submitting lists would be a lot different so it wouldn't be a true comparison, but I would like to see how some of the more recent shows hold up. Dexter, Breaking Bad and so on.

[Guaporense]

30. The Shield
29. Black-Adder II
28. Futurama 4_5 My favorite American animation (in all senses), specially the episode where the dog awaits for his owner.
27. Deadwood
26. Community
25. Star Trek: The Next Generation 4 Great sci fi series, not as good as Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 though, suffers from episodic writing and TV cliches.
24. All In The Family
23. Monty Python's Flying Circus
22. The Office
21. Sherlock
20. Dexter 4++ Really great serial killer series that suffers from excessive number of seasons. I strongly identified with the main character.
19. Friends 3 Overrated
18. The Twilight Zone
17. Band of Brothers 5 Should have been higher.
16. Mad Men 2_5 Boring.
15. True Detective
14. Lost 4_5 ++ In my top 30 TV series list and for a reason. Excellent series for people between the ages of 13 to 20.
13. Fawlty Towers
12. South Park 4_5 - My second favorite American animation. Suffers a bit from lacking in elegance though.
11. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2_5 (for the first 3 episodes, dropped it because it felt too cliche)
10. The X-Files
9. Arrested Development 4 Slightly overrated but still great comedy.
8. Firefly 3 (for the first couple of episodes, I would need to watch the whole thing though, specially considering how well regarded it is)
7. The Sopranos 5 - (almost a full blown masterpiece, it's suffers a bit from the slow pacing/episodic nature)
6. The Wire 3 Only watched the first season but I didn't find it very interesting though I would be interested in finishing the series.
5. Twin Peaks 3 (for the first season, did not capture my full interest)
4. Game of Thrones 5 - (like The Sopranos, great series but suffers from a problem: kill'en all syndrome)
3. Seinfeld 5 (best comedy series ever made)
2. The Simpsons 4 (slightly overrated, still very good for the first 8-9 seasons or so, after that it's around 6/10 show for me)
1. Breaking Bad 5 + (totally deserves first spot, if I were to list my top 10 series right now it would be 9 anime and Breaking Bad).

Sad that Babylon 5 didn't make it, it's the best writing ever in a multi season show in english speaking TV IMO, among my top 2 english TV series together with Breaking Bad. Suffers from bad acting and dated special effects but it's greatness shines through these flaws. Among my top 12 English TV shows, 11 made it, among my top anime shows, only 1 made it but they are obviously obscure to everybody besides anime buffs. Among my top 2 Brazilian soup operas, none made it but they are probably less accessible to English speaking audiences than anime or maybe not: A guy from Albania said that his friends were addicted to O Clone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXC7y_GJNxU

Although overall soup operas suffer from overacting, bad direction and bad quality writing given they make 200 episodes in 300 days! Still, some manage to transcend these limitations and become great shows despite the low quality on a per frame basis (if compared to Breaking Bad, for example).

[Iroquois]

Yeah, it kind of sucks how Babylon 5 gets lost in the shuffle when it comes to talking about great shows. A lot of comments in this thread were pointing out how shows like The Wire or Game of Thrones wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for The Sopranos, but personally it's hard not to think about how Babylon 5 provided a blueprint for The Sopranos itself through its tendency to build complex multi-season arcs over consecutive episodes (The X-Files was arguably doing the same thing, but its main storyline was always stretched out by the various "monster of the week" episodes, which notably became fewer and fewer on Babylon 5). I guess the space opera setting is enough to make a mass audience write it off as a cheesy Star Trek knockoff.

[Guaporense]

Babylon 5 still has the best writing on any English speaking TV show I remember watching. But that's because best means "geekiest". It talks about a huge number of sci fi themes like how wwe see ants in the same way more advanced civilizations might see us. I love that kinda of stuff.

I plan to watch all of Firefly because it's one of the few major English speaking sci fi shows which I haven't watched more than 10 episodes of.

[Citizen Rules]

I'm glad to hear your guys mention Babylon 5. I had that show high on my list, I think it was in the top 10. I like it so much I bought it on DVD.

[Guaporense]

I gave 21 points to it. You gave at least 16 points. One more vote and it would have made it.

[Godoggo]

Babylon 5 still has the best writing on any English speaking TV show I remember watching. But that's because best means "geekiest". It talks about a huge number of sci fi themes like how wwe see ants in the same way more advanced civilizations might see us. I love that kinda of stuff.

I plan to watch all of Firefly because it's one of the few major English speaking sci fi shows which I haven't watched more than 10 episodes of.

Unfortunately, there aren't many more than 10 episodes of Firefly. I sure wish it could have made it for the planned five seasons. Too bad it didn't get its start on another network, it may have made it.

[Citizen Rules]

I gave 21 points to it. You gave at least 16 points. One more vote and it would have made it.Guap, I would have voted B5 even higher but I'm a dyed in the wool Star Trek fan so I placed the various ST series higher.

Did you have the Outer Limits 1995-2002 anywhere on your list?

[Guaporense]

Never heard of that one. 1960's black and white science fiction? Looks interesting.

[Godoggo]

Guap, I would have voted B5 even higher but I'm a dyed in the wool Star Trek fan so I placed the various ST series higher.

Did you have the Outer Limits 1995-2002 anywhere on your list?

I really want to watch some more Outer Limits. What I saw was really good.

[Gideon58]

I've seen a few episodes of each of these shows, but I don't really care for either of them. I pretty much only watch talk shows when there's a guest that I like on the show, and even then, I usually only watch their segment.


I'm glad to see that "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." (2013) was on the one point list. I didn't vote for it because it's too new, and it hasn't really proven it's legacy yet, but I love the show, and I haven't missed an episode since it premiered.
I, too, have never understood all the love for Craig Ferguson...he was funny on The Drew Carey Show, but his talk show really didn't do anything for me.

[Gideon58]

He played Murray.

http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=17984&stc=1&d=1412912322
Matt Frewer (Edison Carter/Max Headroom), Amanda Pays (Theora Jones), Jeffrey Tambor (Murray McKenzie)

As Wiki puts it, "Edison Carter's high-strung producer."
OMG, Jeffrey Tambor looks SO young in that photo...I didn't know he was ever that young, LOL!

[Gideon58]

I have no idea who James Corden is and talk shows aren't my thing, but I feel like I missed out on Ferguson.
James Corden is playing the Baker in the new movie Into the Woods with Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt, which is opening wide on Xmas day.

[Gideon58]

That's not a weird crush. That woman is hot. You're not alone, RP. JD is another one of us. :D

GS, give Mad About You a go. It's a really good show but, as mentioned, it goes off in the later seasons. I thought about putting it on my list, but I've not seen it for a long time with the exception of season 1, which I have on dvd. A similar thing happened with a few sitcoms. If I were to make a 100, I'm certain it'd be there, though.
Helen Hunt is a brilliant actress...I think she won five Emmys for her work on that show

[Gideon58]

I never seen a baseball game either.
I went to a met game @ Shea Stadium once...there was a 5 hour rain delay...we got very drunk...I don't remember who won.

[christine]

Guap, I would have voted B5 even higher but I'm a dyed in the wool Star Trek fan so I placed the various ST series higher.

Did you have the Outer Limits 1995-2002 anywhere on your list?

I watched a bunch of Outer Limits after you reminded me of it a couple of weeks ago. Great stuff. Thanks!

[Gideon58]

Thank you for mentioning the finale of Will & Grace...loved the show but hated the finale with a white hot passion...could not get behind the fact that Will and Grace spent 18 years apart and then their children ended up going to the same college...huh?

[Gideon58]

The 9th place vote for Will & Grace was from me. I think it's a phenomenal show and one of my all time favorite sitcoms. Karen Walker is probably my favorite sitcom character ever. She is hilarious.

I can't believe I didn't vote for Cowboy Bebop, but I'm grateful others did.
Totally agree with you regarding Karen Walker, one of the funniest sitcom characters ever!

[Gideon58]

God, I never understood what was so great about Friends.

I also tried to watch Cheers one night not too long ago and didn't get the appeal.
I never got all the love for Friends either.

[Sedai]

Hey Guap - The first season of Buffy is pretty rough. If you have given up on watching the whole run, which is totally understandable, I would request that you watch the season 4 finale, Restless. That one episode shows the creativity and depth of the show's creators, and also pokes fun at the show itself, which Buffy was known to do from time to time. I think that would give you a much better idea of how good that show could be. I am not a big fan of the initial episodes of that show, really. I think you will appreciate Restless a whole lot more. It's just 40 minutes and then you are done!

http://www.daydreamnation.co.uk/buffy/rileybuffyrest1l.jpg

[Citizen Rules]

I watched a bunch of Outer Limits after you reminded me of it a couple of weeks ago. Great stuff. Thanks!Christine glad you liked it! Did you watch the older B&W Outer Limits from early 60s or the latter one?

I have all of the 60s Outer Limit on DVD. I like to get the 1995-2002 series.

[christine]

Christine glad you liked it! Did you watch the older B&W Outer Limits from early 60s or the latter one?

I have all of the 60s Outer Limit on DVD. I like to get the 1995-2002 series.

I watched some of the B&W ones on youtube, but I think some of the ones I saw were old B&W Twilight Zone

[Citizen Rules]

You know what I find interesting about the old Outer Limits is was heavily influenced by the times that it was made. Many of the alien threats on the show come in the form of conspiracies. You can really since the Red Fear of the early 60s in that show.

[Camo]

I had PC problems before this finished so i was unable to comment on the top two.

The Simpsons was as high as 9 on my initial list, but after thinking about it i decided not to include it. Not sure who it was but someone brought up the point that everyone complaining about The Simpsons consistency probably hasn't watched it since the 90's. No idea if this is the case for anyone else, but i can insure everyone that i've seen plenty of Season 11- and the show has been approaching unwatchable for years. Season 2-10 was some of the finest tv ever produced (Season 4 and 6 in particular is something i could watch at any time) .

Clearly this will receive backlash but South Park has flowed alot better imo at least, it's went from the weak point of the show S1-3, to the peak S4-12, and S13- has managed to squeeze into the middle quality-wise with the occasional classic. Which outside the genius of Trey and Matt is due to them changing the formula of the show, something The Simpsons have stubbornly avoided doing. I mean how long was the family having an adventure littered with Pop Culture references ever going to last? As i've said elsewhere The Simpsons has morphed into a show without a heart, that seems more like a vehicle for comedy writers towards bigger things.

I'll post my thoughts on Breaking Bad either later or in the next few days.

[Godoggo]

I just realized I never posted my own list.

1. Lost
2. Friends
3. My So-Called Life
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
5. Angel
6. Little House on the Prairie
7. Big Vang Theory
8. The X-Files
9. Will & Grace
10. ER
11. Roseanne
12. The Office
13. The Muppet Show
14. King of the Hill
15. 30 Rock
16. The Office (USA)
17. M*A*S*H
18. Game of Thrones
19. The Wire
20. Breaking Bad
21. The Walking Dead
22. Hannibal
23. The Mindy Project
24. Futurama
25. Charmed

I was the only one to vote for My So-Called Life. :(
So sad the Muppet Show didn't make it. I didn't figure many people would vote for Little House on the Praire, but it's such a great iconic show.

[Camo]

Breaking Bad is an excellent show, but in hindsight i think i may have had it a little bit too high at 11. While i loved it i haven't had a desire to rewatch it since it finished, and whoever it was that said it wouldn't top a list in five years brought up a very interesting point.

Anyway my list:

1.The Sopranos
2.South Park
3.Mad Men
4.The Wire
5.Sons of Anarchy
6.community
7.It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
8.Arrested Development
9.Dexter
10.Lost
11.Breaking Bad
12.Deadwood
13.The Shield
14.Twin Peaks
15.The Good Wife
16.Batman TAS
17.Only Fools and Horses
18.American Horror Story
19.Fawlty Towers
20.QI
21.Curb Your Enthusiasm
22.The X Files
23.The Killing (US)
24.The Twilight Zone
25.Friends

The only one i'd change now is The Killing, in hindsight i think i only included it because it wa the show i was into at the time. I'd probably include Frasier or Peep Show in it's place.

[Godoggo]

I was one of the people that said that, but now I'm not so sure. Number one, I doubt it unless they can't come up with some hot new show in the next five years, but maybe the top ten still. I think maybe I underestimated it a tad.

I continued reading a bit after I was done with the list and I think the newness of it factored into it's number one position somewhat, but I think it will stand the test of time better than I once thought.

[gbgoodies]

I just realized I never posted my own list.

1. Lost
2. Friends
3. My So-Called Life
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
5. Angel
6. Little House on the Prairie
7. Big Vang Theory
8. The X-Files
9. Will & Grace
10. ER




7. "Big Vang Theory"?

Is that the vampire version of "The Big Bang Theory"? :laugh:

[Godoggo]

7. "Big Vang Theory"?

Is that the vampire version of "The Big Bang Theory"? :laugh:

:) That would be an interesting take on the show.

[Camo]

I was one of the people that said that, but now I'm not so sure. Number one, I doubt it unless they can't come up with some hot new show in the next five years, but maybe the top ten still. I think maybe I underestimated it a tad.

I continued reading a bit after I was done with the list and I think the newness of it factored into it's number one position somewhat, but I think it will stand the test of time better than I once thought.

I think it would still be top 10 in say five years, but if this list was done the year after The Sopranos or The Wire was done they would've both fared much better and had a strong chance at #1 imo.

Out of interest will this list be added to the List section Yoda?

[gandalf26]

So what I said about True Detective earlier was completely wrong. Great show, would have made my list for sure. I've bought Twin Peaks too and The Wire, will be watching them at some point.


Edit, also bought Firefly. Great show, can someone explain to me wtf Fox were thinking cancelling it?