Unopened Boxsets that I liked the look of from the Pilot: The ILX Television 51 Show Countdown Extravaganza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

actually scratch that, you pretty much have to watch it in order to really enjoy the unraveling of the show, esp the worsening of his relationship with the bandleader which is one of the best parts imo

just thinking about all the great tv (based on recommendations here and from others i'd listen to) i have left to watch, and how little time i get to watch tv, and it strikes me as even weirder that dr who is going to place on this list.

is any of the chris morris/the day today stuff gonna place in this poll

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It better or else I will lose faith in . . . everything.

I was under the impression that they were '90s?

Nathan Barley got nominated. Daily Show is closest to Day Today though? But real? <--- no indication of whether either placed or not btw.

oh right. decades.

The Day Today was '90s, you're right. Brass Eye was 1999 and then again in 2001.

brass eye XD

I will definitely be voting for Brass Eye in a hypothetical '90s poll.

there really ought to be a 90s poll

x-post I watched the pedophelia episode again last month and it's still as funny as ever. Next up to watch again is the one with Cake - It's a Made Up drug.

the armando ianucci clinton special is a personal fave

oh yeah the armando ianucci show was nominated too. if you pray real hard it might make it.

There isn't any laugh track on Father Ted. Those are real people in the studio audience, really laughing.

ey uck u mayne, you already cut the legs out from under me with your false hints on planet earth

(xp)

false hints? i said a non-fiction show finished in the top 10. that is still troooooooo.

*at least* a

trooooooooo (lling)

"There isn't any laugh track on Father Ted. Those are real people in the studio audience, really laughing."

Can't they laugh more daintily? They've stepped on every gag except the Masters of the Universe bedspread.

re: morris, jam was in the poll. i voted for it but it's not gonna place. if only LJ had been here to vote it no.1 ;_;

I am listening to his radio show rn while I cook dinner.

On the Hour, I mean. Thread was inspiring.

Jam fell just short of my top 25. As an experiment, it's not always successful, but it's certainly always interesting and often hilarious. Oh, and dark.

xxxp - you can still vote in polls if your banned, fyi

you're - (blaming my recent adoption of text messaging for this)

It's like Mad Men but with meth.

No it's not, things happen in Breaking Bad.

i am dreaming that mad men will get snubbed in this, but i know that i will be wrong ;_;

BTW, people repping for Pushing Daisies... If I found the first episode interesting but also quite excruciatingly irritating is there any point me watching more?

xpost That has not been my impression of Breaking Bad the few times I have tried to watch it!

xpost - Mad Men actually fared very well indeed in my ballot. I love it dearly, but it's true that nothing really happens in it.

xpost again - you've not watched the second half of S2 then.

you've not watched the second half of S2 then.

I'm sure that makes a season and a half of tedium worthwhile, but I'll pass.

i'd say if Pushing Daisies seems annoying at first it's probably not worth sticking out, but i think over time it developed its plots and characters really well and made the sharpness of the dialogue its main selling point instead of just the over the top visuals and cutesieness

I honestly can't comprehend anyone finding Breaking Bad tedious. Don't want to start an internet row, just saying.

cld I get a summary of the results so far plz?

Allllllll right. My predictions for the top 20 (my predictions of the top ten from above remaining relatively untouched):

UK Office
The Wire
The Sopranos
Deadwood
Arrested Development
30 Rock
Peep Show
Lost
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Six Feet Under
Mad Men
South Park
Eastbound And Down
The Shield
Freaks And Geeks
The Daily Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm

And from there it gets kinda sketchy. I wanna see Strangers With Candy or Reno 911! up there, but I think they're both a little too niche to make it to the top 20. American Idol will probably be somewhere in there (bleh). The Soup is a better nonfiction choice, of course. Maybe Nathan Barley or League of Gentlemen or Spaced will show up(not being a Britisher, I don't have as firm grasp on their popularity as I might otherwise)? Possibly, like, The O.C. or Damages or 24, but I have a hard time thinking they got enough points to crack the top 20. I'll be pretty shocked, though, if any from my list of 17 above don't make it.

Probably have to keep reposting this as the thread gets huge and unwieldy:

51. The Inbetweeners (11 votes, 1140 points.)
50. Breaking Bad (7 votes, 1160 points.)
49. State of Play (8 votes, 1170 points.)
48. The Venture Bros (7 votes, 2 #1 votes, 1180 points.)
47. Da Ali G Show (12 votes, 1210 points.)
46. Q.I. (11 votes, 1220 points.)
45. Party Down (10 votes, 1230 points.)
44. Aqua Teen Hunger Force (10 votes, 1240 points.)
43. The Simpsons (15 votes, 1290 points.)
42. Angel (9 votes, 1310 points.)
41. Gilmore Girls (7 votes, 2 #1 votes, 1310 points.)
40. Wonder Showzen (11 votes, 1 #1 vote, 1350 points.)
39. Gillette Soccer Saturday (9 votes, 1360 points.)
38. Black Books (9 votes, 1440 points.)
37. Oz (11 votes, 1530 points.)
36. Dexter (12 votes, 1560 points.)
35. Friday Night Lights (11 votes, 1 #1 vote, 1630 points.)
34. Jackass (14 votes, 1640 points.)
33. Project Runway (15 votes, 1670 points.)
32. Family Guy (15 votes, 1735 points.)
31. House M.D. (16 votes, 1860 points.)
30. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (14 votes, 1970 points.)
29. Planet Earth (15 votes, 1 #1 vote, 1980 points.)
28. How I Met Your Mother (16 votes, 2170 points.)
27. Chappelle's Show (17 votes, 2200 points.)
26. Firefly (17 votes, 2270 points.)
25. Battlestar Galactica (16 votes, 1 #1 vote, 2300 points.)
24. Futurama (20 votes, 2380 points.)
23. Flight Of The Conchords (20 votes, 1 #1 vote, 2580 points.)
22. The Thick of It (16 votes, 1 #1 vote, 2590 points.)
21. The West Wing (16 votes, 3 #1 votes, 2710 points.)

out of your list, i am betting against eastbound and down

I hope it makes it but somehow I doubt it will.

I'll be pretty shocked, though, if any from my list of 17 above don't make it.

I wouldn't be surprised at all not to see South Park or Eastbound and Down or The Shield. The first is a show that a lot of people went nuts over when it debut, but I rarely hear anyone talk about anymore. The second is probably too new -- I still haven't gotten around to seeing it, even though I'm predisposed to that guy's work. And the third: I know it's a show that TV critics love, but do ILXors love it? (Maybe I've missed a massive thread somewhere.)

Shows I voted for that apparently don't have much chance of finishing:

6. Rescue Me
8. Army Wives
9. Weeds
10. Big Love
12. Swingtown
18. Ugly Betty
19. Generation Kill
21. Everybody Hates Chris
22. Beauty and the Geek
24. King Of Queens
25. Monk

Maybe a couple others too, but I'll wait and see.

Am a little surprised that #6, #9, and #10 don't have more of a following here. (Maybe #19, too, but that was just mini-series, which obviously limits viewership.) (I'm sure there are reasons I'm probably supposed to hate Weeds, but I don't. I think it's pretty great.)

a lot of people went nuts over when it debut

Debuted, rather. And by that, I mean: in the late '90s.

South Park too libertarian. Weeds not funny enough. Big Love just not as good as other HBO offerings.

I'm a fan of the first and third, as well as watching Weeds on occasion for MLP.

Big Love was on my ballot. Not terribly high on my ballot, but on there nonetheless.

I've never seen The Shield, but it seemed like one of the only ones left that made sense as a top 20-er.

As far as Eastbound is concerned, it beat Party Down in our little poll a while back, so I figured that it would have to rate above PD in this poll. Right? Right?

I like Weeds, but it can be wildly inconsistent in tone. The show clearly thinks of itself as a dark comedy, but it often ends up veering confusedly between broad satire and edgy melodrama.

I wouldn't be surprised at all not to see South Park or Eastbound and Down or The Shield. The first is a show that a lot of people went nuts over when it debut, but I rarely hear anyone talk about anymore.

dude, every other SP episode the last couple years has been some big celeb-baiting watercooler moment (Kanye fishsticks episode, etc) that i get sick of hearing about within a day of it airing

i will be pretty surprised if it doesn't place