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

has friends already come up?

sorry caek, feel free to show me a yellow card. enjoy the fireworks or was it raining?

all of freaks and geeks is on youtube btw - just Rapid$h@re that shit & watch it proper. Actually, prob better to get the DVDs b/c deleted scenes & commentary are def worth it.

Bill Haverchuck is, I believe, my favorite TV character ever.

watched fireworks from my office. lol phd time.

btw guys the next show got the most votes of any.

Actually, prob better to get the DVDs b/c deleted scenes & commentary are def worth it.

so true, there's really a TON of gems in the deleted scenes

Haverchuck should have been nu-spock, not that eyebrow guy from heroes.

hmm, i really should get them dvds.

next must be 30 rock then

oh yeah now i remember why i never did, it was only released in a special edition version that now costs a fuckload, or i import it and have nothing to play it on. f u whoever puts out dvds of everything except the thing i love and want to buy.

or wait no, now i look the fucking expensive edition also region 1. grrr.

Haverchuck should have been nu-spock, not that eyebrow guy from heroes. - so OTM

3. 30 Rock (45 votes, 1 first place vote, 8110 points.)
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/5421/medium30rock26382095rw3.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukjCcUFMbSE

sorry samuel! it took a long time to come out because of the massive music licensing costs and troubles - i imagine doing it for region 2 as well would be a nightmare on top of it.

why are you apologising? did you sort the dvd yrself? if so, send me a copy, a free version will make up for it all.

Aahhhh!!! All kindsa shows I love place while I'm away! Ahhhhhhh!

sympathies :(

First of all, I can not believe that mine was the only #1 vote for the UK Office. The show never fails to amaze me, no matter how many times I watch it. It's such subtle genius.

hey dude, glad you could make it in time. now if only darragh were here to be complaining like a motherfucker, it would all be complete.

ok that sims clip is really impressive

didn't think Milf Island would be top 2

so the wire and which other to finish?

i can't keep up with you lot, the last series i gave lotsa time to were e.r., west wing and the office. i don't know how you find the time to watch all the stuff i never heard of.

milf island - lost?

quitting ILX forever if its not AD

gonna wait till tomorrow to type up the full list, on account of not being fucked to do so tonight.

xxpost With this crowd? I'm thinking Arrested Dev which sort of baffles me.

you should totally leave the last 2 for 12 hours

I love AD (despite not having watched an episode for years) and am sorta surprised it got this high. I guess I figured there was sorta some sorta backlash against it by now?

I mean, I thought AD was pretty good but would never have put it at #1 personally.

AD is too epic for backlash.

I guess it's backlash-backlash time already

You should do the last two right now as I have to leave for work in 12 minutes. </selfish>

well there's been a michael cera backlash i guess but not enough to hurt little george michael

I've only seen the first season of The Wire and just thought it was so so. But since everyone on ILX wets their pants over it, should I keep watching? Does it get better?

It got better for me, Darin. I wasn't sold on the show after S1 but it is my #1 overall.

going to sleep now, confession i bought 1st series of the wire about 2 yrs ago, have watched less than an episode, can't see me getting much further than the end of the box set in the next decade at that rate. guess i'm out of touch.

I think Season 3 and Season 4 are the best.

Second!: I always liked The Sopranos just fine. But it placed the lowest of the top 10 shows on my own poll. I always felt that it was just an eeeeeeeensy bit overrated. And then the last season started, and it was a magnificent start. And then Chase got his extra half a season and the quality dropped so drastically, so sharply, that I was relatively uncommitted by the time the considerably-improved final bit of the series wrapped up.

Third!!!!: Lost, as far as I'm concerned, isn't character driven at all. There are only a couple of characters I care a whit for and only a few relationships that involve me at all. The show is just a big plot-driven puzzle box, and when it's on I am glued to the screen. It's an event. And, yes, there was a pretty significant drop in quality in season 3, but the show has regained its bearing and has been soaring triumphantly through the cosmus ever since. It's the only current MUST-see (like, I can not wait at all) show on my ballot.

yeah watching just season 1 is equivalent to watching the pilot episode of some other show...not to say that it doesn't reflect the series, but it just goes so much further

2. Arrested Development (41 votes, 5 first place votes, 8170 points.)
http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Arrested-Development-Poster-arrested-development-671766_375_500.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDY5w7P-GY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyDjRd0Tjss

it took me 2 months to get thru that 30 Rock thread because i'd slept on it for so long (much like i did AD) so would read it up to when people started quoting the next one i had yet to see. thank fuck for bookmarks. it should've been prime time Friday night on Channel 4 but yes sometimes this country actually is deeply stupid.

xp dammit

Also, Lost is a really weird beast insofar as it's kinda crappy (plot threads that go nowhere, characters that you don't really care about and who do and say the stupidest things just to advance the plot in really contrived ways, etc.) at the same time that it's the most amazing and compelling thing ever. I can't think of much else like it in that regard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE-uY7P3pe4

wow 60 point differential

aw that's my #1. so close

i like The Wire but man fuck The Wire, needs more jokes

(but i'm still only just into season 2)

The Wire is incredibly funny and you sir are tripping.

Or maybe Meth just hasn't turned up yet.

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Another white atheist who loves them here, so I totally understand.
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Love these dudes. and as a white atheist I'm about as different a fan of them as it gets, but good is good and these guys are damn good.