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

If you like - though I'll give people a day or two next week to add more to the existing list.

i wonder if i still love doug and hey arnold and etc. enough to nominate them. hmmm.

oh, and biker mice from mars.

this poll gonna be heavily skewed by childhood.

would be so refreshing to have poll results dominated by kids' shows and trad sitcoms instead of big serious serial dramas

was interesting to see the amount of love for American Idol here - the UK equivalents don't seem to be rated by anyone (for me it would be a bit like voting for Blind Date in the 90s poll)

The host for Blind Date used to host a roundtable scifi discussion show where Dwight Schulz would shake intently at Harlan Ellison.

New X Factor suckz. Charlie Brooker put it perfectly in 2 of his saturday articles: 1. adding a crowd from day 1 ruins the joek on retards/making yr mind up on good ones 2. not knowing what to do when the 'step up' was supposed to be how they deal with the added pressure of a crowd etc. so just adding more lights.

The host for Blind Date used to host a roundtable scifi discussion show where Dwight Schulz would shake intently at Harlan Ellison.

― Philip Nunez, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:01 (50 seconds ago) Bookmark

http://www.musicpophits.com/images/MaleFemCovers/FemaleCillaBlack.jpg ?

survivor and amazing race were such a big part of my t.v. decade that i couldn't NOT vote for them. i might not watch them like i did, but i was definitely fanatical about those initial (i dunno, 4 or 5) seasons.

I thought he meant
http://hogwild.net/images/Misc/roger.lodge.jpg
until I realized there was a British show by the same name.

loved some of the first seasons of big brother too (though not the first one which was the worst. and now it has really gone down some hellish musclemania mtv hole), but not as much.

OH. I forgot all about Comedians Of Comedy. That would have very likely ended up on my final ballot. Can we redo poll now plz? Thanks!

Was there anything on Arrested Development quite as disturbing as Will Arnett humping Aziz Ansari in a Mary Kate mask on Human Giant?

the Comedians of Comedy movie was pretty funny, but the series was much lighter on funny standup stuff and filled more time with them being whiny regular people and hanging out in comic book stores

exactly. how could it fail to make an ilx top ten.

Ha ha. Yes. My sentiments exactly. I loved the behind the scenes stuff!

i've just noticed no-one has started calling other people racist or sexist or whatever yet on this thread and thus i am not sure it can count as a proper 1000+ post ILX thread and we may have to start again.

is it true there's going to be a black dr. who?

there were some early rumblings w/ britishers feeling discriminated against, but I guess they just realized american tv is better

Britishers will wipe the floor with Americans in a 90's poll. The Day Today puts 95% of the States' 90's output to shame.

yeah I have never heard of that show so I won't vote for it

well there was a nice little stuffwhitepeoplelike stint of the thread the other day, but yeah, even that wasn't actually hostile. probably a lot of the really heated debate that woulda feuled those arguments got aired out a bit in the Wire/Sopranos wars.

there should be a basic exam to prove eligibility for 90s poll voting

1) are you British?

If you look at the results of this poll, you might think there are no television shows made in countries where people don't primarily speak english!

So I will take this time to give a shout-out to the ongoing excellence of Sabado Gigante, and various Japanese variety shows that have given me so much joy.

you might also conclude that on a site where everyone posts in English (one subboard aside) most everyone is an average Westerner who only speaks that one language

the subboard i'm referring to of course being 1 pWN 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1

Does Day to Day really translate? I had to take on faith that UK media and political landscape was accurately and deservedly skewered to find Brass Eye funny.

The Africa channel on Sky should also be mentioned, if only for sheer wtf-ness.

I forgot to include a winking emoticon with my previous post.

Africa channel only in English though. Loses marks for pandering to its only audience being able to understand it. What sellouts.

colonialism still rife and evil.

Sabado Gigante is incredible though, no winking on that point.

The Day Today is better if you are aware of British culture, but I'm American and watched it within three weeks of coming to the UK, and although quite a bit flew over my head, "Headmaster suspended for using big-faced boy as satellite dish" is universal.

i actually put Paranoia Agent in my ballot, though i knew it didn't stand a chance

lol only 5 of the shows i voted for made it on the top 50

"Headmaster suspended for using big-faced boy as satellite dish"

I think I'm gonna pass on this show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv-LKUtiOxU

I almost wonder if it wouldn't be a better idea for an American audience to check out Jam and then work backwards through the Chris Morris stuff? Jam kinda pummels you with Morris' perspective and sense of humor without as much Brit-centric cultural/political stuff, and if you make it through the extremity of the pummeling, it's probably a decent gauge of how much you'll like his other stuff.

Keeping in mind, of course, that Jam is one of the most fucked up (yet brilliant) things I've ever seen on television.

Jam <<<<<<<<< Blue Jam

My Top 25:

1. The Sopranos (1999-2007)
2. The Wire (2002-2008)
3. Saturday Night Live (1975-)
4. Lost (2004-)
5. Mad Men (2007-)
6. Generation Kill (2008, mini-series)
7. Arrested Development (2003-2006)
8. Deadwood (2004-2006)
9. The Office (2005-, U.S.)
10. In Treatment (2008-, U.S.)
11. Flight of the Conchords (2007-)
12. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006, TV documentary mini-series)
13. Six Feet Under (2001-2005)
14. True Blood (2008-)
15. Angel (1999-2004)
16. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
17. Firefly (2002-2004)
18. Big Love (2006-)
19. Law & Order (1990-)
20. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993-)
21. The L Word (2004-2009)
22. The Simpsons (1989-)
23. Battlestar Galactica (2004-, '00s version)
24. Clerks: The Animated Series (2000)
25. Blind Date (1999-2006)

my ballot would have been

1) AD
2) Frisky Dingo
3) The Thick Of It

and then I wouldn't have really cared much

oh wait 4) Jam although sic is correct in observing that Blue Jam is MUCH better, to the extent at which it's actually my favourite show ever in any medium

i never got around to jam/bluejam. i guess i should considering i love teh morris, but i just don't find myself caring. tell me otherwise lj.

torrent-download all 18 episodes of Blue Jam pronto before I come round to your house and inform you your television is full of lizards

it's like some dude with the best music taste ever and one of the keenest comic sensibilities of his time decided to combine all of this into some kind of freaked-out-but-coherent hour-long DJ set, and repeated the process 16 more times (one episode is aborted after 15 minutes due to Diana funeral sampling controversy)...the level of craft that goes into the sampling, repeating, mashing and timing is, erm, stunning

and the comedy is next-level stygian

that sounds like a headache.

dude it's a fucken trip and i love it profoundly, if ya wanna ignore it w/o empirical then be my guest

it's like some dude with the best music taste ever and one of the keenest comic sensibilities of his time decided to combine all of this into some kind of freaked-out-but-coherent hour-long DJ set, and repeated the process 16 more times (one episode is aborted after 15 minutes due to Diana funeral sampling controversy)...the level of craft that goes into the sampling, repeating, mashing and timing is, erm, stunning

and the comedy is next-level stygian

― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:57 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol i thought i clicked on the smashing pumpkins -- pisces iscariot: classic or dud? thread and was like "wtf are u on about????"

nah, i will actually download it.

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In what way was that not an apt description of Pisces Iscariot?