iPlayer? What's an iPlayer? ILX's top 50 TV shows of the 90s!

yeah but it meant today i saw haverchuck in drag and is thus worth making it

yeah but I guess I meant the second option to be "hi i was a kid and wd like to vote for whatever bollocks I dug when I was 12" kinda position

Freaks & Geeks only aired 6 episodes in the '90s, and it did really well on the '00s poll, so there was absolutely no need to have it in this poll, and it probably bumped some great show that was on for a hundred episodes out of the list.

I get what you're saying, but I couldn't have excluded it in good conscience. I think it garnered less votes than it would've if the 00s poll hadn't existed for the reasons you've pointed out.

if only we got rufus to vote in the 00s countdown :(

Animaniacs placed pretty much solely based on nostalgia. Not that I'm hatin', I'm just sayin'. It wasn't that good a show, and that '90s WB animation (also featured on Tiny Toon Adventures) was pretty abysmal. But then so was most animation in the '90s.

P.S. I hope X-Men is top ten.

also voted for x-men

ok your endorsement of X-Men was ironic right, talk about shows that haven't aged well

My endorsement of X-Men was only semi-ironic, in that I recognize that it's an endorsement based solely on nostalgia.

P.S. Did not vote for X-Men. ;_;

ok, because wanting X-Men to place over Batman TAS would be unconscionable

I am gonna breathe in deep and promise not to moan about kids' cartoons and fucking superheroes for the rest of the thread okay

I do want Suparmen TAS to place over Betmang TAS. How unconscionable is that shit?!

never saw the Superman show tbh, i guess it's at least in a similar league though

37 - Red Dwarf (BBC, 1988-99)
- 1340 points, 13 votes

http://topazbean.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/red-dwarf.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBmgZv6YAxE

Batman was good, but I felt like they kept improving the formula with each subsequent show. JLA was the bomb. And they're all really among some of the best cartoons/superhero entertainment ever.

It has aged really badly but I loved pretty much all of the first 6 series of Red Dwarf. These days I don't even pause as I pass it on my way through the cable channels but I think it deserves a place in the list.

Can't believe I didn't vote for Red Dwarf.

It went on too long, and it wasn't that good at the beginning, and it suffered from the danger of all SF crossover shows: over-pandering to the nerd audience. But there are 4 or 5 seasons in the middle which are basically the classic formula of all great UK sitcoms: group of losers trapped in claustrophobic circumstances zinging the fuck out of each other. When it was like that, it was golden.

yeha, red dwarf was nearly as good as the brittas empire. psyched for keeping up appearances now.

I'm fond of Red Dwarf. Looking back, a lot of the jokes are a bit crap, but the stories and characters hold up well for the most part. I think the first two series are the best though, which were both broadcast in the 80s. There was an interesting atmosphere of loneliness and claustrophobia which were overwhelmed by sci-fi goofiness later on.

psyched for keeping up appearances now.

darraghmac = quentin letts??

oh thanks a bunch, now i gotta get a new login.

Dude I expected more from you on Have I Got News for You last week. You coulda dropped a "Jol out", surely?

CLOSE IN ON THE BADGE I WAS WEARING /derren brown

I AM SCANNING iPLAYER RIGHT NOW

if i've wasted even 2 minutes of a fellow ilxor's time needlessly then it's been a good day

You lying git, it says "JAN MOIR WAS RIGHT"

no probs. I remember quite liking Animaniacs but not that shit in the clip. Slappy Squirrel, Goodfeathers and Chicken Boo were good tho.

I was recently disabused by the notion (implanted in my head by a friend from high school) that Slappy Squirrel was voiced by Kate Bush.

of the notion

xp look again. it's Ian moir

36 - Oz (HBO, 1997-2003)
- 1370 points, 9 votes

http://cosmodromemag.com/files/oz.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74A7kFuh48E

Didn't realise Oz ran for six seasons! Thought it was only two or three.

Oh yeah, NSFW clip, by the way.

Very happy to see both Animaniacs and Red Dwarf place; both hold up much better than I would have guessed at the time.

I'm kind of surprised at the Animaniacs hating - it was such a smart and joyous show, with touches of both the maliciousness and surreality of the classic Warner's stuff, as well as their topicality. Wasn't all gold by any means, but it hit the mark more often than not. For me, it was one of the now rare kid's shows that adults not only wouldn't tear their eyes out when it was on but would want to sit down and watch. I was 20 when it debuted, and caught it as often as I could.

35 - Daria (MTV, 1997-2002)
- 1390 points, 9 votes, 1 first place

http://angeitamoza.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/daria01.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4cGKBr2Cs

Yeah, I never watched it either.

when did ILX TV polls jump the shark

When I started running them?

Daria is another case of 'every time i caught an episode i was surprised by how relatively good it was'

^this

34 - The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer (BBC, 1993-95)
- 1440 points, 9 votes, 1 first place

http://i8.tinypic.com/4xvh3sg.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMaEUv5n9wU

My favourite Vic & Bob series. I also have to post this clip, as it makes me unable to breathe from laughing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__MUf2Qv6_U

Way the best Vic and Bob series, therefore one of the best things ever made. I don't know how shunted they were into doing the relatively accessible Shooting Stars but it was a poor cousin to their freeform stuff when it was in full effect.

too British; did not laugh.

Somehow Vic and Bob's "impressions" always end up being truer than full-time impressionists' efforts, too.

If anyone can find a clip of that dog telling those stories that end with him saying "oh no, my wife's gonna kill me" in a cockney accent, I'll be eternally grateful if you link to it

Bob's Matthew Kelly is spot on.

xpost

The dog was Greg something, love him so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1yMrYke5v0

GREG MITCHELL HE RULE

Somebody should re-film the entire Only Fools and Horses just with Greg and his mates.

My hero!