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

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.

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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!

Tragically I still say "My wife's going to kiiiiiiill me" all the time.

when did ILX TV polls jump the shark

C'mon, dude, I thought we'd all prepared ourselves for the fact that this poll was going to be pretty heavily tainted by nostalgia. I doubt there were very many of us who were old enough in the '90s to watch TV with a keen critical eye. Most of the stuff I voted for was stuff that I loved in high school. And mostly early high school, at that.

:)

Agree with the somewhere above comment re: Shooting Stars. Would rather see Vic & Bob back with one of their knockabout sketch shows. That Stars For Eyes skit had me falling about laughing.

anyway they jumped the shark at planet earth, everyone knows that.

i'm fully prepared for nostalgia- TMNT is a serious vote for me.

Bang Bang it's Reeves and Mortimer wasn't bad.

No that was great too but it was really Smell of under a different name and I kind of included it mentally in my vote for Smell of.

2 of my Top 10 are gone already then.

i'm fully prepared for nostalgia- TMNT is a serious vote for me.

I didn't vote for it, but I sure wouldn't cry if it placed.

Something tells me this poll is gonna get retarded pretty soon. In a good way.

Tragically I still say "My wife's going to kiiiiiiill me" all the time.

^^^this. And I don't even have a wife.

My votes were fairly evenly split between shows I genuinely think were great and nostalgia shows. Except Knightmare really was great - fvck the haters.

33 - Shooting Stars (BBC, 1993-present)
- 1480 points, 12 votes

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2008/07/15/shootingstars460.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OydP343QxxI&feature=PlayList&p=83FB7988C1E9D5D8&index=0&playnext=1

What are the odds, eh?

lol you boring gits

Wow in fact I never even placed SS and I voted for Smell of and Big Night Out. Not saying it wasn't often v. funny and all but still.

32 - The Adam & Joe Show (Channel 4, 1996-2001)
- 1490 points, 10 votes

http://www.channel4.com/assets/programmes/images/the-adam-and-joe-show/the-adam-and-joe-show_625x352.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og1fQyN1mmg

Just how did Joe Cornish get the gig of writing the Tintin movie for Spielberg?

the "tainted by nostalgia" crowd better be prepared to rattle off a long list of Good Serious Artistic Accomplishments in Television Sciences in the Nineteen Hundred and Nineties that didn't make the poll when this is all over.

I think the poll should be tainted by what people watched and liked in the 90s.

90% of the Brit stuff that's placed thus far is completely unknown to me. I'm contenting myself with the fact that Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers will inevitably take the top spot.

I doubt there were very many of us who were old enough in the '90s to watch TV with a keen critical eye.

I'm 45 and still waiting for this keen critical eye business to kick in (goes back to watching Hotel Babylon).

gotta be honest i think a keen critical eye would spoil 95% of TV. i can't watch sci-fi on tv, for instance, and i'm terrified it's gonna kick in for other shows soon.

this is why I'm down to just Lost, TCM and sports

31 - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (NBC, 1990-96)
- 1540 points, 12 votes

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4JsxGTE76PA/SKXkL8w68BI/AAAAAAAAACs/KiRQhZ6ZqLA/s320/fresh+prince.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ1NA7Mgzgw

That's it from me, tune in same time tomorrow.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Okay, that's just kinda stupid. I really do think Home Improvement might place now.

Fresh Prince is straight-up "It beats staring at a wall" TV.

incredibly rong

will smith's pretty damn great on that show.

like s1-s3 has such good gags and will smith was genuinely charming imo!!!

plus, carlton's a good foil for him.

fresh prince is the best thing if you stop watching before the boring moral bits at the end. 'the boring moral bits at the end' is basically how I imagine every episode of the cosby show is btw.

Totally expected those last two entries to place much higher than they did, Adam & Joe have had a career renaissance in the UK of late and I thought the Fresh Prince would be one of those big unifying forces given that people on both sides of the Atlantic seem to remember it fondly.

ya, i'm thinking fresh prince took a hit b/c of how much of a d-bag will smith is now :/

also the last few seasons were uncalled for

I love in Arrested Development when little George Michael stays up, with a metal funnel on his head, to watch the debut of Oz on HBO.

I dunno. I mean, I used to watch Fresh Prince, but I also used to watch, like, Suddenly Susan during a time in life when I was seemingly completely devoid of critical faculties. Granted, I haven't watched it in a decade+, so I have no idea how it holds up.

Gave plentya points to A&J; love 'em, love 'em, love 'em. They're just naturally hilarious people, and they got on TV. And they had loads of great ideas! Fantastic stuff.

They repeated some of the early Fresh Princes on BBC2 about ten years ago, and they were pretty good. Nice loose performances, and surprisingly political - I mean it wasn't Do the Right Thing, but there was more of that kind of stuff than I remembered.

dug the occasional meta-joke on Fresh Prince.