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I have never even heard of most of the British stuff that's been listed so far.

Except for Red Dwarf, which was a guaranteed channel change for me after my mom stopped watching Are You Being Served or whatever on PBS.

I'd be interested to hear some more US reactions to the Reeves & Mortimer clips. I suspect their humour is very culturally specific.

i don't think it's just that it's culturally specific (although of course it's very, very british), it's also you have to have seen their shows from the start and know what vic and bob are like. not that they have a broad decade-long narrative, but i don't think clips work out of context.

that said, i totally lost my shit once typing "shooting stars" into youtube. two hours. gone.

SS is fine as it goes, but two hours of it... ?

Both of the clips for R&M didn't seem like anything other than regular ol' people bein' goofy (which can be fun), but maybe I am missing a bunch of British referential humor buried deep within.

I think it's more that we just find that kind of goofiness particularly funny - the second one is a parody of a show very few non-brits are likely to have seen, as well.

SS is fine as it goes, but two hours of it... ?

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i was stuck in an airport and it had been a long day

WTF only 10 votes for Adam & Joe? It was brilliant! I remember the toy parody things being among the least good bits as well, but they seem to be all I can find on Youtube.

Adam & Joe would have had 11 votes had I actually got round to doing this.

FPoBA was a great, important show

I'm glad Adam and Joe got some recognition they have bought consistent lols for many years. Still do on BBC 6.

30 - Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Cartoon Network, 1994-2004)
- 1550 points, 13 votes, 1 first place

http://api.ning.com/files/DBuu8VM3qB-pmnca503jz7IXam6GHP7erH3wKtROUq8uTm7aUZX0JKYplXlXmeNC*5g9SIoQoC*cNf0KhxHMIFiKgIl-q*tL/SpaceGhost.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb5EbZIT0b4

I'd never seen this before I started looking at clips this morning. It's funny.

29 - Knowing Me Knowing You... with Alan Partridge (BBC, 1994-95)
- 1580 points, 11 votes

http://www.techdigest.tv/alan-partridge-twitter.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29SslXv_Ja8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzC2a0znVsc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_W6FwN_hY
You cheeky monkey

oops, try again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_W6FwN_hY

The last two entries are classic for all time.

28 - Friends (NBC, 1994-2004)
- 1620 points, 11 votes

http://nickbaines.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/friends.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRb92CDLlq0

No cries of outrage and disgust?

heh, from which side?

I'll rep for Friends to some extent, at its peak the writing was extremely tight, and it only became truly objectionable in the late 90s/00s. I gave it 30 points.

I'd say Friends' ranking is just about right, in that it didn't make my ballot but probably was floating somewhere just outside the top 25.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTYG84lpIQM&feature=related

2000s clip there, iirc

don't understand why some people reset their tv tastes/preferences along with Y2K bug.

Aww, Friends finished too low. I think most of the haterade this show gets is pretty knee-jerk. Yes, they're kinda lame people who get really excited about seeing Hootie & The Blowfish. But it's a good and funny show about lame people! C'mon!!! This is totally the show the Frasier fans described above: I would gladly sit and watch hours of Friends on a rainy Sunday. It's cozy.

I'm guessing that, because Space Ghost placed where it did, that Cartoon Planet isn't going to place at all. Which is a shame. CP is like the nutty cable access variety show the Space Ghost cast does on their off-hours to amuse themselves. Plus, CP has Brak, and lots of him! I love it a lot.

xp, that's the point of the decade poll.

but in the case of friends, it actually got a lot better around season 7 (first broadcast 2000), and then really hit its stride around 8/9/10. earlier seasons are not quite like blackadder 1 vs. blackadder 2/3/4 different, but they are significantly less funny.

27 - Roseanne (ABC, 1988-97)
- 1630 points, 13 votes, 1 first place

http://www.carseywerner.net/images/roseanne_cast_max.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdSeUeuoy9c

Awwwwwww part deux! Another low finish. Roseanne was probably the best traditional American sitcom of the '90s.

o but u are wrong about friends getting funnier, if anything it sags in the middle.

my point on the decades split was people not voting for something because they voted in another separate poll for it are kinda being a little silly.

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(Although I realize now, saying that, that my ballot may contradict my statement...)

at the risk of being obvious roseanne hain't aged well.

I never particularly liked it, but only watched it a handful of times.

Though John Goodman is obviously great.

well if it was better you'd have watched it more, right?

Ha, guess so!

Roseanne is on every night on TV Land for like three hours straight. I usually fall asleep watching it. <3

o but u are wrong about friends getting funnier, if anything it sags in the middle.

yeah, but i'm talking about the last 3/4 seasons here.

my point on the decades split was people not voting for something because they voted in another separate poll for it are kinda being a little silly.

depends on the show and when the best parts aired really. I doubt anybody thought "I don't want to vote for the Simpsons again, I already voted for it in the 00s poll."

I dunno. It still had a lot of great gags up till the end, but the storylines were becoming stale and the characters increasingly 2-D and unlikeable (especially Skeletor-era Monica).

Having said that I'm pretty sure I've seen every episode, so I must actually like it.

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i think of roseanne's heydey being 80s which is why i dont think it didn't do so hot here

I'm guessing that, because Space Ghost placed where it did, that Cartoon Planet isn't going to place at all. Which is a shame. CP is like the nutty cable access variety show the Space Ghost cast does on their off-hours to amuse themselves. Plus, CP has Brak, and lots of him! I love it a lot.

totally 4got abt cartoon planet, so goofy!

I doubt anybody thought "I don't want to vote for the Simpsons again, I already voted for it in the 00s poll."

pretty sure a lot of people have stated exactly this sentiment, tbh?

if anybody stands up and says they voted for Simpsons in the 00s poll and not this one and a hoy hoy and chap can verify it, I'll eat my hat.

(given that they voted in both polls, and that I buy a hat first)

eh i don't think i did this but couldn't, y'know, swear it. i'm almost certain i put simpson's into my 90's poll.

Hmmmm, hats
http://simpsons-scripts.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/homer-simpson

anyway, offering to eat your hat before you own a hat allows the escape route of buying an edible hat and i don't think it's a credible bargain tbh