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surprised Mr.Show is that far down. and to a lesser degree Ren & Stimpy.

i didn't vote so i can't (and won't) complain but larry sanders would've been #1 for me, no question

dude you should've kept the Pantera name, that video is golden

larry sanders would be higher up my ballot if i could find a torrent for season 3 onwards but i've only ever seen the first 2.

that chat is the shit.

and yeah LS should have been top ten for sure

I really really should watch Larry Sanders, looks right up my street.

11 - Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC, 1993-99)
- 2620 points, 13 votes

http://www.branten.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/homicide-life-street-tv-35.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhxZ4BWeBQ

^^^^
Scene totally re-used in The Wire!

Yeah, I think all of the Larry Sanders torrents are on D3mon0id, which has been down for a couple of months now. If I had an easy way of sharing my copies, I would share them with you all.

never bothered with homicide tbh

Homicide is a beautiful thing. The first two seasons are some of the best network TV of the '90s. I still haven't gotten around to watching some of the later, less well regarded seasons, so maybe my opinion is skewed somewhat.

Also worth noting (as I noted in the revived Homicide thread): Amazon currently has the complete series for 60% off. Pretty sure I'm gonna jump on that shit.

Simpsons
Father Ted
Twin Peaks
Seinfeld
The Day Today
Buffy
I'm Alan Partridge
Kids In The Hall
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I'm sure Homicide is great, but post The Wire I really don't think I have the stamina for another lengthy police epic.

i predict south park will get one of those spots xpost

oh yeah, i voted for south park! :D

oh wait, brass eye XD

It's important to differentiate Homicide from the common police procedural. It's not as dense and varied as The Wire, but it's more along those lines. It's mostly just a "these are some people who work a hard and often thankless and sometimes rewarding job, and this is the effect it has on their lives" drama.

Also worth noting that it's not super-heavy and involved in the Wire vein. You can dip in and out much more easily. Seriously, do yourself a favor and watch the first two seasons (which is only, like, 16 or 18 episodes total).

Surely Brass Eye and South Park have to be in that top 10?

ok so this is as good a place as any to ask this, if i am a hardcore Wire In The Blood stan, are there any shows i should be searching out that have the same sort of thing going on?

brass eye xpost

and hopefully kenan and kel

Top 10s are usually the least fun :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlTukY9fV9Y

is kids in the hall a total lock or are we forgetting something?

this top ten will be GREAT because 4 of my top 5 will be in it

Oh, yeah. KITH will def. be in the top 10.

I suspect 1 of my top 5 will make the top 10. 3 have already appeared, and 1 is about to be wrongly overlooked.

the top ten will be fun because youll all get to hear me go into another "i hate mad men you are all fucking idiots"-style petulant rampage if im alan partridge doesnt make it

5 of my top 7! The other two being Adam And Joe (already passed) and The Crystal Maze (lol)

IAP will not only make it but might hit top 5

My vote for How Do You Want Me? looking a bit optimistic now too.

Shame about Sesame Street not featuring, btw. Grew up on that shit.

Predicting The Mary Whitehouse Experience ftw

is that the one with the actually quite funny history professors 'that's YOU that is!' sketch

Hang on, have Lee and Herring not made the list at all??? OH FFS

xpost yes, yes it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nCKYEM8qRc

^^^childish lulz

My ballot so far, with stuff that will probably still show up omitted and stuff that probably won't in bold:

1. The Larry Sanders Show
2.
3.
4.
5. Mr. Show
6.
7. Newsradio
8. Roseanne
9.
10. Star Trek: TNG
11. My So-Called Life
12. Friends
13. Get a Life
14. 120 Minutes
15. Homicide: Life on the Streets
16. Superman: The Animated Series
17. Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
18. The Storyteller
19. Beavis & Butthead
20. Riget (The Kingdom)
21. The X-Files
22. Ren & Stimpy
23. Cartoon Planet
24. (seems like a pretty slim chance at this point, but it might still make it)
25. The Tom Green Show

LJ, Sesame Street is a lock if we have a '70s or '80s poll. Ha.

(11 minutes ago)

We're all watching that Mary Whitehouse Experience clip, right?

Not me, I hated it the first time around and I doubt if it has got any funnier.

the American stuff on this poll is really lining up with my taste well, so far 11 shows from my ballot have appeared, plus 3 that will definitely appear later and 2 shows that were on my '00s ballot. by comparison 13 shows from my ballot were in the '00s poll.

i've lost all hope of seeing The Tick, SNL, Get A Life, Dr. Katz or Boy Meets World in the poll, though, which bums me out.

I just don't think SNL is gonna make it on any of these polls, unless maybe if there's an '80s poll. It doesn't seem decade-specific enough and it's generally too spotty to make it into the top slots. That mid to late-'80s run, though, is pretty unimpeachable.

SNL would definitely make my '80s list, partly because I'm not sure I could even come up with 25 '80s shows ... because I was a child and I refuse to include the stuff I actually watched then, like Alf and Family Matters and the like.

And Get A Life is another show that suffers from not having received a proper DVD release. I was one of the twelve people who watched it when it was on, and I've since tracked down the complete series torrents. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't know much of anything about it.

that seems like an odd thing to say given that a) surely the show would do better in a '70s poll and b) most of the cast members that defined the show in the mid and late '80s were on it well into the '90s. xpost

Yeah, I honestly wonder how much mileage we'd get out of an '80s poll. It would surely be even more infantile than this one. Ha ha ha. I can think of a few more mature shows I'd vote for, though, for sure.

A 70s poll would be good. Dr Who and Fawlty Towers ftw.

that seems like an odd thing to say given that a) surely the show would do better in a '70s poll and b) most of the cast members that defined the show in the mid and late '80s were on it well into the '90s.

a) Althought I like it fine, I'm not personally the biggest fan of the '70s cast of SNL, and b) after the first couple of years, the first half of the '90s was a slow decline for SNL.

yeah but late 90s SNL >>>>> early 80s SNL

I feel like a 70s poll wd drive the transAtlantic wedge in even further as I feel like less shows crossed from the UK to the US back then. Are You Being Served and Benny Hill iirc.

Also wd vote Rockford Files over the mummified corpse of Fawlty Towers.

yeah but late 90s SNL >>>>> early 80s SNL

Interestingly enough, I've been watching Doumanian-era (1980) SNL lately, and it's actually not all that bad so far! History is written by the victors...

This poll has a lot of adolescenty stuff in it, imagine what a '70s poll would be like. All Mary, Mungo & Midge at #18 and so on. Bagpuss ftw etc.

TiSWAS!