Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiit! It's the ILX Decade-End TV Poll!!!!!

is it too late to nominate in the loop?

Isn't In The Loop the film version of The Thick Of It (which is nominated)?

oh yeah. i haven't woken up yet.

I'm sure this was covered in the other thread(s), but you're supposed to vote for output in this decade, right? For example, if I thought Buffy or The Simpsons were crappy in 2000 and beyond, then I should not vote for them? Or does overall achievement count?

Didnt Futurama start in 99?

Oh wait nm

Vote however you like. I'm personally voting on merit within the decade.

what the fuck is Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and what type of person would nominate it?

It's actually a quite funny short starring Neil Patrick Harris.

It was a funny Joss Whedon during-the-strike internet special comedy thing about supervillains staring Doogie Howser and... dunno bruv.

Some people aren't voting for the full 25 so I guess i'll specify: The points system will work the same, 1st-250 and minus 10 each ranking just as far as you go down.

oh this will be a good way to put off work for the evening.

Just noticed a big thing missing from the list: The Apprentice UK. It's like someone forgetting Merriweather Post Pavillian in the decade LP list or something considering how populated the threads get when its on. Poor suralan.

WHY ISNT TV FUNHOUSE ON THIS LIST? FUCK YOU

Fuck who? If anyone had mentioned it on either of two different threads it would have made it and yet... obviously no-one cared enough for this TV Funhouse you talk of.

Fuck ILX for stanning for 800 retarded Adult Swim shows but not TV Funhouse

Shit, forgot to include CYE in my top 25. Ah well, it'll get plenty anyway.

ok you realize there's a way to make that point without sounding like a baby throwing a tantrum, right Whiney

anyway I'm voting for SNL, the sum total of TV Funhouse stuff on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the 8 episodes of the TV Funhouse series that iirc was kind of disappointing at the time

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eh, it's the internet.

also, gotta say it's at least pretty nice that no one voted for american dad

Cynical bump #1: So that Mad Men huh? Pretty racist/sexist, huh?

Can we use all our 25 votes to vote for The Wire?

No. :)

I was a big stan of the TV Funhouse show and thought about nominating it, but in retrospect it's sorta a watered down Wonder Showzen

also, voting for The Simpsons = voting for The Simpsons (2000-2009) - rite?

ok you realize there's a way to make that point without sounding like a baby throwing a tantrum, right Whiney

― alship journey to papa (some dude), Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:55 PM (2 hours ago)

haha probably should have chosen a different analogy

'tis a 2000-09 poll my friend, so yuh. It's also a decade where they sliced more and more of the good bits out of the originals to fit in more adverts though, if you want to vote for the watered-down classics.

i think it's a fairly obvious judgment call. a show that's been around for decades (like the simpsons) you'd only be voting for this specific decade; a show that started in the late nineties you can probably consider the whole series

xp iatee

no, to be fair, you should only consider the episodes originally aired in this decade ... e.g. only the last three seasons of Oz, and not the first three.

I'm abstaining because all the really shit British TV people I think less of people for liking is going to come far too high.

The Book Group and even Black Books I can stand but MOCK THE WEEK and QI? no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

give all my points to peep show

Surely it'll only come far too high because you won't be voting for the other stuff you think deserves it?

If everyone was to abstain from voting in the ILM polls because Geir turned up to the party...

combining American and British TV seems like a bad idea to me. Don't think I'll bother with this overly complex voting process either

oh come on, w/ the American voting majority, I doubt any UK show other than The Office is gonna place too high

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maybe 24th place is too high for him.

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I dunno. I'm a 'Murican and there are plenty of British shows that are going to score very highly in my nominations. Of course, they're mostly shows that haven't made it to our shores in any legitimate, above-board format (we're still waiting for a region 1 release of the second series of the not-at-all obscure Peep Show, f'rinstance), so my standom might be the exception to the rule, I guess.

no, to be fair, you should only consider the episodes originally aired in this decade ... e.g. only the last three seasons of Oz, and not the first three.

― my other display name is a controversial mod edit (sarahel), Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:50 PM (32 minutes ago)

i completely disagree. here's an extreme example - the first part of freaks & geeks' only season aired in 1999, so would one vote solely on the merits of those episodes which aired post jan 1, 2000?
or what if a show ran four or five solid seasons, but your favorite was the first, which aired in 1999? would you disregard that one? would you vote for it in a hypothetical 90s poll, only for that season?

i think what i'm trying to say is, imagine the writers had incorporated lightsabers - but everythng else was the same

i completely disagree. here's an extreme example - the first part of freaks & geeks' only season aired in 1999, so would one vote solely on the merits of those episodes which aired post jan 1, 2000?

It's not my poll, but I'd say counting fall '99 would be okay, esp. since we're doing this poll in fall '09.

or what if a show ran four or five solid seasons, but your favorite was the first, which aired in 1999? would you disregard that one?

if a show had one good season in '98 and then was crap in later years, i wouldn't vote for it in a 00's poll.

I was a big stan of the TV Funhouse show and thought about nominating it, but in retrospect it's sorta a watered down Wonder Showzen

― iatee, Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Uh, Wonder Showzen is just TV Funhouse without subtlety or insight

Like I liked wonder shozen and all, but they really took the formula of TVF and just added a bunch of people screaming "THERE'S NO GOD!!!" and "DRUG BONER WOLF!!!"

you left out the BEAT KIDS

Like I liked wonder shozen and all, but they really took the formula of TVF and just added a bunch of people screaming "THERE'S NO GOD!!!" and "DRUG BONER WOLF!!!"

I can't imagine any TV show that wouldn't be improved w/ people screaming these sentences

a good tv show?

Cage jacked the Beat Kids theme on his new album :/

anyway I'm not gonna hate on TV Funhouse, I was thisssss close to including it in my 00s top 10.

good man

Hey mods- I've just noticed that maybe the thread title should specify that this is the voting thread and not the actual poll, anyone wanna change the title for me please?

6 and a half hours left to vote homies.

I didn't vote for any of them! I watched them, doesn't mean I actually thought they were Best Programmes Ever.

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bump. only a couple hours left.

25 minutes left guyz.

13 miiiiiiiinutes.

12 minutes! or 11 or something like that

'Ang on, 'ang on. It's comin'.

ok 'arry.

hurry the fuck up dude so I can close this thing.

done the fuck up. had to be true to my tv watching habits of the last ten years, although i'm sure i missed a few.

ok, no more ballots guys and girls. feel free to suggest names for monday's countdown thread though.

72 voters, 29 different #1s.

Shit. Forgot about this entirely. :(

Send it now if you want in. But then seriously, last ballot :P

Anyone actually want to write blurbs or we just gonna shoot the shit on the countdown thread?

have you seen the ilm threads rom a ew years back? they were good

ah s damn key still out o action

ok- again. have you seen the film threads from a few years back? they were good.

I didn't vote cos I don't watch a ton of TV also I'm lazy but personally I'm all for shooting shit on the countdown thread.

Yeah, shit-shooting is good for me. Someone did a poll thing once where they googled for a selection of interesting posts about the things in the thread, that was quite good.

ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

G.O.A.T. imo tho obv I'm biased

I'll try the google thing but that all depends how lazy I am.

Not googling, like, using ILX's search engine. You know what I mean.

by the way, due to a tie it will be a countdown of 51. feel free to make lame sb joeks.

actually, i cannae be bothered to ilx search choice quotes. you guys can just shoot the shit.

jabba hands- dude, i'll take your ballot but grrrrrrrr.

haha top 51, awesome

i was thinking of writing some blurbs, if you say when you'd like them sent in by i'll see how many i can get done by then

today?

jabbahands late ballot ruined the 51tie. might still use the number though.

Honestly, for quite a few of my nominee blurbs, I can probably pull old quotes from an ILX search of specific threads dedicated to the individual shows. I know I've pontificated a bit in the past about a lot of them.

I'm working on some blurbs, Vote Man!

damnit i'm bummed i discovered 'party down' after i sent in my ballot! would've made my top ten, easy

Ok, I'm going out for a couple hours and then the countdown will begin at about 5/6ish I guess.

:D

you're in for a world of sbans regardless of result, you know that right?

But I wasn't one of the cnuts who voted for [HIGH PLACING SHOW]. ;_;

teasing will draw the sb action even quicker.

and that's seinfeld, i can see behind ur brackets

thx, sorry for being late, feel free to SB me!

you want a blurb with that?

Seinfield is a show about two best freinds Jerry and George. They solve mesteries inside a boat it is my favrite show.

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

Ok, I'm going out for a couple hours and then the countdown will begin at about 5/6ish I guess.

― a hoy hoy, Monday, November 2, 2009 6:54 AM (Yesterday)

is this may 6th or

jk but i am excited

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

We are nearly halfway already.

WHAT

yuh dude. go read that thread, you are on it.

the killing should have been included. awesome thriller series