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

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?

Hey, there's Australian shows in here, good work! Was there some nomination thread I missed. I'm just happy I can vote for Frontline and The Micallef P(r)ogram(me).

The depressing thing though is I can only come up with about 18 things to vote for, by dint of not having *seen* a lot of these fscking shows. Goddamn shitty Australian FTA tv.

give all my points to peep show― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:55 (2 hours ago) Permalink

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...― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:55 (2 hours ago)

nah, it's because I'm not a big tv watcher, so instead of splitting my votes between a bunch of shows that are shoo-ins (sopranos, the wire) why not throw my weight behind an equally worthy dark horse (at least it is in the US). there is no way peep show will get anywhere near the number of votes it deserves. that first season is a thing of perfection + beauty.

we're still waiting for a region 1 release of the second series of the not-at-all obscure Peep Show, f'rinstance

― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:05 PM (2 hours ago)

not me! I bought the series 2-5 uk dvds!

I dunno dude, I have just tallied up FIRST DAY VOTES and things don't seem as obvious as I would have assumed. Not that I'm going to give anything away. You can just email me with '1. Peep Show' if you want.

Edward, as someone who is apparently also not in the UK, are you aware that series 6 just started last week? Because it totally did.

damn, no Torchwood? :(

no nip/tuck!!!

I'll risk the wrath of Local Garda & co. and say Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe deserves a mention.

except duh, there it is already. but yeah, I'll give that some points.

ilx must be quiet tonight, no one's popped in to make fun of me yet. here's my excruciatingly middlebrow list, should've posted it on the other thread but didn't. further ammunition.

Arrested Development
The Wire
Mad Men
The Thick of It
30 Rock
Screenwipe
Veronica Mars
The Daily Show/ Colbert Report
Doctor Who
then I'll divide the rest of my points among Futurama, Chapelle's Show, Peep Show, Snuff Box, and Project Runway. And Spongebob, why not.

hey. don't want to be an arse but three things: i asked you to email them to me because if everyone reveals their ballots before the poll it kind of takes the fun out of it, and I'm only doing the 250 - 10 thing because it is super easy for me to calculate everyones votes, instead of dividing remaining votes etc. I can do so if you want, I'll just resent you for making me do so.

Third thing: thank you for joining in! :) And thanks to everyone, turnout is looking good for the first day, I think.

ha, ok, just got your email. should check these things before i type.

sorry there, a hoy hoy, don't mean to dump all over your well-intentioned thread. will try better next time. (honestly though, my list is so freakin' obvious it could hardly spoil anything.)

No Ice Road Truckers, no cred.

It's cool, it turned out I haven't forgotten simple maths. I gave yr 10th place to futurama and then 120 points each to the others you mentioned. And now to carry on per normal.

Britishers- you've just to work and can't bothered doing what you are paid for or moaning about the daily mail? VOTE!

Should Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (UK) and Kitchen Nightmares (US) count as separate shows? Or are they so exactly the same show that it should only count once? (I only ask because I prefer the BBC version.)

in that case i think they should count as separate, since the UK version was that much better

bbc one? wow, just all british telly goes on bbc america, huh? I dunno, I was counting them as one because they are basically the same show with same presenter but different accents.

He swears more in the British one, and it doesn't have those excruciating music cues the Americans slap all over their reality shows.

Well we can just pretend the other doesn't exist.

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