Your top 10 favorite shows of all time

[Reply #240 on:]

Futurama, It’s like they made it just for me!

Simpsons, when it was good.

Greys Anatomy.

E.R.

House.

Dead Like Me. I can’t believe no one has mentioned this superb series yet!

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, original Radio 4 series.

Edge of Darkness. Outstanding BBC drama from the 80’s.

Fraiser

Seinfeld.

[Reply #241 on:]

Futurama
Monty Python
Star Trek Next Generation
The Twilight Zone
The Scary Door!!
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
House
DaVinci's Inquest
Fawlty Towers
The Prisoner

[Reply #242 on:]

1= Futurama
1= Mighty Boosh
3 American Dad
4 Family Guy (seasons 1-4)
5 Father Ted
6 the Simpsons (First 10 years or so)
7 Mock the Week
8 QI
9 Top Gear
10 Robot Chicken/Scrubs

Holy Crap!!! How could I forget Peep Show??? It should also be here as a joint no. 1 it is so awesome!

[Reply #243 on:]

I'm watching a lot of:

The Venture Bros
Eureka
Stargate Atlantis
Malcolm In The Middle
Red Dwarf
Hyperdrive
Spaced
Voyager

This is partly due to the things on the front of my DVD shelf, and partly due to the things available right now on Sky.

I'm mainly influenced by my own laziness.

[Reply #244 on:]

yes, yes I did.

You're a bad person.

[Reply #245 on:]

my previous post has been bugging me cuz I couldn't find my favorite shows

Adult Swim
 
1. Venture Bros.
2. Frisky Dingo
3. ATHF
4. Harvey Birdman
5. Metalocalypse

Animation

1. Futurama
2. Simpsons (1-11)
3. South Park
4. Ren And Stimpy (Nickelodeon)
5. Rocko's Modern Life

Live-Action

1. Arrested Development
2. Freaks and Geeks
3. Colbert Report
4. Psych
5. Top Gear

[Reply #246 on:]

cartoons:

Superjail!
Futurama
Venture Bros.
Simpsons
American Dad
The Oblongs
Metalocalypse
Voltron (the lions, not the vehicles)
Thundercats
She-ra Princess of Power

series/sitcoms:

Weeds
Nip/Tuck
X-Files
Rome
My Name is Earl
Daily Show
Friends
Sopranos
Tosh.O
Chappelle Show

I could never understand what was so funny about Seinfeld...

[Reply #247 on:]

X-Files FTW!

[Reply #248 on:]

In no particular order:
Seinfeld
South Park
Futurama
King of the Hill
Star Trek
The Colbert Report
Arrested Development
Simpsons (but not now)
Breaking Bad
Malcom in the Middle

Pretty typical list for this crowd of people I do imagine but thought I would share anyways

[Reply #249 on:]

BUMP

        My Favorite
1) Arrested Development
2) Smallville
3) Futurama
4) The Venture Brothers
5) Family Guy
6) Yes, Dear
7) Aqua Teen Hunger Force
8) Late Night with Conan O'Brien
9) King of Queens
10) The Simpsons

         Honorary Mention
Lost
South Park
That 70s Show
King of the Hill
MADtv
Saturday Night Live
Titus (Coming out on DVD Soon)
Unhappily Ever After
Sealab 2021

1. The Shield
2. Arrested Development
3. The Venture Brothers
4. Supernatural
5. Sons of Anarchy
6. Futurama
7. The Simpsons
8. Seinfeld
9. Freaks and Geeks
10. Journeyman


Yes, Dear as number 6? I seem like a completely different person back then.

[Reply #250 on:]

Futurama
Curb Your Enthusiasm

[Reply #251 on:]

*  BUMP!  *

No particular order:

The Simpsons
South Park
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
ALF
The Middle

I know that's not ten. I don't watch that much TV, m'kay?

[Reply #252 on:]

1. Arrested Development
2. Breaking Bad
3. South Park
4. Parks and Recreation
5. Futurama
6. Lost
7. Community
8. 30 Rock
9. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
10. The Venture Bros

Classic-era Simpsons would also definitely make this list, but I presumed we were judging each show by its overall run.

I also enjoy the fact that this thread has a thumbs-down icon.

EDIT: Whoops, forgot Lost. So long, Better Off Ted and Party Down both tied for #10!

[Reply #253 on:]

1. Futurama
2. South Park
3. Dexter
4. Breaking Bad
5. The Simpsons
6. American Dad
7. Key & Peele
8. The Colbert Report
9. Seinfeld
10. Ren and Stimpy (Nickelodeon)

[Reply #254 on:]

Well, I haven't watched too many series, but these are the ones I can remember and remember enjoying.

1. Futurama
2. The Simpsons
3. MythBusters
4. Prison Break
5. House
6. South Park
7. Pasila or in English, Jefferson Anderson, apparently
8. Monty Python's Flying Circus
9. Heroes
10. Rick and Morty

[Reply #255 on:]

No particular order.  Also, I'm missing number 10.

Futurama
King of the Hill
The X-Files
The Office (US)
Seinfeld
The Office (UK)
South Park
The Twilight Zone
The Venture Bros.

[Reply #256 on:]

No particular order

Mr Show
MST3K
Home Movies
the Wire
Seinfeld
Breaking Bad
Bob's Burgers
Parks and Recreation
Arrested Development
The Venture Bros

honorable mentions to Simpsons, south Park, and Futurama

[Reply #257 on:]

In no order.

Breaking Bad
The Shield
Fringe
Arrested Development
Community
Banshee
The Venture Brothers
The Simpsons (Seasons 3 through 9)
Futurama
South Park


Honorable Mentions:

The Walking Dead
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

[Reply #258 on:]

Glad to see someone else around here enjoys Banshee. I wouldn't put it in my top 10 (or probably even top 20, for that matter), but it truly is under-appreciated nonetheless.

[Reply #259 on:]

Banshee is incredible. Probably my favorite show currently airing.

[Reply #260 on:]

Banshee is incredible. Probably my favorite show currently airing.

It's great, over-the-top pulpy fun. Plus, who doesn't love gratuitous boobs and violence?

[Reply #261 on:]

My watchings are a big mix of (In no particular order):

Futurama
Simpsons (Earlier eps)
Red Dwarf
The Brittas Empire
Top Gear
Adventure Time
American Dad
Family Guy
Breaking Bad
House

[Reply #262 on:]

         My Favorite
1) Arrested Development
2) Smallville
3) Futurama
4) The Venture Brothers
5) Family Guy
6) Yes, Dear
7) Aqua Teen Hunger Force
8) Late Night with Conan O'Brien
9) King of Queens
10) The Simpsons

         Honorary Mention
Lost
South Park
That 70s Show
King of the Hill
MADtv
Saturday Night Live
Titus (Coming out on DVD Soon)
Unhappily Ever After
Sealab 2021

TV must have sucked in 2005.   

[Reply #263 on:]

Arrested Development's still my #1, though. So... there's that.

[Reply #264 on:]

Arrested Development's been replaced as #1 for me. I'd say it's at #5 or #6.

[Reply #265 on:]

According to the new list you made a few days ago, it's #2.

Breaking Bad is the only show I can think of that could possibly rival Arrested Development, though they're hardly comparable, given that the former is a drama. Arrested Development's still the most well-written comedy I've ever seen, though it slides in just ahead of Breaking Bad for me due to its relentless re-watch value... There are some episodes I've seen 50+ times and yet still notice new things in them. No other show has that going for it.

[Reply #266 on:]

According to the new list you made a few days ago, it's #2.

What list would that be? The list I made a few days ago has it as #4, and it says "In no order" right above it.

Breaking Bad is the only show I can think of that could possibly rival Arrested Development, though they're hardly comparable, given that the former is a drama. Arrested Development's still the most well-written comedy I've ever seen, though it slides in just ahead of Breaking Bad for me due to its relentless re-watch value... There are some episodes I've seen 50+ times and yet still notice new things in them. No other show has that going for it.

Community has become my favorite comedy recently. As far as just comedies go, it's deinitely Community at #1 and Arrested Development at #2. There are probably some dramas ahead of both of those on the list of All Time favorites, such as Breaking Bad, Fringe, and The Shield.

[Reply #267 on:]

According to the new list you made a few days ago, it's #2.

What list would that be? The list I made a few days ago has it as #4, and it says "In no order" right above it.

Whoops, in the course of my scrolling back and forth, I must've somehow landed on your 2009 post... Chalk that up to me having PEEL open in a very small screen in the corner of my monitor while at work.

Community has become my favorite comedy recently. As far as just comedies go, it's deinitely Community at #1 and Arrested Development at #2.

Community is great when it's firing on all cylinders (season 2 is pretty much flawless, and 3 is very close to it), though it doesn't have the super clever layers upon layers upon layers of jokes that Arrested Development piles on. The latter in particular will sometimes give you a punchline in one episode, and not provide the set-up until much later that season; possibly even hiding both in the background in the process and just begging to be watched over and over again (it's one of the few shows that actually rewards people for over-analysing)... Things like the graffiti on the banana stand in Afternoon Delight, or the multiple levels to the George Maharis / Perfecto Telles references in season 4... I mean, holy shit.

Community does genre stuff better, for sure (and handles emotion more expertly, for that matter), but Arrested Development just has something going for it that no other comedy even comes close to matching. Not to mention the mediocre quality of (the bulk of) Community's first season - and even lesser quality of its fourth - in comparison to Arrested Development's near-flawless run thus far.

I think the rest of the new list is excellent, though (including Community, which I still love - but just would never rank over AD), save from The Shield, which I cannot comment on as I still haven't gotten around to watching it yet... It's on my "to do" list, I swear!

[Reply #268 on:]

Hmmm. Let's see.

1) Futurama (Surprise!)
2) The Simpsons (Obvious, again.)
3) Home Movies
4) Blackadder Goes Forth
5) Blackadders 2 and 3
6) The Presidents
7) The Civil War
8) My Little Pony
9) Moral Orel
10) Superjail!

[Reply #269 on:]

Surely all the Blackadders can just be rolled up into one? It's essentially just a tv show that had different names for each season (much like American Horror Story has done thus far, or Archer is doing this year) but it's still the same series.

[Reply #270 on:]

Surely all the Blackadders can just be rolled up into one? It's essentially just a tv show that had different names for each season (much like American Horror Story has done thus far, or Archer is doing this year) but it's still the same series.

Er... no. Blackadder represents a massively different show than Blackadders 2, 3, and 4, and Blackadder 4 (Blackadder Goes Forth) represents a massively different show than Blackadder or Blackadders 2 and 3.

Essentially, the first series was written by a different team, has a different supporting cast, and operates according to a different set of core premises than its sequels, which is exactly what the following series' are. They're not continuing seasons of the same show, but sequels to the original, much like sequential films within a franchise (eg: Highlander, Robocop, or Jaws). Each has a slightly different tone, setting, and cast of characters, each has a slightly different overall theme, and each is ultimately a quite different beast from the others.

It's rather unique, as TV shows go, and quite deserves to be ranked as a set of distinct entities rather than as one single container category for them all.

Of course, I suspect that your mileage may vary significantly if you've not seen it, or if you've seen it and think that it's just "that bloke from Mr. Bean being mean to that bloke from Time Team", or are unaware that the Mediæval, Elizabethan, Georgian, and First World War periods of history took place at slightly different times from one another.

[Reply #271 on:]

9) Moral Orel

I'm impressed. You're the only person I know other than myself to even be aware of this show.

"Are you going to burn the Bible, Miss Censordoll?"

"Just the Jewish parts."

[Reply #272 on:]

I'm well aware of Moral Orel, I just wouldn't put it in the top 10. Good show, though. Very underrated.

[Reply #273 on:]

TNUK - I'm familiar with Blackadder, and am fully aware that it has a different premise/setting/cast/etc. for each season, but it's not the only show to do this (especially as far as British television goes, where it's not uncommon for a comedy series to massively re-invent itself with each new season). It all still falls under the Blackadder title, and thus doesn't need to have multiple entries in this list as if they were all separate tv shows. It's like saying the individual episodes of The Twilight Zone or Tales From the Crypt could each be classified as their own series...

I also used American Horror Story as an example, which itself does the "each season is its own self-contained anthology" thing, though actually takes it one step further, as there are no recurring characters whatsoever. True Detective will also be utilising this method for its subsequent seasons. While the former has gone one step further as to also add an individual sub-title for each season (primarily for award show purposes, so each season can be submitted as its own mini-series), it's still American Horror Story no matter how many times they hit that reset button...

Granted, I guess it's up to the compiler of the list as to whether or not they want to rank it as one show or four, though I would personally prefer to have more slots available on my list as opposed to limiting my options. Mind you, I watch a shitload of tv.

9) Moral Orel

I'm impressed. You're the only person I know other than myself to even be aware of this show.

Moral Orel was fantastic! Certainly not Top 10-worthy for me, but definitely one of the best animated shows out there. Especially given how dark and depressing the show got as it progressed (season 3 drops ALL pretense that the show was ever a comedy, which I LOVE). Such a shame it was cancelled...

[Reply #274 on:]

Beamer, I tend to agree with tnuk on this. Also, some of the Blackadders are infinitely better than others (the 4th is certainly the best, and the 1st is really pretty painful to watch at times, even if it has some good moments). Also, I watch the same few things over and over, so I don't care about using up slots on my list.

9) Moral Orel

I'm impressed. You're the only person I know other than myself to even be aware of this show.

"Are you going to burn the Bible, Miss Censordoll?"

"Just the Jewish parts."

That's one of my favorite quotes.

Also, Closeface makes me cry and God's Baker makes me laugh so hard I almost piss myself.

[Reply #275 on:]

Today, it's;

1) Futurama
2) Breaking Bad
3) American Dad
4) Arrested Development
5) Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe
6) The Simpsons
7) Spaced
8) Sherlock
9) Outnumbered
10) The Slap

[Reply #276 on:]

It all still falls under the Blackadder title, and thus doesn't need to have multiple entries in this list as if they were all separate tv shows. It's like saying the individual episodes of The Twilight Zone or Tales From the Crypt could each be classified as their own series.

The difference is that Blackadder is an open-ended series of self-contained series' that explore a shared universe, rather than a series of loosely-linked narrative episodes that together explore thematically similar hypotheses.

As for Morel Orel, I've heard of it. But I've never experienced it, and now I'm intrigued.

Beamer, I tend to agree with tnuk on this.

The sky is blue. Today's special is $6.95.

I wish that Archie2K still read PEEL, because he's probably the only other person in the universe who knows what that means.

[Reply #277 on:]

Beamer, I tend to agree with tnuk on this. Also, some of the Blackadders are infinitely better than others (the 4th is certainly the best, and the 1st is really pretty painful to watch at times, even if it has some good moments).

I think the 6th season of South Park is infinitely better than its 12th season, but unfortunately, I have to take the series as a whole. I suppose, given Blackadder's design, one could consider each additional season of the show to be a spin-off of itself, though if you were to Google "list of Blackadder episodes," I think you'd find most places would classify it all as the same tv show.

Also, Closeface makes me cry and God's Baker makes me laugh so hard I almost piss myself.

Closeface is an absolutely beautiful episode. You mean God's Chef for the latter one, right? I remember that one being absolutely hysterical. Mind you, I marathoned the first season when I discovered it, and most of the first season is a bit of a blur for me. I just remember laughing uproariously throughout the entire thing.

"Ladies needed to be asleep for me to shoot my yummy contents into them!"

[Reply #278 on:]

My favourite scene has to be when the identical family comes over for dinner, and they get into a big fight over the correct translation of the Lord's Prayer.

"Forgive your debtors!"

"Forgive your trespassers!"

"You owe me a bottle of wine!"

"Get off my property!"

[Reply #279 on:]

My favourite thing about the identical family was the fact that they accidentally swapped their youngest child with theirs and then didn't notice for another 13 episodes or so.