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Title: Top 5 Favorite TV Shows?
Post by: Kormodd on December 30, 2013, 07:31:51 PM
Yeah, why not make this stupid thread?

Here is my list:

1) Breaking Bad - Brilliant acting. The plot had a bunch of holes in it -- the ricin poisoning, Elliot and Gretchen not having a top of the line security system, Walt somehow killing all the Nazis before getting killed, etc. -- but whatever. It was entertaining as hell, and those of us who watched it as it was aired had a ton of fun speculating about what would happen.
2) Peep Show -- Funniest show ever. Jez and Mark, Jez the freewheeling sociopath and Mark an uptight, overly neurotic middle-class square, have great chemistry. Super Hans is also an excellent addition - though maybe he's a bit of a ripoff of Danny from Withnail and I? Whatever.
3) Freaks and Geeks - Screw The Wonder Years. This is the definitive show regarding high school, though it had only one season.
4) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - An awesome, gritty, realistic Cold War spy story. Better than the film by miles.
5) Enlightened - Why couldn't this have been renewed? Laura Dern is excellent as an idealistic, fairly delusional woman trying to find some meaning in her life after having a nervous breakdown at her job.
Title: Re: Top 5 Favorite TV Shows?
Post by: Andy on December 30, 2013, 09:54:40 PM
The Simpsons
Arrested Development
Trailer Park Boys
Sealab 2021
Party Down

Basically, I'm as dumb as a mud hut.
Title: Re: Top 5 Favorite TV Shows?
Post by: justinmh05 on December 30, 2013, 09:58:44 PM
House of Cards Trilogy
Arrested Development
Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge
SCTV
Breaking Bad
Title: Re: Top 5 Favorite TV Shows?
Post by: cavorting with nudists on December 30, 2013, 10:47:05 PM
Twin Peaks
Car 54, Where Are You?
Breaking Bad
SCTV
The Wire/Monty Python's Flying Circus (2-way tie AKA sneaky way to name six instead of five)
Title: Re: Top 5 Favorite TV Shows?
Post by: Blake on December 30, 2013, 10:49:55 PM
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
Arrested Development
The Twilight Zone(1959-64)
Cheers
Title: Re: Top 5 Favorite TV Shows?
Post by: Kormodd on December 30, 2013, 11:04:38 PM
The Simpsons
Arrested Development
Trailer Park Boys
Sealab 2021
Party Down

Basically, I'm as dumb as a mud hut.

Augh, I forgot about Trailer Park Boys. I should have listed that instead of Enlightened.
Title: Re: Top 5 Favorite TV Shows?
Post by: cavorting with nudists on December 30, 2013, 11:16:51 PM
Oh shit, I forgot about AbFab.  And yet, I do not want to game the rules any more, so here is my revised, game-free list:

Twin Peaks
Car 54, Where Are You?
Breaking Bad
Absolutely Fabulous
SCTV/The Wire/Monty Python's Flying Circus (three-way tie for fifth--D'ohh!)
Title: Re: Top 5 Favorite TV Shows?
Post by: nec13 on December 30, 2013, 11:48:31 PM
1. Breaking Bad





















2. The Simpsons (Seasons 1-11 or thereabouts)
3. Late Night with David Letterman (1982-1993)
4. Monty Python's Flying Circus
5a. Mad Men (seasons 1-4 only)
5b. Seinfeld
Title: Re: Top 5 Favorite TV Shows?
Post by: not that clay on December 31, 2013, 01:35:39 AM
This is kinda hard. I'm just going to go with what I've rewatched the most.

Letterman (1980s)
Simpsons (seasons 1-4)
Newsradio
The Office (US, seasons 1-4)
Arrested Development (before the Netflix season kinda ruined it forever)
Title: Re: Top 5 Favorite TV Shows?
Post by: Bryan on December 31, 2013, 01:16:29 PM
In no particular order:

Dr. Katz
I'm Alan Partridge
Kids In The Hall
Breaking Bad
Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job

Runners up:

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The Simpsons
Party Down
Freaks & Geeks
(and as much as I am embarrassed to admit it) Justice League/Justice League Unlimited and other DC Animated Universe shows
Title: Re: Top 5 Favorite TV Shows?
Post by: Andy on December 31, 2013, 07:25:14 PM
Always sunny was an also-ran for me
Title: Re: Top 5 Favorite TV Shows?
Post by: VealCutlet on January 02, 2014, 01:37:27 PM
I'm sure I'm forgetting something

1 - St. Elsewhere
2 - Mystery Science Theater 3000
3 - Letterman (The Chris Elliott years)
4 - SCTV
5 - Arrested Development (Yes, I am the weirdo that liked the Netflix season)

Close behind these was Ralph Bakshi's New Adventures of Mighty Mouse from the late 1980s.

I really wanted to include "Quark" but haven't seen it since 1978...I have a feeling it hasn't held up too well.

I'm kind of surprised that The Sopranos has not shown up on anyone's list yet.

I enjoyed Breaking Bad, but only started watching it with the final episode, and watched it in reverse order, so I can't count it.

Title: Re: Top 5 Favorite TV Shows?
Post by: Kal_El on January 03, 2014, 09:01:29 AM
Arrested Development, Justice League, Community, British Version of The Office, The Simpsons