Top 10 TV shows

[Roadrunner]

TV Guide's top 10 best ever American TV shows --

Do you agree? What would be your top 10?

Top 10

1. Seinfeld (NBC, July 5, 1989 – May 14, 1998)
2. I Love Lucy (CBS, October 15, 1951 – May 6, 1957)
3. The Honeymooners (CBS, October 1, 1955 – September 22, 1956)
4. All in the Family (CBS, January 12, 1971 – April 8, 1979)
5. The Sopranos (HBO, January 10, 1999 – June 10, 2007)
6. 60 Minutes (CBS, September 24, 1968 – present)
7. Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, August 30, 1993 – present)
8. The Simpsons (Fox, December 17, 1989 – present)
9. The Andy Griffith Show (CBS, October 3, 1960 – April 1, 1968)
10. Saturday Night Live (NBC, October 11, 1975 – present)

I wouldn't watch half that crap if I were bedbound with Ebola.

That said, I don't do "Top Tens".

 

[Roadrunner]

It's all subjective, right? I mean, the generation before me really has a hard time understanding the comedy of Jim Carey, Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell. It's just not as funny to them as it is to a large contingent of my generation (Generation X).

I live in a world of delusion, but what I think is that Hollywood had a supremely vintage year in 1999. Fight Club was the last honest movie ever made in America. Galaxy Quest is in my pantheon of favorite comedies. The Matrix. The Sixth Sense. Magnolia. The Talented Mister Ripley, The Green Mile, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut, Bowfinger, Office Space, Jesus' Son, Eyes Wide Shut, Sweet and Lowdown, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Red Violin, Dogma, Titus, American Pie, Muppets from Space, Mystery Men, Girl Interrupted, The Mummy, Angela's Ashes, Any Given Sunday, The Spy Who Shagged Me...

Spike Lee's The Summer Of Sam. F*@kin A!

These were the movies of 1999, a partial sample of them. Technically, The Big Lebowski came out in theaters during 1998, but it bombed at the box office and was not appreciated until it came out on video tape in 1999.

Since then, feature films are in decline, with a few exceptions, unless you are an addict for comic book movies.

On the rise is the quality of cable television, and on-demand programming. I think that's been obvious since top billing actors starting branching out into television (as opposed to Clooney going from ER to the highest echelons of Hollywood). Never during the history of the universe has it ever been a better time to be a writer for television.

Last week I think I became the last American to see SLINGBLADE.

I'm still not exactly "right".

 

[Treeshepherd]

Slingblade is so great, so disturbingly Biblical. You really need to watch it about 5 times, or at least I did to catch everything.

I am the last American to never have seen Titanic. It hasn't been easy. I've had to leave the room many times over the years.

 

[MarcATL]

TV Guide's top 10 best ever American TV shows --

Do you agree? What would be your top 10?

Top 10

1. Seinfeld (NBC, July 5, 1989 – May 14, 1998)
2. I Love Lucy (CBS, October 15, 1951 – May 6, 1957)
3. The Honeymooners (CBS, October 1, 1955 – September 22, 1956)
4. All in the Family (CBS, January 12, 1971 – April 8, 1979)
5. The Sopranos (HBO, January 10, 1999 – June 10, 2007)
6. 60 Minutes (CBS, September 24, 1968 – present)
7. Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, August 30, 1993 – present)
8. The Simpsons (Fox, December 17, 1989 – present)
9. The Andy Griffith Show (CBS, October 3, 1960 – April 1, 1968)
10. Saturday Night Live (NBC, October 11, 1975 – present)

I agree w/Seinfeld being the number 1, and that The Simpsons should be on the list.
My list would have "The Jeffersons" & "Good Times" on it somewhere on it though.

 

[Esmeralda]

TV Guide's top 10 best ever American TV shows --

Do you agree? What would be your top 10?

Top 10

1. Seinfeld (NBC, July 5, 1989 – May 14, 1998)
2. I Love Lucy (CBS, October 15, 1951 – May 6, 1957)
3. The Honeymooners (CBS, October 1, 1955 – September 22, 1956)
4. All in the Family (CBS, January 12, 1971 – April 8, 1979)
5. The Sopranos (HBO, January 10, 1999 – June 10, 2007)
6. 60 Minutes (CBS, September 24, 1968 – present)
7. Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, August 30, 1993 – present)
8. The Simpsons (Fox, December 17, 1989 – present)
9. The Andy Griffith Show (CBS, October 3, 1960 – April 1, 1968)
10. Saturday Night Live (NBC, October 11, 1975 – present)

I agree w/Seinfeld being the number 1, and that The Simpsons should be on the list.
My list would have "The Jeffersons" & "Good Times" on it somewhere on it though.

It's hard to do top ten. So subjective. There should be separate top ten lists for comedy and drama.

 

[Rikurzhen]

TV Guide's top 10 best ever American TV shows --

Do you agree? What would be your top 10?

Top 10

1. Seinfeld (NBC, July 5, 1989 – May 14, 1998)
2. I Love Lucy (CBS, October 15, 1951 – May 6, 1957)
3. The Honeymooners (CBS, October 1, 1955 – September 22, 1956)
4. All in the Family (CBS, January 12, 1971 – April 8, 1979)
5. The Sopranos (HBO, January 10, 1999 – June 10, 2007)
6. 60 Minutes (CBS, September 24, 1968 – present)
7. Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, August 30, 1993 – present)
8. The Simpsons (Fox, December 17, 1989 – present)
9. The Andy Griffith Show (CBS, October 3, 1960 – April 1, 1968)
10. Saturday Night Live (NBC, October 11, 1975 – present)

I agree w/Seinfeld being the number 1, and that The Simpsons should be on the list.
My list would have "The Jeffersons" & "Good Times" on it somewhere on it though.

I'd drop SNL, Letterman and 60 Minutes. I'd second you on The Jeffersons but not on Good Times. George and Weezie were superbly drawn characters, the comedy was very good and very memorable. Good Times was more a product of its times. Kid Dyno-mite is really dated.

 

[Two Thumbs]

TV Guide's top 10 best ever American TV shows --

Do you agree? What would be your top 10?

Top 10

1. Seinfeld (NBC, July 5, 1989 – May 14, 1998)
2. I Love Lucy (CBS, October 15, 1951 – May 6, 1957)
3. The Honeymooners (CBS, October 1, 1955 – September 22, 1956)
4. All in the Family (CBS, January 12, 1971 – April 8, 1979)
5. The Sopranos (HBO, January 10, 1999 – June 10, 2007)
6. 60 Minutes (CBS, September 24, 1968 – present)
7. Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, August 30, 1993 – present)
8. The Simpsons (Fox, December 17, 1989 – present)
9. The Andy Griffith Show (CBS, October 3, 1960 – April 1, 1968)
10. Saturday Night Live (NBC, October 11, 1975 – present)

1 absolutely not, the only thing that show ran on was everyone was a jew and constant media push
2-4 sure, except for ILL, it wasn't that good
5 never saw it
6-7 hell no, not in the top 100
8 that's still on?
9 higher
10, no, it sucks now


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