Your Top Ten TV Show - Not in order...

[turboash78]

- Saskatchewan Roughrider football games
- Oakland Raider football games
- Seinfeld
- Trailer Park Boys
- South Park
- Kids in the Hall
- Looney Tunes
- Top Gear (UK)
- Dexter
- Star Trek TNG

 

[niky]

If you're torn, you could put little shark icons beside shows on your list that eventually jumped it.

 

[PureAwesomeness]

Top Gear
Dexter
Game of Thrones
Sopranos
Peep Show
The Day Today
The Fast Show
24 (first season)
A Team
The Killing

 

[Minty]

• Top Gear UK
• Top Gear US
• Scrubs(Pretending Season 9 never happened.)
• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
• Mythbusters
• South Park
• Doctor Who
• Futurama
• Lost
• Star Trek TNG

 

[Danoff]

If you're torn, you could put little shark icons beside shows on your list that eventually jumped it.

That's good. I like that.

I'm still having trouble with something like Battlestar vs. Firefly, or something like 24 vs. MASH.

24 was one of the best shows I've ever seen, but it could only keep it up for the first 12 episodes. How do I rate that against a show that hit a high mark for 1000 times longer?

I guess this is my list:
- SouthPark
- The Simpsons
- Firefly
- Cowboy Bebop
- Seinfeld
- Dexter (first two seasons so far)
- Battlestar (mini series, season 1)
- House
- Top Gear
- Can't pick based on too many shades of gray... maybe X-Files.

 

[DK]

In no particular order:

• South Park
• Peep Show (UK)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• 24
• Dexter
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Family Guy
• Shameless (UK)
• Little Britain
• Top Gear (UK)

 

[Timppaq]

- Top Gear
- Breaking Bad
- True Blood
- Dexter
- Supernatural
- Myth Busters
- Prison Break
- Seinfield
- Merlin
- Heroes

 

[Tom]

In no particular order:

1. Top Gear (UK)
2. The Mentalist
3. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
4. Red Dwarf
5. James May's Man Lab
6. James May's Toy Stories
7. Family Guy
8. Peep Show
9. Wheeler Dealers
10. Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow

 

[CoffeeGrunt]

Supernatural
Mythbusters
My Little Pony, naturally...
Top Gear
Dr Who
Scrubs
Mock the Week
Live at the Apollo

I ran out of worthwhile TV...help me out here...

 

[Wiegert]

So you like Mock the Week too, eh? Even without Frankie Boyle, it's still one of my top 10 favourite shows.

These are the other 9 on my list:

-Top Gear
-Scrubs
-Hustle
-Family Guy
-Lost
-Newswipe with Charlie Brooker/Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
-Dr Who
-Futurama
-Finally, My Little Pony: FiM (surprising, I know)

 

[CoffeeGrunt]

I get continuously told I'm like Frankie Boyle. Because A, I'm Scottish. B, I'm sarcastic and dry as hell. And C, because I genuinely look like a blonde-haired spit of him...

 

[Jello18]

1.) Seinfeld
2.) corner gas
3.) my name is Earl
4.) the office
5.) big bang theory
6.) NASCAR race hub
7.) Beverly hillbilles
8.) family guy
9.) Red Green Show
10.) Dan for mayor

 

[Beep nitro]

NASCAR
Pokemon
Family guy
Simpsons

 

[Villain]

1. Sports programming (Includes all games/highlight shows)
2. Dexter
3. Modern Family
4. Breaking Bad
5. Game of Thrones
6. Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
7. Top Gear (UK)
8. Hard Time
9. Mad Men
10. Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives

I only listed shows that have yet to grow old on me. There are more shows which I had been previously loyal to, but have since lost me. My TV time is probably 80% sports, 10% movies, and 10% 2-10 on that list.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Okay, new list:

10. MacGyver
9. MacGyver
8. MacGyver
7. MacGyver
6. MacGyver
5. MacGyver
4. MacGyver
3. MacGyver
2. MacGyver
1. MacGyver

I used to love this show as a kid, because he was a hero who used his brains rather than his fists (and I was a pipsqueak, so I thought I could use my brains, too). I'd completely forgotten about it until now, but I just discovered they're showing reruns on a channel I've only just recently picked up. So now I get my fill of mullets, bad acting and all the awesomeness that was the 1980s - where else can you find a Bulgarian scientist named "Sophie Ross" who sounds like she comes from Ohio?

But the Crowning Moment of Awesome comes in the title sequence. It shows Richard Dean Anderson leaping around and doing all sorts of actiony things, and it goes a little like this:

- MacGyver abseils off a cliff
- MacGyver dangles from a bar, and drops onto a passing cable car, three hundred feet above the water; he barely manages to keep his footing
- MacGyver eats an ice cream
- MacGyver leaps off a wooden jetty, landing on an inflatable raft
- MacGyver dives behind a car as a helicopter strafes the scene, shooting everything

Okay, it doesn't quite go like that, but I'm not kidding here. For absolutely no reason at all and in the middle of all the action shots, MacGyver eats an ice cream! You can see for yourself if you like:



It comes at 1:02, book-ended by shots of MacGyver generally MacGyvering.

 

[TB]

MacGyver eats an ice cream

What I find disturbing is not two minutes ago I finished Season 2, Episode 7 of South Park and the running gag involves ice cream.

That's what I call a sticky situation.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

I neither want, nor need, to know anything more about it.

 

[Fido_le_muet]

Alias
Lost
Fringe
How I Met Your Mother
The Big Bang Theory
Dexter
Sons of Anarchy
The Mentalist
Battlestar Galactica
The Walking Dead

 

[Danoff]

Dexter is doing really well showing up on 8 lists so far.
Simpsons is also cleaning up with 10 mentions.
South park is killing, showing up on 14 lists.

Not surprisingly, none of them hold a candle to Top Gear's 24 lists.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

So, it doesn't have to be current then?

1. Community - The chemistry of the cast is second-to-none for major network comedy these days, and the humour is more my style than the more family-oriented Modern Family. So excited for the S3 premiere tomorrow, hence the avatar change.

2. Mad Men - I don't care if it's exaggerated for effect, I don't care if not a lot really happens over the course of a season... I want to be there. Mostly for Joan, but still...

3. The Wire - Still sets the bar for me for drama. I watched it after about 3 seasons of Dexter, thinking that the first two seasons of that were well-written. This blows everything else out of the water.

4. Dead Like Me - I still miss this show . Don't mention the straight-to-DVD movie... it never happened.

5. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - Season 5 lost some steam, but this is still hilarious just for the amount of lines it crosses on a weekly basis.

6. Futurama - Satisfying the (not-so) inner geek.

7. The Venture Brothers - If I have to describe it, then it's just not the same.

8. Frasier - It's a show I've essentially grown up with, since my parents watched Cheers when I was young. It used to be simply funny, but I've grown to appreciate even more of the humour as I got older.

9. Coupling - A UK sitcom I was introduced to by my girlfriend, and the only way I've been able to describe it to people is thus: picture Friends, if it were actually funny, with the writing chops of Frasier. Just stop watching after the 3rd season...

10. Dexter - I've lost interest a bit after last season's bizarre ender, and I'm not looking forward to this season based on the silly heavy-handed marketing, but this still rides on the strength of the first two seasons, and I'm curious how Mos Def will integrate into the mix this season.

Honourable Mentions? Breaking Bad, Treme, Boardwalk Empire... they're all good from what I've seen, but I haven't watched enough to form a decision yet. South Park and the Simpsons deserve a mention, as does Walking Dead, though that deserves an asterisk too as it's only been six episodes.

 

[Azure Flare]

Mythbusters (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
The Simpsons
Top Gear UK
South Park
Sons of Guns
Ed, Edd, and Eddy (the only show on Cartoon Network my parents banned me from watching when I was a kid)
My little Pony: Friendship is Magic (I'm a 20 year old guy, I'm not supposed to.... But I do anyway)
Futurama
That 70's show
Formula 1 (if that counts)

 

[CodeRedR51]

Storm Chasers
Mythbusters
Top Gear
American Pickers
Battlestar Galactica

That's my top 5, because I hardly watch TV anymore.

 

[Famine]

Famine's list of favourite not-currently-cancelled-or-between-series-with-no-foreseen-pickup-date TV shows

1. Phineas & Ferb
2. Futurama
3. Mythbusters
4. The Simpsons
5. South Park
6. Top Gear
7. QI
8. Mock the Week
9. The IT Crowd
10. Tough to call - The Borgias, probably, although I need to see more to say.

 

[Sage]

Dexter is doing really well showing up on 8 lists so far.

I watched and loved the first 2 seasons of Dexter, and stopped watching in the middle of the 3rd. I don't even know why - I wasn't unhappy with the way it was going or anything, but I just sort of forgot to keep watching.

 

[Jacob]

Off the top of my head...

Seinfeld.
Futurama.
Simpsons (But anything after season 8 doesn't fit in my top 10).
Bored to Death.
Top Gear.
And I'll go with Dexter as well.

 

[cjmpe]

1. Top Gear UK
2. Bones
3. Mad Men
4. Dexter
5. True Blood
6. Spartacus, Blood and Sand
7. Fringe
8. House

And that is it....

 

[Prosthetic]

I'm surprised Justified hasn't showed up on anyone's list...

1. Dexter
2. Justified
3. Sons of Anarchy
4. Top Gear (I enjoy both US and UK)
5. My Name is Earl
6. South Park

Honestly can't name much beyond that.. but there are a few shows I want to start watching that I will probably end up liking.

 

[noisiaturismo]

1. Formula One
2. Top Gear UK
3. I don't even know what i like beside those. I don't watch a lot of shows often.

 

[Demon2330]

Well I am a little behind on this thread but these are mine

1. Family Guy
2. Simpsons
3. Scrubs
4. Gilmore Girls
5. Make it or break it (Very popular)
6. Heartland (Very Popular in Canada from what I hear)
7. Pokemon (come on it was actually cool in the day I remember the very first episode)
8. South park
9. Star trek both TNG & the original series
10. Batman

1.) Seinfeld
2.) corner gas
3.) my name is Earl
4.) the office
5.) big bang theory
6.) NASCAR race hub
7.) Beverly hillbilles
8.) family guy
9.) Red Green Show
10.) Dan for mayor

Forgot about TBBT its a classic funny as anything !

 

[Epic B]

Some of my favorites, in no discriminatory order:

Futurama
"You watched it! You can't unwatch it!"

The Simpsons
"Excellent." The Halloween episodes are always great.

Family Guy
"Oh, have you not heard?"

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
"It needs to be about 20% cooler". Intended for 5 year old girls, yet bronies exist. That just makes it 20% cooler. To paraphrase Fluttershy, "You're going to LOVE IT!"

The Big Bang Theory
"How did you do it?"

Mythbusters
CONFIRMED excellent.

Saturday Night Live
"Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"

Doctor Who
"Hi Rose, I'm the Doctor. Run for your life!"