Top Ten TV Shows of ALL Time
- 10. Cheers Let me just preface this by saying that a lot of these shows are going to have the same thing in common- what's on at 11pm in NYC or what's on after you get home late from partying. Cheers used to fall into both categories. It has mysteriously disappeared from our local channels here and I have to say that I miss it.
- 9. Roseanne Okay, Early Roseanne, before Roseanne opened her own diner. (Chris swears it was a sandwich shop, but whatever it was it took all of the humor out of the show.) Early Roseanne was the most realistic family sitcom ever to be put on air. Believe it or not, I aspire to have a marriage like Roseanne and Dan had. They were hot for each other in spite of the fact that they had let it all go- or at least viewers were made to believe that they used to be attractive at one point before the 3 kids. They were broke most of the time and they complained about the kids. Hmmm, I guess I no longer need to aspire...
- 8. Twilight Zone This can fall under what is on after you get home from partying. Need I even mention the ways this show has messed with my sleep deprived and dehydrated brain on New Year's? You have to admit there is something so peculiarly comforting about watching this show while nursing whatever ails you. And every year I became more and more amazed with how many of these shows I have already seen.
- 7. Flight of the Conchords As Chris has mentioned before, it can take some convincing on his part to get me into a movie or show that he has discovered first. This show is an excellent example of this dynamic between us. In spite of the fact that he would force me to watch scenes from this show as I lay there yawning and rolling my eyes, I later came to watch this show on my own and I frigging love it! Any show that has music videos ranging from David Bowie impersonations to Lord of the Rings, has me written all over it. Just do yourself a favor and look up their music videos on Youtube. You'll thank me later and I won't give any of the credit to Chris.
- 6. The Office (BBC) There is this style of humor that makes me very uncomfortable and it has hindered me from totally getting into a lot of shows and movies out there. It's the kind of humor that makes you wince and want to get the whole thing over and done with. It wasn't until we got sucked into a marathon of this show (those marathons are tricky, aren't they?) that I was able to see the brilliance behind the discomfort.
- 5. Six Feet Under This is one of the few shows listed here that Chris never watched one episode of. I think he thought that it was going to be scary so he would always scurry away as soon as he heard the opening music come on. I would try to convince him that the title had very little to do with what the show was about. Of course, every show opened with a death of some kind so he wasn't convinced. It's too bad, I literally ached for these characters when the show ended.
- 4. Project Runway Is this technically a tv show? Whatever. My heart skips a beat every Wednesday now that the new season has begun. This show knows its way to my heart and they do it with their Golden Girls references at least once a show. (See below)
- 3. Seinfeld This show falls under the category of what is on at 11pm in NYC. Chris says that I have this knack for knowing which episode it is just by watching 5 seconds of it in. I've heard him brag to other people about it like it's this really sexy feature of mine. So sad. In reality I have watched my fair share of Seinfeld episodes, but it's only because they always make me laugh.
- 2. Freaks and Geeks This show was almost #1. We first watched this show right after it got cancelled (assholes!!) and I was devasted that I would never know whatever became of Lindsay and Sam. Since then I have watched the entire season several times, and I am glad it ended when it did. There is a certain romanticism to not knowing what happens to the characters after high school. I mean, there was no need to follow 90210 to college, they should have cut us off soon after their junior year. Actually I never watched an entire episode of 90210 so I don't know what the hell I am talking about. Everybody can relate to F&G. Okay, maybe not everyone. If you were really popular and loved high school then you might have a hard time identifying with the characters, but for the rest of us normal people we were either a Freak or a Geek at one point or another. I was both, but not at the same time. I'll save that for another blog entry.
- 1. Golden Girls Okay, hear me out. Anybody who knows me knows that I am obsessed with this show. Yeah, that's right, obsessed. I used to give Sophia a hard time by calling her the weak link of the show, but I now appreciate her as a spoke in the wheel of the most humorous show ever to be put on television. Recently my friend Heather and I went to a taping of Password and when I found out that Betty White was going to be one of the guest players on the show I cried. I don't get crazy about celebrities because I could care less about how you make your money, but my hands burned from clapping so hard and my throat was sore from screaming. You would have thought I was at a Pixies concert. (Another obsession) But come on- how could you not love this show? When Dorothy drops her voice to hit a punchline, I sometimes get a knot in my throat because I love it so much. Or when Blanche prances around on her little heels resembling a female Porky Pig and talking dirty I chuckle every time. And every single time Rose makes some stupid comment and Dorothy gives her that stare, I just lose it. This show is my most favorite show of all time.
