Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiit! It's the ILX Decade-End TV Poll!!!!!

I knew learning the alphabet as a child would eventually pay off, here are the shows you can vote for:

A History of Britain
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Absolute Power
According To Bex
Ace of Cakes
America's Next Top Model
American Future: A History
American Gangster
American High
American Idol
America's Most Smartest Model
Andy Richter Controls The Universe
Angel
Apparitions
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Army Wives
Arrested Development
At Home With The Braithwaites
avatar the last airbender
Band of Brothers
battlestar galactica
Beauty and the Geek
Behind The Music
Being Erica
Being Human
Big Bang Theory
big brother (uk)
Big Love
Big Train
Black Books
Bleak House
Blue Planet
Bo’ Selecta!
Bones
Boy A
Breaking Bad
breaking bonaduce
bronx is burning
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Campus Ladies
Carnivale
Chappelle's Show
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
Cheaters
Chowder
Clocking Off
clone high
Come Dine With Me
crazytown
Criminal Justice
Crossballs
CSI
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Da Ali G Show
Damages
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Dexter
Deadwood
Dirty Jobs
Doctor Who
Dog Bites Man
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Dragon's Den
Eastbound and Down
entourage
everwood
Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Loves Raymond
Extras
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Faking It
Family Guy
Farscape
Firefly
flight of the conchords
Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends
Freaks & Geeks
Friday Night Lights
Friends
Frisky Dingo
Frontline
Futurama
generation kill
Gillette Soccer Saturday
Gilmore Girls
glee
good eats
Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares
Gossip Girl
Grounded For Life
Happiness
Have I Got News For You
Help
Heroes
Hey Gabba Gabba
home movies
House, MD
How I Met Your Mother
how its made
How Not To Decorate
Ideal
In De Gloria
in treatment
iron chef
IT Crowd
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Jackass
Jam
Justice League Unlimited
kim possible
king of queens
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late World With Zach
law & order: svu
League Of Gentlemen
Let's Paint TV
Life On Mars
Look Around You
Lost
Mad Men
masterchef goes large
Match of the Day 2
Meerkat Manor
Mighty Boosh
mitchell and webb look
Mock The Week
Monk
moral orel
My Life In Film
My Name is Earl
Mythbusters
Nathan Barley
Nevermind the Buzzcocks
Noble & Silver
North Square
once & again
Oz
Party Down
peep show
Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights
Planet Earth
POPULAR
Primetime Glick
Project Runway
Psychoville
Pushing Daisies
Q.I.
Reaper
Reno 911!
Rescue Me
Rock Of Love
Rome
Saturday Night Live
samurai jack
satsuke/ninja warrior
Sealab 2021
Sex and the City
Shameless
Shooting Stars
The Simpsons
Six Feet Under
Skins
Slings & Arrows
Smack The Pony
Snuff Box
So NoTORIous
so you think you can dance
South Park
Spaced
Spiral
spongebob squarepants
Spooks
sports center
Sports Night
State of Play
Stella
Strangers With Candy
Stylista
Supernatural
Survivor
Swingtown
Takeshi's Castle
Teen Titans
Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles
That 70s Show
the adam carolla project
the amazing race
The Armando Iannucci Shows
The Book Group
the century of the self
The Colbert Report
The Corner special
The Daily Show
The Deal
The Devil's Whore
The Inbetweeners
The Joe Schmo Show
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Lost Room
The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
The Micallef P(r)ogram(me)
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
the power of nightmares
The Riches
the shield
The Sopranos
The Soup
The Supersizers go...
the thick of it
the trap
The Unit
The Venture Bros
The West Wing
The Wire
Time-Life 30-minute infomercials
Time Trumpet
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!
Tool Academy
Top Chef
Top Gear
True Blood
TV Burp
Two And A Half Men
Ugly Betty
Undeclared
Veronica Mars
Wallander (UK)
Weeds
When the Levees Broke special
Wife Swap
Wire in the Blood
Wonder Showzen
wonderfalls
World Series of Poker
15 Storeys High
24
30 Rock

You get 25 votes.
Points go as follows: 1st-250, 2nd-240 etc.
Please send your votes to samuelpooley @ googlemail.com (remove spaces obv.)
Voting ends on Halloween (31 Oct, in case you were stupid) at 5pm Britisher time.

Enjoy.

Oh, also please feel free to write things about the shows you vote for, ala the music polls, to make it look better, encourage people to watch your favourite show and then have a bunch of people say OTM and make you feel smart.

is it too late to nominate in the loop?

Isn't In The Loop the film version of The Thick Of It (which is nominated)?

oh yeah. i haven't woken up yet.

I'm sure this was covered in the other thread(s), but you're supposed to vote for output in this decade, right? For example, if I thought Buffy or The Simpsons were crappy in 2000 and beyond, then I should not vote for them? Or does overall achievement count?

Didnt Futurama start in 99?

Oh wait nm

Vote however you like. I'm personally voting on merit within the decade.

what the fuck is Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and what type of person would nominate it?

It's actually a quite funny short starring Neil Patrick Harris.

It was a funny Joss Whedon during-the-strike internet special comedy thing about supervillains staring Doogie Howser and... dunno bruv.

Some people aren't voting for the full 25 so I guess i'll specify: The points system will work the same, 1st-250 and minus 10 each ranking just as far as you go down.

oh this will be a good way to put off work for the evening.

Just noticed a big thing missing from the list: The Apprentice UK. It's like someone forgetting Merriweather Post Pavillian in the decade LP list or something considering how populated the threads get when its on. Poor suralan.

WHY ISNT TV FUNHOUSE ON THIS LIST? FUCK YOU

Fuck who? If anyone had mentioned it on either of two different threads it would have made it and yet... obviously no-one cared enough for this TV Funhouse you talk of.

Fuck ILX for stanning for 800 retarded Adult Swim shows but not TV Funhouse

Shit, forgot to include CYE in my top 25. Ah well, it'll get plenty anyway.

ok you realize there's a way to make that point without sounding like a baby throwing a tantrum, right Whiney

anyway I'm voting for SNL, the sum total of TV Funhouse stuff on there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the 8 episodes of the TV Funhouse series that iirc was kind of disappointing at the time

xpost
eh, it's the internet.

also, gotta say it's at least pretty nice that no one voted for american dad

Cynical bump #1: So that Mad Men huh? Pretty racist/sexist, huh?

Can we use all our 25 votes to vote for The Wire?

No. :)

I was a big stan of the TV Funhouse show and thought about nominating it, but in retrospect it's sorta a watered down Wonder Showzen

also, voting for The Simpsons = voting for The Simpsons (2000-2009) - rite?

ok you realize there's a way to make that point without sounding like a baby throwing a tantrum, right Whiney

― alship journey to papa (some dude), Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:55 PM (2 hours ago)

haha probably should have chosen a different analogy

'tis a 2000-09 poll my friend, so yuh. It's also a decade where they sliced more and more of the good bits out of the originals to fit in more adverts though, if you want to vote for the watered-down classics.

i think it's a fairly obvious judgment call. a show that's been around for decades (like the simpsons) you'd only be voting for this specific decade; a show that started in the late nineties you can probably consider the whole series

xp iatee

no, to be fair, you should only consider the episodes originally aired in this decade ... e.g. only the last three seasons of Oz, and not the first three.

I'm abstaining because all the really shit British TV people I think less of people for liking is going to come far too high.

The Book Group and even Black Books I can stand but MOCK THE WEEK and QI? no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

give all my points to peep show

Surely it'll only come far too high because you won't be voting for the other stuff you think deserves it?

If everyone was to abstain from voting in the ILM polls because Geir turned up to the party...

combining American and British TV seems like a bad idea to me. Don't think I'll bother with this overly complex voting process either

oh come on, w/ the American voting majority, I doubt any UK show other than The Office is gonna place too high

xpxpxp

maybe 24th place is too high for him.

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I dunno. I'm a 'Murican and there are plenty of British shows that are going to score very highly in my nominations. Of course, they're mostly shows that haven't made it to our shores in any legitimate, above-board format (we're still waiting for a region 1 release of the second series of the not-at-all obscure Peep Show, f'rinstance), so my standom might be the exception to the rule, I guess.

no, to be fair, you should only consider the episodes originally aired in this decade ... e.g. only the last three seasons of Oz, and not the first three.

― my other display name is a controversial mod edit (sarahel), Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:50 PM (32 minutes ago)

i completely disagree. here's an extreme example - the first part of freaks & geeks' only season aired in 1999, so would one vote solely on the merits of those episodes which aired post jan 1, 2000?
or what if a show ran four or five solid seasons, but your favorite was the first, which aired in 1999? would you disregard that one? would you vote for it in a hypothetical 90s poll, only for that season?

i think what i'm trying to say is, imagine the writers had incorporated lightsabers - but everythng else was the same

i completely disagree. here's an extreme example - the first part of freaks & geeks' only season aired in 1999, so would one vote solely on the merits of those episodes which aired post jan 1, 2000?

It's not my poll, but I'd say counting fall '99 would be okay, esp. since we're doing this poll in fall '09.

or what if a show ran four or five solid seasons, but your favorite was the first, which aired in 1999? would you disregard that one?

if a show had one good season in '98 and then was crap in later years, i wouldn't vote for it in a 00's poll.

I was a big stan of the TV Funhouse show and thought about nominating it, but in retrospect it's sorta a watered down Wonder Showzen

― iatee, Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Uh, Wonder Showzen is just TV Funhouse without subtlety or insight

Like I liked wonder shozen and all, but they really took the formula of TVF and just added a bunch of people screaming "THERE'S NO GOD!!!" and "DRUG BONER WOLF!!!"

you left out the BEAT KIDS

Like I liked wonder shozen and all, but they really took the formula of TVF and just added a bunch of people screaming "THERE'S NO GOD!!!" and "DRUG BONER WOLF!!!"

I can't imagine any TV show that wouldn't be improved w/ people screaming these sentences

a good tv show?

Cage jacked the Beat Kids theme on his new album :/

anyway I'm not gonna hate on TV Funhouse, I was thisssss close to including it in my 00s top 10.

good man

Hey mods- I've just noticed that maybe the thread title should specify that this is the voting thread and not the actual poll, anyone wanna change the title for me please?

Hey, there's Australian shows in here, good work! Was there some nomination thread I missed. I'm just happy I can vote for Frontline and The Micallef P(r)ogram(me).

The depressing thing though is I can only come up with about 18 things to vote for, by dint of not having *seen* a lot of these fscking shows. Goddamn shitty Australian FTA tv.

give all my points to peep show― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:55 (2 hours ago) Permalink

Surely it'll only come far too high because you won't be voting for the other stuff you think deserves it?

If everyone was to abstain from voting in the ILM polls because Geir turned up to the party...― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:55 (2 hours ago)

nah, it's because I'm not a big tv watcher, so instead of splitting my votes between a bunch of shows that are shoo-ins (sopranos, the wire) why not throw my weight behind an equally worthy dark horse (at least it is in the US). there is no way peep show will get anywhere near the number of votes it deserves. that first season is a thing of perfection + beauty.

we're still waiting for a region 1 release of the second series of the not-at-all obscure Peep Show, f'rinstance

― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:05 PM (2 hours ago)

not me! I bought the series 2-5 uk dvds!

I dunno dude, I have just tallied up FIRST DAY VOTES and things don't seem as obvious as I would have assumed. Not that I'm going to give anything away. You can just email me with '1. Peep Show' if you want.

Edward, as someone who is apparently also not in the UK, are you aware that series 6 just started last week? Because it totally did.

damn, no Torchwood? :(

no nip/tuck!!!

I'll risk the wrath of Local Garda & co. and say Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe deserves a mention.

except duh, there it is already. but yeah, I'll give that some points.

ilx must be quiet tonight, no one's popped in to make fun of me yet. here's my excruciatingly middlebrow list, should've posted it on the other thread but didn't. further ammunition.

Arrested Development
The Wire
Mad Men
The Thick of It
30 Rock
Screenwipe
Veronica Mars
The Daily Show/ Colbert Report
Doctor Who
then I'll divide the rest of my points among Futurama, Chapelle's Show, Peep Show, Snuff Box, and Project Runway. And Spongebob, why not.

hey. don't want to be an arse but three things: i asked you to email them to me because if everyone reveals their ballots before the poll it kind of takes the fun out of it, and I'm only doing the 250 - 10 thing because it is super easy for me to calculate everyones votes, instead of dividing remaining votes etc. I can do so if you want, I'll just resent you for making me do so.

Third thing: thank you for joining in! :) And thanks to everyone, turnout is looking good for the first day, I think.

ha, ok, just got your email. should check these things before i type.

sorry there, a hoy hoy, don't mean to dump all over your well-intentioned thread. will try better next time. (honestly though, my list is so freakin' obvious it could hardly spoil anything.)

No Ice Road Truckers, no cred.

It's cool, it turned out I haven't forgotten simple maths. I gave yr 10th place to futurama and then 120 points each to the others you mentioned. And now to carry on per normal.

Britishers- you've just to work and can't bothered doing what you are paid for or moaning about the daily mail? VOTE!

Should Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (UK) and Kitchen Nightmares (US) count as separate shows? Or are they so exactly the same show that it should only count once? (I only ask because I prefer the BBC version.)

in that case i think they should count as separate, since the UK version was that much better

bbc one? wow, just all british telly goes on bbc america, huh? I dunno, I was counting them as one because they are basically the same show with same presenter but different accents.

He swears more in the British one, and it doesn't have those excruciating music cues the Americans slap all over their reality shows.

Well we can just pretend the other doesn't exist.

Shameless bump #2: So hey, Inbetweeners huh? He's all a bit lou jags, if you know what I mean?

i'm american and i just voted

let's ensure that American cultural imperialism triumphs yet again!

Exactly half of all shows have got a vote so far btw.

do you prefer to receive the lists numbered, or just ordered but not numbered?

you can number if you want but considering i haven't been sent a list in alphabetical order yet, i'm just assuming all unnumbered lists have been ranked top-down.

Hey, there's Australian shows in here, good work! Was there some nomination thread I missed. I'm just happy I can vote for Frontline and The Micallef P(r)ogram(me).

If you vote for Frontline, your vote will probably be applying to some US current affairs show or something – the Australian satire was made in like 94-97.

Shameless bump #2: So hey, Inbetweeners huh? He's all a bit lou jags, if you know what I mean?

Saw a screener of the first ep last week and thought “it’s lucky we’re probably not buying this, KBP would explode”

Can we use all our 25 votes to vote for The Wire?

No need, everyone knows it's going to win.

Shit good point sic.

Shameless bump #3: Remember when The O.C. went mental and Julie became a pimp daddy? Best wtf moment on 2000s telly this side of Kanye's Katrina speech?

we forgot the white rapper show!

http://literacy.calumet.purdue.edu/student/haddadm2/Gilmore%20Girls.jpg

Not listed are a couple of Animal Planet channel shows that I'm addicted too: Animal Cops and Animal Armageddon. The latter is kind of a miniseries (about massive extinction events!!!!) rather than a show. Also, as was already mentioned, Nip/Tuck, a guilty pleasure. I haven't watched True Blood, but I will and I have a feeling it would be on my list. Can you list something that you anticipate liking? History of Britain is on my Netflix queue. Maybe I should do some serious cramming in order to cast a more comprehensive vote.

Jon Stewart vs The Wire, etc is such an apples/oranges sticky wicket.

There's also a show I like called "Brotherhood," about corrupt politicians and mobsters in Providence, RI.

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiit!

Is this a South Park reference?

xp I thought it was Clay Davis from The Wire

BTW I vote for The Wire

A vote for Family Guy is a vote for Satan. (and not in the good way)

yeah, clay davis. and "hey dummy" from the noms thread was a denis duffy ref.

Shameless bump #4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFGlE44xuTs

how many ballots do you have?

20 so far.

oh come on guys

11 different #1s.

To be fair, it's open for over another month.

And I haven't voted yet.

i'm gonna vote

pimping the heart attack waiting to happen called Let's Paint TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4J4vfUsC2g

Can you list something that you anticipate liking? History of Britain is on my Netflix queue. Maybe I should do some serious cramming in order to cast a more comprehensive vote.

Yeah my ballot is more or less done, but since I'm going to be home with a newborn for much of October I'm going to see how many shows I can check out on Netflix before voting. I think it's a terrible idea to vote for something you haven't seen but think you'd like, though.

Well I didn't do it.

I'm staying impartial but I'm all for people making recommendations. I was bored enough to start the poll, I'm sure as hell bored enough to discover new TV.

My ballot's almost ready, but I did want to say a little something about my options. Would you prefer to receive the ballot and the comments separately?

As I've been sent barely any comments, I'm not sure. Whatever works best for you.

Shameless bump #5: Takeshi's Castle huh? Mix mental japanese... umm... things with a crack addict narrator and you get gold, right?

wait i gotta mail you with 7 votes, is that right?

One person only voted for 4 shows, so go for it.

that instruction has confused me. i mail you with how many votes? in order, with explanations?

Email (you can use the ilx webmail if you want, it's the same address) me with up to 25 votes. Preferably in order. Explanations aren't mandatory.

ok, i have now seen those instructions in the first post.

I sort of forgot to nominate Dead Set because I sort of assumed someone else must have done it. The sight of According To Bex at the top end of the list somehow makes this oversight even worse.

i wish someone had named 'xavier - renegade angel' but ill live

I think According to bex may have been a case of something mentioning something crap on the top ten shows of the decade list but i added it just in case (i think i got every damn show mentioned on both of those threads and sorry, no dead set or xavier.)

Shameless bump #6: They had Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and The Shins; Gilmore Girls had to be the indie-ist show of the decade, right? (Skins losing points for lol nu rave.)

i'm surprised no-one nominated Human Remains

Also, just noticed the show I possibly enjoyed most this decade didn't make the list: Popworld. Damn that Alex Zane for ruining everything. I will never stop hating that guy.

oh man yeah Popworld was so crucial to my formative years as a music/pop culture junkie. I kinda hate Amstell and Oliver on their own now but together those guys were gold.

and yes, ugh alex zane!

But but but what about Buzzcocks? And his stand-up? And I'm sure Oliver will stop being on the horrible T4 and get a proper show one day (or hopefully already has) and I can love her again.

Buzzcocks is great but he does sometimes go overboard on that show. I always liked that Miquita kinda reined him in whenever he got too bonkers.

never seen his standup though - any good?

Yeah, although it was basically an hour of his dad trying to get him off boys and Miquita/Pop World jokes. (This was a couple years ago.)

4 vote-worthy shows left off the list above (b/c they weren't mentioned on the other list?):

brotherhood
burn notice
chuck
ice road truckers

"a crack addict narrator" this is not the choice descriptor of c.charles

What is then? "The bloke off Robot Wars"?

Hey you beautiful 100 active ilx users - wanna vote?

Miquita has her own show? Where??

nah, said i wish she did.

Craig Charles cld be adequately explained as a poet, Corrie actor, voice of Asterix, funk DJ, ex-Tranmere player, and occasional crackhead. He's a pretty awesome guy and a genuine renaissance man, in fact.

Saw him DJ at Big Chill, he was pretty great.

i never knew a lot of those things. i did like the funk show he had on the radio though, wonder if he still does it.

Is Red Dwarf suddenly in poor taste?

Dave'll do that to a show.

I just think red dwarf is shit, though I guess he is pretty good in it

Shameless bump #7: For someone who soooo loves silent comedy, Paul Merton sure did talk a lot this decade, huh?

voice of Asterix

waht

Shameless bump #8 (i think): Freaks and Geeks v. Undeclared (or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Apatow) - FITE

Come on, that's need even close.

The Wire vs. some comedy vs. whatever non-Americans watch

Does anyone even like Undeclared?

Shameless bump #whatever: Being Erica starts in britisherland on E4 this week btw.

Whoops, late to add these to the noms? Jerry Orbach L&O is some kind of TV peak:

Little Britain U.S.A.
Angels in America
Clerks: The Animated Series
Law & Order
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
The Hills
The L Word

I also forgot Blind Date (1999-2006), probably the finest "reality" show devised or executed this decade...

blind date was awesome, yeah. too late for those, just vote from the choices in the first post!

Metalocalypse

and where the hell is Fear Factor?

Shameless bump #46 - So does anyone comes close to James Franco as the prettiest boy in 00s television, right?

This guy?
http://www.comedy.org.uk/images/library/comedies/300/p/psychoville_3.jpg

not sure how much my non-homo opinion matters in this but http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTk0OTMwMjkxOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwOTAwNzE3._V1._CR0,0,433,433_SS100_.jpg

where's lex? pictures of him w/ short head hair & facial hair make him look like marat safin

Serious answer - David Tennant?

I'm not a homosexual either and yet man is Franco pretty. Will do a shameless bump pretty ladies on telly version tomorrow but I have a month of shameless bumps to fill, we can do both sexes.

http://z.about.com/d/scifi/1/7/3/b/1/DavidTennant.jpg
v.
http://i38.tinypic.com/21oymab.gif
v.
http://www.comedy.org.uk/images/library/comedies/300/p/psychoville_3.jpg

My loins are torn.

You're gay if you don't say Desario.

Yet another shameless bump: Ok, so hottest woman on telly in the decade? A fight between Christina Hendricks and... everyone else?

http://interracialscentral.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/summer-glau-dance-movie.jpg

oh how bad terminator spinoff made me forget such a face :( but yeah, summer glau a+ would stare at any time in a crepey fashion.

Christina H or her off Smallville.

Because pictures of attractive ladies never make a thread any worse

http://theryancokeexperience.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/christina-hendricks.jpg

v.

http://theworldsbestever.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/kristin-kreuk.jpg
(is this 'er off Smallville? or a different actress?)

v.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh231/Kelainefes/summer-glau-7.png

v.

???? Thinking honourable mentions should go to Alexis Bledel, the cheerleader from Heroes, Alyson Hannigon and Veronica Mars.

P.S. vote!!!!

speaking of Smallville:

http://images.starpulse.com/pictures/2007/02/13/previews/Tom%20Welling-SGG-037671.jpg

terrible show and actor, but boy he sure is pretty.

This thread has taken a turn for the more lissome.

It could be lissomer, though.

Well there is still a couple weeks of shameless bumping to go, so let's see where it takes us. Unfortunately not going to be around the next couple days to do it though.

tim riggins is v v pretty

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Damages

Dexter

Dog Bites Man

Firefly

House, MD
In De Gloria
Mad Men
The Office (UK)
the shield
The Sopranos
The Wire
True Blood
Veronica Mars

My picks. I love you for adding In De Gloria. Noone aside from me (and maybe Stan) will pick this, but I assure you this is just AWESOME telly.

wait is there seriously no degrassi on this list?

Shameless bump #whatever: Will a mod put that the last day for voting ballots is halloween in the title please?

Awoooooooooooo! It's the SCARY Halloween deadline for the ILX Decade-End TV Poll!!!!!

how many ballots we got now, sam?

can't be bothered counting but about 30.

You should bump the thread occasionally and maybe get more votes. There are thousands of ILXors out there waiting to be activated.

Getting my ballot ready. Btw, two J.J. Abrams shows are missing from the list: Felicity (debatable, since it ran from '98-02) and Alias (which is definitely gonna be in my list somewhere).

Except Alias had one (half) of an awesome season, then either terrible everything else.

i'm gonna have to disagree on that one - even the third season (where it really started to get thin) was pretty enjoyable for the most part. first two seasons are excellent imo

True, it was enjoyable but pathologically frustrating at the same time, IIRC. But who am I to say no to such uneven quality? I nom nom nommed'd TSCC.

haha i actually almost put that on myself - got a lot better in the second season, for real

Getting my ballot ready. Btw, two J.J. Abrams shows are missing from the list: Felicity (debatable, since it ran from '98-02)

you cant count the post haircut years

Just hoping House MD makes it on the final list!

vote for it then. vote for it high on yo' list.

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http://www.mefeedia.com/tv/12004674

Ah fuck it.

Shameless bump fun-time: So who is the hardest motherfucker on telly in the 0000000s then? Omar? Paulie? Ali G? Steve O? Raymond's brother who I can never remember the name of but he always puts food to his chin before he eats and he's the size of the house and most probably could take all of them if weapons aren't involved... plus the dad was bloody frankenstein so you know that's pretty hard? Bernard Black's liver? Buffy, she was a slayer of the vampires you know?

P.S. Superman was kind of wimpy and shite this decade, weren't he? Even if he was pretty...

Chloe's more bad-ass than Superman this decade.

Hardest mofo on telly - Tony Almeida, man. He only exists to wander around being hard and moody. Even after he died.

ha, i forgot 24 even existed. :(

I mean Chloe on Smallville in my first sentence, btw, though Chloe O'Brian's pretty badass, in a witheringly sarcastic sort of a way.

Almeida's soulpatch disqualifies him.

I also forgot Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007-2008), whose second season is making me trust my love of the first a bit more--just fantastic acting, writing, and handling of myriad moral, social, and sexual issues in a London setting Americans don't get to see much. The Slate pan was very stupid: Billie Piper is amazing.

My Top 30:

1. The Sopranos (1999-2007)
2. The Wire (2002-2008)
3. Saturday Night Live (1975-)
4. Arrested Development (2003-2006)
5. Lost (2004-)
6. Mad Men (2007-)
7. Generation Kill (2008, mini-series)
8. Deadwood (2004-2006)
9. The Office (2005-, U.S.)
10. In Treatment (2008-, U.S.) [also better than its reviews]
11. Flight of the Conchords (2007-)
12. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006, documentary mini-series)
13. Six Feet Under (2001-2005)
14. True Blood (2008-) [haven't seen second season, though]
15. Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007-2008),
16. Angel (1999-2004)
17. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
18. Firefly (2002-2004)
19. Big Love (2006-)
20. Law & Order (1990-)
21. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993-)
22. The L Word (2004-2009)
23. The Simpsons (1989-)
24. Battlestar Galactica (2004-, '00s version)
25. Clerks: The Animated Series (2000)
26. Blind Date (1999-2006)
27. John from Cincinnati (2007, series) [so much better than its reviews]
28. Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-)
29. 30 Rock (2006-)
30. Little Britain USA (2008-)

Mmmm, maybe The Daily Show instead of one of those last few...

John from Cincinnati would have been on my ballot if it had been nommed.

Hey, did anyone nom Summer Heights High? I don't think it would be in my top 30, but certainly worthy of recognition.

Top 30? I thought our ballots are for 25.

Sorry, they are for 25. Was momentarily confused by Pete's list above.

also forgot Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007-2008), whose second season is making me trust my love of the first a bit more--just fantastic acting, writing, and handling of myriad moral, social, and sexual issues in a London setting Americans don't get to see much.

the bartender dude in this is like str8 up the hottest dude on tv all decade - show is fukken retarded tho

I have just started watching In Treatment. So far, so great. Might have to reassess my tentative list.

i wonder if Pete gets HBO

A glaring omission has just occurred to me. Malcolm in the Middle!

Um, excuse me, but how did you guys forget so many MTV and Food Network gems?!

what stopped you from nominating them?

I'm sure we can get away without 12 different The Hills spin offs and Hogan Knows Best. But if you want to vote for it, go crazy. Other people have voted for shit that isn't on the list. It's more of a reminder of what was made. Also if it isn't on the list it is unlikely anyone else will vote for it and it won't make the Top 50, but you can still have a go, I'm not picky.

okay i sent my picks!

kinda surprised Letterman didn't at least get nominated.

i don't think barely anyone was thinking much about late night talk shows beyond Daily Show/Colbert Report, 3 of the few nominations there were (Conan, Ferguson and Late World With Zach) were mine.

Shameless bump time: So who was the best token best friend in this decades telly? Ol' Gay Willow on Buffy? Wusshisname from Slumdog Millionaire in Skins? Lane in Gilmore Girls? Wallace and wusshisname latino guy who always was up to lol crime in Veronica Mars? Bender as token robot?

Landry in Friday Night Lights

would also say Neil and Bill in Freaks and Geeks, but I think that unfairly underplays their roles there.

Neil and Bill are tokens?

Never seen FNL so cannot comment on lol telly still doesn't know how to address minorities.

ooh, i see. well, neil was jewish.

they were great and now i do wish i had f&g on dvd so i could watch the episode where they make bill drink their own concotions.

shameless bump #15: Just spent the past half hour tallying up votes I hadn't counted in the past couple days and we have currently had 19 different shows voted #1 and 39 voters. Come on people, we can do better than that!

are we posting our votes yet then?

i worry i am the only person voting for friends, but that show really did hit its straps in the 2000s (pretty awful before then).

Personally I'd say wait till after the results are posted to post your individual votes (just not to spoil it) but feel free to talk about shows and encouraging people to vote for things they may have forgotten.

I don't think I'm giving much to say that more than 1 person has voted for Friends tho.

And also, anything you ever want to talk about post it so this thread stays near the top of new answers. :)

tim riggins is a fkn hunk but he never said "cuz I'm CRIPPLED and I want to listen to NIRVANA!"

I made a mistake and didn't vote It's Always Sunny in my ballot because I wasn't really into it when I submitted the ballot. But it should be like #3 on my list. Can that be fixed?

So who was the best token best friend in this decades telly?

Hurley

I'll do it for you Mordy but just the once. If everyone starts asking for changes then it's just going to be too much work going over everything.

you wanna bump everything from #3 down and knock off whatever was bottom of your list?

Knock everything down to 23, and remove my #23 from the list?

(I don't mind losing #23. I wanna keep 24 + 25 tho.)

ok. i'll do it tomorrow, as i am too lazy to do it now. have left myself two large post-it notes to remind me.

Thanks :)

Shameless bump #16 considering there are 90+ logged in: We've hit 40 ballots and 20 different #1s. Which is cool and all but there are 5,354 registered users.

Yeah, but 3,000 of those users are sockpuppets.

oh yuh. but still, non-socks should vote. :)

and 1,000 are googlers who registered to post once and another 500 were former regulars who haven't been here since 2005 (xpost)

okokokok but there are currently 97 people logged in and less than half of that number has voted. just trying to up the ballots here.

hey these bumps today have been working.

ilx deserves a http://biopsy.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/thumbs-up.jpg

i just voted, felt amazing

Stop chastising me! I am at work busy pretending to work!

http://rlv.zcache.com/i_voted_2008_election_pin_button-p145448809411968121t5sj_400.jpg

but I forgot to vote for Kenny Vs. Spenny (best canadian reality show of the decade fer sure)

Aww, I wanted to vote for Eureka but it's not on the list!

Shameless bump #17 - So of the 247 shows that were nominated (or not nomimated but still voted for anyway), 42 still do not have a vote. This includes 2 that surprise the shit out of me, as I thought they'd be top 20 material.

Also sorry for being an arse while trying to encourage people to vote. Never did Diddy any harm etc.

barely resisted voting tactically, but my votes are in. wondering how many of the missing 42 i took care of

Zero, brother.

well good!

Shameless bump #17: Best character of the decade? Butters? Omar? Super Hans? Carmella? Gob? Bender? Tara? Who d'ya think?

Barney Stinson or Brock Samson

woah dude marshall > barney.

never watched venture bros, should I?

yeah actually Marshall might be a better call, i could go with that

i haven't sent in my ballot yet but Venture Bros. is top 5 for me and i'm really rooting for it, only really high up animated show on my list

Venture Bros. is fantastic

ok i will check it out. and just as i was feeling this decade has been rubbish w/ toons. i guess i just heard that dangerdoom record and refused to ever watch any adult swim.

did some work and only 6 shows have broken 3000pts so far, 'tis looking pretty tight.

Venture Bros pisses on all other AS shows I've seen. It's got a proper storyline and characters and pathos and stuff.

Also, have you ever seen Samurai Jack?

I once thought about buying it on dvd and then decided to spend the money on whisky instead :( any childhood left in me died that day.

I don't think Dangerdoom is a very good means of judging the cartoons on Adult Swim, let alone the cartoons of this decade in general.

I don't like Venture Bros. :/

Well I love Futurama and South Park and Kim Possible and Spongebob. I got told to watch Ben 10 but couldn't be fucked. So I think DD did their damage.

Home Movies is gonna be on my ballot too and there are a couple shows i occasionally enjoy, but yeah it's good to kinda selectively pick and choose with Adult Swim stuff

i don't want Whiney to stay banned for very long, but for the time being it is nice to be able to talk about AS shows without him barging in and blurting obscenities

Home Movies is on my ballot.

whiney finally got 51 then? not a good week to be kind of annoying on ilx.

haha yeah, a couple days ago

Futurama! I knew I left out something. Probably among many others.

Shameless bump #18: "I will kill myself if it's a blonde girl"!

Shameless bump #19: So Gilette Soccer Saturday is the best non-fiction show of the decade, non?

Not that I'd know at the moment, I've only got Final Score w/ Chappers Off The Radio on the go.

Shameless bump #20 - best character killed off/written out way too early?

Vincent Chase's personality imo.

Libby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1NK85Z_uiU

A hoy hoy, did you get my ballot?

yes sir. if matt groening is yr cousin, please tell him to let the simpsons die with what little dignity they have left.

"If"? It is a well-documented fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_HFlOQKss

No one remembered Harry Hill, not even me cobbling together a "top 10 UK comedy" list, weird.

TV Burp is there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gdGJBYoaIY

Shameless bump #20: Vote for television shows while bored at work! You know you want to!

i will do this soon, i promise.

Shameless bump time: best movie spin off? Serenity? Strangers With Candy? The Simpsons Movie?

Borat?

Oh man, screw Borat, I forgot my favourite film of the decade: Jackass 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FqDVv7v1-A

Pootie Tang!

In the Loop is the correct answer.

shameless bump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj9_yW8tZxs

my daily bump.

sunday bump. come on peoples, you love talking about polls.

how many ballots?

i do believe

yes i do believe

that i'm finally sending in my ballot right now

cheers ships. i'm not sure, i haven't updated it the past couple days. about 50-55.

50 exactly incl. some dude.

I swear I will do this through the week sometime.

Hold the phone, this should be my new number one: http://www.milkquarious.com/#/rock-opera

shameless bump fun time

This poll reveal is gonna be fun. Maybe I'll send you some blurbs. (Are you listing everything that got a vote, or should I only write blurbs for stuff I think might chart?)

I'm going to do a top 50. blurbs are encouraged for things you think might be in that. i'll show the full rankings/points after but just the list, i cannae be bothered with blurbs and such. (after obviously because it would give away what is in the top 50.)

I'm a bit hesitant asking people to write blurbs though because if I say "hey, this was high on your list, wanna write about it?" it ruins the poll a little.

Submitted mine a few minutes ago. I wanted to take my time and make it all perfect, but fuck it. Off the top of my head is as good as anything, probably.

well done sir.

40 shows still not got a vote. 3 of which astound me and a couple others that are still pretty surprising.

Damnit I meant to include Jackass.

(I'll be thinking of things I meant to list at least until I go to bed tonight.)

I haven't processed yo' list yet so if you wanna change it, do it by tomorrow kenan. I only had a look to see if you nominated something that hadn't yet.

Naw, I'm cool. I won't change it, just to prevent my worrying about one more thing to do.

I had hesitated so as to add comments to my ballot, but not a single comment has been written. So: sent.

I'm a bit hesitant asking people to write blurbs though because if I say "hey, this was high on your list, wanna write about it?" it ruins the poll a little.

As someone who was going to write blurbs but then ran out of time & thus sent a mostly blurbless ballot, I actually wouldn't mind if you requested them from me!

wait when does this end, for about the fifth time?

Voting ends on Halloween (31 Oct, in case you were stupid) at 5pm Britisher time.

yeah, i actually went and bothered my arse to scroll up. ta anyway.

is it still too late to suggest new entries? cos I don't see the New Yankee Workshop up there.

it's probably too late/if it's not nominated then you'll be the only one to vote for it so it won't show up anyway

i enjoy seeing this in my tab as Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

nah, i'm pretty sure if i remind people about norm that there'll be a flood of last minute voting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpTCqmqhWa0

no frasier?

really?

and no catherine tate show. humph.

Couldn't be bovvered.

fackin liberty imo

I am taking votes that aren't on the list. It is there as a reminder more than anything. However, with stuff not being on the list, you have to guess that no-one voted for it if you are going to.

also catherine tate was so painfully not-funny that she makes michael mcintyre look like every member of monty python.

wtf reflex sb, i didn't even know i was doing it i swear

antagonistic bump!

what generally well regarded shows are you rooting against or hoping finish surprisingly low?

good question!

lost not to place.

delighted that seinfeld didn't make it, but then i'm not sure when it actually ended?

i think the way the Sopranos got killed on that vs. The Wire poll makes me not as actively rooting against it as i would be otherwise. there are a lot of comedies that i will be mad if they finish behind Arrested Development. and i had a pretty violent reaction to Friday Night Lights last week.

Seinfeld ended in '98

Frasier ended in '04 but i think i got my fill of that show in those first 6 and a half years

ok. well, seinfeld in spirit nonetheless.

Arrested Development is a guaranteed frontrunner i feel.

u crazy, arrested development is the shit

i dont really get how you could love 30 rock and not like AD

i actually sat down w/ a DVD set of it a few months ago and it grew on me a bit, but i'm still sick of it and will be a big crybaby if it ranks above 30 Rock or HIMYM (xpost)

i know they're similar in a lot of ways, but to me the quicker pace of 30 Rock makes a world of difference

HIMYM would be a big deal if placed below AD?

that's gotta be a challop ride.

no way AD doesn't place above 30 Rock + HIMYM (i love all three shows, but there's just no way)

i'm not saying i'll be surprised if HIMYM placed below AD, in fact i can very easily seeing that happen, i'm just saying i'll be a whiny bitch about it if it does

HIMYM is borderline unwatchable for me.

yeah, it's hard to go from friends as a young teenager with two TV channels to HIMYM as a damn-near thirty year old with satellite

Shows I'm rooting against - Ummm, I can't stand Lost or Heroes or Family Guy. I'd also love for it to be a surprisingly British 50 just for LOLs.

^^^has no bearing on actual results btw and I am refusing to give away spoilers, just personal opinion as if I wasn't doing the poll.

yeah totally rooting against family guy

i dont really get how you could love 30 rock and not like AD

This seems just about right to me. I always liked AD a lot but I never quite loved it to the extent that others do. But I do love 30 Rock unabashedly. I really appreciated AD's cleverness and, y'know, the craft of the thing, but it left me a little cold at the end of the day. I guess I favor warmth and homey-ness to intellectual precision, but that's no dismissal of AD's obvious quality. Both are in the top ten of my poll, at any rate.

wow i feel the exact opposite - AD has always felt the more warm and lovable to me.

yeah i was gonna say AD is definitely more emotional and twee if you line it up against 30 Rock, which is a little more, i dunno, catskills maybe

imho that's part of what makes 30R better but obviously i'm speaking for noone but myself

oh- dr who. may that get nary a vote

I just mean that AD always felt more like a big, well-oiled machine whose construction and mainenance I was always a little in awe of. It was some next-level shit. 30 Rock feels a little more ramshackle. Looser, but with a similar amount of care and attention to detail. And that just appeals to me more.

I think 30 Rock is a bunch of awesome joke machines, whereas AD had characters I actually gave a shit about.

xpost

Like, I get the feeling that funny and wholly serviceable material was probably cut from AD because it wouldn't have fit in to the overall plan for the show. Whereas 30 Rock has more freedom to go off on goofy tangents that may not get a callback. Just my perception, not necessarily a declaration of the actual real reality of the sitch.

yeah, that's a little closer to the truth, i think. 30 Rock definitely does more for the sake of a joke rather than characterization or continuity compared to AD.

im already cool w/the fact that most of this list will be terrible gay trash beloved by retards i just want a couple of the shows i really like to place. worried that im the only person that voted for like 1/2 my top ten

Guessing that because you guyz are chatting shit about AD/30R means they make the top50 (you don't do this for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ;_;) - what other comedies you think will make it and you wanna bring into this conversation?

frasier

Other than the 3 we've been talking about and comparing today and The Office (either/both), really hard to say, probably -- Party Down or Eastbound & Down might have enough enthusiasm among their small followings. the populist three-camera sitcom fan in me roots for Two And A Half Men and Everybody Loves Raymond, but I don't think they stand a chance around here.

if we're talking animation too, probably Family Guy and Venture Bros., maybe a couple other Adult Swim shows? and as far as non-sitcoms, Daily Show surely.

Two and a Half Men will almost definitely be in my list when I get round to making it.

AD, 30 Rock, HIMYM, Peep Show, and both Offices will probably score the highest among the comedies. I'd like to think that Strangers With Candy and Reno 911! will also do well.

Curb Your Enthisuasm probably too

Two and a Half Men will almost definitely be in my list when I get round to making it.

sb

big bang theory and party down for me.

daily show will prob place somewhere - a lot of ppl have already called it among their favourites in the original non-poll thread.

yeah, this poll is gonna be the nuclear/sb standoff that finally turns ilx into a wasteland

CYE enthusiasm will definitely place highly.

i voted for king of queens fyi thats my trad sitcom favorite

what about The Daily Show v. The Colbert Report? Surprised it's never been a poll actually.

i dunno...i like TCR and there are definitely nights when it's funnier, but to me it's still a spinoff/little brother that i can only think of in comparison to TDS

ok, I sent my ballot

well done guys, we are at 55 now. only a couple more days to vote.

Nobody nominated Torchwood? *vaguely disappointed*

Hey. Hey Jude? Vote.

I thought I did. From JRaynmaker?

oh, ok. :)

yeah i was gonna say AD is definitely more emotional and twee if you line it up against 30 Rock, which is a little more, i dunno, catskills maybe

― crazypoxyfule (some dude), Tuesday, October 27, 2009 1:39 PM (2 hours ago)

i know everyone's past this but yeah, ^this and polyphonic otm. AD definitely had more real characters that i cared about, but one of the great/devastating things about it was how we identified w/ michael, yet he was still a mostly crappy father and completely gauche

OK, only included one un-nominated show in mine (so repping shamelessly for Dead Set now, because, y'know, ZOMBIES on prime-time-ish telly!), should probably have bumped something for similarly-unnominated Burn Notice, but don't think it's worth it, tbh.

i voted

my top 5 were

sopranos
svu
chappelle
daily show
party down

Really hope that as shark-jumped as it was, The Simpsons still needs to place, if only because as Matt Groening's cousin, I get 5 cents every time it is mentioned on the Interwebs.

So that, and 30 Rock are the only comedies that place. Everything else is dire overrated tripe.

what generally well regarded shows are you rooting against or hoping finish surprisingly low?

Family Guy definitely, above all. House MD, if it has any chance at all. And 30 Rock's pretty much left me cold since the pilot, and I hated Wonder Showzen the one time I saw it. So them. (Never got Lost or Arrested Development, either, but I never tried much; ditto anything remotely related to Adult Swim, which I can't imagine I'd like.)

family guy is not very well regarded on ilx

yeah it's cool to hate on it. i doubt it'll get any traction.

xp i liked all the shows you mentioned, but i'm 100% with you on House MD

i occasionally watch and enjoy Family Guy, but i definitely don't respect it enough to have voted for it. it being a fairly ubiquitous show that brings out a lot of hate in people doesn't really mean it won't place in the poll, though, i could see it doing well.

Really hope that as shark-jumped as it was, The Simpsons still needs to place, if only because as Matt Groening's cousin, I get 5 cents every time it is mentioned on the Interwebs.

So that, and 30 Rock are the only comedies that place. Everything else is dire overrated tripe.

― Leee, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 02:47 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Surely Futurama >>> Simpsons?

noooo

in the 2000s at least?

no

Fry's dog and Fry's brother eps are probably better than most of what the Simpsons has done this decade.

i'm sure there are two simpson's episodes that are better than the average futurama output too. that's not really the question.

I think they're enough to trump the Simpsons in the battle for the best Groening show of the decade.

ah ok, i get what you're saying there now.

I say that, but neither made it on my ballot.

wow, a meaningless disagreement between two uncommitted individuals. what a departure for ILX :p

Surely Futurama >>> Simpsons?

by great distance

distance is equal between two fixed points, regardless of direction you travel.

Shameless bump w/ stats:

5 shows have broken the 5k point barrier.
31 shows still haven't got a vote.
It is looking like a show will have to break 1k to make the top 50 (#46-50 the only numbers under at the moment.)
62 voters.
24 different #1 votes.

only 3 days left people!!!!!!!

I consider Futurama an autobiographical space opera.

Vagina, will you accept blurbs separate from my ballot?

So to speak, ahem.

Yeah, feel free to send them.

not long left people. vote! (and send blurbs if you want.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX40RsSLwF4

this is exciting! not to put you on the spot, but how long after voting ends do you think it'll take you to start posting results?

ya, hurry it up ta fuck

Well I cannot make time go any faster. I was going to prepare blurbs and things and double check everything next week and then have a 10-per-day reveal the week after. However, considering I have a funeral to attend a week Monday, I am going to try and speed through everything this weekend and *hopefully* do ten-per-day from this Monday. I've already been looking up youtube clips to attach to each placing show, for example.

So if people wanna send blurbs, do it sooner rather than later.

ps vote.

(was only kidding, you've obviously got enough on your plate atm)

on that note- anything i could do that wouldn't take up huge amounts of time or money?

considering you added comments to all yr votes, i think we are cool. unless you wanna elaborate on them then go crazy.

also just keeping this thread at the top of new answers is good. :)

i guess i should also thinking of a witty name for the next thread.

ILX's best TV shows of the Decade 2000-2009

let's start adding/subtracting from there?

"Matt Groening? I preferred his earlier work" The ILX Decade end TV poll

He killed 16 Czechislovakians, the guy started the ILX's Top 50 TV shows of the Decade 2000-2009 Countdown

The Poll, The Poll, The Poll Is On Fire: ILX Top 50 TV shows of the Decade Countdown

Thank fuck Seinfield is no longer on the telly: ILX's best TV shows of the Decade 2000-2009

ha, I like it darragh.

Jeff Stelling is some sort of god imo - the ILX Decade Telly Poll Countdown

i was gonna almost word for word the seinfeld effort, no joeks

come on people, talking about stealing is boring. voting is a better way to spend yr time.

talking about whether stealing jokes is proper work

Back when Zach Braff and the bald fella off Mock The Week were employed: The ILX 00s Decade Telly Countdown

Stealing joeks from old Simpsons episodes: The ILX 2000-2009 Telly Poll Countdown Extravaganza.

Commentary by David Attenborough & Zach Braff:

Things We Watched on Netflix: ILX's best TV shows of the Decade 2000-2009

Unopened Boxsets that I liked the look of from the Pilot:

wow i didnt even notice that metalocolypse wasnt on the list. i would have voted for that.

sorry for another shameless bump.

You should be.

Just kidding! I think I'm gonna try to work up blurbs for some of my noms tonight.

Should we predict the top 5 (as you seem to suggest that they're already pretty much decided at this point)?

The top 5 is decided (although not in order. From about 35 - 65 there is about 300 pts in it though.

two days left bummers.

the idea of seinfeld not being on TV anymore is so weird to me

and one we can never stop thanking god for.

is a british unable to 'get' seinfeld? imo it's the funniest show of all time. is this like how i smh at office uk?

nah, office uk is kind of rubbish as well.

seinfeld just doesn't have any jokes. or any good ones as least. and you just want to punch all of the characters in the face.

am i riiight? aaaammmm iiiiiiiii riiiight

29 hours and 30 minutes left to vote muuhfuckas.

nah, office uk is kind of rubbish as well.

fuk u. must remember to fill out my ballot for the five shows i've liked this decade. darraghs suggested title seems very apt, although yours also pretty worthy, sam.

hey, i liked that one time they stole the nerdy ones stuff. except for that... wasn't as good as extras of the ricky gervais podcast w/ that dumb fella.

i think i just don't like ricky gervais and like stephen merchant.

is a british unable to 'get' seinfeld? imo it's the funniest show of all time. is this like how i smh at office uk?

― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Friday, October 30, 2009 4:45 AM (3 hours ago)

haha yeah this is kinda weird

eh, neither do I especially but I do think the Office is nearest to "genius" British TV's ever gotten.

xpost

seinfeld is the greatest television comedy ever and i am a "britisher".

get 1 taste, haters

no you get some taste AM IIIII RIIIIGHT

no one ever says am i right in, seinfeld.

dunno where the comma came from.

am i right in, seinfeld? how does that feel? is it good?

but honestly "lol seinfeld, am i riiiiiiiight" is basically just complete gibberish. It's like saiying "lol friends, know what i mean, 'arry?"

lol "lol King of Queens, oooooh matron".

you are not right.

but i am lolling

do more of these wrong comedy catchphrases

"lol 30 rock, shut that door!"

eh, neither do I especially but I do think the Office is nearest to "genius" British TV's ever gotten.

xpost

― I never saw the advantage of peeing while standing. (Upt0eleven), Friday, 30 October 2009 11:48 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

Really? There were like 5 different and better shows this decade let alone Pythonetc.

oh yeah dom voting reminds me: those who have been suggest banned are still encouraged to vote. i'd particularly love to see geir's list.

there is only custard pies

tuomas didn't vote because cleese got paid more than connie booth on fawlty towers

darraghmac didn't vote for any show with links to foreigners, the poor or dutchmen

etc

the art of the catchphrase died this decade, right? and was replaced by keyboard cat.

catchphrases became ironic this decade, making absolutely no difference in the way they were deployed in offices the morning after.

Really? There were like 5 different and better shows this decade let alone Pythonetc.

I don't necessarily LOVE it, or even enjoy it always, but I am consistently impressed with it. I don't think I'd say that about any other show on this list.

Not even Gilette Soccer Saturday?

i've been trying to watch curb your enthusiasm, and i had to stop watching during episode 2, season 1 last night, just after he kisses mary steenburgen's mother. i have no tolerance for 'cringe' humour, even though i like larry david. i'll give it another shot in a few months maybe.

I should add that I haven't seen as many of these shows as I would like and Masterchef will probably top my list.

Clearly I'm not to be heeded on this subject.

i haven't seen as many of these shows that i'd like, except for seinfeld, which i've seen too much of

Masterchef is great except for the lame 'hey we are professionals so there is no-one to really laugh at' one.

Curb- when done properly is aaaaaaaamazing, like the one where he gets the hooker to go in the carpool lane or the nurse with the giant vagina she uses to steal things- but too often, yeah, it's just hard to watch.

ILX Polls TV Shows Comma Marries Your Mom

30 shows still not been voted for, 1 of which makes me sad. not that i voted for it myself but i hoped it would make the top 50.

ILX Polls TV Shows Comma Marries Your Mom

― President Keyes, Friday, October 30, 2009 8:40 AM (18 minutes ago)

hahaahha

xp it makes you less sad than 25 other shows would in the same situation, tho- right?

well... yeah.

Well then don't be greedy. There are millions of children who will NEVER get to vote in an ILX End of Decade TV Show Poll.

the art of the catchphrase died this decade, right? and was replaced by keyboard cat.

― fyi vagina (a hoy hoy), Friday, October 30, 2009 8:03 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
catchphrases became ironic this decade, making absolutely no difference in the way they were deployed in offices the morning after.

― Yo, Lout! (darraghmac), Friday, October 30, 2009 8:11 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's so true -- apologies for this link being 77 only but http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=75187

apologies for this link being 77 only

quick learner here

I never got an invite to 77 :(

:-o

what is your login email? i'll invite u

its the same one used for the poll.

eh i guess only a mod can add even tho the form is at the bottom. you can start a thread on mod req if you want.

30 shows still not been voted for, 1 of which makes me sad. not that i voted for it myself but i hoped it would make the top 50.

There were several shows which I nominated but that didn't make my final ballot. And most of those omissions made me sad, especially since I kinda feel like I'm the only one who would have voted for some of them.

yeah, what Deric said -- was really hard to narrow down the lower reaches of my list, so many shows that felt worthy but didn't make the cut

i struggled to make 25, if i'm honest.

i had to leave out spaced and a couple other shows but it wasn't too hard to figure out gilmore girls + 24 other shows.

The top 5 is decided (although not in order. From about 35 - 65 there is about 300 pts in it though.

If The Wire doesn't win this thing I'm quitting ILX again.

Also Pres. Keyes OTM.

it wasn't too hard to figure out gilmore girls + 24 other shows.

Gilmore Girls just barely missed the cut. :(

If Gilmore Girls fails to crack the top 25, I'm instituting a mandatory board-wide viewing party until that horrendous oversight is rectified.

I would support such action if needs be. Not that you will find out till next week.

It should be noted, though, that GG is only one of several shows on my ballot that would have been dropped altogether if they were judged solely on the basis of their final seasons.

Was still better than the last season of Buffy. If only for the episode where Lane has the twins.

I definitely dropped some shows off my ballot that would've only been there because of the first couple seasons (coughcoughHousecoughcoughEntourage)

Anyone wanna make predictions or we gonna wait for the actual thread?

I think The Wire and the UK Office are a lock for the top five. Less sure on the other three. Arrested Development, probably. Ummm...30 Rock and The Sopranos rounding it out, maybe?

Lost sneaking in somewhere

I think Lost and The Daily Show will be in the top ten(xpost)

Friends will be in the top five and nobody will admit to voting for it.

see, i see that happening more likely with Family Guy

Where do you guys stand on the Gilmore Girls/O.C. ( East Coast/West Coast ) feud?

O.C. was the best batshit insane yet advertised as 'normal' telly of the decade. Gilmore Girls was just the best thing of the decade.

i voted for gilmore girls. i would consider getting a gilmore girls-themed tattoo. so, that's where i stand.

yeah GG no question. The OC was fun for about one and a half seasons (and not even as fun as Veronica Mars was for one and a half seasons).

reminds me of mr.show ventriloquists feud: i believe that the east coast is the better of the two coasts. (or something like that)

see, i see that happening more likely with Family Guy

― they were wein, so she drowned (some dude), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:38 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

so what do you guys think will be the highest placing cartoon?

also, if any of you fuckers haven't voted yet, do so.

so what do you guys think will be the highest placing cartoon?

I'd bet a tenner on South Park.

toss-up btw South Park and the Simpsons

how about the highest placing UK show?

the office

or

doctor who?

Peep Show? Though I don't know how well known it is in the States.

Yeah I'm just fucking with you, it's At Home W/ The Braithwates.

don't UK'ers prefer Spaced to The Office?

I thought 'superhans' was 'superhands' for the longest time.

The Office will def place highest among the UK shows, Peep Show will def place second. And possibly within the top 10.

As much as I love the Spaced crew's movies, I don't really rate Spaced all that highly, based on what I've seen. Couldn't really get into it.

chap, I think Peep Show might've aired on BBC America, but only the first series is available on R1 DVD. Buncha crap. I love it to bits, but I have no idea if most of my countrymen are even aware of its existence.

how many non fiction shows you fuckers think will make it, if any?

Sir David should do alright.

I have no interest in or experience with reality shows, so I couldn't say as far as that goes. Although I'm not really sure that those fit the rubric of 'nonfiction'.

i struggled to make 25, if i'm honest.

Yeah, uh, I haven't voted in this poll because a list of my top 25 would probably be a list of the only 25 shows I've seen more than an episode or two of. However, I can rank these 25 shows if you like.

One of the ballots was just 6 shows that person rated highly and they didn't think anything else deserved points. I'm cool with whatever.

I struggled to narrow it down to 25, and since voting I've got into two shows that I'd like to have included (Breaking Bad and The Office US). The joys of lots of free time and low standards!

The US Office is one show I watch regularly and generally think is fine but which I did not vote for and do not feel at all bad about not voting for.

i feel like Deadwood isn't going to get the love it deserves.

All right, e-mailed you, Samuel.

Deadwood, on the other hand, was in my top three.

everytime i ever saw deadwood, i always kind of wished it was an episode of lovejoy.

like that one where lovejoy grabbed lady jane's snatch as a reprimand and eric catchpole cut that east anglian cocksucker's throat

re: GG vs OC, was a little surprised This American Life staffers fell into the pro-OC camp.

less than 24 hours, you beautiful ilxers.

how many non fiction shows you fuckers think will make it, if any?

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, October 30, 2009 2:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'm thinking definitely Daily Show, probably Planet Earth or American Idol or Colbert Report, and maybe The Soup or Survivor or Jackass or Big Brother or Top Model

'probably planet earth' will win this thing, i think

maybe! i guess it has a significantly higher profile in the UK than in the US, i had to kinda tell rave and tell people about it here.

i hope samuel is keeping tabs of the uk/us votes, so we can declare a null and void this side if the wrong shows get in.

xpost!

It'll be interesting to see where votes are affected based on geography. I'm probably voting for a disproportionately high number of UK shows for and Americaner. But my votes for things like The Soup might be wasted. Unless they have The Soup in the UK? I couldn't imagine they would.

we have soup, only dutch people call it 'the' soup, but it's not a tv programme it's a tasty broth

(yes we have 'the soup', at least anyone with satellite packages that include the E! channel and the like)

Yeah, I have no idea who half the people who voted are. Some of the people were kind enough to include their usernames or have names v. similar to their screen-names but not enough for me to figure out fancy stats like that. And even if they did I think I would just sort it by 'anyone who talks about soccerball/in the uk watercooler thread v. evereryone else assuming they are foreign'

xpost, re: The Soup

Huh. I guess the general WTF?!?-ness of the shows on display would still translate even if you weren't familiar with the shows themselves or the 'personalities' therein.

i think most o the shows would get airtime on the likes o the 'E!' channel too tbh.

eh my '' key appears not to be working.

I dunno. It's similiar to my baffled fascination about The Simpsons being so popular in the UK. I had always thought that it was so saturated with American culture as to be somewhat impenetrable to anyone outside of the country. But clearly the question is: what do I know?

American culture pretty saturated over here as well. :S But you know, with less country music.

xpost

(Old school Simpsons, anyway. I can't speak with any authority about anything Simpsons-related released during this decade.)

well ya gotta get your culture from someplace

xp

Well yeah, I'd prefer rap music and 30 rock to kasabian and michael mcindire.

xxpost

Yeah, I forget sometimes that we're Cultural Masters of the Universe. I tend to just reverse the roles and think about how much stuff in British television kinda flies over my head, even though I'm probably relatively well-steeped in Britishness for an American.

Somehow most American shows I have great affection for have a lolbritisher in a prominent, usually not-as-a-Britisher, role. I don't do this on purpose, but don't you guys have your own actors? Is there a thread somewhere where this is discussed? (Hugh Laurie, Eddie Izzard*, Minnie Driver, Joseph Fiennes, Kevin McKidd, Ian McShane, Jonny Lee Miller - off the top of my drunken head, there must be more - all do varying degrees of passable Americans* in things you could surely find actual Americans to do)

* OK, Eddie Izzard is terrible at it

The Simpsons plays well over here because we get a whole ton of the stuff referenced in it. Spaced probably doesn't play well in America because they don't get a whole ton of the stuff referenced there.

also -- dominic west and idris elba.

Ian McShane

Waitaminute, pardner, he technically plays a Limey cocksucker, thought maybe his citizenship got retconned after I stopped watching out of boredom.

Ah, OK, I've never actually seen one second of Deadwood. I chucked him in there to pretend I had. Didn't work, huh?

Like, c'mon, I just admitted to Journeyman and Eli Stone and Flashforward. My poll answers are probably skewing everything to fuck! (at least none of them were nominated, eh?)

I don't think the Vote Man cares if the show wasn't nominated -- go ahead and vote for your dreck to your heart's content. :D

(And btw, McShane's character IRL was American.)

vote man says you only have until 5 today to vote. dunno what that is in america time or other places, but for perspective it is 8.10am now.

6 and a half hours left to vote homies.

I didn't vote for any of them! I watched them, doesn't mean I actually thought they were Best Programmes Ever.

xposts

bump. only a couple hours left.

25 minutes left guyz.

13 miiiiiiiinutes.

12 minutes! or 11 or something like that

'Ang on, 'ang on. It's comin'.

ok 'arry.

hurry the fuck up dude so I can close this thing.

done the fuck up. had to be true to my tv watching habits of the last ten years, although i'm sure i missed a few.

ok, no more ballots guys and girls. feel free to suggest names for monday's countdown thread though.

72 voters, 29 different #1s.

Shit. Forgot about this entirely. :(

Send it now if you want in. But then seriously, last ballot :P

Anyone actually want to write blurbs or we just gonna shoot the shit on the countdown thread?

have you seen the ilm threads rom a ew years back? they were good

ah s damn key still out o action

ok- again. have you seen the film threads from a few years back? they were good.

I didn't vote cos I don't watch a ton of TV also I'm lazy but personally I'm all for shooting shit on the countdown thread.

Yeah, shit-shooting is good for me. Someone did a poll thing once where they googled for a selection of interesting posts about the things in the thread, that was quite good.

ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

G.O.A.T. imo tho obv I'm biased

I'll try the google thing but that all depends how lazy I am.

Not googling, like, using ILX's search engine. You know what I mean.

by the way, due to a tie it will be a countdown of 51. feel free to make lame sb joeks.

actually, i cannae be bothered to ilx search choice quotes. you guys can just shoot the shit.

jabba hands- dude, i'll take your ballot but grrrrrrrr.

haha top 51, awesome

i was thinking of writing some blurbs, if you say when you'd like them sent in by i'll see how many i can get done by then

today?

jabbahands late ballot ruined the 51tie. might still use the number though.

Honestly, for quite a few of my nominee blurbs, I can probably pull old quotes from an ILX search of specific threads dedicated to the individual shows. I know I've pontificated a bit in the past about a lot of them.

I'm working on some blurbs, Vote Man!

damnit i'm bummed i discovered 'party down' after i sent in my ballot! would've made my top ten, easy

Ok, I'm going out for a couple hours and then the countdown will begin at about 5/6ish I guess.

:D

you're in for a world of sbans regardless of result, you know that right?

But I wasn't one of the cnuts who voted for [HIGH PLACING SHOW]. ;_;

teasing will draw the sb action even quicker.

and that's seinfeld, i can see behind ur brackets

thx, sorry for being late, feel free to SB me!

you want a blurb with that?

Seinfield is a show about two best freinds Jerry and George. They solve mesteries inside a boat it is my favrite show.

Unopened Boxsets that I liked the look of from the Pilot: The ILX Television 51 Show Countdown Extravaganza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, I'm going out for a couple hours and then the countdown will begin at about 5/6ish I guess.

― a hoy hoy, Monday, November 2, 2009 6:54 AM (Yesterday)

is this may 6th or

jk but i am excited

dude, Unopened Boxsets that I liked the look of from the Pilot: The ILX Television 51 Show Countdown Extravaganza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are nearly halfway already.

WHAT

yuh dude. go read that thread, you are on it.

the killing should have been included. awesome thriller series