The Top 40 TV Shows of the Last 25 Years??? I don't think so!
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This Is Entertainment Weekly's Top 40 shows since 1983! (25 yrs)
- The Simpsons (FOX ~ 1989-Present)
- The Sopranos (HBO ~ 1999-2007)
- Seinfeld (NBC ~ 1989-1998)
- The X-Files (FOX ~ 1993-2002)
- Sex and the City (HBO ~ 1998-2004)
- Survivor (CBS ~ 2000-Present)
- Lost (ABC ~ 2004-Present)
- The Cosby Show (NBC ~ 1984-1992)
- Friends (NBC ~ 1994-2004)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (WB ~ 2001-2003)
- The Wire (HBO ~ 2002-2008)
- South Park (Comedy Central ~ 1997-Present)
- Freaks and Geeks (NBC ~ 1999-2000)
- The Daily Show (Comedy Central ~ 1996-Present)
- The Oprah Winfrey Show (Syndicated ~ 1986-Present)
- Arrested Development (FOX ~ 2003-2006)
- The Office - UK (BBC2 ~ 2001-2003)
- American Idol (FOX ~ 2002-Present)
- ER (NBC ~ 1994-Present)
- Beverly Hills, 90210 (FOX ~ 1990-2000)
- Roseanne (ABC ~ 1988-1997)
- The Real World (MTV ~ 1992-Present)
- The West Wing (NBC ~ 1999-2006)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (Syndication 1987-1994)
- Miami Vice (NBC ~ 1984-1989)
- Chappelle's Show (Comedy Central ~ 2003-2006)
- Law and Order (NBC ~ 1990-Present)
- The Larry Sanders Show (HBO ~ 1992-1998)
- The Sheild (FX ~ 2002-Present)
- The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS ~ 1993-Present)
- The Civl War (PBS ~ 1990)
- Gilmore Girls (WB ~ 2000-'06 CW ~ 2006-'07)
- My So-Called Life (ABC ~ 1994-'95)
- 24 (FOX ~ 2001-Present)
- CSI (CBS ~ 2000-Present)
- thirtysomething (ABC ~ 1987-'91)
- NYPD Blue (ABC ~ 1993-2005)
- Beavis and Butt-head (MTV ~ 1993-1997)
- Six Feet Under (HBO ~ 2001-2005)
- Mr. Show (HBO ~ 1995-1998)
Are They Freakin' Serious?????
Here Let me Try!
It should be noted that I don't watch much TV and therefore cannot be qualified as any kind of expert.
Just for fun, here goes...
The Simpsons
Seinfeld
The Office (US)
The Office (UK)
Lost
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Entourage
Bullshit (with Penn & Teller)
The Sopranos
30 Days (with Morgan Spurlock)
South Park
Weeds
Family Guy
Law and Order
The Young Ones
Cheers
Saturday Night Live
The X-Files
Real Time with Bill Maher
House
The Kids in the Hall
Flight of the Conchords
Extras
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Da Ali G Show
King of the Hill
Mr. Show with Bob & David
Law & Order: SVU
Star Trek: Voyager
No Reservations (with Anthony Bourdain)
American Idol
Malcolm In The Middle
Futurama
My Name is Earl
The Daily Show
Mystery Science Theatre 3000
The Colbert Report
Dexter
Carnivale
Robot Chicken
please present all omissions in the comment box.
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Like the title says The Last 25 Years! Since Like '83.
Curb Your Enthusiasm is on your list twice. No. 6 and No. 12. It probably deserves to be, great show. Adult Swim and Bill Mahar did not make the cut??
your list is way better. not sure what they were thinking w/ my so-called life and gilmore girls! i believe you do have a repeat w/ curb. can we get arrested development on there? that is the best show ever made. i don't know anyone who has watched it and didn't think the same. not sure if you have seen arrested or not DJ, but judging by your other picks, you would love it.
also, do you like it's always sunny in philadelphia or entourage? just wondering. both solid shows you should check out. tight list.
Oh snap! Entourage! *edited*
Thank You billy
and no I haven't seen either Philly or Breaking Bad. Arrested was funny but I didn't get cozy with a single character.
YanowhatI'mean?
My Name is Earl has got to be somewhere in there. I haven't enjoyed anything like that in a long time.
Agreed, it has been added.
you gotta check out always sunny. so hilariously wrong. three film students created and star in it. it's so good that, after the first season, danny devito called and asked them to get on the show. also, i think you should rewatch arrested. it's serial, whereas most sitcoms are episodic, so it has to be viewed from episode one onward, in order. otherwise, everything goes right over your head. i am a scriptwriter and this is the most ingenious show ever written. period. too many people haven't seen this show or have only seen bits and pieces.
what about reno 911? i actually just recently saw a couple eps for the first time and it was pretty damn good.
Okay, I can get either show through the library so I'm on it and thanks for the heads up.
You did a good job listing most of my favs. You should also check out Burn Notice, a summer series that began last year. Good intrigue.
WHat? Robot Chickin should be first! haha just kidding
You are much more right than those "TV experts" or whatever they are
Oh yea, Burn Notice should be first because its my Boyfriend's cousins show!! WOO!!
I agree with you on "Mystery Science Theater 2000/3000". The comments (riffs) were hysterical when they had access to a good film. Toward the end, the Sci Fi Channel couldn't get the rights to better films and the quality of the show went down to the point of cancellation.
Yeah, Reno 911 is conspicuously absent. And I agree on Family Guy being up there. Syndication is going to spoil that one though due to over exposure.
It already has shady. I have the first few DVD collections and they are dusty as hell. I have never seen Reno911 because I find the commercials so annoying AND I have a big problem with shows like COPS (which I assume they are mocking) After I saw Run Ronnie Run with David Cross I laughed all that out of me. That movie is conspucuously off my 100 funniest movies list!
Curious what funny people like you think of it.
No How I Met Your Mother?!?! That show is the funniest show on TV!! But your list is a tiny bit better. I do like how EW has Freaks and Geeks on there. That show was great and should never have been canceled.
the wire shouldn't have been takenm off the list..... In trearment should be there... Friday night lights.... and band of brothers.
freeks and geeks needs to be on here that was one of the greatest shows of all time
What about Alias!!!! I loved that show! I have the entire collection so not dusty here. Just finished watching them again. Family guy has grown on me. According to Jim, malcolm in the middle, and king of the hill are all good too.
SNL has been around since the 60s Right?
Hell yeah! Weeds, Office US, Dexter, southpark..... ur list is way better!
Where's Nip/Tuck??? Married With Children? That list is sooo bogus!
You take Arrested Development off and leave law and order on? i dont get it
Waaaaait a minute. You put the American Office over the original??? AND you take out AD???? What kinda crack are YOU on?
Chappelles show has only 33 episodes and each one of them blows american idol out the water.
glad Gilmore girls made the list.
desert blondie 3 years ago
Entertainment's Top 40...of what, last week? 2008, so far? What? Surely not EVER...where's MASH, Murphy Brown, SNL???