favorite tv show ever

[mxyzptlk]

snl for me

[Jowy Blight]

I don't watch much T.V. but I would say Mobile Suit Gundam, I'm hooked on that show. Futurerama is pretty good also, and Simpsons seems to running out of ideas right now.

[Sveven Dvorking]

It's the Looney Tunes Show!

[Trent Lane]

It's a tie: Simpsons or B:TAS/TNBA... Without a doubt, two of the best animated shows ever...

[DerekPowers]

well, its hard for me to count animation and live action sitcoms together, soo.... if we're talking animation, definately "batman: the animated series". that show was the best and always will be the best in my book. its perfect. I can remember watching it for the first time.....anyway, in the live action catagory, i'd definately say "Married with childern", that was the first sitcom i watched regularly (not counting old show reruns), actually, it was almost like a cartoon at some points. I even watched it when it got bad (most of the last 2 seasons were almost unbarable for me) but i never missed an ep, thats how much i liked it. peace.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

My favourite comedy of all time is "Married...with Children." It's bottom-feeder humour, but hey, I like it.

I don't have a favourite drama show. Every time I see dramatic shows in reruns, I see more and more flaws in the storytelling.

[Scythemantis]

Futurama,MST3K,Ghostbusters,Invader Zim,Digimon (yes,digimon)
I forget what else.I dont know my favorite show,only my favorite(s)

[Nightwing]

Okay, it really is hard because I have animation AND live action stuff, but here goes:

Animation:

The REAL Ghostbusters
Batman: The Animated Series

Now those are the shows we animation fans are fighting for.

Live Action:
ANGEL (for comedy the genre it would be Fraiser)

[mxyzptlk]

married with children rocks

[Trent Lane]

I forgot about Seinfeld. That show is probably my all time favorite, along with Batman and The Simpsons. All these shows you can watch over and over and they never get old. Andy Grifith is probably one of those, too, what with me bein' a Carolina citizen and all:D

[Mr. Eye]

My favouvorite TV show of all time would have to be The Simpsons.

Mr. Eye

[Jowy Blight]

I'd love to see Ghostbusters and TMNT again.

[Inque]

Sesame Street, I grew up with it. I've been watching it my entire life. I still catch an episode now and then, and boy has the show changed as the cast got older.

[James Harvey]

The Daily Show, Seinfeld, Simpsons, Batman, Superman, and Futurama are my favorites.

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

Chalk me up for the Simpsons as well for being my number 1 show. As for what Jowy said, well they seem to be making a comeback, but they HAVE gone on to become the longest running prime time cartoon....

....Futurama and Seinfeld I like, it's just that I never seem to catch them. And of course, Histeria!

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by Inque
Sesame Street, I grew up with it. I've been watching it my entire life. I still catch an episode now and then, and boy has the show changed as the cast got older.

"Counting sheep is boring. I know! I'll count fire engines instead!"

I still think this routine (and most of the Bert & Ernie ones) are hysterically funny.

[DR. BELCH]

--Daria and the 1960's spy spoof classic Get Smart. "And...loving it!"

[Jowy Blight]

Daria

I've never seen that show before, what's it about?

[Failure]

The X-Files! The Simpsons and BTAS just a tad bit lower.

[DR. BELCH]

http://pages.prodigy.com/Daria/menu.htm

Fans of the show--Dariites, as I call us--will understand why, from the moment I saw her, I've been smitten with this cynical, bespectacled, bland-voiced young lass.

This site looks like it hasn't been updated since 1998, but it's a good primer for beginners.

[Jowy Blight]

Ok, thanks a lot.

[Calhoun07]

Twin Peaks. Hands down, love it or hate it, that was the best television out there. I know people who only watched an episode or two and gave up on the show, but they didn't realize those episodes were part of a larger narrative and you HAVE to watch the entire narrative to piece it all together. Without it, there would have been no road paved for shows like Northern Exposure and the X Files. And look at the shows they paved ways for. Twin Peaks is by far my favorite TV series...EVER. I would watch that show any time, any where, and can't wait for it on DVD.

[RoboHobo]

Batman Beyond and Simpsons

[James]

Homicide: Life On The Street was the most consistant, mind blowing programme I've seen. Totally under rated and requires some serious rescreening in the UK!

[Calhoun07]

A series I felt was head and shoulders above many, many other shows was Nothing Sacred. But Catholics didn't like it, and some other religious folk didn't like it, so it didn't last long. And I can just say damn. It was a great show, underrated, and barely noticed cuz it aired on ABC on Thursday nights.

[Maxie Zeus]

Law and Order
Frasier
The Simpsons
Batman: The Animated Series

[mxyzptlk]

gi joe is one of my fav toons

[Mr. Eye]

Well currently, my favourtie show is Futurama. It's too damn funny....

Mr. Eye

[mxyzptlk]

snl has been my favorite show for a while now i watch it at least once a day on comedy central

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

...never heard of Nothing Sacred (which may be a testament to the lousy time slot it got) but as Catholics kept me from seeing a sketch on the Inquisistion on Histeria!, I must say I know how you feel, Calhoun07.

Another cancelled show that was wonderful was Mathatten AZ. If you've seen it, I'm sure you'd love it too....but the Sunday time slot against the Futurama (on WB or UPN MAZ was on; I forget since it's been about two years) killed the show....dang....

[Jowy Blight]

Mathatten AZ

I remember that show, it came on USA over here. I thought it was a halfway decent show.

[James]

Calhoun07:
Twin Peaks. Hands down, love it or hate it, that was the best television out there. I know people who only watched an episode or two and gave up on the show, but they didn't realize those episodes were part of a larger narrative and you HAVE to watch the entire narrative to piece it all together. Without it, there would have been no road paved for shows like Northern Exposure and the X Files. And look at the shows they paved ways for. Twin Peaks is by far my favorite TV series...EVER. I would watch that show any time, any where, and can't wait for it on DVD.

Yes, Twin Peaks was an amazing bit of television - even it's more slow second year. It's a real pity that Lynch didn't commision a TV movie follow up movie rather than the prequel. I think that was a blunder and the cost of the mistake lost him the chance to continue on the franchise. Real pity.

[Calhoun07]

I am sure if David Lynch wanted to, he would have made the sequel rather than the prequel, but from all I have read in interviews, he's quite satisfied with where Twin Peaks left off and how things were tied up in Fire Walk With Me.

As for Nothing Sacred...somebody mentioned they never heard of the show. It was basically a St Elsewhere or Boston Public style prime time drama but set in an inner city church. One of the topics tackled early on in the series was about abortion, and the Catholic Church just lobbied against the show so horribly. I wish it would see a second life on DVD.

[Sveven Dvorking]

Some other shows I really liked were Garfield and Friends and Tiny Toon Adventures, before they were pulled from television.

[mxyzptlk]

i am watching con air this movie rocks.

[Joker85]

Law And Order
Batman: The Animated Series
Babylon 5
Mama's Family
Star Trek: TNG

[Jowy Blight]

Oops, I forgot about Batman: TAS. I also liked Superman: TAS pretty good also, althrough Superman got beat up alot.

[Sveven Dvorking]

would have to be Wheel of Fortune. I hate all the others.

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

My fav game show would have to be Jepoardy, though Who wants to be a Millionaire can be good to watch sometimes....but some nights it's so easy to answer the WWTBAM questions I coulda been a MULTImillionaire!
....but I'm too young to enter the show. :(

[Sveven Dvorking]

Originally posted by BorgeoisBuffoon
My fav game show would have to be Jepoardy

I hate Jeopardy! You would have to be a super genius to win!

[Jowy Blight]

I was more of a Jepoardy person myself. Althrough I never got a single question right.

[James]

Calhoun07:
I am sure if David Lynch wanted to, he would have made the sequel rather than the prequel, but from all I have read in interviews, he's quite satisfied with where Twin Peaks left off and how things were tied up in Fire Walk With Me.

I'm not so sure the production team was as happy. In fact, I seem to remember even Lynch himself planned a second TV movie on the assumption the first did well.

I've read several reviews of various members of the creative team which imply that the ideas were far from over and that wasn't the end.

Lynch may be - in retropect - happy with the series, but there was certainly more to come if FWWM hadn't failed.

[Mr. Eye]

I like both Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. When I was small, I hated Jeopardy though. I couldn't get anything.

Mr. Eye

[Jowy Blight]

Does anybody remember Underdog? It used to come on Nick a while back.

[NewMaxFranklin]

My favorite Tv shows of all time are as follows (These are the only shows I watched with any consistency during post-adolescence):

The Simpsons
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Seinfeld
The Power Puff Girls
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
BatmanTAS & TNBA

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

Wait a minute....wasn't Underdog this cartoon dog-Superman ripoff where the dog was pretty much acting like Superman? If so, I remember it well....

[Fantasie117]

The West Wing
First Wave
The Invisible Man
Angel
Batman Beyond

[James]

A list of favourites - I'll bite as usual...

1. Homicide: Life On The Streets
2. Blake's 7
3. Jeeves And Wooster
4. Farscape
5. League Of Gentlemen
6. Battle Of The Planets
7. Batman Beyond
8. Lexx

[Jowy Blight]

4. Farscape

Yay! Somebody who likes Farscape.

[James]

Originally posted by Jowy Blight


Yay! Somebody who likes Farscape.

No doubt. One of the best pulp sci-fi shows to come out in years - if ever! And I hear the third series is as good - if not better - than the last!

I look forward to seeing it when it comes over to the UK...

[Bud 'n Lou]

Of course BTAS is on my list. I also like Jeopardy.
One of my favorite shows is Real World. I know most people here hate it, but I can't get enough of it. I think I might even try out for it in the future. I'd probably have a good chance, since they need their token gay for every season. :O)
Road Rules is also pretty good, but I'd never audition for it. Actually, I like reality shows in general, but these two are my favorites.
Another series I liked (which, of course has been cancelled) is Rude Awakening. It was on Showtime, and had Sherilyn Fenn and Lynn Redgrave. It was about an alcoholic woman struggling with her recovery, her lovelife, and her boozing mother--a comedy!
Another show I loved, also on Showtime, was Sherman Oaks. It's been cancelled for several years..I really loved this show. It was about a filmmaker who tapes the lives of a disfunctional family in Sherman Oaks, California. The family consisted of a plastic surgeon who cheats on his wife, the wife, who is a burned out hippie/slash new age "crystal lady" type, their ditzy, buxom daughter, their son, who believed he was black (this was at the height of the "white kids emulate black rappers" phase of the mid-ninties.), and their oriental maid who hated them all. It was made to look like a documentary. Funny stuff. Jason Behr played the son. He's on Roswell now.

[Frozen]

Originally posted by SJJ
A list of favourites - I'll bite as usual...

1. Homicide: Life On The Streets
2. Blake's 7
3. Jeeves And Wooster
4. Farscape
5. League Of Gentlemen
6. Battle Of The Planets
7. Batman Beyond
8. Lexx

With a list like that, I just KNEW you had to be British... Glad to know I'm not alone..!

[James]

Originally posted by Frozen


With a list like that, I just KNEW you had to be British... Glad to know I'm not alone..!

What gave me away?

And I didn't even get round to 'Doctor Who' or 'The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes'...

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Jowy Blight
Does anybody remember Underdog? It used to come on Nick a while back.

I do! They are putting the show out now on DVD and VHS.

[Jowy Blight]

They are putting the show out now on DVD and VHS.

Yeah, that's great. I haven't seen the show in while.

[Frozen]

SJJ wrote:

And I didn't even get round to 'Doctor Who' or 'The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes'...

As in the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes? He was cool, wasn't he? And don't you think he'd have made a great Dr Who..?

[Calhoun07]

OH, I missed the fav game show topic...

My favorite game show is Family Feud. Tho I don't like the Louie Anderson incarnation as much as the old ones, it's still the best game show on TV. I like to watch the hour block of it on Game Show Network every night. Richard Dawson was an awesome host.

[James]

Originally posted by Frozen


As in the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes? He was cool, wasn't he? And don't you think he'd have made a great Dr Who..?

Yeah, he was excellent. He really did the part justice. He would have been able to do a good Doctor. Perhaps a similar one to Colin Baker - lofty and aloof, without being irritating. That would have been quite a dramtic change to the quirky eccentric we always get.....

[Frozen]

Although, in retrospect, I really wouldn't have been able to bear seeing Brett suffering the same slow crucufixation that McCoy had to endure... I mean, 'Happiness Patrol' and 'Paradise Towers'... need I say more?

[James]

Originally posted by Frozen
Although, in retrospect, I really wouldn't have been able to bear seeing Brett suffering the same slow crucufixation that McCoy had to endure... I mean, 'Happiness Patrol' and 'Paradise Towers'... need I say more?

Oooo, watch it, you bitter genius you... ;) I'm a big fan of McCoy. While I agree is early stuff stunk (Paradise Towers being one of the better tasting dregs at the bottom of the barrel), I think 'The Happiness Patrol' is a fantastic episode and one of the best of the whole series. 'Ghost Light' (a latter McCoy for unintiated) is one of the best stories in the whole series of Doctor Who.
I think the whole feel of the series could have moved to a different level if the BBC would have extended it's life - and if they had decided if the programme was meant to be for kids or adults. It just didn't suit trying to cater for both.

[Frozen]

The McCoy era certainly was picking up toward the end of the run - it's a big shame we never learnt how it would have panned out. I read some of the ideas they had for the following series, and they did sound rather cool...

[James]

Originally posted by Frozen
The McCoy era certainly was picking up toward the end of the run - it's a big shame we never learnt how it would have panned out. I read some of the ideas they had for the following series, and they did sound rather cool...

Yeah - the best source for potential adult Doctor material is the Virgin range (now discontinued). I know it was unpopular with hardcore fans, but I felt the range gave, IMO, a new lease of life to the series and once again began to push the boundaries in a way the series hadn't done since the early eighties.

Good stuff (occasional dross). If anyone is a Doctor Who fan who hasn't picked up a New Virgin Adventure - you don't know what you are missing!!

[sun]

Easy...The one that is the most fun, gives the most laughs, zaniist, way out, satiracal. ANIMANIACS.

[Tim Drake]

BTAS or Simpsons

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

For me it's either Histeria or the Simpsons. Heck, any WB Silver Age show is excellent, and Groening's other feature, Futurama, is good as well.

[sun]

Histeria was truly a great show. Some outstanding bits, action, satire on level with Animaniacs, and music to boot..If anyone hasn't heard the "Invasion Song" from an Histeria episode where Napolean moderates, has missed some great animation and music work that won emmies for the Animaniacs composer, whose name I cannot recall at this moment.. Some of those shows are absolute classics.

[sun]

Originally posted by BorgeoisBuffoon
For me it's either Histeria or the Simpsons. Heck, any WB Silver Age show is excellent, and Groening's other feature, Futurama, is good as well. Sorry, I do not know what BATS is. If it is Batman the Animated Series. that was a great one too. but, let me know,, thank you oldtoonguy

[mxyzptlk]

my favorite animation is dexter powerpuff or simpsons.

[Bud 'n Lou]

Yeah, BTAS = Batman: the Animated Series.

[Jowy Blight]

My all-time fav would have to be the Simpsons. I've been watching that show for a long time. As for H! I don't like it at all, it just didn't amuse me at all.

[James]

Homicide: Life On The Street. The scripts, the acting, the music and THE direction. Refreshing and stimulating. How could so many people miss such a great series????

Although I feel compelled to make a mention to BTAS and BB. I certainly wouldn't say they are the best but they are very good. For them to be the best, they'd have to remove the element aimed at children as both programmes (especially the latter) suffer from being neutered occasionally.

Simpsons.... hmm, once. It still manages at least one funny line per episode but I think Futurama is the new king on the funny side of town turf.

Farscape is the one current programme (since my choice of Homicide has already finished) I will never miss. So I think my final and rather convoluted answer is: Farscape - my favourite current programme, Homicide - THE all time great!!

[Sveven Dvorking]

Didn't someone else recently start a thread with the exact same question?

:confused:

[Psilon2011]

I have a few: I cannot name one....

Homicide
Gargoyles
BTAS
Babylon 5

[Mr. Eye]

Simpsons. No doubt about it. :)

Mr. Eye

[Jedi Knight]

Not even close .. "The Simpsons" has just been so good for so long. I think most people say it's not as good as the early days, but it's still funny.

"Gargoyles" is a close second.

[Sveven Dvorking]

Here is the old thread. Why did someone start a new thread with the same message?:confused:

[ShadowWolf]

Animated: The simpsons, B:TAS and Robotech are all on the same level for me.

RL: The X-files, Law and order and Farscape (Angel is coming really close to my #1 list)

[Frozen]

SJJ wrote:

Good stuff (occasional dross). If anyone is a Doctor Who fan who hasn't picked up a New Virgin Adventure - you don't know what you are missing!!


I used to work at a Forbidden Planet (a chain of comic book shops in the UK), and we used to sell those books by the ton!

[sun]

[ Sorry if my post, interrupted yours, I did not mean any harm, I must not have seen yours, otherwise, I probably would have just answered yours, or renamed mine something else with a different twist....I did not mean to offend. sorry again. old toon guy :o

[Calhoun07]

Could we just merge the two? Would that be acceptable?

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by oldtoonguy
[ Sorry if my post, interrupted yours, I did not mean any harm, I must not have seen yours, otherwise, I probably would have just answered yours, or renamed mine something else with a different twist....I did not mean to offend. sorry again. old toon guy :o

No offense taken. This happens all the time, and not just to newbies! ;)

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by calhoun07
Could we just merge the two? Would that be acceptable?

Done and done.

[Calhoun07]

You da man, Maxie! You DA MAN!

[James]

Originally posted by Frozen


I used to work at a Forbidden Planet (a chain of comic book shops in the UK), and we used to sell those books by the ton!

Cool? Which FP? Did you do get many signings at your branch?

Have you read the New Adventures Frozen?

My favourites are 'Return Of The Living Dad', Happy Ending, Love And War, All Consuming Fire, Nightshade, The Room With No Doors and Human Nature. I would recommend any of these and NONE of the new BBC books. They are terrible.