what are your favorite tv shows that ended before you even began to appreciate them..............or just fav tv shows.



ha..well, for me:

practically every series on HBO besides sex and the city. so:

entourage (especially earlier seasons)
deadwood
the sopranos
THE FUCKING WIRE (best show currently on television)
mr. show

and few that weren't on HBO:

freaks & geeks (only one season long but ridiculously entertaining. do whatever you can to get a copy of this show)
upright citzens brigade
futurama
wondershowzen
pee-wees playhouse
ren & stimpy

that about does 'er.

(of course the simpsons, but they go without mentioning. and south park)

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curb your enthusiasm
family guy
that 70s show
the sopranos


for someone who hates tv, i really enjoy a few shows

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Mr. Show, South Park, Futurama, The Simpsons, The Singing Detective. That last one shits all over every other TV show, ever. Especially your favorite one. I see I forgot Twin Peaks. That ruled too.

I guess I watch some Venture Bros. these days too. Not having a TV makes it hard for me to watch much. I don't mean that logistically, since I could go to any number of peoples' houses and watch their TVs. I mean that, when I do see a TV show, it's immediately apparent how much damage it's going to do to me to watch it. So I don't.

1.)Twin Peaks
2.)The Simpsons
3.)Oz
4.)Sopranos

mine would be : aqua teen hunger force, harvey birdman, the maxx, robot chicken, 12 oz mouse, curb your enthusiasm, the office, south park, and duckman; ofcourse the daily show and colbert report as well..

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curb is badass.

family guy is over-rated


i forgot carnival. (has the midget from twin peaks)


PST, I would agree with you, except there are some television shows worth your time.......THE WIRE. seriously, it is amazing.

twin peaks.......well i was too young to fully appreciate it when the show first came on. i remember it being really fuckin weird, though.

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trailer park boys
simpsons
ali g show
family guy
married with children
top gear
fifth gear
flying circus
kids in the hall
old snl
ucb

How i met your mother
Two and a half men
Seinfeld
Married with children (good one xgraf)
AQTF
Family guy
Ren and Stimpy
Two stupid dogs
Dexters lab
Cowboy Beebop
Simpsons is good stuff too

Basically almost anything on cartoon network before nowadays (i don't watch much new cartoon network so i don't know them)

Edit: Oh hell yeah 90s SNL all the way.

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Mad tv, Reno 911, ...damn, im drawing an insane blank. that and im usually only in the movie bit of the guide.

I keep hearing hype for the Wire, but I don't buy it. I'm not too impressed by HBO's programming; it's above-average TV, but since TV has become a very dumb medium, a 'good' TV show is something like a 'gorgeous' gnat; I haven't seen one and wonder at the people who claim to have done so.

There are some exceptions: The Simpsons, Futurama, and South Park were all part of growing up, and Trey and Matt are masters of satire and of spinning a 30-minute narrative. Lynch tried to break through the medium's limitations by making a show that went as far as possible without anything happening, but because TV audiences want simplicity and clarity, and he couldn't really write and direct it all himself, he lost out to the medium. Still a good show.

The Singing Detective is tops because it takes a TV show's great strength - that it can build up hour upon hour of stuff - and actually uses it, here by building new layers of ambiguity with each episode, rather than doing the usual bit of establishing a pattern and then sticking to it, rewarding those who want some more of the familiar. It effectively showed what a TV show could do if the people behind it were smart enough and the money behind it backed off.

So far this hasn't happened again. HBO shows, and now one or two on most network, ape movies without being willing to deliver the same type of complexity. But The Wire has a good idea at core, so I guess I'll check it out.

Two and a Half Men
New Adventures of Old Christine
Family Guy
Friends
Reba
All My Children (that's right)

I might add more to the list. This is all I can think of at the moment.

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some show were some guys are always planting weed on a trailer park.
Alas Smith & Jones
Benny Hill
Blackadder
The Simpsons
Futurama
Frasier

that's all i can remember for now.

Family Guy
The Simpsons
Trailer Park Boys(graf made me get back into them)
Dexter(I've only seen two episodes..they were fantastic)
Deadwood
South Park
Daily Show with John Stewart
The Hour(cbc)
The Passionate Eye(cbc)
The Last 48
Cold Case Files
Investigative Report
The War At Home
America's Funniest Home Videos
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
American Justice
City Confidential
Blind Date(LOL)

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The Sopranos
Lost
The Mighty Boosh
Red Dwarf
The Office (UK)
Extras (UK)
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Man to Man With Dean Learner
Bo! Selecta
Blackadder
Bottom
The Young Ones
Fawlty Towers
Da Ali G Show
Shooting Stars
Nevermind the Buzzcocks
Have I Got News For You
Mock the Week
Phoenix Nights
Knowing Me, Knowing You With Alan Partridge
I'm Alan Partridge
Men Behaving Badly
Father Ted

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Alan Partridge kicks all sorts of asses.

Rent and Stimpy
David Tench
Ronnie Johns
The OC
Good Game
Cyber Shack
Simpsons
Futurama
American Dad
South Park
Roccos Modern Life





And all time favourite, Evangelion.

Simpsons
Futurama
American Dad
South Park
Family Guy
Ren n Stimpy
Pinky and the Brain
Married with Children
News Radio
ER
That 70s Show
Celebrity Deathmatch

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Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
The Mighty Boosh
Top Gear (the original UK version)
Green Wing
The Sopranos
Scrubs
Lost
The Simpsons
South Park
Friends
Father Ted
The Office (US version. The UK Office fucking sucks)
Pinky and the Brain
Dexter's Laboratory
Home Improvement

Probably forgetting quite a few...

Futurama
Blackadder
Jackass
Simpsons
Law and Order(the old episodes and Criminal Intent mostly)
Catdog
Spongebob Squarepants
The Smurfs(only the oldschool ones)
Kabamaru
MacGyver
Mr.Bean

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T.V. is bad for you.

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
The Mighty Boosh
Armando Ianucci's Time Trumpet
The Day Today
BrassEye
Nathan Barley
Spaced
Peep Show
I'm Alan Partridge

Monkey Dust is pretty good too

The Daily Show. How the hell coudl i forget this one. This is one of my favorite shows ever.

Go jon stewart!

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wow......you have really bad tastes.

mostly because all these shows, 'cept family guy, have syndicated laughter. FUCK THAT SHIT.

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Forgot to mention 7th Heaven,unbelievably funny

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you see the movie yet?? someone put a video of it online..but all the reviews say the quality is terrible (they said they could make a better film with their cell phone camera) and about 20-30 minutes at the end are missing. we figured we'd wait for the full movie and better quality. i'm starting to think we're just going to have to buy the dvd when it comes out heh.

I dont watch too much tv (since i dont even have cable), but my fav shows are"
That 70s Show
Family GUy
SImpsons
South Park
Lost
Greys Anatomy
Married with Children
Mad TV
Friends
American Dad
Futurama

among others

http://www.allsp.com/

That site has the South Park Episodes from Seasons 1 - 10.
Occasionally it doesnt work for a couple hours, but it eventually comes back on after awhile.

and Family Guy:
http://all-fg.com/
The volume is pretty low though.


I think several of you will like these sites.

I'm sorry Moe Blunts you dont' find sit coms funny. You must live a sad, cold, unlaughing life.

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Never wach tv. only lost

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WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THIS SHOW?

Is it seriously that good? hah i mean i can't stop hearing about it, i've yet to have seen an episode though. Seems too serious for me.

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Yeah. The only source of laughter in life is sitcoms.

The canned laugh tracks of sitcoms actually kinda disturb me, knowing that many are the same as 50 years or so ago and that much of the laughter you hear is from people long dead. The combination of that with canned laughter's false catharsis (you don't actually have to laugh to to get relieved in the way laughter can relieve you, because somebody else does it for you) and its calculated contagiousness and the whole thing bothers me. Like a mechanical shoulder rub from Frankenstein.

Lost is just a show you can invest a lot of time in.

Twas a sarcastic joke.

I could seriously careless for any of the "canned" laughter you speak of anyways. I think you're focusing way too hard on the wrong aspects of any of the shows that happen to contain it.

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No.

I spend all my money on beer and smokes.

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What money? Your allowance? Get a job hippie!

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haha, all my jobs seem to fall through..

RGIS Inventory - Huge lack of work due to the lack of contracts with companies.

Outlander Film - Massive cut of extras

the Bay - I was supposed to start tomorrow but now I can't because I start school next Tuesday.

It's manifest destiny that I will not be employed!

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I never watched Seinfeld until it ended.
I watched the first season of Mr. Show, OZ and The Sopranos...then lost HBO.

South Park is the best show ever created.

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ahh you fucking hoser! they should revoke your citizenship! i'm gonna see it before you do and its gonna be awesome, but you'll never know.

one episode of Family Guy had that laughing, but it was only for like 2 minutes and it was part of a joke.

And All My Children is rarely ever funny.

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also, Prision Break just began here. awesome show so far.

Lost... i swear the writers wake up in the morning and go "let's just shove some random shit on the show and call it mystical."

one of the worst shows i've ever seen and i believe at least 50% of its audience watches only for the hot bodies.

edit: Family Guy sucks more than Elton John on a dick inspection.

ok guys, i just remembered my favorite cartoon as a kid. although, i cant remember the name

ive asked about it on this site before, but i dont recall a response. it was the one where they were all dead or something, and would play sports. but they would go all out and fall apart and shit. i remember they were playing baseball and this guy tore off his own arm as a bat. then one time they were playing and it rained acid, all their skin melted and made them uglier than before. but they keep playing!! haha. anyone remember? i was probably 8

oh , breaking bonaduce is good

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I know exactly what that fucking show it, i used to watch it all the time too. i can't remember the name, i htink it had monster in the title. Like monster football or something. Nah maybe not. But i most definately watched that show. I'll look it up and repost. Give me a sec.


Edit:
Its called Mutant League. Woot. The moment i saw the name i was like yup yup.

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Aww, dude...I was searching for this before! It used to be on Fox!



.....the suspense..........



















Mutant League!

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Damn you fucker. I just looked it up......

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LOL YOU WASTED TIME YOU COULD OF HAD BEFORE YOU DIE.

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oh fuck yeah!!!!!! thanks! although, i dont know how i'll watch it again.

EDIT: haha, tmfreak. i looked it up too but i didnt find it, myself.

YOU WILL RUE THE DAY YOU MESSED WITH ME!!!!!

If it wasn't for that meddling Bassbehemoth... i woulda had more life to live..

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Actually, since those shows all contain canned laughter for some very specific reasons - I gave two, but there are more - and rely on you to believe that it's there for no reason, that it isn't important, that it has no effect on your enjoyment of the show, I'd say you're focusing way too hard on the wrong aspects of the shows that 'happen' to contain it. Canned laughter gets people to laugh at shit that they wouldn't otherwise consider funny; that's the entire reason it's there. And it's still there because most people think they ignore it as they let it work on them.

Keep in mind that, of the over 100 people who are involved in the production of any given sitcom, there are maybe a few members of the crew who don't consider it their job to deliver you a brand. Not to entertain you. Just to get you hooked on a particular product, usually a product with some kind of simplified narrative attached, usually a narrative that plugs neatly into some prefab political message (this in ways different from those we consider obvious, since, again, the effect is ruined if we realize what's being done to us). I can never understand why people can be cynical about politicians only to turn around and let TV folks do the same damage to them. Maybe if politicians were funnier.

hah, fuckin soap operas.


anyways, has anyone seen freaks & geeks besides me? here is an episode. it isnt the best one but it still fuckin rocks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pnp0OPcwnI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpoVoNQ616c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKjws6YgleA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_QTNsfwVWI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Vex1ZQcSw

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i used to watch it. one of the few shows i took notice of playing times, and purposely went to it.

boring show.

the dude that played drums was cool, though. he liked KISS, which makes him badass by default.

I forgot to mention Transformers,I still have the toys somewhere

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I really don't watch a great deal of TV. In the UK the quality of telly is shocking, it's cheap reality bollocks featuring either faded z-lister celebs (or ex-boyfriends of faded z-lister celebs) or annoying wastes of sperm and muscle tissue who want to be famous but actually have not dicernable talent or skill other than pinching other people's oxygen and wasting it!

The other thing that clogs the network are soap operas 7 days a week with repeats at the weekend just incase you were lucky enough to be out during the week when they were first on!

Add to that the constant showing of Arnie, Stephen 'fucking' Seagull or Jean Claude films on loop every week(yes channel 5 I'm looking at you) and these constant make over shows called 'Help Me Stop Looking Like a Fat Minger', 'I Can't Sell My House Cause I live In a Dodgy Area', 'Rummage Through My Loft So We Can Have A Car Boot Sale' or 'We Are Shit Parents Who Have No Parenting Skills So Our Children Are Unruly Reprobates And We Should Have Been Castrated So We Couldn't Breed, Quick Call in the Super Nanny' These sort of shows usually involve an 'expert' telling these people in a harsh brutal way that they are ugly or crap and then tries to show them how to change and become a better person!
Even worse are the attempts at emulating successful American shows!
Don't even get me started on Jeremy 'patronising' Kyle, hey Jerry Springer was so last century, we are so behind the times!
And please somebody tell me what the fuck is supposed to be funny about Catherine Tate???

When the adverts are on you don't get a rest bite as the adverts are all for people in debt or falling off ladders and waiting for that cheque for £8000.

Odds are If I watch anything it's usually a documentary of some sort, or a film.
With cable I've been watching old re-runs of 60's and 70's shows as nothing modern really interests me.

God I'm a boring old fart

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Everybody Loves Raymond, Beavis and Butthead (before they took it off) Trailer Park Boys, South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Futurama, That 70s Show, Drew Carey, Comedy Now!, Comedy at Club 54, Just for Laughs, Back In... and there's probobaly more.

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Mutant League was a good cartoon back in the day. Dave Chapelle is pretty damn good too. "Fuck yo couch nigga" "They should have never gave you nigga's moooonnneeey!!!"

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I'll make a list of shows I used to enjoy.

Seinfield
Family Guy
Futurama
American Dad
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Sea Lab 2021
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Cowboy Bebob
The Brak Show

doh! how did i forget chapelle! that guy is hilarious. he did some stand up at my old college a few years ago. we tried to meet him out back to smoke with him but others with the same idea were already there...in the end we got to talk to him, but he said he didn't have time to stick around and doesn't smoke as much as he used to.

You guys like Mind of Mencia? He can be funny sometime but mainly his jokes focus on like "Retards", which after a couple of times of watching him gets pretty unfunny. I can't even stand to hear a retard joke from anyone in life anymore.

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Everybody loves raymond has got to be the worst show ever.

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You're high as a kite. That show rox.

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No. That show is shit.

I thought the same thing. then I got hooked. Plots are a little farfetched, but.... it's good tv.

Lately; J.R. falls off the wagon and drinks all the liquor and shit out of Josh's hotel mini-fridge while he waits to kill him for sleeping with Babe (JR's wife). Bianca instead comes in the room, sees JR is drunk, and tries to calm him down. Then her mother Erica comes in the room threatening J.R. to stay away from her family. Bianca and Erica block the door leading out of the room, so J.R. jumps out the window... btw, the room is about 3 stories high.

Hammered douche jumps out the window? C'mon, that's good stuff!

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Ah christ, how could I have forgotten King of the Hill.

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Metalocalypse anyone?

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well, I guess since that it is a given that it's the best show ever, no one else has mentioned it yet.

I need to catch up on some of the episodes. To YouTube I go!

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Its funny, but definitely not the best.

Favorites:
Seinfeld
South Park
The Daily Show
Penn and Tellar's Bullshit
X-Files

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damn I forgot space ghost, the boondocks, the brak show, fawlty towers and the blackadder.. amazing.. been a while since I've watched fawlty, got all of 'em on vhs though

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I forward this motion. CT is sub-Little Britain, which in turn is sub-League of Gentlemen.

Which brings me to one I forgot earlier: The League of Gentlemen.

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I couldn't agree more! It's almost as if her program is aimed at the older generation as the youngsters have Little Britain etc. But to me it's comedy that cleaning ladies would like!

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The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Family Guy.

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It's actually not bad until you realize every episode is the same. Then you realize Ray Barone is a spineless fucking bastard who submits to the whims of his wife and mother and refuses to stand up for either of them. I can't stand that fucking show.

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Tom and Jerry
Swat Kats
Dragon Ball Z
Ninja Robots

I used to love DBZ. People thought I was a freak. I would collect the toys, draw pictures, buy the tapes.

The one series after it, DBGT, sucked.

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