Greatest TV show of all time?

Big Stick · 26-08-2002 11:10pm #1

What is the best TV show of all time?

qwidgybo · 26-08-2002 11:27pm

TED
i do realise,big stick,that you're american so you wouldn't have put fr.ted in there but it is the BEST TV SHOW EVER.EVER.
in my opinion,anyway...

Mystic Fibrosis · 26-08-2002 11:34pm

Twas in its prime, now, it is like the fading rock star

Big Stick · 26-08-2002 11:41pm

Actually, I'm Irish, I should have put Ted in... Dammit... Just what I need, another pamphlet started to overturn the ruling of a poll I've overseen...

You're all just like Gore... :mad:

Moni · 27-08-2002 2:34pm

heheh. I love how everyone thinks big stick is american.

And I'm american, and I know fr. ted, and I like the show.. and americans aren't as sheltered as you think, Aideen! :P
the show is actually on over here.. but im not exactly sure when.

qwidgybo · 27-08-2002 2:44pm

oh right,sorry big stick

and i'm glad to hear you have ted.no one should be denied that experience

Elvish · 27-08-2002 3:03pm

I know this may turn this thread into a ted quote forum but.......

Bishop Brennan in the Vatican meeting the pope: He DID kick me up the arse!!!!

Brilliant

oq4v3ht0u76kf2 · 27-08-2002 6:29pm

Only Fools and Horses
Porridge
Friends
Home Improvement
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Futurama
Keeping Up Appearances
Scrubs
Batchelors Walk
Father Ted
Boy Meets World
A Black Day at Blackrock

All brilliant, there are many more brilliant ones, I can't pick a favourite.

TheAlmightyArse · 27-08-2002 7:13pm

Originally posted by Moni

the show is actually on over here.. but im not exactly sure when.

Yes, and so's stuff like the League of Gentlemen.

Only at some gods-forsaken hour and with all the best bits edited out in case they offend. Tch. How could they not include Tubbs' nude dance?

Phryxus · 27-08-2002 7:30pm

none of the above (although i do like family guy)

1. thundercats
2. mask
3. transformers
4. jason and the wheel warriors
5. most other 80's cartoons were brilliant.

lordsippa · 27-08-2002 7:33pm

YOU BADSIRS!!!! WHERE IS RED DWARF?!

and of course we all know <don't we?> that the real greatest show is the highly underrated We Are History.

Pimp Tom. Pimp.

lordsippa · 27-08-2002 7:37pm

Just reading the post above me <appeared as i was posting>
... MASK! JASON AND THE WHEEL WARRIORS! HE MAN! TRANSFORMERS! THUNDERCATS! SUPER MARIO BROTHERS! CAPTAIN N! D&D <the cartoon>! ... and one other one which i can't remember properly right now...

article6 · 27-08-2002 7:37pm

Since Where's Father Ted has been answered, where's Fawlty Towers and The West Wing, I want to know.

Fawlty Towers because it was even better than Father Ted, in all fairness, which makes it something special.

The West Wing because it gives me a chance both to shout at the Democrats and thank God I'm not American, every week.

So where are they. The Simpsons used to be brilliant as well, though

Mystic Fibrosis · 27-08-2002 8:09pm

INVADER ZIM.

I think its back on Nick again....well, it was on today...

pretty*monster · 27-08-2002 8:16pm

six feet under
six feet under
six feet under

Happy CTYI guy · 27-08-2002 9:26pm

No, It's Monty Pythons Flying Circus. Thats it, no objections, I'm absolutely 100% right so anyone who disagrees can burn in hell and be slapped in the face with large fish.Period.

pretty*monster · 27-08-2002 9:31pm

< burns in hell and is slapped in the face with large fish >
I don't like Monty Python, I mean some of it is funny but alot of it is just...not

SOL · 27-08-2002 9:39pm

and they al have yet to realise, tv sucks
i've moved on to computer games :P

Green Hand Guy · 27-08-2002 9:46pm

Voices in my head! Voices in my head!

Or since they aren't being broadcast on TV 9(yet):
1. Cheers
2. The Simpsons
3. Family Guy
4. Southpark
5. Red Dwarf
6. Futurama
7. Friends
8. Monty Pythons Flying Circus
9. The League of Gentlemen (Yay Tubbs nude dance!)
10. Whatever show I end up hosting.

Or if you knew me in the eighties:
1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2. Thomas the Tank Engine
3. Bosco
4. He-Man
5. Thunder Cats
6. She-Ra (Anyone remember that? It was a weird He-Man spin-off)
7. Dungeons and Dragons
8. Mask
9. Fat Albert
10. Pob

TheAlmightyArse · 27-08-2002 10:57pm

Originally posted by lordsippa
Just reading the post above me <appeared as i was posting>
... MASK! JASON AND THE WHEEL WARRIORS! HE MAN! TRANSFORMERS! THUNDERCATS! SUPER MARIO BROTHERS! CAPTAIN N! D&D <the cartoon>! ... and one other one which i can't remember properly right now...

I have a 3 HOUR tape full of Super Mario Bros, I do! Yay, me!

And Monty Python definetely doesn't deserve top spot. Like has been said, it was nowhere near consistently funny. It shaped British comedy, it had some of the funniest moments in TV history in it, and, well, I grew up with it *sniff*, but when all's said and done there's a definite reason John Cleese abandoned ship towards the end.

Fawlty Towers, on the other hand, was, is, and always shall be, fantastic.

TheAlmightyArse · 27-08-2002 11:01pm

Save for the absence of Fawlty Towers and the Day Today, Green Hand Guy's list is great. I'm tempted to, er, 'diss' Friends, I am, but when I think about it, how many times have I seen each episode, and yet they can still make me laugh... same would go for the Simpsons, if it weren't for the horror of every new episode for the past three or so years.

Oh, and if anything, She-Ra was better than He-Man. And the cross-over movie, well, that was genius.

littlehedgehog · 27-08-2002 11:10pm

BELIEVE NOTHING! god that programme kicks ass!
Oh scrubs rocks too

and the rose of tralee (does that count?)

smiles · 28-08-2002 12:05am

I love Fr. Ted. Aideen loves Fr. Ted.

Fr. Ted wins

<< Fio >>

Laura · 28-08-2002 9:43pm

"I LOVE MY BRICK!" Fr. Ted ( makes my sides hurt)

Monty Pythons Flying Circus (i love those guys)

Fawlty Towers (just is brilliant)

and the Simpsons because it makes me laugh constantly. anyone who knows me knows how true this is.

oq4v3ht0u76kf2 · 28-08-2002 9:52pm

Jesus! How could I forget Fawlty Towers? Dermo bought me every episode of that ever made for christmas, all twelve of them... they are still unbelievably brilliant though!

And, be you Laura whose bus stop I went to to make sure you were okay?

littlehedgehog · 28-08-2002 9:55pm

were there not 13? or maybe I'm losing my mind................again...............................

TheAlmightyArse · 28-08-2002 10:16pm

6 episdoes per series is the standard BBC fare, so unless they did a Christmas special or something... in which case, if they did, I'm positively browning up my dressing gown at the thought of unseen Fawlty Towers. Please say it's true!

oq4v3ht0u76kf2 · 28-08-2002 10:27pm

Well, the DVD box makes a big song and dance about every episode ever made... and the third disc full of cool **** documents why only twelve episodes were made.

Barry Aldwell · 28-08-2002 10:46pm

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists go around wearing black and telling people what to do, and priests... More drink!

littlehedgehog · 28-08-2002 11:13pm

my bad then.............but I could have swore there was a 13th...................I'm probably wrong.................who is going to have to clean your dressing gown we wonder...............................

Crash · 28-08-2002 11:22pm

Hmmm.....What about DINO-RIDERS!!?!?! And....hmmm...lessee, Shazzaam!

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