Rank your top 5 personal favorite TV shows

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Wally
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Feb 13, 2015 5:47am
1. Big Bang Theory
2. Seinfeld

and then these are next not in any order:
Duck Dynasty
Counting Cars
Street Outlaws
Swamp People
Storage Wars
Shipping Wars
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thavoice
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Feb 13, 2015 11:26am
Wally;1705414 wrote:1. Big Bang Theory
2. Seinfeld

and then these are next not in any order:
Duck Dynasty
Counting Cars
Street Outlaws
Swamp People
Storage Wars
Shipping Wars
YOu just watch it to see Jenn......
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thavoice
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Feb 13, 2015 11:29am
Ironman92;1705385 wrote:There aren't 5 shows I watch now.

All-time for me....

1. FRIENDS
2. Fresh Prince
3. Coach
4. Saved By the Bell
5. Cheers
Pretty good list. Watched and enjoyed all of those shows except for Friends. I am pretty sure I have never watched a full ep of it.
I would have to add in Married with Children,.

Funny thing about cheers....the first season or two they were so lowly rated that if they came out today and got the ratings they did...they would get cancelled probably before the season was over
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Sonofanump
Feb 13, 2015 11:30am
I don't get the entertainment value of the fake reality shows.
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Iliketurtles
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Feb 13, 2015 4:31pm
1) Breaking Bad
2) The Wire
3) The Shield
4) Boy Meets World
5) House of Cards
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friendfromlowry
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Feb 13, 2015 8:59pm
1) The Simpsons (not so much the newer stuff. Can't remember last time I watched a new episode on Sunday night)
2) Boy Meets World
3) Brooklyn 99
4) The Goldbergs
5) Big Bang Theory
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Tiernan
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Feb 14, 2015 5:44am
NOT in Cleveland
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gut
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Feb 14, 2015 11:29am
I'll update my list from 2+ years ago, and split comedy and drama:
1) Seinfeld
2) HIMYM
3) Married with Children
Well, nothing else I've watched (so no All in the Family, no 30 Rock) comes close to the standard of the above 3. Early seasons of some stuff like Simpsons, BBT and 2.5 Men were hilarious, but later seasons fell off badly. They ruined BBT when they turned it into "Friends with nerds".

1) GOT
2) The Shield
3) Breaking Bad
4) The Wire
5) The Americans*
Too many bad/slow/dull episodes and/or seasons for Boardwalk Empire, Sopranos and Lost. I don't consider dramas where episodes are mostly independent, such as SVU (not that it would make my cut, anyway). Not sure if they'd make my list, but honorable mention to Rome and Deadwood, which had too short of runs to be considered.
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4cards
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Feb 14, 2015 1:44pm
1. Soap
2. Combat
3. Walking Dead
4. MASH
5. WKRP in Cincinnati
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steubbigred
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Feb 14, 2015 3:07pm
forgot about a few of those like wkrp
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Uz2Bon36
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Feb 14, 2015 9:32pm
Top Gear
MASH
Mythbusters
Stormchasers
Deadliest Catch
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Terry_Tate
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Feb 17, 2015 12:33am
Just finished Breaking Bad. Damn what an awesome final season.
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cruiser_96
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Feb 18, 2015 9:36am
1. The Cosby Show (Mainly the earlier stuff. Things got weird late in the run.)
2. Survivorman (Pretty much every episode DV-R'd, and I watch an episode a day.)

I used to really dig...
3. Seinfeld
4. Friends
5. Saved By The Bell (I know, I know. I have issues. Whatevs.)

I rarely watch TV. When I do, it's Survivorman. Unless The Cosby Show is on. Or NCAA wrestling, of course. But that's not a TV show.
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Sonofanump
Feb 18, 2015 9:52am
cruiser_96;1706296 wrote:1. The Cosby Show (Mainly the earlier stuff. Things got weird late in the run.)
Like the part where he would take chicks, er I mean patients in his home office and give them a drink, er I mean medicine before her raped, er I mean examined them?
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Classyposter58
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Feb 19, 2015 10:44pm
You know which one I forgot was Mad Men. I believe that and Game of Thrones have the two best stories on television
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ptown_trojans_1
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Feb 22, 2015 8:17pm
ptown_trojans_1;1351346 wrote:Currently on:
1. Mad Men
2. Breaking Bad
3. Walking Dead
4. Boardwalk Empire
5. SOA

Not on anymore
1. Lost
2. Wire (Only 1 season in and already love it)
3. Sopranos
4. Original Law and Order
5. 24, only the 1st season
Update:
Current:
1. Mad Men
2. The Americans
3. Walking Dead
4. Justified
5. GOT

All time previously:
1. Wire
2. Breaking Bad
3. Sopranos
4. Lost
5. 24 1st season
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Sonofanump
Mar 13, 2015 2:11pm
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/the-99-greatest-tv-characters-since-tony-soprano-113470995545.html

Hey snot, if you have nothing better to do between your miss OC contest, set one of these up for the chatter.
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Terry_Tate
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Mar 13, 2015 6:53pm
Sonofanump;1712582 wrote:https://www.yahoo.com/tv/the-99-greatest-tv-characters-since-tony-soprano-113470995545.html

Hey snot, if you have nothing better to do between your miss OC contest, set one of these up for the chatter.
99 characters and not a single one from Lost? Jack, Sawyer, Locke, and especially Benjamin Linus would all be worthy choices.
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Laley23
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Mar 13, 2015 7:31pm
As soon as I saw I had to click on all 99 separetly, closed the page. Fuck that.

However, to not have Ben Linus/Sawyer/Locke is a jock, when the only one I click on was Tammi Taylor from FNL.
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gut
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Mar 14, 2015 4:23am
Terry_Tate;1712656 wrote:99 characters and not a single one from Lost? Jack, Sawyer, Locke, and especially Benjamin Linus would all be worthy choices.
I skimmed that list and it's pretty obvious there's some sort bias in the ranking. Kind of like looking for NFL insights at Bleacher.com. Yahoo tv staff? I'm guessing they're neither particularly critically experienced nor a representative cross-sample of viewers. There's the obvious, ignoring ranking, and then the WTF? which is pretty clearly Sally's favorite show that most people don't watch, but it makes the list because this is just 5 idiots talking around the coffee pot.

Benjamin Linus is easily a top-5 or top-10 character and anyone who disagrees never watched Lost.
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Sonofanump
Mar 14, 2015 10:15am
Terry_Tate;1712656 wrote:99 characters and not a single one from Lost? Jack, Sawyer, Locke, and especially Benjamin Linus would all be worthy choices.
Linus was #36, way too low.
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Sonofanump
Mar 14, 2015 10:17am
gut;1712752 wrote:I skimmed that list and it's pretty obvious there's some sort bias in the ranking. Kind of like looking for NFL insights at Bleacher.com. Yahoo tv staff? I'm guessing they're neither particularly critically experienced nor a representative cross-sample of viewers. There's the obvious, ignoring ranking, and then the WTF? which is pretty clearly Sally's favorite show that most people don't watch, but it makes the list because this is just 5 idiots talking around the coffee pot.

Benjamin Linus is easily a top-5 or top-10 character and anyone who disagrees never watched Lost.
Hence why I thought it would be interesting to have a poll on here.