All-time GOAT TV Series

Arts & Entertainment
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Guess what? We decided the best pizza. We decided the best pie. We even decided the best TV theme song.

Now it’s time to decide the GOAT TV series.

Submit your nominations below with whatever writeup you want.

May I have volunteers to handle brackets and vote polls?

NOTE:

Nominations up to post #126

30 Rock
Abbot Elementary
Absolutely Fabulous
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
All in the Family
The Americans
Arcane
Archer
Arrested Development
Atlanta
Band of Brothers
Barney Miller
Barry
Batman (1966)
The Bear
Benson
Better Call Saul
The Big Bang Theory
Blackadder
Boardwalk Empire
The Bob Newhart Show
Bojack Horseman
Bones
The Boys
Breaking Bad
Brooklyn 99
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Burns and Allen Show
Burn Notice
The Carmichael Show
The Carol Burnett Show
Cheers
Chernobyl
CHiPS
Columbo
Community
Cosmos
Cowboy Bebop
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dark
Deadwood
Degrassi
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Diplomat
The English
Escape at Dannemora
Everybody Loves Raymond
The Expanse
Fargo
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Feud
Firefly
Fleabag
Flight of the Concords
Frasier
Freaks and Geeks
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Friends
Fringe
Full Metal Alchemist
Futurama
Game of Thrones
Get Shorty
Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex
The Golden Girls
The Good Place
The Good Guys
Halt and Catch Fire
The Handmaid’s Tale
Hannibal
Happy Valley
Hill Street Blues
Homicide
House
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Jeopardy
Justified
King of the Hill
Law and Order
Law and Order: SVU
Leave it to Beaver
The Leftovers
Living Single
LOST
Luther
Mad Men
Making a Murderer
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
MASH
Matlock
The Mick
Mindhunter
Monk
Mr. Inbetween
Mr. Robot
MST3000
Murphy Brown
Narcos
NewsRadio
Night Court
The Odd Couple
The Office
OZ
The Parkers
Parks and Rec
Peaky Blinders
Peep Show
Person of Interest
Perry Mason
Planet Earth
The Prisoner
Psych
The Queen’s Gambit
Quincy, M.E.
Rick and Morty
Roc
The Rockford Files
Roots
Rugrats
Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
Samurai Champloo
Schitt’s Creek
Seinfeld
Sherlock (BBC)
Shogun
Silicon Valley
The Simpsons
Six Feet Under
Slow Horses
Small Wonder
The Sopranos
Space Ghost, Coast to Coast
Spartacus
SportsNight
Star Trek: TOS
Star Trek: TNG
Star Wars: Rebels
Stranger Things
Succession
Superman and Lois
Taxi
The Thick of It
Three’s Company
Thriller
Trailer Park Boys
True Detective
Tulsa King
The Twilight Zone
Twin Peaks
VEEP
WandaVision
Watchmen
The Wire
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister

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NewsRadio, my favorite show of all time. I don’t expect it to win, but I want to get my plug in anyway.

Season 1 is a little shaky, but seasons 2-4 are sublime. Season 5 is rough after Phil Hartman died, but it still has some of the funniest episodes, including one where Matthew turns 30 and becomes a punk, and Joe makes a fake smart drink for Matthew, but Matthew is so stupid he believes it’s real, and therefore it actually turns him into a super genius.

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Hoo boy.

I suppose I won’t be able to resist following this, but this is going to produce a larger number of annoying results than even the TV theme draft.

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Anyway, Seinfeld.

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Posted this in the tv thread a few months back

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I wouldn’t put NewsRadio or Seinfeld in the top 100 probably. Annoying laugh track schlock.

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Wire
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
Mad Men
Sopranos

no writeups needed, imo

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The three greats are The Twilight Zone, The Original Star Trek, and The Simpsons.

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Cheers

Also, I am opposed to this

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I hate to leave Columbo out, but there can only be three.

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I dont expect it to go far with you all, but Arcane is absolutely a top 50 show and should be in here.

Ill also stick my neck out for some other possible animation shows. The Simpsons is a no brainer, but both King of the Hill and Futurama should be in thr conversation

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Small Wonder

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Bojack

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The Handmaid’s Tale
The Good Place
LOST
Superman and Lois
Cosmos
The Boys
Succession
Mr. Robot
Hannibal
Barry
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Watchmen
Fringe
The X-Files

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Some of these don’t hold up well socially/culturally, but they are still fantastic

The X-Files
Justified (how are y’all leaving this out?)
Fringe
Bones
Sherlock (BBC)
House
Cheers
King of the Hill
The Simpsons
Wandavision
Star Wars: Rebels

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MASH

The show with Hawkeye Pierce. Don’t know why it’s not letting the * between the letters show.

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It’s The Wire and it’s not particularly close.

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Stick around. Could be some rustles in store for you.

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The Rockford Files

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Spartacus

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