TV meme

[jlh]

From tobymalfoy. didi75, this list is awesome!

Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.
If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order). [Look, I added a bunch. But it was a really great list to begin with!]

24
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
America's Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bonanza
Bosom Buddies
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who
Dragnet
due South
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Grey's Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Joey
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Saved by the Bell
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spongebob Squarepants
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70's Show
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Monkees
The Munsters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Pretender
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three's Company
Twin Peaks
Veronica Mars
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Will and Grace
Wings
WKRP in Cincinnati

What is interesting here is that it's much easier to be positive you've seen every episode of a show with a limited run (like anything on HBO, or many reality shows). I mean, except for the Scrappy stuff I've probably seen every episode of Scooby, because it was my favorite cartoon as a kid, but there is really no way to know that for sure. Anyway, a few notes on the italicized shows:

CSI, Veronica Mars: Duh.
Family Ties: Michael J Fox was a big crush during my adolescence and I probably saw every episode during the first run.
Felicity: I loved this show, and I will never forgive JJ Abrams for fucking it up, and this is why I keep telling you all not to trust him about Lost. I mean, Felicity didn't even have a mystery and the ending was a disaster.
Friends: I am unashamed to say that I really love this show, and that I feel it got better in the last few years, because the Chandler/Monica relationship was handled so well, and should stand as a lesson for any show that wants to get two of their characters together. I didn't start really watching it until second or third season, but I've seen the rest in reruns.
M*A*S*H: My mother is a huge Alan Alda fan, and the local independent station used to show it three times a day. I am very sure that ten years of watching M*A*S*H three times a day plus the new episode on Monday nights guarantees that I've seen them all. Oh, and that last episode? Brilliance.
My Three Sons: This is one of those things that just sort of happens. It was in reruns all the time, and then on Nick at Nite, and I really love the show, from the B&W days forward, so I just watched it whenever it was on.
Perry Mason: The original show was on at lunchtime on TNT for years and years. I still get a craving for spaghetti with Prego sauce when I see it because of one particular summer when I was sort of obsessed with both.
WKRP, Star Trek, The Monkees, Project Runway, QAF UK, SFU, SATC: See above about limited series. It's just really not that hard to see all the episodes when there are less than 100. That said, I love every one of these shows.
Seinfeld: Started early, stayed til the end, even after I didn't like it very much (I'd say it went from meanly funny to just mean when they killed off George's fiance) but that last episode? What a fiasco.
Star Trek TNG: Yes, I watched it every single week. I was in college. I still will watch it in reruns.
The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Genius sitcoms. If you love good comedy, you must put them on your Netflix queue because they're really the best. MTM used to be on jumptheshark as "never jumped" but I'm not sure how they put it now.
The Golden Girls: So I had this job once where I read every single script of both this show and Who's the Boss. I'm not particularly proud of it, but there it is.

Comments

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

The Golden Girls: So I had this job once where I read every single script of both this show and Who's the Boss. I'm not particularly proud of it, but there it is.

You must have been about 10 when you did that? ;)

Good list. I'll post this on my LJ later. Mine will have a serious lack of, er, really current shows. *yawn* I've found I can either write/read or watch TV, and I'd much rather read or write.

[trincesstiara.livejournal.com]

Done! And I keep wanting to go back and add more.

Why is 21 Jump Street missing?? *wanders back to own LJ*

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

I agree completely with you about Friends. You seldom get to see a relationship handled so well on TV.