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May 16, 2005
Everybody Loves Top-Ten Lists
With the passing of Everybody Loves Raymond into that great void of "TV Shows Which Will Apparently Be Widely Missed Even Though Virtually No One I Know Admitted To Ever Watching One Or Two Episodes" (the genre spearheaded by Friends), it's time to rank BunkoSquad's Top Ten Sitcoms Of All Time:
(bonus challenge points, no animated shows, like there was any doubt which was #1)
(extra bonus challenge points: I have to name my favorite episode)
1. Seinfeld. Best episode: the two-parter where Jerry befriends Keith Hernandez.
2. Cheers. Best: Hourlong episode with Woody and Kelly's wedding.
3. Newhart. (I maintain that when it comes out on DVD, I'm taking a day off) Best: When Dick hires Larry, Darryl and Darryl to exhume a witch buried in the inn's basement.
4. Black Adder. Shame there are only 24 episodes. Best: Prince George agrees to patronize Samuel Johnson's Dictionary.
5. The John Laroquette Show. Possibly the most underrated sitcom ever. Best: John wins an electric car and finds himself leading a radical Basque separarist group.
6. The Bob Newhart Show. Best: Bob and the guys get drunk and order Chinese takeout.
7. Taxi. Best: The gang encourages ex-hippie Reverend Jim to apply for a cabbie job. Hands down, the funniest half-hour in TV history.
8. Green Acres. Say what you want; this show consistently delivered the goods. Best episode: Arnold Ziffel Drobney the Duck swims to France.
9. Police Squad! A total shame it only lasted 6 episodes (but spawned 3 movies). Best: Frank poses as a locksmith to bust up a protection racket.
10. Mr. Belvedere. Best: George takes over as anchorman at the TV station.
As always, your mileage may vary.
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One minor nit-pick concerning Green Acres: the swimmming-to-France-to-get-help-for-Hooterville-during-the-flooding was done by Drobney the duck, not Arnold.
Posted by: Yxylu | May 18, 2005 09:06 AM
These are all great, and I can still do some of the lines from many of these shows.
The Chukkuh or Back and to the left or I'm not taking him to the AIRport from Seinfeld.
Moo goo goo goo from that Newhart episode.
What does a yellow light mean? from that Taxi episode.
Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith ... and I'm a locksmith. from Police Squad.
And so on.
Great shows.
Posted by: Vin | May 19, 2005 05:02 PM
lincoln freed the mexicans! lincoln freed the mexicans!
repeat after me: dear lord ... holy moses...that elephant's going to kill us !
when THAT comes out on dvd, i might need a week. especially if there are special features.
Posted by: christine | May 20, 2005 04:56 PM
