Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiit! It's the ILX Decade-End TV Poll!!!!!

ha, i forgot 24 even existed. :(

I mean Chloe on Smallville in my first sentence, btw, though Chloe O'Brian's pretty badass, in a witheringly sarcastic sort of a way.

Almeida's soulpatch disqualifies him.

I also forgot Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007-2008), whose second season is making me trust my love of the first a bit more--just fantastic acting, writing, and handling of myriad moral, social, and sexual issues in a London setting Americans don't get to see much. The Slate pan was very stupid: Billie Piper is amazing.

My Top 30:

1. The Sopranos (1999-2007)
2. The Wire (2002-2008)
3. Saturday Night Live (1975-)
4. Arrested Development (2003-2006)
5. Lost (2004-)
6. Mad Men (2007-)
7. Generation Kill (2008, mini-series)
8. Deadwood (2004-2006)
9. The Office (2005-, U.S.)
10. In Treatment (2008-, U.S.) [also better than its reviews]
11. Flight of the Conchords (2007-)
12. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006, documentary mini-series)
13. Six Feet Under (2001-2005)
14. True Blood (2008-) [haven't seen second season, though]
15. Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007-2008),
16. Angel (1999-2004)
17. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
18. Firefly (2002-2004)
19. Big Love (2006-)
20. Law & Order (1990-)
21. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993-)
22. The L Word (2004-2009)
23. The Simpsons (1989-)
24. Battlestar Galactica (2004-, '00s version)
25. Clerks: The Animated Series (2000)
26. Blind Date (1999-2006)
27. John from Cincinnati (2007, series) [so much better than its reviews]
28. Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-)
29. 30 Rock (2006-)
30. Little Britain USA (2008-)

Mmmm, maybe The Daily Show instead of one of those last few...

John from Cincinnati would have been on my ballot if it had been nommed.

Hey, did anyone nom Summer Heights High? I don't think it would be in my top 30, but certainly worthy of recognition.

Top 30? I thought our ballots are for 25.

Sorry, they are for 25. Was momentarily confused by Pete's list above.

also forgot Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007-2008), whose second season is making me trust my love of the first a bit more--just fantastic acting, writing, and handling of myriad moral, social, and sexual issues in a London setting Americans don't get to see much.

the bartender dude in this is like str8 up the hottest dude on tv all decade - show is fukken retarded tho

I have just started watching In Treatment. So far, so great. Might have to reassess my tentative list.

i wonder if Pete gets HBO

A glaring omission has just occurred to me. Malcolm in the Middle!

Um, excuse me, but how did you guys forget so many MTV and Food Network gems?!

what stopped you from nominating them?

I'm sure we can get away without 12 different The Hills spin offs and Hogan Knows Best. But if you want to vote for it, go crazy. Other people have voted for shit that isn't on the list. It's more of a reminder of what was made. Also if it isn't on the list it is unlikely anyone else will vote for it and it won't make the Top 50, but you can still have a go, I'm not picky.

okay i sent my picks!

kinda surprised Letterman didn't at least get nominated.

i don't think barely anyone was thinking much about late night talk shows beyond Daily Show/Colbert Report, 3 of the few nominations there were (Conan, Ferguson and Late World With Zach) were mine.

Shameless bump time: So who was the best token best friend in this decades telly? Ol' Gay Willow on Buffy? Wusshisname from Slumdog Millionaire in Skins? Lane in Gilmore Girls? Wallace and wusshisname latino guy who always was up to lol crime in Veronica Mars? Bender as token robot?

Landry in Friday Night Lights

would also say Neil and Bill in Freaks and Geeks, but I think that unfairly underplays their roles there.

Neil and Bill are tokens?

Never seen FNL so cannot comment on lol telly still doesn't know how to address minorities.

ooh, i see. well, neil was jewish.

they were great and now i do wish i had f&g on dvd so i could watch the episode where they make bill drink their own concotions.

shameless bump #15: Just spent the past half hour tallying up votes I hadn't counted in the past couple days and we have currently had 19 different shows voted #1 and 39 voters. Come on people, we can do better than that!

are we posting our votes yet then?

i worry i am the only person voting for friends, but that show really did hit its straps in the 2000s (pretty awful before then).

Personally I'd say wait till after the results are posted to post your individual votes (just not to spoil it) but feel free to talk about shows and encouraging people to vote for things they may have forgotten.

I don't think I'm giving much to say that more than 1 person has voted for Friends tho.

And also, anything you ever want to talk about post it so this thread stays near the top of new answers. :)

tim riggins is a fkn hunk but he never said "cuz I'm CRIPPLED and I want to listen to NIRVANA!"

I made a mistake and didn't vote It's Always Sunny in my ballot because I wasn't really into it when I submitted the ballot. But it should be like #3 on my list. Can that be fixed?

So who was the best token best friend in this decades telly?

Hurley

I'll do it for you Mordy but just the once. If everyone starts asking for changes then it's just going to be too much work going over everything.

you wanna bump everything from #3 down and knock off whatever was bottom of your list?

Knock everything down to 23, and remove my #23 from the list?

(I don't mind losing #23. I wanna keep 24 + 25 tho.)

ok. i'll do it tomorrow, as i am too lazy to do it now. have left myself two large post-it notes to remind me.

Thanks :)

Shameless bump #16 considering there are 90+ logged in: We've hit 40 ballots and 20 different #1s. Which is cool and all but there are 5,354 registered users.

Yeah, but 3,000 of those users are sockpuppets.

oh yuh. but still, non-socks should vote. :)

and 1,000 are googlers who registered to post once and another 500 were former regulars who haven't been here since 2005 (xpost)

okokokok but there are currently 97 people logged in and less than half of that number has voted. just trying to up the ballots here.

hey these bumps today have been working.

ilx deserves a http://biopsy.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/thumbs-up.jpg

i just voted, felt amazing

Stop chastising me! I am at work busy pretending to work!

http://rlv.zcache.com/i_voted_2008_election_pin_button-p145448809411968121t5sj_400.jpg

but I forgot to vote for Kenny Vs. Spenny (best canadian reality show of the decade fer sure)