Top 50 TV (41-50)
50. Sex In The City
Hey, I didn't plan for it to happen. I don't think I ever would have started watching this show if it hadn't been for the fact that I lived with someone who watched it religiously. Much to her chagrin, I spent much of the time yelling at the women on the screen. They basically drove me nuts. Even so, I found some of the story lines compelling enough that, by the end, I started tuning into the show on my own. What can I say? #50 is the very definition of a guilty pleasure.
49. Biography
Maybe one day I'll be famous enough to have my life story boiled down to an hour (including commercials).
48. Desperate Housewives
This black comedy was actually quite good in its first season. It floundered in the second season and I haven't returned. I fear that it may have gotten too cute for its own good.
47. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Fat Albert was one of my heroes as a kid. He was fat, but all the kids loved and respected him. He rarely got teased and he was as wise (and as wide) as a mountain. At the time I didn't realize that he was just Bill Cosby dressed up in a fat suit. But maybe I wouldn't have cared.
46. Jeopardy!
In the 50s, the gameshow '21' was on trial for giving its contestants the answers to questions. You might say, they put themselves in ... jeopardy?That's the inspiration for this show, as well as its namesake. Contestants get the answers first, yet this time around it's all perfectly legal! It's amazing to me that the show has remained popular for so many years. Those questions are tough. Maybe it's just that you feel so good when you finally can answer one.
45. The White Shadow
A white basketball coach teaching in the ghetto. A show about acceptance and tolerance on both sides of the ball. Sometimes I feel like the White Shadow in my own classrooms. Except my kids would probably prefer basketball to English.
44. The Muppet Show
In the late 70s I was entering my teen years. My family had a tradition of going out to eat on Friday nights, but I was too cool to hang out with them. Instead, I'd sit at home, make my own dinner and watch The Muppet Show (at 7:30) and Donny and Marie (at 8:00). How cool was I?
(I'll spoil the surprise now. Donny and Marie did not make the top 50)
43. Get Smart
One of the first shows my dad and I watched together.
42. My So-Called Life
This show only lasted from August of 1994 to January of 1995. Claire Danes played an insecure teenager (is there any other type) wrestling with her own issues as her parents were breaking apart. A smart, wonderful drama that was never given time to breathe.
41. Twin Peaks
This only held my imagination captive for one season, but what a weird, wonderful season it was. Television had never seen anything this bizarre. Unfortunately, once the murder of Laura Palmer was solved, there was nothing left to hold the balloon down, and it floated away.
(coming up next: Sports! Comedy! and probably the biggest hit of the fall 2006 season!)
Hey, I didn't plan for it to happen. I don't think I ever would have started watching this show if it hadn't been for the fact that I lived with someone who watched it religiously. Much to her chagrin, I spent much of the time yelling at the women on the screen. They basically drove me nuts. Even so, I found some of the story lines compelling enough that, by the end, I started tuning into the show on my own. What can I say? #50 is the very definition of a guilty pleasure.
49. Biography
Maybe one day I'll be famous enough to have my life story boiled down to an hour (including commercials).
48. Desperate Housewives
This black comedy was actually quite good in its first season. It floundered in the second season and I haven't returned. I fear that it may have gotten too cute for its own good.
47. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Fat Albert was one of my heroes as a kid. He was fat, but all the kids loved and respected him. He rarely got teased and he was as wise (and as wide) as a mountain. At the time I didn't realize that he was just Bill Cosby dressed up in a fat suit. But maybe I wouldn't have cared.
46. Jeopardy!
In the 50s, the gameshow '21' was on trial for giving its contestants the answers to questions. You might say, they put themselves in ... jeopardy?That's the inspiration for this show, as well as its namesake. Contestants get the answers first, yet this time around it's all perfectly legal! It's amazing to me that the show has remained popular for so many years. Those questions are tough. Maybe it's just that you feel so good when you finally can answer one.
45. The White Shadow
A white basketball coach teaching in the ghetto. A show about acceptance and tolerance on both sides of the ball. Sometimes I feel like the White Shadow in my own classrooms. Except my kids would probably prefer basketball to English.
44. The Muppet Show
In the late 70s I was entering my teen years. My family had a tradition of going out to eat on Friday nights, but I was too cool to hang out with them. Instead, I'd sit at home, make my own dinner and watch The Muppet Show (at 7:30) and Donny and Marie (at 8:00). How cool was I?
(I'll spoil the surprise now. Donny and Marie did not make the top 50)
43. Get Smart
One of the first shows my dad and I watched together.
42. My So-Called Life
This show only lasted from August of 1994 to January of 1995. Claire Danes played an insecure teenager (is there any other type) wrestling with her own issues as her parents were breaking apart. A smart, wonderful drama that was never given time to breathe.
41. Twin Peaks
This only held my imagination captive for one season, but what a weird, wonderful season it was. Television had never seen anything this bizarre. Unfortunately, once the murder of Laura Palmer was solved, there was nothing left to hold the balloon down, and it floated away.
(coming up next: Sports! Comedy! and probably the biggest hit of the fall 2006 season!)
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