'Lineage'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
God, I hate this list-making crap. I always forget something (And y'all made the dots. Commander Burrell would be pleased.)
In more or less chronological order:
I guess that's all of the shows that I've been rabid over. I don't actually watch a whole lot of TV, but there's plenty of stuff I've been meaning to check out on DVD.
edit: ha! Long-delayed x-post re: Sports Night. Love that show. I haven't watched enough West Wing to love it the same.
Sports Night is on my Netflix queue.
And Veronica Mars should probably go on my list, too.
I like Rescue Me, but I've only caught a few episodes.
I'm waffling on Wonderfalls. It's a very strong 13 ep run, but in some ways I prefer Dead Like Me, even though it's less consistent.
Not me. I find DLM pretty sickly-sweet. I liked Wonderfalls much more towards the end of the season, but it was still too inconsistent for my list.
And my long-gone touring band used to throw out that final song from WKRP occasionally.
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
I hope someday I actually see the episode from whence this came, because I have to say, it has utterly failed to inspire hilarity in me as a stand-alone. I trust you all, though, that it is in fact very funny in context.
And I should have included Northern Exposure on my list for sure. Probably also Twin Peaks, but I've only seen maybe 1/3 of the episodes, so can't say for sure.
Yeah, I'm not sure RM will make that list, but just to be safe, not laminating it yet. It is shaping up to be better show than expected and how often can you say that? Not enough. I would put WF and and MSCL on a "Too Young to Die" list.
Veronica Mars and Rescue Me are both shows that are still babies but I am willing to put them on the all time tina favorite show list. I am as giddy about them as I was about Buffy.
One of my favorite runs of a show of all time though, next to Buffy season two, was season one of Party of Five. I could write MANY MANY pages about how effing fantastic Party of Five was in its first season (it was pre Jennifer Love Hewitt people). No other show has done such a nosedive into suckville like that one did. Dear god how I loved. that. show.
I hope someday I actually see the episode from whence this came, because I have to say, it has utterly failed to inspire hilarity in me as a stand-alone. I trust you all, though, that it is in fact very funny in context.
You will laugh a lot.
Once upon a time, M*A*S*H would have gone on the list, but that was one of the first cases where I burnt myself out on a show and never got the spark back.
I loved Hill Street Blues, but it's been too long since I've seen it with any consistency to know if I'd still love it. Same for The Bob Newhart Show.
And then there are the Fireflys of my youth - shows cancelled before their time that I have no idea if they are as good as I remember (specifically, I'm thinking of Quark).
Unless it's Homicide those last two years. Lord, what they did to my show. Will have to confront my fear of Westerns and the absolute lack of color on the show and try out Deadwood.(Funny gripe from somebody who was sad when they painted the squad in Homicide, but I liked it old and funky.) That will never happen on the Wire...they'll always work out of crowded shitholes. And I like it that way.
I loved Sports Night but Aaron Sorkin used the same schtick over and over - I think SorkinEra!West Wing is actually a better show but it suffered the same fate.
Change "loved" to "hated" and "but" to "and" and I'm 100% on board.
Michael Fairman, who played Niska on Firefly, was the guest star on the 'KRP turkeys ep & he co-wrote five episodes with Richard "Les Nessman" Sanders. And Sam "Holland Manners" Anderson was the INS (FBI?) guy in the one where the Russian guy fell in love with Bailey & tried to defect.
I'm paralyzed by decision-making so no list for me, but I love most of your favorites (Aaron Sorkin notwithstanding). And the first 3/4 of S2 Angel was the show's peak. I'll throw in another 'verse crossover, Ron "Call him Book but he'll always be Harris to me" Glass's real claim to glory, Barney Miller.