I love, “But I’m not old enough to watch The Wire!”

Ooh, things got kinda awry because of The Wire.

Anyway, I just had a nice time with a friend, who happened to own a VHS recorder, and we both traveled back to Memory Lane and the glorious 90s.

And among those jewels recorded, he had some episodes of Baby Follies!

The baby in the pic, one of the protagonists, is a suckahollic (spelling?), just like Maggie Simpson.

^^Don’t worry, you’re not alone. I absolutely loathe the Futurama and The Simpsons as their humour does not click with me. My parents banning me from watching any shows that bear a resemblance to The Simpsons probably added to my dislike towards those type of shows.

I didn’t think the new Futurama episodes were great, but I laughed a lot and they were decently constructed. As long as they put out a bunch of decent episodes and a few stone cold classics(like the body-swapping and time travel episodes last season) I’m totally okay with that.

Watching the season 9 finale of MI-5 was like coming home and realizing that everything familiar had been rearranged and defaced, and the things you cared about the most were shredded and lying out in the rain.

I guess I was a bit faster than most people Sansa gets hooked!

It’s a good sign for you if it’s clicked that fast, because it only gets better. I can definitely see Ep. 3 though, since it’s got the Chess Scene, Omar’s debut, and the first hint of Cool Lester Smooth and his natural policing among other highlights.

Well, to be fair, of the Pit crew, the only murderer is D’Angelo… so far. And unless you’ve been paying really close attention, even he is less of a murderer than you think he is at this point.

I just love how dead-set Bodie is on the pawns making it to the end like it counts for something. It explains a lot about the guy, going forward(he’s my favorite character, for the record).

I was always kind of neutral toward Bodie. It was only till season 4 that I actually sympathized for him.

And in other TV news,

This happened.

I finished Dexter season two, and I have to agree that Doakes is the best character.

Justified

My parents watch that show. I’ve seen a few episodes, and it seems to have a little more of a serial storyline with the people in Timothy Olyphant’s hometown. At least it seemed that way in the second season. I’ve liked what I’ve seen, but I haven’t gotten into it because I have other things to do/watch when it comes on.

I don’t know what to make of that picture, Marquis.

Yeah, the lack of Zorak bothers me.

Well, sticking with Justified seems like a good decision right now. On Ep. 9 right now and it has indeed grown more serial.

Some bastard took Timothy Olyphant’s cowboy hat though, and I may have to drop the show if he doesn’t get it back.

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER

Okay, a shipping thing that’s trivial and sixteen-year-old-fanfic-writer-ish but is annoying the heck outta me.

I’ve just finished watching the third season of The Big Bang Theory, and I’ve come to the point where I can’t deny that Penny and Sheldon have much more chemistry than Penny and Leonard.

I want to root for ‘Leonard gets the girl and keeps her’. I like Leonard. And I like rooting for the same thing that the show’s creators are aiming at rather than something different, because I’m more likely to get what I want in the end.

This ain’t gonna happen anymore.

Darn you, Kaley Cuoco and Jim Parsons! Darn you, I say!!

My brother got me to start watching some Fringe with him. Just finished the first season and all I can say is “WTF??”

BREAKING BAD SEASON 4 IN AN HOUR AND A HAAAAAAAALF

YES!

I wont be able to see Breaking Bad till I downloads it and my internet isn’t as fast as I would like it to be. Plus my power is out at home so I am at my mum’s using USB internet and it wouldn’t be wise to download Breaking Bad with it. I do not want to go over the limit, whatever that is. A thousand :( forever.

So excited for this season.

SPOILERS

Got back into Detective Conan. I forgot how much I love this show.

Fringe is blowing my mind and manipulating my emotions at every turn. And I’m loving every minute of it.

Also, Sons of Anarchy. Not sure how they manage to cram so many ethnicities/gangs/crime into one small town in northern California, but the show’s enjoyable and the characterization is compelling, so I think I’ll continue watching it, for now.

I’m about halfway through season 2. Olivia just found out

So as you can imagine everything’s probably about to get intense.

Double post, but Community is also adding John Goodman for Season 3. This just keeps getting better.

Why did nobody tell me the new Scooby Doo was this cool? It has arcs, cyborgs, Harlan Ellison, and even come cracks at Twilight. S’got everything good the previous shows didn’t have. Of course, there’s the whole Shaggy/Velma thing, but I can get over that.

SHARK WEEK

How far into it are you? I feel like the first season was the best, personally. Not to say that the show is bad now, but it does seem to have degraded into just another cop drama show on TV.

I’m grinding out the first season of Deadwood, about 3/4ths of the way done. It’s really good, but I don’t know that I love it the way I love The Wire and Breaking Bad and such.

I thoroughly enjoyed seasons 1 and 2. In season 3 however, some things start to get a little too strange and unrealistic for my tastes.

So, most of you guys probably won’t care, and didn’t know where else to put this, but me and some other guys decided to try our hand at making a best animated series list.

65-61
60-56
55-51
50-46
45-41
40-36
35-31
30-26
25-21
20-16
15-11
10-6
5-1
The leftovers.

Yeah, we watch too many cartoons for our own good.

I’m not sure about your scoring criteria, and I do disagree with you on quite a few points, I mean no Brave Star, Swat Kats, TinTin, Captain Bucky O’Hare and Flash Gordon? Also, no mention of Black Lagoon?!

I do, however, applaud your inclusion of Johnny Quest and Rocko’s modern life.

I’ve finally gotten around to watching Dexter again, and I’m near the end of season 4 at the moment. Damn this show is intense.

A combination of “Uh, we didn’t see those shows, sorry.”

Oh that does not include Bucky O’Hare. TELL ME THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE BUCKY O’HARE.

Promise you’ll try to watch the first episode. :D

Although, watching it now, it sure was trippy.

But it’s cool. You have Jonny Quest there, so all is good. I would prefer Daria a lot higher, but I think I can close my eyes and ears for a bit.

Jeni, I salute you. Welcome to the cool club.

You only need to watch the opening sequence to realise it should be in the top 50.

In another – Dimension – another time and space

Also, was Pokémon on it? I can’t recall seeing it…

Ahh but it’s not only nostalgia with Pokémon. After all, it did usher in a generation of kids who grew up on the games and cartoons.

Pokémon was a game-changer any way you look at it. It deserves a place just because of that.

Eh I don’t like lists much because there’s probably many great things the list makers haven’t seen or forget about and putting them in an order doesn’t work and only really starts to matter when you get down to the top 3 or something. But it’s a mostly nice list.

Pokemon anime sucks. I only rate things as good if they have narrative depth and good writing and such beyond being enjoyable for kids on a base level. It is literally the same thing every episode with Team Rocket coming up with a plan and failing every time and it goes nowhere. Also the animation is terrible because they churn out so many episodes constantly. But yeah as a kid it was the bomb.

The Jackie Chan Adventures were awesome.

I really need to check out this batman series since so many people say it’s brilliant.

I’m surprised and pleased that One Piece got a mention in the leftovers and I agree with what you said. The manga is much better. And I am glad you said other shounen such as Naruto have notably weaker stories.

I’m glad you didn’t have any Seth Macfarlane cartoons on the list.

ALSO, I forgot to yell at you about this, what is up with the lack of Jackie Chan Adventures?!

<3 <3 <3

So much nostalgia.

Hmm, maybe nostalgia wasn’t the best word to use there. Let’s just say I have good memories of watching Jackie Chan Adventures years ago.

I admit, I was more interested in the PlayStation game it spawned than the actual cartoon. Now that was awesome.

Also, you were alive in 1871?! Just how old are you?!

Crap, I’ve been spending too much time on a certain website – I just went to upvote your post, Marquis. T_T

And then I found I rather dislike the episodic nature of tv shows and am mostly attracted to ones that actually feel like they have a forward moving plot.

Let me tell you about a little show called The Wire…

And then I found I rather dislike the episodic nature of tv shows and am mostly attracted to ones that actually feel like they have a forward moving plot.

Let me tell you about a little show called Deadwood…

The Mighty Boosh, series 2. It feels like it’s lost a bunch of improv and they seem to use a Chekov’s gun in every single episode so far.

Still funny, though. AND IT HAS RICHARD AYOADE!

Finally caught up with the last two episodes of the Guild.

Cue metafictional “Aw”.

Only one episode left of The Killing.

I’m not sure I want to watch it. Welp.

._.

I don’t know about the American version

It’s a piece of shit.

The Killing is up there with the best US shows, such as The Wire

Lies and damn lies.

It’s not a strict adaptation, technically, it just has a lot of reused elements. It’s Red Herrings: The Series. Stupid detectives fuck around for an episode, then find the suspect at the end who is CLEARLY GUILTY and it ends on a cliffhanger. Then the next episode opens, and there’s some explanation for why the CLEARLY GUILTY behavior was just a misunderstanding and then it’s back to the same old dance ad nauseam.

Then in the last two episodes or so, the investigating detectives do some preschool level police work(searching a teenage girl’s internet history? Who’d have thunk it? Sheeeeeeeeeeit.) and the season ends on another goddamn fakeout cliffhanger, when the whole promotional campaign was based around finding out who killed freaking Rosie Larsen, thus blueballing the poor saps who stuck it out just to find this out.

I guess the existence of The Killing makes me appreciate The Wire more, though. Jimmy McNulty or Bunk Moreland are written smart enough to solve the majority of TV police procedurals blindfolded, and Lester Freamon could do it both blindfolded and standing on his head while reciting the Constitution backwards, and it’s nice to be reminded of this.

You should probably watch The Wire while you’re on a foreign crime show kick. It’s a proven fact that British people love it.

Watching My Little Pony like a boss.

City Hunter

NNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDD

In other TV news, Breaking Bad was so badass this week you would not believe how badass it was, and there’s still, what, 3 or 4 episodes left in the season? Shit’s gonna get real.

Also Community Season 3 premieres this week. I’m pretty sure it’s either going to be the best season of a comedy show ever or the worst, depending on if they really can incorporate The Wire into the structure without fucking it up. Either way, Professor Omar comin’ yo.