IMDB's list of "most popular show set in every state (plus DC)"

Has anyone seen this? They list what they consider the most popular show housed in each state. Full list here. I disagree with a few. For instance, “Stranger Things” for Indiana? I would have thought “One Day at a Time,” which spanned nine seasons, would have beaten a show with only two, totaling 17 episodes, would have been the obvious choice.

Thoughts?

New York is Orange is the New Black?

Not Law and Order, Seinfeld, Sex and the City or a 100 other shows?

Massachusetts: something called “Rizzoli and Isles” (sp).

Because Cheers was set in Portsmouth or something…

I never even heard of maybe a third of those shows. And The Real McCoys for West Virginia? While the McCoy family was originally from West Virgin, the show took place in sunny Cal-i-forn-i-a.

Note that in the opening image in that link it says:

> We took a hard look at IMDb user behavior and crunched the numbers to determine
> the most popular television shows set in every state of the USA, as well as the District
> of Columbia.

So this is about how common it is for IMDb users to go to the show’s webpage, not about the popularity of the show at the time it was originally shown. Yes, it’s hard to see the opening image in that link. It shows for a few seconds and then is replaced with the first picture (which is a scene from Hart of Dixie).

I would go Barney Miller or The Dick Van Dyke Show for New York.

But my real beef is with North Carolina: One Tree Hill. I’m grateful Aunt Bee isn’t alive to hear such nonsense.
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I was curious what they would come up with for South Carolina, then noticed that “reality” shows were included and began to worry that it would be that show from the trailer park in Myrtle Beach. But it turned out to be a scripted show (Army Wives) that I’ve never watched and never knew was set in S.C. (Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any other shows that are.)

New York has several options. How about ‘That Girl’? Or ‘The Odd Couple’? ‘Mad Men’ or ‘NYPD Blue’.

Hawaii Five-O was the only show with a state name in it?

SAD.

Those are OLD shows. If it didn’t happen this year, it didn’t happen. Young people have the historical awareness of a potted plant.

Here are some New York based shows that may be considered by some to be more popular than “Orange”:

30 Rock
All in the Family
Baretta
Barney Miller
Becker
Bewitched
Blue Bloods
Boardwalk Empire
Bosom Buddies
Car 54, Where Are You?
Caroline in the City
Dr. Kildare
Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Loves Raymond
Family Affair
Friends
Futurama
How I Met Your Mother
I Love Lucy
Just Shoot Me!
Louie
Mad About You
Mad Men
Make Room for Daddy
NewsRadio
Night Court
Nurse Jackie
Rescue Me
Rules of Engagement
Seinfeld
Sesame Street
Sex in the City
Spin City
Taxi
That Girl
The Cosby Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The King of Queens
The Mindy Project
The Odd Couple
The Patty Duke Show
Ugly Betty
Welcome Back, Kotter
Will & Grace

Holy cow, there’s a lot of filler in this list. Nobody would seriously think that shows like Caroline In The City, Everybody Hates Chris, Nurse Jackie, Rules of Engagement, and Ugly Betty are anywhere near the most noted NYC shows. And Boardwalk Empire is set in Atlantic City.

The only shows that are serious contenders would be shows that spent significant time at the top of the ratings. Those are:

All In The Family
Everybody Loves Raymond
Friends
I Love Lucy
Seinfeld
The Cosby Show

Plus there’s a distinct set of “close, but no cigar” shows that were very popular, but not quite at the top echelon (Barney Miller, Bewitched, Car 54, Mad Men, Sesame Street, Sex And The City, Dick van Dyke, The Honeymooners, The Jeffersons, Patty Duke, and Welcome Back, Kotter).

:dubious:

When you have three young teenage girls singing along to “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” and “Hard to Say I’m Sorry” in your backseat while looking up Instagram fan accounts of the Beatles, it’s not that simple.

They might not know about ALL the 1980s TV shows, but they sure watch them. Or, at least, clips on YouTube/Hulu/Netflix. They might never watch an episode of “Law & Order”, but they sure know of its existence and the meaning of the “doink-doink” sound, which is more than you could say of me in 1983 - I surely wasn’t watching “Ironsides” reruns from 1971, that’s for sure!

But today’s kids do. They live in a world where the culture is far more timeless because so much of it is accessible. Frank Sinatra. Celtic music. 40s fashion. Mozart. LOTR. Back to the Future. Friends. All of these, and more, were fads that swept my daughter’s friends over the past 5 years (as well as the usual gaggle of boy bands, Katy Perry, etc).

It was difficult and expensive to have a Sinatra collection in 1982 (when I was my daughter’s age). Nowadays, she has 20 services ready to give her all the Frank she wants to listen to.

And, really, YouTube is the gateway for a lot of this. It’s free, it’s easily broken (from a “get around parental restrictions” standpoint), works on phones, tablets, and there’s videos on almost everything.

But to say the “kids” have no “historical awareness”, especially of pop culture of years and decades and centuries past, doesn’t jibe with my experience.

This is merely a list of those shows whom the most people clicked a link taking them from IMDB to that show’s website and really doesn’t have anything to do with “kids”. Kids aren’t going to look up “Rizzoli & Isles” or more than half these shows.

Well, I might have been a bit harsh, but that sentiment does jibe with my experience.

In the 70s, my local album rock station (before the term “classic rock” was invented) used to have a yearly listener vote on the “greatest rock and roll songs of all time.” The top ten were what most would agree were “GOAT” songs, but then from 11 on things got weird. Songs that just came out that year started appearing in the top 50. However much you like it, AC/DC’s “Big Balls” is not one of the greatest R&R songs of all time. :slight_smile: But, it was fresh in the listeners’ minds. The whole list was like that.

A fake potted plant.

You forgot to mention our mileage.

And how it absolutely positively may vary.

ETA: You are right about Boardwalk Empire, though.

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True, YMMV.

I’d suggest someone do a list of California shows that are more iconic than American Horror Story, but I don’t know if the SDMB host has that much bandwidth.

It’s obviously skewed very recent. For Illinois, I expected to see “Roseanne.” Instead, I got “Shameless,” which I somehow never even heard of. Unlike some others, I don’t actively avoid pop culture, I’ve just somehow never heard of it.

Popularity is entirely based on recent visitors to a shows IMDB page, so yeah, of course it’s going to skew recent.
http://www.imdb.com/chart/tvmeter
GLOW is the second most popular show, and it just came out last week.

Of course, the other fact that the number one way to get a lot of hits on a list on the internet is to be wrong.

IIRC The Drew Carey Show (set in Cleveland) or Family Ties (set in Columbus) were more popular in Ohio than Glee.