# Most American TV show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159 "2018-07-02T14:31:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/21 "2018-07-02T18:06:52Z")
Bonanza or The Rifleman Nothing like a western to scream America! ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/22 "2018-07-02T18:11:06Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Bonanza or The Rifleman > > Nothing like a western to scream America! Or Firefly. If a western screams America, then a western IN SPACE is like, double the screaming. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/23 "2018-07-02T18:46:50Z")
Supernatural. Two blue-collar brothers roam the midwest backroads in their classic muscle car, listening to classic rock, eating diner food and sleeping in non-chain motels, hunting down monsters and killing them with pistols, shotguns, big knives and their own bare fists. What can be more American than that? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/24 "2018-07-02T18:53:06Z")
While some of the topics and areas of conflict might not be as relevant today, I’d still go with _All in the Family_. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/25 "2018-07-02T18:54:07Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Or Firefly. If a western screams America, then a western IN SPACE is like, double the screaming. In space, no one can hear you scream! [PS There are no cows in space.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g42UxfB6MI) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/26 "2018-07-02T19:11:33Z")
The Most American TV Show can’t star a foreigner. So no _Star Trek_, no _24_, no _Band of Brothers_, no _Bonanza_, no _Firefly_, no _Homicide_, no _Perry Mason_. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/27 "2018-07-02T19:18:11Z")
Happy Days immediately jumped to mind. Maybe not todays America but still very American. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/28 "2018-07-02T19:33:21Z")
> [@GoodOmens](#): > > The Simpsons. Absolutely the answer for me. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/29 "2018-07-02T19:51:47Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > [PS There are no cows in space.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g42UxfB6MI) I didn’t even need to click on it to know exactly where that link led. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/30 "2018-07-02T19:59:24Z")
Hmm, the most American show is probably All in the Family, Three’s Company, American Ninja Warrior, or The Office. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/31 "2018-07-02T20:07:30Z")
Run episodes of Barney Miller, Star Trek (all incarnations), Big Bang Theory, Dr. Who, Benny Hill, Corner Gas, World Cup highlights, Las Tres Marias, Sandglass and the like. America is immigrants, so what better way to demonstrate that than shows that star non-United Statesians? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/32 "2018-07-02T20:23:50Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Hmm, the most American show is probably All in the Family, Three’s Company, American Ninja Warrior, or The Office. Amusingly, all four of those were based on shows from other countries (the English comedies Till Death Do Us Part, Man About the House, and The Office, and the Japanese competition show Sasuke). ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/33 "2018-07-02T20:27:17Z")
For a (near) current series, _ **The Middle** _ and _ **Roseanne** _ might qualify. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/34 "2018-07-02T20:29:50Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Amusingly, all four of those were based on shows from other countries (the English comedies Till Death Do Us Part, Man About the House, and The Office, and the Japanese competition show Sasuke). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/35 "2018-07-02T20:48:10Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > If you had to program a TV marathon, what would you pick as the most definitively American TV show? Springer. ---
**Author:** ![Textual\_Assault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@Textual\_Assault](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Textual_Assault)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/36 "2018-07-02T20:51:35Z")
**Friday Night Lights.** ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_lining](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Silver\_lining](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_lining)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/37 "2018-07-02T20:52:10Z")
Brady Bunch? ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/38 "2018-07-02T20:58:25Z")
Bob’s Burgers ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/39 "2018-07-02T21:08:23Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Run episodes of Barney Miller, Star Trek (all incarnations), Big Bang Theory, Dr. Who, Benny Hill, Corner Gas, World Cup highlights, Las Tres Marias, Sandglass and the like. America is immigrants, so what better way to demonstrate that than shows that star non-United Statesians? I assume you included _ **Corner Gas** _ as a nod to Canada Day? 😉 \*I’m in Ottawa right now, and it’s hot as blazes! This afternoon, I was woken from a nap by a huge thunderstorm. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-american-tv-show/817159/40 "2018-07-02T21:11:18Z")
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