# Quickie Survey: Your Top 5 current TV Shows **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 29, 2001, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-survey-your-top-5-current-tv-shows/90210 "2001-10-29T01:59:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-survey-your-top-5-current-tv-shows/90210/41 "2001-10-30T02:58:06Z")
In no particular order: - Junkyard Wars - Trading Spaces - Survivor - Band of Brothers (do miniseries still count?) - Simpsons ---
**Author:** ![velouria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@velouria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velouria)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-survey-your-top-5-current-tv-shows/90210/42 "2001-10-30T03:38:57Z")
This is much harder than it should be. I watch way too much television. I picked five, but I couldn’t put them in any order. I guess I love them all equally or something. **Cowboy Bebop The Sopranos The Daily Show The New Detectives Homicide reruns** ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-survey-your-top-5-current-tv-shows/90210/43 "2001-10-30T04:16:37Z")
Of course! How could I forget **The Sopranos, OZ** and **Sex & the City**? They’re in reruns right now, probably why I forgot to add them. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-survey-your-top-5-current-tv-shows/90210/44 "2001-10-30T04:38:59Z")
1. The Simpsons 2. Roswell (guilty pleasure, since the Internet fanfiction is better than the actual show) 3. Malcom in the Middle 4. Special Unit 2 (unbelivably quirky) 5. uhh… probably end up being a cross b/w Buffy and The Tick And I hate to burst everyone’s bubble, but I’m reasonably sure that the geeks _are_ this season’s uber-villains. I could be wrong though… Please, let me be wrong… ---
**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:** [October 30, 2001, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-survey-your-top-5-current-tv-shows/90210/45 "2001-10-30T19:15:13Z")
Only a couple Farscape mentions? Wow! 1. **Farscape** - Best. Show. Ever. 2. **Babylon 5** - I’m watching it for the first time all the way through. Granted, it’s been of the air 3 years, but I’m liking it. 3. **Alias** - It’s official. This show rocks. Every ep. picks up the second the last one left off. It makes for great television with wonderful acting and an intricate plot. Watch the pilot again this week(check [ABC.com](http://ABC.com) for time). 4. **Survivor** - Why do I watch this show? Because I am intelligent and like intelligent shows. Oh, you didn’t know this show is intelligent? It is. 5. **Special Unit 2** - Funny show with good acting. Honorable mentions- **The Mole** - the only “reality” show more intelligent than Survivor. **Becker** , the only funny sitcom that hasn’t degraded into sex jokes 24/7. **Simpsons** Used to be great, now just good. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-survey-your-top-5-current-tv-shows/90210/46 "2001-10-30T19:29:35Z")
Wow. Nobody’s mentioned **Gilmore Girls** yet? Also: **Buffy Angel Smallville Enterprise** Honorable Mention: **Dark Angel** ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-survey-your-top-5-current-tv-shows/90210/47 "2001-11-01T14:44:19Z")
My top television shows in no peticular order are: …Antiques Roadshow… …Law and Order… …Scientific American Frontiers… …Monday Night Football… …Red Green Show… …I also am a self admitted PBS junkie.I’m sure the non-cable networks will one day get it into thier thick skulls that there is more to Television than violence and sex.Untill then I am indebted to Channels 30 (WGTE)and 27 (WBGU) ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-survey-your-top-5-current-tv-shows/90210/48 "2001-11-01T15:01:20Z")
**Buffy Angel Enterprise Friends** (Shut up) **ER** Of course, the **X-Files** season hasn’t started yet… Come Monday, my list will be different. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-survey-your-top-5-current-tv-shows/90210.md?page=2)