The most glaring omission, to me anyways, is The Flintstones.
The list has The Simpsons, Southpark, Bevis and Butthead, King of the Hill and Spongebob. How can they have all of those and not include The Flintstones, the show that really set the standard (originally) for animated TV.
OTOH, I am glad to see that a show like Buffalo Bill got some love.
I don’t get it, either, you guys…NE is probably my favorite show of all time. I don’t think that any show has ever done the fish out of water thing as well as they did, and the realism of the quirky characters was amazing. I think the reason it holds up so well is because Cicely was so isolated that it could almost be happening in any age. I’m not so hot on that last season, either, but the rest of it is gold.
No flavor of Bugs Bunny/Looney Toons made the list?
Shenanigans!
I gave up on that list once I noticed Get A Life didn’t make it.
While I’m not a fan - I just thought it was all right, and basically a Simpsons rip-off with less talented actors - I’m also surprised Futurama didn’t make the list. Especially when animated crap like Beavis and Butthead did (I think King of the Hill is weak, too, but at least it’s not as sophomoric). And reading this thread, I see Newsradio and Barney Miller were omitted, too. Odd.
Two I looked for also (and B. Miller has the distinction of never having jumped the shark on JUMP-THE-SHARK). I’d have put either of them before the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, Friends, My So Called Life, Singing Detective (which I’ll admit I’ve never seen, but neither have most other people) or Survivor.
Huh. I didn’t even notice Barney Miller didn’t make it. That’s just wrong.
(Of course, I was secretly hoping that my all-time favorite show–Magnum p.i.–could be recognized for its SHEER GENIUS! But you people just don’t understand.)
While Bugs and pals have been TV staples for years, the classic Looney Tunes were originally made for movie theaters.
The Shield and Futurama are on the list. I’m totally stoked. The Shield is, in my opinion, the best show ever…EVER!!! Futurama takes belts in animated by far.
Although The Shield made the list, Futurama did not. Foolish humans.
No Hawaii Five-0, no cred. Also, as someone said, The Rockford Files should be there, if not Kojak, The Streets of San Francisco, and certainly Miami Vice. There’s a bit of an anti-cop bias here.
Andy Griffith Show definitely, and where is The Beverly Hillbillies… that was one of the most perfectly cast shows ever.
Take off The Real World, Survivor, WKRP in Cincinnati, American Office, and Friends, among several others.
Did I somehow miss The Muppets?
Captain Kangeroo?
Mr. Wizard?
How do you compare Beavis and Butthead with a program like Firestone Presents?
No House? No Boston Legal? No Bones? (Okay, my personal favorites.)
Is Today on the list? We ordered our mornings around that show in the 1950s.
It’s a reasonably good list, but not a wonderful list.
I think the best show for the time during which it aired was MAS*H. It doesn’t translate well to contemporary times – or maybe I just have watched them to death. But I think that was simply the best. I always wanted to teach a course on it.
That’s the show I’m peeved about being missing.
And why the hell is Felicity on the list?
In general, though, surprisingly good.
The fact that they remembered **Wiseguy ** makes up for any number of lapses.