# TV Binge Watch (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 4, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711 "2022-10-04T16:51:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 481
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9601 "2025-11-15T15:01:39Z")
**Top 10 Funniest** list something you think is one of the top 10 funniest shows ever 1. _Absolutely Fabulous_ 2. _Keeping Up Appearances_ 3. _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9602 "2025-11-15T17:22:03Z")
**Top 10 Funniest** list something you think is one of the top 10 funniest shows ever 1. _Absolutely Fabulous_ 2. _Keeping Up Appearances_ 3. _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. _Fawlty Towers_ ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9603 "2025-11-15T17:44:09Z")
**Top 10 Funniest** list something you think is one of the top 10 funniest shows ever 1. _Absolutely Fabulous_ 2. _Keeping Up Appearances_ 3. _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. _Fawlty Towers_ 5. _Seinfeld_ I might have said Blackadder, but the first season was pretty weak. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9604 "2025-11-15T17:47:03Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Fawlty Towers I’m so glad you put that up, because I was really torn between that and _Ab Fab._ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9605 "2025-11-16T00:50:38Z")
**Top 10 Funniest** list something you think is one of the top 10 funniest shows ever 1. _Absolutely Fabulous_ 2. _Keeping Up Appearances_ 3. _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. _Fawlty Towers_ 5. _Seinfeld_ 6. _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In_ albeit the show was topical, and so is quite dated ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9606 "2025-11-16T02:11:32Z")
**Top 10 Funniest** list something you think is one of the top 10 funniest shows ever 1. _Absolutely Fabulous_ 2. _Keeping Up Appearances_ 3. _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. _Fawlty Towers_ 5. _Seinfeld_ 6. _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In_ 7. _The Good Place_ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9607 "2025-11-16T02:48:58Z")
**Top 10 Funniest** list something you think is one of the top 10 funniest shows ever 1. _Absolutely Fabulous_ 2. _Keeping Up Appearances_ 3. _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. _Fawlty Towers_ 5. _Seinfeld_ 6. _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In_ 7. _The Good Place_ 8. _Saturday Night Live_ Yes, it’s long in the tooth and most of the time excruciatingly cringe, but there have been genuine moments of total chaos that were pants-droppingly funny. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9608 "2025-11-16T05:25:15Z")
**Top 10 Funniest** list something you think is one of the top 10 funniest shows ever 1. _Absolutely Fabulous_ 2. _Keeping Up Appearances_ 3. _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. _Fawlty Towers_ 5. _Seinfeld_ 6. _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In_ 7. _The Good Place_ 8. _Saturday Night Live_ 9. _Frasier_ _Seinfeld_’s first season or two were pretty uneven; _Frasier_ was great from start to finish IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9609 "2025-11-19T21:20:11Z")
**Top 10 Funniest** list something you think is one of the top 10 funniest shows ever 1. _Absolutely Fabulous_ 2. _Keeping Up Appearances_ 3. _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. _Fawlty Towers_ 5. _Seinfeld_ 6. _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In_ 7. _The Good Place_ 8. _Saturday Night Live_ 9. _Frasier_ 10. _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ **21st-century police procedurals** 1. _Murdoch Mysteries_ Though set in an alternate version of the late 19th and early 20th century ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9610 "2025-11-19T21:21:56Z")
Hmm, I’ve never seen it. “Alternate” how? Do actual famous people appear, doing things differently than in our timeline? Is World War I averted, for instance? **21st-century police procedurals** 1. _Murdoch Mysteries_ 2. _The Gold_ Boring title, but a great show. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9611 "2025-11-19T21:54:28Z")
**21st-century police procedurals** 1. _Murdoch Mysteries_ 2. _The Gold_ 3. _The Wire_ ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9612 "2025-11-19T23:20:15Z")
**21st-century police procedurals** 1. _Murdoch Mysteries_ 2. _The Gold_ 3. _The Wire_ 4. _Vera_ ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9613 "2025-11-19T23:31:34Z")
**21st-century police procedurals** 1. _Murdoch Mysteries_ 2. _The Gold_ 3. _The Wire_ 4. _Vera_ 5. _Blue Bloods_ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9614 "2025-11-20T05:21:16Z")
**21st-century police procedurals** 1. _Murdoch Mysteries_ 2. _The Gold_ 3. _The Wire_ 4. _Vera_ 5. _Blue Bloods_ 6. _Maigret_ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9615 "2025-11-20T05:23:01Z")
**21st-century police procedurals** 1. _Murdoch Mysteries_ 2. _The Gold_ 3. _The Wire_ 4. _Vera_ 5. _Blue Bloods_ 6. _Maigret_ 7. _Brooklyn Nine-Nine_ ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9616 "2025-11-20T10:07:32Z")
> [@](#): > > **21st-century police procedurals** 1. _Murdoch Mysteries_ 2. _The Gold_ 3. _The Wire_ 4. _Vera_ 5. _Blue Bloods_ 6. _Maigret_ 7. _Brooklyn Nine-Nine_ 8. L&O: SVU premiered in 1999, and may be on until 2099 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9617 "2025-11-20T21:20:49Z")
**21st-century police procedurals** 1. _Murdoch Mysteries_ 2. _The Gold_ 3. _The Wire_ 4. _Vera_ 5. _Blue Bloods_ 6. _Maigret_ 7. _Brooklyn Nine-Nine_ 8. _L&O: SVU_ 9. _Vera_ ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9618 "2025-11-21T12:31:56Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 1. Vera That’s already at position #4 **21st-century police procedurals** 1. _Murdoch Mysteries_ 2. _The Gold_ 3. _The Wire_ 4. _Vera_ 5. _Blue Bloods_ 6. _Maigret_ 7. _Brooklyn Nine-Nine_ 8. _L&O: SVU_ 9. _The Brokenwood Mysteries_ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9619 "2025-11-22T22:30:13Z")
Oops, right you are, thanks! **21st-century police procedurals** 1. _Murdoch Mysteries_ 2. _The Gold_ 3. _The Wire_ 4. _Vera_ 5. _Blue Bloods_ 6. _Maigret_ 7. _Brooklyn Nine-Nine_ 8. _L&O: SVU_ 9. _The Brokenwood Mysteries_ 10. _Grantchester_ Pass. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9620 "2025-11-23T03:52:24Z")
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