# Why do all the best shows begin with "S"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818 "2003-07-16T05:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 16, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/21 "2003-07-16T15:55:38Z")
Imagine what a different show it would have been if it had been called: **Sarscape** ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/22 "2003-07-16T16:15:16Z")
St. Elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Wumpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/23 "2003-07-16T16:28:23Z")
And let’s not forget Supertrain! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/24 "2003-07-16T16:36:40Z")
Wait! Manimal doesn’t start with an “s”! Point proven wrong. ---
**Author:** ![austen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@austen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/austen)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/25 "2003-07-16T17:02:00Z")
**S** aved by the Bell ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/26 "2003-07-16T17:03:36Z")
Except that it’s Smanimal. And don’t forget Shill Street Blues Smaude Slogan’s Run The Souter Limits Slost in Space Shappy Days ---
**Author:** ![Tarrsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@Tarrsk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarrsk)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/27 "2003-07-16T17:14:22Z")
**S** pace Ghost! ---
**Author:** ![Blunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Blunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blunt)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/28 "2003-07-16T17:33:51Z")
What about the show I watch more than all others combined? **S** portscenter! ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/29 "2003-07-16T18:00:27Z")
Don’t forget The **S** tate! ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Frank\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_2)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/30 "2003-07-16T18:25:18Z")
**Sr. Who** - A British sci-fi series about a time/space traveling Mexican. **Sing of the Hill** - A animated comedy about a group of thesbians living in rural America. **The Saily Show** - A comedy news program devoted to all things nautical. **Saxi** - To pay his bills, a jazz musician get a job as a taxi driver. **SHiPs** - Hilarious hygencs ensue when motorcycle police officers are reassigned to a coast guard boat. **Sight Court** - Justice really is blind in this courtroom when a vision-impaired comedian becomes a judge. I’ll be darned, it’s true. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/31 "2003-07-16T18:34:56Z")
**The Sick Van Dyke Show** —drama about a lesbian hospital’s ambulance driver. **Sopular** —teen drama in a flood-prone high school. **S’reen Acres** —Wealthy New Yorker buys a rural mental hospital. **Suturama** —TLC’s new plastic surgery show. ---
**Author:** ![kenibbling\_pin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3be4f8/32.png) [@kenibbling\_pin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenibbling_pin)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/32 "2003-07-16T18:38:00Z")
And how about the biggest show of the year, every year **S** uper bowl ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/33 "2003-07-16T18:50:33Z")
**Slack Adder** —Nature show about aging reptiles **Satman** —Life and loves of a chair salesman **Sob** —Life and loves of a depressive **The Sold and the Beautiful** —Hollywood’s zaniest whore house! **Sheers** —“Where everybody cuts your hair” **SAG** —Sex and the City, 20 years later ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/34 "2003-07-16T18:57:54Z")
**Sexter’s Laboratory** —The little perv grows up **Sonny & Marie** —The hell with Cher and Donny! **Sappy Days** —Pretty much unchanged. **Suckman** —Ummm, fill in the blanks yourself . . . **Slipper** —They call him Slipper! Slipper! He’s a size seven . . . **Sod the Devil and Bob** —Highly unsuccessful cartoon series. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/35 "2003-07-16T19:00:55Z")
**Some Improvement** —Not _much_, but . . . **Sow to Marry a Millionaire** —aka The Anna Nicole Show ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/36 "2003-07-16T19:16:00Z")
**Six O’clock News** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/37 "2003-07-16T19:27:59Z")
**S.R.** - the tense medical show about the slow paced action of hours long surgery **Saw and Order** - carpentry dealing with the on demand customer. Don’t forget its followup **Saw and Order: Special Victims Unit** - when carpentry goes horribly wrong ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/38 "2003-07-16T19:37:16Z")
And all the great philosopher’s names started with “S”, too. (subtle Monty Python reference) ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/39 "2003-07-16T19:55:52Z")
**Sirefly** - the Independents were vampires who fought in the war. Mal is one of the last vampires. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818/40 "2003-07-16T19:56:35Z")
**The Sack Benny Show** —“Benny, you’re fired!” “_Again?_” **The Sickey Mouse Club** —“No, not on the rug!” **The Seal World** —MTV meets Jacques Cousteau **Sales from the Crypt** —“Half off! _HAahahahaha!_” **The Sod Squad** —renamed Queer Eye for the Straight Guy [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-all-the-best-shows-begin-with-s/188818.md?page=3)