Board 8 > Johnbobb ranks every show he's ever seen [211 shows total]

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5tarscream posted...

Mikey?
Wtf
Vince is the fucking man.

yeah but I was a huge dork in school

of course I was gonna like the fat dorky kid

also I do tend to relate to heavyset characters better
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95. Ace Attorney

Seen: All of it so far

Favorite character: Acro

People seemed to have a mixed reception to the show, but really, if you like the games you're probably gonna like the anime. It's basically exactly the game, but with voice acting and animation. And the story of the games are pretty awesome, so that just makes for a good show. But for what it's worth, there is more to it than that. The show adds some much welcome backstory between Phoenix and Miles, and even more impressively, it manages to make Ace Attorney 2-3 not only bearable, but one of the more compelling plotlines of the show. That's an achievement in and of itself.
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Up next:
Non-Disney Disney
Toys
One of the last two movies-turned-shows
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Damn I forgot all about Recess. I watched that every Saturday morning when I got the chance as a kid.
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I have never seen an episode of Recess, but I have seen the Recess movie. I don't remember why, but I saw it with my dad.
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Clone Wars
Transformers
Clone Wars again
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Johnbobb posted...

Note: As I go, I may realize that, despite my extensive research, I have forgotten some shows. So far, I've already realized that I left out:
All That
Zoom
Mind of Mencia
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
Sgt. Frog
ChalkZone
Louie
Invader Zim
Sid the Science Kid
Spaced
Ed, Edd n Eddy

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Man I would have run out of kids shows 20 rankings ago. I guess I was an unusual child.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Man I would have run out of kids shows 20 rankings ago. I guess I was an unusual child.

I didn't play outside enough
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94. Once Upon a Time

Seen: Seasons 1-3, ~half of 4, some of the shitty spinoff Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

Favorite character: Rumplestiltskin

So I stopped watching this after a while. I've been meaning to go back and catch up for a long time, but after a while it just started to circle into a very predictable pattern. Somewhere around when they introduced the Frozen characters. However, in it's early seasons (the first 2 in particular) it was a hell of a show. It did for fairy tales what a certain other show did for classic literature. The performances here are mixed, and I think it spends too much time on the blander characters, but I'm really just poking holes in what was a great show. The side characters were excellent (particularly Dr. Whale aka Frankenstein and Ruby aka Big Bad Wolf) and one of the biggest downsides of the later seasons was the diminished role of them. Mr. Gold/Rumplestiltskin/Beast/Crocodile/whateverthefuckelse was honestly one of the most compelling antagonists/anti-heroes I've seen on TV, and single-handedly can make the show worth watching.
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Just downloaded OUAT last night.
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Haven't watched Once Upon a Time, but it sounds like the premise was taken from Fables.

Also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frla2-tn3U0
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Jesse_Custer posted...

Haven't watched Once Upon a Time, but it sounds like the premise was taken from Fables.

From what I've seen of Fables from Wolf Among Us, the premise is very similar but the plots and execution are very different

Also, Once Upon A Time is more based on Disney's interpretations of fairy tales as opposed to Fables, which from what I've seen is closer to the originals.
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93. Robot Chicken

Seen: First few seasons; jumbled episodes from there

Man this is THE show that got me into Adult Swim as a teenager. Me and my best friend would watch it all the time. He bought some of the seasons, and we would spend the entire day watching it. Some of the sketches are hit-or-miss, but come on, most of them cap off at like 2 minutes max, so even the crappy sketches don't overstay their welcome. It's goofy and fun and really pushes the limit as to what it can get away with.

Some of my favorites sketches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMFYAdvHJc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-eZ6Prg1ww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0w5oGVwJ_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APzFLPbJZcs
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92. The Emperor’s New School

Seen: All of it

Favorite character: Kronk

I rank The Emperor's New Groove as probably within my 3 favorite movies of all time. I've seen it far more than any other film, ranging somewhere around 25 times. I know almost the whole film by heart, and still laugh out loud every time I watch it. Honestly, this show gets this spot solely by giving me more of Kuzco, Kronk and Yzma. It wasn't as good as the movie but it was the best of Disney's film-to-show adaptations. Kuzco's doodles was a great touch, and much of the humor from the film was retained, so I really had no complaints.
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Up next:
A show that recently finally ended
A long-lasting comedy and the spinoff that became almost equally successful
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The Emperor's New School is like Hercules but much better.
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Cheers and Frasier?
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I thought that but surely Cheers is too old and terrible to be this high up?
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Was The Daily Show and Colbert done yet?

Cheers and Frasier spring to mind. Frasier is my favorite sitcom!
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Cheers finished in 1993. That's not what I would call recent.
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91. Samurai Jack

Seen: First 2.5ish seasons

Man, this show was ahead of it's time. And I KNOW, I NEED to catch up on it. I only ever watched the show in scattered episodes as a kid, and lately I've been trying to rewatch through it. And now that I'm doing so, I'm really appreciating it. Going through entire long sequences with just orchestral score and no dialogue is a bold move for a 90s Cartoon Network show, or any show like this, period. The action scenes are incredible, the dialogue (when it's there) is ususally solid (aside from some goofy minor characters) but overall I can only see this show increasing for me the more I watch.
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90. The Daily Show

89. The Colbert Report

Seen: Just a bunch of both

I could never really watch one of these without the other. Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart play off each other so excellently, and any time the two would interact, it was gold. The shows themselves were fairly similar, though each had their own twists on things. Stewart leaned a little more toward the serious side than Colbert, who typically doubled down on the comedy. I have to respect Stewart, who honestly did a better job as a news reporter than many actual news reporters. Still, I have to give the slight edge to Colbert. His persona always had me laughing my ass off. It's kind of a shame to see both move on, with Stewart having left Daily Show and both Stephen Colbert and John Oliver moving onto to their own shows, but fortunately, both of them seem to be doing well for themselves.
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Congrats to Jesse_Custer for calling that one
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Jesse_Custer posted...

Was The Daily Show and Colbert done yet?

Nice call
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Up next:
Two animated kids shows from different networks (yes, more of them, I'm sorry)
some grim fairy tales
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Well probably Grimm for the 3rd one
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BetrayedTangy posted...

Well probably Grimm for the 3rd one

give me some credit
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Johnbobb posted...

Congrats to Jesse_Custer for calling that one

5tarscream posted...

Jesse_Custer posted...

Was The Daily Show and Colbert done yet?

Nice call

I wouldn't say it was a good call exactly.

Colbert Report may be done but the Daily Show is alive and well so he is only half right. :P
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Se7enthrust posted...

Colbert Report may be done but the Daily Show is alive and well so he is only half right. :P

I think he meant "done" as in "has it been ranked yet?"
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Johnbobb posted...

Se7enthrust posted...

Colbert Report may be done but the Daily Show is alive and well so he is only half right. :P

I think he meant "done" as in "has it been ranked yet?"

Yup

88. The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

Seen: The first few seasons

Favorite character: Jeff the Spider

I initially had this one higher, and then dropped it when I realized I wasn't quite sure why. Hell, even now it seems too high. That's not to say it's bad by any means though; on the contrary, it can be hilarious, and really worked with it's intended audience. Fred Fredburger is perhaps the most annoying character ever crafted, and yet as a kid, he was easily my favorite. Even now, he makes me laugh, for some reason. Same with Billy, who is almost equally annoying. As an adult, I have much more appreciation for Grim though, and any show that can make the Grim Reaper the most relateable character is pretty damn special.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpLRJyWe814
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87. The Fairly OddParents

Seen: Approx. first 6 seasons

Favorite character: Mark Chang

No Nickelodeon show quite hit Spongebob's level of reconizability and durability over time, but that didn't stop Fairly Odd Parents for making a run for it. The premise immediately opens itself up to endless possibilities (probably why it lasted so much longer than Invader Zim, which premiered at the same time and got a cult following, but didn't have the same staying power). As such, they explore every possiblity under the sun, resulting in some honestly excellent episodes, with some of my favorites involving Timmy jumping through spot-on parodies of classic shows and Crocker turning the world into a dystopian tyrrany. It has TONS of unique plotlines, funny characters and self-references, which makes it one of Nick's better shows.
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86. Penny Dreadful

Seen: Just over the 1st season

Favorite character: Victor Frankenstein

Did you get the hint? FAIRY and GRIM because it referred to the two previous shows and also accurately described this one? Well I thought it was clever. I was very pleasantly surprised by Penny Dreadful. It did something very similar to Once Upon a Time, but took on a much darker tone, and focused on characters that, frankly, I cared more about, like Victor Frankenstein and Dorian Gray (the anti-heroes of two of my all-time favorite novels). The performances here are all incredible and the tone is equally so. Still, I can't put it higher as I stopped watching shortly after finishing the first season, though I can't quite say why. I do fully intend on finishing it, but something has stopped me from going back to it, and I can't explain.
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lots of shows here i really don't care for, from what i've seen
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Up next:
A lot of Horror
Occasional Horror
Hipsters
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SeabassDebeste posted...

lots of shows here i really don't care for, from what i've seen

which ones?
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spongebob, recess, OUAT, robot chicken, grim adventures, fairly oddparents. only one that i've seen a lot of is OUAT. got through season 1 but i didn't have the motivation to continue afterward. like glee, it's a maybe-someday afterward

haven't seen any of the others except a bit of daily show/colbert report
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American Horror Story?

I almost guessed grim adventures for last part. I really enjoyed Penny Dreadful season 1. Keep meaning to get round to season 2 at some point.
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Johnbobb, is there an easy way to get those pictures to show up with each of your write-ups? I still haven't figured out how to avoid the links.

Jesse_Custer posted...

Johnbobb, is there an easy way to get those pictures to show up with each of your write-ups? I still haven't figured out how to avoid the links.

What do you mean? Do you have imgur image embedding enabled?
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Johnbobb posted...

Jesse_Custer posted...

Johnbobb, is there an easy way to get those pictures to show up with each of your write-ups? I still haven't figured out how to avoid the links.

What do you mean? Do you have imgur image embedding enabled?

Not sure, that's the only way to post images? So you have to upload to imgur?

85. Hemlock Grove

Seen: First 2.5ish seasons

Favorite character: Shelley Godfrey

This is one of Netflix's earlier exclusive shows, and it's one of the shows that convinced me just how good Netflix could be as a content developer instead of just as a streaming service. Now I'm admittedly not a big fan of Famke Janssen (in part because watching her gives me The Last Stand flashbacks) but Bill Skarsgård, Landon Liboiron, Kaniehtiio Horn, and Nicole Boivin all gave FANTASTIC performances, especially in the first season. I was instantly hooked, and the show did not hesitate to let loose some very real scares, from the violent slaughters of teen girls to the most realistic body horror werewolf transformation I've seen. The show kind of gets hard to follow later on (which is ultimately why I never finished it) but it starts so strong that it's easy to recommend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNieysjSZW4
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Jesse_Custer posted...

Johnbobb posted...

Jesse_Custer posted...

Johnbobb, is there an easy way to get those pictures to show up with each of your write-ups? I still haven't figured out how to avoid the links.

What do you mean? Do you have imgur image embedding enabled?

Not sure, that's the only way to post images? So you have to upload to imgur?

Yeah, GameFAQs only embeds imgur links right now, so I just upload mine all there.
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Ok, thanks!

A friend of mine tried getting me to watch that because Aaron Douglas and Kandyse McClure of Battlestar Galactica fame were both in it, but I'm just not into the whole vampires/werewolves scene at all. I couldn't get more than two eps in.
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