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The Great 2020 All Time Television Draft: The Simpsons is judged the greatest show of all time (5 Viewers)

@Hov34 OTC until 11:00am

@Gally @Charlie Steiner On deck

@timschochet in the hole

Im working from home today and tomorrow so I will have less time to check in


Skip me, I'll pick soon.
I hate to pollute the thread...

We've been on the clock for less than 1 hour as I post this. The next 3 are catch-up picks...

17.06 - Arrested Development - 1991-2020 Comedy


18.11 - **** Enberg - Sports Play-by-Play


19.06 - Conan O'Brien - Talk Show Host
Then...

@timschochet OTC until 12:00pm
Gally and I have about 10 minutes before we time out, then it's Tim's pick.

Pick coming...

 
21.06 - Douglas Edwards - News Personality

I don't know much about this guy but based on reading he should be a medalist (or close to it).

 
Pick 23.02 - Dr. Gregory House (Category - 1990 to 2020 Leading Man Drama)

There is no other doctor I want on my team. Brilliant, sarcastic, funny, stubborn, and will always get to the bottom of the issue even if he has to almost kill the patient first.  Just a tremendous character and a welcome addition to Team GallStein

@timschochet you are up

 
23.03 Your Show of Shows-variety show 

This is the one that started it all: starring Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, and Imogene Coco. The writers for this show read like a first ballot comedy Hall of Fame: Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, Woody Allen. 
 

@AcerFC

 
I hate to pollute the thread...

We've been on the clock for less than 1 hour as I post this. The next 3 are catch-up picks...

Then...

Gally and I have about 10 minutes before we time out, then it's Tim's pick.

Pick coming...
Hov skipped before 10am, which means you and gally were up at 10am, and timed out at 11

 
23.03 Your Show of Shows-variety show 

This is the one that started it all: starring Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, and Imogene Coco. The writers for this show read like a first ballot comedy Hall of Fame: Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, Woody Allen. 
 

@AcerFC
Gelbart and Woody Allen didn't write for Your Show of Shows but rather for Sid Caesar's Hour, which was after Show of Shows but with a lot of similar aspects. Small but important factoid.  Show of Shows was on my radar as well and I was going to mention Gelbart too, but he was not a part of this one after all.

Also, it's Imogene Coca.

 
Gelbart and Woody Allen didn't write for Your Show of Shows but rather for Sid Caesar's Hour, which was after Show of Shows but with a lot of similar aspects. Small but important factoid.  Show of Shows was on my radar as well and I was going to mention Gelbart too, but he was not a part of this one after all.

Also, it's Imogene Coca.
OK. Well, I’ll still take it happily. 

 
22.11 - Get Smart - 1950-1970 Comedy

I loved this show - Maxwell Smart was the best.

Missed it by THAT much.

I think after this pick I'm caught up except that I'm OTC - will try to pick in the next 20 minutes.

 
22.11 - Get Smart - 1950-1970 Comedy

I loved this show - Maxwell Smart was the best.

Missed it by THAT much.

I think after this pick I'm caught up except that I'm OTC - will try to pick in the next 20 minutes.
Aw rats. Was hoping for this one. Nice pick. 

 
@AcerFC - just to be clear before I pick - are we skipping @higgins?

I'm ready to pick but didn't want to jump the line.

And thanks for doing the spreadsheet while I was out.  I should be able to help out the rest of the way.

 
23.08 - Al Swearengen- Villian

“Pain or damage don’t end the world. Or despair or f###### beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man… and give some back.”

Perhaps my favorite TV character ever, Swearengen is a pimp, a murderer, and “when chance affords” a thief. He also curses with the elegance and ease of a Shakspearian Character. He’s cold, calculating, manipulative and clever. The bar owner was a total monster in every possible respect, although not without a small slice of humanity.  He is perhaps the best TV bad guy of all time. Showing his humanity, however limited, made him even scarier. I just find him riveting.

The English actor Ian McShane, won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Drama in 2005 for his portrayal of Swearengen. He was also nominated that year for Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, and TV Guide named him #6 in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.

 
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23.10 - Kara Thrace (Starbuck) - Supporting Woman 1990-2020

At first, making the character of Starbuck a woman seemed like an odd choice. Katee Sackhoff not only made it work, but she was the best character on the show.

@Mrs. Rannous

 
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22.16  Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives - Reality Show

23.01 Roseanne - 71-90 Leading Woman Comedy

 
23.13 Tolstory selects Dr. Victor Ehrlich, portrayed by Ed Begley Jr, St Elsewhere

Supporting Man, 1971-1990

Nominated for best supporting actor in a drama series every year that show was on the air.

 
Dallas, 1971-1990 Drama

The following is an interesting tidbit about the show. Even during its original run, Dallas was known to have been widely watched in much of Europe, and indeed set expectations overseas for what the default "American life" was like a the time.

Dallas and the Cold War

Dallas is alleged to have helped partially hasten the downfall of the Eastern Bloc country of Romania during the final years of the Cold War. Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu allowed airings of Dallas, one of the few Western shows allowed to be aired in the Communist state during the 1980s. The belief that the show would be seen as anti-capitalistic backfired on the regime as Romanian citizens desired and sought the luxurious lifestyle seen in the show, compared to the despotic situation in Romania at the time. Shortly after the execution of Ceaușescu and his wife on Christmas Day 1989, the pilot episode of Dallas, which had been edited for a sex scene, was one of the first Western Shows aired on the newly liberated Romanian TV.

 
I’m surprised this one hasn’t been taken yet.  The original Downtown Abbey.  Yo Mama selects:

23.16 – Upstairs, Downstairs – Foreign

An epic, powerful show that was highly recognized and awarded on both ends of the pond.  Set  between the 1900s to 1930s in London, the servants who lived downstairs and the masters who lived upstairs dealt with the incredible events of their time – WWI, the roaring twenties, women’s suffrage, the great depression, etc.

This show won 8 Emmy’s (3 for outstanding drama), 2 BAFTA awards for best drama series (4 nominations), 3 writers guild awards, and a golden globe.

Knock knock knock. . . “Yo Mama!”

Knock knock knock. . . “Yo Mama!”

Knock knock knock. . . “Yo Mama!”

Yo Mama selects:

24.01 – Dr. Sheldon Cooper – 91-20 Leading Man Comedy

The nerdiest of the nerds, the smartest of the smart, the most socially awkward of the socially awkward.   Sheldon was an awesome character that carried an extremely popular franchise and even spawned a spinoff with a younger, more annoying version of himself.

Jim Parsons won 4 Emmy’s (nominated 6 times), a golden globe, and 2 critics’ choice awards for this iconic character.  His catchphrase is so popular it is an officially registered trademark of Warner Bros.

“Bazinga!”

 
     "You can't protect the public by lying to them."
"It's done every day."
     "I won't be a party to it!"
"You're a party to it already ... What's the truth, Agent Mulder?"

 

24.03: Cigarette Smoking Man (X-Files), Villain

@rickroll

 

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