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The Best Show on the History of Television

What is the best show on the history of television?

  • The Sopranos

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • The Wire

    Votes: 3 8.6%

  • Mad Men

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Breaking Bad

    Votes: 11 31.4%

  • I Love Lucy

    Votes: 2 5.7%

  • Seinfeld

    Votes: 6 17.1%

  • MASH

    Votes: 3 8.6%

  • The Simpsons

    Votes: 2 5.7%

  • All in the Family

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 6 17.1%
  • Total voters
    35
Sirkickyass said:
Glad to hear it.

But I'm still not totally out of the woods on that one. I actually am sealing my home purchase records so that guy can't find me. I'm basically not going to be out of the woods on that one until he's dead.
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I know a guy that could help you with that.
 
Sirkickyass said:
Glad to hear it.

But I'm still not totally out of the woods on that one. I actually am sealing my home purchase records so that guy can't find me. I'm basically not going to be out of the woods on that one until he's dead.
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Can someone please fill me in here? No idea what's being talked about.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
Can someone please fill me in here? No idea what's being talked about.
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I had a client threaten to kill me. It was pretty crazy. Turned out he had two identities and gave me an Israeli passport under an assumed name to hide the fact that he had done time for money laundering for Colombian drug cartels. He gave me a whole bunch of forged documents and tried to collect on a judgment he wasn't entitled to. I figured it out after I already had the money and I gave it to the people who were actually entitled to it. They were very grateful. He was convinced I owed him $200k and made it very clear he was going to sic the cartels on me. I went into hiding for awhile. Not a great experience.
 
Sirkickyass said:
I had a client threaten to kill me. It was pretty crazy. Turned out he had two identities and gave me an Israeli passport under an assumed name to hide the fact that he had done time for money laundering for Colombian drug cartels. He gave me a whole bunch of forged documents and tried to collect on a judgment he wasn't entitled to. I figured it out after I already had the money and I gave it to the people who were actually entitled to it. They were very grateful. He was convinced I owed him $200k and made it very clear he was going to sic the cartels on me. I went into hiding for awhile. Not a great experience.
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Holy ****, dude. God bless you.

They never forget.




















Ever.
 
Sirkickyass said:
I had a client threaten to kill me. It was pretty crazy. Turned out he had two identities and gave me an Israeli passport under an assumed name to hide the fact that he had done time for money laundering for Colombian drug cartels. He gave me a whole bunch of forged documents and tried to collect on a judgment he wasn't entitled to. I figured it out after I already had the money and I gave it to the people who were actually entitled to it. They were very grateful. He was convinced I owed him $200k and made it very clear he was going to sic the cartels on me. I went into hiding for awhile. Not a great experience.
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What? Your life is like a movie? Too bad it isn't always a comedy. How terrifying.

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Sirkickyass said:
I had a client threaten to kill me. It was pretty crazy. Turned out he had two identities and gave me an Israeli passport under an assumed name to hide the fact that he had done time for money laundering for Colombian drug cartels. He gave me a whole bunch of forged documents and tried to collect on a judgment he wasn't entitled to. I figured it out after I already had the money and I gave it to the people who were actually entitled to it. They were very grateful. He was convinced I owed him $200k and made it very clear he was going to sic the cartels on me. I went into hiding for awhile. Not a great experience.
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Holy **** dude! Has it blown over yet, i.e. is he locked up or deceased?
 
Sirkickyass said:
I had a client threaten to kill me. It was pretty crazy. Turned out he had two identities and gave me an Israeli passport under an assumed name to hide the fact that he had done time for money laundering for Colombian drug cartels. He gave me a whole bunch of forged documents and tried to collect on a judgment he wasn't entitled to. I figured it out after I already had the money and I gave it to the people who were actually entitled to it. They were very grateful. He was convinced I owed him $200k and made it very clear he was going to sic the cartels on me. I went into hiding for awhile. Not a great experience.
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Yikes! :eek:
 
b_line said:
Of course you would think that. You probably think friends was better than Seinfeld too, right?
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Nah Friends is rubbish.


To each his own I guess, I've never really enjoyed Seinfeld's characters/cast all that much. None of them are likeable for me. On the other hand I really like the family dynamics of the Crane family and the awkward romance between Niles & Daphne. Also it's just the type of humour that I enjoy more.


Also according to Wikipedia Frasier have won 37 Emmys, the most received by any series. But I don't care about all that, I just really enjoy the show.
 
"I enjoy Show X more than Show Y because the characters are more likable"

This is just a personal theory, but I think that people who say something like the quote above have poor reading habits. The novel has thoroughly experimented with character (types, development, centrality to the plot, significance of their decisions, etc., etc.), so much so that simply "liking" them is waaaaaay down the list of concerns. In other words, if you have even a decent relationship with literature, then I don't think you judge the effort as a whole based on the mere likability of the characters. Very base.
 
I've been hating TV in an irrational way lately. I'm trying to get back into some kind of viewership by watching the recent season of House of Cards. Big MEH.
 
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NAOS said:
"I enjoy Show X more than Show Y because the characters are more likable"

This is just a personal theory, but I think that people who say something like the quote above have poor reading habits. The novel has thoroughly experimented with character (types, development, centrality to the plot, significance of their decisions, etc., etc.), so much so that simply "liking" them is waaaaaay down the list of concerns. In other words, if you have even a decent relationship with literature, then I don't think you judge the effort as a whole based on the mere likability of the characters. Very base.
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While I understand your point, I do not typically watch TV comedies for the same reason I read heavy classic novels. I find characters that I like much funnier than characters I don't. I find Jim much funnier than Michael on "The Office," for example. I laughed much more at "Fraser" than "Seinfeld," which is why I regularly watched it while I just caught Seinfeld if it came on while I was watching TV.

BTW, I read 40-50 books per year, and not just light novels. Anyone who knows me knows I don't have poor reading skills.

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JazzGal said:
While I understand your point, I do not typically watch TV comedies for the same reason I read heavy classic novels. I find characters that I like much funnier than characters I don't. I find Jim much funnier than Michael on "The Office," for example. I laughed much more at "Fraser" than "Seinfeld," which is why I regularly watched it while I just caught Seinfeld if it came on while I was watching TV.

BTW, I read 40-50 books per year, and not just light novels. Anyone who knows me knows I don't have poor reading skills.

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fair enough. This isn't an important theory, obvi. I don't personally share your relationship between likability and humor though.
 
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