Just two words come to mind when reading your list: brain transplant. You may be one of the reasons AOL is rapidly becoming a fosil of the Internet.

I think the list is pretty dead-on indeed with the exeption of ER which now is kind of a mediocre show compared to how great the show was a few years ago.

Let me first start off by saying that when people call Seinfeld the funniest TV show ever....They clearing have a pretty easy sense of humour and someone doing a 'Knock, Knock' joke is funny as hell to them. Seinfeld is probally the #1 most overrated TV show ever. Period. Scrubs, the larry sanders show, newsradio are just a few show to name that are 10 times funnier than Seinfeld. Unlikable characters and truly NOT the that funny.

Friends & everybody loves raymond fall into the same catagory as Seinfeld but at least they arn't quite as overrated as Seinfeld is.

Family Guy is a unfunny vr. of The Simpsons, always will be.

Grey's Anatomy and American Idol are 2 of the Worst current shows in primetime.

I really don´t think Friends deserves a place on the list. Ok, I think seasons 9-10 were not as good as previous.

Wow, weak ass list...Family Guy? Fuck you that show is awesome. Your list can die a slow and painful death.

lol Patrick. No one is saying that Firefly was the best television show that ever existed, well not here. I do think it was a good show, not the greatest show of all time, but it was still a good show. Underrated, yea I think that too. What I am saying is that I don't understand how a show like Firefly could be considered overrated. People don't really even know about Firefly for it to be looked at as "overrated." Overrated is a term that I would use for shows that even if you didn't watch it, you would still at least know that it existed because of all the hype that surrounded that particular show. Friends and Seinfield? Now those two shows could easily be considered overrated (even though Seinfield will always hold a special place in my heart because it is one of my all-time favorite comedies) since the majority of people who watch television has heard of the show. Those shows were watched by like 20 million people weekly, well not that exact amount but you know what I mean. Plus those shows will always be talked about, no matter what decade were in because they were so popular. They will always have its place apart of tv history.

A show like Firefly, on the other hand, is a show that people barely know about. A show is not overrated if not a lot of people have heard of it. That's why so many fans talk about their love for the show so much because they want to draw attention to it since it was so overlooked (and prematurely cancelled).

Hate it or love it; I don't care, you DON'T have to like it but to say it was overrated when many people have never heard of the show is kinda odd... Now Friends and Seinfield those are shows that everyone has heard about. Those shows are always going to be the type of shows that will land on someone's "top ten list." Firefly will not be because it had such a small, but loyal fanbase... Plus I know the show wasn't perfect. Of course it had its flaws. A lot of us fans do talk about the "merits and flaws;" thats what fans of any television show does. I don't know what kind of fans you've been talking to but when I do go on any Firefly-related message boards, I do notice people talking about the good and the bad. So trust me my so called "rose-colored glasses" are off, uhh come to think of it I never had them on. I love talking about the good and the bad of any television show. I love discussing my favorite tv shows...

How anyone can think Seinfeld was overrated is beyond me. If you think Seinfeld is overrated, give up anything you think is funny in your life, now and forever. It is one of the ONLY shows I've seen in the last 20 years that stands up to multiple viewings 10 years after it aired. Not only that, but almost all the episodes were funny. There were only a handful of real clunkers, and they were almost exclusively in the first couple of seasons.

And anyone who thinks Friends is funnier than The Office is wrong. Maybe not a show you like, but objectively speaking, it is NOT funnier. Hell, you could probably ask the Friends writers and they'd tell you that much.

Designing Women...oh, kill me now. You mean the Julia Sugarbaker soapbox hour?

Gilmore Girls...cute for the first 10 minutes, then babbling tripe from then on.

Sex & the City, Why would any guy ever want to date those women?

Stargate...all varieties. The production values stink, the stories are recycled crap and the acting is horrible. How Farscape got canned and this stuff lived on still boggles my mind.

Desperate Housewives...you have to be desperate to watch this prime time soap. Bad acting and bad writing mixed together.

oh, and silentguy is totally right too.

wow! i was amazed at how dead-on this list was! before i read it i thought, there's no way they'll have family guy, friends, or grey's anatomy on this list; i'll have to add those. but you did! kudos!
i wouldn't have thought of 'saved by the bell' because i never thought anyone ever really described that as a good show.

Firefly *was* terribly overrated. The writing was too cutesy and self-conscious, the dialogue too standard one-note Whedon, the setting an underdeveloped hodgepodge of cliches and inconsistencies, the effects cheap, the characters paper-thin.

But the fanboy religion of Firefly can't be bothered to even consider that its baby just might not be the greatest thing to hit the screen since the first vacuum tubes cranked up. I look forward to the passing of time and the removal of the rose-colored glasses the "Browncoats" persist in viewing their darling through. Maybe one day there can be some actual discussion of the merits and flaws of Firefly without the knee-jerk fanaticism.