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by Bob Sassone, posted Feb 10th 2009 3:02PM
Everybody loves lists, right? That's why I was attracted to this AOL Television list of the best TV shows of the 1990s. Lots of good entries, some head-scratchers, and two incredibly glaring omissions.You can immediately guess which shows are on the list: Seinfeld, The X-Files, Sports Night, Oz, The Sopranos, The Larry Sanders Show. There are some shows that I certainly would never put on such a list, but I can understand why they were chosen, such as Party of Five, Dawson's Creek, and Ally McBeal. I think this is probably yet another example of "best" being confused with "popular" or "buzzworthy." Actually, I would never include Ally McBeal on any sort of best of list.
But what really confuses me? There are two major shows, two shows that are often mentioned in a "best of" list (not just the 90s, but all-time) that aren't on the list! Can you guess what they are? Both appeared on NBC, and one of them was created by someone who created one of the above shows.
The two shows? NewsRadio and The West Wing.
How can either of these shows be left off of a best of the 1990s list? I'm actually asking. At first, I thought they left The West Wing off of the list because most of its run came after 2000, but many shows on the list started in one decade and ended in another, so that's not it. I think they just decided that Beavis & Butthead was better.
As for NewsRadio, well, I think they just forgot about that show for some reason. Pity. In protest, here is one of my favorite episodes, "The Bitch Session."
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