Special Mentions- Gunsmoke, The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Jeffersons, Thirtysomething, Roseanne, The Larry Sanders Show, Sex and the City, Breaking Bad and Veep.
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Special Mentions- Gunsmoke, The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Jeffersons, Thirtysomething, Roseanne, The Larry Sanders Show, Sex and the City, Breaking Bad and Veep.
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The Office. It redefined the modern mockumentary style tv format, as well as the workplace sitcoms
For me, it’s Modern Family
Tom & Jerry.
If only it was Star Trek.
Also The West Wing. It became the benchmark for the political genre in TV and proved that people would watch political tv shows when it was previously thought to be boring and box office poison. It paved the way for so many political TV shows in the last 25 years
DALLAS! It changed the prime time drama genre forever! Plus, gave us the basis for the ultimate cliffhangers.
You wouldn’t have Star Trek without Lucy
It’s I Love Lucy for me, no question
Honeymooners for sure.
SpongeBob for its impact on the internet as a whole
Lucy was the first to record shows for later airing and to use multiple cameras, laying the foundation for future television forever.
Dallas and who shot JR became a cultural moment with the cliffhanger everyone was talking about.
Sopranos was significant but I can’t explain why. Liking dark characters? My brain is not working!
Game of Thrones because it was such a juggernaut show and then destroyed itself so epically that it remains the number one worst finale on pretty much every list.
I realize this doesn’t answer the question – but my thoughts. 😂
The Simpsons
Absolutely Lucy. 100000%. She walked so everyone could run.
Will and Grace helped bring gay characters to the forefront at a time when the attitude towards the LGBTQ+ community was still pretty wishy washy.
I’m no Whedon fan, but Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a huge influence on media, including the way we talk about media. There’s so many phrases that come directly from Buffy or critics writing about Buffy.
Unrelated, but how was Ted Dansen pretty good looking in Cheers, but an absolute fox in everything he has done in the last decade? Did he make a deal with the devil?
I Love Lucy setup how television works for decades to come.
Breaking Bad is missing…? One of the best ever made.
The Twilight Zone. It gets referenced over and over and over again in modern media, people just don’t realize because it’s become ubiquitous
ETA: try watching a few episodes and you’ll soon realize how familiar a lot of it is.
I Love Lucy by far…
then The Cosby Show
Lost started the death of intro songs in tv
Shows
I Love Lucy >>>>>>
I watch MASH every night (and did most nights as a kid with mom) and I’m not even forty.
Mr. Roger’s neighborhood.
have to give it to my X-Files. It will always be Mulder and Scully. The foundation for all modern shipping is Mulder and Scully.
2014 S1 of True Detective and S1 of Fargo. One of the best years for TV. But the Simpson’s and Star Trek are still going.
I Love Lucy.
– Woman comedian as the lead
– Interracial marriage despite the network being adamantly against it
– Normalized visible pregnancy on network television
Simpson for the past 740 years
Arrested Development changed comedy completely. I put it on for my dad a couple years ago because he hadnt seen it yet, and it was suddenly apparent to me how much it looked like everything else that’s been on tv since. When it came out there was nothing like that. It altered the format.
Lucy!
I’d say *collectively*, they all did. Nothing exists in a vacuum and all these groundbreaking shows listed brought something to the table and spawned imitators and exerted influence in how the medium progressed, whether through comedy, drama, storytelling, production, breaking stereotypes, pushing the envelope, format, etc.
Quite a few others like *Breaking Bad, Six Feet Under, Babylon 5, The Honeymooners, Gilligan’s Isle, The Beverly Hillbillies, Family Guy*, and quite a few others added to the mix and overall impact in where we are today in the medium. It’s a pretty wide field of influence and to say which had the biggest impact is curiously oblique.
The news.
I do feel like Buffy needs to be included, even though the answer is I Love Lucy. But as much as Joss Whedon is a piece of shit, Buffy changed the game for a lot of shows.
Friends not being on this list is crazy
No breaking bad? That show helped legitimize TV outside of HBO as something quality and not just where average actors went when they didn’t make it in movies
CAROL BURNETT SHOW!!! so iconic and we never would have gotten rupaul without her!!! lucy was her mentor and she still speaks very kindly about her
Golden Girls
I feel like the Sopranos was a turning point for tv
I love Lucy, first tv show to shoot with 3 cameras at different angles at the same time
I Love Lucy and it’s not even close. It basically invented the modern sitcom. And its success led to desilu which produced a bunch of other popular shows.
I didn’t swipe, but the answer is Seinfeld