Shows You Should Probably Watch in Order to Get Along with Me 

This is basically my top twenty shows of all time.  Some of them I’ve given up and some of them I’m still in the process of watching, but if they’re on this list I think they’re worth your time (at least, some episodes are) and they’ve had enough of an impact on my life that I feel like, if you don’t know them, it might be kind of hard to talk to me.  Links are to my tags for each show.  Listed are a few episodes of each to get you started.  In the order that I started watching them.

1. Monty Python’s Flying Circus

• 1.4, Owl Stretching Time (Oct 26 1969)
• 2.8, Archaeology Today (Nov 17 1970)
• 3.5, The All-England Summarize Proust Competition (Nov 16 1972) 

2. Star Trek (all series)

• The Next Generation 5.26/6.1, Time’s Arrow (Jun 15 1992, Sept 21 1992)
• Enterprise 2.2, Carbon Creek (Sept 25 2002) 

3. Babylon 5

• 3.19, Grey 17 Is Missing (Oct 7 1996)
• 4.9, Atonement (Feb 27 1997) 

4. Charmed

• 3.1, The Honeymoon’s Over (Oct 5 2000)
• 4.10, A Paige from the Past (Jan 17 2002) 

5. NCIS

• 1.7, Sub Rosa (Nov 18 2003)
• 3.12, Boxed In (Jan 10 2006) 

6. Doctor Who

• Fourth Doctor Serial 16.2, The Pirate Planet (Sept 30-Oct 21 1978)
• Ninth Doctor 1.9/1.10, The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances (May 21-28 2005)
• Tenth Doctor 3.10, Blink (Jun 9 2007)
• Eleventh Doctor 5.1, The Eleventh Hour (Apr 3 2010)

7. Lost (*)

• 4.5, The Constant (Feb 28 2008)

8. How I Met Your Mother (*)

• 1.3, Sweet Taste of Liberty (Oct 3 2005)
• 2.9, Slap Bet (Nov 20 2006)
• 3.20, Miracles (May 19 2008)
• 4.13, Three Days of Snow (Jan 19 2009)
• 5.23, The Wedding Bride (May 17 2010)
• 6.8, Natural History (Nov 8 2010)

9. Avatar: The Last Airbender (*)

• 1.13, The Blue Spirit (Jun 17 2005)
• 2.6, The Blind Bandit (May 5 2006)
• 3.4, Sokka’s Master (Oct 12 2007)

10. Psych

• 1.2, Spellingg Bee (Jul 14 2006)
• 2.13, Lights, Camera… Homicidio (Jan 25 2008)
• 3.2, Murder? … Anyone? … Anyone? … Bueller? (Jul 25 2008)
• 4.9, Shawn Takes a Shot in the Dark (Oct 16 2009)
• 5.10, Extradition II: The Actual Extradition Part (Nov 10 2010)

11. The Big Bang Theory

• 2.11, The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis (Dec 15 2008)
• 3.8, The Adhesive Duck Deficiency (Nov 16 2009)

12. Castle

• 1.8, Ghosts (Apr 27 2009)
• 2.2, The Double Down (Sept 28 2009)
• 3.13, Knockdown (Jan 24 2011)

13. Leverage

• 1.11, The Juror #6 Job (Feb 10 2009)
• 2.3, The Order 23 Job (Jul 22 2009)
• 3.11, The Rashomon Job (Sept 22 2010)

14. Firefly (*)

• Episode 7, Out of Gas (Oct 5 2002)

15. White Collar

• 1.1, Pilot (Oct 23 2009)
• 3.5, Veiled Threat (Jul 5 2011)

16. Arrested Development (*)

• 1.6, Charity Drive (Nov 30 2003)

17. Fringe

• 1.14, Ability (Feb 10 2009)
• 2.15, Jacksonville (Feb 4 2010)
• 3.14, 6B (Feb 18 2011)

18. Supernatural

• 3.3, Bad Day at Black Rock (Oct 18 2007)
• 4.1, Lazarus Rising (Sept 18 2008)
• 5.18, Point of No Return (Apr 15 2010)

19. Community (*)

• 3.4, Remedial Chaos Theory (Oct 13 2011)

20. Parks and Recreation (*)

• 2.22, Telethon (May 6 2010)
• 3.9, Andy and April’s Fancy Party (Apr 14 2011)

(*) = I’ve seen every episode of this show

This has been a perfectly good use of my time and yours.