[The Jewish Cunthead]

This is where it gets fun - whose favorite makes it to Rd 2? Moose's M*A*S*H* or Soprano's Sorkin Show?

(16) M*A*S*H*


vs.

(49) Sports Night


Voting ends 10/24

[Mikey]

Sportsnight was overrated.

MASH is a classic.

[Boer the Heavy Metal Gnome]

MASH is a classic, that's definitely true. It's just not very funny. Sports Night wasn't my favorite show either, but I voted for it because I don't believe that MASH should be classified as a comedy. It's a dramatic comedy with the emphasis strongly on the drama. Comedy was used to break up serious and contraversial theme of war, but this show was not meant to be a comedy.

[The Canadian Content]

Sports Night was one of the best shows ever.

MTA: Also, voting for Sports Night is likely to piss off OpTard, so that's another bonus.

[Krydor]

The useage of 'Corporal Captain' to get Radar into the officers club outweighs anything on that Sorkin deal. Colonel Flagg, bitches. "If it wasn't for war, you wouldn't know what peace was!" Charles Emerson Winchester III was perhaps the greatest replacement character in the history of TV, as he was Hawkeye & BJ's intellectual equal and not some lame doctor who sucked.

[Jack Quinn]

Colonel Flagg is the best. The early episodes with Winchester could be a bit trying, but toward the end when he was more friendly with the rest it got really good, same with Margaret.

Thinking about it, MASH did a fantastic job with replacing characters, I think they got it right with each new character. Potter > Blake, Winchester > Burns, BJ > Trapper

[DevSop]

Anyone who hasn't voted here. I'm willing to trade votes on almost anything for Sports Night to beat MASH. Please don't make me sit through another round of "oh my god, highest rated finale ever." Mash sucks, it's theme song sucks, and it wasn't funny.

[Krydor]

Well, you know what they say, DevSop: Suicide is Painless.

[Lucky]

boer said:

MASH is a classic, that's definitely true. It's just not very funny. Sports Night wasn't my favorite show either, but I voted for it because I don't believe that MASH should be classified as a comedy. It's a dramatic comedy with the emphasis strongly on the drama. Comedy was used to break up serious and contraversial theme of war, but this show was not meant to be a comedy.

You know, that's true and it will probably play into my opinion of later rounds. But Sports Night? Kinda a dramatic comedy too. So that seems even, except that while M*A*S*H was dealing with a crazy, historic war and its tragedy Sports Night was dealing with human anxiety and relationship problems.

[Chris Eco]

Vinick for President! He's a war hero.

[DevSop]

Still willing to sell votes. VOTE SPORTS NIGHT.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

It's 12-11 and I haven't voted yet...

[DevSop]

Solly, name your price for the second set of showdowns.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

I dunno, I'm not really big on trading votes. Tell me why I should tie this up.

[williamssl]

If you don't....then watch your rearview mirror for Dev today!

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Vote Trading is gay. Just pick one Solly. You have all the reasons for each candidate. Just decide and vote.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

metallikid said:

Vote Trading is gay. Just pick one Solly. You have all the reasons for each candidate. Just decide and vote.

I'm not crazy about either one so I'm abstaining.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Abstaining is even gayer. Vote or Die Motherfucker, Vote or Die.

I'll tell you what, you can use the same methodolgy for this one that I did. I saw neither of these shows but there was a great sandwich shop by me called MASH Hoagies. The subs were named after characters. And I really like Sports News. So, what do you like better Sports News Shows or Hoagies?

[Batman]

Put it another way--which do you like better? Happy, gloating devsop or angry, bitter devsop?

Hmm?

[The Jewish Cunthead]

I've never seen happy, gloating Soprano so let's keep it that way.

MASH.

[DevSop]

That's a fucking knife through the back solly. If anyone, anyone at all had my back here, I truly thought it would be you. BURN MOTHERFUCKER.

[Jack Quinn]

Its ok Sop, in this case the better show won. You can take comfort in the fact that somehow a worthless show like SCRUBS is going to beat All in the Family.

[punk/core]

mooseheadjack said:

Its ok Sop, in this case the better show won. You can take comfort in the fact that somehow a worthless show like SCRUBS is going to beat All in the Family.

You can take that same sentence but just replace "Scrubs" with "How I Met Your Mother." And replace "All in the Family" with "Curb Your Enthusiasm."