OH NO NO NO HAHAHAHAHA

TV isn't as monolithic as it was before. It's basically impossible to do as well as those today.

That actually makes game of thrones look even more impressive, considering almost everything else on that list wasnon basic cable and HBO is a paid subscription

>There would never be any MASH or Seinfeld re-runs
Seething millenial

>less people watch it and that's a good thing!

DIDNT HAVE NO WELFARE STATE
EVERYBODY PULLED HIS WEIGHT
GEE OUR OLD LASALLE RAN GREAT

Based Macgyver beat GoT.

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>comparing free tv to paid tv

Objectively all of those shows were better too. The big difference if we're being fair though is that HBO is a paid service and not a network that you can over the air for free though. Cable is also dead and has been dying since the 2000 in large numbers. Sports are the only thing keeping it on life support.

But look how old all that is, there weren't anywhere near as many channels or streaming

If anything that makes GOT even more impressive

Good for HBO, but objectively not as popular FACT

BUT MUH DEFLATION

>thinking everyone is glued to their TV waiting for HBO to feed them their finale
there is a reason most of those shows are pre 2005

Got is the most pirated TV show in history.
Literally everyone has seen it but faggot outdated broadcast cable TV etc don't reflect that

What the fuck is Cheers is a better question

cringe zoomer

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>Literally everyone has seen it
not me

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>But I doubt there will ever be another TV show that brings people around TV every week even to extent GoT did ever again.
It’s quite likely because in the interval between the first and last seasons streaming became the new paradigm and people aren’t so willing to base their schedules around tv broadcasts anymore.
Things may change in the future if technology backslides due to censorship or economic collapse but who now would want to pay a subscription for something like HBO when you could pay for a streaming service to watch things whenever you wanted? Hard disk DVRs are a thing but you still have to make the commitment to watch far in advance, you can’t just pick a series and watch it.
When I was a kid we didn’t even have VCRs yet, I have boxes and boxes full of old tv series that I painstakingly recorded on videocassette to watch in the future and I honestly can’t be assed to open a tv listing anymore, i have more important things to do than manage all that tedium.
Good riddance to TV culture, it was a waste of 6 decades

Yeah cause no was able to pirate based MASH

Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got

Where mah /Dallasheads/ at

>not watching vhs rips
Holy Fucking zoomer detected

Good numbers for something not on cable.

That’s a ridiculous number for a HBO fantasy show. You’re comparing it with network shows which have a far wider reach. 19 million is actually insane when you think of the declining tv ratings.

Never seen an episode, only ever seen a few clips on Yea Forums
read the backstory on Fandom wiki thing so I could shitpost about it though

>5% of the population
>insane

Frank detected

>Dallasheads
when I was a kid I used to love to watch the intro sequence with the theme music and aerial footage
never watched the show but fuck I still love that intro

it's actually impressive that it manage to be that high. tv isn't as big as in the 90s. most people stream these days. also got was on hbo unlike the other shows on that list and if we include all the worldwide streaming numbers it would be first.

It unironically was because it was a time of no internet so most people watched TV.

To GoT defense, it's aired on a paid channel. Pretty sure most of the other shows aired on mainstream channels

HBO is paid subscription
TV viewership is down ALL across the board
That's still an absurb amount of people
Not even counting how much probably pirated, watched in bars, or streamed it

You got to be lying or a neet if you didn't think it was a huge event, at my work it was talked about more than the super bowl.

Was the Cosby Show really that popular?

less people watch it on tv. most people stream, retarded faggot

oh is it over?
thank christ now everyone can finally shut the fuck up about it

i’m just visiting from /pol/ to enjoy all the GoT salt and being able to post without my rare flag that gets constant meme replies

yes, it was huge at the time.
most zoomers only know it for zippin and the boppin tho.
THEO

is MASH the avatar of television? holds the record yet has no cultural presence

Got was so fucking bad I enjoyed the salt from ep4 more than the actual show
Fuck that entire show desu

>fraiser and friends ended on the same year
>fraiser and friends ended only fifteen years ago
it both feels longer than 15 years and i thought fraiser ended way before friends wtf

How is that not impressive? Every other show on there is from the pre-streaming era and were on free to air TV. 19m for a premium subscription channel is insane, especially nowadays.

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the Cosby show was incredibly popular, until the last couple of seasons that were dumb
parents would quote it, I talked with my coworker of a different ethnicity from a different state and both our dads apparently would quote the same episode when they were mad at us
>that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard and I tell you what, I brought you into this world and I will take you OUT of it!

>yet has no cultural presence
maybe not to zoomers or gen x but for babyboomers it does

you think GoT or Breaking Bad will be remembered in 40 years?

yes

no but seinfeld and simpsons will

what did it knock off the list?

also based home improvement. ARUuugooouGH?

>What the fuck is Cheers is a better question

the complete opposite of Yea Forums, where nobody knows your name

based boomers

I mean yeah it's on a premium channel.

doesnt matter u still lost to macguyver, eat shit.

Only US and all pre-internet and studios boom in 1980's.

who the hell liked Home Improvement?

I didn't lose anything because I don't make any money from GoT
But the fact remains that HBO is a premium channel, and all these other shows were during the pre streaming era. Not to mention how pirated GoT is.

doesnt matter u still lost gotfag

I've read somewhere that the real ratings are close to 40 million, if you count streaming and piracy

Plus 10% who torrented it next day.

I do. Watched it everyday in cable since we get it a season behind i think. It comes on after Voyager back then. Good times.

kek making up figures cos u lost. doesnt count. you lost.

shut the fuck up boomer

why does jerry keep saying his show was the most watched finale ever?

piracy wasn't relevant back then you underage retards

All of these were free to watch for anyone who had cable. This is also just live ratings from the US only. Pretty useless statistic.

>the only thing in the 2010s
>the only thing in a paid streaming service
Fucking based, I don't know about any of you guys but me as a GoTchad I'm getting tired of winning

It was basically a generic family sitcom that hit enough demographic buttons to get pushed really hard, in the 90’s they had it in one of those daily 2-episode syndication overload things so people just watched it.
it wasn’t iconic like Seinfeld, wasn’t quotable, but at the same time it wasn’t offensive, no sex or masturbation jokes, no religion, just generic sitcom refined to catch dads with the dad humor and young girls with Jonathan Taylor-Thomas the pretty boy that all the 5th grade girls swooned over.
You could watch home improvement with your family and it wouldn’t embarrass anybody and everyone would look at the tv at least part of the time because it had something mediocre for everyone.
it was kind of the last of the old sitcom paradigm while it’s contemporary Seinfeld was the first of the new paradigm.
In short, when you flipped through the channels with your family you would find a shitload of crap and niche interest things and you would finally settle on Tim Allen making caveman sounds because nobody said “change this”

you still lost. eat shit gotfags

isn't HBO more expensive or something than the others? I don't know who tv and cable and shit works in the land of the allegedly free

I don't even watch Game of Thrones user. In fact Friends is the only show on that list that I've seen. Fact remains though that it's a useless list.

>why is a Jewish guy who was dating a 17-year-old girl when he was 39 years old saying deceitful things to prop up his own image and sense of self-importance?
incontheivable

and if got was higher on the list ud all be clamoring about what an achievement it was.

Its not useless when its indicative of the culture at large. GoT is trash and everyone will forget it within 3 years.

the others are on free broadcast tv, to get HBO you need to subscribe to basic cable for a silly fee which gets more expensive every year and is probably $100 a month now and then you have to subscribe to HBO separately as a premium service and it’s probably $12 to $20 a month extra to get that one channel that shows movies that have been out for DVD rental for several months already

>hurrrr I'm in a live competition all the time hurrrr
piracy It's still a factor you retarded faggot

>All network shows.
>Not a single show since 2004, around when networks died.(Lost being the last truly great one starting that year)
Nice. Hbo will never see that level of success again, but its still impressive.

It's hardly indicative when the list is US only and only live ratings. Do you think no one pirates GoT, or streams it?
I have HBO, but I am not American, so if I were to watch GoT my view wouldn't count on that list.

This. Also, it's not even counting the millions of people watching simultaneously outside of the US, it easily surpasses all those other shows

nope.macguyver wins, sorry.

>people outside the US
Who cares

>HBO is a subscription-only channel
>half the viewers stream it anyway
The fact that it's even as high as it is makes it pretty impressive.

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>tfw apparently more people in my country watched Antiques Roadshow than they did GoT
I don't even think it's in the top 20 most watched programs.

Yep. Back when people didn't need gay rape orgies to enjoy life

it’s kind of a misleading metric to use series finales, since most popular shows become unpopular before cancellation and often get shifted to a death slot in their last season. Family Matters for example was huge because of Urkel but by the time the show ended he was in his mid 20’s and he was pretty well built but still trying to play off the nerdy kid angle and everybody just stopped watching

it was all that cheese he ate

Damn people were bored as fuck before the internet

>meanwhile 45% of the population in 1983 watched the MASH finale live

>MASH
I'm 31 and I just learned that was a thing

Kino does not bow to public opinion pleb

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comfi captcha is best captcha

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Based

Unlikely. I almost never see Simpsons mentioned even now.

everyone

Which show are you referring to?

tv was the internet, zoomieboi

still sad about seinfeld ending

BTFO by FRASIER

Why watch a shitty HBO drama when I can just browse Yea Forums threads about it?

WHERE IS THE BAR'S REACTION?!!!

Heh, quest for camelot.
Forgot about that movie.

Admit it , it's a touching ass scene.

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>not knowing about the place where everybody knows your name

Yeah, its most popular show in 15 years. op is retarded

You can just buy HBO Now for 15 dollars a month and stream everything instead.

>muh per subscriber views
lol. HBO blown the fuck out.

White trash detected.

none of the others where in cable tho

you know it is a pointless list since there's shit like seinfeld, friends and the cosby show in there, right?

none of those was as ambitious as GoT

>dragons and swords are ambitious

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GoT pretty much reinvented the concept of dragons and redefined the fantasy genre

Never laughed at a comment as much as I did with yours just now.

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Frasier deserved better

this is what thronefags believe

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I suggest you make a thread with this, friend

Who watched the finale and never even watched a single episode of this trash?

Fucking dab on you faggots lmao, enjoy the tainted series you loved for 8 years!

Oh yeah....

FUCK NIGGERS

FUCK GAME OF THRONES

FUCK DRAGONS

FUCK DANY

FUCK D & D

FUCK MARTIN

AND FUCK JANNIES

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAAAHHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

INCLUDE ME IN THE SCREENCAP

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thanks pal, will try later

Based soulful nineties

>115268564
Power Rankings:
1. All in the Family
2. MacGyver
3. Seinfeld

Last place:
Game Of Thrones

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ah-bloo-bloo

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