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Here Are Your 25 Favorite TV Shows of All Time

By Lord Castleton | Lists | June 15, 2015 |

By Lord Castleton | Lists | June 15, 2015 |


The final results are in for the Pajiba Favorite Five in the TV category and as you can see, characters in TV proved to be the largest respondent category.

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I think it has something to do with really getting to know a character over a period of time, and finding a certain level of comfort with them. One notable stat: A show with 726 total episodes had slightly less favorite characters than a show with 14 episodes.

For those of you who weren’t around for the original Pajiba Favorite Five voting, don’t fret, it will be an annual thing on the Friday right before Memorial Day Weekend each year (Memorial Day is the last Monday in May every year for our international friends, so the Friday before that).

This list was not generated from a question about your favorite shows, directly. We asked about your favorite characters, broke them up by medium and added up the numbers to figure out your favorite shows, movies, comic books, video games and books. It’s imperfect and circuitous, but has proven to be a fun exercise.

In the coming weeks we’re going to do a series of questions which will help us figure out just how accurate this very inaccurate methodology was. The first question will be up for you to respond to in a matter of hours.

Now then, without further ado, here are your 25 favorite shows, based on your votes for favorite character.

#25:(TIE)The Simpsons and The Muppet Show

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

40% Homer Simpson
40% Bart Simpson
10% Barney Stinson
10% Hank Scorpio


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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

94% Kermit the Frog
6% Beaker

#24: Avatar: The Last Airbender

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

30% Sokka
14% Lin Beifong
14% Prince Zuko
14% Toph Beifong
14% Korra
14% Katara

#23: Scrubs

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

58% Dr. Cox
14% John Dorian
14% Jordan Sullivan
14% The Janitor

#22: Lost

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

25% John Locke
25% Juliet
25% Sawyer
12% Jack Shepherd
12% Hurley

#21: Deadwood

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

100% Al Swearengen

#20: Supernatural

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

56% Dean Winchester
22% Bobby Singer
11% Gabriel
11% Sam Winchester

#19: The X-Files

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

70% Dana Scully
30% Fox Mulder

#18: Battlestar Galactica

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

64% Starbuck
9% Admiral William Adama
9% Laura Roslin
9% Karl Agathon
9% Galen Tyrol

#17: Archer

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

45% Pam Poovey
27% Sterling Archer
18% Lana Kane
10% Dr. Krieber

#16: 30 Rock

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

76% Liz Lemon
24% Jack Donaghy

#15: Bob’s Burgers

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

49% Tina Belcher
17% Louise Belcher
17% Gene Belcher
17% Linda Belcher

#14: Breaking Bad

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

40% Walter White
24% Jesse Pinkman
24% Mike Ehrmantraut
12% Heisenberg

#13: The West Wing

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

36% CJ Cregg
28% Josh Lyman
18% Toby Zeigler
18% Josiah “Jed” Bartlet

#12: Gilmore Girls

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

70% Lorelai Gilmore
14% Rory Gilmore
8% Emily Gilmore
8% Paris Gellar

#11: Friday Night Lights

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

40% Coach Eric Taylor
33% Tami Taylor
11% Tim Riggins
11% Matt Saracen
5% Smash

#10: Justified

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

65% Raylan Givens
15% Boyd Crowder
10% Loretta
10% Dickie Bennett

#9: The Wire

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

94% Omar Little
6% Lester Freeman

#8: Mad Men

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

75% Peggy Olson
14% Don Draper
7% Roger Sterling
7% Pete Campbell
7% Joan Holloway

#7: Doctor Who Series

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

33% The Doctor
14% Captain Jack Harkness
14% River Song
14% The Ninth Doctor
9% Donna Noble
4% Rory Williams
4% Rose Tyler
4% The Tenth Doctor
4% The Eleventh Doctor

#6: Veronica Mars

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

100% Veronica Mars

#5: Star Trek (all)

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

32% Captain Jean-Luc Picard
28% Spock
10% Data
10% Captain James T. Kirk
5% Montgomery Scott
5% Ben Sisko
5% Garak
5% Pavel Chekov

#4: Firefly

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

41% Captain Mal Reynolds
16% Kaylee Frye
16% Zoe Washburne
9% Jayne Cobb
9% River Tam
9% Hoban Washburne

#3: Parks and Recreation

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

60% Leslie Knope
10% April Ludgate
7% Ron Swanson
7% Donna Meagle
4% Andy Dwyer
4% Chris Traeger
3% Ben Wyatt
3% Jerry Gergich
2% Jean-Ralphio Saperstein

#2: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

40% Buffy Summers
17% Willow Rosenberg
14% Spike
8% Rupert Giles
8% Anya
8% Xander Harris
4% Faith Lehane
1% Cordelia Chase

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#1: Game of Thrones

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Character(s) Pajibans want you to watch for:

23% Arya Stark
16% Tyrion Lannister
10% Brienne of Tarth
9% Jon Snow
9% Bronn
7% Oberyn Martel
5% Cersei Lannister
5% Tywin Lnnister
4% Sansa Stark
2% Littlefinger
2% Stannis Baratheon
2% Ned Stark
2% Ygritte
2% Ser Davos Seaworth
2% Robb Stark


And here’s the rest of the votes in the TV category:

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