Tuesday Ten: TV Shows on DVD

Drat that wench Macy O’Neal. She knows what a procrastinator I am and tags me anyway for a Tuesday Ten. She’s probably figured out that once I get started, I must continue–pretty much my OCD limit, but there you have it. *sigh* So now I have to come up with Ten TV shows I’d like to have or already have on DVD. Kind of a problem, since I’m a big cheapskate and don’t buy TV shows on DVD. But if I did, here are my picks:

1) A&E’s Pride and Prejudice. Okay, so it’s a mini-series and not technically a “show.” But it is the definitive P&P on film and has those lovely dripping wet Colin Firth moments. Sue me.

2) CSI. Accept no imitations. Love the Gil Grissom. I’d take CSI:NY as well, but I’ll pass on Miami. I get enough Florida weirdness living here; I don’t need David Caruso and those freakin’ sunglasses to screw it up for me further.

3) King of the Hill. Because I love wit, I love Southerners, and I think Mike Judge is hilarious.

4) Invader Zim. We do own these–three DVDs of animated craziness thanks to our comic book store friends. You have to love a show that celebrates Santa’s Jolly Boots of Doom, public school teachers who rattle like snakes when angered, and feature dialogue like “Lemony fresh victory is mine!” Or maybe that’s just my warped little universe.

5) 24. Jack Bauer saves the world–again! I could probably bag the season where his wimpy daughter gets mauled by the cougar, though.

6) Fantasy Island. Not the rich-Corinthian-leather Ricardo Montalbán “Da plane! Da plane! version, but the slightly creepy, edge-of-the-Twilight Zone remake with Malcolm McDowell, Fyvush Finkel (that’s brave, for a stage name), and the raspy cigarette smoking woman from Beetlejuice.

7) Sports Night. Great writing, Felicity Huffman before she moved to Wisteria Lane, Peter Krause before he became the hunk o’ the month in Six Feet Under, and Nuwanda, all grown up.

8) Speaking of Florida weirdness, Maximum Bob, a short-lived bit of bizarro starring Beau Bridges as a no-holds-barred judge who married an ex-Weeki Wachee mermaid. I think about five of us got the jokes, and we’re all serious Carl Hiaasen fans.

9) The Andy Griffith Show. Because it’s a classic, and because Andy is just the sort of father we need more of in this crazybusy, money-obsessed world.

10) Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Own it. Love it. Could quote it for hours, and have.