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TV Olympics: Favorite Halloween Episode

The holidays are coming to TV Breakroom a little early this year, as today we kick a three-poll arc celebrating Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas episodes! First up on the calendar, it’s time to vote for the spooky and funny episodes that either give you great ideas for costumes and pranks or make you afraid to sleep at night.

If there are any great Halloween episodes I left out, please nominate them in the comments! Side note – I love the vampire/Spanish symmetry of the left and right pictures above.

Poll will be open for one week, and you can vote for up to 3 episodes. Be sure to check out our other ongoing Olympic polls and the medal results on our main event page!

What's your favorite Halloween episode? (Choose up to 3!)

Supernatural - It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester (34%, 130 Votes)
NCIS - Code of Conduct (8%, 30 Votes)
Bones - Mummy in the Maze (7%, 28 Votes)
How I Met Your Mother - Slutty Pumpkin (6%, 24 Votes)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Fear Itself (6%, 22 Votes)
Castle - Vampire Weekend (5%, 20 Votes)
Criminal Minds - Devil's Night (5%, 20 Votes)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Halloween (5%, 19 Votes)
The Big Bang Theory - The Middle Earth Paradigm (4%, 16 Votes)
Chuck - Chuck Versus the Aisle of Terror (4%, 15 Votes)
The Big Bang Theory - The Good Guy Fluctuation (4%, 14 Votes)
Angel - Life of the Party (3%, 11 Votes)
Community - Epidemiology (3%, 10 Votes)
Community - Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps (2%, 8 Votes)
The Office - Halloween (1%, 5 Votes)
Suburgatory - Halloween (1%, 4 Votes)
Freaks and Geeks - Tricks and Treats (1%, 3 Votes)
Happy Endings - Spooky Endings (1%, 3 Votes)
Community - Introduction to Statistics (1%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 204

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TV Olympics: Favorite Crossover Episode

I love crossover episodes – when characters from one show guest star on another. Often, this happens when one show is spun off from another. Since the shows are already set in the same “universe,” it makes crossover episodes easier, and you get the opportunity to see characters interacting who haven’t for a while. Other times, two similar shows are on the same network when it’s decided to have them do a crossover event (which sometimes creates logical inconsistencies, like with the Warehouse 13 and Eureka crossovers – main cast from both shows had previously guest starred on the other show, as different characters!).

I will be awarding medals to both (or all three) shows in each crossover. If I’ve missed some great crossover episodes, please let me know in the comments! I purposely am not including “planted pilot” episodes (like “The Finder” episode of Bones, or the two-part “Legend” episode of NCIS that launched NCIS: Los Angeles). This poll is about two (or three) shows connecting after both shows exist.

Poll will be open for one week, and you can choose up to 3 of your favorite crossover episodes. Remember to keep checking the main event page for all the current polls and results!

What's your favorite crossover episode? (Choose up to 3!)

Doctor Who (Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures) - The Stolen Earth and Journey's End (13%, 45 Votes)
NCIS: Los Angeles (NCIS) - Random on Purpose (11%, 40 Votes)
The Finder (Bones) - Little Green Men (11%, 38 Votes)
The Finder (Bones) - Bullets (9%, 30 Votes)
Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - I Will Remember You (8%, 28 Votes)
CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY - Bone Voyage, Hammer Down, The Lost Girls (7%, 24 Votes)
NCIS: Los Angeles (Hawaii Five-O) - Touch of Death (7%, 23 Votes)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Angel) - Pangs (6%, 20 Votes)
Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - Five By Five (5%, 19 Votes)
Eureka (Warehouse 13) - Crossing Over (5%, 16 Votes)
Warehouse 13 (Eureka) - Don't Hate the Player (4%, 14 Votes)
Hawaii Five-O (NCIS: Los Angeles) - Pa Make Loa (3%, 12 Votes)
Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - In the Dark (3%, 12 Votes)
Hawaii Five-O (NCIS: Los Angeles) - Ka Hakaka Maika'i (3%, 11 Votes)
Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - Orpheus (3%, 11 Votes)
Warehouse 13 (Eureka) - 13.1 (3%, 10 Votes)

Total Voters: 160

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TV Olympics: Most Annoying Teenage Character

I almost didn’t make this one of the mini-polls for this event, because how do I score this? Should I award negative medals for the characters that win? Award the bottom three?

In the end, I decided to award the top three, as usual. Why give an award for a negative attribute? Because most of the time, these characters are the one or two flies in the ointment of an otherwise awesome show. They seem all the more annoying because the rest of the characters are so great. Diehard fans of a show tend to be the most annoyed by these characters, as well, and to know how annoying a character is (and therefore vote for him/her), you most likely have to be already watching the show.

But I know there are tons of annoying teens who aren’t on this list yet, because there were only a few nominations in this category, and there are tons of teen-dominated shows I don’t watch. So come on, Glee fans and CW watchers – let me know which ones I missed!

Poll will be open for one week, and you can vote for up to 3 annoying teens.

Who is the most annoying teenage character? (Choose up to 3!)

Connor - Angel (16%, 29 Votes)
Dawn - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (16%, 29 Votes)
Harmony - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (13%, 25 Votes)
Elena - The Vampire Diaries (11%, 21 Votes)
Dalia - Suburgatory (9%, 16 Votes)
Caroline - The Vampire Diaries (8%, 15 Votes)
Kim - 24 (7%, 14 Votes)
Juliet - Ringer (6%, 11 Votes)
Cassidy "Beaver" - Veronica Mars (5%, 10 Votes)
Tyler - V (3%, 6 Votes)
Jackie - Veronica Mars (3%, 5 Votes)
Cassidy - Nash Bridges (2%, 3 Votes)
Dana - Homeland (2%, 3 Votes)

Total Voters: 91

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TV Olympics: Cutest Couple Name

We’re launching this year’s TV Olympics with the ever-so-cute (you can read that as sarcastic if you lean toward a more jaded view of the world) category of couple names! Often these are used by fans to promote their preferred pairing in shows with love triangles, but occasionally they’ve shown up in actual episodes:

The Big Bang Theory (The Zazzy Substitution):

Penny: Hey look, it’s Shamy.
Amy: Shamy?
Sheldon: Juvenile amalgamation of our names. Sheldon, Amy. Shamy.
Amy: Oh. I don’t like that. Don’t do that.

NCIS (Life Before His Eyes):

Tony: I remember you. Riva. No, Visa. No, no, no. Tiva!
Ziva: Ziva.

You can vote for up to 3 options, and the top 3 answers will receive medals for their shows! Poll closes in one week. Be sure to check out our other polls and results on the main event page!

Which is your favorite couple name? (Choose up to 3!)

Tiva (Tony and Ziva) - NCIS (28%, 456 Votes)
Densi (Deeks and Kensi) - NCIS: Los Angeles (18%, 284 Votes)
Caskett (Castle and Beckett) - Castle (15%, 235 Votes)
McAbby (McGee and Abby) - NCIS (11%, 186 Votes)
Shamy (Sheldon and Amy) - The Big Bang Theory (7%, 117 Votes)
Spuffy (Spike and Buffy) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (4%, 68 Votes)
Bangel (Buffy and Angel) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (4%, 58 Votes)
Shules (Shawn and Jules/Juliet) - Psych (3%, 52 Votes)
LoVe (Logan and Veronica) - Veronica Mars (3%, 45 Votes)
Chair (Chuck and Blair) - Gossip Girl (2%, 30 Votes)
Mikita (Michael and Nikita) - Nikita (2%, 27 Votes)
Clois (Clark and Lois) - Smallville (2%, 25 Votes)
Finchel (Finn and Rachel) - Glee (1%, 24 Votes)
Dair (Dan and Blair) - Gossip Girl (1%, 11 Votes)

Total Voters: 923

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2012 TV Olympics

Welcome, voters! TV Breakroom is hosting an Olympic-themed competition between scripted live-action TV shows, and you decide which shows take home the medals!

Every day during this event, a new mini-poll will launch, and you’ll have one week to vote. The top three answers in each mini-poll will receive medals (gold, silver, and bronze), which will be awarded to their respective shows.

Here on the main event page, you will find:

Links to current and past polls
Schedule of upcoming polls
Medal winners for completed polls
Up-to-date medal tally by show

You may want to bookmark this page and come back to it over this four-week event! Here you can also add late nominations in the comments for current and upcoming polls.

Event is Over!

Click here for our results post.

Medal Count

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Poll Medalists

Cutest Couple Name

Gold – Tiva (NCIS)

Silver – Densi (NCIS: Los Angeles)

Bronze – Caskett (Castle)

Best Married Couple

Gold – John and Mary Winchester (Supernatural)

Silver – Snow and Charming (Once Upon a Time)

Bronze – Angela and Hodgins (Bones)

Favorite Newborn to Five-Year-Old Character

Gold – Hope (Raising Hope)

Silver – Christine (Bones)

Bronze – Michael (Bones)

Favorite Elementary-Aged Character

Gold – Henry (Once Upon a Time)

Silver – Young Shawn (Psych)

Bronze – Young Gus (Psych)

Favorite Musical Episode

Gold – “Once More With Feeling” (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Silver – “My Musical” (Scrubs)

Bronze – “Song Beneath the Song” (Grey’s Anatomy)

Favorite Animated/Alternate Media Episode

Gold – “Smile Time” (Angel)

Silver – “Lysergic Acid Diethylamide” (Fringe)

Bronze – “Digital Estate Planning” (Community)

Most Annoying Teen Character

Tied for Gold – Connor (Angel) and Dawn (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Bronze – Harmony (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Favorite Crossover Episode

Gold – Doctor Who (Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures) – The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End

Silver – NCIS: Los Angeles (NCIS) – Random on Purpose

Bronze – The Finder (Bones) – Little Green Men

Favorite Halloween Episode

Gold – It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester (Supernatural)

Silver – Code of Conduct (NCIS)

Bronze – Mummy in the Maze (Bones)

Favorite Thanksgiving Episode

Tied for Gold – Child’s Play (NCIS) and Pangs (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Bronze – Slapsgiving (How I Met Your Mother)

Best Vampire Effects and Rules

Gold – Supernatural

Silver – Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

Bronze – True Blood

Best Werewolf Effects and Rules

Gold – The Vampire Diaries

Silver – Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

Bronze – Teen Wolf

Favorite Dual Role

Gold – Angel/Angelus (David Boreanaz) – Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

Silver – Willow/Vampire Willow (Alyson Hannigan) – Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Bronze – Snow White/Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin) – Once Upon a Time

Favorite Switched-Body Performance

Gold – Jared Padalecki as Lucifer – Supernatural

Silver – Matt Cohen as Michael – Supernatural

Bronze – Joanne Kelly as Pete and Eddie McClintock as Myka – Warehouse 13

Favorite TV Animal

Gold – Dragon (Merlin)

Silver – Satchmo (White Collar)

Bronze – Marcel (Friends)

Favorite Dad/Daughter Duo

Gold – Castle and Alexis (Castle)

Silver – Eli and Ziva (NCIS)

Bronze – Max and Temperance (Bones)

Favorite Mother/Son Duo

Gold – Martha and Castle (Castle)

Silver – Emma and Henry (Once Upon a Time)

Bronze – Madeline and Michael (Burn Notice)

Favorite Father/Son Duo/Trio

Gold – John and Dean/Sam (Supernatural)

Silver – Henry and Shawn (Psych)

Bronze – Walter and Peter (Fringe)

Favorite Mother/Daughter Duo

Gold – Ellen and Jo (Supernatural)

Silver – Jackie and Rose (Doctor Who)

Bronze – Amy and River (Doctor Who)

Favorite Hero/Villain on Different Shows

Gold – Timothy Omundson: Carlton Lassiter (hero) on Psych, Phil Constantino (villain) on Jericho

Silver – Jensen Ackles: Dean Winchester (hero) on Supernatural, Ben/X5-493 (villain) on Dark Angel

Bronze – Nathan Fillion: Malcolm Reynolds (hero) on Firefly, Caleb (villain) on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Favorite Cast-Performed Song

Gold – “Shout” sung by Shawn and Gus (Psych)

Silver – “Thinking of You” sung by Eliot (Leverage)

Bronze – “Dead or Alive” sung by Dean and Sam (Supernatural)

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Bad Girls

“Bad Girls” is the episode where Buffy taps into Faith’s mantra of “I’m a Slayer and can do what I want,” with disastrous consequences. Since this is a Buffy-and-Faith episode, Willow and Xander only get a few scenes, and their humor is sorely missed for most of the episode.

Adding some hilarious moments is the introduction of Wesley, Buffy and Faith’s new Watcher (thanks to the Council ousting Giles at the end of “Helpless”).

Wesley: It’s very nice to meet you.
Buffy: Is he evil?
Wesley: Evil?
Buffy: The last one was evil.
Wesley: Oh, yes. Gwendolyn Post. We all heard. No. Mr. Giles has checked my credentials rather thoroughly and phoned the Council, but I’m glad to see you’re on the ball as well. A good Slayer is a cautious Slayer.
Buffy: Is he evil?
Giles: Not in the strictest sense.

Knowing what he’ll become over on Angel, it’s almost painful to see how dorky and incompetent Wesley is at this point. His scenes with Giles are the best – both polishing their glasses, their overly polite jabs at each other, Wesley cowering in a corner while he sees Giles’ swordplay.

You also get more info on what exactly the Mayor is up to, combined with more of his 1950s mindset and propensity for cleanliness. He opens his cupboard of weapons and spells to retrieve a disposable wipe. He puts his evil plans on his to do list right with his meeting with the PTA.

Mayor Wilkins: I just love the Family Circus! That P.J., he’s getting to be quite a handful.
Mayor Wilkins: Well… I haven’t seen anything like this in, uh… Well, a good long while. Where’s the owner of these fine implements?
Trick: The common term is ‘slain’. But I’ve been seeing this breed around. Are we expecting any trouble?
Mayor Wilkins: Do you like Family Circus?
Trick: I like Marmaduke.
Mayor Wilkins: Oh! Eww! He’s always on the furniture. Unsanitary.
Trick: Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That’s my kinda dog.
Allan: I like to read Cathy.

The main villains of this episode are rather boring – vampires with swords and a disgusting, fat demon that is so obviously fake I remember why it took me so long to get into this show. Also, additional side note, rewatching episodes makes it really easy to tell the difference between Sarah Michelle Gellar and the person doing her stunts.

The biggest impact on future episodes (aside from the Mayor becoming invincible), is Faith killing the deputy mayor, Allan, and doing her best not to care about it. Though I wonder why the police didn’t do a better job of trying to find the two girls who escaped custody by crashing a police car. Is Sunnydale really that big that they couldn’t find Buffy, especially after her earlier brushes with the law? Perhaps the crash fuddled their memory.

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Monday Madness: Favorite TV Accents

This Monday Madness, we’re looking at (listening to?) awesome accents on TV! Some are real, some are pretend, but all help define the character who speaks them. Whether the accent is straight-laced British, sultry Spanish, or down-home Southern, and whether the character reinforces or subverts the accent’s stereotypes, these accents add flair and texture to their shows.

Special note: I’m choosing to feature accents that stand out in a show – aka the majority of characters in the show don’t have similar accents. Otherwise, accents from shows set in Great Britain, the southern US, India, etc. would make this poll extremely long.

This poll will be open for one week, and you can choose up to 10 of your favorite accents. Be sure to spread the word so your favorites will make it into the top 10! Fans have used Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, forums, Reddit, blogs, and chatboxes to get the word out about past polls. Get creative!

Even though there are 30-some options on this list, I know there are TV characters with great accents I left out! You can nominate ones I missed in the comments until Thursday night, and I may add them to the poll (from live-action scripted shows only, please, and the accents should differ from the majority of the cast).

Want more of a say in who makes it onto the poll each week? Be sure to follow me on Twitter or like TV Breakroom on Facebook, since I usually ask for nominations for the next Monday Madness the weekend before the new poll. Please help out with nominations! There are only so many shows I can watch personally, so I’m counting on you to fill me in!

Without further ado, here’s the poll for this week’s Monday Madness! Voting ends around 1AM July 16th.

Which character has your favorite accent? (Choose up to 10!)

Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane) - Leverage (12%, 123 Votes)
Sophie Devereaux (Gina Bellman) - Leverage (10%, 108 Votes)
Spike (James Marsters) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (7%, 71 Votes)
Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (6%, 63 Votes)
Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) - NCIS (5%, 56 Votes)
Ducky (David McCallum) - NCIS (5%, 53 Votes)
Wesley Wyndham-Price (Alexis Denisof) - Angel (5%, 50 Votes)
Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer) - House (4%, 39 Votes)
Drusilla (Juliet Landau) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (3%, 36 Votes)
Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) - The Mentalist (3%, 34 Votes)
Vincent Nigel-Murray (Ryan Cartwright) - Bones (3%, 34 Votes)
Raj Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar) - The Big Bang Theory (3%, 32 Votes)
Fiona Glenanne (Gabrielle Anwar) - Burn Notice (3%, 31 Votes)
Sheriff Graham (Jamie Dornan) - Once Upon a Time (3%, 28 Votes)
Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgård) - True Blood (2%, 26 Votes)
Fred Burkle (Amy Acker) - Angel (2%, 25 Votes)
Caroline Julian (Patricia Belcher) - Bones (2%, 24 Votes)
Rory Flanagan (Damian McGinty) - Glee (2%, 24 Votes)
Divya Katdare (Reshma Shetty) - Royal Pains (2%, 23 Votes)
Crowley, Sterling, Valda, Badger, Ring Director, more (Mark Sheppard) - Supernatural, Leverage, Warehouse 13, Firefly, Chuck, others (2%, 18 Votes)
Charles Winchester (David Ogden Stiers) - M*A*S*H (2%, 16 Votes)
Finn Abernathy (Luke Kleintank) - Bones (1%, 15 Votes)
Gloria Delgado-Pritchett (Sofia Vergara) - Modern Family (1%, 15 Votes)
Vala Mal Doran (Claudia Black) - Stargate SG-1 (1%, 15 Votes)
H.G. Wells (Jaime Murray) - Warehouse 13 (1%, 13 Votes)
Louis LeBeau (Robert Clary) - Hogan's Heroes (1%, 12 Votes)
Peter Newkirk (Richard Dawson) - Hogan's Heroes (1%, 12 Votes)
Jim Taggart (Matt Frewer) - Eureka (1%, 11 Votes)
Adelle DeWitt (Olivia Williams) - Dollhouse (1%, 11 Votes)
Derek (Jack Davenport) - Smash (1%, 10 Votes)
Andrew Martin (Ioan Gruffudd) - Ringer (1%, 8 Votes)
Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram) - Monk (1%, 6 Votes)
Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) - CSI:NY (1%, 6 Votes)
Dallas Royce (Cheryl Hines) - Suburgatory (1%, 6 Votes)
Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews) - Lost (0%, 5 Votes)
Olaf (Jonathan Kite) - 2 Broke Girls (0%, 4 Votes)
Han (Matthew Moy) - 2 Broke Girls (0%, 2 Votes)
Dev (Raza Jaffrey) - Smash (0%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 244

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Top 15 TV Villains

Here are TV’s top villains, as voted by all of you! I expanded this to the top 15 since many of the villains were from the same shows. Also, I’m posting this a day later than usual since I was away yesterday.

#15 Phil Constantino (Timothy Omundson) – Jericho

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Monday Madness: Favorite TV Villain

This Monday Madness, as nominated by Kathy Manno, we’re looking at TV villains! Some of these villains are pure evil, while others have a redeemable side and eventually begin working with the good guys – but please vote for them as a villain, not a hero! Some of these villains are so evil they can keep you awake at night, while others are so hilarious in their villainy that you almost want them to win.

This poll will be open for one week, and you can choose up to 10 of your favorite TV villains. Be sure to spread the word so your favorites will make it into the top 10! Fans have used Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, forums, Reddit, blogs, and chatboxes to get the word out about past polls. Get creative!

Even though there are 50-some options on this list, I know there are dozens of TV villains I left out! You can nominate villains I missed in the comments until Thursday night, and I may add them to the poll (villains from live-action scripted shows only, please).

Without further ado, here’s the poll for this week’s Monday Madness! Voting ends around 1AM June 25th.

Who is your favorite TV villain? (Choose up to 10!)

Crowley (Mark Sheppard) - Supernatural (8%, 630 Votes)
Jim Moriarty (Andrew Scott) - Sherlock (7%, 572 Votes)
Lucifer (Mark Pellegrino) - Supernatural (6%, 535 Votes)
Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) - Once Upon a Time (5%, 382 Votes)
Regina Mills/Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) - Once Upon a Time (4%, 353 Votes)
Spike (James Marsters) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (4%, 344 Votes)
Alastair (Christopher Heyerdahl) - Supernatural (4%, 316 Votes)
Azazel (Fredric Lehne) - Supernatural (4%, 309 Votes)
Dick Roman (James Patrick Stuart) - Supernatural (4%, 306 Votes)
The Master (John Simm) - Doctor Who (3%, 229 Votes)
Angelus (David Boreanaz) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (3%, 227 Votes)
Matthew Keller (Ross McCall) - White Collar (3%, 223 Votes)
Ari Haswari (Rudolf Martin) - NCIS (3%, 215 Votes)
Drusilla (Juliet Landau) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (2%, 202 Votes)
Phil Constantino (Timothy Omundson) - Jericho (2%, 169 Votes)
Sylar (Zachary Quinto) - Heroes (2%, 151 Votes)
Mr. Yang (Ally Sheedy) - Psych (2%, 146 Votes)
Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) - The Vampire Diaries (2%, 138 Votes)
Cole Turner (Julian McMahon) - Charmed (2%, 133 Votes)
Jim Sterling (Mark Sheppard) - Leverage (1%, 125 Votes)
Klaus (Joseph Morgan) - The Vampire Diaries (1%, 123 Votes)
Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) - Lost (1%, 122 Votes)
Glory (Clare Kramer) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1%, 120 Votes)
Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) - Glee (1%, 116 Votes)
The Smoking Man (William B. Davis) - X-Files (1%, 112 Votes)
George Foyet (C. Thomas Howell) - Criminal Minds (1%, 108 Votes)
The Gravedigger (Diedre Lovejoy) - Bones (1%, 103 Votes)
Mayor Wilkins (Harry Groener) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1%, 103 Votes)
Lindsey McDonald (Christian Kane) - Angel (1%, 103 Votes)
Anson Fullerton (Jere Burns) - Burn Notice (1%, 100 Votes)
Lionel Luthor (John Glover) - Smallville (1%, 90 Votes)
Red John - The Mentalist (1%, 86 Votes)
Russell Edgington (Denis O'Hare) - True Blood (1%, 80 Votes)
Katherine Pierce (Nina Dobrev) - The Vampire Diaries (1%, 80 Votes)
H.G. Wells (Jaime Murray) - Warehouse 13 (1%, 75 Votes)
Gormogon (Laurence Todd Rosenthal) - Bones (1%, 71 Votes)
The First - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1%, 55 Votes)
J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) - Dallas (1%, 54 Votes)
Alexei Volkoff (Timothy Dalton) - Chuck (1%, 51 Votes)
Number Six (Tricia Helfer) - Battlestar Galactica (1%, 49 Votes)
Carla (Tricia Helfer) - Burn Notice (1%, 49 Votes)
Sheriff of Nottingham (Keith Allen) - Robin Hood (1%, 47 Votes)
Anna (Morena Baccarin) - V (1%, 43 Votes)
Daniel Shaw (Brandon Routh) - Chuck (1%, 43 Votes)
Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman) - Suits (1%, 42 Votes)
The Chameleon (Christopher Lambert) NCIS: Los Angeles (1%, 42 Votes)
Jasmine (Gina Torres) - Angel (0%, 41 Votes)
Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) - The Dukes of Hazzard (0%, 41 Votes)
Victoria Grayson (Madeleine Stowe) - Revenge (0%, 39 Votes)
Nina Meyers (Sarah Clarke) - 24 (0%, 38 Votes)
Adalind Schade (Claire Coffee) - Grimm (0%, 37 Votes)
Marie Barone (Doris Roberts) - Everybody Loves Raymond (0%, 37 Votes)
Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman) - Heroes (0%, 37 Votes)
Elias (Enrico Colantoni) - Person of Interest (0%, 35 Votes)
Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea) - The X-Files (0%, 34 Votes)
Maryann Forrester (Michelle Forbes) - True Blood (0%, 32 Votes)
James MacPherson (Roger Rees) - Warehouse 13 (0%, 31 Votes)
Siobhan Martin (Sarah Michelle Gellar) - Ringer (0%, 31 Votes)
Amanda (Melinda Clarke) - Nikita (0%, 29 Votes)
Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo) - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (0%, 27 Votes)
Percy (Xander Berkeley) - Nikita (0%, 21 Votes)
Valerie Malone (Tiffani Thiessen) - Beverly Hills, 90210 (0%, 20 Votes)
Herrick (Jason Watkins) - Being Human (UK) (0%, 16 Votes)
Benny (Belita Moreno) - George Lopez (0%, 16 Votes)
Daniel Holtz (Keith Szarabajka) - Angel (0%, 15 Votes)
Weyoun (Jeffrey Combs) - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (0%, 12 Votes)
Roan (Rob Stewart) - Nikita (0%, 9 Votes)
Roy Biggins (David Schramm) - Wings (0%, 8 Votes)
Peter Fleming (James Frain) - The Cape (0%, 7 Votes)
Kai Winn (Louise Fletcher) - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (0%, 3 Votes)

Total Voters: 2,112

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Top 15 Favorite Non-Original Cast Members

As chosen by you, the voters, here are the top 15 favorite non-original cast members! I expanded this list from 10 to 15 because six of the top 10 were from two related shows. Feel free to consider #11-15 honorable mentions if you’re a top 10 purist. 🙂

The poll, while it didn’t quite receive the most votes, set a new record for most-viewed poll (and post) to date – and all in one week! Thanks to everyone who voted, and especially to those who spread the word about the poll!

Here are the results!

#15 – Marty Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen) from NCIS: Los Angeles

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Top 10 Favorite TV Couples – Speculative

In a hard-fought battle by fans (only the winner was helped out with actor retweets), two Firefly couples and THREE Once Upon a Time couples made it into the top 10! And don’t forget, the top 20 couples from this poll will battle against the top 20 couples from realistic shows later on this year!

Here are the winners, chosen by you, the voters:

#10 Wash (Alan Tudyk) and Zoe (Gina Torres) – Firefly

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Monday Madness: Favorite Non-Original Cast Members

This Monday Madness, we’re looking at non-original cast members! Sometimes these characters replaced fan favorites who had left the show (for plot, personal, or business reasons), and often their presence upset the show’s dynamics. Many had a difficult time being accepted by long-time fans of the show, while with others it seemed like they had always been a part of the story. But, begrudgingly or with open arms, we learned to love most of these characters, and now you get to choose which ones are worthy of recognition!

This poll will be open for one week, and you can choose up to 10 of your favorite characters who joined their shows later on. Be sure to spread the word so your favorites will make it into the top 10!

Even though there are 50-some options on this list, I know there are dozens of characters I left out! You can nominate people I missed in the comments, and I may add them to the poll. I tried to limit this mostly to characters who joined after the complete first season, though with shorter-running shows I was more lenient. Want more of a say in who makes it onto the poll each week? Be sure to follow me on Twitter, since I usually ask for nominations for the next Monday Madness the weekend before the new poll. Please help out with nominations! There are only so many shows I can watch personally, so I’m counting on you to fill me in!

Without further ado, here’s the poll for this week’s Monday Madness! Voting ends around 1AM June 11th.

UPDATE: this poll has ended. Vote for this week’s poll here: Favorite TV Dads.

Who is your favorite character who joined their show later? (Choose up to 10!)

Spike (James Marsters) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (9%, 3,410 Votes)
Castiel (Misha Collins) - Supernatural (8%, 3,064 Votes)
Winifred "Fred" Burkle (Amy Acker) - Angel (5%, 1,712 Votes)
Anya (Emma Caulfield) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (4%, 1,606 Votes)
Oz (Seth Green) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (4%, 1,602 Votes)
Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) - NCIS (4%, 1,557 Votes)
Lorne (Andy Hallett) - Angel (4%, 1,481 Votes)
Woody (Kurt Fuller) - Psych (4%, 1,437 Votes)
Tara Maclay (Amber Benson) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (3%, 1,230 Votes)
Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik) - The Big Bang Theory (3%, 1,096 Votes)
Dr. Lance Sweets (John Francis Daley) - Bones (3%, 1,059 Votes)
Gwaine (Eoin Macken) - Merlin (3%, 1,045 Votes)
Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) - Doctor Who (3%, 995 Votes)
Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss) - Glee (2%, 827 Votes)
Marty Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen) - NCIS: Los Angeles (2%, 727 Votes)
Bernadette Rostenkowski (Melissa Rauch) - The Big Bang Theory (2%, 585 Votes)
Jessica Hamby (Deborah Ann Woll) - True Blood (2%, 555 Votes)
Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) - Lost (1%, 549 Votes)
Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (Olivia Wilde) - House (1%, 522 Votes)
Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster) - Criminal Minds (1%, 519 Votes)
Dr. Camille Saroyan (Tamara Taylor) - Bones (1%, 507 Votes)
Nell Jones (Renée Felice Smith) - NCIS: Los Angeles (1%, 503 Votes)
Alcide Herveaux (Joe Manganiello) - True Blood (1%, 491 Votes)
Sir Leon (Rupert Young) - Merlin (1%, 479 Votes)
Dawn Summers (Michelle Trachtenberg) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1%, 476 Votes)
Sir Percival (Tom Hopper) - Merlin (1%, 456 Votes)
Col. Potter (Harry Morgan) - M*A*S*H (1%, 445 Votes)
David Rossi (Joe Mantegna) - Criminal Minds (1%, 431 Votes)
Lois Lane (Erica Durance) - Smallville (1%, 429 Votes)
Capt. B.J. Honeycut (Mike Farrell) - M*A*S*H (1%, 416 Votes)
Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia) - Gilmore Girls (1%, 389 Votes)
August W. Booth (Eion Bailey) - Once Upon a Time (1%, 363 Votes)
Natalie Teeger (Traylor Howard) - Monk (1%, 347 Votes)
Andy Bernard (Ed Helms) - The Office (1%, 346 Votes)
Jenny Shepard (Lauren Holly) - NCIS (1%, 323 Votes)
Paige Matthews (Rose McGowan) - Charmed (1%, 319 Votes)
Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson) - Cheers (1%, 305 Votes)
Jesse Porter (Coby Bell) - Burn Notice (1%, 287 Votes)
Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll) - NCIS (1%, 259 Votes)
Riley Finn (Marc Blucas) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1%, 258 Votes)
Sara Ellis (Hilarie Burton) - White Collar (1%, 256 Votes)
Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott) - Parks and Recreation (1%, 252 Votes)
Dr. Jennifer Keller (Jewel Staite) - Stargate Atlantis (1%, 245 Votes)
Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry) - Gilmore Girls (1%, 240 Votes)
Alex McHugh (Mekenna Melvin) - Chuck (1%, 236 Votes)
Maj. Charles Winchester (David Ogden Stiers) - M*A*S*H (1%, 230 Votes)
Dr. Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) - Grey's Anatomy (1%, 227 Votes)
Erin Hannon (Ellie Kemper) - The Office (0%, 177 Votes)
Steve Jinks (Aaron Ashmore) - Warehouse 13 (0%, 163 Votes)
Rosalee Calvert (Bree Turner) - Grimm (0%, 159 Votes)
Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson) - House (0%, 127 Votes)
Dr. April Kepner (Sarah Drew) - Grey's Anatomy (0%, 126 Votes)
David Hodges (Wallace Langham) - CSI (0%, 124 Votes)
Hal (Damien Molony) - Being Human (UK) (0%, 115 Votes)
Ben Grogan (Ryan Johnson) - Fairly Legal (0%, 112 Votes)
Tom (Michael Socha) - Being Human (UK) (0%, 107 Votes)
Olivia Kendall (Raven-Symoné) - The Cosby Show (0%, 85 Votes)
Dr. Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone) - Private Practice (0%, 85 Votes)
Tom (Bob Cledenin) - Cougar Town (0%, 80 Votes)
Jo Danville (Sela Ward) - CSI: NY (0%, 78 Votes)
Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley) - Cheers (0%, 76 Votes)
Walden Schmidt (Ashton Kutcher) - Two and a Half Men (0%, 70 Votes)
Tuck (David Harewood) - Robin Hood (0%, 55 Votes)
Valerie Malone (Tiffani Thiessen) - Beverly Hills, 90210 (0%, 52 Votes)
Sgt. Baker (Kenneth Washington) - Hogan's Heroes (0%, 12 Votes)

Total Voters: 8,576

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Monday Madness: Favorite TV Couples – Speculative

In part two of our TV couples Monday Madness, we’re looking at couples in speculative TV shows! Whether it’s sci fi, fantasy, paranormal, historical myths, or just a futuristic bent, these shows all have something out of the ordinary, even if the couples in them are perfectly normal human beings.

This poll will be open for one week, and you can choose up to 10 of your favorite TV couples. Be sure to spread the word so your favorites will make it into the top 10!

Even though there are 40-some options on this list, I know there are dozens of couples I left out! You can nominate couples I missed in the comments, and I may add them to the poll. Want more of a say in who makes it onto the poll each week? Be sure to follow me on Twitter, since I usually ask for nominations for the next Monday Madness the weekend before the new poll. Please help out with nominations! There are only so many shows I can watch personally, so I’m counting on you to fill me in!

Without further ado, here’s the poll for this week’s Monday Madness! Voting ends around 1AM June 4th.

UPDATE: poll has ended. Go vote in this week’s poll!

Which is your favorite TV couple? - Speculative Division (Choose up to 10)

Mary and John Winchester - Supernatural (14%, 959 Votes)
Rumpelstiltskin and Belle - Once Upon a TIme (9%, 608 Votes)
Charming and Snow - Once Upon a Time (6%, 414 Votes)
The Doctor and Rose - Doctor Who (5%, 352 Votes)
Arthur and Gwen - Merlin (4%, 301 Votes)
Elena and Damon - The Vampire Diaries (4%, 283 Votes)
Emma and Graham - Once Upon a Time (4%, 256 Votes)
Buffy and Spike - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (3%, 235 Votes)
Mal and Inara - Firefly (3%, 223 Votes)
Wash and Zoe - Firefly (3%, 213 Votes)
Leo and Piper - Charmed (3%, 209 Votes)
Buffy and Angel - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (3%, 190 Votes)
Scully and Mulder - The X-Files (3%, 178 Votes)
Ned and Chuck - Pushing Daisies (2%, 172 Votes)
Simon and Kaylee - Firefly (2%, 161 Votes)
Eric and Sookie - True Blood (2%, 154 Votes)
Peter and Olivia - Fringe (2%, 149 Votes)
Willow and Oz - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2%, 144 Votes)
Cole and Phoebe - Charmed (2%, 139 Votes)
Elena and Stefan - The Vampire Diaries (2%, 130 Votes)
Lois and Clark - Smallville (2%, 126 Votes)
Wesley and Fred - Angel (2%, 113 Votes)
Jack and Sam - Stargate SG-1 (2%, 111 Votes)
Xander and Anya - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2%, 110 Votes)
Mick and Beth - Moonlight (1%, 85 Votes)
Robin and Marion - Robin Hood (1%, 77 Votes)
Monroe and Rosalee - Grimm (1%, 74 Votes)
John and Aeryn - Farscape (1%, 74 Votes)
Max and Logan - Dark Angel (1%, 72 Votes)
Bill and Sookie - True Blood (1%, 72 Votes)
Nick and Juliette - Grimm (1%, 63 Votes)
Max and Liz - Roswell (1%, 63 Votes)
Jo and Zane - Eureka (1%, 63 Votes)
Sierra and Victor - Dollhouse (1%, 59 Votes)
Hoyt and Jessica - True Blood (1%, 55 Votes)
The Doctor and River Song - Doctor Who (1%, 52 Votes)
Fargo - Eureka and Claudia - Warehouse 13 (1%, 52 Votes)
Carter and Allison - Eureka (1%, 51 Votes)
Tru and Luc - Tru Calling (1%, 38 Votes)
Echo and Paul - Dollhouse (1%, 35 Votes)
George and Nina - Being Human (UK) (0%, 30 Votes)
Angel and Cordelia - Angel (0%, 24 Votes)
Josh and Nora - Being Human (US) (0%, 21 Votes)
Kara and Anders - Battlestar Galatica (0%, 15 Votes)

Total Voters: 2,191

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ABC 2012-13 Primetime Schedule: ‘Revenge’ To Sunday, ‘Happy Endings,’ ‘Don’t Trust The B’ To Tuesday, ‘Last Man Standing’ To Friday – Ratings | TVbytheNumbers

ABC announced its fall schedule yesterday, with a few returning freshmen shows (and Happy Endings) moving, but most of the schedule staying the same (Once Upon a Time, Castle, and Suburgatory all stayed put).

It looks like most of the new shows I want to try out on ABC are being held for midseason – including comedies How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) and The Family Tools (both of their trailers look pretty decent and far funnier than the descriptions suggested) and perhaps drama Zero Hour (looks interesting, probably will depend on how busy I am).

For fall, I was planning to try out The Neighbors (which has taken Don’t Trust the B—-‘s spot on Wednesdays at 9:30, the returning comedy has moved to the same time on Tuesdays following Happy Endings), but the preview makes the show look pretty dumb. I don’t think it’ll last long, though the post-Modern Family slot might hold off the inevitable for a bit. Last Resort, on the other hand, looks great, and I hope it will fare well with the competitive 8/7c slot on Thursdays. 666 Park Street seems pretty much straight horror from the preview, so I’m likely to pass on it completely (I was hoping for something more along the lines of Grimm/Warehouse 13/Buffy – call me old-fashioned, but I prefer supernatural baddies that you can beat up and behead, with a cast who can quip to lighten the tension).

Looking back at ABC’s list of pilots, there are so many I wish had gotten picked up! Primarily Beauty and the Beast. At least there won’t be network wars over who can keep the title. And since Americana wasn’t picked up, Once Upon a Time’s Belle (Emilie de Ravin) can stay where she belongs. Gilded Lillys, Gotham, and Prairie Dogs also sounded good.

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Monday Madness: Favorite Series or Season Finale

This week on Monday Madness, it’s time to vote for your favorite TV finales! This poll is for season and series finales of both cable and broadcast shows. But this week there’s a twist – for the first seven days, you can nominate your favorite finales and I’ll add them to the poll! I’m doing this because I got so few nominations, and I didn’t want to limit the poll to just my favorites.

This poll will be open for TWO weeks, and you can choose up to 10 of your favorite finales. Be sure to spread the word so your favorites will make it into the top 10! And as shows finish up their runs this year, you can nominate them for a spot on the poll!

Want more of a say in what makes it onto the poll each week? Be sure to follow me on Twitter, since I usually ask for nominations for the next Monday Madness the weekend before the new poll.

Without further ado, here’s the poll for this AND next week’s Monday Madness! Voting ends around 1AM May 21th.

Update: this poll has closed. I planned to do a results post like I do with other Monday Madness polls, but I realized any pictures I posted would be full of spoilers (or else very boring). So I decided to skip that part this time.

What's your favorite series or season finale? (Choose up to 10)

Castle - season 4 finale "Always" (22%, 529 Votes)
Castle - season 3 finale "Knockout" (13%, 322 Votes)
Once Upon a Time - season 1 finale "A Land Without Magic" (9%, 223 Votes)
Leverage - season 2 finale "The Maltese Falcon Job" (7%, 161 Votes)
Leverage - season 4 finale - "The Last Dam Job" (5%, 130 Votes)
Angel - series finale "Not Fade Away" (3%, 73 Votes)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - season 5 finale "The Gift" (3%, 68 Votes)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - season 2 finale "Becoming: Part 2" (3%, 62 Votes)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - series finale "Chosen" (3%, 61 Votes)
Sherlock - season 2 finale "The Reichenbach Fall" (2%, 60 Votes)
NCIS - season 6 finale "Aliyah" (2%, 55 Votes)
Bones - season 4 finale "The End in the Beginning" (2%, 51 Votes)
White Collar - season 1 finale "Out of the Box" (2%, 46 Votes)
Chuck - season 2 finale "Chuck Versus the Ring" (2%, 45 Votes)
Bones - season 3 finale "The Pain in the Heart" (2%, 42 Votes)
House - season 4 finale "Wilson's Heart" (2%, 42 Votes)
Supernatural - season 3 finale "No Rest for the Wicked" (2%, 41 Votes)
Supernatural - season 5 finale "Swan Song" (2%, 40 Votes)
How I Met Your Mother - season 1 finale "Come On" (2%, 39 Votes)
Community - season 2 finale "For a Few Paintballs More" (2%, 37 Votes)
Smallville - series finale "Finale" (1%, 36 Votes)
Dollhouse - series finale "Epitaph Two: Return" (1%, 35 Votes)
Warehouse 13 - season 1 finale "MacPherson" (1%, 32 Votes)
Burn Notice - season 4 finale "Last Stand" (1%, 25 Votes)
The Office - season 3 finale "The Job" (1%, 23 Votes)
NCIS - season 2 finale "Twilight" (1%, 22 Votes)
Newhart - series finale "The Last Newhart" (1%, 19 Votes)
The Mentalist - season 3 finale "Strawberries and Cream" (1%, 14 Votes)
The Finder - series finale "The Boy with the Bucket" (0%, 12 Votes)
Numb3rs - series finale "Cause and Effect" (0%, 10 Votes)
Robin Hood - season 2 finale "We Are Robin Hood" (0%, 10 Votes)
The Mentalist - season 2 finale "Red Sky in the Morning" (0%, 9 Votes)
St. Elsewhere - series finale "The Last One" (0%, 8 Votes)
Community - season 3 finale - "Introduction to Finality" (0%, 8 Votes)
Dallas - season 2 finale "A House Divided" (Who Shot J.R.?) (0%, 7 Votes)
Numb3rs - season 5 finale "Angels and Devils" (0%, 6 Votes)
GCB - series finale "Liplocks and Revelations" (0%, 2 Votes)
Dynasty - season 5 finale "Royal Wedding" (0%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 965

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