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Monday Madness: Favorite Brother/Sister Duo

Update: This poll is now closed. View the winners here, and check out this week’s poll!

This Monday Madness, vote for your favorite brother/sister duos! While many shows include 3, 4, or more siblings, this poll only focuses on a brother/sister pair – there may be other siblings, but only if they are less of a focus. (I may do a families poll in the future to cover families with multiple siblings like the Bluths.) As in the previous polls, I only included more recent shows, and included both half- and step-siblings, as well as adopted siblings (but not siblings-in-law).

I also did not include siblings when one of them is only in a handful of episodes. My general rule of thumb was going with siblings who had both been in at least 1/3 of the episodes. Be sure to keep that in mind with any nominations!

The winners of last week’s poll are here.

This poll will be open for one week, and you can choose up to 5 of your favorite TV brother/sister duos. Be sure to spread the word so your favorites will win!

I had a hard time coming up with duos for this list, so I know there are brother/sister pairs I left out! As always, you can cast write-in ballots by leaving a comment, and if I receive several nominations, I may add them to 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 week’s Monday Madness! Voting ends around 12AM March 31st.

Which is your favorite TV brother/sister duo? (Choose up to 5!)

Roman and Sophia (Star-Crossed) (31%, 874 Votes)
Elena and Jeremy Gilbert (The Vampire Diaries) (17%, 468 Votes)
Oliver and Thea Queen (Arrow) (10%, 269 Votes)
Annie and Dixon Wilson (90210) (9%, 244 Votes)
Ross and Monica Gellar (Friends) (8%, 211 Votes)
Simon and River Tam (Firefly) (6%, 162 Votes)
Sookie and Jason Stackhouse (True Blood) (4%, 121 Votes)
Claire Dunphy and Mitchell Pritchett (Modern Family) (3%, 91 Votes)
Dan and Jenny Humphrey (Gossip Girl) (3%, 85 Votes)
Chuck and Ellie Bartowski (Chuck) (3%, 78 Votes)
Casey and Rusty Cartwright (Greek) (2%, 54 Votes)
Frankie and Jane Rizzoli (Rizzoli and Isles) (1%, 40 Votes)
Lindsay and Sam Weir (Freaks and Geeks) (1%, 26 Votes)
Amber and Drew Holt (Parenthood) (1%, 22 Votes)
Ryan and Lisa Shay (Suburgatory) (1%, 17 Votes)
Daphne and J.J. Powell (No Ordinary Family) (0%, 12 Votes)
Ben and Kate Fox (Ben and Kate) (0%, 8 Votes)

Total Voters: 1,462

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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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Top 10 Canceled Shows That Should Return

The votes are in! A record-setting 9043 people voted for which shows they’d like to see return. Shows were limited to ones that had 3 seasons or less. Here are the results for TV Breakroom’s first-ever Monday Madness poll!

Number 10: Jericho

This show about a small town impacted by a nuclear event barely made it into the top 10, being only 3 votes away from #11, Dark Angel. After it was canceled following its freshman season, fans were able to bring it back for a 7-episode second season. The story continued in comic form, and there are still movie rumors spreading around.

Continue reading Top 10 Canceled Shows That Should Return

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Monday Madness: What Canceled TV Show Should Return?

Since so many people stopped by this site for March Madness, I wanted to continue the whole Madness thing, this time with actual polls (so if things go crazy like they did with Psych vs. Castle I won’t have to count up 600 votes!). More people seemed to stop by to vote on Mondays, no matter when the bracket match ended, so I decided to continue the “M” trend with weekly match-ups/polls/competitions, and dubbed them “Monday Madness.”

This very first Monday Madness focuses on those beloved shows that ended far too quickly. Sometimes it was a lack of viewers, sometimes schedule changes and episode rearrangement, sometimes poor promotion and network mismanagement. But all of the shows have a dedication group of fans who mourn the small amount of episodes available.

But which of those canceled shows deserves to be brought back? I know most of the cast has moved on to other projects, but if you could, which shows would you bring back?

You can choose up to 10 of the thirty shows below, and if I’ve missed any of your favorites, let me know by voting in the comments! I’ve limited this poll to shows that had 3 seasons or less – if a show gets to four seasons, that usually means syndication, and I don’t want this to be about shows that made it, but the underdogs that need a second chance at life.

You’ll notice that Arrested Development is missing from this poll, because that show has already beat incredible odds to garner another season, thanks to Netflix!

I’ll announce the top 10 canceled shows that should return next week, so be sure to vote and pass along the link so your favorite shows can make it! Again, if I’ve missed a show (canceled with 3 seasons or less), vote in the comments, and I’ll total up those votes against the poll leaderboard.

Update: This poll is closed, and I will be posting about the top 10 soon. But the Monday Madness isn’t over! Go vote for your favorite quirky character!

Which TV show would you bring back if you could? (you can select up to 10)

Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles (38%, 6,990 Votes)
The Cape (21%, 3,779 Votes)
Firefly (11%, 2,052 Votes)
V (4%, 730 Votes)
Dollhouse (3%, 638 Votes)
Pushing Daisies (2%, 414 Votes)
Veronica Mars (2%, 389 Votes)
Dead Like Me (2%, 307 Votes)
Freaks and Geeks (2%, 278 Votes)
Jericho (1%, 241 Votes)
Dark Angel (1%, 238 Votes)
Better Off Ted (1%, 230 Votes)
FlashForward (1%, 224 Votes)
Wonderfalls (1%, 182 Votes)
Deadwood (1%, 172 Votes)
Life (1%, 158 Votes)
Tru Calling (1%, 151 Votes)
Moonlight (1%, 147 Votes)
Roswell (1%, 127 Votes)
My So-Called Life (1%, 119 Votes)
No Ordinary Family (1%, 110 Votes)
Party Down (1%, 106 Votes)
Robin Hood (BBC) (1%, 105 Votes)
Outsourced (1%, 98 Votes)
Journeyman (1%, 96 Votes)
Kings (0%, 81 Votes)
Life on Mars (0%, 72 Votes)
Samantha Who? (0%, 71 Votes)
Undeclared (0%, 61 Votes)
Life Unexpected (0%, 45 Votes)

Total Voters: 9,043

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