This week on Entertainment Weekly’s website, the run a story (? is that what we call it?) listing the top 17 DVR “No Delete” episodes of all time. ¹   EW is famous for the list that no one cares about (No? Okay well known to myself at least) because let’s face it, people need a bit of time between each time you rearrange the top 50 Movies of All Time list.  Expecting a filler list here and there is, well, expected.  But this ones a doosey. 

First off, the list is off to a roaring start with the fact that there is seventeen items on it.  What? You couldn’t find a few more to make it an even twenty?  The remaining three are the ones you’ll “probably delete the next you run out of space.”

The List is as follows — and I don’t even think it’s a count down to be perfectly honest.

1. “I Will Remember You”  – Angel (not off to a bad start)
2. Rosie/Elisabeth View Blowout  (what does that even mean?)
3. Two episodes of The Golden Girls, only referenced as “the mystery one” and “the one with a nurse” (so now the fake list is cheating.  And with very little research.)
4. “Naked Man” – How I Met Your Mother
5. “The one where Jim Plays a Banjo at the end” — The Office (are we even trying still?)
6. The Scrubs Musical Episode (which I found to be grating and a bit derivative)
7. 30 Rock’s ”MILF Island” episode  (Saved by the Baldwin)
8. The series finale of The West Wing (Of all the awesome episodes written, a hundred written by the Sorkin himself, we choose the most tired predictable episode of the season.  Fine, at least they swung for the bleachers.)
9. ”Once More With Feeling.” – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy and Angel on one list.  That only has 17 in it, no less.  Go, geeks, go.)
10. The series finale of The O.C.  (Once again, I could probably list 20 that are better than this.  All from Season 1)
11. ”Patriot Games” – Family Guy (Haven’t personally seen this ep specifically, but a point for the obscurity.)
12. “A couple episodes” from Felicity (okay, see, now you’re cheating again)
13.  90210 where Dylan marries Toni (I actually have nothing to add one way or the other, sorry to build your expectations)
14. The Rick James episode ofChappelle’s Show ( What?! Really?  Gag.)
15. ‘The Constant.” – Lost (I stopped watching lost after season 2 because it turned to wank, but okay, if you say so)
16. ”Post-it Always Sticks Twice” – Sex and the City (This just seems like an obligatory mention by this point)
17. Saturday Night Live ”J*zz in My Pants” (ARGLLLL!!)

Besides the fact that most of these are not even real episodes, this is the most obscure list I have ever come in contact with.  And I make a many of lists.  It goes from Geek to 80’s sitcoms to just random bits of episodes and then back again taking a loop around the lowest common denominator.  Who is this list trying to appeal to, exactly?  Are we being ecclectic to prove that there is unforgettable television everywhere?  Well, if it were so damn unforgettable why are only a few of the episodes actually named by titled instead of “the one where something happens to some person and it was funny, sorta.”  Ugh.  I, as a list maker and television view alike, am personally offended by the nonsense of this list.  This list maker should be fired  and they should hire someone who can make better lists with multiples of fives and proper labelling.  And a descending order, dammit!

Hippies. Sigh.

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