Top TV Series of the Millennium

There are lists happening on the Internet! Lists! Daniel-Day Lewwwissss! With only a few weeks left until the new decade, Gawker points out that the blogs are getting even more top-ten heavy. One of the most incomplete and hyperbolic lists comes courtesy of the netscape navigators at The Hollywood Reporter, who, after considerable deliberations and mathematical hoohah, have come up with the Top TV Series of the Decade. Hey, HR, we've got a research-light list of our own: The Best TV Series of the Millennium! John Travolta!

1. Six Feet Under
Three reasons why: Brenda was so wonderfully slutty. Nate’s totally scary arteriovenous malformation drive-thru scene. Best finale of all time, ever.

2. Arrested Development
Three reasons why: Maeby’s Shemale shirt gift. Tobias Funke’s business card. Every episode with Carl Weathers.

3. Passions
Three reasons why: Timmy and Tabitha drinking Martimmys. A gender-bending Norma Bates. All of the show’s Roman Catholic allegory.

4. Gossip Girl
Three reasons why: Serena’s Page Six persona. Jenny, since she became the new queen. GEORGINA SPARKS.

5. Picket Fences
Three reasons why: Fyvush Finkel. The mayor of Rome, Wisconsin takes the job as community service. Cows give birth to human babies.

6. Degrassi Junior High
Three reasons why: Joey Jeremiah. When Joey Jeremiah says, “You’re so flat, the walls are jealous!” The Zit Remedy!

7. The Carol Burnett Show
Three reasons why: The show’s closing theme song: “I’m so glad we had this time together.” The fact that co-star Vicki Lawrence looked exactly like Carol. The No-Frills Airline.

8. Nip/Tuck
Three reasons why: The guest stars. The Carver. The anatomically-correct Kimber doll.

9. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Three reasons why: Christine Lahti’s Maureen Dowd impersonation. Aaron Sorkin’s total aversion to brevity. Amanda Peet‘s superbitch.

10. Dirt
Three reasons why: Vincent Gallo’s amazing cameo. The fact that Courteney Cox plays Gale Weathers each episode. The Britney meltdown spoof.