TV: Love is a doing word

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Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of one of your favorite shows
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of one of your favorite TV shows
Day 08 - A show that's had a significant effect on who you are today
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

Explicitly disqualified: Lost. If it can be readily compressed into an LJ icon, it shouldn't qualify.

Third place: the many, many iterations of MST3K.

No, its effects don't knock your socks off, but it's a perfectly entertaining and proper introduction to the show and its premise. And they prepare you for the show's simple charms.

Distant second: Battlestar Galactica.

The first clip (or that season's specific version of it) plays as the teaser starts, and before the jump to the first commercial, the second clip plays.

Points off: for revealing scenes in the end of the second clip that are in the upcoming episode. Granted, maybe that's to emphasize the cyclical nature of history in BSG, but typically it just reinforces your dread that this episode -- like pretty much every one before it -- is going to depress the living hell out of you.

Extra credit: for a typically-updated population count (with a few errors) in every episode or, in at least one episode, an entirely new sequence to herald the unveiling of the final fifth Cylon. And a perfectly apropos musical transition -- a prayer for the billions of lives lost already, and a frantic coda to reinforce that the fight's not over yet.

My favorite, highly predictably....

Rationale: I first ran into Massive Attack's Mezzanine some 12 years ago under a highly unlikely set of circumstances. It's a hell of an album, one that sticks with you, but it's always had a soft spot in my heart. But if I was looking for a song to mesh with the trippy anatomical graphics that make up the visual aspect of House's intro, "Teardrop" wouldn't be the first song to come to mind. Nor the eleven thousandth. Imagine my reaction on watching the second episode and hearing that theme for the first time....

Lyrically it's almost antithetical to the show's protagonist. But then, we never hear the lyrics -- just the heartbeat and the piano. There's more to the song than that, but it's the only part we ever hear, the only part we're ever shown. Hm.

Points off: for maintaining the cast list worse than most websites. The big cast shakeup happened at the end of season three, with the new cast members popping up intermittently in season four and then regularly midway through that season. Took the show two and a half seasons to bite the bullet and come up with new title cards for Peter Jacobsen and Olivia Wilde -- though the latter's only been in one episode so far. Ssshhfff, movie stars.