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5. Super Mario Brothers - Please don’t let the movie tarnish the reputation of this game.
4. Grand Theft Auto 3
3. Legend of Zelda
2. NHL 94 - Solid game every year, but 94 was the last year with blood after fights.
1. Halo - Words cannot do this game justice. Nothing is more fulfilling than beating the game on Legendary. Many hours of my college life were spent on this game.

5.  Getting Coffee - Sometimes, if you’re really bored, you can just get up and walk really slowly to the coffee maker.  This can shave a good 5 to 10 minutes off the clock.  Carrying papers with you makes you look more official.

4.  Reading the News - CNN is always a nice diversion, and if you get caught, you can  just say you’re keeping up with current events.

3.  Staring straight ahead - If you work at it, you can actually train yourself to shut off your brain and stare at a spreadsheet for long periods of time.  Hours can disappear like seconds.

2.  The Daily Email - chatting it up with friends makes the day more bearable.

1.  Bathroom trips - Nothing is more satisfying than dropping a deuce on the company dime!

1) Slap Bracelets…a way to entertain yourself for hours (p.s. check out why they were banned)

2) Batman/Barbie cereal…not gonna lie, breakfast became a little more exciting

3) Michael Jackson: pre-pedophile days

4) High top sneakers in any color imaginable…literally

5) Side pony tails and tying shirts into a knot…CLEARLY needs to come back in style

80’s pop culture: fun, yet so easy to make fun of

5 - Flintstones - My favorite for a long time.  I even named my cat Pebbles.  She recently passed away after a long 17.5 year life.

4 - Tail Spin - I don’t really know why I liked it so much.  Each episode was solid (well, as well as i can remember)

3 - Duck Tales - I had a huge craving to watch this in college one semester, and no matter how hard i searched online I couldn’t find any episodes to download.  They did show it on Toon Disney, but that was not one of the 150 channels we got in the dorms.  The show is available on DVD now though.

2 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - a solid favorite of anyone in our generation.

1 - Animaniacs - Between Pinky and the Brain and the Godfeathers, how could you not love this show?

The topic is pretty self-explanatory.  It is a difficult question to ponder however, do you prefer the warm and fuzzy feel-good crap, or does a more depressing flavor wet your appetite?  As for me:

5. Love, Actually.  Does a good job of intertwining the storylines, you’ve got Christmas as a backgound for some solid dry, British comedy.

4. Home Alone (1 and 2).  I group these films together for obvious reasons.  I like New York as a backdrop in the second film, but the house of tricks in the original trumps the abandoned brownstone in number 2.

3.  Scrooged.  The type of movie I have to watch whenever it is on tv.  The best version of Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol”, and Bill Murray is just at the top of his game.

2. It’s a Wonderful Life.  Most people put this at number 1, which is why I put it at number two.  Underrated for it’s comedic moments.  Donna Reed may be the hottest actress of the black and white era.

1.  National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.  This one has it all.  Nothing beats Randy Quaid pumping out the septic tank or Clark’s rant at the end of the film.

1) People who slurp coffee/soup/etc. at their desks.

2) Anyone who calls me sweetie, darling, honey, kid, asks my age, etc…

3) The guy who wedges himself in the corner seat in our weekly board meeting, props his head up on the corner-walls, falls asleep, and farts

4) Creepy old men

5) Printer nazis

The Top 5 are the highlights, I could go on all day around here…

I’m limiting this to shows on the Fall schedule. 24 and Scrubs won’t be on my list but would be right up at the top if they were on right now.

1. The Office
2. Lost
3. Heroes
4. Veronica Mars
5. How I Met Your Mother

The Office is far and away the front runner here. Not only is it the funniest show on right now, I’ve even been on board for the romantic parts of the show that some people seem to hate. Needless to say, I’m pumped for the new love triangle.

I liked Lost a lot better watching them straight through on DVD. Still its an incredibly well done show that I couldn’t give up on even if it started to get really bad.

Heroes shot into the list quickly this season, its leveled off but I’m expecting big things the rest of the way.

Veronica Mars continues to be solid and I don’t know anyone besides my sister and I that watch the show. There is something very wrong with that. I don’t think anyone has watched the show, because I only think it takes one to get hooked.

I missed the first season of How I Met Your Mother and I’m kicking myself. Its been hilarious every week.

Others:
Studio 60 is inconsistent so far. One week its the best episode of the TV season and the next its blah. I think it has huge potential and am really happy that it got a whole season.
Grey’s Anatomy came into the season with high hopes. I have a love-hate relationship with the show but right now I hate it because its boring not because the characters are being evil.