Jul 24, 2026
Mad About You? Seriously?
MENSA chairman picks the ten smartest shows of all-time… and it’s not a very good list. What do you think is missing?
Richard Clark
Richard Clark is the Founding Editor of Christ and Pop Culture. He is also the managing editor of Gamechurch and a freelance writer for Unwinnable, Paste, and other outlets. He lives with his wife in Louisville, KY and has a MA in Theology and the Arts from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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6 Comments
I don’t see a problem with Mad About You being on the list. If you actually watched the show and didn’t think it was a “smart show,” you probably just didn’t get it.
But I do find the list to be a bit off; I could better embrace it if it was a top 20 list and most (some deserve it) of these were somewhere in 11-20.
I could totally see All in the Family and M*A*S*H being in the list. I’m not super familiar with a lot of those other shows though.
Hello Seinfeld?! Arrested Development?
Gilmore Girls was smart when it wasn’t pandering to ridiculous soap-operatic clich&233;.
Darn you pound sign! How did you escape me?? é é é é é I’ve got you now… that it doesn’t matter.
Uhhh the Simpsons. And although I think Seinfeld was the last great sitcom, I’m not sure it was really all that smart.
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