Probably the most obscure show this high on the list, Eagleheart is the rare show that I had never heard of at all before I watched it for the first time. It was on after Childrens Hopsital on Adult Swim, and my friend, who I was watching with, said he had heard of it, and that it was supposed to be decent, so we decided to give it a watch. Expectations were relatively low, and all we could tell right away was that it was a comedy in which Chris Elliott portrayed a ridiculous supercop charged with serious missions, along with his two partners, an idiotic guy Chris uses as a battering ram, and a woman who is generally more competent but whom he ignores. We started to watch and we slowly started laughing and looking back and forth at each other until the realization gradually set in that this was actually pretty good. We still weren’t entirely convinced, so we watched a couple more episodes and by the time two more were finished, we were pretty sure; surprised, but pretty sure. Soon, we finished the series (it really only takes about two hours if watched all in a row – that’s how short the episodes are, eleven minutes each) and when I told my brother to watch, he balked. When he eventually gave in, he was just as surprised, but enjoyed the show just as much as well.
It’s an excellent companion piece for Childrens Hospital, because the shows share a very similar sensibility. The show is loaded with terribly corny wordplay which takes a certain appreciation which I understand not everyone has. When Chris is captured on a blimp, the evil blimp captain baron tells him there’s only one day when one can leave the blimp – splatterday. Yeah, it sounds stupid when I write it like that I realize. But with audio and video it’s funny, I swear.
I’ll be the first to admit that this show is possibly ranked higher than it should be because I just watched it recently and the lines and laughs are fresh in my memory. That said, I’m also glad that I put it this high because I think it’s probably the show in this tier that people are least likely be familiar with. The show is so unheralded that the entry “Eagleheart” in wikipedia’s search takes you to Finnish power metal band Stratovarius’s thirteenth single release Eagleheart rather than the show. I’ve read just about no buzz about the show, and I had never heard about it, yet I’m not sure why. A lot of people may just not be into this type of comedy, but with each episode lasting a mere 11 minutes, it’s certainly worth giving a shot.
Why it’s this high: It’s ridiculous, absurd, and though my brother noticed after watching a few in a row, there’s a pretty similar rhythm to the episodes, just because you know what’s coming doesn’t make it any less funny
Why it’s not higher: I suppose when you have twelve eleven minute episodes it limits your peak here – the shows are short and sweet which is normally a good thing but may have a topping out point
Best episode of the most recent season: I thought one would jump right out, but not as much – I’ll take “Chris, Susie, Brett and Malice,” in which the cops must disguise themselves as swingers in a swinger-unfriendly town. When they try to shop in the supermarket and pick up some aluminum foil, the employees lets them know that they only sell “family foil.”
Television, the Drug of the Nation 
I will admit to having only seen five minutes of this, but also that wasn’t enough to get me to keep watching. And are you fucking kidding me with 12 episodes of this shit being higher than 8 awesome seasons of Curb? This upsets me even more than The Office being too high. Super stoked to sound like a broken record on most of the rest of this list!