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The first few episodes were fun and light-hearted, but after a while it got to be mean spirited and brutal. I also found over a period of time that this show was very sexist! Everytime a male celebrity would voice his opinion everyone would applaud. Everytime a female celebrity would voice her opinion everyone would jump all over her. I also hated how whenever someone would talk about a woman artist, or whenever a woman artist would be #1, everyone would boo and hiss (except when it was Britney Spears, of course!). It was as if this was yet another Boys' Club where women were either prohibited, or ridiculed for having a voice!

This patience testing show jumped before it was even on the air. Who thought to empanel a bunch of lamebrained celebrities and have them give their "expert" opinions on air? I heard more stupid stuff on this show than I have ever heard anywhere else - "Hole" as most influential band (thank you Marla whatever your name is from The Practice),Beck as a fashion frontrunner (courtesy of Danny Masterson), "Beautiful Stranger" as best move theme song (Vivica - you're pretty, you don't have to talk) and my favorite - Marilyn Monroe as sexiest pop star according to Meatloaf. This show didn't - and couldn't - end fast enough.

I don't mind having list shows that has something to do with music (which MTV and VH-1 don't anything about anymore.) Almost every episode of "The List" has either The Beatles, Michael Jackson or Madonna at #1. They're all influential artists during their time but they don't need to be #1 all-the-time. The List would've been a great list show if it weren't the fact that it's the same three guys at #1 most of the shows run. Good show on VH1 though. Bring this show back, please! ROCK ON!

"The List" on VH1 jumped when some audience member got to stand up and add their choice to the final list. It was bad enough when someone thought we would care what a bunch a B-List celebrities thought of whatever irrelevant topic was being discussed, but now we have to listen to some yahoo say she thought the Spice Girls were really, really great? Some favorite episodes: when Charles Barkley hosted the show for "Most Controversial Videos" and some black British guy had two videos on his list and not only did they not have any video clips of either one, no one had any ideas what he was talking about. It was funny to see the other four just sort of mumble their way through the segment until the next person's turn was up. Another one was when Thora Birch was on and she was constantly being ridiculed for her opinions for Best Video Ever. One of her choices was "Got The Life" by Korn and she waxed poetic about it for a couple of minutes, explaining in detail why she thought of it that way. It was funny to see the other panelists' reaction to her. They just sat there dumbfounded by her defense.

I could not believe it when this show had the topic on greatest bands of all time. It was obvious The Beatles would come out on top, and of course they did. Now I love this band, but even I have to admit that they're overrated and it gets tiresome when they're awarded the top spots in lists like these without even thinking or intelligent evaluation. The Who were nominated by a viewer's e-mail and not even by anybody on the stupid panel, and then when they were eliminating bands in the preliminary round before the commercial break, they took them off! That was just wrong!

As much as I hated this show, I loved it when they started asking audience members for their own picks. THAT'S when we truly got to see stupidity. I remember on the Greatest 90's Anthem episode (or something like that), this one woman stands up and declares Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" as the greatest 90's song of all time. The guests booed, as did most of the audience, and it was taken off the list. I loved that. But everything else was crap.

This jumped the shark when they ran out of topics and even more when the guests got to only choose two choices.

I was pissed when those idiots voted for Santana's Smooth over Nirvana's smells like teen spirit as the best 90s song. how can Carlos"once a legend, now overplayed teenybopper" Santana beat the best Band of the 90s

Why? Is the show THAT much of an event that it has to be seen live? Why even drum up the show's importance when it has none to begin with? It's mildly entertaining even though its look resembles "Politically Incorrect", but enough with the live shows, OK? There aren't many big celebrities on that show for me to watch on a constant basis.

The Day Some VH1 exec said, "I refuse to have my brain tumor removed...Now what's this show idea about a list?" I had seen commercials for this show and it looked slightly interesting. Then, I recently watched one episode and decided that not only is this show a waste of my time, but also the taste of the general populous of America is quite limited and moronic. The episode was meant to determine the "Best Female Vocalist of All Time." Let's repeat that last part...OF ALL TIME! Yet, not a single guest remembered that the world did not begin in 1970. So, obviously, people were mentioning artists like Madonna, who's okay but, let's face it -- she's more of a media genius than a talented vocalist. Why wasn't Billie Holiday on that list, or Aretha Franklin, or Ella Fitzgerald? I didn't even watch the end to see who was voted #1. I'll assume it was Madonna. In general, I don't think VH1 should put their money in a show that could quite possibly bring the remaining cast members of "Diff'rent Strokes" back into the public eye so as to decide on the "Best Country and Western Song of the 1980's." Actually, that would be good TV...

The List Jumps the shark every time The Beatles, Madonna or Michael Jackson are the Number one choice for just about ANYTHING. God I hate this show now..!! It was cool for about a second.

When Lars Ulrich of Metallica hosted wearing khaki pants I knew we were headed up the ramp. Splash!

When some stupid blonde bimbo voted the Dave Matthews Band as one of the three most influential artists of all time. I wanted to slap her and say Haven't you ever heard of Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, James Brown, George Clinton, Madonna, Eric Clapton etc? Geez! People shouldn't be allowed on here unless they know something about music!

Remember when VH1 and MTV used to play music videos? Now they are too focused on "real TV." Real BAD TV, that is.