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{{quote|''Americans who do not happen to have enough money to spare for a cup or even a ribbon to present to someone horn into the award business by composing lists of the ten best this and that. There are currently so many of such annual lists of ten bests that the only one thus far missing seems to be a list of the ten best makers of lists of ten bests. There are lists of the ten best plays, the ten best novels, the ten best dressed women, the ten best dressed men, the ten most beautiful women, the ten best short stories, the ten best restaurants, the ten best hostesses, the ten greatest gourmets, the ten best actors, the ten best actresses, the ten best movies, the ten best movie directors, the ten fastest automobile drivers, the ten best radio acts, the ten best radio announcers, the ten best northwestern apple growers, the ten best shaped girls in Miami, the ten best typographical works, the ten best bartenders, and the eleven best football players. If anyone hasn't been voted the best something or other by this time, he may just as well consider himself a rank failure in life.''|'''George Jean Nathan'''}}
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[[Seen It a Million Times]] when it comes to things like sales, box office, critical favorites, popular favorites, etc.
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* '''#10:''' In the [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] parody "Living With A Hernia", the bridge section names several forms of the ailment. In the video, a top ten list accompanies it, despite the list having only nine elements.
* '''#9:''' ''[[Saturday Night Live|Wayne's World]]'' did a top ten list once in a while. One was the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Why We're Bummed Communism Fell]], with such gems as: having to memorize new maps, never going to "find out what that thing on Gorby's head is", and the worry that [[Spy Fiction|"spy stuff" is gonna suck"]].
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* And the '''#1''' example of a Top Ten List: [[David Letterman]]'s top ten lists. Started as a [[Deconstructive Parody]].
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] has the market cornered on [[Up to Eleven|Top 11]] lists, because he likes to go one step beyond.
** His [[Distaff Counterpart]], [[The Nostalgia Chick]], brought it back down to 10 for one of her own countdowns, "because you guys need to watch ''[[This Is Spinal Tap|Spinal Tap]]''".
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* One [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]] e-mail has Strong Bad listing his [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail133.html Bottom 10].
* The many, many "Top Five" lists of ''[[High Fidelity]]''.
** They're also the specialty of Five-O-Rama. [http://www.fiveorama.com\]{{Dead link}}
* The main gimmck behind the [[Animal Planet]] series ''[[The Most Extreme]]''
* Some [[I Love the Exties]] shows are lists.
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* Nat X from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' (played by [[Chris Rock]]) had a Top 5. The exact reason changed from episode to episode but it was always because [[The Man]] was keeping him down.
{{quote|Why Top 5? Because the man would never give me ten of anything! I'm lucky to get five!
Why five? Because ten would make the man [[Rouge Angles of Satin|loose]] sleep!
Why 5? 'Cause 10 would make the Man nervous. }}
* Garfield once did a top 10 ways to mispronounce 'big fat hairy deal'.
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