List this, buddy

A faux tweet noted some goofball list of the top ten celebs on the old Dick Clark Pyramid. I asked how anybody could leave out Soupy Sales.

I wasn't the only one questioning the list. Over at the Sitcoms Online game show board, posters also wondered what happened to Soupy. And Nipsey Russell, Henry Polic II, Anita Gillette, Lynn Redgrave, Bill Cullen, Joanne Worley...

Game Show Newsnet calls the phenomenon "list abuse," which means no list is ever accurate or complete enough to please everybody. But the omissions from the Pyramid list seem particularly glaring. Maybe one poster at Sitcoms Online had it right: the list-maker just never watched much Pyramid.

I do top ten lists myself now and then, so I should hardly preach. But if you going to try a list, at least know a little about the subject.