We love to have lists, and having the list as a top ten seems to be one of the most popular forms.

Seen It a Million Times when it comes to things like sales, box office, critical favorites, popular favorites, etc.

• #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: 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 stuff" is gonna suck".
• #8: In a Futurama episode, Bender was rigged with a bomb that would go off when he said his favorite word. This was explained by revealing a list of his top ten most common words (presented in the same style as Letterman's), although he has only actually said a few of them.
  • He said every word on the list in that specific episode, resulting in a few odd lines like "hot diggity daffodil", although the majority of the list has only been said in that episode. Also, 4 of the words appear in his Catch Phrase.
• #7: Cracked is pretty much all Top N Lists. In fact they have claimed to be the world's leading producer of list based humor.
• #6: GameFAQs posts a new user-created top ten list on the homepage every day.
• #5: Gametrailers.com has an occasional top ten list of things about gaming.
  • ScrewAttack, which is hosted on gametrailers.com, has its own Top Ten List section, but they generally like to mix things up a bit, for instance having Best and Worst of... (5 each). And then there is the Top 10 PS3 exclusives... which doesn't start until number 7 because there just weren't enough titles around that qualified.
    • Two years later they redid the list with a full 10.
    • Screwattack also has a couple of top-20s
• #4: In one episode of Mr. Deity, Mr. Deity, Jesus and Larry are coming up with a "Top Ten List" that turns out to be the Ten Commandments. Does that count?
• #3: Christian and Scott's Interactive Top Ten List is long-running example on the internet. (Twice-weekly for ten or so years now..)
• #2: One episode of Garfield and Friends revolved around Garfield interrupting the action repeatedly to present a top ten list relevant to the episode's events.
• 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 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 Spinal Tap".
  • During his review of North, the line "Here, loosen his pants" prompted him to create a list of the top ten jokes he could make about that scene.
  • He did bump it up to 12 for the Top Christmas Specials and Next Best Christmas Specials. Why? BECAUSE IT'S CHRISTMAS!
  • Other sites, such as Mr. Coat and Friends, will do top eleven lists as well as just plain top ten.
• One Strong Bad e-mail has Strong Bad listing his Bottom 10.
• The many, many "Top Five" lists of High Fidelity.
  • They're also the specialty of Five-O-Rama.
• The main gimmck behind the Animal Planet series The Most Extreme
• Some I Love the Exties shows are lists.
• BBC sitcom How Not to Live Your Life frequently interrupts the plot to enumerate "6 things not to say at a job interview", etc.
• The Notorious B.I.G.'s Ten Crack Commandments
• In Married... with Children, Al once made a list of top 10 ways Marcy could make herself more attractive, such as: "Hire attractive woman to stand in front of you at all times."
• Charlie from Lost has a "Top Five" list of his favorite moments in his life in the Season 3 episode 'Greatest Hits'.
  • #1: The night I met you.
• Countdown with Keith Olbermann is a top five list of U.S. political news stories with commentary, with a separate top-three list embedded inside it. (Used to be two top-three lists - Best Persons is dead, long live Tea Time!)
• The Seattle sketch-comedy show Almost Live! inverted this with a sort of Bottom Ten: "The Lame List, or what's weak this week!"
• 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.

• Garfield once did a top 10 ways to mispronounce 'big fat hairy deal'.
• Want to know what some random Youtuber thinks are the top 10 webcomics? No, of course you don't. Pay no attention to this link.
• The Ten Commandments: There were actually several hundred. Those are just the top ten. Moses would have had a lot less trouble keeping the crowd in check if he had relied on Paul Shaffer and the Kodak Theater orchestra...
  • A different version is listed at Exodus 34, a very literal case of Flip-Flop of God.
• Radio program American Top 40 is a Top Ten List X 4.
• Professional Wrestling humor site Scoopthis.com used to do Top 9 lists, "because with a top 10, there's always one that sucks".