Favorite Sitcoms?

[Scott]

Most people critisize Situation Comedies known as Sitcoms. Which is your favorite?

Leave post if yours isn't up there and I'll add it. You can change your vote by deleting your old vote and then revoting.

[Yaddo 42]

My favorites aren't on there:

M*A*S*H
WKRP in Cincinnati
NewsRadio
Scrubs
The Andy Griffith Show (hey I'm from the South, what can I say)
Cheers
The Young Ones
Fawlty Towers
Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister
Night Court (first four seasons only, less so as it got sillier)

Honorable mentions:
Are You Being Served? (corny and repetitive, but it gets the laughs)
My Name is Earl (too soon to tell if it'll hold up past two seasons)

You misspelled "Raymond", BTW. I never liked that show much even those Peter Boyle was great even in that. Unless there's a much better show out there called Everybody Loves Ramone. A sitcom starring the Ramones might have been pretty cool, and I'm not even much of a fan of their's.

[felgekarp]

Seinfelds definately my favourite from the list, I can't stand Friends though, of the ones I've seen I've never actually laughed, I just don't understand how it became so popular, over here in the UK channel 4 seem to show it 24/7, which is very annoying.

[RCMerchant]

..the Beverly Hillbillies. (my firstborn son is named Jed.Yes that is sad. )
.the Addams Family!!! Because they're creepy and they're kooky. Hilarious and ooky.
.Married with Children
.Hogan's Heros-the fact that they made a sitcom with Nazi's blows my mind. NAZIS-WTF!?!?!
.the MUNSTERS!!!! Lily was HOT!!!
.Sledge Hammer-Anyone remeber that one?

             


 It was kinda like Police Squad...only more sadistic.In a funny way.

[ulthar]

I'd liket to see "Barney Miller" on the list, and would second a vote for "WKRP In Cincinatti."  And "Married, With Children" for sure.

Of the current crop, I confess enjoyment of "The Office."  I like "My Name is Earl," too.

I have to admit a certain soft spot for that old ABC TGI-Friday show "Step By Step" (the Brady Bunch clone with Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers).  That was on the TV when I asked my wife to marry me.   

Don't ask me why it was on in the first place, and don't ask me why I picked that moment to very romantically ask: "Hey, we're getting married, right?"


No "F-Troop" on the list?  Scott, Scott, Scott.....

[Mr_Vindictive]

Out of the list my favorite would be Seinfeld. 

Others not on the list that I thoroughly enjoy would be:

Extras
Spaced
Arrested Development
Scrubs
The Office
Andy Barker P.I.
30 Rock
LateLine - Anyone else remember this show?
Newsradio
And, as RC mentioned, Sledge Hammer was great.

[Jack]

Went with Seinfeld, that show had me laughing hysterically.   I was forced to watch about 50 episodes of Friends, I think I chuckled twice.   But I cringed a couple dozen times.

Other favorites:
Married With Children
Are You Being Served?
Keeping Up Appearances
Last of the Summer Wine
Working
The Naked Truth
That '70s Show
Grounded For Life

[Him]

My favorite is the british series Are You Being Served

I also like

Sienfeld
Married with Children
Fawlty Towers (British)
The Honey Mooners
Three's Company
The Wayans Brothers
Amen

[ulthar]

You lovers of the British sitcom, have you ever seen a show called "Ever Decreasing Circles?"  That one had me hurting with laughter a few times.  I also like "Keeping Up Appearances" in small doses. 

[JaseSF]

I love the British Series including "Are You Being Served?", "Keeping Up Appearances", "Red Dwarf", "Fawlty Towers", "The Young Ones", "My Family", "Bottom" and more. There was another dsyfunctional  family sitcom that proceeded "My Family" that I remember being quite good...can't recall the title though.

I also adore a lot of the classic American series like "Three's Company", "Seinfeld", "The Addams Family", "The Munsters", "Bewitched", "I Dream of Jeannie", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "Gilligan's Island", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and more.

[Poogie]

Curb your Enthusiasm
Fawlty Towers
Becker
Seinfeld
Honeymooners
All in the Family
Munsters
Andy Griffith Show
Beverly Hill Billies
Mash
Married with Children
F-Troop
Hogan Hero's
Happy Days
Barney Miller
Car 54 Where are you?

I love sit-Com's...laughter is the best medicine. RC, Hogans Hero's is back on cable...KDOC. 

[Yaddo 42]

Good call on Barney Miller, I always overlook it because I got to see reruns so rarely over the years. Last time was TV Land several years ago.

Lateline - had potential, but the bits with Al Franken's character at times  seemed almost totally disconnected from the rest of the series. They kept hammering home that he only kept his job so the anchor who hated his guts could torment him. But the hot blond reporter was funny to watch, plus she went on to be the hot blond mom on Grounded for Life, which was great for the first few seasons, though it went downhill when they got the bar and dropped the flashback story structure.

I'll take the Addams over the Munsters anyday. Not quite a favorite, but close.

Sledgehammer I liked a lot back then, I haven't seen it in so long I wonder if it would hold up for me.

I liked Hogan's Heroes in small doses once I saw it regularly. I always find it funny when people talk about how offensive that show would be now, and how it couldn't make it on the air. I can see the point, OTOH, my grandfather who spent WWII in slave labor camps loves the show. Guess it's a small form of revenge to laugh at and mock the people who tormented you even vicariously.

[BeyondTheGrave]

My favorites would be:
Married With Children
Taxi
Seinfeld
The Office
Mash
HoneyMooners

[BlackAngel75]

If there's a way I can get the entire series of Married...With Children without waiting for the next season to come out, who would I to kill to get it (kidding).

I'm surprised and a little displeased that you didn't have Family Guy or The Simpsons and the like up there, or does animated shows don't count?

[zombie no.one]

Spaced
The Office (uk version)
Larry Sanders