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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.

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.

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.

..the Beverly Hillbillies. (my firstborn son is named Jed.Yes that is sad. :bluesad:)
.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?

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

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.   :lookingup:

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.....

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.

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

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

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. 

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.

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.  :smile:

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.

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

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). :teddyr:

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? :question:

Spaced
The Office (uk version)
Larry Sanders

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Everybody Love's Raymond...I know it ran for a bit too long, but c'mon!  There were some great moments on that one. 

My other all-time favorites:

Married With Children
The Young Ones
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Office (UK)
My Name is Earl
Fawlty Towers
Night Court

On another note...I've never quite gotten the appeal of either "Seinfeld" or "Scrubs".  To me, it's like those shows were trying to reproduce a million different variations on those scenes where a character tells a bad joke, none of the cast laughs, and we're supposed to laugh at the awkwardness of the moment...not quite my cup of tea

Quote from: BlackAngel75 on April 09, 2007, 02:40:19 AM

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? :question:

That may be because there was recently a thread just for animated comedies:  Battle of the Animated Sitcoms (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,113506.0.html).

QuoteThere was another dsyfunctional  family sitcom that proceeded "My Family" that I remember being quite good...can't recall the title though.

Does anyone have any idea what this was? I'm racking my brain on it. (Andrew or moderators,  if you feel this post belongs in the What Film Was That? section, feel free to move it). I recall the father was a bit fat and geeky looking and worked driving a maintenance or plumbing van. He had a female co-worker too.

QuoteOn another note...I've never quite gotten the appeal of either "Seinfeld" or "Scrubs".  To me, it's like those shows were trying to reproduce a million different variations on those scenes where a character tells a bad joke, none of the cast laughs, and we're supposed to laugh at the awkwardness of the moment...not quite my cup of tea

I like both, but Seinfeld, has lost some of its appeal after countless reruns. Seinfeld was trying to be the opposite of traditional sitcoms: shallow, self-absorbed, unlikeable characters you wouldn't want to know in real life caught in often pointless and petty situations (the show about nothing after all) where important life lessons wouldn't be learned - ever.

Scrubs works for me since it is very self-aware that it is a sitcom and tries not to take the same paths most shows would. The episode where JD imagine what's happening like it were a traditional three camera sitcom filmed in a studio before "a live studio audience" illustrates the very kind of thing they are trying to avoid. Although it has lost some of it's humor from being on too long and being too self-aware. They can only do so many jokes where Dr. Cox draws out a word when annoyed, or even jokes where other characters poke fun of or draw attention to him drawing out words, etc.

Quote from: Yaddo 42 on April 11, 2007, 04:35:21 PM

Although it has lost some of it's humor from being on too long {snip}

Ah, the plight of almost every successful TV show.  They just don't know when to quit.

What??? No Alf????
For shame!


I LOVED Alf! hehehehe.

The only other show I watched religiously was the X-files. Aside from that Im a movie gal and not much of a TV person.

Dude, anyone mention The Wonder Years yet? Classic

Red Dwarf
One Foot in the Grave
Waiting For God
Are You Being Served?
Chef!
Joking Apart (damn I wish this had lasted longer than two years)

Quote from: Shadowfyre on April 12, 2007, 11:14:47 PM

One Foot in the Grave

Haha, I forgot about this one...funny stuff.    :teddyr:

The original Addams Family - eternal perfect entertainment
My name is earl - when it's good it is extraordinary
Seinfeld - The Contest was for the image of  masturbation as important as the flintstones for the Image of the stone age.
Cheers - Where every body knows your name.
Scrubs - Great Stuff.
Sledgehammer classic

My alltime favorites are:


Taxi    
Cheers
Mash    
WKRP In Cincinnati    
Adams Family    
Get Smart    
I Dream of Jeanie
Gulligans Island    
Married With Children    
F-Troop    
Hogans Heros    
Happy Days    
Night Court    
SaNford and Son    not Samford
Barney Miller    missing the E
Mork & Mindy    

Taxi is the best, I think.  In college on Thursday nights it would be Night Court and Cheers.  There were two others on at 8 & 8:30, can't remember their names. 


These two had a real impact on society, IMO
All In The Family    
The Jeffersons

Others that I watched, even if now they don't seem particuarly enjoyable:
Threes Company
Laverne and Shirley    
Welcome Back Kotter    
Brady Bunch    
My Favorite Martian    


And what about SOAP?

Some fav US sitcoms:

- All in the Family (voted)
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Happy Days
- Hogan's Heroes
- Married with Children

Of the ones on this list, I liked Seinfeld, King of Queens, and Newsradio.  But, there's one show I love/loved that wasn't named.  One underrated show by the name of Boy Meets World.

A favorite moment of mine.  Boy Meets World- Let me touch something!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvJTHpfmEoA

Cory and Topanga, here in college, around 20/21, about to be married.  They supposedly have been 'dating' since 3, and they were neighbors on the same block.  Show started when they were in 6th grade at 12, and all through high school and college all they ever did was kiss.  They're planning their honeymoon and all Cory wants is a room with a bed, doesn't care about anything except the consummation of their relationship. :teddyr:

Not much for sitcoms, but loved Married with children.