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Favorite Sitcoms
Posted: 2003-02-19 11:20pm
by Captain tycho
What's yours?
(Simpsons does not count.
)
Posted: 2003-02-19 11:21pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
Futurama.
Posted: 2003-02-19 11:22pm
by Superman
I really hate them. They're an insult to our intelligence.
But "Raymond" is cool...
Posted: 2003-02-19 11:22pm
by Darth Wong
I watched Cheers religiously when I was in university. Maybe it's just the old fogey in me talking, but I think it's head and shoulders above these recent sitcoms. I remember some people comparing "Friends" to "Cheers" once, and I almost threw up.
Posted: 2003-02-19 11:23pm
by neoolong
One of mine is Family Guy.
Posted: 2003-02-19 11:24pm
by Captain tycho
Darth Wong wrote:I watched Cheers religiously when I was in university. Maybe it's just the old fogey in me talking, but I think it's head and shoulders above these recent sitcoms. I remember some people comparing "Friends" to "Cheers" once, and I almost threw up.
Cheers was great. I also like MASH and Seinfeld is often funny.
Friends, as I have stated before, sickens me.
Posted: 2003-02-20 01:01am
by RedImperator
All in the Family. The pinnacle. The best. At least until the kids left.
Also rans: The Dick Van Dyke Show, M*A*S*H*, and Married With Children. Malcom in the Middle is excellent, but it hasn't been around long enough for me to declare it a "classic".
Posted: 2003-02-20 01:05am
by Durandal
Malcolm in the Middle is an extremely well-done show.
Family Guy had a great run, but was knocked aside by reality shows.
Third Rock from the Sun is also hilarious.
Posted: 2003-02-20 02:44am
by Gandalf
My faves would have to be
Seinfeld
Married with Children
Everybody Loves Raymond
Malcolm in the Middle
As a note I've been watching sitcoms since I was 6, and I'm 17 now.
Posted: 2003-02-20 02:59am
by XPViking
Used to watch Night Court. Now I struggle through Korean shows. It really is true about jokes being a product of the culture. My wife will laugh hilariously at some things and I'll sit their like a potatoe (even after the translation).
XPViking
Posted: 2003-02-20 03:07am
by Dalton
Hmm...Not a lot of good stuff on Network TV nowadays...I like:
Cheers (Above and beyond ANY sitcom on TV today. The chemistry was PERFECT)
Frasier (A very funny show at times since Kelsey Grammer is a great actor)
All in the Family (Broke so many boundaries)
That 70's Show (Cleverly written with great actors)
Futurama (Utterly hilarious)
Newsradio (superkaratemonkeydeathcar!)
Married...With Children (In the same tradition of All in the Family)
Family Guy (whatever little of it I saw
)
I used to like Seinfeld but now I see it more as the trials and travails of a group of shallow, trendy assholes.
Posted: 2003-02-20 06:11am
by Peregrin Toker
Captain tycho wrote:Darth Wong wrote:I watched Cheers religiously when I was in university. Maybe it's just the old fogey in me talking, but I think it's head and shoulders above these recent sitcoms. I remember some people comparing "Friends" to "Cheers" once, and I almost threw up.
Cheers was great. I also like MASH and Seinfeld is often funny.
Friends, as I have stated before, sickens me.
'
"Friends" didn't start out so bad, but today it doesn't have any other redeeming qualities than Jennifer Aniston.
Posted: 2003-02-20 06:31am
by InnerBrat
Never liked Cheers, sorry. Like Fraser though.
best sitcoms?
Only Fools and Horses;
Red Dwarf;
Game On and
Men Behaving Badly
Which I guess just shows how foreign I am...
Posted: 2003-02-20 06:54am
by Col. Crackpot
that 70's show is the best sitcom on tv right now. as for classics? All in the family tops the list. i can remember my first apartment, my roomates and I had no cable and the fox station would play 4 reruns of all in the family every day. 2 at 7:00 and 2 at 11:00. That was some laughs...or maybe it was all the pot. i dunno.
Posted: 2003-02-20 07:13am
by HemlockGrey
Fawlty Towers
Posted: 2003-02-20 07:45am
by Ro Jo-Mu
Spaced (Weird, surreal, fantastic!)
Red Dwarf (Earlier Series)
Men Behaving Badly
Fawlty Towers
There's that British sense of humour for you
Posted: 2003-02-20 07:47am
by Admiral Valdemar
Only Fools and Horses, Red Dwarf, Alan Partridge, Phoenix Nights, Father Ted, Vicar of Dibley, Ab Fab, Fawlty Towers, Men Behaving Badly, Family Guy, Futurama, Frasier, Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible, Blackadder, Mr. Bean, Game On, My Family, My Hero...
Posted: 2003-02-20 08:06am
by Keevan_Colton
innerbrat wrote:Never liked Cheers, sorry. Like Fraser though.
best sitcoms?
Only Fools and Horses;
Red Dwarf;
Game On and
Men Behaving Badly
Which I guess just shows how foreign I am...
I cant fault you on that list....I just got Red Dwarf series 2 on DVD the other day.
Posted: 2003-02-20 08:08am
by InnerBrat
Hurumph. Is it 'remastered'? Coz I won't bother if it is.
I've got them all on VHS anyway.
Posted: 2003-02-20 08:13am
by Keevan_Colton
innerbrat wrote:Hurumph. Is it 'remastered'? Coz I won't bother if it is.
I've got them all on VHS anyway.
Its all just as I remember it....with some nice touches with Queeg and Holly arguing on the menu screens....
Posted: 2003-02-20 08:15am
by InnerBrat
OK. The ONLY reason I bought a joint VCR/DVD player was that Red Dwarf wasn't out on DVD.
GGGRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 2003-02-20 08:47am
by Mr Bean
Titus is a classic for me(Mostly because many of the shows events minor my own life but funny)
Futurama
FT
Red Dwarf
Family Guy
Malcom in the Middle
And to be fair The Drew Carry Show had some fine moments
Posted: 2003-02-20 08:55am
by salm
the only one i lie is "home improvement".
Posted: 2003-02-20 09:22am
by theski
Got to go with
1. Seinfeld
2. MASH
3. Married with Children
Posted: 2003-02-20 09:24am
by Ghost Rider
Married...with children, M.A.S.H., All in the family, Seinfeld, Cheers, Simpsons, and Futurama.