What's Your Favorite Sitcom of All Time?

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I decided to find out what your favorite sitcoms were, in part to promote my own favorite.

My favorite sitcom of all time would have to be the BBC show "The Young Ones":

 

 

As a teenager, I watched this show religiously on MTV. It was standard viewing in my circle of friends. It was creative, funny, and always featured a musical guest somewhat outside of the mainstream (interestingly enough, it was where I heard my first Van Morrison song, as a cover by one of the bands. I hunted the song down until I found it and thus began a lifelong appreciation of the OTHER Morrison's musical genius...but I digress).

Incidentally, this comedy is out on video. After its MTV run, it had a "Nick at Nite" resurgence in the 90's. For anyone who hasn't viewed this show, I highly recommend it, although, NOT for those who can't stand British humour (a good litmus test for British humor: Fawlty Towers).

So, let's hear YOUR favorites!

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Mash is my all-time favourite sit-com. That counts doesn't it?
It had humour, human frailities, it showed how fear creates monsters out of a human. There was love, hate, all the human
emotions possible, and more. Ya. Mash. All kinds of personalities in it.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I was going to say Fawlty Towers. Remember the anagrams of the title on the sign? Watery Fowls, Flay Otters, Fatty Owls, Flowery Twats, Farty Towels.

Cheers was great.
Newhart, also. Bob couldn't make his subsequent shows as good as that one because he couldn't invent characters as funny as Larry and the Darryls.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oh yeah. Mash, too.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I like Threes company....It's all about Mr. Roper, Mr. Furley, and Larry Dallas!

The first 4 years of M*A*S*H are good

I also have a strange fixation with The Andy Griffith Show. I think it's a Don Knotts thing. The man is a freakin comedic genius!
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
OOh....there are so man!
Lets see....growing up in England, The Young Ones was a firm fave, as was Are You Being Served. later, both D and I loved One Foot In The Grave.

US-wise....The Andy Griffith Show, and The Simpsons (not sure if that counts as a sitcom or not, but I love it)...and South Park.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
As a child I watched Lucy and Desi. The episode with Harpo Marx? was it? that was a gut buster! and the one where she's pg and Desi gets a letter at the club and is singing, not knowing which lady in the audience is pg, and is delighted when he realizes it's HIS wife!
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think MASH got better every time they replaced a character.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
You guys are going to laugh at me.....Who's the Boss? has a lot of staying power with me. I guess it's because Tony Danza and I are Italian kinered spirits!
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
I have to admit, I liked "Who's the Boss", too, but for OTHER reasons:



HEY! I was a teenager, ok?
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Cheers............ hands down
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Even though it isn't as good as it once was, I have to say the Simpsons...

If I have to pick a live-action Sitcom.... I'd probably say the short-lived but ever enjoyable WKRP.....
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
All in the Family and Green Acres. Arnold Ziffel.....hahahahaha
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ummm, Loni Anderson.....WKRP, Nano, Nano....Mork and Mindy( Robin Williams was better on drugs, not like his metro-complex character of late )
and of course Mayberry RFD.

Geographically correct fave - Dukes of Hazzard !!! ( how 'bout them Daisy Dukes......)
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top

Mash is my all-time favourite sit-com. That counts doesn't it?
It had humour, human frailities, it showed how fear creates monsters out of a human. There was love, hate, all the human
emotions possible, and more. Ya. Mash. All kinds of personalities in it.

Ditto for me.  Second is the Cosby Show (Original).

Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
MASH for sure.

I think it's a Don Knotts thing. The man is a freakin comedic genius![/quote

One can appreciate Knotts even more when they know that in the Army he as an Airborne Ranger. In real life he was actually a tough guy. Somehow makes his comedy work even more impressive.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top

I think MASH got better every time they replaced a character.

I wouldn't go that far, but the replacement of Burns with Charles was the best move!

Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top

I'd probably say the short-lived but ever enjoyable WKRP.....

Loni Anderson!   Pant pant pant!!!!!!!

Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
Damn. Typo broke the page and it won't let me edit it. Sorry.
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
Let's see:

I love "Coupling" and "Men Behaving Badly".

"Cheers" was fantastic, as was "Seinfeld".

"WKRP" was great back in the day, but it didn't age well.

"MASH" was good for the first three seasons, then it got too preachy.

My favorite oldie is "Leave It To Beaver".

"Fawlty Towers": excellent, but not enough episodes.

I watch "The Simpsons" every day. Always good for a laugh.

I am really up on "Brady Bunch" trivia. (My favorite episode was the one where they were at an amusement park in Cincinnati.)

All-time favorite: "Men Behaving Badly".
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
Does Monty Python's Flying Circus count? No? Sigh...........

Family Guy, the Dick van Dyke show, the Simpsons.
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
I wouldn't go that far, but the replacement of Burns with Charles was the best move!


I liked Potter better than Blake and Hunnicut better than Trapper.
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top

I liked Potter better than Blake and Hunnicut better than Trapper.

Potter and Blake were about even.  But I liked Trapper better.

Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
All Time Favorite Sitcom.. Night Court, no question. Harry and his madcap bunch of midnight misfits was some of the greatest TV ever!!



Loved MASH too. I loved it from the original opening when they were playing football and Radar stops and says... "Wait for it", and the choppers hit, fading into "Suicide is Painless" to the "Goodbye" written in stones. It went through a lot of changes and did get too liberally preachy at times, but it was all entertaining. (I usually considered the liberal spin just another thing to laugh at!) ;~D

Did Somebody say "WKRP"???

Hmmmm, who could the Mormon Missionary be standing next to "The Big Guy?" ;~D

Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top

Hmmmm, who could the Mormon Missionary be standing next to "The Big Guy?" ;~D

Does that mean you met Gordon Jump, or that you are an ace with Photo Shop?