Your top 5 greatest sitcoms

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 16, 2007, 2:28 pm

No animated allowed, that's another list entirely.

Seinfeld
Arrested Development
Extras
Strangers With Candy
The Office

No particular order. All are excellent in their own way, but all of them are also pretty weird when it comes to sitcoms. Seinfeld probably paved away for the others. Strangers with Candy was totally scatological humor, but goddamn it was funny. Each one of these also has an above average cast IMO. The Office makes the list because once it stopped being a carbon copy of the British version, it really grew into it's own. Some of the humor and situations are very subtle too, lending some credit to the audiance's intelligence. Arrested Development is the same way. The jokes come at you so fast in that show, you really have to pay attention and be on your toes.

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » July 16, 2007, 2:33 pm

Alphabetical order!

Arrested Development
Cheers
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Seinfeld
Simpsons

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 16, 2007, 2:38 pm

Lynks wrote:Alphabetical order!

Arrested Development
Cheers
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Seinfeld
Simpsons

No animation, fucker! The rules were clearly stated!

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » July 16, 2007, 4:04 pm

The Office
Happy Days
All in the Family
MASH
Cheers

These are the shows I used to watch growing up and current. The ones where I'd make an effort to see before it became a rerun.

Honorable mentions: Married with Children, Wings, The Munsters, Addams Family

yeah I'm old

Post by **Sylvus** » July 16, 2007, 4:21 pm

Charles in Charge
Alf
Saved by the Bell
Night Court
Wings

I'm just kidding, though I did highly enjoy each of those shows for at least a time.

Seinfeld
Arrested Development
The Office
Cheers
Three's Company

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 16, 2007, 4:30 pm

1.Married with Children
2.MASH
3.Brady Bunch
4.Seinfeld
5.Cheers

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » July 16, 2007, 4:32 pm

In no order:

Scrubs
Married with children
MASH
Cheers

Can't think of another that I actually liked enough to watch on purpose...

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » July 16, 2007, 5:27 pm

Married With Children
Extras
Cheers
Fresh Prince
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 16, 2007, 5:30 pm

sitcom stands for "situation comedy"

I'm starting to see some strange responses!

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » July 16, 2007, 6:03 pm

Fairweather Pure wrote:No animation, fucker! The rules were clearly stated!

I don't care, I make my own rules. Its still a sitcom.

Deward · Post by **Deward** » July 16, 2007, 6:33 pm

These are the only reruns I will stay up late watching.

1. MASH
2. All In the Family
3. Married with Children
4. Frasier
5. Mama's Family - haven't seen it in a while but I loved it.

Anyone who doesn't like MASH is just too fucked up to be alive.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » July 16, 2007, 6:52 pm

The first person to mention Friends is banned from the island...

Anyway, I'm not a big sitcom watcher these days. And I don't really remember much about the shows when I was younger to know if they were good or whether I just didn't know any better (and there was nothing else on) so here's what I have:

Seinfeld
South Park (Lynx started it!)
The Office
Peep Show (British show. Look for it you wont be sorry!)
That 70's Show (Although I don't think I've seen much past the first few seasons so not sure how it held up)

http://www.cabletvtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1321 for 'The Top 100' someone compiled. Pretty sad but I think I've seen just about every show mentioned in that list at one time or another.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 16, 2007, 7:19 pm

1. Arrested Development
2. Arrested Development
3. Arrested Development
4. The Office
5. Scrubs

Trek · Post by **Trek** » July 16, 2007, 8:29 pm

MASH
Scrubs
The Office
Seinfeld
Earl----I dont know why but this show cracks me up

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » July 16, 2007, 10:09 pm

In order:

(1) Arrested Development
(2) The Office (BBC)
(3) The Office (U.S.)
(4) Curb Your Enthusiasm
(5) Scrubs

I don't really watch many sitcoms anymore, preferring TV drama or, better yet, "dramedies" like Big Love or Veronica Mars.

Sueven · Post by **Sueven** » July 17, 2007, 12:39 am

I've never watched a sitcom in the sense of turning on the TV or turning to a specific channel because a sitcom is on. The only one which doesn't make me actively change the channel is The Office. I actively dislike Scrubs and Seinfeld. I've never seen Arrested Development or Curb Your Enthusiasm. I understand that they're brilliant shows but I still don't want to watch them.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 17, 2007, 1:02 am

Curb Your Enthusiasm should so be on my list somewhere. I guess I'd bump The Office if I had to.

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » July 17, 2007, 1:05 am

Sueven wrote:I've never seen Arrested Development...

You're missing out.

Anyway, in no real order:

Arrested Development
The Office (UK and US)
Scrubs

That's only three (or four if you want to get technical), but I don't hold any other sitcoms in the same regard as those. I don't watch a great deal of TV anymore - those are the only sitcoms I will actually stop and watch. I actually haven't taken the time to look into Curb Your Enthusiasm either, so maybe I need to look into that.

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » July 17, 2007, 1:38 am

If you check out Curb Your Enthusiasm, I will say that it wasn't until the end of Season 2 that I really got into it. You don't have to watch it from the beginning of the series, so maybe check out a later Season 2 episode (my favorite is "The Doll") or to see if you like it. Some people find the humor irritating.

Momopi · Post by **Momopi** » July 17, 2007, 8:02 am

1 newhart
2 cheers
3 mary tyler moore
4 too close for comfort
5 all in the family

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » July 17, 2007, 8:26 am

I'm glad only one person has chosen Earl (and many more have chosen the office). I really have no clue why NBC has always been pushing Earl as the headliner on Thursdays, because it's by far more repetitive and... white trash boring than any other show I've seen recently. One could argue that Office is repetitive too, but that's half of the show's point.

rhyae · Post by **rhyae** » July 17, 2007, 9:52 am

Deward wrote:Anyone who doesn't like MASH is just too fucked up to be alive.

yeah but it got all preachy and depressing when Alan Alda took over.

1. Friends
2. Drew Carey
3. Black Adder
4. Taxi
5. Scrubs

Waikiki · Post by **Waikiki** » July 17, 2007, 10:51 am

In no particular order:

Scrubs
The Office (U.S. version)
Coupling (British version)
How I Met Your Mother
Seinfeld

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » July 17, 2007, 10:52 am

No order....

Cosby
MASH
The Office
Seinfeld
Married w/Children

special mention to 3's Company RIP John

Moonwynd · Post by **Moonwynd** » July 17, 2007, 10:58 am

MASH
Wings
Happy Days (before the shark was jumped)
The Vicar of Dibley (British series I have on DVD)
Gilligan's Island

miir · Post by **miir** » July 17, 2007, 11:16 am

Get a Life
Arrested Development
The Office
WKRP In Cincinnati
All In The Family

Post by **Sylvus** » July 17, 2007, 11:42 am

Deward wrote:Anyone who doesn't like MASH is just too fucked up to be alive.

MASH is alright, the movie was great, but I just could never get into the series that much. I think that it's overrated today, and the only reason that its final episode was like the highest watched thing ever is because there just weren't that many options back in the day. The Model T was pretty popular in its time, but today it belongs in the Henry Ford museum, not on the road!

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 17, 2007, 11:43 am

Btw, Arrested Development is on Sale at Best Buy this week for 14.99$ per season. They're usually 36$ a pop. I picked up all 3 seasons.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 17, 2007, 12:46 pm

MASH is the #1 all time. That show used to be on three times a day and four on Mondays.

Where MASH lost it a little was the last season where it got all serious with Hawkeye losing his memory. Throw out the last season for that reason and you have a show that was able to survive changes to many of it's main roles and continued to thrive.

Maj Frank Burns --> Maj Charles Winchester
Trapper John --> BJ Honeycutt
Henry Blake --> Col. Potter

Of those changes, I think BJ Honeycutt was the worst. He was OK as a straight man but Trapper and Hawkeye had more fun.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » July 17, 2007, 12:57 pm

I totally forgot about That 70's Show and Drew Carey. I liked those a lot too.

Xatrei · Post by **Xatrei** » July 17, 2007, 1:15 pm

I'm not in to sitcoms that much, but if I had to pick 5, I'd say (in no particular order):

Fawlty Towers
Sandord and Son
The Office (bbc)
Scrubs
All in the Family

Honorable mentions go to Coupling (bbc - someone at nbc should be shot for their turd nugget version) and The Office (nbc). MASH wasn't a bad series, but it was a better film. It jumped the shark around 1974/75 and should have ended shortly thereafter, although there were some decent episodes in each of its remaining seasons. As a kid, I remember watching the new episodes and thinking that it had really dropped off. The show is a classic example of not knowing when to quit, having run another 8 years after it went to crap.

Greatest EVER ending to a sitcom belongs to Newhart.

Momopi · Post by **Momopi** » July 17, 2007, 1:20 pm

I miss newhart so much!

miir · Post by **miir** » July 17, 2007, 1:44 pm

Nobody else liked Get A Life?

Seriously... best sitcom ever!

Post by **Sylvus** » July 17, 2007, 1:56 pm

miir wrote:Nobody else liked Get A Life?
Seriously... best sitcom ever!

No, that was a great show (I love Chris Elliott), I just forgot all about it. I used to watch that pretty religiously, I haven't seen it in forever though.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » July 17, 2007, 2:20 pm

I think MASH was the first acronym I ever learned as a young child.

Xatrei · Post by **Xatrei** » July 17, 2007, 3:04 pm

miir wrote:Nobody else liked Get A Life?
Seriously... best sitcom ever!

I only vaguely remember that show, and I am a big fan of Chris Elliott like Sylvus. I just didn't watch a lot of TV back then. Wasn't that about the same time that Fox had that show with George Carlin playing a cab driver?

Momopi · Post by **Momopi** » July 17, 2007, 3:11 pm

Before it was mentioned here, I have never heard of Get A Life.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » July 17, 2007, 5:14 pm

Momopi wrote:Before it was mentioned here, I have never heard of Get A Life.

The last episodes when they knew they were getting canned were funny enough to make you wee.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 17, 2007, 6:57 pm

I'm one of those who finds Curb Your Enthusiasm kind of irritating. Or rather, I find Larry David's character irritating. I've tried to watch it a few times, but I usually end up wanting to hit the guy, which is odd, because I liked Seinfeld, and I liked the character of George Costanza whom as I understand it was based off Larry David ><

Xatrei · Post by **Xatrei** » July 17, 2007, 7:24 pm

Dregor Thule wrote:I'm one of those who finds Curb Your Enthusiasm kind of irritating. Or rather, I find Larry David's character irritating. I've tried to watch it a few times, but I usually end up wanting to hit the guy, which is odd, because I liked Seinfeld, and I liked the character of George Costanza whom as I understand it was based off Larry David ><

Ditto. The show has some really funny stuff in it, and I can watch it in small doses, but Larry David just wears on my nerves too much for me to watch it regularly.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 18, 2007, 12:06 pm

Seinfeld was a reminder that you don't have to be vulgar to be one of the funniest shows ever. However, Curb Your Enthusiam showed that a well placed "fuck" made any joke or situation funnier!

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » July 18, 2007, 4:22 pm

That and Susie Green (Jeff's wife) is the funniest character ever in a sitcom. She has had some of the best one liners I've ever heard.

"Fuck you, you car wash cunt!"

Classic.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » July 18, 2007, 10:28 pm

The U.S Version of the Office is fucking shit.

Mine:
1. Arrested Development
2. The Office (the non shit one, ie UK)
3. Cheers
4. Frasier
5. Scrubs/Fawlty towers

I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but this will do for now.

Seriously, the US version of the Office is one of the most lamentably crap remakes of a good idea i've ever seen.

Xatrei · Post by **Xatrei** » July 18, 2007, 11:09 pm

I'll readily agree that the BBC version of the Office is superior, but I think the US one is a good remake. It's got good writers, good actors and since they've broken away from the original's story line, it's become pretty compelling. I enjoy it a lot, but it's not in the same league as the original. If you really want to see a crap remake, try to find one of the 5 or 6 episodes of Coupling that NBC produced.

Sparty · Post by **Sparty** » July 19, 2007, 1:34 am

1. Arrested Development
2. Seinfeld
3. News Radio

Hmm, after these top 3, the list becomes hard for me.
The Office (Us and Uk)
Family Guy
Futurama
30 Rock
Larry David

My name is Sparty

Post by **Sylvus** » July 19, 2007, 11:03 am

Nick wrote:The U.S Version of the Office is fucking shit.

Seriously, the US version of the Office is one of the most lamentably crap remakes of a good idea i've ever seen.

I don't believe that you've watched more than an episode of the US version of the Office and you're just repeating the line that the UK version is superior. It's easily the funniest show in production today.

It's my belief that the Office (UK) is no longer in production, and I'm not saying it isn't superior to the US version, but to call the US version shit is ridiculous.

Fash · Post by **Fash** » July 19, 2007, 11:19 am

The Office is a fun show.

On a semi unrelated note... The show takes place in Scranton, PA, which is where I work. The mall here has a big Dunder Mifflin sign and various cast members have come to visit. Earlier this week, they had a call for props, and people were lined up with boxes of local artifacts hoping to get them on the show.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » July 19, 2007, 12:15 pm

Sylvus wrote:
Nick wrote:The U.S Version of the Office is fucking shit.

Seriously, the US version of the Office is one of the most lamentably crap remakes of a good idea i've ever seen.
I don't believe that you've watched more than an episode of the US version of the Office and you're just repeating the line that the UK version is superior. It's easily the funniest show in production today.

It's my belief that the Office (UK) is no longer in production, and I'm not saying it isn't superior to the US version, but to call the US version shit is ridiculous.

Maybe the second season was better, but I would have to agree with Nick when it comes to the first. I had to force myself to watch the entire season on dvd.

miir · Post by **miir** » July 19, 2007, 12:17 pm

Nick wrote:The U.S Version of the Office is fucking shit.

Seriously, the US version of the Office is one of the most lamentably crap remakes of a good idea i've ever seen.

I'm with Sylvus on this.
Anyone who says the US version of the Office is crap probably hasn't seen an episode beyond the first season. I wholeheartedly agree that the first season wasn't very good in comparison the UK series (which I loved). The second season was much better and last season was bordering on brilliant.

The Office is the best sitcom on US TV since Seinfeld. It's head and shoulders above everything else on the air right now. NBC needs t stop retardedly bouncing it around to different timeslots on thursday nights and move it to the anchor slot at 8... and boot that fucking terrible my name is earl show to 8:30.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 19, 2007, 12:47 pm

Arrested Development > The Office, but The Office is good. I get a kick out of people who are big The Office (UK) fans that lash out in a retard rage saying how The Office (US) is such a piece of shit out of some misplaced sense of loyalty. Ricky Gervais would want you to like them both!