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spungo
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posted January 28, 2002 10:19     Click Here to See the Profile for spungo   Click Here to Email spungo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ok, forgive me if this has been done recently but I'm a tenderfoot here ...

here's my list - (gee, guess who watched 'High Fidelity' at the weekend?) ... I hope this doesn't turn out to be a lesson in how start a flame war!

1. Father Ted
2. Fawlty Towers
3. Red Dwarf
4. Married with Children
5. Spaced
6. Bottom
7. Blackadder
8. The Young Ones
9. Friends
10. Black Books

ok, I've done it now... I wonder what this list says about me, he worries...



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posted January 28, 2002 18:10     Click Here to See the Profile for ZorroTheFox   Click Here to Email ZorroTheFox     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Simpsons, if you count cartoon sitcoms that is..........Z

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posted January 29, 2002 02:17     Click Here to See the Profile for Swiss Mercenary   Click Here to Email Swiss Mercenary     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by spungo:
[snip]
1. Father Ted - UK/IE
2. Fawlty Towers - UK
3. Red Dwarf - UK
4. Married with Children - US
5. Spaced - ???
6. Bottom - UK
7. Blackadder - UK (which series, I preferred 'Goes Forth')
8. The Young Ones - UK
9. Friends - US (Can be very subtle, but sometimes grates)
10. Black Books - ???


Hmm 6 out of 10 are UK comedies, as are the top three, shows who makes the best, eh?

How could you forget:
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Goodies

All right, not really sitcoms, but most probably some of the best comedy I have seen.

Did the US get 'The New Statesman' at all?
Three of a Kind?

Does anyone else out there loath laugh tracks? Why can TV producers not see that intelligent people do not want to be told when to laugh. (All right, I know, the operative word is intelligent.)

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Rednivek
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posted January 29, 2002 03:38           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
All in the Family

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Sanford and Son

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quantumfluff
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posted January 29, 2002 05:59     Click Here to See the Profile for quantumfluff   Click Here to Email quantumfluff     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
To me, the test for a favorite sitcom is if I can watch reruns of shows forever and still find them funny. I would add

Get Smart
Scrubs - (My vote for the best new show of 2001)
The Vicar of Dibley (Is that the right title?)

and two shows that only had a few episodes but were gems:

Police Squad (the forerunner to the Naked Gun series)
Action (an FX series about a movie producer)

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Oldguy geek
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posted January 29, 2002 06:22     Click Here to See the Profile for Oldguy geek     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Wearing my official oldguy hat I have to add "The Burns and Allen Show" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show." Some of you may have seen the latter, but few of you will have seen the former.

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posted January 29, 2002 08:02     Click Here to See the Profile for Swiss Mercenary   Click Here to Email Swiss Mercenary     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Rednivek:
Sanford and Son


That was a remake of a UK show, also called 'Sanford and Son', I think.

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posted January 29, 2002 08:04     Click Here to See the Profile for Swiss Mercenary   Click Here to Email Swiss Mercenary     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Actually my favorite shows are the Radio shows.

'Round the Horne'
'I'm sorry I'll say that Again!' (With John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Graeham Garde)
'The Goon Show'

These are classics and if you can get hold of the tapes I suggest you listen to them.

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posted January 29, 2002 17:55     Click Here to See the Profile for Bregalad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Goon Show was fantastic, but a little before my time so I've only heard little snippets. Peter Sellers et al were very funny people.

We should add "Are You Being Served?" and "To the Manor Born" to the list of great UK comedies that have sailed to the new world.

For those that are interested, there is Blackadder DVD set available with the four series and all the specials including The Cavalier Years and the Blackadder reunion.

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Rednivek
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Sanford & Son was a remake of Steptoe and Son....

However, it was still one of the best.

And Redd Foxx's real name was... yeah...

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spungo
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posted January 30, 2002 02:32     Click Here to See the Profile for spungo   Click Here to Email spungo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Rednivek has a point...

Sandford and Son was a remake of Steptoe and Son - both timeless - I used to watch Sandford and Son when I was a kid ... loved it (prefered it, I must say) - yes, probably should have been in the list - a shameless omission.

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posted January 30, 2002 03:11     Click Here to See the Profile for littlefish     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, something I love but isn't too well known is Time Gentlemen pleas, which starts a new series tonight in the UK. I can't wait!
(for those who care 10pm sky one)
Can I also add that I feel like a true geek today because I am posting from a text-based browser for the first time - ooh soo fast!)

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posted January 30, 2002 07:30     Click Here to See the Profile for FatGnome   Click Here to Email FatGnome     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well I don't know if it is a sitcom but it is a foreign comedy. The "Red Green Show" has to be one of my favorites. I mean it has one of the biggest geeks of all time in it.

Don't forget in the list of great UK sitcoms "Waiting for God." I don't know but there is just something about horny and slightly delusional old people that I find funny.

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posted January 30, 2002 08:18     Click Here to See the Profile for Oldguy geek     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by FatGnome:
Don't forget in the list of great UK sitcoms "Waiting for God." I don't know but there is just something about horny and slightly delusional old people that I find funny.

I love that show. Nothing like a Victor Meldrew rant. I especially remember one with a running gag about a door-to-door salesman selling "bendy dinosaurs."


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posted January 30, 2002 13:39     Click Here to See the Profile for Demosthenes   Click Here to Email Demosthenes     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by FatGnome:
The "Red Green Show" has to be one of my favorites.

harold! harold r0x0rz, he reminds me of a slightly more-clueless version of lewis from rotn. [cue comic-book-guy voice: best. eighties-movie. ever.]

i've been a big fan of 'will and grace' since it went on the air. [ducks flying vegetables] oh! and how could one ever forget 'freaks and geeks!'

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posted January 31, 2002 00:48     Click Here to See the Profile for plastic   Click Here to Email plastic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
1. all in the family
2. simpsons
3. a-team
4. family guy
5. knight rider
6. spongebob squarepants
7. digimon
8. mad about you
9. the drew carrey show
10. quantum leap

( i know some dont technecally count as sitcms, too bad :P )

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joliet_jane
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posted January 31, 2002 08:37     Click Here to See the Profile for joliet_jane   Click Here to Email joliet_jane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
We can't forget those sitcoms that were shit but will always have a special place in many people's hearts (um, for some sort of reason):

Family Matters
Full House
Step By Step
Hanging With Mr.Cooper
Home Improvement
The Fresh Prince of Bel Aire

I should also mention "The Critic" as a hilarious show that should NEVER have been axed but was anyway... twice.

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posted January 31, 2002 18:02     Click Here to See the Profile for Evilbunny   Click Here to Email Evilbunny     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
How about ALL of the Monty Python movies!?

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posted January 31, 2002 18:04     Click Here to See the Profile for Evilbunny   Click Here to Email Evilbunny     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oh, whoops, you were talking about sitcoms...

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ZorroTheFox
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posted February 01, 2002 15:29     Click Here to See the Profile for ZorroTheFox   Click Here to Email ZorroTheFox     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Evilbunny:
Oh, whoops, you were talking about sitcoms...


Did you not find comedy in their situations >;o) ........Z

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trowelblister
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posted February 04, 2002 15:57     Click Here to See the Profile for trowelblister   Click Here to Email trowelblister     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
only sitcom i watch with any regularity (or is it just obsession?) is the simpson's.


the rest don't really interest me

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posted February 04, 2002 17:23     Click Here to See the Profile for Akira   Click Here to Email Akira     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Bregalad:
The Goon Show was fantastic, but a little before my time so I've only heard little snippets.

blah blah blah gnutella blah blah blah alt.binaries.multimedia.mp3.comedy blah blah blah

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posted February 05, 2002 23:02     Click Here to See the Profile for octothorp   Click Here to Email octothorp     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm not much of a TV guy... other than simpsons, most of the sitcoms I watch are collected on tape.


1. Wooster and Jeeves
2. Simpsons
3. Fawlty Towers
4. Red Green Show
5. Blackadder (especially the last season... what a cast! Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Tim McKinnery... incredible!)
6. Absolutely Fabulous
7. Happy Days
8. Waiting for God
9. Seinfeld
10. The Critic

I'd also like to nitpik that as incredible as Monty Python was, it wasn't technically a sitcom: sitcoms must have an underlying premise around which everything is based (note the Seinfeldian discussion about a show about 'nothing'). Skit-based shows such as Monty Python, Kids In the Hall, Saturday Night Live and possibly This Hour Has 22 Minutes (though I might budge on that one) are all in a genre that could best be described as comedy showcase.

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