Best Sitcom of All Time

[1B4IGO]

Two I forgot "Cheers" and Barney Miller. Make it three "All in the Family"

 

[Randolphkeys]

The In-Betweeners is hilarious.

Also, my Mom watched Golden Girls when it was on and I remember watching with her.

Later in life, some friends would watch every night and I was kind of forced into watching with them. That show has not only aged well, but is fucking amazingly funny.

There's a local comedy troupe in S.F. at the Victoria Theater who re-enacts episodes of The Golden Girls in drag. You are welcome.

 

[Sebastian]

There's a local comedy troupe in S.F. at the Victoria Theater who re-enacts episodes of The Golden Girls in drag. You are welcome.

 

[Hurl Bruce]

Does The Office or Parks and Rec count as a sitcom?

 

[Cavatt]

Some friends and I have been arguing whether or not Seinfeld has aged well. This led to a general discussion about what is the best sitcom ever.

Seinfeld, Cheers, Frasier and the Simpsons have been thrown about. I feel some shows from the 70s and 80s merit mentioning (All in the Family etc.).

I feel Frasier has aged very well; better than the other live-action shows.

Discuss.

Weird thing about Frasier is it is somehow lower brow than cheers. It's more broad as a comedy.

If you want to get down to brass tacks as the most consistently funny and best writing and acting sitcom, it had to be the Golden Girls. All 4 primaries are excellent actors, the wiring is always good, and the jokes are nonstop.

 

[Sebastian]

Weird thing about Frasier is it is somehow lower brow than cheers. It's more broad as a comedy.

If you want to get down to brass tacks as the most consistently funny and best writing and acting sitcom, it had to be the Golden Girls. All 4 primaries are excellent actors, the wiring is always good, and the jokes are nonstop.

I agree. The underlying joke with Frasier is that Frasier and Niles' pretensions at being sophisticated generally led them to behaving as loutish buffoons; contrasted with their "un-sophisticated" blue-collar father who always seems to know better than them.

And you're right in that Frasier's setting allows a greater range of comedy than Cheers. The bar tends to limit the scope of possible scenes for comedy. Cheers was always better when it spent less time at the bar.

The writing on Golden Girls was amazing and I admit that I dismissed it for years simply because I didn't want to fit a stereotype. I think it, along with Cheers, is probably the best Sitcom of the 80s.

And Mr. Belvedere.

 

[Sebastian]

Can we talk about The Cosby Show....

 

[Real Deal]

 

[Cavatt]

Can we talk about The Cosby Show....

One thing about the Cosby show is that it was more rooted in reality than most sitcoms. Really wacky stuff rarely happened. The exception that I thought was really funny was when Claire said, "what if men had babies?" And Cliff imagined he and his Navy son in law and Elven all are in labor and Cliff delivers a sandwich instead of a baby while his son in law delivers a tiny boat. Super funny and really weird and gross.

When I watch it now aside from the rape stuff, I often think the parents are a little too hard on the kids. They weren't very flexible, and parents always knew best unless it was Cliff eating the wrong food.

 

[Sebastian]

One thing about the Cosby show is that it was more rooted in reality than most sitcoms. Really wacky stuff rarely happened. The exception that I thought was really funny was when Claire said, "what if men had babies?" And Cliff imagined he and his Navy son in law and Elven all are in labor and Cliff delivers a sandwich instead of a baby while his son in law delivers a tiny boat. Super funny and really weird and gross.

When I watch it now aside from the rape stuff, I often think the parents are a little too hard on the kids. They weren't very flexible, and parents always knew best unless it was Cliff eating the wrong food.

Your auto-correct is hilarious.

Why do you suppose Cliff and Claire are so hard on the kids? From my college experience I found that many guys who were first generation college students had parents who were very, say, focused, on them doing their school work rather than engaging in shenanigans.

Do you suppose the Huxtable family was an example of a "new, upcoming" family of the 80s that benefited from the 60s equal rights period and emphasized continual upward mobility?

Despite all the unsavory shit regarding Cosby himself, how do you now view this show @gourimoko?

 

[MGMT]

We are two pages in and no one is going to try to make a case for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia? It’s tied for the longest runnning live-action comedy ever.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-yUafzOXHPE


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_nTpsv9PNqo

 

[1B4IGO]

Can we talk about The Cosby Show....

Aren't the reruns on 714

 

[LennoxLewis]

Does Curb your enthusiasm count as a sitcom?

 

[Sebastian]

Does Curb your enthusiasm count as a sitcom?

I suppose that is a good segue into what actually constitutes a sitcom versus a comedic program or comedic drama.

Is Fawlty Towers a sitcom? If so, we have a winner.

 

[Phills14]

If anyone brings up Everybody Loves Raymond I will fight them.

Friends didn't make the list???