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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 29 2009 at 20:57
From the list...Married with Children.

The Office is my fav though.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2009 at 01:40
Originally posted by ClemofNazareth ClemofNazareth wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:


Jeeze, how many sitcoms have we put out anyway? LOL

Apparently a lot.  (I cheated; this is from Wikipedia - and I can think of a few that are missing...)

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3rd Rock from the Sun
30 Rock
704 Hauser
8 Simple Rules
13 Queens Boulevard
A.E.S. Hudson Street
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The Abbott and Costello Show
Abby
Accidental Family
According to Jim
Ace Crawford, Private Eye
Adam's Rib
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
The Adventures of Pete & Pete
AfterMASH
The Aldrich Family
ALF
Alice
Aliens in America
Aliens in the Family
All About the Andersons
All About Us
All American Girl
All in the Family
All of Us
All That Glitters
All's Fair
Almost Perfect
Alright Already
Amanda's
Amen
America 2-Night
American Dad!
American Dreamer
Amos & Andy
The Andy Griffith Show
Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Angela Anaconda
Angie
Ann Jillian
The Ann Sothern Show
Anna and the King
Annie McGuire
Anything But Love
Apartment 2F
Archie Bunker's Place
Arli$$
The Army Show
Arnie
Arrested Development
Arresting Behavior
Arsenio
Ask Harriet
At Ease
Austin Stories
Babes
Baby Blues
Baby Bob
Baby Boom
Baby I'm Back
Baby Talk
Bachelor Father
Back to You
The Bad Girl's Guide
The Bad News Bears
The Baileys of Balboa
Baker's Dozen
Bakersfield P.D.
Barefoot in the Park
Barney Miller
Batman
Battery Park
The Baxters
Becker
Benson
The Bernie Mac Show
Best of the West
Bette
The Betty Hutton Show
The Betty White Show
Between Brothers
Beulah
The Beverly Hillbillies
Beverly Hills Buntz
Beware of Dog
Bewitched
The Big Bang Theory
Big Brother Jake
The Big House
Big John, Little John
Big Wave Dave's
The Bill Cosby Show
The Bill Dana Show
The Bill Engvall Show
Billy
Billy
Black Tie Affair
Blansky's Beauties
Bless This House
Blossom
Bob (TV series)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The Bob Cummings Show
The Bob Newhart Show
Bob Patterson
Bonanza
Bonino
The Bonnie Hunt Show
Bosom Buddies
Boston Common
Boy Meets World
The Boys Are Back
Boys Will Be Boys
The Brady Brides
The Brady Bunch
Bram and Alice
Breaker High
The Brian Benben Show
Bridget Loves Bernie
Bringing Up Buddy
Broadside
Brooklyn Bridge
Brotherly Love
Brothers
The Brothers
Brothers and Sisters
The Brothers Garcia
Brother's Keeper
Buddies
Buffalo Bill
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Built to Last
The Burns and Allen Show
Bustin' Loose
California Dreams
C.P.O. Sharkey
Captain Nice
Car 54, Where Are You?
Caroline in the City
Carpoolers
Carter Country
Cavemen
Charles in Charge
Checking In
Cheers
The Chicago Teddy Bears
Chicken Soup
Chico and the Man
Clarissa Explains It All
The Class
Clueless
Coach
The Comeback
Committed
Cory in the House
Cosby
The Cosby Show
Courting Alex
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Cousin Skeeter
The Critic
Crumbs
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Cybill
Daria
Date with the Angels
Dave's World
Dear John
December Bride
Delta House
The Dennis O'Keefe Show
Dennis The Menace
Designing Women
Dharma & Greg
Diana
The Dick van Dyke Show
A Different World
Diff'rent Strokes
Dinosaurs
DiResta
Doc
Do Over
Doctor, Doctor
The Donna Reed Show
Doogie Howser, M.D.
The Doris Day Show
The Double Life of Henry Phyfe
Double Trouble
Doug
Down to Earth
Downtown
Drake & Josh
Drawn Together
Dream On
The Drew Carey Show
Drexell's Class
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Duckman
The Duck Factory
Dweebs (TV series)
E/R
The Ed Wynn Show
The Egg and I
Eisenhower & Lutz
Ellen
The Ellen Show
Emily's Reasons Why Not
Empty Nest
Eve
Even Stevens
Evening Shade
Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Loves Raymond
F Troop
The Facts of Life
Fair Exchange
Family Affair
The Family Genius
Family Guy
Family Matters
Family Ties
The Farmer's Daughter
Father Knows Best
Fatherhood
The Fighting Fitzgeralds
Fired Up
First Time Out
Flatbush
The Flintstones
Flo
Flying Blind
The Flying Nun
Foot in The Door
For Your Love
Frasier
Free Country
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Friends
Full House
Futurama
The Game
Gary Unmarried
The Geena Davis Show
The George Carlin Show
George Lopez
Get a Life
Get Smart
Get Smart
Get Smart, Again!
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
Gidget
Gilligan's Island
Gimme a Break!
The Girl With Something Extra
Girlfriends
Gloria
Going Places
The Goldbergs
The Golden Girls
The Golden Palace
Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.
Good Grief
The Good Guys
Good Heavens
Good Sports
Good Times
Goodnight, Beantown
Grace Under Fire
Grady
Green Acres
Greetings from Tucson
Grindl
Grosse Pointe
Grounded for Life
Growing Pains
Grown Ups
Gunsmoke
Guys Luke Us
Half & Half
Hang Time
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
Hannah Montana
The Hank McCune Show
Happy Days
Happy Hour
Harper Valley P.T.A.
Harry and the Hendersons
Harrigan and Son
Hazel
He's the Mayor (1985 television series)
He's the Mayor (2004 television series)
Head of the Class
Hello, Larry
The Help
Help Me Help You
Hennesey
Herbie, the Love Bug
Here Come the Brides
Here We Go Again
Here's Lucy
Herman's Head
Hey Dude!
Hi Honey, I'm Home!
Hill Street Blues
Hitz
The Hogan Family
Hogan's Heroes
Homeboys in Outer Space
Home Improvement
Home Movies
The Honeymooners
Hope & Faith
How I Met Your Mother
iCarly
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
I Married Dora
I Married Joan
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
I'm With Her
In the House
It's A Living
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
It's About Time
It's Garry Shandling's Show
It's Like, You Know
It's Your Move
Jake in Progress
Jamie
The Jamie Foxx Show
The Jean Carroll Show
The Jeff Foxworthy Show
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The Jim Backus Show
Joanie Loves Chachi
Joey
The John Forsythe Show
The John Larroquette Show
Julia
Just Our Luck
Just Shoot Me
Just the Ten of Us
Kappa Mikey
Kate & Allie
Keep It In the Family (US)
Kenan & Kel
The King of Queens
King of The Hill
Kirk
Kitchen Confidential
Knights of Prosperity
The Larry Sanders Show
The Last Resort
Laverne & Shirley
Laverne and Shirley in the Army
Learning the Ropes
Leave It to Beaver
Less Than Perfect
Lewis & Clark
The Life of Riley
Life on a Stick
Life With Bonnie
Life with Elizabeth
Life's Work
Like Family
Listen Up!
Living Single
Living with Fran
Lizzie McGuire
Lotsa Luck
Lou Grant
Love, Inc
Love and Marriage
The Love Boat
Love on a Rooftop
The Loop (TV series)
Lucky Louie
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
The Lucy Show
Mack & Myer for Hire
Mad About You
Major Dad
Make Room for Daddy
Malcolm & Eddie
Malcolm In The Middle
Mama's Family
Many Happy Returns
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Marge and Jeff
Margie
Married People
Married... with Children
Martin
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Mary Kay and Johnny
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
M*A*S*H
Matlock
Maude
Maybe It's Me
Mayberry R.F.D.
McHale's Navy
Me and the Boys
Meet Mr. McNulty
Men Behaving Badly
The Michael Richards Show
Mission Hill
Mister Ed
Mister Peepers
Modern Men
Moesha
Monk
The Monkees
The Morey Amsterdam Show
Mork & Mindy
The Mothers-in-Law
Mr. Belvedere
Mr. Merlin
Mr. Terrific
The Mullets
The Munsters Today
The Munsters
Murphy Brown
Muscle
My Boys
My Brother and Me
My Favorite Husband
My Favorite Martian
My Friend Irma
My Mother the Car
My Little Margie
My Living Doll
My Name Is Earl
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
My Wife and Kids
My World and Welcome to It
The Nanny
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
Ned and Stacey
Needles and Pins
The New Adventures of Old Christine
The New Andy Griffith Show
The New Bill Cosby Show
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
New Monkees
The New Odd Couple
The New WKRP in Cincinnati
Newhart
NewsRadio
Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher
Night Court
Nikki
The Norm Show
No Time For Sergeants
Nurses
The Oblongs
Occasional Wife
The Odd Couple
Off Centre
The Office (US)
O. K. Crackerby!
Oliver Beene
On Our Own
Once and Again
One Day at a Time
One on One
Open All Night
Our Miss Brooks
Out of the Blue
Paper Moon
The Parent 'Hood
The Parkers
The Partners
The Partridge Family
The Patty Duke Show
Pearl (TV series)
The People's Choice (TV series)
Perfect Strangers
Petticoat Junction
Phil of the Future
The Phil Silvers Show
Phyllis
Pig Sty
Platypus Man
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
The Powers That Be
Private Secretary
The Proud Family
Punky Brewster
Quintuplets
Quark
The Real McCoys
Reba
Report to Murphy
Rhoda
Rita Rocks
Rock Me Baby
Rodney
Room 222
The Ropers
Roseanne
Run, Buddy, Run
Run of the House
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Samantha Who?
Sanford and Son
Sarah Silverman Program
Saved by the Bell
Saved by the Bell: The College Years
Saved by the Bell: New Class
Scrubs
The Second Hundred Years
Second Time Around
The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer
Seinfeld
Shaping Up
Shasta McNasty
Silver Spoons
The Simpsons
Singer & Sons
Sister, Sister
Small Wonder
Smart Guy
The Smothers Brothers Show
Soap
So Little Time
Sonny with a Chance
Sons & Daughters
South Park
Sparks
Spin City
Sports Night
Square Pegs
Stacked
Stanley
Star of the Family
Step by Step
The Steve Harvey Show
Still Standing
The Stu Erwin Show
Suddenly Susan
Sugar Time!
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Suite Life on Deck
Sunshine
The Tab Hunter Show
Tabitha
Tammy
Tattingers
Taxi
Teachers
The Ted Knight Show
Temperatures Rising
That '70s Show
That 80's Show
That Girl
That Was Then
That's Hank
That's My Bush!
That's My Momma
That's So Raven
Three's a Crowd
Three's Company
Throb
'Til Death
Titus
To Rome With Love
Tom Goes to the Mayor
Too Close for Comfort
Topper
The Tortellis
True Colors
True Jackson, VP
Twenty Good Years
Twins
Two and a Half Men
(Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place)
Two of a Kind
Tyler Perry's House of Payne
The Ugliest Girl in Town
Unfabulous
Unhappily Ever After
Unhitched
Valentine's Day
The Van Dyke Show
Veronica's Closet
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
Wanda at Large
The War at Home
Watching Ellie
The Wayans Bros.
We Got It Made
We'll Get By
Webster
Weeds
Welcome Back, Kotter
Wendy and Me
What I Like About You
What's Happening Now!!
What's Happening!!
When Things Were Rotten
Whoopi
Who's the Boss?
Who's Watching the Kids
Will & Grace
Window on Main Street
Wings
Wizards of Waverly Place
WKRP in Cincinnati
Working
Working It Out
Worst Week
A Year at the Top
Yes, Dear
You Again?
You Take the Kids
Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane
Zoey 101




 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2009 at 01:51
Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

I votedfor "Marriedwith Children" dueto the first years.
 
The problem is that usually USA comedies start funny and become stupid after some years
 
For example, not oroiginaly a comedy, but I loved Boston Legal until William Shatner's role as Denny Crane became simply stupid and they added that character called Jerry "Hands" Espenson who ruined a great program turning it into a retarded comedy.
 
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Damn you Ivan ! Why do you always make spot on posts ? Wink
 
Other very good examples of this phenomenon are Friends (last two seasons and especially the very last one which were extremely disappointing compared the brilliant first 8) and Some mothers do 'ave 'em (first 10 episodes just about the best comedy I ever saw in my life but second series insipid and a waste).
The only one that knew when to stop was Fawlty Towers with just 12 episodes but all hilarious. (sorry to switch to the british comedies all over sudden but they are perfect examples for my opinion)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2009 at 09:09
I voted for Frasier but here would have plumped for Earl & Randy Hickey if they had been an option

1 My Name Is Earl
2 Frasier/Cheers
3 Arrested Development
4 M*A*S*H
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2009 at 20:00
I watch Seinfield sometimes and it's somewhat entertaining but I never understood why people in the US like it so much, it's ok but it's not really that funny to me. I take Friends anytime.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2009 at 00:34
From the list, Married...With Children.  From everything, Futurama by a loooooong shot. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2009 at 14:54
From your list I was inclined to go with Married with Children but instead went with Taxi.  It is amazing how many people in that series went on to great success in other ventures.  On the bottom side I have never been able to like Seinfeld and after two or three shows avoided it like the plague. 
 
Off the list Get Smart, The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle and Two and Half Men all deserve nods.  Drew Carry also had some really good moments as well but really suffered the last couple of years.
 


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In the 50-odd years I've been watching British TV (largely because I've lived my entire life in Britain!), I have been subjected to a variety of comedic TV from the U.S. and I have to say it's been largely disappointing. I voted for M*A*S*H, which has been head and shoulders above anything else Uncle Sam has had to offer. It takes a direct kick in the genitals of authority and the military establishment and makes aerosols of our so-called political masters. In the futility and the bloodshed (literally) of war, a group of humans retain their sanity by going nuts. The scripts were manically and excruciatingly funny, with smart-arse.....sorry.....smart ass Groucho Marx-like one-liners. I often wonder how much ad-libbing was done in the TV series - I do know that Robert Altman actively encouraged it in the M*A*S*H film. As far as I'm concerned, M*A*S*H has been the finest export from the U S of A, with Miller beer coming second.
 
"Taxi" was OK, but it got a bit desperate after the 3rd or 4th series. They also toiled for plot-lines.
"Friends" was aimed at a too-narrow viewing audience.
If I had a higher IQ, I would probably appreciate the humour in "Frasier", but a lot of it flew over my head.
 
I've no idea if a thread exists for British comedy, but you can put me down for "Have I Got News For You", "Drop The Dead Donkey" (they should NEVER had taken that off the air) and "They Think It's All Over". 
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