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Post by notacrook on Jul 25, 2017 20:01:00 GMT
There are a fuckton of terrible sitcoms, but for every like five bad ones there's one great. My favourites are:
Seinfeld - king of them all in my opinion. How it managed to find humour in almost any everyday situation continues to impress me every time I watch it.
The Simpsons - obviously it's not good anymore, but its best days were truly something to behold.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - I respect this show's batshit-insane core more than anything. I'm not sure I've ever seen an episode that didn't have me in borderline hysterics at least once.
Friends - as I get older the more I realise this show wasn't actually all that good in terms of writing and whatnot, but there are few shows that are as purely enjoyable to just put on whenever. It's perfect comfort food - until it became unbearable in the last two seasons.
30 Rock - I never got beyond S3 (hopefully I'll get round to finishing it soon), but the writing was always sharp and the cast was generally excellent. I despise Tracy Morgan, but still it's a good show.
Peep Show - ah, Brit humour at its finest.
Others like Modern Family and How I Met Your Mother alternate between quite enjoyable and utterly awful, particularly the latter. Community had a fantastic first 3 seasons and then went off the rails. Cheers and Arrested Development seem good, from the little I've seen.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 20:10:07 GMT
1. Seinfeld
2. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
3. Curb Your Enthusiasm
4. Louie
5. The Simpsons
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 25, 2017 21:57:26 GMT
I'm weird because most TV I watch is to laugh but I judge them harshly, like I love Cheers when Diane is in it, and kind of loathe it after she left. Love The US Office with Carell not so much without though I still watched.
I'll say:
Fawlty Towers - If that counts, I love it to death and Basil Fawlty is my favorite character
Louie - At its best, beyond brilliant
30 Rock - the flat out most consistently funny show, got funnier when they stopped caring weirdly, loopy
The Office UK
Frasier - When it was cooking it was like an ace stage play
Arrested Development/Community/Parks and Rec/The Office US - All had peak runs for a while that almost caused me to die laughing
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Post by Kings_Requiem on Jul 25, 2017 22:51:27 GMT
Scrubs
Friends
Futurama
How I Met Your Mother
Community
The League
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Post by Viced on Jul 25, 2017 23:14:03 GMT
1. The Larry Sanders Show
2. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
3. Seinfeld
4. The Simpsons
5. Curb Your Enthusiasm
6. The Office (UK)
7. Malcolm in the Middle
8. Arrested Development
9. Extras
10. Taxi
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jul 25, 2017 23:33:06 GMT
Seinfeld and Louie
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 26, 2017 0:02:26 GMT
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Larry Sanders Show
Parks + Rec
Community
The Office
Seinfeld
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Post by bobbystarks on Jul 26, 2017 0:10:14 GMT
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Post by Lubezki on Jul 26, 2017 0:26:25 GMT
The Inbetweeners
Friends
Spaced
Black Books
Keeping Up Appearances
Only Fools and Horses
Absolutely Fabulous
Father Ted
Blackadder
Scrubs
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jul 26, 2017 1:25:09 GMT
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - For me, this show is a perfect synthesis of humor and genuinely heartfelt elements of drama without falling into bathos. And they're not cheap "very special episodes" either, everything the show addresses from class, race (including internalized racism), sex, political ideology, body image, familial shame, violent crime, substance use, and perhaps most famously parental neglect are all tied directly to fundamental, readily present aspects of the characters that change over time.
The Simpson - Almost everything I said for Fresh Prince would apply to this show at its peak. The pure creativity on display during that golden age is truly astonishing.
Seinfeld - Has a very strong case for being the absolute funniest show ever.
The Larry Sanders Show - I don't think it's quite appreciated just how much Garry Shandling informed today's comedic sensibilities. Name any funny guy in the past 20 years, they owe something to Shandling.
Futurama - Just as The Simpsons was starting to decline, Futurama came in and took up the mantle.
I Love Lucy - Classic.
Three's Company - Anybody with a passing interest in physical comedy owes it to themselves to watch John Ritter.
That '70s Show - A fun send-up to the 1970s that works in large part due to its cast that gel together really well.
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Post by getclutch on Jul 26, 2017 3:30:50 GMT
Seinfeld
Night Court
Home Improvement
Married... with Children
The Simpsons
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jul 26, 2017 5:11:41 GMT
The Larry Sanders Show - I don't think it's quite appreciated just how much Garry Shandling informed today's comedic sensibilities. Name any funny guy in the past 20 years, they owe something to Shandling. Totally. Also love the That 70's Show shoutout. |
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Post by DeepArcher on Jul 26, 2017 5:37:54 GMT
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Arrested Development
Parks and Rec.
South Park
Silicon Valley
Freaks and Geeks
The Office (US), in its peak
Friends
Still have a lot to see in this department (I have actually only ever watched a handful of Seinfeld episodes.)
Shout-outs to some great comedies that don't quite fit the bill of "sitcom": BoJack Horseman, Atlanta, Master of None.
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Post by DeepArcher on Jul 26, 2017 5:39:32 GMT
That '70s Show - A fun send-up to the 1970s that works in large part due to its cast that gel together really well. Great mention. I've been randomly catching a ton of re-runs of this over the summer and forgot how damn funny it was after it had been a favorite of mine when I was younger. It's yet another series that declines as it progresses towards its end (though not as disastrously as others), but it's absolutely hilarious at its best and I've only come to appreciate its humor more with age. |
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Jul 26, 2017 10:13:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 15:16:59 GMT
'The Golden Girls,' no question. Consistently laugh-out-loud funny and beautifully acted.
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Post by DaleCooper on Jul 27, 2017 18:10:20 GMT
Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Friends and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
Those are really far ahead of the rest for me. Then we have stuff like Extras, Fawlty Towers, Spin City and Silicon Valley which I've also greatly enjoyed.
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Post by ltravs54 on Jul 27, 2017 20:59:54 GMT
Malcolm in the Middle
FRIENDS
Parks and Recreation
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Office
Will & Grace
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Jul 30, 2017 11:14:16 GMT
1. Cheers
2. Northern Exposure
3. Red Dwarf
4. A Very Peculiar Practice
5. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
6. Jeeves and Wooster
7. The Bob Newhart Show
8. The Dick Van Dyke Show
9. Taxi
10. All in the Family
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jul 30, 2017 18:44:45 GMT
Father Ted and It's Always Sunny are out in front of the pack for me, but I do love the hell out of a couple of dozen more. Very much like with film, comedy is my favourite thing about TV.
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Post by forksforest on Aug 2, 2017 23:17:20 GMT
FRIENDS
Parks and Rec
The Middle
Episodes
Malcolm in the Middle
Silicon Valley
Chewing Gum
Veep
Scrubs
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