Top Ten Favorite Sitcoms

[Serrart]

Not in order:
The Jeffersons - One of the first i 've ever seen and is still among my favourites
Frasier - Perfectly acted, great jokes and storyline.
Roseanne - Anti - conventional and violently truthful.
Taxi - I watched it mainly for Danny De Vito.
The Nanny - Great, funny characters, and the subplot (C.C - Niles) was way better than the main plot (Fran - Max).
3rd Rock From The Sun - Even only for the first two or three seasons: John Lithgow is a brilliant actor.
Alf - best alien ever landed on Earth.
Bette - It's a shame they canceled it so soon, to see Bette Midler doing Bette Midler was wonderful.
Get Smart - 007 pales at comparison.
The Simpsons - It has the best comedy writers around, IMO.

Romy

[amber]

Originally Posted by Serrart

Not in order:
The Jeffersons - One of the first i 've ever seen and is still among my favourites

Taxi - I watched it mainly for Danny De Vito.
Get Smart - 007 pales at comparison.
Romy

I can't believe I forgot these two!!!! Taxi is way better than one on my list....
Get Smart was the best....

Me, too, about the Jeffersons. One of my first.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Serrart

Alf - best alien ever landed on Earth.

My ultimate guilty pleasure, I love ALF. Season two comes out on tomorrow on DVD, I believe.

Originally Posted by Serrart

Bette - It's a shame they canceled it so soon, to see Bette Midler doing Bette Midler was wonderful.

"Look! All the glamour of a leather bar without the two drink minimum."

I loved it, too, and it would have been spectacular with better writers. Bette should have nabbed Bruce Vilanch. She's now going to co-headline Caesar's Palace with Celine and Elton, so I can't wait for that. And she's coming out with an album of Peggy Lee songs this fall, too.

[GypsySorcerer]

1) Cheers - Simply the best.
2) The Wonder Years - Particularly in the early years.
3) Wings - Watch out - sex can burn your house down!
4) The Golden Girls - I <3 Bea Arthur.
5) Perfect Strangers - Balki!!!!
6) Three's Company - Ritter was a great comedian.
7) Empty Nest - Sentimental choice
8) Roseanne - Again, in the early years.
9) Facts of Life - I loved this soooo much as kid.
10) Happy Days - What can I say?

Yep, they're all old. Television's gone down the ****ter, IMO.

[CreepingDeath]

In no particular order:

1. Family Guy
2. The Simpsons- not the new episodes though
3. The Golden Girls
4. Roseanne
5. I Love Lucy
6. All in the Family
7. Fawlty Towers
8. The Wonder Years
9. The Office (British version)
10. South Park

[Serrart]

Originally Posted by dissention

"Look! All the glamour of a leather bar without the two drink minimum."

I loved it, too, and it would have been spectacular with better writers. Bette should have nabbed Bruce Vilanch. She's now going to co-headline Caesar's Palace with Celine and Elton, so I can't wait for that. And she's coming out with an album of Peggy Lee songs this fall, too.

I'd love to see her live, she brings such an energy and positive vibe to everything she does. The album of Peggy Lee songs sounds great. Her voice always involves me, and one of the best things of her movies is when she start to sing something, like the scene in That Old feeling when she sings Somewhere Along The Way: simply beautiful.

Romy

[ryan8472]

1. Family Guy <3
2. Malcolm In The Middle
3. Cheers
4. All In The Family
5. The Jeffersons
6. Mad About You (I LOVE Helen Hunt)
7. I Love Lucy
8. Roseanne
9. Taxi
10. Friends

[mylittledemon]

Seinfeld
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Simpsons
League of Gentlemen
Benny Hill
Married With Children
Mr. Show
Golden Girls
Family Guy
Highlander

[amber]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

Mr. Show

Highlander

I forgot about Mr. Show!!! I only saw it a few times, but those times it was really funny.

Also: Highlander is not a sitcom.

[totallycait]

In some kind of order.

1 - Sanford & Son
2 - The Honeymooners
3 - The Golden Girls
4 - Absolutely Fabulous
5 - Fawlty Towers
6 - Barney Miller
7 - Taxi
8 - M*A*S*H*
9 - Seinfeld
10 - Sex & The City

honorable mention - The Muppet Show, which isn't a sitcom, but kinda is.

[chiliD]

Sitcoms...kind of a "thing of the past" for the most part...at least in Case De Chili...we're hooked on History, Discovery & Science channels mostly now:

Actually, I could pretty much just list all the NBC "Must See" comedies that were on through the years...that was my "night" for TV watching.

Here's the cream of the crop in our house:
Stark Raving Mad (MUCH too short of a run...at least Tony Shaloub got "Monk" in fairly short order)
Scrubs (the fantasy sequences are hilarious)
Bosom Buddies (just hard to believe this is where Tom Hanks started)
Reno 911 (just keeps getting funnier & funnier)
South Park
Friends (never seem to tire of it...but I just can't seem to get into seeing Joey by himself)
Dick Van Dyke Show (one from my childhood)
The Cosby Show (when I was recouping from my "debacle in December", I started watching the syndicated re-runs...got hooked on it all over again)
ALF (didn't watch faithfully, but if I saw it was on, I watched...where are the re-runs?)
Fraiser (never seemed to have "jumped the shark"...although it DID come close a couple of seasons way back when, when they were trying to cover up Jane Leeves' pregnancy without writing a "Daphne's pregnant" into storyline)
Mad About You (loved the Buchmans)

BONUS:
Buffalo Bill (GREAT show! Geena Davis, Dabney Coleman, Joanna Cassidy)

And...well, yeah...most of the Norman Lear shows...
All In The Family
The Jeffersons
Sanford & Son
Maude


Others that got much viewing (NOT on re-runs, mind you...rarely watch any of the syndicated re-runs):

Cheers
Seinfeld
3rd Rock
Night Court
Wings
Will & Grace
Newhart/Bob Newhart Show
Get Smart
Bewitched
I Dream Of Jeannie
Gilligan's Island
My Mother The Car
Coach
Taxi
Barney Miller
Dobie Gillis
Andy Griffith
Spin City (Michael J. Fox years, mostly...although Charlie Sheen was pretty funny, too; I kind of lost interest)


I guess I spent a LOT of time watching sitcoms.

[eclipse]

I think everyone has mentioned all of mine-
but I'll list what I like- In no particular order...

Cheers
Bill Cosby Show
Wings
Frasier
Friends
Faulty Towers
Bennie Hill- (Although, not really a sitcome but it makes me laugh- that and Mr. Beane -character too, the Thanksgiving/Christmas episodes just
cracks me up!!)
Murphy Brown
Seinfeld
Absolutely Fabulous- Those two make me wet my pants-I laugh so hard
Peewee's Playhouse- silly but funny sometimes

Thanks all I can think of right now

[wondergirl9847]

I love Mr. Bean! Rowan cracks me up in pretty much anything he's in.

ChiliD...love Reno 911 too!!

[ryan8472]

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

ChiliD...love Reno 911 too!!

How could I forget Reno 911?! I? love that show!

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by amber

Also: Highlander is not a sitcom.

Hmpf. Well anything that runs on a weekly basis is a sitcom to me. Whether its a primetime show or not. I seem to remember "Wings" was on USA wasnt it?