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  • I Love Lucy

    5 6.02%
  • Honeymooners

    4 4.82%
  • Father Knows Best

    0 0%
  • Andy Griffith

    6 7.23%
  • Dick Van Dyke

    2 2.41%
  • All In The Family

    5 6.02%
  • MASH

    9 10.84%
  • Mary Tyler Moore

    6 7.23%
  • Cheers

    6 7.23%
  • Roseanne

    0 0%
  • Simpsons

    15 18.07%
  • Seinfeld

    25 30.12%
  • Freinds

    0 0%
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Thread: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

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    Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

    Wow, tough call. It's really hard to compare eras with TV. I really like Leave It To Beaver though, which isn't on your list, for its depiction of a loving family with strong values. I still watch it today and think, man, that Ward sure does have a lot of good advice.

    I'm gonna go with I Love Lucy. The humor is timeless.
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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

    Go Mash!

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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

    People today make fun of Leave It To Beaver for it's family life portrayal and that it was unrealistic. I can understand someone from the younger generation saying that. But being raised in the 50's/60's my life was alot closer to Beaver's family then Roseanne's.

    Another one, which I forgot about, was Ozzie and Harriet.
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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

    Quote Originally Posted by Rychian
    Go Mash!
    Was M*A*S*H actually considered a sitcom? I suppose it fits because it was a half hour comedy.

    More great family shows emitted from the list.

    Diff'rent Strokes-I believe was one of the first shows to portray interracial and class storylines.

    Family Ties-Former hippies raising a family in the 80's. Helped significantly by the great acting of Michael J. Fox.

    Growing Pains-Kinda like the Leave It To Beaver of the 80's.


    Does anyone else miss those "Very special episodes for the whole family" where a serious subject like sexual abuse or drinking and driving was focused on?
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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

    I was raised in the Bunker residence. That show has aged unbelievably well for all of its topicality.

    Mary Tyler Moore is an ever-so-close second.
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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

    Quote Originally Posted by GAC
    People today make fun of Leave It To Beaver for it's family life portrayal and that it was unrealistic. I can understand someone from the younger generation saying that. But being raised in the 50's/60's my life was alot closer to Beaver's family then Roseanne's.
    Hey, I'm from the younger generation, and I wish my life was closer to Beaver's family than Roseanne's.
    My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!

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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

    Quote Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
    I was raised in the Bunker residence. That show has aged unbelievably well for all of its topicality.
    I wasn't allowed to watch this show growing up.
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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

    Quote Originally Posted by savafan
    I wasn't allowed to watch this show growing up.
    My parents took me to a drive-in movie of Bonnie and Clyde AND Bullitt.

    I wore my jammies, ate pocorn and ate the violence up.

    My family couldn't be defined by a sitcom, but I did have an "Uncle" like Uncle Norman on Courtship of Eddies Father.

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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

    Quote Originally Posted by savafan
    I wasn't allowed to watch this show growing up.
    That was one we could always watch in my family...along with Maude, The Jeffersons, and Sanford & Son.

    I picked MTM but I almost picked I Love Lucy. I went for consistency (sp?). The other shows, including M*A*S*H*, had it ups and downs in quality and "watchability" [IMHO].
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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

    Did anybody else watch the show called "SOAP" ??? The show had a great cast and yielded Benson as a fairly weakened spinoff. Watching SOAP was taboo in my house growing up--but I used to sneak into the upstairs den to watch it as a kid. Come to think of it, I would do the same thing with Monty Python and the first few seasons of SNL...Aahhh, the good ole days of television.

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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

    Does Cosby get an honorable mention at least? I didn't grow up watching much tv, but I enjoyed that one when I was in high school.

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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

    I voted for Andy Griffith. Always my favorite even though I watched them after they went into syndication. MASH is a close second even though the last few seasons were not very good,IMO. WKRP would get my vote as the most underrated. One of the funniest shows ever made.
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    Re: Greatest Sitcom Of All Time

    Quote Originally Posted by Blimpie
    Did anybody else watch the show called "SOAP" ??? The show had a great cast and yielded Benson as a fairly weakened spinoff. Watching SOAP was taboo in my house growing up--but I used to sneak into the upstairs den to watch it as a kid. Come to think of it, I would do the same thing with Monty Python and the first few seasons of SNL...Aahhh, the good ole days of television.
    yep. Billy Crystal ws Jody.
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