Best Situation Comedy EVER!

[Enraged_Ape]

There really are a lot to choose from, but I have to go with The Andy Griffith Show. This is one of the only shows I know that has humor that is timeless, that never sought cheap shots or contemporary or topical laughs. It only gets laughs based on the human condition. This show will be funny 50 years from now. On the other hand, All in the Family (which was very topical and political) makes me laugh my ass off even today.

So go for it. What do you like?

[cdsilv]

1. MASH <NT>

[HEyHEY]

53. AMEN!

[Deja Q]

62. Sherman Hemsley was great in that show...

So was Clifton Davis.

Little Richard was in the pilot as well, but he was replaced by someone else to play the same guy....

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Cheers fucking ruled

[bif]

39. Cheers all the way

I agree.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. It's clearly Father Ted.

[lilymidnite]

5. Oh, now I wanna change my vote

Father Ted it is

[Screaming Lord Byron]

14. THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER!

FECK!

[BigMcLargehuge]

41. FECK! DRINK! GIRLS! FECK!

First time I saw that show I laughed so hard I almost suffocated.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

45. It's like a great big tide of jam. But jam made out of... old women.

I love Dougal.

[terrya]

None on your good list. My choice is "Fawlty Towers"

Pure comedy genius. The best cast ever, terrific writing. Absolutely perfect.

[Bat Boy]

74. Yep. Hands down. No contest. n/t

[Skip Intro]

4. I Love Lucy?

[Enraged_Ape]

12. I loved Lucy too...

but those episodes are kind of hoary compared to the sophistication of writing that started after 1960. But that's a great suggestion.

[Richardo]

6. Get Smart

Excellent writing, production (Mel Brooks and Buck Henry) and acting. Edward Platt was the perfect foil.

And Barbara Feldon if nothing else! :loveya: Rowrrrrr!

[Ganja Ninja]

27. I always loved the "Cone of Silence" gag.

[Richardo]

28. "What's that, Chief?"

:D

[arwalden]

7. Bewitched

[Enraged_Ape]

18. Sorry to slight Bewitched

But I had all those Dick Sargent episodes to deal with. That guy was no Dick York.

[arwalden]

23. Dick York Was Much Better...

I just ignore Dick Sargent as best as I can and enjoy the scenes with Agnes Moorehead and Elizabeth Montgomery.

-- Allen

[mrboba1]

8. I say MASH

But Cheers and Frasier are 2 and 3.

[Elginoid]

71. MASH stopped being funny when McLean Stevenson left.

it's gotta be The Simpson's.

[The Sushi Bandit]

9. "That 70's Show"

Great writing.. great acting team!

and it is a show I can relate too

[sendero]

66. Me too....

.... I'm always amazed at the tight pacing and not one sentence of dialog in that show is wasted!

Married With Children gets my second place :)

[shoelace414]

10. Coupling - Origonal British version

[Skip Intro]

11. If Brit-coms are included - Ab-Fab oughta be in there somewhere

[NeonLX]

13. "Green Acres"

MASH was good but got it awfully goofy during the last couple of seasons. Dick Van Dyke was similarly good, as was Bewitched. But Green Acres takes the prize for me.

[The Sushi Bandit]

69. GREEN ACRES

IS THE PLACE FOR ME
FARM LIVIN IS THE LIFE FOR ME

[tigerbeat]

15. no contest: "The Simpson" n/t

[mojowork_n]

31. You're right, The Simpsons is way out in front.

Although I've got to admit having chuckled a time or two watching (in no particular order) Wings (pilots Brian and Joe, the Cheers spin-off), Fawlty Towers, Taxi, Are You Being Served, and some of the later episodes of Black Adder.

[mojowork_n]

32. Ooh, and I forgot

the new on BBC America, "The Office". With David Gervais as the overweight egomaniac you once actually worked for.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. I Love Lucy

I don't know if it qualifies as a "sitcom" but that show has always made me laugh, even today. Some of the episodes such as the one with William Holden where she sets fire to her nose, or the one with Charles Boyer where she ruins his clothes and makes him look like a street bum are classics that will never die.

But I also do love all of the sitcoms mentioned in the list.

[Worst Username Ever]

17. The Bush administration n/t

[Bat Boy]

75. Characters are interesting...

Hate the plot line..

[JuniorPlankton]

19. Unfortunately, no American sitcom would make it into the top ten

For starters,


Blackadder
Yes, minister
Fawlty towers

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. Barney Miller

[rbnyc]

76. Yep.

I was hoping someone would say that. I miss that show.

[asthmaticeog]

21. Arrested Development n/t

[Commendatori]

22. Dick Van Dyke

The show had Rose Marie on it and was still funny. That's the only credential you need.

[cosmicdot]

24. I Love Lucy

[Ganja Ninja]

25. Married with Children!

although Green Acres is a close second.

[ixion]

29. Married with Children gets my vote

:bounce: Christina Applegate rules. :bounce:

[luaneryder]

26. Soap/Mary Hartman tie

[NMDemDist2]

68. another vote for Soap

the best

[mac56]

30. "WKRP in Cincinnati"

Of the ones you listed, "The Dick Van Dyke Show".

Honorable mention to "Mad About You" before it jumped the shark.

[noonwitch]

36. WKRP was the funniest show I can think of

Everyone on that show was hilarious. I wish I had a tape of the Thanksgiving episode, which is the absolutely funniest thing I have ever seen on tv in my life.

[mac56]

40. "As God is my witness...I thought turkeys could fly!"

"Oh...the humanity!"

[ProfessorGAC]

70. "Mad" Jumped The Shark In Episode 2!

I always thought that was a piece of overwrought, and underfunny, dreck.
The Professor

[mac56]

72. It's so rare that we disagree, Prof -

that those occasions always stick out in my mind!

I really enjoyed "Mad About You" up till they decided either Paul or Jamie or both should have an affair. Immediately followed by them having a baby. It took the last train to Sucktown at that point, but up till then it was one of my favorites.

[ChompySnack]

33. All must bow to Seinfeld

[leftofthedial]

34. mash and i love lucy

should be on the list

[demon67]

35. Seinfeld

There are lots of good choices, yada, yada, yada . . . but I vote for Seinfeld. It never, ever stops being funny. I would also put The Simpsons and South Park somewhere on that list.

[democracy eh]

73. yeah where is Seinfeld?

[Gothic Sponge]

37. MASH

[DS1]

38. The Young Ones

[Donkeyboy75]

42. Oh Neil, go take a bath!

[Magrittes Pipe]

43. I mean, if you don't want any lentils, that's fine.

It's not like I spent all day cooking them or anything. Guys? Guys? Wow, that's heavy.

[Donkeyboy75]

48. Damn. Are they still on TV?

I remember MTV showed them late-night on the weekends about 15 years ago.

[Magrittes Pipe]

52. All the episodes are on DVD now.

Plus, BBC America is showing them.

[CanuckAmok]

55. C'mon in, Neil, take a tit of yer 'ead!

[RebelOne]

44. Married With Children. Love that show.

[Bridget Burke]

46. The golden age of television?

Actually, that might have been the days of the sketch humor shows--Sid Caesar, Ernie Kovacks.

But even the silliest Situation Comedy is better than Reality TV.

And there ought to be a separate poll for the Brit comedies.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

47. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.

[GCP]

50. Mrs C.J and I didn't get where we are today

by voting for "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"

GREAT

SUPER

[Screaming Lord Byron]

51. Twenty-two minutes late, badger ate a junction box at New Malden

[CO Liberal]

49. "The Honeymooners"

Source: http://classicsitcoms.com/

[CanuckAmok]

54. The Simpsons?

Fifteen consistently funny seasons. I can count on one hand the episodes which didn't make me laugh out loud at least once.

[MrBenchley]

56. F-Troop

I loved that show....

The interpreter could speak every Indian dialect and German, but no English...

[kodi]

60. and now we have bush as captain parmenter

[slutticus]

57. "Absolutely Fabulous"

One of the funniest shows ever.

[TroubleMan]

58. The Simpsons

It's a sitcom, and one of the most successful ever.

[Chovexani]

59. Absolutely Fabulous.

Cheers, sweetie darling!

[Deja Q]

61. Chef! or Coupling for the British sit-coms...

All in the Family for American sitcoms.

[Fone Book]

63. SEINFELD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

n/t

[PittPoliSci]

64. Seinfeld.

Look at that list...yuck!

[name not needed]

67. He lives in a bubble!

Boy. :P

[Caution]

65. Not a single moment goes by

that Gilligan's Island isnt be shown somewhere in the world. Literally every second of every day of the last 2 decades has seen Gilligan's Island on someone's television somewhere.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

77. Seinfeld

it's still funny-even after you've seen the same episode 100 times.