Best (favorite) TV Sitcom of All-Time?

[bigwillq]

Here are my top three picks

1. Roseanne
2. Seinfeld
3. The Golden Girls


What are your choices?

[u4ic]

1. I think BlackAdder wins it by a nose over the Vicar of Dibley

[Perseid]

2. All In The Family

great humor, and social commentary that doesn't exist anymore.

[opiate69]

3. Fawlty Towers

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SjhPjfm7niM

[Mojambo]

4. Best? Fawlty Towers. Personal Favorite? Curb. n/t

[DarkTirade]

5. Does M*A*S*H count as a sitcom? I've been watching it lately...

and no other show has made me laugh AND cry as much as that one. And I just got to the beginning of season 8.

[lligrd]

9. MASH Is One Of the All Time Greats nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. I'd put The Wonder Years in the same catagory

Excellent, excellent show. But you didn't know whether to call it a comedy or a drama.

But looking at some of the dreck that was on TV in the late 1980s ("Alf", anyone?), it's amazing there was a show as high of a caliber as The Wonder Years.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

50. I wrote

an episode of that show.

and i am not proud.

I really never liked the show that much.... but I liked the paycheck.

[bigwillq]

44. Yes I believe it does count

b/c it won Emmys as Best Comedy Series

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. Wings, hands down.

I have never laughed out loud so much at one show. I miss it.

[qanda]

38. Yes, that would be my choice

:thumbsup:

[Connonym]

40. Oh gosh, have you seen Tim Daly lately?

He is more adorable than ever. The other guy -- his brother (I can never remember his name) writes pretty regularly for HuffPo

[fudge stripe cookays]

42. Loves them both.

Steven Weber is the other brother.

Did you know Timothy Daly is Tyne Daly's brother?

She, on the other hand, is not looking that great these days.

[Connonym]

43. I saw Daly interviewed last week

on Craig Ferguson and I was really impressed with his sense of humor and self-deprecation. I think I have quite a crush.

[Richardo]

7. Get Smart

WKRP in Cincinnati
The Office

[lligrd]

8. Everybody Loves Raymond

I love all of the mentioned and "Friends" and "Two and a Half Men" but I think I laughed the loudest at "Everybody Loves Raymond". Disfunctional but close and loving families of the world unite.

[Frank Cannon]

10. The Andy Griffith Show

followed by, possibly, M*A*S*H and Leave it to Beaver.

I can sit down and watch a rerun of any of these shows and still be thoroughly entertained, no matter how old they are. They drew most of their comedy from simple human nature rather than hip pop culture references. And they'll still be funny twenty years from now.

[stuntcat]

32. me too, Andy :blush:

Aunt Bee and Barney both ROCK :headbang:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

11. Seinfeld. It begins and ends with Seinfeld.

I do love Curb, but Seinfeld shall forever be the very best in my book.

[RebelOne]

12. Married With Children and Absolutely Fabulous

[meegbear]

13. I LOVE LUCY

Q.E.Fucking-D.

[stuntcat]

33. 5:30 TV Land

It comes on every morning before Star Trek so I watch it while I make breakfast :headbang:

Lucy's amazing, they pack a LOT into 30 minutes.

[meegbear]

35. Back to back at 6pm ...

2 Lucys!

:woohoo:

[NewJeffCT]

14. Cheers +

All in the Family
MASH
Seinfeld

[Tommy_Carcetti]

15. Traditional sitcom or non-traditional?

If you are including non-traditional sitcoms, i.e., shows that weren't shot on a three sided set and didn't have a laugh track, I'd definetly say Arrested Development. Although I'd put The Office and My Name is Earl in close competition. Curb Your Enthusiasm isn't that bad either...I'd venture to say it is "pretty....pretty...good." :)

If you are talking about your standard set, laugh track sitcom, I'd say Seinfeld. Sure, it's the "easy" choice, but it was hands down the best written and smartest sitcom ever, that never got too serious or over-dramatic.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

31. And I would add "Strangers with Candy"

In the list of non-traditional sitcoms.

[bigwillq]

46. Any kind of sitcom

Doesn't matter the format.

[abq e streeter]

16. Seinfeld, Barney Miller,I Love Lucy, and for awhile, Married With Children

until their writers ran out of ideas about halfway through its run. Also- F Troop is underrated...

[abq e streeter]

25. Simpsons probably greatest ever, but is a cartoon a sitcom?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. I Love Lucy, All In The Family, Northern Exposure.

[raccoon]

19. Gilligan's Island (well, I like it.). nt

[abq e streeter]

24. me too

anything with Bob Denver----especially Dobie Gillis. And as some DUers probably know, Zelda (Sheila Kuehl) is a California state Senator (or rep) and longtime gay activist.

[raccoon]

26. I didn't know that! I used to watch Dobie Gillis regularly. nt

[abq e streeter]

37. Either is, or was, in the legislature

not sure if she still is... and gotta say Maynard G Krebs was an inspiration that lives on...(guess you and me are giving away our ages...)

[Burma Jones]

20. Simpsons, Arrested Development, Seinfeld

[Bennyboy]

21. Seinfeld, Cheers,Lucy,MTM, DVDyke,All in the Family

Barney Miller,Frasier, Friends

[rocktivity]

22. Married With Children, Mary Tyler Moore, The Flintstones

Talk about spanning generations.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Dr. Strange]

23. Red Dwarf

ya smeg head!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

27. Perfect Strangers, The Charmings, The Cosby Show

[Tektonik]

28. Simpsons, Seinfeld, Married with Children

Roseanne would be number one if it wasn't for that godawful last season

[Tommy_Carcetti]

29. What, no Full House?

How could you not list all your favorite sitcoms with that paragon of hilarity that was Full House?

[MorningGlow]

30. Monty Python's Flying Circus

Yeah, I know it's more of a sketch show, but it was 24 minutes of guaranteed lunacy, so I'm including it! :P

Also, because I am an Anglophile through and through, Fawlty Towers, Butterflies, The Young Ones, As Time Goes By.

And on this side of the pond, The Office, WKRP, and...Friends. Flame away!

[Bennyboy]

34. Underrated: Spin City, Murphy Brown, Perfect Strangers,

[Love Bug]

36. WKRP in Cincinnati

I like most of those posted already but had to include WKRP.

"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"

[azmouse]

39. The first 5 seasons of the Simpsons, and Cheers

Other than those I don't like the comedies that are on tv.

[Yavin4]

41. Hands Down, "What's Happening" Was The Best Sitcom Ever

That two parter about how Re-Run was illegally taping a Doobie Brothers concert was sheer genius. Let me explain, first, the show wanted to depict that music knows no racial boundaries and that hit bands like the Doobie Brothers, who were at the height of their popularity, would indeed play a concert at an inner-city predominantly African American high school in South Central, Los Angeles.

However, this grand display of racial harmony was not even the point of the episode. No, not at all. The point of the episode was that a group of thugs strong-armed Re-Run, who was so named because he had to repeat grades in school, into illegally bringing a tape recorder to said Doobie Brothers concert to create a bootleg.

Now, **SPOILER ALERT**, as the concert was rocking and rolling, Re-Run exuberance to the melodic pop rock tune, Taking it to the Streets, over-took him. He began jumping up and down, and his tape recorder fell out of his jacket. The Doobie brothers spotted this and immediately ceased the concert. Re-Run was embarrassed when confronted.

The show ends with Re-Run having to meet the thugs that made him tape the show, but the joke was on them. All that Re-Run really recorded was his munching of popcorn. You see Re-Run had an obesity problem. However, before the thugs could do damage to Re-Run, they were thwarted by the Doobie Brothers themselves.

It was truly a remarkable moment in TV sitcom history. A show that touched on themes well ahead of their time, childhood obesity, illegally obtaining copyrighted music, racial harmony, and the need for remedial education. Indeed, the best sitcom ever in TV history.

[LSdemocrat]

45. 1. The Simpsons, nothing else comes close

[Starbucks Anarchist]

47. Seinfeld.

[av8rdave]

48. I loved Newhart - the original, where he was the psychologist

edit - spelling

[1gobluedem]

49. Barney Miller

And Designing Women until Delta Burke and Jean Smart left.

[abq e streeter]

56. Barney Miller hash brownie episode--was there ever

a funnier half hour of TV?

[sarge43]

51. WKRP, Taxi, Barney Miller, Faulty Towers

"She's the result of the most cunning sex change operation in history."

"What does yellow mean?"

"Mushie, mushie."

"Basil!"

[LSK]

52. Seinfeld, Cosby, Wings, Murphy Brown

[ceile]

53. Father Ted or Roseanne.

Father Jack had me almost pee my pants many times!

[Initech]

54. I'm going with the anti-sitcom: Curb Your Enthusiasm

And Larry David as the anti-hero.

[Deja Q]

55. Hmmm

Roseanne
Maude
The Nanny

[taught_me_patience]

57. Apartment 4F on MTV

Lasted only a couple of weeks but there was an episode about a bindi that was the funniest thing I've ever seen on TV.

[applegrove]

58. Mash, WKRP, Cheers

[Rowdyboy]

59. Designing Women, Frazier, and Roseanne......

We all have our favorites