most overrated sitcom

[pres2032]

it's definitely a tie of Seinfeld and Friends with me. never got into them and don't really find them funny.

[realisticphish]

1. Seinfeld

sorry, but i hate that show

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Sandpiper]

2. How could you leave MASH off the list?

A 12 year show about a 3 year war?

[elperromagico]

10. Subtitled "A Sermon by Reverend Alda."

I love Alan Alda, but God... that show got preachy.

[Seabiscuit]

31. Mash made me think of Alan Alda as nothing but a bad sitcom joke.

...who doesn't know when to shut up after 12 years - just re-runs and re-runs the same schtick for another 12 years.

I think it destroyed his acting career. By now I can't stomach the sound of his voice.

[Cush]

3. Seinfeld, Friends, Raymod, Fraiser

think those 4 are tied at the top

[boneygrey]

4. Roseanne

Annoying as hell.

[pres2032]

7. yeah, but when it got serious

it could be a tear-jerker

[parsifal_e]

5. Home Improvement !

Just hate it ...no particular reason really.

[donheld]

27. I thought Tim Allen was too stupid for words

Now Seinfeld :loveya:

[Yavin4]

6. Fraiser! Hands Down!

Man, highly, highly overrated. It just wasn't that funny.

[Undercover Owl]

20. I agree.

never understood the appeal of Frasier.

[Locut0s]

24. Really? I sort of liked Fraiser, definitely not as good a Seinfeld...

Most of the others on the list I find just boring.

[Bok_Tukalo]

8. Friends

The first time I watched 'Coupling' I thought, "Oh, so that's what they were trying to do."

[Lex]

13. Yep.

No doubt about that.

"Friends" was positively vapid.

[ThorsHammer]

9. Friends, easily; then Raymond

[blueblitzkrieg]

11. Friends

I love Seinfield and Roseanne.

[NightTrain]

12. The only one I've seen is "Cheers," which I love.

:shrug:

[Mojambo]

14. Home Improvement barely edges out Raymond. n/t

[DeaconBlues]

15. Friends

Proof positive that you can make a sitcom that doesn't have one joke or funny situation throughout the show. Just crank up the laugh-track whenever someone speaks. What a horrible, horrible program.

[last_texas_dem]

16. Friends

Probably the most overrated in my mind.

I dislike "Everybody Loves Raymond" but I don't think it has quite level of a following that "Friends" has/had, and I don't think there are critics and the like who consider it to be a great sitcom, which there must have been (or maybe I'm wrong) with "Friends" considering how much I had to hear about that dumb show. May have just been the hardcore fan-base talking, though.

"Married... with Children" lasted for far too long, but it's hard to be too hard on it 'cause I don't think they took themselves seriously at all. It's like they knew they were a horrible show and worked to be that way.

"Seinfeld" and "Cheers" are my two favorites on the list; actually the only ones I care much for.

[HawkerHurricane]

17. Frasier

4 annoying people share a apartment.
One of them has a job with 3 other annoying people.
None of them actually act like what they are supposed to be: Near genius IQs.

[Bombero1956]

19. Everybody Loves Raymond

An irritating man, married to a grating woman with galling parents and a maddeningly stupid brother. To think that this show is based on Ray Romano's comedy.

[Skittles]

28. the fact that they never locked their door

allowing said galling parents to wreak impromtu havoc on their lives - a bit of a plot hole, eh?

[bloodyjack]

18. NewsRadio

Hey! Look at me! I am a dick!

[alphafemale]

21. Friends. Others were worse, but the level of devotion to it baffled me.

Facts of Life and Different Strokes and Gimme a Break were also terrible and lasted way longer than they should have...

But none of them achieved the near cult-like status of "Friends."

edit:typo

[Anarcho-Socialist]

22. Home Improvement

I wondered how it lasted for so long without a single joke?

[FM Arouet666]

23. Great poll, Friends Friends Friends

Hate it, Hate it, Hate it. All the actors suck, I won't even consider a movie with one of these rubes in the lineup. I have suffered through a few episodes, because my wife loved the show. To be honest, I would rather stick pins in my cornea while taking a high colonic with lemon juice. :evilgrin:

[RevCheesehead]

25. Seinfeld.

Only because you said the MOST over-rated.

Mildly amusing, but definately NOT the best TV show ever (according to TV Guide - what the hell do they know, anyways?).

The best, you ask? Why, Bob Newhart, of course!

[MissMillie]

44. Anything w/ Bob Newhart.... fabulous stuff

[tyedyeto]

26. Three's Company, Cosby, Cheers, Bewitched..........

ooooops.........showing my age again ;)

[enigmatic]

29. MASH, hands down

When Alan Alda decided he wanted to be the The Man, it stopped being funny and became a pretentious bore of a show...

[Borgnine]

30. Hmm.

Cheers was a show that got better as it took itself less seriously.

Fraiser was a great sitcom that just got tired with age and poor scripts. The early seasons were really good though. It was a sitcom that didn't take the intelligence of the audience for granted.

Married... With Children was just lunacy, and it can't be taken too seriously. Like someone else said, they strived to be an awful show, and there's humor in that.

Seinfeld really took a nose-dive after Larry David left, but the earlier seasons were good. After David left, they become too self-aware and started trying to create catch-phrases, coming up with innovative plots (the backwards episode? Ugh), and turned the show from commenting on everyday life into getting the characters into unrealistic scenarios.

Home Improvement was lame for most of its run, but the first season had a certain spark to it. The formula and characters got old real fast though.

I guess I'd say Friends, although the writing was sharper than some people give it credit for. Yes, I don't understand the cult that developed around it, as it wasn't that remarkable, but there were some funny gags to be found there every now and then. The characters were just too unlikable though. At least with Seinfeld they were supposed to be self-absorbed asses.

[ghostsofgiants]

32. Friends by far

Go listen to Henry Rollins' "Think Tank", his little rant about Friends is awesome.

[terrya]

33. "Joey": one seriously limp dicked "comedy"

This alleged comedy should never, ever have been aired. A disaster from the start...IF a "Friends" character was to be spun off, it should have been Phoebe. Lisa Kudrow is quite talented and could carry her own show very well. Matt LeBlanc is...well, Matt LeBlanc. Plus...whatever likable qualities Joey Tribbiani may have had in "Friends" have been completely sucked out of this show. "Joey" just comes off as a unfunny lout.

"Joey" is egregiously bad because of the money behind it, the buildup by the network and the anticipation involved. "Joey" is the worst kind of cynical, soulless "humor" today.

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. Friends. Hands down, the most overrated.

Sure, there were others that were worse, but they either didn't get the ravings that Friends got, or they died a quick death like Friends should have.

Seinfeld was pure genius.

My sister, who decorates her home with http://www.homeinteriors.com stuff, loved Friends.

[ProfessorGAC]

35. Friends & Frasier

The first was very unfunny, and none of the characters were particularly likeable or engaging. Too much whining!

Frasier was too clever by half. Too self-aware of its attempt to be clever.
The Professor

[tcoursen]

36. Will and Grace

I voted other, and would have voted for Will and Grace had it been a choice.

Frasier would be a close second. It was OK when it started, but it lasted too long.

Another current one that has been on a long time that I just don't get is King of Queens.

[underpants]

37. Have to go with "Friends" bacause nothing has ever been so highly rated

for reasons no one has been able to tell me yet.

[ProfessorGAC]

39. I Can Tell You

It led into Seinfeld when Seinfeld was still truly great and had the largest audience in the U.S.

Friends had the lead in and it became HABIT for people to watch it. That has to be it, because the show was awful.
The Professor

[underpants]

40. I heard Seinfeld talking about "Friends"

He basically said that NBC ripped off his show to create their own version.

I agree-NBC's Thursday night ratings used to be so out of this world that they could have filmed 22 minutes of a guy eating soup and it would have still scored in the top ten (read:Suddenly Susan/Caroline in the City).

[ProfessorGAC]

41. No Soup For You!

Sorry, you said soup in a topic that included Seinfeld. I could not help myself.
The Professor

[regularguy]

38. MASH. Easily MASH.

Ok early on, but became unbearable.

[baba]

42. I love "Friends"

Seriously, I do. I was skeptical about it when it first started, but there have been some really funny moments in that show.

[Tektonik]

43. No doubt it's Friends

take Seinfeld off the list! x(

[SarahB]

45. Raymond sucks rat turd.

Grating drivel. :thumbsdown: I can't believe it wasn't cancelled the first month. Then again, most of TV is boring crap.