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What are your favorite sitcoms of all time?

 
 
Ragman
 
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Reply Wed 18 May, 2016 08:59 pm
@farmerman,
I know that J. Carrol Naish show we watched it as a family..circa 1960-1961.
I'll come up with it in a minute. Good shows

I have to add F Troop to my ever-expanding list. I still can watch it and crack up.

Oh crap...what about Green Acres? I still watch that from time to time and still cracks me up. Oliver yells too much and Lisa is too dumb for words and the characters are all a bit one-dimensional but the silliness and lines are still great.

{Edit: the show was called Guestward Ho! with Joanne Dru and him as 2 main leads. His character was called Hawkeye.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053505/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_12}

Trivia about Guestward Ho!
"Originally conceived as a vehicle for Vivian Vance, who shot a pilot for the show in 1958 for CBS. When CBS passed on it, Desi Arnaz retooled the show and cast Joanne Dru in the role of Babs Hooten after Dru's 1957 pilot for a Desilu show called Adventures of a Model failed to be picked up as a series. "
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 18 May, 2016 10:55 pm
Many of the shows I enjoyed at the time are hard to watch in reruns. The Andy Griffith Show, for instance. For me, the magic is gone.
dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 18 May, 2016 10:58 pm
@edgarblythe,
I need to add the fabulous new one with the Indian guy from Parks and Recreation in it. Can't recall the name. Has a multi-cultural cast.
Robert Gentel
 
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Reply Wed 18 May, 2016 11:00 pm
@dlowan,
Master of None, yeah the episodes I've seen have been good!
dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 01:13 am
@Robert Gentel,
That's it! They are doing a second series.
dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 01:14 am
@dlowan,
Oh, I like Californication...at least the first couple of series. Haven't watched later ones.
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 01:16 am
Father Ted
The IT Crowd
Blackadder
The Inbetweeners
Plebs
Only Fools and Horses
Black Books
dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 02:01 am
@izzythepush,
BLACKADDER!!! How could I forget that! Series one is sort of sucky, but the rest..oh my. I have the scripts.

Outnumbered...lovely.

Black Books!! A treasure. Must rewatch
izzythepush
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 02:42 am
@dlowan,
Plebs is quite recent. Set in Ancient Rome, but all about 21st Century Britain. It's just finished season 3 and deals with the lives of three very ordinary Romans.

dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 03:33 am
@izzythepush,
I've watched plebs. I found it ok but kind of dull.

Such is life.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 03:54 am
@dlowan,
Each to their own. I've never seen the appeal of Friends or The Big Bang Theory, but I know those who rave about it.
dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 04:17 am
@izzythepush,
I'm meh with friends but love Big Bang.

True story! I am currently using Big Bang as a way of working therapeutically with a young man's well earned distorted cognitive schema. He can't tolerate working directly with his trauma and subsequent cognitive distortions, but we CAN look at how they play out with reference to the TV show. He really identifies with Sheldon, but he thought all the others hated him...as he assumes everyone hates him. I'm doing Sheldon based therapy!
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George
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 06:02 am
Taxi -- Watching the "what does a yellow light mean?" bit, I literally hurt
myself laughing. And by "literally", I literally mean "literally".

The Phil Silvers Show

Soap

Third Rock from the Sun
Ragman
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 06:06 am
@George,
SOAP. How could I forget? Priceless.

Fan of the others, too.
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Linkat
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 07:22 am
Gosh so many of these you listed I had forgotten and they are great - I will not re-list ones already there - but one is missing --- Cheers.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 08:40 am
How could I forget Spaced?

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jespah
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 08:45 am
@Linkat,
And Frasier!

Plus - Red Dwarf!
George
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 08:51 am
@jespah,
jespah wrote:

And Frasier!

Plus - Red Dwarf!

Ditto "Red Dwarf"
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Linkat
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 09:51 am
@jespah,
How about the older corny ones like -

Happy Days, Cosby Show (don't let Cosby recent things interfere with show) - Jeffersons, Laverne and Shirley, Good Times
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Linkat
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2016 09:53 am
@jespah,
Frazer -- I still love when he grabs the scissors and runs around and says I am running with scissors (or was that on Cheers he did that)

Also love when they took lessons to learn how to ride a bike!
 

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