best sitcoms past/present

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Favourite Non-Animated Sitcoms

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The Young Ones
Fawlty Towers
Dad's Army
Porridge
Father Ted
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Office
Only Fool's And Horses
That Peter Kay Thing
Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights
Max & Paddy's Road To Nowhere
My Family
Brainiac: Science Abuse
Little Britain
The League Of Gentlemen
The Comic Strip Presents...
Blackadder
Red Dwarf

Animated Sitcoms

The Simpsons
South Park
American Dad!
The Venture Bros.
Robot Chicken
Family Guy

1. Everybody Loves Raymond
2. Seinfeld

All time best sitcom = Red Dwarf - plenty of funny stuff packed into it!

Since all sitcoms were first-run during my TV-watching lifetime, I'm going to list those I enjoyed when they were current, as opposed to those I enjoy watching in reruns. Listed in the order they come to mind:

All in the Family
I Love Lucy
Sgt. Bilko
The Brady Bunch
The Addams Family
M.A.S.H.
Maude
Good Times
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeanie
Third Rock from the Sun

I don't watch sitcoms any more... they are mostly about sex
It's not that I'm a prude, I just don't find it a very interesting topic.
The old family-based sitcoms are more my style.

I remember watching Cheers when I was growing up and then of course there was Seinfeld, Home Improvement and Friends but my all time favourite is definitely FRASIER ! !

Coupling (The original British one, think they re-wrote it for America) it's about a group of thirty something friends and it is soo brilliant. Theres one episode where they are talking about "Whistling" (they are using as a euphemism for masturbating) when one of the characters parents come over and overhear a conversation about whistling, there is a brilliant bit where the father delivers a line, talking about whistling, unaware that they were using it as a euphemism, where he goes "You just put you're lips togeter and pucker."

And of course, who can forget the Spiderman Dance.

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Nathan Barley
Yes Minister
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads
Ever Decreasing Circles
The Office
One Foot In The Grave
Reggie Perrin
Mighty Boosh
Rising Damp

...and If You See God Tell Him...which seems to have been airbrushed from history and will never get a DVD release

M*A*S*H