best sitcoms past/present

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What are your favorite sitcoms past and present?
Here are some of mine:
1. ALF
2. Mork and Mindy
3. Newsradio (although it did jump the shark when Phil Hartman died)
4. Cheers
5. Home Improvement
6. Full House
7. Cosby (both versions)
8. A Different World

What, can I include British situation comedies? Ok.....

In no particular order barring chronological....

Fawlty Towers

The Young Ones

Blackadder

Red Dwarf

The League of Gentlemen

Black Books

And a few jokers in the pack

Frasier (US)

Kath and Kim (AUS)

I'm particularly fond of Two-and-a-Half Men. Charlie and Alan represent opposite aspects of maleness. Charlie drinks and parties and brings a different girl home to his Malibu beach house everynight, and Alan is the divorved, miserable, whining loser. All men have some Charlie and Alan in them, though lately the writers (the same people who brought you Dahrma & Greg) have turned the tables, giving Alan a hot but dumb 22-year-old girlfriend (and who doesn't want that) and Charlie a dry spell and thoughts of marriage. And then there's the kid seeing all this through a child's eyes. He steals the show. He and my 9-year-old neighbor get some of the best lines like, "Jake, why did you do that?" "I dunno." Maybe you have to be there.

My second-favorite genre. Let's see how many categories I can get in here:

Dick Van Dyke: such great writing, Van Dyke's physical comedy, and an outstanding ensemble cast. Need I say more?

Mary Tyler Moore: shows like this aren't made anymore. Smart and funny, and now that I'm in TV, I can relate to how everyone at WJM acts. Believe it or not, there are real-life ted Baxters out there.

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Squigglevision!

My Family: Regrettably not on BBC America anymore. There's a very sharp Norman Lear type of wit to the writing sadly absent from US shows.

Partial list...more to follow as I think of them.

My top five:

Seinfeld
Cheers
I Love Lucy
Night Court
Fawlty Towers

I really enjoyed Frasier. I don't watch much TV, so I've seen a few of the others but never went out of my way to watch them.

In alphabetical order:

Frasier
Friends
I Love Lucy
Seinfeld
That 70's Show
Will & Grace

YES! Frasier fans!

I absolutely love that show. At its peak, it could easily lay claim as one of the most erudite sitcoms ever aired. Not many shows would have lines like, "Copernicus just called, and you are not the centre of the universe!"

Another favourite of mine is Cheers.

Of the current sitcoms, my favourite is definitely Arrested Development.

(1) Married ... With Children
(2) Home Improvement
(3) Roseanne
(4) Cosby Show
(5) Garry Shandling Show
(6) Parkers
(7) Twins

I rarely get into sitcoms or comedies. There has to be something unusual about them for me to get into them. I find most to be just plain ridiculous. I can into skit comedies, though, but they're not usually on prime time, like MadTV or SNL, especially when they poke at advertisements and current events.

I hear that aspies are supposed to like slapstick humor. That's sort of funny, because I can't stand Laurel & Hardy or the Three Stooges. None of those ever made any sense to me.

- Ray M -

Home Improvment
Friends
Third Rock From The Sun
Family Matters

I watched sitcoms very regularly from when I was young kid (in the late 80s), until mid 90s. For a long period these were both old sitcoms (on the local stations when they less originall programming) and newer sitcoms via, say ABC's TGIF. After we got cable I watched old sitcoms on cable and less new stuff and eventually less sitcoms all together. The late Sitcom I watched regularly was Seinfeld. I don't watch Sitcoms and don't like the current stock. Alot of the ones I watched when I was younger I never could have watched today. I have been buying up some old stuff I watched on DVD.

HOWEVER...here are my personal favorites in retrospect:

Bewitched (the first Darren was better)
The Cosby Show
Fraser
Gilligan's Island
Hogan's Heroes
I Dream of Jennie
I Love Lucy
The Munsters (the original show, not the 88-91 version)
Seinfeld
If you want to include Cartoons:
The Simpsons (season 2 to season like 5-6 years ago)
Family Guy

I haven't seen certain old shows like the old Bob Newhart shows.

The Monkees
The Brady Bunch
Are You Being Served?
Only Fools and Horses

The Muppet Show

I Love Lucy

The Simpsons

Futurama

Ren & Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon

The Flintstons

The Jetsons

Scooby Doo

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

ALF

Cousin Skeeter

and

South Park

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I'm not including cartoons on here or the list would be longer:
-Newsradio(RIP Phil Hartman)
-Arrested Development(Back on G4 tomorrow!)
-Seinfeld
-Malcolm in the Middle was good for the first few years. It sort of counts because I'm list-making
-I have no idea what Banzai and Brainiac qualify as, but I'll throw them in here because people don't watch them enough
-Monty Python and Blackadder
-Pee Wee's Playhouse!