My Top-10 Sitcoms of The Last 50 Years

Reaganite Republican ^ | 22 October 2015 | Reaganite Republican

[jpsb]

Showing my age "Burns and Allen".

[fwdude]

The LITB episode where Beaver cuts his own hair (and Wally later helps) is just flat out hysterical. June’s horrified reaction really is icing on the cake.

[grania]

WKRP in Cincinnati...

Agreed. It's the first one that comes to mind. What I found, watching every episode on DVD, is that most of the real classic comedy (TURKEYS DON'T FLY etc) was in the first two years.

[fwdude]

I don’t think Happy Days has aged very well. I loved it in its first run, but lately when I tried watching a few episodes, they fell flat.

[wally_bert]

I worked in TV so I could relate but loved WKRP since a kid.

[factoryrat]

I still remember the episode with Johnny Fever scared that the “phone cops” were after him, and the drinking study where he got faster reaction times the more he drank.

[fwdude]

I’m talking about the level of humor. Very sophomoric. But I know a lot of people were into that kind of thing.

[Hildy]

Gilligan’s island? and No SEINFELD? Blasphemy. No list would be complete without GET SMART and THE ODD COUPLE.

[justlurking]

My favorite episode was when Louie met his girfriend’s (Played by his wife,Rhea Perlman) parents.

I remember that, too. Clearly. Quite possibly one of the best scenes in the show.

[MUDDOG]

Munsters, yes.

And its “predecessor” Car 54.

[Autonomous User]

“Married with Children was white trash garbage.”

Well Hello Terry Rakolta! How you been! I want to personally thank you for everything you did to make MWC huge success.

Does the Fox network still send you floweres every year on your birthday?

[treetopsandroofs]

[wally_bert]

Haaaammmmmerrrrr!

Sledge Hammer was great stuff. I have a prop from the series that Alan Spencer auctioned off for charity. It was a surplus wanted poster from the episode when Sledge had a contract on him.

[Still Thinking]

Newhart was a master of the deadpan response, like Carson. Often funnier than anything you could say or do.

[fwdude]

But that Fawlty Towers show was not a favorite of mine.

"Oh, you're Germans! Oh, I see. For a minute there I thought there was something wrong with you!"

The writing doesn't get much better than that, especially when delivered by John Cleese.

[Calvin Locke]

Since you brought it up, was that before or after George Foreman realized that he wouldn’t have to remember his sons names if they were all the same?

[DuncanWaring]

Third Rock From The Sun.

[MUDDOG]

Dobie Gillis and Maynard G. Krebs.

[Still Thinking]

Forgot about RD. It’s excellent. Watched (I think) the entire series on Netflix. Liked Firefly a lot too, but that was more of a humorous drama, than a comedy per se.

[AppyPappy]

Barney Miller was consistently funny.
The Odd Couple was pretty classic.