Posted on 08/31/2025 8:52:20 AM PDT by DallasBiff
“They didn’t mention ‘The Nanny’? That show was really pretty funny.”
It is hilarious in re-watch. It’s actually very popular in the young adults crowd currently
What about Father Knows Best?
What about the Donna Reed show?
What about Ozzie and Harriet?
What about Hazel?
If they really want a listing that covers the entirety of television history ,and not just mostly the 21st century, it’s hard to see how they compiled this list.
Taxi
ALF a puppet got away with saying some pretty outrageous things
Some great American sitcoms include The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart, and Wings.
Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies were great shows, too!
No one has even mentioned The Odd Couple or Night Court Yet.
South Park was here mentioned but not yet The Simpsons? Nor yet King of the Hill?
There’s lots out there to like!
Mama’s Family is one of my favorites. Funny plots, great characters.
Well, going from the FR tradition of not reading the article, and your comment, How COULD they leave out The Dick Van Dyke Show?
Carl Reiner, MTM- no better straight man/woman, The episode with the mafioso and his no-talent nephew alone
Did they leave out ‘Get Smart’?
Ugh now I’m gonna have to read it
Sometimes I walk in and the young adults around here are watching ‘Hogans Heroes’ and ‘Get Smart’
That’s the measure. Does it hold up. Does it amuse future generations who look for it and choose it. Often
I went through the list a couple of times, thinking I may have missed it, but it's not there. A couple of old school sitcoms I really enjoyed, but I know they'd never make the list: "Car 54, Where Are You" and "F Troop."
Agreed with Dick Van Dyke and Bewitched. Shame on me for not mentioning those in my two posts. You could also think about M*A*S*H during the McLean Stevenson-Wayne Rogers-Larry Linville era, with the really good old days of the first season that featured book/movie characters like General Hammond, Ho Jo, Spearchucker, and Ugly John.
And here I’ll give Andy Griffith more than a little bit of credit. Griffith was originally supposed to be the funny guy on his show.
But then he quickly realized that Don Knotts would be better. So Griffith stepped back, and became the straight man to Knotts.
“I doubt many conservatives watch The Nanny reruns since that lead character is such a nasty TDSer.”
I can take it. The Character is not a TDSer. Some of us know how to tune out our leftist New Yorker friends and family and change the subject
The show is hilarious.
I recommend “schlepped away”
It really is too bad that the real lives of most of these people is wrapped in leftism and some of them, militant
But they’re just wrong and misguided.
Quark
When Things Were Rotten
Sledgehammer
Right. python was not sitcom. It was sketch.
“Everybody loves Raymond probably one of the funniest”
Yep, and episode 21 from season 2, “Traffic School Timmy” still has me in stitches even though I have seen it six+ times.
Are You Being Served and Keeping Up Appearances were great from across the pond...
Are You Being Served and Keeping Up Appearances were great from across the pond...
Carol Burnett is one of most under appreciated comics of all time, IMO.
Old Carol Burnett Shows run rings around anything SNL has done for the last 25 years or more.
Howard Morris not spell check Morrison
Perhaps we are supposed to parse the language here.
The title talks about sitcoms that are still funny today.
Okay, then , so is the implication that many sitcoms from the past are not funny today?
Does Father Knows Best offend the sensibilities of these people today, because that show had the audacity to show a father in a positive role?
What about Leave It To Beaver? The dad on that show was a strong, positive man.
So if we’re saying that we’re talking about sitcoms that are still funny nowadays, how are we determining what is still funny?
“[Drescher] even once mentioned him on the show in a friendly way. It’s not in the loop of today’s stuff.’
A couple of times. Trump and Ivana.
Seinfeld too. Prince of BelAire, Home Alone
The Heist
They loved Trump when he was an ‘80s billionaire celeb.
Shows their own bigotry that they didn’t like the man just the image. And hate the image now.
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