Posted on 08/31/2025 8:52:20 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Sitcoms are the comfort food of entertainment, the things we turn to when we need a boost or a smile. Unlike other genres of the best TV shows—like, say, crime shows, which we need to be in the mood to watch—we are always ready for a few laughs. Naming the best sitcoms of all time invites a lot of debate, but there’s no doubt that classic TV shows like I Love Lucy, which premiered in 1951, helped pioneer the format in which familiar characters find themselves in situations, whether realistic or ridiculous, that become fodder for laughs, usually within a tight, 22-minute episode.
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home improvment- couldn’t remember name of it- great show- loved the neighbor
Yep great one- the funniest lines i ever heard on the show was marie saying “I’m not just a trophy wife” and the look on Frank’s face, then he says “What contest in hell did I win?” LOL
So many shows I’ve never heard of! Where do they come up with these obscure nothings?
From their list -
Taxi
The Jeffersons
M*A*S*H - OWN
Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Bob Newhart Show - OWN
All in the Family
From my list -
Get Smart - OWN
..Get Smart - Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers
..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQlMoDNHT38
Bewitched - OWN
I Dream of Jeanne - OWN
Barney Miller - OWN
WKRP in Cincinnati - OWN
Buffalo Bill
Blackadder
Futurama - OWN
The Odd Couple
Police Squad - OWN
Not sure if it qualifies -
Boston Legal - OWN
Due South - OWN
Charmed - OWN
Of the 34 shows on that last, I watched only 5. Most of them, I never heard of.
It figures they would glorify the LGBT homosexual content on some of these grooming telecast. /spit
Most of those shows I never heard of and of the rest, only a handfull were worth watching.
here’s the clip- still cracks me up- the both of em were funny!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mRgeFTWcGso
Green Acres was just so stupid you had to laugh.
The phone was located on top of the phone pole and you had to climb the pole to use the phone? Lol
Mr. Haney had everything needed for sale!!
We just watched an episode of The Honeymooners. I haven’t seen that show in many years. My parents loved it. Oh my was it funny! I loved I Love Lucy, Newhart and MASH. Are You Being Served was also a favorite. As for the list, well, I either never heard of them, or just never watched.
Another British sitcom that was very good: As Time Goes By...
Another British sitcom that was very good: As Time Goes By...
Weird people humor. Arrested Development, Third Rock from the Sun, The Office
Yes, I remember that. Old-fashioned comfort food.
Man looking for “Arnold Ziffle”: Ho do ya spell “Ziffle?”
Lisa Douglas: “Oh! Zat’s eassy! Zee-Eye-Iffle-Iffle!”
Presently I watch Midsomer Murders...It has so many turns and twists, it’s hard to figure out the guilty party....
I think the test of a truly great sitcom is, it translates well to other audiences in other countries, it can be rerun without people getting fed up seeing it on the listings, and its jokes are still funny (if not funnier) decades later.
There’re lots of British sitcoms that are still laugh-out-loud funny today (even if there are some episodes that have aged like warm milk). Blackadder (2-4), The IT Crowd, Dads Army, Only Fools and Horses. Some of the best’uns were very short runs - Fawlty Towers and Father Ted.
I’d rate The Munsters, The Addams Family, and the Beverly Hillbillies, ahead of most 80s American sitcoms that haven’t aged well at all.
Top of my list is probably controversial: Allo Allo. There’s nothing close.
The situation is Nouviens, a village in occupied France in World War 2.
The setup is simple: how does a cafe owner balance the competing needs of his annoying wife, the local German brass, the very kinky Gestapo, the fanatical Communist French Resistance, the earnest Gaullist (Not-Communist) French Resistance, two utterly hapless British airmen, a well-meaning but ineffectual British spy masquerading as a gendarme, and three lusty barmaids, without getting shot?
What sets it apart is the use of exaggerated accents to indicate who’s talking to who in what language. The British airmen and their translators talk in plummy Rep accents which the actors playing the French villagers can’t understand. The villagers talk with Pepe Le Pew accents. And so on. The British spy whose French is meant to be totally appalling gets his vowels wrong (e.g. after passing by the door and hearing three gunshots he says “Ay was pissing by the dur when I ‘eard three shits”.
On paper it shouldn’t be funny, but it is hilarious. That vaudevillian farce that makes it abundantly clear the most annoying people there are Brits, is so well done it even made the German audiences laugh on reruns.
I haven’t noticed anyone mention Beverly Hillbillies....
LOL..I just saw you mention Beverly Hillbillies...
“”home improvment- couldn’t remember name of it- great show- loved the neighbor””
Yeah, the guy that never shows his face....lol. And gotta love Tim Allen. He’s one of us....
https://www.nickiswift.com/1037199/the-truth-about-tim-allens-political-views/
The greatest Britcom ever was “The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin” with Leonard Rossiter.
Never heard of 3/4 of them and of the ones I did recognize, didn’t think many of them were worth watching.
Happy Days was pretty good. M*A*S*H* could be good if not raunchy from time to time.
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