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(VANITY) The Greatest TV Sitcoms of All Time
My television | November 13, 2005 | Lancey Howard

Posted on 11/13/2005 12:23:06 AM PST by Lancey Howard

In order, I rank the greatest TV sitcoms of all time like this:

1. I Love Lucy (the template for all sitcoms)
2. The Honeymooners
3. Seinfeld
4. Barney Miller
5. M.A.S.H.
6. Cheers
7. Taxi
8. The Andy Griffith Show
9. Hogan's Heroes
10. Gilligan's Island

Honorable mention:

All in the Family
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Cosby
The Odd Couple
McHale's Navy
The Phil Silvers Show
Night Court
Friends
Gomer Pyle, USMC (early years)
Family Matters (early years)
Home Improvement
The Beverly Hillbillies
Three's Company
The Jeffersons
Happy Days
Dick Van Dyke
Coach
Green Acres

(NOTE: Omitted from the above lists were shows that were more "situation" than "comedy", such as 'Leave it to Beaver', 'The Donna Reed Show', 'Father Knows Best', etc. Also omitted were animated shows such as The Flintstones, South Park, The Simpsons, and Family Guy.)

(P.S. I am old enough to have watched all of the above shows during their first run with the exception of Lucy, The Honeymooners, and The Phil Silvers Show, all of which I caught fully in reruns. The above lists are strictly from memory, so I hope I didn't leave out anything obvious. Have fun.)


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KEYWORDS: goldenageoftv; nope; wherespissant
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To: nickcarraway

I've never seen Blackadder, but Fawlty Towers was very, very good.


81 posted on 11/13/2005 1:39:03 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
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To: Lancey Howard

Gilligan's Island was moronic and MASH was nothing more than a venue for a lot of hollywood anti-war sentiments. Otherwise your list is fine. As to which stand the test of time? Honeymooners, seinfeld, Andy Griffith.


82 posted on 11/13/2005 1:40:50 AM PST by Casloy
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To: Nita Nupress

Very true, but should be speficied as only the seasons which featured Don Knotts.


83 posted on 11/13/2005 1:42:07 AM PST by Casloy
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To: All

Everybody Loves Raymond
hilarious


84 posted on 11/13/2005 1:49:56 AM PST by c-girl
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To: dsc
Kramer never works

???
Kramer was the ultimate entrepreneur. He wrote a coffee table book about.... coffee tables (the book even had fold out legs), he invented a new cologne, 'The Beach', which was so good it was stolen by Calvin Klein, and he was involved in numerous money-making ventures with Newman. Never worked? Au contrare....

85 posted on 11/13/2005 1:55:32 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Not sure if it qualifies as a sitcom series, but "Jeeves and Wooster" is another great British product. Stars Hugh Laurie(now famous from the series "House") as Bertie and Stephen Fry as Jeeves. They're both perfect in the roles.


86 posted on 11/13/2005 1:55:45 AM PST by FreedomForce
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To: Lancey Howard

I would have to say Seinfeld can't touch Green Acres. The sarcastic writing was ingenious.


87 posted on 11/13/2005 2:00:28 AM PST by Despot of the Delta
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Seinfeld is a libtard show not worth watching.

No post for you! Two years!

88 posted on 11/13/2005 2:03:36 AM PST by killjoy (Real Men Love Bush)
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To: Lancey Howard

The comedy on "SOAP" can never be matched. Outrageous situations, and cutting edge writing was its trademark along with adult themes.


89 posted on 11/13/2005 2:03:57 AM PST by Lokibob (Spelling and typos are copyrighted. Please do not use.)
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To: Despot of the Delta
I would have to say Seinfeld can't touch Green Acres. The sarcastic writing was ingenious.

I agree

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90 posted on 11/13/2005 2:08:16 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Mrs Zip

ping


91 posted on 11/13/2005 2:08:46 AM PST by zip (Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough become truth to 48% of all Americans (NRA))
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To: Liberty Valance

Fawlty Towers and Are you being served?


92 posted on 11/13/2005 2:10:03 AM PST by fishbabe
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To: killjoy
No post for you! Two years!

ROFLMAO!
(Again)

No Soup for You! Click the Pic!
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93 posted on 11/13/2005 2:13:21 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Nita Nupress
I like the way you think.

If you think about it, this comedy show could not be made today. He smoked, he had guns, he spanked Opie, they went to church, they had values.

94 posted on 11/13/2005 2:19:34 AM PST by patj
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To: Berlin_Freeper
With all the things going on about The Queen of Britain, and Howard Dean, John Edwards, Iraq and so on, one does have to wonder why TV shows is being posted under news to divert attention.

There are too many brainless idiots posting on FR these days to even wonder about that.

Fact is TV earned the name "boob tube" decades ago and for a good reason.

You add the failed education system with the boob tube and you have exactly what is most seriously wrong with America.

Oh but don't you dare shine a critical light on the beloved Lucy show or there is something wrong with you the messenger.

Makes you wonder if the Lucy show was just so highly enriching how did they end in such a bitter divorce...?

And MASH was another idiot show. How can it run for so long and never once mention what the stakes were in keeping the people of the south free from communism? Because the Libtard Left don't ever want to display US Military might as any thing other than destructive.

But you people keep watching the boob tube, and have your kids raised on it. Couple that with the failed education system and you fools WILL get what you deserve (unwanted pregnancies, kids that are unemployable when they grow up, etc).

You know one of my coworkers here in Berlin is an absolute Lefty and he doesn't allow his children to watch TV. That should really tell you something. Wake up people, you have been warned and the warning signs are all around you.

I will leave this useless thread with just one more quick example for any of you doubters out there, look this up and see if I am not wrong...

My wife bought the first episode of "King of Queens" on ebay because I am originally from Queens so she thought I would like it. I figured OK lets see what this is about...

The first FIVE episodes make joke and reference to incest. I am not BSing. Look into it. How can it be that the first FIVE episode contain such thinly veiled filth as comedy? Coincidence? Yea I am sure coincidence in the small minds of some of you boobs but considering all the jokes and situations under the sun that can be presented in a TV as comedy, to repeatedly refer to incest in a joking manner displays an agenda. Only sad thing is some of you boobs with your childhood cherished memories and too much in denial to see it.

I stopped watching the show after 5 episode and chucked it into the trash. My conscience would not even allow me to resell it on ebay. Some of you boob need to grow up and wake up to the game that is being played on you because it is not pretty.
95 posted on 11/13/2005 2:26:32 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Lancey Howard

"Kramer was the ultimate entrepreneur."

There is a difference between an entreprenuer and a person who pursues get-rich-quick schemes to escape work.

I've only seen the first four seasons, but I do remember that he didn't invent the cologne, he just had the idea--then failed to follow up.

I don't know what he did with Neuman in subsequent seasons, but in the first four there was no money-making going on.


96 posted on 11/13/2005 2:29:35 AM PST by dsc
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To: Hank Rearden

The first Cosby show wasn't bad (Chet Kincaid), before he bacame full of himself. Wish that would get brought back.


97 posted on 11/13/2005 2:31:52 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Talking to yourself now? We get it - you're better and smarter than all of us combined, and quite full of yourself too. We're all impressed. Now, go newsgather or something.


98 posted on 11/13/2005 2:38:14 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: dsc

the oil bladder?
the coffee table book?
gambling on airplane arrivals?
The ten cent deposit scheme?
suing over hot coffee?

he dosen't work, and still sleeps with attractive women without dating..
Kramer is an American original!

c'mon, we've all known a guy with Krameresque qualities.


99 posted on 11/13/2005 2:39:43 AM PST by Will_Zurmacht
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To: Lancey Howard
Seinfeld has to be # 1.

Jackie Gleason's Ralph -- the greatest character (Art Carney's Norton -- second greatest) in The Honeymooners.

That's all I have to say.

;-)

100 posted on 11/13/2005 2:41:10 AM PST by beyond the sea (Gloria Borger is Andrea Mitchell on Peyote)
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