# Pick a television comedy to vacation in. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311 "2013-06-18T22:58:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/61 "2013-06-19T20:10:15Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > How about her older sister, Jolie? Oh, does she have to be on a sitcom? > > No one for spending time on the beach with Veronica or Betty? What do you mean, “Veronica OR Betty”? But, if I were single, and I could be Major Nelson, then I have always dreamt of Jeannie. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/62 "2013-06-19T20:30:40Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Mayberry NC would not be a bad place to be. Except hardly anyone in that town is married. Fishing during the day, Thelma Lou at night. Hey, baby, I can do more than just make cashew fudge. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/63 "2013-06-19T20:57:45Z")
I’ll be off to Her Majesty’s Ship Camden Lock in [Hyperdrive](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481449/) ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/64 "2013-06-19T21:17:38Z")
I’m getting drunk with Norm. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/65 "2013-06-19T22:18:23Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > What do you mean, “Veronica OR Betty”? Hey, I like 'em both. Either/or/both. Why discriminate? And stop hitting me!! ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/66 "2013-06-19T22:24:09Z")
_My Name is Earl._ Seafood out of a bar? Games that involve beer? Ceiling-hung TV shows that always lead to a little moral striving? I’m there. (Not to mention all the great decorating ideas for trailers. Or any small space.) ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/67 "2013-06-19T22:27:27Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > I’ll meet you down at the big yellow joint. [♫♫ Meet you there! ♫♫](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJAH3LF8-w) I’ll be riding piggy back on a Segway! > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > You know I love you as much as my black heart allows, Sleeps, so I’ll tell Operations to open up a portal to the TBverse. But if you get yourself attacked by a vampire I’m not helping unless Pallas herself directs me to. Fair enough! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/68 "2013-06-19T23:16:38Z")
Rob & Laura Petrie. _The Dick Van Dyke Show_ The hardest part would be keeping my hands off Laura. Well, one part _would_ be _harder…_😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/69 "2013-06-20T13:41:37Z")
I’d visit my brother Bill and his family on _Family Affair_. I’d be Bill’s less virtuous brother, Phil. Mr. French would be compelled to spoil me rotten, hand-feeding me caviar and truffle hors d’oeuvres, giving me foot massages with happy endings…that sort of thing. I’d get big laughs embarrassing the [big guy](http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/756/FA11.jpg) with a whoopee cushion at least once per episode. I’d play mean practical jokes on the little brats, like placing [Mrs. Beasley’s](http://btmemories.com/articles/whimsy/the_hoax/images/buffy_and_mrs_beasley.jpg) severed head on Buffy’s pillow. At night I’d put the _“affair”_ back into _Family Affair_, getting Cissy liquored up and double-teaming her with Bill (ok…perhaps I wouldn’t go quite that far). Alternately, I believe there would be enough “loves” to go around for me to have a productive couple of weeks on _The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis_. I’d be Dobie’s friend, Doobie. By day I’d smoke dope with [Maynard G. Krebs](http://aanieder.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/maynardgkrebsbeatnik.jpg), ransack munchies from Herb and Winnie’s grocery shop and con cash from millionaire dilettante, [Chatsworth Osborne, Jr](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/08/30/arts/FRANKEN-obit/FRANKEN-obit-articleInline.jpg). By night I’d chase skirts with Dobie, scoring big with all the girls who’ve [dumped](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVOqbjSUANA)him. Dobie can do [Zelda](http://www.tvparty.com/vgifs8/dobiezelda.gif), while I tap [Thalia](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Tuesday_Weld_circa_1960.JPG)till next _Tuesday_ ;). …you’ve gotta love a show that features the world’s [first iPod](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5yvMExqKNA) (Dennis the Menace’s dad be damned). ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/70 "2013-06-20T18:58:44Z")
Wow what a fantastic idea for a thread! Let see…gotta think gotta think… I’d start by hanging out in NYC with Rachel & Monica on _Friends_, then maybe head over to Quahog for a few days to visit the _Family Guy_ gang. Quagmire and I (giggity!) could paint the town red. Afterwards, I’m off to Wisconsin to chill with _That 70’s Show_. “Hi there Mila! How YOU doin?” If I had any energy left (Rachel, Monica, Lois Griffin AND Mila Kunis in one week!) I’d spend the last week laughing it up with all the _Freaks & Geeks._ ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/71 "2013-06-20T19:57:16Z")
Futurama. Hanging in the future with Bender and Fry would be a blast. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/72 "2013-06-20T20:09:20Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > In said world, am I in command of all my surroundings? Like if I want to get my freak on with Jeanie and have her cater to my every whim (instead of major Nelson) that will happen? If so, I dream of Jeanie. This is it for me. And don’t worry about him. Jeanie hasn’t gotten any for what, 1500 years? She could do lots for you, and, as a bonus, you’d get to see her navel. ---
**Author:** ![Nerdessence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Nerdessence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nerdessence)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/73 "2013-06-24T11:09:37Z")
As much as I’d like to shadow _Monk_, I don’t think I could put up with someone as socially inept as I am. I’d be perfectly fine with the non-touching, moist toilette thing. So, I’d probably end up as the Disastrous Date on _Frasier_. I could see it. I love classical music, art, and literature. NO idea how we’d meet, since I’m the Least Social Person On Earth. Barring that, the hijinks ensue when he learns I love video games and some of my characters are anthropomorphized demi-humans and robots, and there’s an implication that I have sexual fantasies about these types of creatures. Who doesn’t like making fun of kinky nerds? Depending on the generosity of sitcom karma, the surrounding characters either rib him endlessly or end up chiding him for rejecting someone for having a few weird habits. I’m guessing the former, since audiences might be put off by accepting someone who wants to bang an android. Wow. My sitcom vacation just turned ugly. Can I go home now? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/74 "2013-06-24T12:53:16Z")
Big Bang all the way. I’d fit right in. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/75 "2013-06-24T14:20:47Z")
Aww, can’t I just spend the two weeks hanging out with Lady Jane instead? Getting to know a sixteenth-century person would be AMAZING, especially one who was by all accounts super-smart. … But if I must, I pick _Slings and Arrows_, which would be the next-best thing. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/76 "2013-06-24T14:27:09Z")
Well, if we could pick a comedy in any media, I’d go with the original A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I would love to hang out with Will Shakespeare and discover what he was really like! ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/77 "2013-06-24T16:33:25Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > I’d have to go a bit obscure (okay, maybe not obscure for Dopers) and spend a couple weeks in space with _Quark_. I had an early crush on Ficus. Now… [we wait for the bee](http://youtu.be/z1UPVRygw8c?t=18m25s). For me, I think it’s a choice between _The Big Bang Theory_ (arguing with Sheldon would be fun – but for _two weeks?_) or (da-da-da-da da-da-da-da) _Batman_. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/78 "2013-06-24T17:14:02Z")
_Police Squad!_ and _Hogan’s Heroes_, no wait _Archer_ if I could team up with Lana, amirite? ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/79 "2013-06-24T18:46:28Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > _My Name is Earl._ Seafood out of a bar? Games that involve beer? Ceiling-hung TV shows that always lead to a little moral striving? I’m there. > > (Not to mention all the great decorating ideas for trailers. Or any small space.) I’d just go keep an eye on Catalina jumping at Club Chubby, and try to stay out of Joy’s way. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ruh-roh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ruh-roh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruh-roh)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/80 "2013-06-24T20:28:11Z")
I’m in it for the laughs, and since Gilligan’s Island and Green Acres are getting kind of crowded, I would have to head off for The Muppets (hopefully when Rita Moreno is the guest), or maybe Laugh-in. Hey Goldie… Sock it to me! 😉 Say goodnight Dick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311.md?page=5)