# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/81 "2013-06-24T20:37:51Z")
New New York (Futurama). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/82 "2013-06-24T20:51:22Z")
> [@Nerdessence](#): > > 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 Nonsense: he gets ribbed by his supporting cast, ultimately decides he can try to make it work with you – and then gets hilariously rejected by you. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/83 "2013-06-24T21:20:40Z")
> [@Fretful\_Porpentine](#): > > 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. What do I care? But if you hang out at the safehouse with Jane, Athena may take it that you have volunteered for another task, errand, chore, or quest, and then put you to work. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/84 "2013-06-24T21:44:20Z")
Of course there is always the obvious _Love Boat_ and _Fantasy Island_ although it wasn’t a comedy. The \*Carol Burnette \*Show might be fun. ---
**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, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/85 "2013-06-24T23:37:10Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Nonsense: he gets ribbed by his supporting cast, ultimately decides he can try to make it work with you – and then gets hilariously rejected by you. I end up with some high-positioned board member of the SSO. They end up canceling the show he was lathering about in the first act, and playing a concert of video game music instead! Double zing! ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/86 "2013-06-25T00:22:07Z")
1979’s Flying High (which, ironically, crashed early in its first season). A bunch of stewardesses (stewardae?), including a young Connie Seleca, who share an apartment, plus a pilot whom they ignore even though he claims to be a stud. Well, that’s fine…more for me! –G! TWA coffee? No, just a taste of your tea, please… ---
**Author:** ![Detroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Detroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Detroit)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/87 "2013-06-25T14:35:05Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > Of course there is always the obvious _Love Boat_ > and _Fantasy Island_ although it wasn’t a comedy. > > The \*Carol Burnette \*Show might be fun. DA LOVE BOAT… that’s the one for me. Nothing to do but lay around and hit on various cast members. Then again, I wouldn’t mind being Maude pissing off Archie. 😃 The Great American Hero - but only if I get to wear the suit! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/88 "2013-06-25T14:39:49Z")
Does _Northern Exposure_ count as a comedy? I’d love to go to Cicely and get in an argument with Chris, talk showtunes and handguns with Maurice, see whatever bizarre filmfest is going on, preferably while pregnant Shelley sings everything and Adam is special guest chef at the Brick, and then go crash at the Japanese themed gay owned B&B. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/89 "2013-06-25T15:26:58Z")
Obviously the Shore Leave Planet or the Amusement Park planet. Or Risa. If you won’t allow that, it is always Sunny in Philadelphia. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/90 "2013-06-25T16:35:47Z")
Well, my all time favorite sitcom was Will & Grace but really… I don’t think I would want to hang out with them, since I am not one of the Beautiful People, I would be an outcast for all of them and completely ridiculed. I guess I’ll have to go with the obvious Love Boat. Two weeks swimming and lying in the sun sounds like Heaven. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/91 "2013-06-25T16:47:06Z")
I like comedy, women, and running around real fast. It’s Bennie Hill’s Britain for me! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/92 "2013-06-25T16:51:46Z")
_Hee Haw Honeys_, ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/93 "2013-06-25T18:29:34Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > _Hee Haw Honeys_, Just pray there’s not a mix-up that sends you to vacation with the Hee Haw Honeys _now_. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/94 "2013-06-25T20:57:50Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Does _Northern Exposure_ count as a comedy? I think the OP mentioned the (far superior) _Gilmore Girls_, so I don’t see why not. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/95 "2013-06-25T22:24:20Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Futurama. Hanging in the future with Bender and Fry would be a blast. This. Plus, I’d be nice to live in a time where riding T-rex and blowing up planets is considered boring. The supertech I’d be able to bring back won’t hurt either:D ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/96 "2013-06-25T23:00:19Z")
I find that most sitcom land is not friendly to ordinary-looking women, except as the goofy sidekick, and who wants to be that? I considered The Big Bang guys, since they would probably be the most accepting, but two weeks of Sheldon would drive me mad. So I think I’ll visit Northern Exposure land, just so I could argue with Chris, in between bouts of bedding him. Meet you at the Brick, Sampiro! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/97 "2013-06-25T23:13:19Z")
Satellite of Love with Mike and the Bots. ---
**Author:** ![SpyOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@SpyOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpyOne)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/98 "2013-06-25T23:43:03Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Is _Monk_ considered a comedy? If so, I’d love to hang out in San Francisco. His apartment is cool, (snip). I have seen Adrian Monk _as_ a houseguest, but I cannot imagine him _having_ houseguests. You would volunteer to _be_ that houseguest? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/99 "2013-06-25T23:47:14Z")
> [@SpyOne](#): > > I have seen Adrian Monk _as_ a houseguest, but I cannot imagine him _having_ houseguests. You would volunteer to _be_ that houseguest? I think Monk once had Captain Stottelmeyer as a houseguest. It was, of course, a horrible experience for both. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311/100 "2013-06-25T23:55:59Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > You’re free to try to reprogram the buggy’s programming to go to a non-sitcom verse, of course. There’s no reason to think it’s booby-trapped or anything. You forget, friend **Skald** , that I still have the keys to your secret lair, which you gave me during some crisis or other several years ago. I’ll be taking one of the _other_ buggys, of course. 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-television-comedy-to-vacation-in/661311.md?page=6)