The only one I even recognize there is THROB.
But looking them up - some of those look like they might have been worth a watch at the time (not now, though, I don’t have a lot of tolerance for dated TV).
…Babes, Herman’s Head, Woops!..
(Actually, Herman’s Head was pretty creative. Woops! had exactly two funny jokes in the entire series, and deserved the swift death it got. Babes was just a series of fat jokes.)
The Duck Factory is largely noteworthy for it being an early Jim Carrey vehicle. I don’t recall it being particularly funny though.
Love Sidney was actually very good, I thought. Swoosie Kurtz and Tony Randall? With a kind of Kate And Allie tone? Great stuff.
The rest of them I listed were actually a bit crap. It’s A Living did well, even though it rebooted itself a couple of times, but a decent solid sitcom, as they go. And I quite enjoyed Duet, but it got spun off into another show entirely called Open House, which they thought would do better.
I only knew because of this news story:
A man who chose “Lloyds is pants” as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to “no it’s not”.
I found it to be a perfectly cromulent list, I was actually happy to see so much of the list composed of mainstream popular sitcoms as opposed to being looking down their noses at them. Big Bang Theory down at 90? I’m pleasantly surprised it was there at all.
I would have liked to see VictTORIous up there, that show was hilarious, and I could listen to the theme song all day. Sledge Hammer! was a perfect cop parody for the 80’s and lasted longer than Police Squad did. But the list contained a good most of the sitcoms I would have immediately included on any list I made myself, so…decent job.
I’d also remove Spongebob. It’s a fantastic show, but I don’t think it really fits into the “sitcom” category.
I haven’t watched it, but I thought it was kind of famous for being really bad. Kind of like Two and a Half Men, which also was famous for how not-funny it was.
I loved it and so did millions of others. There are certainly venues which declare it to be terrible, but there are always snobs out there who will automatically declare that anything that is popular is terrible. And I suppose that a lot of the science/nerd references don’t cater to everyone’s taste as well. I can always think of lines that crack me up, and I enjoyed the watching the characters evolve over the years. It had its mean moments, it had its sweet moments. Of course it had its clunkers as well, but what show doesn’t?
If you haven’t watched it, I would advise you to at least give it a fair shot before dismissing it based on what you might have heard from the naysayers. Maybe you’ll agree with them, but there’s always the chance you won’t.
I didn’t go through the whole list, and just assumed it was there somewhere. I agree it should crack the top 100. Like Cheers and Diane / Rebecca, the later years with Jefferson are better than the earlier years with Steve. I think Bud was also funnier as a sexually frustrated teenager than as a smart-aleck kid.
The Beverly Hillbillies
No Gilligan’s Island or Brady Bunch either.
Absolutely. At least, until I get a chance to study the list more closely.
The Hillbillies does not get enough credit for how clever it was.
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No Bosom Buddies either!
No Alf.
Has the world recovered from Full House yet?. It has been somewhat influential.
It’s impossible to get bent out of shape over clickbait lists, but Fawlty should be top ten, period. And where’s Lucky Louie?
Also, TIL that Sex and the City was a comedy.
Yeah I hate the fact that shows I like are on this list, I am reconsidering liking them now.
My shows should not be on this list, as popular is bad.
You have to feel for people like me though, we go through life loving all this popular stuff around us but having to repress that feeling due to smug coolness. It’s tough for us.
Who are the other libertarian sit-com top 100? Alf definitely qualifies as a rugged individualist, as do the Olsen twins’ characters.
Is Weeds on it?
Nope.
Well that’s it for me and Rolling Stone. Hope they have a good life.
Weeds is up there with the Sopranos.
Should have been #6