The final show of Seinfeld alone should earn it the honors of being on this list.
Not Magnum! C’mon! Stuffy British guy! Tall dude in short shorts! Helicopters! Eyebrow wiggling! A character named Icepick!
Magnum is my favorite show.
As for the OP, I will never believe or accept that there has ever been a worse show than “Full House.” Nyet. Never.
Here’s hoping it wasn’t breech.
By the way, I used that phrase on purpose. I couldn’t decide between “had a kid” and “jumped the shark,” so I improvised.
One of my theater professor’s theory is that sitcoms are the present-day form of Commedia dell’Arte, where of course the dynamic between stock characters is always the same, and half the appeal is in the familiarity. The chicken soup of comedy, if you will.
Not even Small Wonder?
Not to get off on a Green Acres tangent, but I always looked at it as kind of an existential universe of being the only sane man in an insane world. When my wife worked in an office filled with crazy people, I remarked that she must have felt like Mr. Douglas, and she knew exactly what I meant.
It was a great show, but in an excruciating sort of way.
See, I don’t know that show. And the thought that it might be worse than “Full House” is completely unacceptable. If there were a show worse than “Full House,” the universe would have already ceased to exist.
In other words: La la la I’mnotlisteningI’mnotlistening!
Ah, but then you would never learn that it’s about a man who builds a robot daughter who turns out to be a button-cute kid who speaks in a very stiff manner and who has a wisecracking “brother”! It’s comedy gold, I tells ya!
And it was ordered in 15-minute blocks to fill in the extra time after sporting events. A class act, through and through!
LOL Both. Actually he is pretty much that now, especially in a movie that you will not watch, “Cabin Fever”> Never watched Boy Meets World, but would really have to nominate as my most hated sit-com, The Brady Bunch. Loathed everything about it. From the awful house design, to Cindy’s lisp, it was craptacular.
She’s a small wonder, pretty and bright with soft curls.
She’s a small wonder, a girl unlike other girls.
She’s a miracle, and I grant you
She’ll enchant you with her sight
She’s a small wonder, and she’ll make your heart beat twice.
She’s fantastic, made of plastic,
Microchips here and there.
She’s a small wonder, brings love and laughter everywhere.*
Microchps here and there! Hah!
Not a great show, but I find myself lingering on those reruns because she’s so damn HOT!
I thought the thing that really brought the show down was Tim Allen. Replace him and I think the show becomes watchable.
Dude, the :eek: was because you like Golden Girlds, not because Helen Hunt had a shark.
Oh.
oh.
I had blocked that show. Until you brought it up, I had actually repressed my entire memory of that show and all of its awfulness. Eeeeeew. That was really bad. It may well tie Full House but it might be worse.
I hate you for making me remeber that show. Now I have to go try to repress my memory again, shove the memory back to where it cam from. :smack:
Yes, indeed, Green Acres was one of the greats! It really hit its stride starting with Season 2. It had a self-awareness that TV shows at that time did not have. It was a farce, you knew that it was a farce, and the show knew that you knew that it was a farce, and they played to that type of comedy througout the series by breaking the fourth wall repeatedly. Eva Gabor was just superb doing Lisa. And the great Eddie Albert, who’s still kicking at 97 years young, was a riot. Great sitcom comedies also have elements of continuity where throw-away remarks and gags are funny because of your familiarity with earlier episodes. This show is definitely not one of the worst sitcoms. Au contraire, it was one of the very best.
Full House beats Small Wonder because the latter was only on for 2, MAYBE 3 seasons. Full House had what-eight?
I actually liked Small Wonder when it was on. But I was about seven, so what did I know?
Another vote for “Green Acres was the best sitcom ever,” and just to add that even the worst “Very Special Episode” Golden Girls was worth sitting through on the off-chance of catching one of Rose’s St. Olaf stories (right up there with Gracie Allen’s riffs about her brother).
While your general point is correct, in fact Small Wonder was on for four full seasons, totalling 96 episodes.
Full House was on for twice as long, eight seasons totalling 192 (plus 1) episodes.
Still, I believe the competition is close.
Anything with Bob Newhart was the best sitcom ever.