# Sitcoms You Hate But Everyone Else Seems To Love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134 "2006-05-25T04:44:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/21 "2006-05-25T14:59:28Z")
A whole slew of them from the 70’s. **All in the Family Good Times Maude The Jeffersons One Day at a Time M_A_S_H_** None of them were funny. All of them had a tendency to preachiness. **Maude** and \*\*One Day at a Time \*\* were unbearably shrill in that preachiness. **The Jeffersons** was the best of a bad lot, but not by much. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/22 "2006-05-25T15:02:39Z")
Almost all of them. There are few sitcoms I can say I actually _like_, as opposed to being able to watch when I feel like vegging on the couch and nothing else is on. But I think the one with the biggest gap between what I think of it and what the general sentiment seems to be is _Seinfeld_. How this managed to rise above “meh” in so many people’s opinions, I’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/23 "2006-05-25T15:08:13Z")
I can’t stand **King of the Hill.** I’m a fan of other animated shows like **The Simpsons, Family Guy,** and **Futurama** , but I’ve never been able to stomach **King of the Hill.** Other Dopers have praised it, so I’ve tried watching it several times, but I always end up gritting my teeth and rolling my eyes in annoyance. Perhaps it’s because I know so many people like the characters in the show, and to me it seems a celebration of anti-intellectualism. I’m not saying that my impressions are true-- just that it’s the way it seems to me. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/24 "2006-05-25T15:08:48Z")
Seinfeld. The show billed itself as a show about nothing, which was true. I couldn’t stand the sentiments, I couldn’t stand their voices, none of it. The only redeeming quality of that show was the occasional appearance of Jerry Stiller. Now there’s a funny guy. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/25 "2006-05-25T15:09:21Z")
Almost anything from the '50s through to the '80s, with very minor exceptions: I Love Lucy The Honeymooners Bewitched I Dream of Jeannie The Brady Bunch The Partridge Family The Cosby Show Everybody Hates Raymond Home Improvement Sex and the City Actually, it would be a much shorter list to tell you the sitcoms I LIKE. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/26 "2006-05-25T15:18:25Z")
I’m no fan of shows based on the premise of “A Bunch of people in their 20’s sitting around whining about how they have no life.” The list is endless, with Friends, Seinfeld and Will&Grace being the worse offenders (W&G would not have survived without Jack & Karen). Get up off your butts and do something. ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/27 "2006-05-25T15:21:46Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] **M_A_S\*H**. [/QUOTE] Ugh, that theme so is so ironically painful. I also hate Hogan’s Heroes. Sitcoms, by law, all suck. But **Friends** gets the honorable mention. I noticed, one of the few times I tried to sit through an episode, that most of the humor is at someone’s expense. And I hold that show responsible for popularizing the phrase “um, yeah.” As if prefacing something with “um” emphasizes the punchline. That, and all of the relationship hopping made that show half soap opera. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/28 "2006-05-25T15:22:09Z")
[QUOTE=congodwarf] Seinfeld. This is the one show that ever actually made me want to get rid of my TV altogether. To this day, I can’t understand how anyone could have liked this putrid slop. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Diceman] Add another vote for Seinfeld. Everyone on that that show was so mean and unlikeable, I don’t understand why it was so popular. [/QUOTE] not a single episode of any sitcom has made me laugh quite as hard as these two posts, thank you both 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/29 "2006-05-25T15:22:23Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] I’m no fan of shows based on the premise of “A Bunch of people in their 20’s sitting around whining about how they have no life.” The list is endless, with Friends, Seinfeld and Will&Grace being the worse offenders (W&G would not have survived without Jack & Karen). Get up off your butts and do something. [/QUOTE] To be fair, I think the characters from all those shows are in their 30s and up. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/30 "2006-05-25T15:29:03Z")
Curb Your Enthusiasm ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/31 "2006-05-25T16:07:36Z")
Sienfeld and Home Improvement. I haven’t seen most other fairly recent sitcoms. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/32 "2006-05-25T16:09:33Z")
I Love Lucy (except for Fred) Friends (sheesh, what crap) Cheers (didn’t really like most of the characters. Cept maybe Fraiser, Cliff, and Norm.) ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/33 "2006-05-25T16:11:12Z")
[QUOTE=Lissa] I can’t stand **King of the Hill.** I’m a fan of other animated shows like **The Simpsons, Family Guy,** and **Futurama** , but I’ve never been able to stomach **King of the Hill.** Other Dopers have praised it, so I’ve tried watching it several times, but I always end up gritting my teeth and rolling my eyes in annoyance. Perhaps it’s because I know so many people like the characters in the show, and to me it seems a celebration of anti-intellectualism. I’m not saying that my impressions are true-- just that it’s the way it seems to me. [/QUOTE] I like King of the Hill, but don’t watch it that much. Almost every episode seems to be about getting Hank to loosen up. Well maybe you are all pushing him too hard! Let him be himself! ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/34 "2006-05-25T16:12:39Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] I don’t really hate **Friends** , though I am unimpressed by it. Still, the cast is very good outside of the show (except for Matt Leblanc). [/QUOTE] Umm… cite? I think pretty much anything any member of that cast has been in has bombed. Although I did enjoy Matthew Perry’s guest role on _The West Wing_, and he should be good in _Studio 60_. But all the other actors seemed to end up in bad movies where they played an extension of their \*Friends \*characters. Except MAniston, and lord help me I do not need to see her face ever again. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/35 "2006-05-25T16:30:31Z")
[QUOTE=Amaranta] Umm… cite? I think pretty much anything any member of that cast has been in has bombed. Although I did enjoy Matthew Perry’s guest role on _The West Wing_, and he should be good in _Studio 60_. But all the other actors seemed to end up in bad movies where they played an extension of their \*Friends \*characters. Except MAniston, and lord help me I do not need to see her face ever again. [/QUOTE] Lisa Kudrow was great in a few of the movies I’ve seen her in, including those crap-fests with Billy Crystal and an obviously destitute (or blackmailed) Robert DeNiro. But check out _The Opposite of Sex_\* for her best work. And I second the Perry comment. These are the only two from that show I have any intention of following. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/36 "2006-05-25T16:46:08Z")
[QUOTE=trublmakr] I still can’t even stand to look at Tim Allen because of that show. [/QUOTE] Don’t let that keep you from [Big Trouble](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246464/). ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/37 "2006-05-25T19:23:56Z")
Friends sooo bad Will and Grace worse I love lucy She had no sense of embarassment and gave me the creeps -Just about any sit com including Cosby-Why is being mean and constantly insulting and putting people down is supposed to be funny. It is childish not funny. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/38 "2006-05-25T20:13:55Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] I know the first three have their legions of detractors (of which I’m gladly a member!), but _Scrubs_ just falls flat for me… I really don’t think it’s funny, and find the characters to be irritating. [/QUOTE] You mean, I’m not alone? :: sniff, sniff :: Excuse me, there’s something in my eye . . . sorry, I’m okay now. Everyone seems to just _love_ that show, and I never got it. I have probably only watched half a dozen times, but I was struck by how little I liked the characters and how sappy and saccharine the show seemed. I really didn’t like it one bit. I hate Family Guy too; does that count as a sitcom? > [@Charger](#): > > And I hold that show [Friends] responsible for popularizing the phrase “um, yeah.” As if prefacing something with “um” emphasizes the punchline. That, and all of the relationship hopping made that show half soap opera. That and “How you doin’?” Jesus, that was the lamest goddamn catchphrase I ever heard, and people still freaking go around repeating it. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/39 "2006-05-25T20:15:39Z")
The awful suckfest that was _The Brady Bunch_. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134/40 "2006-05-25T20:42:12Z")
Will and Grace (uper stereotypical and wholly unfunny) 24 (what badly written, melodramatic drivel) Everybody Loves Raymond (you’re not alone, Khadaji Sex and the City (the later seasons) According to Jim King of Queens Friends (not HATE, but I certainly don’t hold it in as high esteem as others do) I simply can’t understand how people can’t like Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm. To each their own. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcoms-you-hate-but-everyone-else-seems-to-love/358134.md?page=3)