A whole slew of them from the 70’s.
All in the Family
Good Times
Maude
The Jeffersons
One Day at a Time
MASH
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
not a single episode of any sitcom has made me laugh quite as hard as these two posts, thank you both 
To be fair, I think the characters from all those shows are in their 30s and up.
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Sienfeld and Home Improvement. I haven’t seen most other fairly recent sitcoms.
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.)
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!
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.
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.
Don’t let that keep you from Big Trouble.
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.
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?
That and “How you doin’?” Jesus, that was the lamest goddamn catchphrase I ever heard, and people still freaking go around repeating it.
The awful suckfest that was The Brady Bunch.
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.