# Underappreciated Sitcoms You Love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642 "2007-01-04T03:57:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/41 "2007-01-04T15:47:42Z")
I rather liked the short-lived _Dweebs_. ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/42 "2007-01-04T15:55:37Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] They are cartoons, but Undergrads and Clone High were hilarious. [/QUOTE] I agree, even though I have only seen 2 episodes of Clone High ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/43 "2007-01-04T16:09:43Z")
Oh, and _Andy Richter Controls the Universe_ was great, the one episode I saw (the one about Riverdance,) but I never had the compulsion to watch more episodes…hey wait, it was on Fox, right? That would explain it (the “Firefly Effect”.) ---
**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:** [January 4, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/44 "2007-01-04T16:21:02Z")
**Stark Raving Mad** with Tony Shalhoub and Neil Patrick Harris. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/45 "2007-01-04T16:24:45Z")
I would love to see a few more years of _Undeclared_. Even just four years. After discovering it (and _F&G_), I’ve been watching Judd Apatow & Paul Feig on IMDb religiously. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/46 "2007-01-04T16:50:36Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] …Around the same time was Arnie. Brilliant show. … [/QUOTE] Dang, I was meticulously reading the thread all smug in the belief that I was the only one to remember that show with great fondness. Good on you, that’s using the ol’ Nuvo noodle! ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/47 "2007-01-04T16:57:39Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] John Laroquette (sp?) had a shortlived eponymous sitcom many years back. I thought it was great but it was way too dark for network TV at the time. He played a recovering alcoholic who had once been an English professor but was now working in a dingy train station, I think at a magazine stand. I recall it being well wrtitten and actually pretty funny, mixing standard sitcom wackiness with a sad protrait of a man climbing back from bottom. [/QUOTE] Totally - I came here to mention that one. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/48 "2007-01-04T16:59:05Z")
I always really liked **Parker Lewis Can’t Lose** , which I believe was on Fox in the early nineties, about a snotty Ferris Bueller-esque teenager. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/49 "2007-01-04T17:21:43Z")
**Party Girl** - The TV series based on the Parker Posey movie. I have a weakness for Christine Taylor, for some reason. Susan ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/50 "2007-01-04T17:25:21Z")
Canadians of a certain age might recall _Not My Department_. Unless they blinked in 1987, when the show was on for about a microsecond. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/51 "2007-01-04T17:25:54Z")
Holmes and Yo-Yo, starring John Schuck as a robot police officer (I think)- it was a looong time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/52 "2007-01-04T17:25:58Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] And does anybody besides me remember the MTV series [Austin Stories](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0127370/)? [/QUOTE] Austin Stories was amazing. It was about 5-6 years ahead of its time. Very Arrested Development style of shaky cam and weird comedy. The best line ever was from the expired christmas candy episode; “I don’t get you. You don’t drink, you don’t do drugs… You’re candy’s bitch.” I was only a kid at the time but I really liked “Oops” the post-apocalyptic sitcom about the survivors on a farm. “That’s My Bush” was a hilarious parody of sitcoms and was probably one of the best original programs Comedy Central ever showed. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/53 "2007-01-04T17:28:11Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] Totally - I came here to mention that one. [/QUOTE] [This one?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106039/) ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/54 "2007-01-04T18:03:34Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] John Laroquette (sp?) had a shortlived eponymous sitcom many years back. I thought it was great but it was way too dark for network TV at the time. He played a recovering alcoholic who had once been an English professor but was now working in a dingy train station, I think at a magazine stand. I recall it being well wrtitten and actually pretty funny, mixing standard sitcom wackiness with a sad protrait of a man climbing back from bottom. [/QUOTE] I loved that show. And it was a bus station, not a train station, which added to the dingy feel. Dear John was another one. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/55 "2007-01-04T18:13:52Z")
[Square Pegs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Pegs) ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/56 "2007-01-04T18:56:01Z")
[QUOTE=TommyTutone] \*\* Grounded for Life \*\* - the final season lost focus when the brothers opened a bar, but the seasons leading up to it, about a Catholic couple who had children when they were very young, was fantastic with most episodes retelling whatever family disaster occurred via flashbacks. It’s like **Memento** except funny. [/QUOTE] I was a fan of this show also, but that might’ve just been because the mom was a total MILF. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/57 "2007-01-04T19:00:53Z")
Flying Blind Starved Boston Public The Goodies Greatest American Hero Hello Larry Boston Common The Kroft Supershow It Takes Two Freaks and Geeks The Shmoo (Saturday Morning Cartoon) Open All Night ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/58 "2007-01-04T19:09:30Z")
Second the love for “Starved” and the hatred for the inferior-in-every-possible-manner “Always Sunny…”. I’m confused at the notion that “Wings” was underappreciated. Didn’t it run for like 37 years? There was a time that I couldn’t turn on the television without it being a “Wings” rerun. I’ll add to the list “On The Air,” a flawed gem of a show that David Lynch did immediately after “Twin Peaks” and featuring a few TP alums. Set at live TV show from a fictional TV station in the 50s. It had its share of ham-fisted Lynch comedy touches (how someone who can direct dramas with such nuance when he wants to can have such a tin ear for comedy confounds me) but also a huge share of incredibly brilliant bits. Lasted seven eps, only three of which made the air in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/59 "2007-01-04T20:00:30Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Holmes and Yo-Yo, starring John Schuck as a robot police officer (I think)- it was a looong time ago. [/QUOTE] “The bunco squad. The bunco squad. The bunco squad.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642/60 "2007-01-04T20:10:10Z")
Always loved this show (Lisa Douglas was one of my childhood role models), and they’ve been rerunning it, much to my delight. It has a bum rap as a _Petticoat Junction/Beverly Hillbillies_ type of show, whereas it was actually a brilliant postmodern parody of them. Not enough people “got it.” Plus, the Douglases were one of the sexiest couples on TV at the time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underappreciated-sitcoms-you-love/386642.md?page=4)