Underappreciated Sitcoms You Love

I rather liked the short-lived Dweebs.

I agree, even though I have only seen 2 episodes of Clone High

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”.)

Stark Raving Mad with Tony Shalhoub and Neil Patrick Harris.

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.

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!

Totally - I came here to mention that one.

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.

Party Girl - The TV series based on the Parker Posey movie. I have a weakness for Christine Taylor, for some reason.

Susan

Canadians of a certain age might recall Not My Department.

Unless they blinked in 1987, when the show was on for about a microsecond.

Holmes and Yo-Yo, starring John Schuck as a robot police officer (I think)- it was a looong time ago.

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.

This one?

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.

Square Pegs

I was a fan of this show also, but that might’ve just been because the mom was a total MILF.

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

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.

“The bunco squad. The bunco squad. The bunco squad.” :slight_smile:

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.