# Vote for your favorite '70s sitcoms - multiple choice **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813 "2011-05-31T02:47:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813/21 "2011-06-01T03:48:58Z")
Darn! My number four is _Soap_. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813/22 "2011-06-01T04:27:28Z")
Too bad Wild Kingdom wasn’t a sitcom. We had some fun with that–my father would say Marlin Perkins should be bitten by a snake or gored by a gazelle and then we’d find out if Mutual of Omaha’s insurance plan was any good. Happy Days was the one we watched religiously in the late 70’s. My parents would tell us “That’s not what the 50’s were like.” But when us kids asked about the 50’s my parents never told us anything. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813/23 "2011-06-01T09:47:13Z")
Fawlty Towers Porridge The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813/24 "2011-06-01T11:11:35Z")
Wow. Nobody ever talks about _When Things Were Rotten_. An overlooked classic. Well, sort of. (I also liked Mel Brooks’s later TV attempt, _The Nutt House_) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813/25 "2011-06-01T11:18:37Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > Happy Days was the one we watched religiously in the late 70’s. My parents would tell us “That’s not what the 50’s were like.” But when us kids asked about the 50’s my parents never told us anything. As someone pointed out recently, the 70s are now further distant than the 50s were from the 70s. What’s up with that? ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813/26 "2011-06-01T11:26:51Z")
I watched very few of those shows. The '70s was my coming-of-age decade and so I had a lot more interesting things to do than watch TV. The '60s was a good decade for me TV-wise. I was a child and didn’t get out much. By the '80s, I was a staid married woman with children, so the televiewing was a priority again. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813/27 "2011-06-01T12:16:22Z")
Man About the House and Some Mothers Do Ave Em? The Aunty Jack Show. I guess most will not have seen them 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813/28 "2011-06-01T12:16:55Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Wow. Nobody ever talks about _When Things Were Rotten_. An overlooked classic. > > Well, sort of. > > (I also liked Mel Brooks’s later TV attempt, _The Nutt House_) I loved _When Things Were Rotten_! Still trying to find out what happened to Richard Dimitri. He just disappeared after _Johnny Dangerously_. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813/29 "2011-06-01T12:22:29Z")
The [Aunty Jack](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnEOr1MgwTM) song. Showing what culture was. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813/30 "2011-06-01T16:10:30Z")
I used to enjoy _Fernwood 2 Night_, but I guess that’s not really a sitcom – it was a parody of a talk show. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813/31 "2011-06-01T17:02:21Z")
Wow. I knew I didn’t watch much TV in the 70’s, but I’m still surprised that the only one of these shows that I watched was “When Things Were Rotten.” ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813/32 "2011-06-01T17:09:06Z")
For the poll I only included shows I watched in their first runs in the 70s. My appreciation for MASH, All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore, and Odd Couple came much later in syndication. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813/33 "2011-06-01T17:19:58Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > The [Aunty Jack](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnEOr1MgwTM) song. Showing what culture was. I don’t think I’d describe _Aunty Jack_ as a sitcom: if it is, then so is _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_, and that’s not on the list, despite being originally broadcast (mostly) in the 1970s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-70s-sitcoms-multiple-choice/583813.md?page=1)