# Would you choose to live in a classic era sitcom world? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-choose-to-live-in-a-classic-era-sitcom-world/786462 "2017-05-12T16:55:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-choose-to-live-in-a-classic-era-sitcom-world/786462/141 "2017-11-09T09:26:56Z")
I remember when “good times” was still popular to be on every indy channel possible and someone said those projects didn’t exist when I was in grade school and we did a whole report on cabrini greene … ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-choose-to-live-in-a-classic-era-sitcom-world/786462/142 "2017-11-09T17:08:39Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > I could live in mid-1970s Chicago and go see my psychologist, Dr. Bob Hartley. Elliot Carlin and I would be bitter, but hilarious, rivals. I loved the show but having a psychologist for a husband? Always being "anal"yzed?? I liked this one better than the inn in Vermont but that show does have its moments.:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-choose-to-live-in-a-classic-era-sitcom-world/786462/143 "2017-11-11T00:21:47Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Since many old sitcoms gave an idealized, clean, peaceful, unrealistic view of the world, I’m sure that many of them would be a better place to live. (If forced to live in one, I’d probably go with _Andy Griffith_.) +1 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-choose-to-live-in-a-classic-era-sitcom-world/786462/144 "2017-11-11T18:17:06Z")
After much thought, I’ve decided I could live with being the new regular character introduced in a season of _Three’s Company_. ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Perfume](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/princess_perfume/32/16518_2.png) [@Princess\_Perfume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Perfume)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-choose-to-live-in-a-classic-era-sitcom-world/786462/145 "2017-12-01T09:13:45Z")
I could tolerate living with the Addams Family from the 1964 tv series. They made the Addams’s too evil in the films ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-choose-to-live-in-a-classic-era-sitcom-world/786462/146 "2017-12-01T11:48:20Z")
The Addams family from the TV series had hearts of gold (well, Gomez and Morticia, at least) always wanting to be friends with anyone and willing to give them the shirts off their backs. However, they apparently had no clue what is and isn’t life-threatening for normal humans and much less concerned with the concept of death itself. Being friends with the Addamses would go well until sooner or later it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-choose-to-live-in-a-classic-era-sitcom-world/786462/147 "2017-12-01T14:04:44Z")
I sort of DID grow up in a sitcom world… but my sitcoms were “The Honeymooners” and “All in the Family.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-choose-to-live-in-a-classic-era-sitcom-world/786462.md?page=7)