Your 5 All-Time Favorite Sit-Coms

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Old:

All in the Family
Cheers
Barney Miller
Taxi
Soap

Recent:

My Name is Earl
The Office
Scrubs
Family Guy
Black Books

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In no particular order:

Night Court
Cheers
The Golden Girls
Murphy Brown
The Cosby Show

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  1. Seinfeld
  2. Scrubs
  3. Night Court
  4. Cheers
  5. Newsradio

Honorable Mention: Arrested Development, Friends, My Name is Earl, I Love Lucy, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Cosby Show.

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WKRP in Cincinnati
Barney Miller
News Radio
Wings
The Mary Tyler Moore Show

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Mad About You? It didn’t even make the playoffs.

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  1. All In The Family
    2, Golden Girls
  2. Curb Your Enthusiasm
  3. I Love Lucy
  4. Seinfeld
    Special Mention:

Mary Tyler Moore
Frasier
Cheers
Friends
Keeping Up Appearances
Absolutely Fabulous
The Comeback
Malcom In The Middle
The Burns and Allen Show

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In alphabetical rather than qualitative order, and going with American only:

All in the Family
Arrested Development
Bewitched
Sanford & Son
WKRP

My five least favorite major hit sitcoms, given unsolicitedly: Everybody Loves Raymond (can’t stand Romano), The Cosby Show (way too perfect), Full House (I’d send them all to reeducation camps in Alaska), The Honeymooners (too depressing, and I’ve seen 8th grade shows with better sets) and tied for last place: Andy Griffith Show post-Barney (got too syrupy and slow) or Designing Women post-Suzanne (when Julia became a horror and the title could have been changed to The Bloodworth Thomason Social Commentary Show).

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Aw, now you’ve gone and opened a new can of worms here. (Perhaps a new thread should be started so as not to hijack this one?) But I’ll join in on the worst sitcoms as well (using so-called “hits” as a basis, not short-lived sitcoms).

  1. The Office (both US and Brit version)
  2. Home Improvement
  3. Hope And Faith
  4. Perfect Strangers
  5. Joey (too bad, as I had hopes for that one.)
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  1. Seinfeld
  2. I Love Lucy
  3. Taxi
  4. Newsradio
  5. Soap
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Barney Miller
The Bob Newhart Show
Scrubs
Married with Children
Murphy Brown

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This is not slamming your tastes, but why are you preferring the American version over the British? I thought it was all about the original cast.

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  1. MASH
  2. The Bob Newhart Show
  3. Mary Tyler Moore Show
  4. Cheers
  5. Taxi
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INPO: Fawlty Towers, The Bob Newhart Show, Taxi, Frasier, Night Court. Honorable Mention: Wings. (I met Rebecca Schull years ago at a party. Total sweetheart.)

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Scrubs
Night Court*
Frasier
Sanford and Son*
Jeffersons*

*I saw all of these for the first time thanks to tvland.

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  1. Seinfeld
  2. Simpsons
  3. Scrubs
  4. Arrested Development
  5. Cheers
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Just Shoot Me
Will and Grace
Seinfeld
Are You Being Served?
Keeping Up Appearances

Cartoons
Doug
Family Guy
King of the Hill

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Dick Van Dyke
Mary Tyler Moore
Barney Miller
Coupling
Yes, (Prime) Minister

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  1. Arrested Development

  2. Scrubs

  3. The Office - I’d say a tie between Brittish and U.S version.

  4. Cheers

  5. MAS*H

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I love That '70s Show. Does get any serious airtime over here, though. :frowning:

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For live action–non-animated–sitcoms, my top five are:

Seinfeld
Arrested Development
Married with Children
Barney Miller
Andy Griffith

not necessarily in order