Favorite TV shows

[lord-of-sith]

Hmm...it was kinda fun to read my old post here and realize how much I've changed (for the most part) in tastes in two years.

[candydog]

Ooooh... Never saw this thread before! Now one or two of my choices may seem a little weird but anyway:

1) Cybill - I know many of you won't have seen or even remember this sitcom, but I absolutely LOVE it. It really is hilarious and so underrated! The first 2 seasons have been released on DVD in the UK and I bought them online (very unusual for a US TV show to be released in the UK first as well!!)It's just a show that appeals to me 100%, but I'm not even sure why, I think it might just have the right feel to it. I could watch it all day!

So there's my First Place sitcom out of the way - Choosing no. 2 gets tricky... But I think it's a tie between...

2) Will & Grace and Bewitched. Both great sitcoms from completely different times. I recently completed my Will & Grace DVD collection and I'm buying Bewitched as it becomes available.

3) The Golden Girls - Apparently quite a popular choice here, but I have to agree wholeheartedly, the show is great!!!

There's my top 4 - couldn't choose no. 5 if I tried, it's so hard to pick favourites!!!!!!

[littlefuzzy]

I'm a TV kid! I grew up in the 70s and 80s, but I watched reruns from the 50s and 60s as well. I'm not even going to touch the Anime comedies that I like!

In no particular order, and what I can remember:

The Monkees
Di ck Van D yke show
I Love Lucy
Addams Family
The Munsters
The Muppet Show
My Little Margie
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeanie
Leave it to Beaver
The Brady Bunch
M*A*S*H
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Mork & Mindy
Alf
Punky Brewster
Pee Wee's Playhouse
Batman (60s live-action!)
American Dad
Clerks Uncensored
Family Guy
Futurama
Garfield & Friends
Simpsons
South Park
Dilbert
The Critic
Capitol Critters
All American Girl
Arrested Development
Different Strokes
Family Ties
Family Matters
Caroline in the City
Herman's Head
Get Smart
Freaks & Geeks
You Bet Your Life
The Honeymooners
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
Malcolm in the Middle
The Man Show
Monk
My Name is Earl
NewsRadio
Animaniacs
Petticoat Junction
Beverly Hillbillies
Green Acres
Scrubs
Three's Company
Bosom Buddies
Perfect Strangers
The Cosby Show
Black Books (BBC)
Green Wing (BBC)
3rd Rock from the Sun
Drew Carey Show
The Andy Griffith Show
Are You Being Served? (BBC)
Dharma & Greg
Fawlty Towers (BBC)
Dobie Gillis
Full House
Gidget
Gilligan's Island
Gomer Pyle, USMC
Greg the Bunny
My Favorite Martian
Night Court
The Partridge Family
Stacked
Taxi
That 70s Show
Undeclared
Red Dwarf (BBC)
Monty Python's Flying Circus (BBC)
Who's Line is it Anyway? (both versions)

There are probably more, but I figure that's a long enough list!!

[PeterPanfan]

Friends
The Brady Bunch
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Seinfield
Full House
I Love Lucy
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeanie
Family Guy
The Simpsons
Reba

[Aladdin from Agrabah]

1. Friends
2.Spongebob Squarepants. The first season actually. The later episodes were more family-friendly so more boring. Pitty.
3.Bewitched
4.The Nanny
5.Married with Children
6. Happy tree friends (a mini-show, but definately a comedy, even though it's a splatter. Recommended to all Care Bears' haters! )
7.Sabrina The Teenage Witch
And many greek sitcoms/ tv comedies which I think is pointless to include. But I'll give 2 links to "Gorgones"' (opening and trailer) just because I'm a huge fan of this year's funny and naive mermaid comedy:
opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci9MgK4L ... re=related
trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_s2w3FL-zQ

[nikki828]

1. The Office (US)
2. Arrested Development
3. Seinfeld
4. How I Met Your Mother
5. Frasier
6. Boy Meets World
7. That 70s Show
8. NewsRadio
9. Titus
10. Scrubs
11. Spaced
12. Will and Grace
13. Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place/Two Guys and a Girl
14. Two and a Half Men
15. Wings
16. Cheers
17. M*A*S*H
18. Greg the Bunny
19. Night Court
20. Ned and Stacy

[Flanger-Hanger]

MST3K, y'all know that.

[Lazario]

Favorite sit-coms and comedies, mostly in order

1. Roseanne
2. Animaniacs
3. Daria
4. The Nanny
5. Absolutely Fabulous
6. Sifl & Olly
7. Dexter's Laboratory
8. Wings
9. Fairly Odd Parents
10. Will & Grace

Other shows I really like - The Simpsons, Step by Step, A Different World, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Tiny Toon Adventures, Are You Being Served?, Designing Women, Rocko's Modern Life, King of the Hill, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Seinfeld.

Now have to add Scrubs and So NoTorious to my list.

[Josh]

Good bump, and where the heck have you been Josh??

Thanks, haha, I thought it'd be easier just to do a 13, maybe 14 second search and bump an existing thread on sitcoms instead of starting a new one. And as for where I've been, I dunno, I lost interest in disney a bit (I still can't believe I haven't even picked up the Peter Pan Platinum Another Christmas present I guess ) anyway I became an obsessive myspacer and well, let's just say myspace and teenagers don't mix well So I deleted it.

I'm gonna add 'That 70's Show' to my sitcom list. I was in Target the other day and they were on sale, TV on DVD is all I want for Christmas, hahahaha. Oh and dramadies too, I know they're similar to Sitcoms, but they develop continuity between episodes, like Ugly Betty and Entourage.

Oh yeah, add My Name is Earl and How I met your mother to my sitcoms list, I always forget the new ones.

P.S. What is 30 Rock (all I know is it's Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin...I saw a trailer for it last night on Aussie TV) and Freaks and Geeks? Are they good?

[Anthony]

P.S. What is 30 Rock (all I know is it's Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin...I saw a trailer for it last night on Aussie TV) and Freaks and Geeks? Are they good?

Allow me to introduce you to 2 of the best comedies of this still early 21st century:

30 Rock

Freaks and Geeks

[Widdi]

Hmm a top ten sitcom list eh? Let's see...

10. The Nanny - This show seems to get a lot of hate from people, and I don't really understand it. Was it innovative? Not really, but the characters made up for the lack luster stories.

9. Ellen - An acquired taste of mine. After a while you really start to notice how funny it truly is.

8. Are You Being Served? - Brilliant British comedy. If you've never seen it you absolutley must (though I'd avoid the movie).

7. Friends - When an episode you've seen a million times before can still make you laugh out loud you know something was done right.

6. The Golden Girls - Betty White is like my favourite little old lady ever.

5. South Park - South Park is probably my favourite show when it comes to watching an episode for a first time, but it doesn't hold up that great upon repeat viewings. Still pretty effin hilarious though.

4. Will & Grace - Should have been called Jack and Karen, but still. Great cast, great characters, great stories, great all round show.

3. Roseanne - It's like my family, only funnier. I love it because it's so relatable.

2. Arrested Development - Quite possibly the funniest tv show I've ever seen. I can't believe I didn't watch this show when it was originally airing. Thank God for syndication.

1. The Simpsons - Yes, even the newer seasons. I just absolutely love everything about this show.

[Josh]

P.S. What is 30 Rock (all I know is it's Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin...I saw a trailer for it last night on Aussie TV) and Freaks and Geeks? Are they good?

Allow me to introduce you to 2 of the best comedies of this still early 21st century:

30 Rock

Freaks and Geeks

30 Rock looks really funny, but it's on during the same time as Weeds (oh yeah, Weeds, add that to my favourite dramadies list) I could watch them both but we don't have Digital (Australian Tivo). I'll catch an episode tomorrow (it's on twice a week) and if it looks good then I might buy the DVDs.

[Lazario]

10. The Nanny - This show seems to get a lot of hate from people, and I don't really understand it. Was it innovative? Not really, but the characters made up for the lack luster stories.

Famous Jewish woman with nasal voice has hit sitcom and defends gay people in several episodes. I can't think of a single reason why that would bother people at all.

[Escapay]

I became an obsessive myspacer and well, let's just say myspace and teenagers don't mix well So I deleted it.

I was watching 20/20 the other day, there was this girl who killed herself because of myspace. She was being taunted and abused by another user, who turned out to be her friend with a fake account made (just to see if she was talking about her beind her back).

But anyway, I'm glad you're off the myspace bandwagon, it's a horrid site (facebook is better!). Start posting more at UD! We need more Aussie presence since James isn't around that much and Loomis often restricts himself to the Theme Park forum!

10. The Nanny - This show seems to get a lot of hate from people, and I don't really understand it. Was it innovative? Not really, but the characters made up for the lack luster stories.

Famous Jewish woman with nasal voice has hit sitcom and defends gay people in several episodes. I can't think of a single reason why that would bother people at all.

I was always bothered by the annoying way she'd say, "Mr. Sheffield!". But that's just me.

(kidding, of course. I love "The Nanny" and I'm pissed at Lifetime for airing it at 2 am, and at Sony for not yet releasing the rest of the seasons on DVD.)

Scaps

[Lazario]

Famous Jewish woman with nasal voice has hit sitcom and defends gay people in several episodes. I can't think of a single reason why that would bother people at all.

I was always bothered by the annoying way she'd say, "Mr. Sheffield!". But that's just me.

(kidding, of course. I love "The Nanny" and I'm pissed at Lifetime for airing it at 2 am, and at Sony for not yet releasing the rest of the seasons on DVD.)

Me too. But...
There is always YouTube!
Of course, only in the event of an emergency.

[BelleGirl]

Some favourite American sitcoms:

- All in the family
- The Cosby Show
- Family ties
- Mork & Mindi
- Cheers
- Frasier
- Everybody loves Raymond
- Golden Girls
- Dharma & Greg
- Perfect Strangers
- Will & Grace
- Empty nest
- Roseanne
- Growing pains
- I love Lucy
- Green Acres

Several Brits:
- The Good life
- Keeping up appearances
- Man about the house
- George & Mildred
- Porridge
- Falty towers (although it only has 12 episodes!)
- One foot in the grave
- My Family
- Me & my girl
- All creatures great and small: the last one is not really a sitcom, but I think there's much delightful humor in this series about a vet's practice. Predominently from the brothers Siegfried and Tristan, but also from Mrs. Pumphries and her adored pet Tricky Whoo the pekinese!

[Prudence]

The now "finished" (though it shouldn't be) Reba, as if my current signature didn't make it obvious enough.

[Daisy Duck]

"Reba" is one of my favorites, too, Prudence. It's one of few sit-coms these days that actually make me laugh out loud.

Other faves are:

"That Girl"
"Mary Tyler Moore Show"
"Golden Girls"
"I Love Lucy"
"Keeping Up Appearances"

[Josh]

I became an obsessive myspacer and well, let's just say myspace and teenagers don't mix well So I deleted it.

I was watching 20/20 the other day, there was this girl who killed herself because of myspace. She was being taunted and abused by another user, who turned out to be her friend with a fake account made (just to see if she was talking about her beind her back).

But anyway, I'm glad you're off the myspace bandwagon, it's a horrid site (facebook is better!). Start posting more at UD! We need more Aussie presence since James isn't around that much and Loomis often restricts himself to the Theme Park forum!

Wow, how bad would the friend feel, could she be charged for manslaughter or Internet abuse or something?!
My situation wasn't that bad...in fact my situation didn't involve any piece of bullying at all, poor girl.
I'll join facebook if there aren't any "Scene Trains" or "Whore Trains" driving through bulletin boards all the time. I got sick of opening a bulletin to see "Glamorous Death" or "Painful Perfection JOIN AND APPLY NOW!"
You probably have no idea what I'm talking about, bahahahahaha.

(kidding, of course. I love "The Nanny" and I'm pissed at Lifetime for airing it at 2 am, and at Sony for not yet releasing the rest of the seasons on DVD.)

I think it's because of poor dvd sales. I saw seasons 1 & 2 new in a $10 discount bin. I might buy them, The Nanny is very nostalgiac to me, I watched it a lot as a kid...what happened in the final episode? I remember something about twins, a cruise and Fran and Mr. Sheffield were married.

Is 'Just Shoot Me' avaliable on DVD?

[Escapay]

Wow, how bad would the friend feel, could she be charged for manslaughter or Internet abuse or something?!

Unfortunately she wasn't, I forget the reason why. It most likely had to do with the fact that it was over the internet.

I'll join facebook if there aren't any "Scene Trains" or "Whore Trains" driving through bulletin boards all the time.

The worst you'll get is friends asking you to join groups like "Be a Ninja/Pirate/Zombie/Vampire/Sexaholic".

(kidding, of course. I love "The Nanny" and I'm pissed at Lifetime for airing it at 2 am, and at Sony for not yet releasing the rest of the seasons on DVD.)

I think it's because of poor dvd sales. I saw seasons 1 & 2 new in a $10 discount bin. I might buy them, The Nanny is very nostalgiac to me, I watched it a lot as a kid...what happened in the final episode? I remember something about twins, a cruise and Fran and Mr. Sheffield were married.

Is 'Just Shoot Me' avaliable on DVD?

I hope it's not because of poor DVD sales!

The final episode had them all moving out of the New York house, as Maxwell got hired to produce a sitcom in LA.

There's only been one DVD release for "Just Shoot Me", which combines the first and second seasons.

Scapsta