Best and worst sitcom?
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Friendly Neighbourhood Guitarist

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29 posts

2 months

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I love sitcoms but just want an avoid and don't avoid from you? Thanks

bergclimber34

3,800 posts

21 months

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Best, Porridge, Rising Damp, The Good life, in fact a lot 70s and 80s stuff,

Worst, most modern stuff, abd some of the Anerican stuff

WrekinCrew

5,669 posts

178 months

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Best UK - Yes (Prime) Minister
Best US - Curb Your Enthusiasm

LRDefender

745 posts

36 months

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O.P. - what age are you?

Comedy is subjective, for some Citizen Khan or Mrs Browns Boys or The Wright Way would be peak comedy. For others I Love Lucy or Hancocks Half Hour or Life With The Lyons is unbeatable.

Blib

47,937 posts

225 months

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Best - Miranda.
Worst - Fawlty Towers.

HTH.

soad

34,595 posts

204 months

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Best ones no longer run/being produced?
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls029718653/

toasty

8,379 posts

248 months

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Red Dwarf series 1-6 were the best for me.

On a darker side, League of Gentlemen and Nighty Night tickle my deviant funny bone.

I also really liked Friends despite a friend believing that it was a plot by the CIA to mind numb America.


UKsandman

3,334 posts

166 months

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I love a good sitcom. I am currently watching The Middle on Netflix. It’s very good and definitely worth a watch.

Odysseus01

1,956 posts

232 months

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Blib said:
Best - Miranda.
Worst - Fawlty Towers.

HTH.
Fawlty Towers!?!?! Might not be to everyone's taste but you're publicly admitting that Mrs Brown's Boys, Citizen Khan, My Family etc are better than FT!

Mont Blanc

2,663 posts

71 months

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Odysseus01 said:
Blib said:
Best - Miranda.
Worst - Fawlty Towers.

HTH.
Fawlty Towers!?!?! Might not be to everyone's taste but you're publicly admitting that Mrs Brown's Boys, Citizen Khan, My Family etc are better than FT!
I can't believe this needs pointed out, but Blib was being sarcastic.

Odysseus01

1,956 posts

232 months

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Mont Blanc said:
Odysseus01 said:
Blib said:
Best - Miranda.
Worst - Fawlty Towers.

HTH.
Fawlty Towers!?!?! Might not be to everyone's taste but you're publicly admitting that Mrs Brown's Boys, Citizen Khan, My Family etc are better than FT!
I can't believe this needs pointed out, but Blib was being sarcastic.
Here for God knows how long and my first parrot. I'm suitably ashamed. In my defence I'm so tired I hadn't even registered his Best....

KillerHERTZ

1,115 posts

226 months

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Best: Peepshow!

Milkyway

14,226 posts

81 months

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Best: Only Fools and Horses ,Porridge & Inbetweeners.
Worst: Mrs Brown's Boys... The novelty soon wore off.

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 20th August 10:16

127Sport

56 posts

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Best: Blackadder, Father Ted.

Worst: Dunno really, I tend not to watch things I don't like, so hard to say.

Milkyway

14,226 posts

81 months

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127Sport said:
Best: Blackadder, Father Ted.

Worst: Dunno really, I tend not to watch things I don't like, so hard to say.

Zetec-S

6,829 posts

121 months

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Hard to find anything which beats Father Ted. Red Dwarf, Inbetweeners, Only Fools & Horses, Blackadder come close. Probably not a popular opinion on PH but I'd also give an honourable shout out to Vicar of Dibley. From the US side I do enjoy Friends and The Office.

Worst would have to be Mrs Brown's Boys (from the few minutes I've seen). I've also sat through a few episodes of Miranda and struggled to laugh much.

Mr Creosote

223 posts

13 months

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I won t say best, because as has already been said, comedy is subjective. But some of my favourites include:

Porridge
Blackadder
Yes Minster
Only Fools and Horses
One Foot in the Grave
I m Alan Partridge
Father Ted
The Office (the original)
Peep Show
The Thick of It
The Royle Family (excluding later specials)
Early Doors
The Simpsons (up to series 9-ish)
The Larry Sanders Show

Worst: I don t really watch sitcoms I don t like, but 10 minutes of Mrs Brown s Boys told me enough to know it s not my cup of tea.

Tycho

12,267 posts

301 months

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I'd also add Spaced to the best sitcoms.

Radec

5,902 posts

75 months

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Used to like Game On.

Although short skirted Samantha Janus might have had something to do with it.

Milkyway

14,226 posts

81 months

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Men Behaving Badly must be up there.

Game On... in the same mould .
(SJ lick... & still is.)

NB: Not a big fan of American Comedy... but BBT probably their best export.
(Friends, meh... but definitely not the worst).


Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 20th August 12:10