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[SportsGuy]

What are you top 5 favorite sitcoms ever?

[Pedro Cerrano]

Seinfeld

[mweb08]

Not sure the order, but I'll go with Seinfeld, Curb, Arrested Development, Parks and Rec, and South Park.

[Chris B]

In no order: The Office, Parks and Rec, Modern Family, Always Sunny, Seinfeld

[RShack]

I Love Lucy (the first and the best... they invented the genre and the technical technique that's been used ever since... it's the one we should beam out into space)

All in the Family

Taxi

Seinfeld

The Big Bang Theory

 

Honorable Mention: the most little-kid-compatible (when you need the TV to do some babysitting while you pay attention to something else):  Andy Griffith

[Mackus]

Always Sunny

Arrested Development

Scrubs

Seinfeld

Simpsons

[BSLChrisStoner]

Seinfeld

The Office  (The Office on BBC was also great.)
Scrubs

Cheers

Family Guy

 

Hard to limit to 5... The Simpsons, Modern Family, Parks and Rec, Arrested Development, HIMYM all favorites as well....

 

Couple more years of Veep, and Silicon Valley and they might jump up.

[bnickle]

I Love Lucy (the first and the best... they invented the genre and the technical technique that's been used ever since... it's the one we should beam out into space)

All in the Family

Taxi

Seinfeld

The Big Bang Theory

 

Honorable Mention: the most little-kid-compatible (when you need the TV to do some babysitting while you pay attention to something else):  Andy Griffith

I remember watching All in the Family reruns in the late '90s. Still held up very well. Thats the thing with sitcoms. Most of the time they don't hold up well.

[SportsGuy]

Cheers is #1 for me with Seinfeld close behind.

 

The next 3 would be tough.  Family Guy jumps out to me but it has become very inconsistent with its humor over the last several years.  Friends was great.  

 

Married with Children is a classic and probably would be in my top 5 somewhere.

 

I never got into a lot of the older ones like Soap but that was great.  Shack mentioned Taxi.  I used to watch that.  It was great.  As was Night Court.

[DuffMan]

Seinfeld

Simpsons

Modern Family

Arrested Development

[DJ MC]

Parks and Recreation

How I Met Your Mother

The Drew Carey Show

M*A*S*H

My Boys

[RShack]

Parks and Recreation

How I Met Your Mother

The Drew Carey Show

M*A*S*H

My Boys

 

Tangent:  Robert Altman (who made the MASH movie) absolutely *hated* the TV show... he thought both the movie and the TV show were messages, and that the show sent exactly the opposite message from the movie...

 

Personally, I think the show started out with the mostly the same message... but then they changed some cast, cleaned it up, and made it way too wholesome...

[Cisc-O's]

Scrubs

Threes Company

Sanford and Son

Fresh Prince of Bel Air

That 70's Show

[BobPhelan]

Seinfeld
Roseanne
Friends
Always Sunny
Family Guy? The Simpsons? Modern Family?

Not a big sitcom guy.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Personally, I think the show started out with the mostly the same message... but then they changed some cast, cleaned it up, and made it way too wholesome...

 

Yeah, the first 3 seasons, with Trapper and Henry Blake, were great, and then it gradually went downhill from there, although it was still very good for a few more seasons.  At some point, though, I think they gave Alan Alda too much input, and by the end the show was almost unwatchable.

[SBTarheel]

Soap

Curb

Arrested Development

WKRP in Cincinnati

Scrubs

 

Tough to limit to 5. 

[SportsGuy]

Tangent:  Robert Altman (who made the MASH movie) absolutely *hated* the TV show... he thought both the movie and the TV show were messages, and that the show sent exactly the opposite message from the movie...

 

Personally, I think the show started out with the mostly the same message... but then they changed some cast, cleaned it up, and made it way too wholesome...

I could never get into MASH.

[SportsGuy]

Soap

Curb

Arrested Development

WKRP in Cincinnati

Scrubs

 

Tough to limit to 5. 

Yep...Its why I did 5 instead of 10, to make it a little more challenging.

[Mike in STL]

Seinfeld

Cheers

The Office

Home Improvement

Roseanne

[RShack]

I could never get into MASH.

 

It gradually became The Alan Alda Show... costarring way too much Klinger... if that's when you saw it, I understand completely...

 

The 1st couple seasons were way different... but then they started cleaning up the script... and then they cleaned up the cast... and basically transformed it from Extra Sharp Cheddar into Velveeta....