1. Simpsons - no doubt about this. the quotes alone put it on top. 2. Friends - hilarious show for many years. 3. Seinfeld - definitely a funny show but i never got that much into it while it was on. watching reruns is always good though. current shows 1t. everybody loves raymond - the family dynamics are so perfectly setup that it's like watching cheers in its prime, it just writes itself. 1t. scrubs - possibly about to overtake everybody loves raymond for sole possession of first. i rewind and listen to jokes and scenes over so much when watching an episode it's not even funny. jd and turk are perfect together as friends. 3. two and a half men 4. still standing all time 1t. cheers 1t. simpsons 3. friends 4. frasier 5. family guy (as hilarious as they come but needs more episodes to move up the list) 6. everybody loves raymond 7. futurama (didn't remember how much i liked it until i started watching adult swim a few months ago) 8. scrubs - up here with only 2 seasons in the bag. could finish very high on this list (past friends even) if it keeps it up for 4 or 5 more years.
just cause I havent said anything yet....Night Court is possibly my 5th favorite series EVER. and if FG and Simpsons hadnt come around...it would be even higher than that. to answer the intital question... Simpsons Dont find Seinfeld to be that damn funny....Kramer is pretty hilarious and the character that J Alexander plays is amusing...but god I cant stand Jerry Seinfeld or that woman. Watched Friends a couple of times back when it first started cause the kids always watched it....but would never watch it on my own freewill...what a bunch of vapid, self absorbed morons....maybe if the chicks would run around half naked and the show was on mute...but otherwise I couldn't care less. all time fav series. FG Simpsons Married With Children Night Court Animaniacs Beverly Hillbillies Rockford Files Moonlighting Carol Burnett Show Futurama Starsky and Hutch Barretta Night Stalker
1) Family Guy 2) South Park 3) That 70's Show 4) The Simpsons 5) Seinfeld 6) Becker 7) NewsRadio 8) Malcolm in the Middle 9) Scrubs 10) All in the Family That is my current list...the only non "current show" is All in the Family - but it's on my satellite every day...so what the hell. #10!
The Simpsons in its prime was perfect. Seinfeld was great, and very very funny. Friends....urgh. I loathed Friends. But I've recently read a few of the scripts from Friends and the writing is very good. I'm nearly convinced that the cast ruins it for me.
I feel so strongly, it's too bad I only got to vote once. Simpsons - watch it several times a week, sometimes plan to eat dinner during the 5:30 rerun, work out during the 10:00 rerun, and watch the Sunday night ones while grading papers. One of the few things on TV I can stand these days, and still "get". Seinfeld - I keep giving it another chance, but I guess I just don't "get" it. It doesn't bother me, and I'll turn it on if I'm desperate for something to watch, but it's not that interesting either. Also, it's impossible to follow if you don't start watching right at the beginning of the episode. One positive thing - I like Elaine better than the female characters in a lot of sitcoms. Friends - can't stand it, never could. Someone said it earlier - "vapid". A bunch of impossibly "beautiful" people, each character shallower than the last. I particularly didn't like what they did with the Phoebe character. You were supposed to be able to follow these six friends like they were real people, but it's hard to when you make one of them into a walking caricature. m_cable - thanks for mentioning Night Court. One of the best ones when I was growing up. I should see if I can find a rerun to see if it still matches up. Other things mentioned here: Married With Children. A classic. Great show. I know it's so late 80's/ early 90's, but I still watch lots of the reruns. Guilty pleasure. All in the Family, of course... otherwise, not sure if I could come up with 10 good comedies. I have a frightening list of sitcoms (mostly sappy family sitcoms) I watched in the 80's when I was about the right age for that. Between being busy and my husband turning the TV on other things, I don't get to see many now.
I have to agree with the person that said "Night Court" is getting no love. It's a toss up between Seinfeld and the Simpsons for me. But since I really haven't watched either consistently in a few years, I dunno. I'll pick Seinfeld by the slightest of margins. Like I said in that Friends thread, I've probably watched 2 episodes of that show and didn't get the appeal.
Isabel... Last time I was home around the noon hour...Night Court reruns were being shown on A&E I believe..it has been a while..so it may not be on still...but it couldnt hurt to check.
I can't vote either Seinfeld or the Simpsons ahead of each other. They're tied as far as this list goes. Both incredible shows, but too different to compare. I think Friends was great, but well below the other two. I can't understand people 'not getting' any of these three shows. They're all brilliantly written and performed. Then again, there are several shows I just thought were awful that other people loved. Like Who's the Boss, Fresh Prince, Belvedere, Golden Girls, Full House and on and on. Mama's Family is, of course, the worst show of all time, but all these shows were just irredeemably bad. I can't watch Becker either. The jokes are so formulaic, so easy, so bad. Some old school shows that need more love here: Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke Show, Barney Miller. Night Court was pretty great, but it doesn't make any kind of top ten for me. News Radio definitely does.
Well I'm sure that nostalgia has helped out Night Court for me. I used to watch it all the time when I was growing up. Same thing with Cheers. I'm surprised that Cheers hasn't gotten much of a mention either. The episode where Sam tried out as a sports anchor might have been the funniest thing I've ever seen: Sam rapping: "Groin Injury. Injury."
The Dick Van Dyke Show is my all-time favorite sitcom. I always loved Dobie Gillis, too. Cheers was great, too, though I didn't watch it until I went to college in 1989 and it was on at 10pm in syndication. Green Acres is on up there with my favorite sitcoms, as well. I got the 1st season DVD set, and I just love it. And NewsRadio will probably always be on my list of favorites.
...."I know what it's like to have a groin injury." That was so funny... I can't believe I forgot about Cheers! Of course, I grew up with them. When I was younger I thought they were a bunch of pathetic alcoholics-in-the-making. But then, after Diane left, I started really getting into it. These characters were like people I knew. The final episode was like the end of an era for me. I was in college by then and didn't have time to be picking up new sitcom habits. So the "Friends" didn't matter to me. On the other hand, the Cheers characters were somewhat normal-looking and all different ages. They may have had their quirks and hang-ups, but they weren't total airheads.
You know that Ed is offically canceled now? It was up in the air for the past couple months, but NBC said no. It was a great show. What the heck is NBC gonna have this fall? Stark Raving Mad anyone else see this for the one season it was on NBC a couple of years ago? I thought it was super funny, orginal, and clever. It had Neil Patrick Harris, and that guy from Monk/Wings.
liars I think some of you just dislike Friends because you haven't any. You know you watched it. Where's "The Cosby Show?"
I watched Ed for the first two years, but when the whole Carol being involved with the principal storyline really turned me off. Of course I should have known that the show would fall into the predictable "will they or won't they" subplots. However there was one episode of Ed that transcended above mere light comedy/romantic piffle, and posited an interesting philosophical argument. It was the episode with guest star Kevin Pollack as a guy to has a near death experience and decides that he needs to live every second of his life to the fullest, and do all the things that he always wanted but had put off for too long. Another subplot featured Warren (the regularly featured high school kid) discovering Thoreau's Walden and being changed by it. The two competing ideals snuck up on me so quietly that it was not until the final shot, where Ed sat with the book Walden in one hand with it's message to "simplify" and a tome with the lesson of "do everything" in his other, that it finally hit me. So what is the answer to the maddeningly mundane and wastefulness of modern living? Is it to "live deliberately" and find solace in the mere acts of living, breathing and working. To tear down our desparate wants and fulfill only our simple needs. Is less truly more? Or is the answer to do anything and everything. To constantly experience the vast variety of human existance. To satiate your curiosities and leave no emotion or sense untouched. Is more better? That was a question left up to the viewer. Just wonderful stuff.
I've never been able to watch more than five minutes of Ed. Might have liked it if I'd managed to watch a whole episode. One of my best friends was on that show as a forest ranger or something. I remember he was bummed that they made him wear a hat. Same guy that was raised by wolves on the Quizno's commercial. Also on the FedEx commercial where the guy asks him why he still lets him work there and he says, "because you're my dad?" Huge Rockets fan. We used to watch all the games together before he went Hollywood.
Did you see they're having a new episode or something? Not really sure what it is, I just saw it on the cover of TV Guide while waiting in line at the grocery store. I also love Dobie Gillis. Every summer in the late 80s, early 90s, I'd stay up late to watch back to back reruns of that and Patty Duke. They need to release those on DVD.
