[Misc] The Best Sit-Coms

[Lenny Rider]

Dad's Army
Only fools and horses, up to when Rodney got married after that it got very tired.
It Aint Half Hot Mum
Ever Decreasing Circles
On the Buses, like OFAH only up to the point when Reg Varney left and then if was flogging a dead horse.
Please Sir
Birds of a Feather on BBC, got a bit staged when it went to ITV, with the two 11 mins segments.
The Office US is better than the UK version.
But for me, the ultimate sit com has to be Porridge, nearly 50 years old its timeless, brilliantly written by Clement and La Frenais.

And putting this out there the two most overated IMHO, Open All Hours, despite the brilliant Ronnie Barker and Last of the Summer Wine, bizarrely the longest running one in UK Tv history.

 

[Live by the sea]

Agree Seinfeld is very good .

 

[Bladders]

Minder

Only Fools

Blackadder

The Young Ones

Bottom



currently re watching Toast of London which is also very good

 

[Whitley Bayster]

I’d give Phoenix Knights a shout as well........... yeah and Father Ted.

Hold on League of Gentlemen anyone.

100% These three. The measure is what can you re-watch time again and still really enjoy. I would give an honorable mention to a modern C4 sitcom Raised by Wolves which I thought was brilliant

 

[Uh_huh_him]

The ones that I still watch repeatedly:

Arrested Development
The Thick of It
Spaced

Honorable mentions

House of Cards (UK)
Yes Minister/Prime Minister
Black Adder
Porridge
Flowers
The Mighty Boosh
Eastbound and Down

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

How I met your mother

very watchable

If only for Cobie Smulders

 

[warsaw]

So nobody given Till Death Us do Part a shout? Quite unjoyed it at the time, probably not so suitable now....

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[Questions]

So nobody given Till Death Us do Part a shout? Quite unjoyed it at the time, probably not so suitable now....

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Well, modern argument seems to say that we laughed at his black jokes.

Of course both Warren Mitchell and Johnny Speight would have told you that we were laughing at his bigotry.

I’d love to believe them but Speight wrote Curry and Chips as well..... so


Can’t believe they took ‘Spike Milligan playing ‘Paki Paddy’ off our screens

 

[GOM]

Fawlty Towers
Frasier
Getting On
Butterflies
The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin
The Office
The Thick Of It (more satirical and aggressive!)

Some of the above beyond the laughs, were also bitter sweet.

Point of order - it was the Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.

 

[JJ McClure]

How I met your mother

very watchable

If only for Cobie Smulders

I'm rewatching it on Netflix at the moment, Barney has to be one of the greatest sitcom characters ever, such a shame the final season / ending was a total bust.

 

[GOM]

Well, modern argument seems to say that we laughed at his black jokes.

Of course both Warren Mitchell and Johnny Speight would have told you that we were laughing at his bigotry.

I’d love to believe them but Speight wrote Curry and Chips as well..... so


Can’t believe they took ‘Spike Milligan playing ‘Paki Paddy’ off our screens

Well as someone who watched it at the time I can assure you the laughing was at Alf Garnett, so yes about his bigotry towards everyone include his wife and son-in-law who were of course white..

 

[zefarelly]

As a kid Growing up it was The Good life and sometimes butterflies

Steptoe, Rossiter etc I discovered later

'my' first sit com was The young ones. couldn't go to school the next day without having seen it . . .likewise blackadder from 2 onward.

Men behaving badly struck a chord briefly, and another vote for early my family, and earlier outnumbered also

 

[jakarta]

Oh, I see Wendy Craig quite often, see lives nearby, gets her hair done in the village. Still looks amazing for her age, very regal like.

Ah the Good Life, a threesome with Barbara (what a Bum) and Margo (lovely Norks) was a 16 year olds dream.

Will probably post about my favourite Sit Coms a bit later when I have calmed down.

 

[Cpt. Spavil]

My favourite UK ones are

Red Dwarf
THe young ones
Bottom
Fawlty Towers
one foot in the grave
The Brittas Empire

 

[The Maharajah of Sydney]

British -Yes Minister
American - Sgt Bilko
Australian - Utopia

 

[Questions]

Dad's Army
Only fools and horses, up to when Rodney got married after that it got very tired.
It Aint Half Hot Mum
Ever Decreasing Circles
On the Buses, like OFAH only up to the point when Reg Varney left and then if was flogging a dead ho
rse.
Please Sir
Birds of a Feather on BBC, got a bit staged when it went to ITV, with the two 11 mins segments.
The Office US is better than the UK version.
But for me, the ultimate sit com has to be Porridge, nearly 50 years old its timeless, brilliantly written by Clement and La Frenais.

And putting this out there the two most overated IMHO, Open All Hours, despite the brilliant Ronnie Barker and Last of the Summer Wine, bizarrely the longest running one in UK Tv history.

Did you know Reg Varney was the chosen celebrity by Barclays Bank (I think) to open the very first ATM

 

[Klaas]

Alan Partridge
Peep Show
Fawlty Towers
Frasier (Seems a lot of people here liked it, a lot of my friends weren't that into it. Loved it myself.)
Veep/The Thick of It
Spaced
The League Of Gentlemen
The IT Crowd
The Simpsons
Blackadder
The Office
Reggie Perrin

 

[The Oldman]

Cheers for me (sadly not streamed anywhere unless anyone knows differently) , also Father Ted.

Treat yourself or put it on your Christmas List

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cheers-Com...603462960&s=dvd&sprefix=Cheers,aps,138&sr=1-1

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Fawlty Towers
Porridge
Father Ted
Peep Show
Blackadder
Young Ones
Curb your enthusiasm
Seinfeld
Men Behaving Badly
Only Fools and Horses
Inbetweeners
Red Dwarf
Detectorists
Extras
The Royle Family
I'm Alan Partridge & Spin Offs
Shameless

All great in their day, we are so lucky to have laughed so much.

 

[bomber130]

First one I remember as a child was “love thy neighbour” absolutely loved it. Shame it would never be shown again due to the snowflakes of the modern era.


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