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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
Travoltron said:
Night Court was as good as it got for 80s sitcoms. It started out really shitty though, but when they finally settled on the right cast it got good. Then it got a little bit weak at the end.
Night Court is still rewatchable, as opposed to those treacly safe sitcoms like The Cosby Show and Family Ties.
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A good show is a good show regardless of whether its a "safe" family sitcom or a workplace sitcom. I just rewatched the first five seasons of Who's the Boss last year, and it holds up well. Its a family sitcom, but it has sharp writing, a good cast dynamic and Danza and Helmond are both hilarious. Heck, I'd sooner watch reruns of Mama's Family before NBC's Superstore or this goddamn Night Court reboot. At least Vicki Lawrence is funny, unlike Melissa Raunch.
 
Travoltron said:
Night Court was as good as it got for 80s sitcoms. It started out really shitty though, but when they finally settled on the right cast it got good. Then it got a little bit weak at the end.
Night Court is still rewatchable, as opposed to those treacly safe sitcoms like The Cosby Show and Family Ties.
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At best, Night Court is tolerable, albeit still unfunny. It's never going to be a Cheers or Seinfeld where both are better with writing and humor.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
A good show is a good show regardless of whether its a "safe" family sitcom or a workplace sitcom. I just rewatched the first five seasons of Who's the Boss last year, and it holds up well. Its a family sitcom, but it has sharp writing, a good cast dynamic and Danza and Helmond are both hilarious. Heck, I'd sooner watch reruns of Mama's Family before NBC's Superstore or this goddamn Night Court reboot. At least Vicki Lawrence is funny, unlike Melissa Raunch.
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I forgot about Mama's Family. It is also solid. I liked ALF a lot, but I don't know if it would still hold up. Still waiting for an unedited DVD set of that show. Shout Factory hinted that it's going to happen.
 
Flexo said:
Quality sitcoms that still hold up:

Frasier
Seinfeld
Coach (little sappy sometimes but Coach Fox is one of the original & best asshole protagonists)
Newhart (gets seriously good after Kirk leaves & Larry, Daryl, Daryl show up)
Better Off Ted
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What about Becker?

Also Melissa Rausch is adorable and I would have sex with her.
 
I don't know if these have been posted here before, there are way too many pages to check.
Anyway, I got this channel recommended recently.
Somebody is turning stupid shit from RLM videos into music and it's pretty good.
Using Rich Evans' laugh as an instrument is pure genius.
 
Flexo said:
Quality sitcoms that still hold up:

Frasier
Seinfeld
Coach (little sappy sometimes but Coach Fox is one of the original & best asshole protagonists)
Newhart (gets seriously good after Kirk leaves & Larry, Daryl, Daryl show up)
Better Off Ted
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How could you forget Malcolm in the Middle, Married with Children, The Kings and Queens, Everybody Hates Chris, iCarly, Drake & Josh and even Cheers?

My nigga, even Katey Sagal was in Married with Children. Leela herself!
 
BubbleButt said:
What about Becker?

Also Melissa Rausch is adorable and I would have sex with her.
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Becker was late 90s, not 80s. The 90s holds up better than the 80s, imo, just because with The Simpsons and Married with Children leading the way, sitcoms stopped ripping off The Brady Bunch and started just being fucking funny. (then it all went to shit when shows started ripping off Friends)
 
Stab You in the Back said:
Becker was late 90s, not 80s. The 90s holds up better than the 80s, imo, just because with The Simpsons and Married with Children leading the way, sitcoms stopped ripping off The Brady Bunch and started just being fucking funny. (then it all went to shit when shows started ripping off Friends)
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Don't matter. Anything released can hold up.

I'd say both 90s and 2000s will be the final good decades of sitcoms (and hell, almost everything else).
 
Stab You in the Back said:
A good show is a good show regardless of whether its a "safe" family sitcom or a workplace sitcom. I just rewatched the first five seasons of Who's the Boss last year, and it holds up well. Its a family sitcom, but it has sharp writing, a good cast dynamic and Danza and Helmond are both hilarious. Heck, I'd sooner watch reruns of Mama's Family before NBC's Superstore or this goddamn Night Court reboot. At least Vicki Lawrence is funny, unlike Melissa Raunch.
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Superstore was kinda cute before the last 2 or so seasons
 
DankSmoker said:
Good shit, especially all the blind jokes. You couldn't get away with mocking a disability like that nowadays.
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This entire website openly mocks the disabled. That type of comedy just moved formats, the internet has all the funny shit now. Same reason new comedies are shit on by people here, 4chan, other "fringe" websites.

Kinda like how soap operas are cheap and easy to make, but men have zero interest in them. Make a soap opera for men, dress all the blokes up in some LOTR gear, throw in some dragons, boom , game of thrones, a soap opera men might actually engage in. Men are always the issue with media, its hard at times to market to them (its why women get so much service, much easier to work with).
 
whogoesthere said:
Kinda like how soap operas are cheap and easy to make, but men have zero interest in them. Make a soap opera for men, dress all the blokes up in some LOTR gear, throw in some dragons, boom , game of thrones, a soap opera men might actually engage in. Men are always the issue with media, its hard at times to market to them (its why women get so much service, much easier to work with).
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You're right about fantasy crap but I feel you're overlooking the popularity of wrestling amongst man-babies. Which has even worse writing than a soap opera.
 
‘Taxi’ holds up I think. ‘Roseanne’ too, at least until the lottery arc.

‘Alf’ was hard to watch last time I tried. ‘Charles In Charge’ always sucked even when it was new.

Anyone seen ‘Mr. Belvedere’ this century?
 
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