[kidd2012]

http://latare.com/10...of-All-Time.htm

[squealydan]

Well i was Bewitched at no. 10 and nearly didn't bother with the rest. But I persisted on. Reassuring to see that the best ten sitcoms of all time were all made in the good old USA! None of that Fawlty Towers, Blackadder or Yes (Prime) Minister rubbish....

[Cyberyeti]

 squealydan, on 2012-November-20, 23:57, said:

Well i was Bewitched at no. 10 and nearly didn't bother with the rest. But I persisted on. Reassuring to see that the best ten sitcoms of all time were all made in the good old USA! None of that Fawlty Towers, Blackadder or Yes (Prime) Minister rubbish....

Exactly, any list without Fawlty towers in the top 3 is not worthy of attention.

[gwnn]

TBBT is one of the unfunniest sitcoms ever created, right up there with 2 Broke Girls and the likes.

Anyway, I quite like The New Girl, it seems less convoluted and predictable than most crap nowadays.

I don't know that much about British TV shows but I loved Coupling.

In unrelated news, this "latare.com" site has been spamming us on and off for the last few years. Usually in the "cool videos" thread though...

[phil_20686]

 squealydan, on 2012-November-20, 23:57, said:

Well i was Bewitched at no. 10 and nearly didn't bother with the rest. But I persisted on. Reassuring to see that the best ten sitcoms of all time were all made in the good old USA! None of that Fawlty Towers, Blackadder or Yes (Prime) Minister rubbish....

Yes Minister is just the greatest piece of political satire ever written. The West Wing and the Wire should clearly make the top ten. And MASH. And Das Boot. It feels like this was a list written by an old person in america.


I mean, surely friends should be on the list too, even though I didn't like it, at one stage it was the most popular show ever on tv?

Even relative small fry like Peep show/the office, are better than Seinfield, which is hardly funny at all.

[Cyberyeti]

 phil_20686, on 2012-November-21, 04:19, said:

Yes Minister is just the greatest piece of political satire ever written. .

In sitcom form yes, I have a great fondness for Whoops apocalypse (the UK TV series not the film) which did some brilliant and brutal political satire (plus some great slapstick), but wasn't a sitcom.

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

Rosanne? Bing Crosby Show? Married… with Children (Al Bundy)?

Those are missing.

I am not saying I am / I was a huge fan of either show, but all 3 had a run of at
least 10 years.

I like a lot on the proposed list, but the guys, who created the list only
looked at ...

With kind regards
Marlowe

[Trinidad]

My list, at this point in time:
1. MASH
2. Dad's army
3. It ain't half hot mum
4. 'Allo 'allo
5. Are you being served?
6. The thin blue line
7. Fawlty Towers
8. All in the family
9. Keeping up appearances
10. Absolutely fabulous

mmm. I don't know what Freud would say about the fact that the first four are set in a war. I thought I was a peace-loving guy...

Rik

[mike777]

Kind of a wierd list that does not have

All in the Family or I love Lucy

I think people forget Frasier...it was and is great, truly great.

[Trinidad]

 mike777, on 2012-November-21, 06:31, said:

Kind of a wierd list that does not have

All in the Family or I love Lucy

I think people forget Frasier...it was and is great, truly great.

I had I love Lucy on #11, Home Improvement on #12, thought about Cheers, but forgot all about Frasier (how could I?).

I liked 3rd Rock from the Sun too (favorite quote: "Sine, cosine, cosine, sine. Three point one four one five nine!").

Other favorites are: One foot in the grave, To the manor born, Blackadder, Hi de hi.

Rik

[hrothgar]

Agree that Fawlty Towers needs to be added to the list.

I am also inordinately fond of the UK version of Coupling.

30 Rock and Community strike me as the best "recent" stuff (Though 30 Rock is showing its age)

[kenberg]

It's true that I liked The Beverly Hillbillies (number 2 on their list). I never could get into Seinfield (number 4 on the list). I fear that this says something about me, but probably it doesn't say anything that hasn't been said before.And I completely agree that any such list has to include All in the Family, preferably at the top. Some on the list, for example Tne Big Bang Theory (number 2) and The Andy Griffith Show (number 5) I found unwatchable. Some others, for example NewsRadio, I never heard of. I recall liking their number 1 pick, WKRP in Cincinnati but I only vaguely recall it.

Anyway, it would not be my list. I am not at all sure what would be. I can usually recall some shows that I liked, some that I didn't, some (Cheers for example) that I liked for a while and then had enough of.

Mostly, with the British imports, my reaction is that I ain't British. I'll let them evaluate their shows from their perspective.

[Winstonm]

Missing Family Ties, too.

[paulg]

As Matt LeBlanc's character in Episodes explained, there is a huge difference between the British sitcom and its American cousin. The biggest is the length of a season, often just six episodes in the UK. Fawlty Towers and The Office only made twelve programs in total. Story lines that run an entire season in the UK would not last in the 20+ episodes that an American sitcom typically delivers in a year.

[mike777]

 paulg, on 2012-November-21, 08:34, said:

As Matt LeBlanc's character in Episodes explained, there is a huge difference between the British sitcom and its American cousin. The biggest is the length of a season, often just six episodes in the UK. Fawlty Towers and The Office only made twelve programs in total. Story lines that run an entire season in the UK would not last in the 20+ episodes that an American sitcom typically delivers in a year.

Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television that was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Twelve episodes were made (two series, each of six episodes

How one puts a 12 episode show on a list and not put on I love lucy does seem like a very biased list of greatest sitcoms ever.

[Trinidad]

Maybe that "one" values quality over quantity?

Rik

[mikeh]

Seems like the website is like US sports commentators: any show that is the best in the US is the world champion.

As for ranking sitcoms, I wouldn't pretend to be able to do so. I mean, I didn't watch a single episode of at least 2 of the shows on the list.

But any list that didn't include Fawlty Towers is deficient. Sure it lasted only 12 episodes, but some of those episodes were so tightly plotted and brilliantly written that some lines may live on for many years. My personal favourite has to be Basil, after Sybil threatens him by telling him he knows what'll happen if she finds him gambling, says: 'you'll have to sew them back on first'.

And Cleese has to be the best physical comedian of our times.

TBBT was imo truly brilliant during its first few seasons but has definitely lost its edge over the last season and so far this season, and I think in any event it is too early to include it in any all-time list. I can add that I think that the actor who plays Sheldon (I have a mind-freeze at the moment so forget his name) seems to possess some Cleese-like physical comedic skills as well.

[blackshoe]

 mikeh, on 2012-November-21, 10:20, said:

TBBT was imo truly brilliant during its first few seasons but has definitely lost its edge over the last season and so far this season, and I think in any event it is too early to include it in any all-time list. I can add that I think that the actor who plays Sheldon (I have a mind-freeze at the moment so forget his name) seems to possess some Cleese-like physical comedic skills as well.

Jim Parsons. He's won several awards for the part.

[billw55]

Everyone has an opinion. I also thought that WKRP was hilarious, and Cheers excellent too. Big Bang Theory is just annoying and bad. And really, Soap?

Probably my favorites that were not listed are MASH and Will and Grace.

For British shows, besides FT, I thought Coupling was funny. Does Doctor Who count as a sitcom?

Honorable mention for fine performances goes to Third Rock From the Sun. Pretty ordinary on its own merits, probably below average, but Curtin and Lithgow are brilliant and made it much better that it really was.

[blackshoe]

Doctor Who? No.