My personal favorites: All in the Family, Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends, That 70's show, The Cosby Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Everybody Loves Raymond, Taxi, The Jeffersons, Faulty Towers, and Entourage if that counts.

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I was going to post the same thing - but Oli beat me to it.


Signor V.

Only Fools and Horses
The Office (Uk)

Friends
Fraiser

I love Lucy and The honey mooners because they still hold up no matter how many times you see them.

Then all of a sudden there is another one and that one is everybody loves Raymond.

Golden Girls, Andy Griffith.

Completely agree with you. Those are my favourite shows too. But I have to say that Seinfeld is no 1 (for me).

Soap was a big hit over here in the early 80s. Those guys were funny!

Sorry for posting it in the wrong thread guys. My mistake

No catastrophe, it's being moved to the TV Forum.

A few oldies off the top of my head:

I Love Lucy (Funny is funny, even after all these years.)

Burns & Allen (Gracie Allen was brilliant. Period.)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (A great ensemble cast.)

Chef (Lenny Henry as a black Gordon Ramsay - years ahead of its time.)

The Vicar of Dibley (A gem from beginning to end.)

Fawlty Towers (John Cleese. Basil. 'Nuff said. Or, should that be Flowery Twats?)

I'll probably think of more in the days to come, but for now, these are among my all-time favorites. (And I'm also showing my age!)


Signor V.

Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, WKRP, Lucy, Fawlty Towers, Honeymooners, and (how many remember this one?) Amos 'n Andy.

Are you old enough to remember Amos n Andy?

They both belonged to the mystic knights of the sea lodge hall.

I remember a bite they did about the atomic stove it just came out they said. So stoves of the future will become smaller and smaller. So in the future you will no longer put the turkey in the stove. You will put the stove in the turkey.

The Honeymooners was outstanding. I think the team of Gleason and Carney is the funniest in tv history.

I Love Lucy,The Andy Griffith Show, All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers, Seinfeld and Raymond are also favorites.

Many people rank the Chuckles the Clown episode on Mary Tyler Moore as the funniest sitcom episode of all time. It's certainly at the top. I also have to add the Honeymooners episode where Ralph and Norton make a live tv commercial.

Yes the honeymooner The chef of the future commercial funny.

Lucy when she worked in the candy factory, when she made wine with her feet, when she gave John Wayne a massage, when superman visited little Ricky birthday party, when she made cigars while in Cuba visiting rickys uncle then same episode showed Ricky and little Ricky singing Babalo and playing the conga drum I could go on and on

I will add everybody loves Raymond when his brother wants to join the secret service funny,

I know I'll forget some but off the top of my head:

I Love Lucy
Mary Tyler Moore
All In The Family
Taxi (Christopher Lloyd was my favorite)
Seinfeld (I actually didn't get into it into several seasons in). It seemed boring at first and then grew on me. I got to really enjoy it.)

I liked Burns & Allen but thought Gracie stole the show. AND, I loved Art Carney in The Honeymooners. I know I'm alone here, but I never found Jackie Gleason that funny. Thought he was a big mouth.

I memorized Ralph Kramden's outburst at his mother-in-law when she insulted him and spoiled the ending of the show he was planning to see. Then I used it on my mother-in-law when she visited.

"You are a BLABBERMOUTH! A Blabblabblab. You! Blabbermouth! Out! GET OUT!" My father-in-law was in stitches.

That was on a record Ralph recorded the idea given to him by nortonto appolizes to Alice's mother. But as he said it he got crazy again on thst first record. Then thry made another record norton made a mistake and gave that record to alice. norton showed the right record to allice later.

I can't watch an Ed norton movies with out thinking of carneys Ed norton sewer worker character.

To the moon TIS, to the moon!

I know Oli!! I'm in the minority here.

Btw, can you even imagine the outrage of the "To the moon Alice" phrase if it were used today???

Then again, I imagine a show like "All In The Family" (as hilarious as it was) would be big today.

Speaking of All In The Family, during that time, in my family, if my mom, sister or myself didn't quite grasp something or were slow to pick up on something, we'd quickly be called "Edith" by my dad & brothers. Of course we'd say to them "go stifle yourself."

TIS

Carrol O Conner was a liberal

I agree with alot of your choices Joe but my favourite has to be Arrested Development.

All the shows that the previous posters have listed are truly great shows and i enjoyed watching pretty much all of them.

But what, no mention of the show that put the Fox network on the map?

C'mon, admit it people, i bet more then a couple of you watched it too.

Great show especially the early seasons.
IMO, there will never be a sitcom better than The Honeymooners.

"Ralph, do you mind if I smoke?"

"I don't care if you burn."

Hey any of you guys like Entourage on HBO? That shit was friggin funny. If you don't believe me just look up Ari Gold on youtube

I never saw the Honeymooners till a year ago. I now watch it over and over. To me it's best show ever. Obvious they had small budget by the set, and they had restrictions on what they could say. Honeymooners shows that comedians can be funny without resorting to filthy jokes and cursing. I just watched episode where Ralph runs into his wife's old boyfriend, and tells him he owns bus company because he thinks other guy is rich business man.

Ralph learning how to golf on the honeymooners. Directions address the ball. Answer hello ball funny

This was an outstanding episode. When Ralph offered to pick up the dinner check and the dining companion didn't object, Ralph's reaction is classic.

Remember the ritual that Norton went through when he was about to sign something. I imagine him doing so had he been about to sign the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.