Favorite Sitcom

[MasterOLightning]

The Office (USA)

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Seinfeld cant be beat

 

[mutantllama]

Seinfeld is the best sitcom ever. Friends is usually pretty good. As for current ones 30 Rock, The Office (USA), and How I Met Your Mother are all great. I also like Frasier.

I watch Friends a bit, because I don't get much tv. I also watch 2 and a half men once in a while.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

golden girls

 

[whiskey funeral]

Married...With Children, Seinfeld, The Office, All In The Family. I'm shocked no one mentioned Scrubs. I really hate that show but it seems a bit odd how it was not mentioned yet.

Also, I know a lot of you probably watched the TGIF lineup from the early 90s. Don't lie. You thought Balki from Perfect Strangers was the the coolest ever.

 

[Heat Mizer]

golden girls

Fuckin hot!!!

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Seinfeld is the only.

 

[skeptik]

only seinfeld

my life in jewish form

 

[mutantllama]

 

[Omni]

only seinfeld

my life in jewish form

I also agree.

 

[Vossyrus]

I haven't really watched any sitcoms in years. Seinfeld was good, but really just the first few seasons (most sitcoms are only good for a couple of years).

 

[mutantllama]

Seinfeld was good for pretty much all of the seasons imo.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I haven't really watched any sitcoms in years. Seinfeld was good, but really just the first few seasons (most sitcoms are only good for a couple of years).

Get the fuck out.

 

[Vossyrus]

Get the fuck out.

pttf...eff no

I think the show did better in it's later years than most sitcoms do, but still...like a lot of them, the writing became weaker over the years and more predictable, and the jokes weren't as funny or clever. The lol-ness was replaced with lame jokes/wise-cracks etc.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I disagree.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

 

[Satanstoenail]

Seinfeld is my favorite traditional American sitcom. So many classic episodes.

 

[Xorv]

seinfeld

 

[Psychonaut]

Lack of even a mention for News Radio means all of you suck.

Spin City was great too.

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

One of the good / interesting things about Seinfeld was that none of the characters ever really had an arc (the only exception I can think of would be George's engagement, his various jobs and stretches of unemployment, and the show he and Jerry were going to create) and the stories were mostly, for lack of a better word, simple. Most episodes were pretty stand-alone and, generally, nothing particularly important happened to the characters. I think that really helped the show stay fresh for a long time, since they did not have to contend with the pitfall of writing themselves into corners.

Take Scrubs for example. I liked the first few seasons, but by season four, so much shit had happened with the characters and their relationships with each other that the writers had to take into account. Characters being married, having kids, going through messy breaks up, promotions, deaths, etc. Eventually that really starts to limit where you can take a character. With Seinfeld, they avoided this pretty well and so still had a lot of freedom with the characters late into the show's run.

I say this, of course, as someone who was never that into the show. I always liked George and Kramer. I did not care for Jerry, though.