Greatest Sitcom of All Time?

[Holiday]

Newsradio *****s

That's not a bad choice. I use to watch that show every morning on A&E a few years ago. A lot of great laughs there.

 

[The Englishman]

Fawlty Towers
Steptoe and Son
Only Fools and Horses
Dads Army
The Young Ones
Red Dwarf
The Office
Spaced
Peep Show
Green Wing
Cheers
Seinfield
Frasier
Scrubs
Black Adder
Im Alan Partridge
The Simpsons
South Park ( Do the last two count?)

 

[.Rorschach.]

It's a tie between

Arrested Development
Curb Your Enthusiasm
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Seinfeld
The Young Ones

 

[Kable24]

The Sitcom that started it all....
I Love Lucy - Personally, I am not a fan, but this show started a lot of what we still see today.
The Honeymooners
Three's Company
Seinfeld
Cheers
Frasier
Two and a Half Men hehe
MASH
The Simpsons

 

[nite-owl]

Father Ted

 

[CBG]

Family Matters for me.

 

[lou2099]

The greatest sitcom of all time to me is a no-brainer:

Gilligan's Island.

 

[Addendum]

Fawlty Towers

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[<(o_o)>]

First RE:Avatar; if that's you, WOW!

Great list. all great sitcoms.

No, that is not me in my avatar because I AM A GUY! This is the girl in my avatar without the green make-up. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1909522/

 

[Sawyer]

Arrested Development has to be my all-time favorite sitcom. Just pure genius.

Scrubs and It's Always Sunny are also hilarious.

 

[Darkly Dexter]

Friends and Seinfeld

Boy meets world was a good one.

 

[superhero]

my favorite are:
family ties
the hooney moones
i love lucy
night court
court ship of eddies father
my favorite martian
perfect strangers
the odd couple
welcome back,kottoer
happy days
sanford and son
the wonder years
boy meets world
the jerffersons
family matters
step by step
alf
the munsters
bob newheart show

 

[Roughneck]

Newsradio and The Tick

 

[Matt]

How are they not sitcoms? The definition of sitcom is a situational comedy. Curb Your Enthusiasm and Arrested Development are very much comedies, and are very much about situations.

In a very strange way, Arrested Development is very much a serialized comedy, not a situational. It has a long running, continuous story line which each week advanced and was very dependent on past episodes and drawbacks for plot points.

But I gotta give it to Curb or Seinfeld. Though Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office, and Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia can all be contenders.

 

[Double Down]

The Office (British version)
Arrested Development
Friends
How I Met Your Mother
Seinfeld
Scrubs
The Odd Couple

 

[Darkly Dexter]

In a very strange way, Arrested Development is very much a serialized comedy, not a situational. It has a long running, continuous story line which each week advanced and was very dependent on past episodes and drawbacks for plot points.

But I gotta give it to Curb or Seinfeld. Though Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office, and Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia can all be contenders.

How I Met Your Mother also has a long running story line very dependent on past episodes and it's still considered a Sitcom. That's not what defines the genre.

Quoting wikipedia "Sitcoms usually consist of recurring characters in a common environment such as a home, workplace or group of friends."

 

[블라스]

I'm torn between Seinfeld, Frasier, Scrubs, Arrested Development and a gem that no one has mentioned....Titus.

 

[Kabuki_Jo]

Seinfeld. Enough said.

 

[MoPlaYa]

Seinfeld
Cheers
Scrubs
Two and a Half Men

 

[K.B.]

All in the Family

 

[Majik1387]

I can't believe no one has yet mentioned The Cosby Show




And Seinfeld sucks ass, I don't know what show you guys who praise it were watching

 

[Matt.S99]

all in the family

win!

 

[Green Lantern]

How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, Weeds, Cheers and Wings

 

[JackBauer]

Seriously? No love for 3rd Rock From The Sun AT ALL?! Lithgow was pure genius in that.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

All in the Family

The sad thing, as great as that show was, it wouldn't make it out of the studio today. I doubt Sanford and Son would make it either.
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