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There's an ocean of poo poo sitcoms you have to wade through to find the good ones, but that's the case with anything on TV. Go on YouTube and you can find ads the networks would run in the fall advertising their prime time lineup. The vast majority of those shows don't make it past one season because they're awful. It's hard to find a show where the writing and acting click and everything works. As for sitcoms from the past you should check out (these are off the top of my head): I Love Lucy Hogan's Heroes All In the Family The Jeffersons Good Times (at least the first couple seasons) Get Smart Sanford and Son Threes Company Happy Days (the first couple seasons are pretty good before it turned into the Fonzie show) Laverne and Shirley Green Acres (yes really. the show is goofy as gently caress and Eva Gabor is really good in it) Taxi (from the same creative team as Frasier) WKRP in Cincinnatiiiiiiiiii Soap Police Squad
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Is Soap streaming anywhere? I haven't watched it since Comedy Central aired reruns decades ago.
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Feb 15, 2021 00:54
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Cheers holds up and is still hilarious. Family Ties...not so much. It's an OK sitcom that's held up by a lightning in a bottle performance in Michael J Fox. As for his character? It's fine. His right-leaning personality is pretty much just 'make lots of money and like Ronald Reagan. If the character were transported to 2021 he would be a centrist democrat. Pluto has a 24/7 Family Ties channel if you want to check it out. edit: Since you mentioned Cheers, I'll also plug Taxi again. It has a lot of the same creatives behind Cheers. Danny DeVito's character Louie is one of the all time great TV characters. Judd Hirsch, Marilu Henner are great. Andy Kaufman does his thing and it's amazing. Christopher Lloyd's Reverend Jim is another one of those all time great characters as well. A lot of the episodes are on different streaming platforms but I don't think the whole thing is available anywhere aside from DVD. double edit: If you want to check out some classic sitcoms for free, here's some options: Pluto: Family Ties, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, Three's Company, the Addams Family, Beverly Hillbillies, Wings. Some of these channels rotate other stuff too but I can't remember what else they have. Shoutfactory TV: Car 54 Where Are You, Dennis the Menace, Father Knows Best, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. The Roku Channel: Bewitched, I dream of Jeanie, . Actually, this channel has a few episodes of a lot of sitcoms, so I won't list them all, but you can check it out. Peacock: 3rd Rock from the Sun, 30 Rock, Leave it to Beaver, the Munsters Jose Oquendo fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 15, 2021 02:07
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I would argue that almost every TV show format is formulaic to an extent. For sitcoms that can be a strength or a liability. If the characters are well written, liked, and the jokes are good, then it being formulaic isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's like comfort food. Binge watching has changed things, but there's a certain comfort to sitting down every Thursday night to see what Sam Malone and the gang at Cheers are up to this week. On the other hand, if a sitcom has bad writing or if the characters are stale then you're going to notice the formulaic stuff a lot easier.
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