Best American Sitcom?

[pool_hustler]

What say ye, Freeones voters?

 

[Scancunt42]

all-time:
Married with children

current:
The Big Bang Theory

 

[FreeOnes_Adam]

I'm going with Lucy. It was before things just went totally marketed.


I like when she got drunk off the cough medicine. Or whatever the hell it was.

 

[CrimsonBolt]

Where is Family Matters?!!!

 

[ThatRedWing]

I've gotta go with M*A*S*H. Just about as close to a perfect show as you could get.

 

[sean miguel]

Lost

Does unintentional count?

 

[Scancunt42]

I like Family Matters,but it's too "sugary" if you know what i mean....i prefer family guy/married with children where they treat eachother like crap. It's way funnier

 

[pool_hustler]

Where is Family Matters?!!!

Sorry OBD, it didn't make the final cut. I considered adding 8 more but decided to leave it at a dozen.

 

[FreeOnes_Adam]

I was a pretty big fan of Roseanne myself. And the Cosby Show. Yes, commence the pudding jokes.

 

[Bribi1]

MWC is my all-time favorite.
Then Friends. And Seinfeld. I've seen Seinfeld only once so far, so I put it behind Friends, but Seinfeld was very good too.

 

[CrimsonBolt]

I like Family Matters,but it's too "sugary" if you know what i mean....i prefer family guy/married with children where they treat eachother like crap. It's way funnier

I grew up watching this show, Steve Urkel always made me laugh, a bit sugary yep but it was a great show.
As for Family guy i've seen one or two episode and i didn't like it.

Sorry OBD, it didn't make the final cut. I considered adding 8 more but decided to leave it at a dozen.

Well from the list the only show that i know is friends, but i see this one too much time on tv (generally they use the same episodes two days in a row (in my country) so they kill that sitcom.

 

[pool_hustler]

For me this is a tossup between All In The Family, Seinfeld, The Honeymooners and Cheers.
I lean towards Seinfeld as being the funniest in terms of pure humor, but All In The Family made a tremendous societal impact, along with being brilliantly performed and written. So Archie Bunker gets the nod from me.

 

[Chopper3000]

Channel 4 in the UK used to be one of the great starting grounds for the anarchic & alternative comedy scene. Then along came a chap called Michael Grade as channel 4 controller and dropped it all in favour of 'cheap' imported american sitcoms. I have an immense aversion to such genre so much so that I've only actually seen Married with Children & Cheers from the above list. So as I've visited the Bull & Finch in Boston as made famous by Cheers, my vote goes to Married with Children.

 

[Ace Bandage]

I'm going with Lucy. It was before things just went totally marketed.


I like when she got drunk off the cough medicine. Or whatever the hell it was.

Vitameatavegamin, Adam. How do you forget that?

And yes, I Love Lucy has to be up near the top. I watched reruns on Nick-at-Nite back in high school. Good, wholesome comedy in every episode. Those were the days.

 

[ChuckFaze]

MAN! This is a tough question because there are / have just been so many great ones.

But, even though the Series Finale sucked more than a Black Hole sucking in a planet ... I gave the edge to Seinfeld.

 

[pool_hustler]

Vitameatavegamin

:glugglug:

But, even though the Series Finale sucked more than a Black Hole sucking in a planet ... I gave the edge to Seinfeld.

Yeah? Actually I thought the finale was pretty good. I liked that it brought back so many of the extra characters from previous seasons, all united in one goal

 

[DrakeM]

I gotta go with the nightly news back when George W. Bush was president. Best president for entertaining quotes ever.

 

[Jagger69]

As the consummate fan of "The Great One", I voted for The Honeymooners. Two that did not make your list that certainly should have are Barney Miller and Sanford & Son. Matter of subjectivity I suppose....you can't list 'em all.

 

[pool_hustler]

As the consummate fan of "The Great One"

You and me both, Jagger. It was hard to vote against him.

Two that did not make your list that certainly should have are Barney Miller and Sanford & Son. Matter of subjectivity I suppose....you can't list 'em all.

Two excellent shows, for sure.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is the shit, son. The first couple seasons of The League. Wilfred (although it was originally an Aussie show).