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Favourite Sitcoms
My favourite Sitcoms would have to be Only Fool And Horses and Fawlty Towers but what is your favourite.
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02-07-2011, 17:13
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
Hmmmmmmmm I'd have to say - My Family and The Royle Family
and I agree about Fawlty Tower's
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02-07-2011, 17:19
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
Cheers, Frasier, Spaced, Fawlty Towers, Malcolm in the Middle, Blackadder, The Young Ones, The Vicar of Dibley, Married... With Children, Will & Grace, Simpsons, Family Guy, Yes Minister (and Yes, Prime Minister), Men Behaving Badly, Red Dwarf (the first couple of series), Drop the Dead Donkey, Butterflies, Bottom, Goodnight Sweetheart.
I have a lot of favourites.....
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02-07-2011, 17:23
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
Many of the same Hugh listed ... Fawlty Towers is right up there for me, as is Spaced and Father Ted. I'm really quite enjoying PhoneShop at the moment as well. It has something of the old-fashioned slapstick and farce about it that is often missing from a lot of modern so-called comedy.
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02-07-2011, 17:25
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Cheers, Frasier, Spaced, Fawlty Towers, Malcolm in the Middle, Blackadder, The Young Ones, The Vicar of Dibley, Married... With Children, Will & Grace, Simpsons, Family Guy, Yes Minister (and Yes, Prime Minister), Men Behaving Badly, Red Dwarf (the first couple of series), Drop the Dead Donkey, Butterflies, Bottom, Goodnight Sweetheart.
I have a lot of favourites.....
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Yes you do have a lot of favourites but it is so hard to pick a even a couple of them when there are so many great past, recent and present series.
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Many of the same Hugh listed ... Fawlty Towers is right up there for me, as is Spaced and Father Ted. I'm really quite enjoying PhoneShop at the moment as well. It has something of the old-fashioned slapstick and farce about it that is often missing from a lot of modern so-called comedy.
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Yes l am not that much a fan of some of the present day comedy.
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02-07-2011, 17:27
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
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02-07-2011, 17:29
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
My Family is well past its sell-by date, for example. Goodness only knows how it has kept going for so long ... a house full of characters that are still utterly two-dimensional after so many years on-screen is unforgivable, even in a sitcom. And its writers have still not twigged that if you derive all your comedy from making your characters irritating and unsympathetic, you make your entire programme irritating and unengaging.
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02-07-2011, 17:32
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
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Yes a wonderful sitcom with so many excellent characters in it.
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My Family is well past its sell-by date, for example. Goodness only knows how it has kept going for so long ... a house full of characters that are still utterly two-dimensional after so many years on-screen is unforgivable, even in a sitcom. And its writers have still not twigged that if you derive all your comedy from making your characters irritating and unsympathetic, you make your entire programme irritating and unengaging.
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Yes l would class My Family as a average sitcom compared to a lot of others.
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02-07-2011, 17:34
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
Frasier and Father Ted definately...
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02-07-2011, 17:39
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
You forgot to put Will and Grace! but i voted Friends.
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02-07-2011, 17:49
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
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Yes a wonderful sitcom with so many excellent characters in it.
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It was an appalling show when it was first aired.It was racist,sexist,ageist,
homophobic and totally unfunny. I cringe at the reruns.
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02-07-2011, 17:53
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
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It was an appalling show when it was first aired.It was racist,sexist,ageist,
homophobic and totally unfunny. I cringe at the reruns.
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But you have to look at it and take it for what it is and thats with a pinch of salt as its not meant to offend anyone.
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You forgot to put Will and Grace! but i voted Friends.
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l could have put 60 in the poll but there is only space for 30
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02-07-2011, 18:02
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
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But you have to look at it and take it for what it is and thats with a pinch of salt as its not meant to offend anyone.
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l could have put 60 in the poll but there is only space for 30
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It wasn't funny.If it had been the rest wouldn't matter.
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02-07-2011, 18:22
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Re: Favourite Sitcoms
I liked Miked Your Language. and that indian guy that said "oh bloody hell"
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