TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby mrpotatohead » Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:52 am

. Terry & June
2. Sorry
3. Our Kid
4. Get Some In
5. My Family
6. Friends
7. butterflies
8. Ever Decreasing Circles
9. That Hyacinth Bouquet sh1te
10. Please Sir
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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby Christies Child » Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:55 am

I don't know about 10...but I do the evenings washing up / load the dishwasher when East Enders is on.

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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby mrpotatohead » Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:14 am

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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby Christies Child » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:19 am

.....all I know is that it makes my wife and daughter :lol: :lol: :lol: .......which is pretty :( :( :( in my opinion
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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby Heysham_Shrimp » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:35 am

Why be negative and go for the 10 worst.

why not the 10 best ?

I will start it off with my favourite sit com


(1) Fawlty Towers
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Postby The Marksman » Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:25 am

Heysham_Shrimp wrote:Why be negative and go for the 10 worst.

why not the 10 best ?

I will start it off with my favourite sit com


(1) Fawlty Towers


Good shout. I'll add:

Coupling
Game On
Men Behaving Badly
The Inbetweeners
The Detectives

...and not strictly a sitcom, but one of the funniest programmes to have been on TV in the last 10 years - Teachers.
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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby shrimper » Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:34 pm

Comedy, like music and food, is so subjective but, for me....

Fawlty Towers
The Office
Extras
Nighty Night (first series)
Early Doors
Royle Family
The Young Ones
Filthy, Rich and Catflap
(though those last two were definitely 'of the age' and haven't stood the test of time so well)
Flight of the Conchords
Ab Fab

......are ones, off the top of my head, that tickle me.

Coupling - for me a poor man's Friends (which I don't particularly rave about but is the superior version IMO, a bit less clumsy in 'build up to a punchline' format. BTW I don't know how they got away with selling 'Coupling' 'back' to the US as it was a straight Friends rip-off anyway).

Also 'Only Fools...' - most over-rated comedy ever (IMO). Not rubbish but nowhere near the 'classic' it's made out to be. No better than the likes of Hi-de-Hi and 'Allo Allo'.
Again, very formulaic 'di dum di dum.... obvious punchline'.
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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby Mark S » Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:11 pm

Not going out

The funniest thing on TV in the last 3 years :D
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Postby The Fury » Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:31 pm

Favourites:-

1. Red Dwarf
2. Blackadder
3. Peep Show
4. Game On
5. Frasier
6. Only Fools & Horses
7. Father Ted
8. Friends
9. Citizen Smith
10. Monday Monday
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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby Freez » Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:01 pm

Here goes - not my worst ten, but ten of my faves...

Fawlty Towers, sheer genius, farce at its finest.
Phoenix Nights, ditto, some classic episodes.
Father Ted, mental, wierd and silly, all at the same time.
Frasier, consistently funny, sometimes brilliant.
Early Doors, a grower, with characters not caricatures.
Spaced, Simon Pegg before he went Hollywood, silly and funny.
The Thick of It, very visceral and sweary but some insults are hilarious.
The original Reggie Perrin with Leonard Rossiter, again silly lines and fantasy.
The Good Life, cozy yet warm and funny. Felicity Kendal, nothing more to be said.
Loved the Young Ones but boy has it dated badly!!

There are more.....love Kath & Kim and Flight of the Conchords, also Summer Heights High was so bloody daft... the list goes on....
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Postby marky No.1 » Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:17 pm

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Postby marky No.1 » Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:20 pm

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Postby marky No.1 » Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:22 pm

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Postby marky No.1 » Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:23 pm

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Postby morecambe mick » Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:46 pm

Seriously Mark, you should give some consideration to finding a "job of work" :!:


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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby Martin » Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:55 pm

1. Fawlty Towers
2. The Office
3. Not Going Out
4. Frasier
5. Father Ted
6. Early Doors
7. Royle Family
8. Phoenix Nights
9. Blackadder
10. Dinnerladies
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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby ockers » Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:04 pm

my fave uk sitcoms

Whatever happened to the likely lads
Steptoe and Son
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
I didnt know you cared
Fawlty Towers
Dads Army
Porridge
Open All Hours
On the Buses
The Good Life

all from the 70ss just think theyre the best
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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby Keith » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:48 pm

Mark S wrote:Not going out

The funniest thing on TV in the last 3 years :D


Without a doubt! Lee Mac one liners are superb! Tim Vine is actually incredibly quick with one liners in his stand up routine.

Top totty too...
























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The other fantastic sitcom that was under rated has to be Green Wing! Totally surreal and quite dark at times. For me it comes in above Scrubs for two reasons. firstly that darker side and also, Scrubs went on a couple of series too long, where Green Wing (like Not Going Out) quite while it was ahead.

So that is...

Not Going Out,
Green Wing,
Scrubs,
Faulty Towers,
Father Ted,
Inbetweeners,
Two Pints of Lager & a Packet of Crisps (first couple of series, awful show now).
Big Bang Theory, (more top totty too!)
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The I.T. Crowd,
Soap.

Tomorrow I'd put them in a totally different order! Does Family Guy count as a sitcom?
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Postby Curly » Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:03 pm

Green wing was superb, Mark Heap (Dr Alan Statham),Michelle Gomez (Sue white) and Pippa Haywood (Joanna Clore) were three of the funniest characters i've seen in a sitcom. :lol: :lol: :lol:

No one rated Rising Damp? :o
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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby RedRedWine1 » Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:39 am

In no particular order:

I'm Alan Partridge
The Office
The Inbetweeners
Fawlty Towers
Phoenix Nights
The League of Gentlemen
Peepshow
Monkey Dust
Blackadder
The Royale Family
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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby Aspers » Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:26 am

I was Once in an episode of a sitcom called Cheltenham 123. (bet no one remembers that 1 to be honest I'm not sure its even called that)
I was stood holding a horse. 8-)

Life in the spotlight can be tough.

A lot of it was in Latin with English subtitles! :lol:
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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby durianmuncher » Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:41 am

I'm not really into sitcoms at all anyway, but three I really loved and enjoy brushing the dust off the dvd sets now and again are:-

1. Mind Your Language
2. Please Sir!
3. Fawlty Towers.
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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby Keith » Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:43 am

Aspers wrote:A lot of it was in Latin with English subtitles! :lol:


Can't imagine why it didn't take off? Was it as good as Up Pompeii?
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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby sgt major » Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:40 am

Who remembers "The Dustbin Men"

Cheese and Onioin
Smelly Ibbotson
Winston

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Re: TOP TEN WORST SITCOMS OF ALL TIME

Postby mrpotatohead » Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:52 am

I think he was called cheese and egg :?: :?:
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