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Your Top 5 favourite sitcoms

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Stewart said:
    Surprised by the lack of times Only Fools and Horses is listed. 
    Very funny, but personally I think it went on a bit too long and had too many spin offs.

    Should have been killed off at the point Damien was born, if not a bit before.
  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    When they auctioned the watch and became millionaires should have been the end. 
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Stig said:
    Stewart said:
    Surprised by the lack of times Only Fools and Horses is listed. 
    Very funny, but personally I think it went on a bit too long and had too many spin offs.

    Should have been killed off at the point Damien was born, if not a bit before.
    Also very funny in it’s time. Apart from the classic set pieces and occasional bits of dialogue it doesn’t cut it for me. A bit like Morecombe and Wise. At the time I ached with laughter watching their shows but now meh.
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Farty Towels
    OFAH
    Blackadder
    The Office
    Goodnight Sweetheart
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    Citizen Smith 

    (1977 -1980)

    Robert Lindsay was 'Wolfie' Smith, self-proclaimed leader of the revolutionary 'Tooting Popular Front'.

    This amusing series was written by John Sullivan, who went on to write Only Fools and Horses.

     
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    Bottom
    Father Ted
    I'm Alan Partridge
    The Office
    The Inbetweeners

    Only Fools and Horses was great, but In my opinion it should have finished in the early 90s. Rodney's character changed at some point, I'm not sure when it happened, but the moment he stopped being a dimwit the joke was over.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Seinfeld
    One Foot In The Grave
    The Office (US) 
    League Of Gentlemen
    Phoenix Nights
  • up_the_valley
    up_the_valley Posts: 4,186
    edited March 2020
    Rodney became intelligent and too self sufficient as soon as he met Cassandra (Yuppy Love). I feel that Raquel (Rachel) also spoiled Dels character somewhat.  He offered her somewhere to live (The Jolly Boys Outing) and suddenly became all controlling. This goes completely against Dels character.  Still my favourite show though. 
  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,342
    Only Fools & Horses
    One Foot in the Grave
    Fawlty Towers
    Whatver Happened To The Likely Lads
    Phoenix Nights
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    if you ask me a dozen times I probably wouldn’t give you the same 5 any one time, but I would say OFAH and Fawlty Towers would be in all 12 answers and Modern Family would appear more often than not.

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  • sinceiwasyoung
    sinceiwasyoung Posts: 1,040
    Some Mothers Do Av Em
    Steptoe and Son
    Bless This House
    George and Mildred
    Robin's Nest
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,491
    Fawlty Towers is perfection.
    Apart from that any four from 30 or so depending on what springs to mind.
  • Sarrf_London
    Sarrf_London Posts: 523
    FFS The Office? Not a single vote for Monty Python or Men Behaving Badly or The Young Ones, Hancock, The Worker. Liked Derry Girls, Bilko, Fonz. Personally Steptoe, Young Offenders, Inbetweeners are up there but hard to narrow down to five. Comedy you consistently laughed at or ones that occasionally actually split your sides?
  • cubes
    cubes Posts: 8
    Couldn't  pick just 5 straight so picked from categories. In no order 

    5 from here
    Peep show 
    Only fools 
    Men behaving badly
    It crowd 
    Car share 

    5 USA 
    Fraiser 
    Curb 
    Seinfeld 
    Two and a half men 
    Parks and rec 

    5 animated 
    Simpsons
    South park 
    Family guy 
    King of the hill 
    Rick and morty 
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Sarrf_London said:
    FFS The Office? Not a single vote for Monty Python or Men Behaving Badly or The Young Ones, Hancock, The Worker. Liked Derry Girls, Bilko, Fonz. Personally Steptoe, Young Offenders, Inbetweeners are up there but hard to narrow down to five. Comedy you consistently laughed at or ones that occasionally actually split your sides?
    Monty Python a sketch show not a sitcom
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    To be honest I tried to pick the 5 I enjoyed the most at the time of their original broadcast.
    As some of them are 50+ years old I doubt I'd like them so much if I was watching them now with an older mans eyes.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,170
    Arrested Development
    Community
    Futurama
    Silicon Valley
    Peep Show (s1-4)
  • Leeds_Addick
    Leeds_Addick Posts: 4,700
    They've all been mentioned already but off the top of my head

    1. Flight of the Conchords
    2. Phoenix Nights
    3. The Office (US)
    4. Peep Show
    5. The Royle Family
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,297
    My list would change on a daily basis, probably.

    Today's list in no particular order:

    Steptoe and Son
    Fawlty Towers
    Blackadder
    Phoenix Nights
    Ever Decreasing Circles

    Tomorrow's list could be

    Dads Army
    The Thin Blue Line
    It Aint Half Hot Mum (I am currently watching the box set)
    On The Buses
    OFAH

  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,268
    Friends
    Only fools and horses
    The big bang theory
    Always sunny in Philadelphia
    Fawlty Towers
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  • CH4RLTON
    CH4RLTON Posts: 2,618
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    CH4RLTON said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Mine in no particular order:

    This Country
    Detectorists
    Dad's Army
    Porridge
    Blackadder
    This Country is underrated,  one the funniest things thatvhas ever been on telly.

    I think it's criminally underrated - the writing is superb and the characters are all well developed. It's a great observation of rural life for the young in modern Britain. Hard to choose a favourite character.
    The Vicar is a fantastic character, however the actress who plays Kerry is just boss.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Stig said:
    Stewart said:
    Surprised by the lack of times Only Fools and Horses is listed. 
    Very funny, but personally I think it went on a bit too long and had too many spin offs.

    Should have been killed off at the point Damien was born, if not a bit before.
    I also think the Raquel actress was poorly cast.

  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    Sarrf_London said:
    FFS The Office? Not a single vote for Monty Python or Men Behaving Badly or The Young Ones, Hancock, The Worker. Liked Derry Girls, Bilko, Fonz. Personally Steptoe, Young Offenders, Inbetweeners are up there but hard to narrow down to five. Comedy you consistently laughed at or ones that occasionally actually split your sides?
    Never saw Monty Python as a sitcom. It was more a sketch show wasn’t it?
    Lots of votes for the Young Ones and MBB, I think. 
  • BrentfordAddick
    BrentfordAddick Posts: 1,460
    sam3110 said:
    Friends
    Only fools and horses
    The big bang theory
    Always sunny in Philadelphia
    Fawlty Towers
    Always Sunny is a great shout. 
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,783
    edited March 2020
    Stig said:
    SoundAsa£ said:
    SantaClaus said:
    Parks and Recreation
    Curb Your Enthusiasm
    Camping
    Extras
    Flight of the Concords
    Never heard of any of ‘em?
    The three I've heard of are absolute crackers, so on that basis I'll be checking out Parks and Recreation and Camping.
    Parks and Rec is superb, but be warned - season 1 isn’t all that.
    It only starts getting really good when Adam Scott and Rob Lowe turn up near the end of season 2. It then becomes terrific.
  • BrentfordAddick
    BrentfordAddick Posts: 1,460
    lordromford said:

    Parks and Rec is superb, but be warned - season 1 isn’t all that.
    Glad you said that, watched the first few and it felt like an Office retread. Will try again. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,847
    killerandflash said:
    Only Fools and Horses
    Dad's Army
    Yes Minister/Prime Minister
    Red Dwarf (S2 to S6)
    Porridge
    Not quite in my top 5, but as I'm not sure it's been mentioned, Drop the Dead Donkey was really good too
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,449
    CH4RLTON said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    CH4RLTON said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Mine in no particular order:

    This Country
    Detectorists
    Dad's Army
    Porridge
    Blackadder
    This Country is underrated,  one the funniest things thatvhas ever been on telly.

    I think it's criminally underrated - the writing is superb and the characters are all well developed. It's a great observation of rural life for the young in modern Britain. Hard to choose a favourite character.
    The Vicar is a fantastic character, however the actress who plays Kerry is just boss.
    The actors playing Kurtan and Kerry are brother and sister in real life and also wrote it which perhaps explains why the dialogue is so good and the acting so natural. The vicar I agree is a great character.
  • Silverdreammachine
    Silverdreammachine Posts: 370
    Only Fools and Horses
    Rising Damp
    This Country
    Only when I laugh
    Fawty Towers

    Any order - all great!
  • YoungFishCosta4tune
    YoungFishCosta4tune Posts: 124
    edited March 2020
    I've edited this 3 times, gonna copy @cubes formula!

    UK:
    The Office (UK)
    Blackadder
    Peep Show
    Fawlty Towers
    The Young Ones

    US:
    Curb Your Enthusiasm
    Arrested Development
    Scrubs (minus the botched ending, no thanks to the writer's strike!)
    Trailer Park Boys (actually Canadian)
    Malcolm in the Middle

    Animated:
    South Park
    Beavis & Butt-Head
    King of the Hill
    Futurama
    Brickleberry

    Honourable mentions:
    Bottom
    Detectorists
    Extras
    Happy Days
    One Foot in the Grave
    Only Fools & Horses (before the endless deteriorating specials)
    Phoenix Nights
    Red Dwarf
    Seinfeld
    The Simpsons (would've made top 5 if they'd quit shortly after their golden era)

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