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Your Top 5 favourite sitcoms

hoof_it_up_to_benty
hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,449
edited March 2020 in Not Sports Related
Mine in no particular order:

This Country
Detectorists
Dad's Army
Porridge
Blackadder
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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,740
    Phoenix Nights 
    Extras 
    Blackadder ( not the first series)
    The Thick of It 
    Alan Partridge 
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    Any list without Only Fools should be discounted immediately 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,790
    edited March 2020
    Only Fools And Horses
    The Office
    Alan Partridge
    Fawlty Towers
    Hancock's Half Hour
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,335
    Fawlty Towers 
    The Office 
    This Country 
    Curb Your Enthusiasm 
    The Thick Of It
  • Whatever happened to the Likely Lads
    Porridge
    Fawlty Towers
    Allo Allo
    The Good Life
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,665
    OFAH
    The Office (UK)
    I'm Alan Partridge
    Extras
    Dad's Army
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    The one I'm watching most at the moment: This Country
    Funniest moment I've seen in the last year: Trevor Bagstone's rant about Martin Mucklowe in This Country (The Aftermath)
    Last one I watched most: Young Offenders, the original film is pretty good too
    One that cracks me up every time: Phoenix Nights
    Best import: Curb Your Enthusiasm
    Character I Most Associate With: Larry David
    Most outrageously Funny: Peep Show
    Consistently good after many series and specials: OFAH
    Childhood Faves: Dads Army and Porridge
    Off The Wall: Green Wing
    Most Under-rated: The Smoking Room
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Reading all those others, wish I'd thought of Extras, that's great.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601

    Love Thy Neighbour

    It Ain't Half Hot Mum

    Mind Your language

    Up The Elephant and Round The Castle

    Till Death Do Us Part

  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    In no particular order:

    One foot in the grave
    League of gentlemen
    The office
    Blackadder
    Phoenix nights

    Will probably change overnight to include the likes of men behaving badly, curb your enthusiasm, friends (back in the day, it was must watch television), Simpsons before it turned shit, family guy (ditto), green wing
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  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    Only Fools and Horses 
    Porridge 
    Brush Strokes 
    Fawlty Towers 
    The Good Life 
  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    1. Dad’s Army
    2. Dear John
    3. Spaced ( technically a sitcom or not? I dunno. Anyway, it’s on my list)
    4. The Office
    5. Whatever happened to the Likely Lads?
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Only Fools and Horses
    Dad's Army
    Yes Minister/Prime Minister
    Red Dwarf (S2 to S6)
    Porridge
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,673
    1. I'm Alan Partridge
    2. The Office (UK)
    3. IT Crowd
    4. Gavin & Stacey 
    5. Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,919
    Fawlty Towers & Yes minister are my top 2. Cant decide on the rest.
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    edited March 2020
    Tried to pick 5 and had

    Only Fools
    Friends
    Gavin and Stacey
    Big Bang Theory 
    The Office

    Then I thought of
    Extras
    Dads Army
    Fawlty Towers
    My Family(Early Series before Nick left) 
    Inbetweeners
    HIMYM

    Plus I am sure there are others I cant think of ATM lol, would be hard to pick a top 10
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480
    Fawlty Towers
    Blackadder
    Steptoe and Son
    Till Death Us Do Part
    Dad’s Army 
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Seinfeld
    The Larry Sanders Show
    Whatever happened to the likely lads
    Yes minister and Prime Minister
    Reggie Perrin
  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    edited March 2020
    I really like IT Crowd and Peep Show and all the Alan Partridge stuff as well, hard to pick just 5 eh.
  • Its_Hamer_Time
    Its_Hamer_Time Posts: 1,565
    The Office (UK)
    Extras
    OFAH
    Gavin & Stacey
    Phoenix Nights
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  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    On the Buses 
    Not Going Out 
    The Brittas Empire 
    Game On
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,126
    We’ve definitely done this before as so many people forget how good Just Good Friends and Dear John were......
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,487
    The Office UK
    The Office US
    Peep Show
    IT Crowd
    Nighty Night
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,370
    edited March 2020
    Only Fools and Horses

    Notable mentions to The Office, Inbetweeners and Alan Partridge, but OFAH is the undisputed king.

  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,844
    Blackadder
    Phoenix Nights
    The Office
    Peep Show
    Only Fools


    Special mentions:
    Porridge
    The Young Ones
    House of Fools
    Inbetweeners
    Bottom
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,677
    Fools and horses 
    Dad's army 
    Black Adder
    Porridge 
    Till death do us part
  • How, in the name of God, could anyone not include Fawlty Towers.
    Just weird.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    In no order -

    Aint Half Hot Mum
    OFAH
    Fawlty Towers
    Black Adder Goes Fourth (Not seen any of the others)
    The Office

  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    OFAH, Fawlty Towers, Alan Partridge. Not Going Out & Blackadder.
  • Suprised nobody's mentioned "Community" yet

    One of the funniest things I've watched