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The best sit-coms of all time
Mu Beta Posted Sep 20, 2002
It does actually work out as 10 if we don't include Hancock or Peter Kayt, neither of which are really sitcoms (they'll never make the top 20 page while I'm running it anyway 
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For any SOAP fans who are interested, it's just 4 points outside the top 20, now.
B
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Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday Posted Sep 20, 2002
*goes off in a strop to give blood* 
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Sep 20, 2002
Soap used to make me howl 
Dear John very gentle but made me laugh out loud
BlackAdder the WW1 series Sarcasm, Irony, Pathos & Bathos The Best.
Dad's Army, great cast, great writing.
Friends about series 3/4
Porridge - Ronnie Barker
Will try and think of another 4 later......
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Sep 21, 2002
Which are:
Fawlty Towers
Drop The Dead Donkey
Only Fools and Horses
MASH
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Bagpuss Posted Sep 21, 2002
I'd forgotten Rising Damp as well. Looking bak at my list it would fall outside the top ten anyway, so I won't confuse Master B by updating it.
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F F Churchton Posted Sep 23, 2002
I could'nt really get into Rising damp and Open all hours!!!
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Thin Lizzy Posted Sep 23, 2002
Four words:ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES. Don't even get me started.
Lizzy
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PQ Posted Sep 24, 2002
I can understand saying that league of gentlemen isnt a sitcom (its about 6 sitcoms running simulteaneously) but pheonix nights can only be described as a situation comedy
and as I've got about 2 votes left I'd like to put one toward pheonix nights.
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The Snockerty Friddle Posted Sep 24, 2002
Phoenix Nights
The Office
The Simpsons
Phoenix Nights
The Royle Family
Rising Damp
Coupling
Fawlty Towers
Phoenix Nights
The Simpsons
s t r e t c h i n g the description of sit-com a little I know, but most sit-coms stretch the description "comedy"
TSF
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F F Churchton Posted Sep 24, 2002
What on Earth is Phoenix Nights, is it that poor excuse for channel 4 programme to advertise for.
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Bright Blue Shorts Posted Sep 24, 2002
What about "Chelmsford 1-2-3"?
The name has slipped my mind, but what about the BBC2 sitcom with Samantha Janus, the ginger tosser and the agoraphobic bloke, Matt sharing a flat. The 2nd series had me in stitches ...
BBS
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Great Western Lettuce (no.51) Just cut down the fags instead Posted Sep 24, 2002
Game On!
Yeah that was great
The ginger tosser himself - GWL
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Bright Blue Shorts Posted Sep 24, 2002
Game On - that was it. Great stuff.
Can we have all the sitcoms mentioned on the voting page/entry. Then we can make an informed voting choice.
What system are we using? "First past the post" or "proportional representation"?
How about a knockout competition, where sitcoms go head to head with votes being cast for up to 5 days. Winner progresses to next round.
Anyone mentioned Cheers, or Taxi yet? I think they were really just rehashes of the same idea, which themselves seem to come from MASH.
How about some of those 80s US sitcoms ... Family Ties, Home Improvement, the Golden Girls, Diff'rent Strokes *cringes at thought of last two* ("What you talkin' about Willis?")
BBS
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PQ Posted Sep 24, 2002
Pheonix Nights = dodgy working mens type club taken over and managed by Peter Kay (or rather peter kay playing an angry man in a wheelchair) very funny but takes a little getting into (especially if you havent visited any working mens clubs in the north)
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The Ghost of Polidari Posted Sep 24, 2002
Fawlty Towers
Blackadder
Only Fools and Horses
Dad's Army
Father Ted
The Young Ones
Friends
M*A*S*H
Cheers
Frasier
I'll probably come up with 10 completely different ones in half an hour (or after I've read the backlog!)
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The Ghost of Polidari Posted Sep 24, 2002
Okay - nobody told me they had to be in order - here goes
1. The Young Ones
2. Blackadder
3. Fawlty Towers
4. Yes Minister/Prime Minister
5. M*A*S*H (still think it should qualify - who cares where the situation comes from?)
6. Police Squad
7. Red Dwarf
8. Black Books
9. Dad's Army
10. News Radio (only got a 23:30 slot on ITV but was very funny)
11. Soap
12. Porridge
13. Only Fools and Horses
14. Frasier
15. Friends
16. The Drew Carey Show (well, I like it!)
17. Father Ted
18. Cheers
19. Hancock's Half Hour
20. Mork and Mindy.
And if I really can't have M*A*S*H then stick Coupling on the end!
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Geoff Taylor - Gullible Chump Posted Sep 24, 2002
Late to the thread, but....
Black Books
MASH
Phoenix Nights
The Office
Steptoe & Son
Fawlty Towers
The Simpsons
Spaced
Open All Hours
I could never get into the American sit-coms, except Mork & Mindy. (but then again I was only 10)
The Simpsons is one of the finest, darkest, most satirical and funniest programmes America has ever produced. Woo Hoo!
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F F Churchton Posted Sep 25, 2002
Did you know that when MASH was orginally shown on the BBC, the laughter was removed from the soundtrack!!!
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- 121: Mu Beta (Sep 20, 2002)
- 122: Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday (Sep 20, 2002)
- 123: McKay The Disorganised (Sep 20, 2002)
- 124: McKay The Disorganised (Sep 21, 2002)
- 125: Bagpuss (Sep 21, 2002)
- 126: F F Churchton (Sep 23, 2002)
- 127: Thin Lizzy (Sep 23, 2002)
- 128: F F Churchton (Sep 24, 2002)
- 129: PQ (Sep 24, 2002)
- 130: F F Churchton (Sep 24, 2002)
- 131: The Snockerty Friddle (Sep 24, 2002)
- 132: F F Churchton (Sep 24, 2002)
- 133: Bright Blue Shorts (Sep 24, 2002)
- 134: Great Western Lettuce (no.51) Just cut down the fags instead (Sep 24, 2002)
- 135: Bright Blue Shorts (Sep 24, 2002)
- 136: PQ (Sep 24, 2002)
- 137: The Ghost of Polidari (Sep 24, 2002)
- 138: The Ghost of Polidari (Sep 24, 2002)
- 139: Geoff Taylor - Gullible Chump (Sep 24, 2002)
- 140: F F Churchton (Sep 25, 2002)
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