CycleChat investigates - Dreadful sitcoms

[stephec]

Here's another classic for you - Robin's Nest

 

[stephec]

Personally, I find most older American sitcoms, like Frasier, Friends, Cheers , Golden Girls etc to have been every bit as awful as the worst of British. They are so formulaic that you know exactly when the punchline is coming. A says something, B responds and C comes in with a punchline ..... time after time .... and all with canned laughter. I would make exceptions for M.A.S.H, Scrubs, Bakersfield PD and Brooklyn Nine Nine, all of which I would confess to enjoying. Couldn't name another American one that isn't absolute garbage.

Agreed, although I did quite like Married with Children.

 

[stephec]

I'm on a roll now, how about-

Never the Twain
Selwyn Froggat
The Gaffer

 

[Paulus]

We used to watch Bless This House back in the day, parents used to love Sid James, so we all had to endure it for the sake of domestic peace. A teaser for you - what's the connection between Bless This House and Dr. No, the first James Bond film of 1962?

Honor Blackman?

 

[Blue Hills]

Well a quick mid survey update. The Cosby Show (Trudeau Edition) was clearly detested, yet Never the Twain and Shelley appear to be much loved with no one willing to say a word against them.

Me and a student housemate watched shelley a lot and liked it. Never sure why it was halted. Of course i haven't seen it since and in my maturity may think it junk.

 

[swee'pea99]

Haven't seen a single episode of anything in the poll. Sounds like I haven't missed much.

 

[bitsandbobs]

 

[Profpointy]

Out of the options given, I'd go for Men Behaving Badly. It was aimed at roughly my demographic at the time (I'm younger than both actors by almost ten years, but let's be kind to them). And yet I always found it embarrassing, i funny in the 90s.

I thought it very funny, albeit embarrassing on occasion as you say.

 

[Profpointy]

Hang on, shouldn't Mrs Brown's Boys be on the list?

 

[Profpointy]

Oh, and Shelley was dog sh*t.

I vaguely remember it being mildly amusing, and not a patch on some of the other shyte on the list

 

[Starchivore]

I'm on a roll now, how about-

Never the Twain
Selwyn Froggat
The Gaffer

My Dad made me watch a Selwyn Froggat once. Needless to say I did not watch a second one

 

[Profpointy]

Agreed, although I did quite like Married with Children.

I quite like that back in the day. It had a healthy cynicism about it; uncommon in American shows. That said I saw an episode of it years later and it seemed dire so it's possible it had a good patch then turned to shyte later.

 

[byegad]

Love thy neighbour.

Even by 1970s' standards a load of racist shite. It fuelled racism and bigotry, despite claims that it belittled it.

 

[Drago]

Love thy neighbour.

Even by 1970s' standards a load of racist shite. It fuelled racism and bigotry, despite claims that it belittled it.

It was pretty cringeworthy. I know he always got his cummupence, but it wa clumsy and crude compared to the way Alf Garnet always got cut down to size.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Most of the worst seem to be on ITV.

Yep - even Eric and Ernie were rubbish on ITV. Hugely funny when they transferred to the Beeb