Your all-time favorite tv comedies

[caj]

Based on any criteria - writing, casting, acting, characterization, situation, etc...

What are your all-time favorite tv comedies. List as many as you like and you don't have to rank them if you prefer.

Mine:

1. Mary Tyler Moore
2. The Golden Girls
3. The Andy Griffith Show
4. Cheers
5. Frasier
6. Seinfeld
7. Everybody Loves Raymond
8. The Cosby Show
9. Bewitched
10. The Big Bang Theory
11. All In The Family
12. Friends
13. Three’s Company
14. Night Court
15. The Jeffersons
16. Sanford And Son
17. The Brady Bunch
18. Happy Days
19. Newhart
20. Family Ties

[Deathstroke]

My three favorites are M*A*S*H*, Cheers and All in the Family. The order fluctuates depending on my mood but those are my three all-time favorites.

[Nate Grey]

Never really thought up a top 10, but my "comfort food" so to speak are three I always return to: Married...With Children, The Golden Girls, and George Lopez (2002).

[Godzilla2099]

The Three Stooges (especially the Curly Era)

Anything else are considered runner ups

[babyblob]

In no order.

Married With Children.
Bless the Harts (Cancelled sadly)
Duncaville (Also cancelled sadly)
Family Guy
Mash (But I enjoyed the serious episodes more)
Frasier
Tiny Toon Adventures.
Animaniacs
American Dad

[Jokerz79]

All in the Family
Sanford and Son
What's Happening
Gimme a Break
M.A.S.H.
Jeffersons
Golden Girls
King of the Hill
Benny Hill
Abbott and Costello
Three Stooges.
Malcolm in the Middle
Simpsons (1st Decade)
Futurama
American Dad
Family Guy
Married with Children
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Seinfeld
I Love Lucy
Honeymooners
Are You Being Served
Keeping Up Appearances
Munsters
Addams Family

[useridgoeshere]

I thought about comedies I can watch over and over and ones I purchased. Like, I watched all of Friends when it was on but I never watch reruns of it and would never buy it. It didn’t age well for me. And I left out shows like Ghosts or Abbott, which I currently enjoy but don’t know how they’ll look ten years from now.

Shows I can watch over and over and/or bought …

30 Rock
All in the Family
American Dad
Barney Miller
Big Bang Theory
Family Guy
Frasier
Golden Girls
I Love Lucy
Keeping Up Appearances
Schitt’s Creek
Seinfeld
Simpsons

Those are the ones that come to mind first.

[K7P5V]

If animation is allowed, then my choice would definitely be...

6Teen

[caj]

If animation is allowed, then my choice would definitely be...

6Teen

I remember that show. It was pretty good. I may need to look some episodes up on Youtube.

[K7P5V]

I remember that show. It was pretty good. I may need to look some episodes up on Youtube.

Thanks for the response, it is greatly appreciated. As for my next choice, it would definitely be...

Dexter's Laboratory

[caj]

1. Mary Tyler Moore
2. The Golden Girls
3. The Andy Griffith Show
4. Cheers
5. Frasier
6. Seinfeld
7. Everybody Loves Raymond
8. The Cosby Show
9. Bewitched
10. The Big Bang Theory
11. All In The Family
12. Friends
13. Three’s Company
14. Night Court
15. The Jeffersons
16. Sanford And Son
17. The Brady Bunch
18. Happy Days
19. Newhart
20. Family Ties

Rounding out to 25 - I'm sure you can guess that I love tv comedies:

21. The Beverly Hillbillies
22. Leave It To Beaver
23. Gilligan's Island
24. One Day At A Time (70s version)
25. Alice

[K7P5V]

Definitely, my next choice would be...

The PowerPuff Girls

[Captain Craig]

My initial memory starts in the 80s but I've come to love some prior comedies before my time.

No order but I'll start with...

Taxi (why isn't that on here already?!)
Gilligans Island
Cheers
Golden Girls
Alice
Newhart
Married with Children
Cosby Show
Dukes of Hazzard (lots of action but surely fits the comedy category)
Family Ties
Whos the Boss?
Perfect Strangers
Diff'rent Strokes
The Facts of Life
ALF
Night Court
Mamas Family
FRIENDS
Frasier
Seinfeld
Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire
Gilmore Girls
The Office
Big Bang Theory
Goldbergs


I've not made much time for Network fare the past decade+
I know there are numerous shows I'd like to get to but haven't so my reference point on comedies thins out the more I get past 2000.

[Powerboy]

Based on any criteria - writing, casting, acting, characterization, situation, etc...

What are your all-time favorite tv comedies. List as many as you like and you don't have to rank them if you prefer.

Mine:

1. Mary Tyler Moore
2. The Golden Girls
3. The Andy Griffith Show
4. Cheers
5. Frasier
6. Seinfeld
7. Everybody Loves Raymond
8. The Cosby Show
9. Bewitched
10. The Big Bang Theory
11. All In The Family
12. Friends
13. Three’s Company
14. Night Court
15. The Jeffersons
16. Sanford And Son
17. The Brady Bunch
18. Happy Days
19. Newhart
20. Family Ties

Of these shows, I think every last one is funny and great. I will say except for Everyone Loves Raymond. I know what it is to have a parent try to force you to conform to what they want so it's a bit too close to reality for me. I would personally put the Jeffersons into Number 7.

That said, instead of ELR, I would put Hogan's Heroes on the list. I know that's controversial. But, only because people cannot seem to comprehend that there is an overwhelming difference between a Prisoner of War camp (which they were in) and a concentration camp (which was not what they were in). John Banner and Leon Askin (Schultz and Burkhalter) , who in real life were in a concentration camp as children, and Robert Clary (LeBeau) who was really in a Prisoner of War camp, have been happy to explain that.

If I had to name my three favorite comedies of all-time, I would go with the Andy Griffith show, the Jeffersons and Hogan's Heroes. The only reason I don't go with M*A*S*H is that, as it went on, it became mostly a drama with elements of comedy.

[caj]

Of these shows, I think every last one is funny and great. I will say except for Everyone Loves Raymond. I know what it is to have a parent try to force you to conform to what they want so it's a bit too close to reality for me.

I have a cousin who refused to watch ELR because her mother-in-law was exactly like Marie Barone. She just couldn't take it.

The only reason I don't go with M*A*S*H is that, as it went on, it became mostly a drama with elements of comedy.

Agree, which is why I left it and The Wonder Years off my list. Like both shows, but they aren't what I call comedy.