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I finally am able to watch Seinfeld again. It's like 80's music - takes a good long time before it's appealing once more.
I used to LOL and now I still do - that show nailed it. JS deserves every penny he earned (and still does) for that show (as do the rest). Even just thinking about it now makes me laugh.
Wife and I used to love BBT, but it got so ridiculous about 2 seasons back that we no longer can. And "Sheldon" works best in small doses - I hear there's a spinoff - Young Sheldon or the like which makes my skin crawl...
Think about the lives of these people - you get on a hit show like that (or, one of my other faves - Married with Children) and you're set for life, unless you're a complete loser.
Oh to be reborn in a different carbon unit.

Young Sheldon will bomb harder than "Joey". Some thing are funny as passing mentions, but not as main plot. What's now killing BBT is the never believable Leonard/ Penny relationship.
 
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I liked Sheldon's girlfriend. She's a great actress. Wolowitz too. There's this episode where he's making impressions of famous actors and it was the single funny moment I've ever seen in that show. You can tell the rest of the cast is actually laughing for real.
 

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And then we have the ultimate anti-PC bigot, Archie Bunker (All In The Family), although a number of the younger Lounge members may have never heard of him. I have always appreciated over-the-top humor (Animal House, Stripes, Ghostbusters, etc.), and especially black humor (Fargo). Anyhow this crazy thread now has over 10,000 views and over 360+ replies. Below are a few of Archie Bunker's famous one-liners I pulled up from the internet to add my minuscle contribution to this thread:
 
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its hard if not impossible for me to pick a favorite moment but when Kramer takes to shaving with butter and Newman sees this:
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I think I laughed for three years. George was my favorite tho. A George divided cannot stand!
Sadly, I remember more of The Simpsons and Seinfeld than I do the undergraduate degree I was pursuing at the time. I believe I could qualify for a doctorate if those shows were an educational track.
George was always my favorite. Oh man, I adore the Simpsons! I have the first 10 seasons on DVD. The first 7 were masterpieces.
 

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I have to add Friends to the list of great sitcoms....damn, that was first showing so long ago it predates the internet and mobile phones!

Yet both it and Seinfeld seem to still be relevant and funny...I guess relationships and humour haven't changed as much as technology.
 
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Curb your Enthusiasm was good albeit for some reason I can't say I exactly liked it all too much. But the best part about it was that the 7th season actually had a good chunk of the Seinfeld episode in it.
 
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I have to add Friends to the list of great sitcoms....damn, that was first showing so long ago it predates the internet and mobile phones!

Yet both it and Seinfeld seem to still be relevant and funny...I guess relationships and humour haven't changed as much as technology.
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Nothing tops the final episode of 'The Prisoner'.

McGoohan was threatened with violence over it iirc.
Did you know that he lost the rights to The Prisoner in a poker game some years back? I interviewed a guy, he played one of the Lone Gunmen in the X Files, who had been working with him towards a new version of the show. He said that one day McGoohan phoned up and rather sheepishly confessed what had happened and that it killed months and months of pre-production.
McGoohan had thought he had an unbeatable hand and had stuck the rights into the pot to stay in the game. Unfortunately, another player, who was a producer, pipped him to the post and was despicable enough to take the rights off the actor, who was getting on in years and not as steady as he once was. It is for this reason alone that the terrible version of The Prisoner set out in a desert appeared some years back. (How's that for a thread derail!:D)
 

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I liked Sheldon's girlfriend. She's a great actress. Wolowitz too. There's this episode where he's making impressions of famous actors and it was the single funny moment I've ever seen in that show. You can tell the rest of the cast is actually laughing for real.
He's not a bad jazz pianist too. I was at a party a few years ago and he was having a great time to himself, thumping away at the keys. Incidentally, in real life, the actors who play Leonard and Penny were secretly lovers for a few years, which now watching old episodes back, adds a certain edge to it...
 

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I have to add Friends to the list of great sitcoms....damn, that was first showing so long ago it predates the internet and mobile phones!

Ah, Friends... now there's a show where I hated pretty much every character with a passion. It had the odd great moment - I'd say across eleven season there was certainly enough good material for one whole series - but so much padding.... £Guys, we've run out of ideas again, and there are still two episodes to make for this season!" "Don't worry, we'll just put Monica in a fatsuit AGAIN." I think the biggest problem that I had with it was, with the exception of Chandler, every single character in it was utterly hateful -or at best deadly tedious - and yet the whole thing revolved around the presumption they were likeable. That's where How I Met Your Stepmother scored big over them: the pathetic man whore character was actually shown to be pathetic rather than, supposedly "lovable" in some way I could never fathom. I did at a timed hold out hope they'd can it and do a sitcom based around Chandler - thinking of how Frasier (before it jumped the shark) was a truly great sitcom, birthed as a spin-off from a third-rate pile of rubbish.

Curb your Enthusiasm was good albeit for some reason I can't say I exactly liked it all too much. But the best part about it was that the 7th season actually had a good chunk of the Seinfeld episode in it.

The episode where Larry ends up conducting a chamber orchestra playing Wagner on the lawn of the guy who called him a "self-hating Jew" for liking Wagner was hysterical. Also when he takes the prostitute to the ball game so that he can use the car pool lane to get there faster....

Did you know that he lost the rights to The Prisoner in a poker game some years back? I interviewed a guy, he played one of the Lone Gunmen in the X Files, who had been working with him towards a new version of the show. He said that one day McGoohan phoned up and rather sheepishly confessed what had happened and that it killed months and months of pre-production.
McGoohan had thought he had an unbeatable hand and had stuck the rights into the pot to stay in the game. Unfortunately, another player, who was a producer, pipped him to the post and was despicable enough to take the rights off the actor, who was getting on in years and not as steady as he once was. It is for this reason alone that the terrible version of The Prisoner set out in a desert appeared some years back. (How's that for a thread derail!:D)

I remember that remake. The desert location took away something great - by making the isolation so 'real, and thus giving tangibility to him being trapped, it lost the whole sense of surreality which was so great about the original.
 

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It was terrible, wasn't it? I watched the first one or two, but the original show was an product of its time and trying to repeat it out of context robbed it of its x factor.
 

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Given that Fawlty Towers and Blackadder can be taken as read, I'd complete to top five ever sitcoms list by adding Black Books, Father Ted, and..... maybe The IT Crowd? Honourable mentions: Give my Head Peace and The Inbetweeners (original UK product).
 
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He's not a bad jazz pianist too. I was at a party a few years ago and he was having a great time to himself, thumping away at the keys. Incidentally, in real life, the actors who play Leonard and Penny were secretly lovers for a few years, which now watching old episodes back, adds a certain edge to it...
I see "Wolowitz" at the Rose Bowl flea market often. He's a TINY dude. I was shocked, and I have gotten used to that shock after my first one with Tom Cruise 20 years back...
 
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I see "Wolowitz" at the Rose Bowl flea market often. He's a TINY dude. I was shocked, and I have gotten used to that shock after my first one with Tom Cruise 20 years back...

lol well, if I remember right, there aren't that many people you'd actually find tall.

Is TC really that short? I've read somewhere he's like 5'7" which isn't short IMO.
 

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