Overrated/Underrated Sitcoms and the science of comedy

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Mad laughs

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Vaguely rings a bell… but a lots gone in and out of the memory banks!

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Did watch Knight Rider and McGuyer both shows were around the same time i think

Highway to Heaven with Michael Landon was another haha

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I know that technically speaking that’s only one minor flaw, but I thought it was such a big one; it was worth mentioning twice.

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Richard Beckinsale, father of Kate. He died not from drugs, but of a heart attack.

The sequel to Porridge was Going Straight, featuring Norman Stanley Fletcher after he was released from HMP Slade. Beckinsale also appeared in this (very funny) show.

In a memorable scene, Fletcher finds a stub from a shoe repair shop in his pocket when he gets out after being locked up for years and goes to the shop on the off chance his shoes might still be there. The cobbler checks the receipt and says something like “Yeah, they’ll be ready next Thursday”.

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as if opinions outside of blitz have any value, but… just for balance and a laugh (or not) there’s this:

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Overrated:

Saturday Night Live

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Genuinely under the radar, came across this show about 20 years ago on foxtel.

Haven’t met too many others who watched it.

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Not sure how most people rate them

but as a child I found Kingswood Country & Home Sweet Home endlessly funny

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Oh yeah, that show was great. A lot of good characters.

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Do you describe Get Smart as a sitcom?

Totally silly but I could pass time - like, on a plane or if it was raining in the cricket - watching that.

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I’m staggered they haven’t brought back Gladiators. Fun show

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Eastbound and Down, the first two seasons, were very funny.

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I think it is next year. Wheel of Fortune is also coming back

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Yep , they were great.

I also liked the Dave Allen show when I was a kid. I was strangely fascinated by the accent, the endless cigarettes, the constant glass of whiskey and his missing finger!

I suspect that 90 percent of his material would be unusable these days, lol. Though the joke about the luckiest Palestinian in Ireland might be topical :grimacing::smile:

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guess what robbo

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comedy: everyone in this thread calling wildly successful and universally acclaimed tv shows “underrated”

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third post:

comedy is like music, in that the information superhighway has made it possible to find hundreds of hours of brand new stylings of the exact type of comedy you love. you just need to go looking for it because it won’t be on the fkng telly

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Rip Torn was sensational.

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