Your favourite sitcom

Mad Eyed Screamer said:
The Yanks love Are you being served. It’s almost like when I’m introduced to someone, once we’ve got beyond “I have a friend in Devon, Simon Brown, if you know him? The subject turns to British TV and “I love Are you being served and keeping up appearances…”
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Are You Being Served? was okay at times, but I’m talking about the sequel Are You Being Served? Again. Actually that is the US name, it was called Grace and Favour over here when first shown but it’s showing with the US title on That’s TV.

I couldn’t like Keeping Up Appearances for some reason. There were just too many suburbia based sitcoms by then … Ever Decreasing Circles, As Time Goes By etc.

My favourite was One Foot in the Grave, now that was hilarious.
 
PragueBlue said:
My top 12 (in no particular order) would be:

Fawlty Towers
OFH
Extras
Inbetweeners
Blackadder
Auf Wiedersehen Pet
On the Buses
Dad's Army
Steptoe and Son
The Good Life
Yes, Minister
The Young Ones

If I had to choose just one, it would probably be Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
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Auf Wiedersehn Pet was absolutely superb. Anybody who's worked with a gang of blokes, particularly in challenging situations and especially abroad can relate to it. I think I've worked with characters like everyone of the cast in my time.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
For me sit coms died a death when The Good Life came along. Characters I not only couldn’t relate too, but for whom I couldn’t have given a toss for.
I couldn’t give a toss if Felicity Kendall’s carrots didn’t grow…….
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It was set in effin' Surbiton, what did you expect? :-)

Shame, because Richard Briers was a talented actor. And I sometimes quite fancied Felicity K. It was partly her voice, I could imagine her saying - well, never mind ...
 
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Citizen of Legoland said:
Yes, it was showing the other day. I’d seen it before but I just picked up the particular quality of Leonard Rossiter’s performance in that episode. There aren’t many comedians could do that scene like him.
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Rossiter had that way of delivering absurdity but being believable at the same time? Never over the top even when that snake had supposedly bitten his arse. There's another brilliant monologue somewhere in another episode. Something about his wife looking like Walter Pidgeon. I need to dig around and find it, but agree 100 % on Rising Damp classic status
 
Same 2 first equal all the time.
Early Doors and Curb your Enthusiasm.
Ted Danson starred in Curb but i also loved Cheers and Becker in which he starred in.
I find now that a lot of my 70's faves have not stood the test of time but still love Porridge and Dads Army.
Still Game and Father Ted in there as well.
 
Fawlty Towers, Porridge, Blackadder, The Simpsons, Red Dwarf, Father Ted, Absolutely Fabulous, Friends, Bottom, South Park, The Royle Family, I'm Alan Partridge, The Office, Black Books, Phoenix Nights, IT Crowd, Extras, The Thick of It, Peep Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Inbetweeners, Parks and Rec, Fleabag, Derry Girls, Stath Lets Flats.

And then I don't know if you'd count them as sitcoms, but The League of Gentlemen and Green Wing.

I'll be honest though, I haven't watched a lot of the more recent American ones that everyone loves.
 
The perfect fumble said:
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Brian: Hi hi! Aww, ain't he scrummy?
Colin: I'm on probation.
Jenny: Y'alright? I'm alright.
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Wow I'd forgotten that show. Used to sit in my mates flat in Hollywood towers and get stoned and watch it, was surreal as it was almost like we were on the same landing as them.
 
Partridge sits top of the pile by a mile for me as the undisputed best.

I'd put fools and horses in a category behind it with the likes of its always sunny, peep show, inbetweeners, phoenix nights.
 
Rising Damp (Number 1 for me)
The Office (UK)
OFAH (up to becoming millionaires)
Yes Minister
Not Going Out (up to Tim Vine leaving)
Dads Army
Friends
Porridge
Blackadder (except for series 1)
Rab C Nesbitt
 
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