Your favourite sitcom

[ctidcarl]

Out of curiosity, where would OFAH rank in posters lists of comedy's??

When polls come out asking people to rate their favourite Sitcom, obviously on a Northern teams football forum, Early Doors is favoured, The Royle Family, Phoenix Nights etc - and rightly so, as they are all funny as f**k

Do people think OFAH is of the same quality as the three I mentioned??

 

[Vienna_70]

Out of curiosity, where would OFAH rank in posters lists of comedy's??

When polls come out asking people to rate their favourite Sitcom, obviously on a Northern teams football forum, Early Doors is favoured, The Royle Family, Phoenix Nights etc - and rightly so, as they are all funny as f**k

Do people think OFAH is of the same quality as the three I mentioned??

Porridge is my favourite sitcom.

 

[jimharri]

Porridge is my favourite sitcom.

Way, way ahead of Horses. Top of the pile, though; The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Absolutely brilliant.

I didn't get where I am today by not recognising a brilliant sitcom when I see one. Super. Great.

 

[mexico1970]

Way, way ahead of Horses. Top of the pile, though; The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Absolutely brilliant.

I didn't get where I am today by not recognising a brilliant sitcom when I see one. Super. Great.

Cue a Hippo running across the screen.

 

[Nightmare Walking]

Out of curiosity, where would OFAH rank in posters lists of comedy's??

When polls come out asking people to rate their favourite Sitcom, obviously on a Northern teams football forum, Early Doors is favoured, The Royle Family, Phoenix Nights etc - and rightly so, as they are all funny as f**k

Do people think OFAH is of the same quality as the three I mentioned??

Father Ted
Black adder
Red Dwarf

They're my fave 3

OFAH is as good as those.

 

[Vienna_70]

Way, way ahead of Horses. Top of the pile, though; The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Absolutely brilliant.

I didn't get where I am today by not recognising a brilliant sitcom when I see one. Super. Great.

The episodes, where Reggie opens the Grot shop, and has all the former employees of Sunshine Desserts working for him, are the best.

 

[jimharri]

The episodes, where Reggie opens the Grot shop, and has all the former employees of Sunshine Desserts working for him, are the best.

We'll brush over the last series (the one where he sets up the commune). Ditto with the Porridge spin off, "Going Straight".

 

[Vienna_70]

No.not imo
John Sullivan was a genius
And consistent with his other comedies

We all have our own favourites; it would be a boring world, if we all liked the same thing.

Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais were also genius comedy writers; The Likely Lads and WHTTLL are testament to that, as was Porridge, which they also wrote.

 

[Vienna_70]

We'll brush over the last series (the one where he sets up the commune). Ditto with the Porridge spin off, "Going Straight".

I thought Going Straight was very good; it didn’t win two BAFTAs for nothing.

Agreed, it wasn’t as good as Porridge, but it had its moments.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Is there a better decade for Sit Coms than the 70’s?
Proper characters I could relate too, working class people struggling with all that life throws at them such as On The Buses, Steptoe & Son (started in 60’s) and Alf Garnett (again started the decade before)

Of course there was some right dodgy shite like Mind your language and Love Thy Neighbour but then there was Rising Damp, Please Sir and Dads Army.
My favourite one though was Citizen Smith. Came along just as I was finding my way into left wing politics as a mid to late teen and was always rooting for Wolfie. I wanted him to succeed, wanted him to lead the “brothers” onto the glorious revolution even though it got no further than the pub…….

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…….
Maybe the one exception was Fawlty Towers. Certainly the characters (the residents) were not working class and Basil positively sneered at the riff raff he thought were frequenting the hotel, but then we were laughing at Basil, not with him.

Early Doors, Royle Family, Phoenix Nights etc brought the working class sit com back into life.

 

[Stephen230]

The Office
Peep Show
Inbetweeners
Extras
Alan Partridge
The Young Ones
Blackadder ( Apart from the wank 1st series )

Only Fools and Horses would probably have been in there if they'd stopped after 2 or 3 series. But they milked it for so long, it ruined it a bit for me. Could say the same about Peep Show though tbf.

 

[Bill Walker]

Is this just British ?

If so..

Fawlty Towers
Royle Family
The Office
The Young Ones
Extras
Yes Minister
The Squirrels

 

[PragueBlue]

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.

 

[Gabriel]

Rising Damp.

 

[Don Karleone]

Still game is up there

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Detectorists
- Fawlty Towers
- Fleabag
- Frasier
- Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
- Peep Show
- Seinfeld
- Sillicon Valley
- Toast of London

 

[Bettys Bell]

Car share very funny .

 

[heslops barnet]

Always thought fools & horses was shite…..

 

[I'm With Stupid]

OFAH went on for longer, so the quality dipped in parts (especially the later series, and especially after they brought it back), but it's got as many great episodes as anything else. It also has a bit of heart, so it's not always about the comedy. Some of the best parts are the serious moments.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

One that I currently adore…Modern Family.