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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:25 PM
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Name an old sitcom that still makes you laugh. 1980s or before.



Sometimes when Major Nelson and Dr. Bellows have a Jeannie issue, it's just way too funny. I saw this show the very first night it aired. The Chicago station has it on where I live. The other day Major Nelson's mother came for a visit and Dr. Bellows came by. Somehow the house filled up with fog and for the life of me I can't understand why I thought it was very funny, but it was. However, I do get a little weary of Jeannie's jealousy.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:27 PM
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1. The Dick Van Dyke show
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:31 PM
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4. Did you know that Nick at Nite bought up the exclusive rights to it in the '90s;
refused to allow local channels to show it, and yet they haven't shown it for years?
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:42 PM
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15. Bastards.
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riverdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:58 PM
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22. One of our local stations in Chicago shows the Dick Van Dyke Show.
They started doing it not too long ago, maybe a few months.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:28 PM
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2. All in the family, Barney Miller and The Mary Tyler Moore show.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:37 PM
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8. Yes, Barney Miller. And Night Court.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:37 PM
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10. Night Court, Bull and Dan Fielding, brilliant.
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 11:20 AM
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71. Markie Post+Going through puberty
Must See TV.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:38 PM
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13. Those are the two I would pick.
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 02:45 PM
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79. All good choices, and from across the pond...
....Fawlty Towers. The image of John Cleese goose-stepping across the dining room has never left my brain...
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 02:47 PM
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80. How could I forget 'Farty Towels'?
Or 'Flowery Twats'? :D
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:42 PM
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16. totally forgot about Barney Miller.
I loved that show as a kid.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:29 PM
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3. WKRP in Cincinnati, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bob Newhart (the Chicago-based one). And Nick at Nite
sucks dirty socks for buying the exclusive rights to The Dick Van Dyke Show then never showing it--BASTIDS.
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Lost in CT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:36 PM
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7. WKRP for me as well plus a shout out to SOAP. nt
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:37 PM
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11. I forgot Soap--loved that one too. nt
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 10:45 PM
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54. The Newhart as Psychologist one was fantastic
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FKA MNChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:33 PM
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5. MTM, the first few years of MASH
and definitely WKRP. "As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:44 PM
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20. Chai-Chai Rodrigueez...n/t
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:35 PM
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6. Many of them, but especially: Get Smart, WKRP, Green Acres, Fractured Flickers, Addams Family,
...Bob Newart Show (Chicago psychiatrist); Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke.

Off the top of my head.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:37 PM
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9. M*A*S*H
Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 05:38 PM by Jamastiene
It ALWAYS makes me laugh, especially the scenes with Hawkeye Piece in them. I love Alan Alda's sense of timing and skill when it comes to comedy. I loved that show.

Plus, I remember all the words to the theme song from the movie and always enjoy remembering those lyrics.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:43 PM
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19. 2nded.
Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 05:43 PM by DarkTirade
I've never seen another TV show that could make me laugh and cry with such regularity.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 06:14 PM
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25. That show was like a comfortable worn in shoe.
It just had that cozy, comfortable feeling to it. I guess it's because I associate it with being a kid and being carefree and watching it.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:38 PM
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12. Newhart
somewhere after it's 2nd season, it got really wacky and off the wall.

i like how they didn't follow the formula as most sitcoms at that time were doing.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:40 PM
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14. Cheers
It's the best sitcom ever!
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:43 PM
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17. What's the deal with Cheers?
For a couple of months, Hallmark, would you believe, was running a two-hour Cheers block on Sunday mornings. Then it just went away. :shrug:
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:43 PM
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18. Barney Miller, M*A*S*H, WKRP, Sanford and Son..., n/t
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 02:38 PM
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78. is there someplace to watch Barney Miller?
I used to love that show.
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WV_Biker Donating Member (91 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 05:55 PM
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21. Andy Griffith Show , Beverly Hillbillies
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 06:01 PM
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23. The Addams Family.......
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 07:55 PM
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36. That is the one I was going to say.
They just can't understand why everyone else is so strange, but it is they who are strange.
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riverdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 06:02 PM
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24. The Andy Griffith Show is one of my favorite shows, period.
The black and white episodes only, I hate the colorized ones. Not only does it make me laugh, but I find myself wishing I could live in a town like Mayberry.

The Jack Benny Show is another one that stands the test of time.
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 06:32 PM
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27. Oh, yes Andy Griffth with Barney Fife
After that, no way. And Bob Newhart in Chicago. Sure wish they'd show that one again.
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FKA MNChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 08:05 PM
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39. Moo Goo Gai Pan!
Gods, that was funny, and i hadn't thought about it in years. :rofl:
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 06:25 PM
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26. I Love Lucy
Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 06:32 PM by pipi_k
I've seen every episode multiple times. And no matter how many times I've seen them, I laugh.

My all time favorite episode was the one where Lucy, determined to save money and stick to her budget, decides to make a dress and give herself a permanent.

Oh. My. God.


The funniest thing about it is that I once had someone give me a perm after blonding my hair and it was just as horrible as the one Lucy gave herself.


I just love her

:7


Edited to add the link for anyone who hasn't seen it...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScLNAVwmjgQ
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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 06:34 PM
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28. Another vote for Barney Miller-- and how about F Troop?
Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 06:36 PM by abq e streeter
Dobie Gillis ...is there an aging hippie alive that doesn't owe a debt of gratitude to Maynard G. Krebs for showing us the way? ( and yes I realize he was a beatnik) .... and Car 54 Where Are You, another damn funny show
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FKA MNChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 08:09 PM
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40. Maynard G. Krebs was my idol when I was a kid
Some thirty years later I realized with some horror that I had morphed into my childhood idol.

"Can I move in with you for a while, Dobe? All I got is my bongo drums, my jazz records and my stuffed iguana, and he don't eat much."
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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 08:16 PM
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42. A role model for myself as well
you may or may not know, BTW that Zelda ( Sheila Kuehl) is a gay activist law professor, and state rep and later senator in California ; (not sure if she's still in the legislature or not...)
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FKA MNChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:35 PM
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56. I followed Sheila's career with interest
when I heard she went into law and politics. She was a moot court teammate with (the now rather famous law professor and potential BHO SCOTUS nominee) Cass Sunstein at Harvard in the late 1970s. Which fact I learned in some obscure and forgotten way after i took one of Cass' seminars when he visited Harvard in 1987. Sheila Kuehl is an extremely cool woman and a real pioneer. I loved it when Zelda "squinched" at Dobie and he involuntarily responded; "Now Zelda. cut that out!!"
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 05:57 PM
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84. Yeah, same here. WORK?!
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 08:37 PM
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43. F Troop! Thank you!
I knew I missed one.
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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 10:06 PM
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49. Good, now we're even for you reminding me of Fractured Flickers --I LOVED that
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RFKHumphreyObama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 06:47 PM
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29. I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Happy Days, The Cosby Show, Perfect Strangers
Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 06:48 PM by RFKHumphreyObama
The Golden Girls, Family Ties, Murphy Brown (started in the late 80s so it qualifies), Welcome Back Kotter, Who's The Boss, Laverne and Shirley, I Love Lucy, ALF and Growing Pains

That's only the ones I can remember off hand. In fact I liked most sitcoms in the 1980s and before. It was from the mid-1990s onwards that things got bad IMO
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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 01:38 AM
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60. Think late 70's was the end of anything laughable
I quit looking at TV sitcoms in the 80's...

Bewitched is still my favorite. Darrin, the only man who could call his wife and mother in law witches and lives to tell about it.
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 06:56 PM
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30. TAXI!!!!
What does a yellow light mean?
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 07:54 PM
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35. Slow down!
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 07:15 PM
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31. Hogan's Heroes, Car 54, Where are You?
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 02:37 PM
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77. Saw an episode of Hogan's Heroes just last night.
Edited on Tue Feb-24-09 02:37 PM by Bake
Hogan was one cool sonofagun!

Bake
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 05:49 PM
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83. I liked Colonel Klink too! SCHULTZ!!
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 07:16 PM
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32. The Honeymooners.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 07:19 PM
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33. Family Ties, Taxi, Leave it to Beaver (c'mon he was just so dorky funny)
Green Acres, The Dick VanDyke Show, The Jeffersons, All in the Family, Welcome Back Kotter...oh etc. etc. etc.
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FKA MNChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 08:12 PM
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41. I swear that the writers of Green Acres
were gobbling LSD at a rate matched only by Syd Barrett. There's a fine line between surrealism and psychosis, and GA crossed that line each way a few times every episode.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 08:55 PM
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45. Same with Newhart
it started off as this sleepy little sitcome and then got so strange.

:loveya: :rofl:
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 02:32 PM
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74. That couple with Arnold were sure funny.
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 02:35 PM
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75. Beaver ceased to be cute when he got older.
Then he just seemed to be a sneaky liar.
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ellaydubya Donating Member (301 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 07:36 PM
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34. Oh, my, I have a few.......

The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Tyler Moore, I Love Lucie, Andy Griffith
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JSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 07:56 PM
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37. Mary Tyler Moore Show
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 07:59 PM
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38. frasier
will and grace
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 08:51 PM
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44. Life of Riley
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 09:22 PM
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46. Get Smart.
They recently released it on DVD. It really is as funny as I remembered.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 09:51 PM
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47. That is one of my oldtime faves, too
:D

Jeannie's jealousy, though, tapered off for the most part from about the third season on. If you have ever noticed, the first season didn't show Jeannie being jealous very often. It was probably the most romantic of the five seasons. After that, I guess they decided to add more of the jealousy as if they didn't like Jeannie being more tolerant of Tony seeing other women.

Roger (Bill Daily) will always be the funniest to me, and then later as Howard on The Bob Newhart Show :D
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FKA MNChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:49 PM
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57. I want one thing explained to me about "I Dream of Jeannie."
The point was raised by a keyboards player I worked with back in the early 1990s on a long drive home from East Jesus, Somewhere:

You have a genie (who can conjure anything you need, want, or desire) that looks like Barbara fucking Eden when she was 30, and has to do whatever you want. Why do you ever leave the goddamn house?

:wtf: :shrug:
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 11:46 AM
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72. Because there would either be no plots to make a show
or it would have to be relegated to adult bookstores :P
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-09 12:18 PM
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91. and Tony has to go on all those dates with other women
since he's an astronaut and needs to spread good will so the government will support the space program.
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Urban Prairie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 09:58 PM
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48. Hogan's Heroes, McHales Navy, Gomer Pyle USMC
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!!
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Urban Prairie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 10:07 PM
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50. Fernwood 2Night
Not that it is in reruns,or really was a traditional sitcom, per se.
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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 10:08 PM
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51. but still funny as hell
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 10:53 AM
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66. Loved that show.
The Tom Waits visit was a classic.

Tony Rolletti remains my second favorite lounge singer evah.
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suninvited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 11:15 AM
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68. Whenever I mention Fernwood Tonight
NOBODY has ever heard of it or seen it. I remember staying up late to watch that show when I was in high school and loved it.

It was ahead of its time.
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Ivan Sputnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 10:10 PM
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52. Maude
Caught some episodes. Surprisingly hysterical (in all senses of the word).

"That old compromisin', enterprisin', anything but tranquilizing,
Right on Maude."
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stewartcolbert08 Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 10:43 PM
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53. Rosanne
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 10:57 PM
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55. WKRP
Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 10:58 PM by Canuckistanian
Les Nessman and his "Buckeye News Hawk Award" "Chai-Chai Rodrigweez"

"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:52 PM
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58. Dobie Gillis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Many_Loves_of_Dobie_Gillis
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:57 PM
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59. Cheers is good for a laugh every once in a while.
Even though I was only like 5 years old when the show was in its prime.
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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 02:58 AM
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61. Fawlty Towers, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin,
Steptoe & Son, Dad's Army, Are you Being Served (it started in the 70's, ran into the 80s), Open All Hours (again ran into the 80s but started in the 70's)...

I haven't seen Till Death Do Us Part, or Love Thy Neighbour in recent memory. Love Thy Neighbour will probably never be aired on TV again thanks to its wonderful racism.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 06:40 PM
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85. Keeping Up Appearances had some very funny episodes.
My mother-in-law now deceased, alas, loved all the Brit import comedies. They are still visible on Saturday nights on Iowa PBS.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 03:01 AM
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62. May I say, "All of the above"?
Love all those shows!

I have to say, though, that M*A*S*H was my fave of all of them.
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 06:19 AM
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63. Green Acres!
:rofl:
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 10:10 AM
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64. Jack Benny show. nt
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 10:51 AM
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65. Burns and Allen
We got some DVDs. Gracie was just soooo goofy.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 10:59 AM
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67. Late 80s: The Wonder Years has aged very well.
It wasn't a traditional laugh-track sitcom, more like a comedy-drama, so maybe perhaps that helps its cause. But when I've seen it on TV it still remains as well done as ever in terms of acting, humor and writing. I'm amazed that this was on the TV the same time that ALF was.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 11:16 AM
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69. The Mary Tyler Moore Show n/t
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 11:19 AM
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70. Night Court
brent Spiner's displaced hillbilly, Mel Torme, Bull's concrete sofa, and seeing Markie Post every week as I was going through puberty. Awesome.
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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:15 PM
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73. Moonlighting!
Until they screwed it up at the end, it was the zaniest show. Ms. DiPesto, heh....

I'll never forget the car chase with the hearse in the lead and all the mourners following...:rofl:
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 02:37 PM
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76. The Munsters, WKRP, All in the Family, MASH, Bob Newhart.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 03:08 PM
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81. 80 replies and no one mentioned Sanford and Son
Edited on Tue Feb-24-09 03:09 PM by AngryAmish
I am ashamed of you all.

and ashamed that I can't spull
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 03:14 PM
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82. The Burns and Allen Show (George Burns and Gracie Allen)
Heh, let's talk about REAL oldies.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 06:43 PM
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86. Say goodnight, Gracie.
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Blue Gardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 07:13 PM
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87. SOAP and Mary Hartman Mary Hartman
Both are works of genius.
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 08:40 PM
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89. Yup, was going to mention SOAP
Loved it.
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bookworm65t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 08:27 PM
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88. The Carol Burnett Show
not a sitcom, but probably the funniest show ever!
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-09 09:32 AM
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90. The Odd Couple (nt)
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-09 12:28 PM
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92. "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman... and it's spin-offs..."SOAP", "Fernwood Tonight" and
and "America 2-Nite"

Good times, good times....
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FKA MNChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-09 01:20 PM
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93. I loved "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"
and Fernwood/America 2Nite. Martin Mull and Fred Willard were so incredibly arch and dry. And Frank deVol (as bandleader Happy Kyne, with his MirthMakers) was pure comedy gold.

MH, MH had about as good an ensemble cast as has ever been seen on TV. Lots of them had been on MASH at one time or another (Mary Kay Place, Graham Jarvis, Greg Mullavy).
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-09 02:18 PM
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95. I will never forget the talented "Tony Rolletti"!


:rofl:

He kind of looked like Bill Clinton, didn't he....

:rofl:
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schmuls Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-09 01:45 PM
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94. Green Acres without a doubt...just totally insane
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