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Only Fools and Horses? One foot in the grave was pretty good,but since then what?
I think outnumbered and My Family are cr@p. The Royle Family was good but not sure if you could enjoy it with kids below teenager age? All the good sitcoms of the last twenty years, and there have been a lot, were not really family entertainment. Eg. The office, inbetweeners, Alan Partridge, Phoenix Nights.
I think outnumbered and My Family are cr@p. The Royle Family was good but not sure if you could enjoy it with kids below teenager age? All the good sitcoms of the last twenty years, and there have been a lot, were not really family entertainment. Eg. The office, inbetweeners, Alan Partridge, Phoenix Nights.
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ever decreasing circles
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so good it made it on to bbc4 recently
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Ever decreasing circles was cr@p.
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Terry and June (NAP)
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To be fair how many really good pre watershed sitcoms have there ever been?
Ofah, dads army, fawlty towers(at a push)..... I am guessing steptoe and till death us do part were pre watershed but not necessarily family comedy. |
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Coronation street for me
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Nothing since Fools & Horses doubt there ever will be....
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Father Ted was kind of British (Hat Trick/C4), that wasn't that rude.
TBH thinking about it that time slot doesn't really have the market? It's not like there are loads of sitcoms 7/8pm to chose from and they are all crap, they just aren't being made for our main channels anymore? We're more likely to have X-factor on ice and celebrity koala vag eating. The sitcoms that time on other channels and bought in from the US. Then later we do have our own sitcoms on our main channels, some of which are really good. |
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rising damp. Though 'rigsby' would never get away with his racist quips these days.
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Ever Decreasing Circles. A quite brilliant comedy.
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Good second point just checking. Regards Father Ted, I would class that as a really good sitcom despite not being one of my favourites for whatever reason. But that is defo post watershed, I mean there is a drunken priest who only says "fek" and @rse" all the time, hardly family entertainment.
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I think My Family was the last really big effort to make a good family comedy. Trouble is it was dire, and its popularity is an inditement on the lowering expectations of the GBP.
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Yonderland
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I thought My Family could be ok sometimes. I rather watch that than the royle family.
Inbetweeners was family entertainment, they were schoolkids, ... you BUMBDER!   |
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I think it helps if the characters are at least likeable. In my family and outnumbered none of them were likeable, the little I saw of them I was never on anyone's side. Everyone loved del boy and corporal jones and captain mainwaring and grandad and uncle albert, and in a funny way Basil Fawlty and Alf Garnett. Perhaps merely liking a character counts as pathos.
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"I think it helps if the characters are at least likeable."
This why "Betfair Forum" the sitcom would fail.  |
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The Young Ones
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Still Game?
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Birds Of A Feather. The canned laughter sh*t itself with excitement every time any of them opened their mouths, so it must have been good.
Especially the remake. "Alright Trace?" "No Sharon, I'm half left" - cue canned laughter pissing its pants. "You on a diet Sharon?" "Yes Trace, I only eat 20 kilos of cake if there is a y in the day" - cue the canned sound of sides splitting. Oh how we roared. |
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I know I've said it before but Men Behaving Badly has to be the most underrated sitcom. Probably post-watershed though.
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Was Porridge pre-watershed?
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There was no bigger men behaving badly fan than me, but I have to say it hasn't passed the test of time Imo. Watched a few episodes a while back but it wasnt as funny as i remembered it. Game on, the first series was cracking as a tangential aside.
Perhaps I am being a little naive, but fk me MBB is blatantly a post watershed programme, wouldnt dream of watching it with littluns |
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I doubt it treble, but it was certainly pre ofah.
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And welcome to the thread treble, we now have the sitcom master among us.
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Porridge was definitely pre-watershed
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Pre-watershed doesn't necessarily mean it's ok for all kids. Plenty of stuff before 9 is suitable for 14 year-olds but not for the under 10s
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Btw, Pokermonster said Still Game, not Game On
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Well yea it is a bit vague. To be truly family comedy i guess a bit of light innuendo is ok(eg. Porridge) but not relatively graphic and literal references to sex(MBB). Bad language is a total no no.
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Btw, Pokermonster said Still Game, not Game On
Yes i realise that, never heard of still game. |
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falwty towers
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Worst fawlty towers anagram ever, certainly no flowery tw@ts
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don't know where it stood with the watershed but for me Extras is the best sit com to ever appear on TV.
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Yes, Extras was really good. Just after the watershed I believe.
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It was little Ronnie snorting coke that did for it.
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For me Porridge is without peer, The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin deserves an honourable mention in this category as well.
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Porridge was superb, I'd have to agree. On a par for me would be George Cole's portrayal of Arthur Daley.
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One of many golden moments. Its genius was half down to the ability of Gervais to get so many famous bods to do it.
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What about Darren and Barry taking turns with the novelty pen!
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And then Robert de Niro asking to keep it.
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