No. The SB went downhill from there.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

That list is worse than a list of your all time favorite Bears QBs.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

I'd allow Soap, but Benson? Sorry, hard no.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

Another vote for Taxi. I’ve watched episodes recently and it is pretty amazing how well that show holds up. Very funny. The episode Reverend Jim flashes back to his days attending Harvard is awesome.

I didn't watch a lot of television outside of sports. Nothing was better than Married With Children.

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GO BEARS!!!

I pretty much stopped watching network TV in about 2008. So my list is going to be old.

Bob Newhart
Taxi
Frasier
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (Yes it's 60 minutes but played heavily for laughs)

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Curb is not allowed to be a sitcom?

I liked MWC but the humor quotient dropped pretty quickly after the 3rd or 4th season.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

Frasier was one of those shows I just never found funny. Frasier and Lillith on Cheers were awesome but the spinoff show did absolutely nothing for me. I know I'm in the minority on this one.

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There were some misses. Al is easily my favorite television character.

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GO BEARS!!!

You and my father are of a like mind on this and he almost never indulges in that kind of low brow humor.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I still think the greatest (and earliest) is The Dick Van Dyke Show, which, if it didn't invent the 3 camera Sitcom, it certainly perfected it. The show's writing, which was way head of its time, still stands up over half a century later...the last half of "Coast to Coast Bigmouth" is sheer brilliance

this is 4 minutes, not all of it but a nice sample

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGEOjxtQtWc

yea it was all-time up until season 4-5 maybe (without looking at an episode list ) then fell off
the No Maam stuff was pretty dumb

I agree completely.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

Just like that? You have an all time favorite character? Seems to me figuring that out requires heavy lifting. I'd have to go from Barney Fife to Fred Sanford to Al to Larry David and MANY in between. You can't just flippantly throw out there Al Bundy.

I think at the very least Al Bundy is in the conversation , it not a super crazy opinion

It’s not like he said Mr. Belivdere or something

Barney Miller

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

Reminds me of a show I thought was perfectly cast but didn't pan out: The New Odd Couple, starring Ron Glass as Felix and Demond Wilson as Oscar.

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Unlike you, I wasn't alive before the television was invented. I can only make this subjective call based on my viewing experience. Al Bundy is a television God in my world.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Yes. I was wondering when someone was going to mention it.

I grew up watching Barney Miller and Fish.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3trbNiJcDMM&t=147s

roger spark reminded me. all time

1. Sanford and Son
2. Cheers
3. Married With Children
4. Soap
5. Family Ties
6. 2 Broke Girls

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Taxi or MASH round out the top seven for me. But I’m so old that I grew up with 6~7 channels and one of them was channel 44, spotty at best.

And I pretty much stopped watching network tv in the nineties.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Mash
Married with Children
Sopranos

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Sopranos is not a sitcom.

So many good choices over the years.

All in the Family
Seinfeld
Family Ties
Cheers
Sanford & Son
Taxi
Fresh Prince
Threes Company

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I probably posted in this thread somewhere, but the Office passed Seinfeld for me.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Curb
Seinfeld
Married
Soap
Larry Sanders
Cheers
Sanford
Honeymooners
Andy Griffith
Bernie Mac
Roseanne

I don't watch any network shows anymore either. Shows like 2 Broke Girls I got up on simply from reruns but it was rather funny. I probably should have added 2 and 1/2 Men in there also. The Charlie Sheen version of the show anyway.

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