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What were your favorite Comedy TV Shows from the 70's 80's or 90's?

 

My favorite TV shows:

70's

 

Three is Company

Happy Days

Good Times

Leverne and Shirley

The Jeffersons

Welcome Back Carter

 

80's

 

The Cosby Show

Family Ties

Give Me Break

Married With Children

The Facts of Life

Night Court

 

90's

 

The Nanny

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

My Wife and Kids

Home Improvement

The Bernie Mac Show

Living Single

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I remember watching these when I was a kid:

 

Alice

Different Strokes

Facts of Life

The Cosby Show

Family Ties

Growing Pains

Who's the Boss?

Roseanne

 

 

As an adult I loved watching:

 

Friends

MASH

Mama's Family

Third Rock from the Sun

Mad About You

Ally McBeal (although I hated the dancing babies, LOL)

That 70's Show

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That 70's Show

 

I would have never believed, in the 70's, that decades later I'd be sitting next to my 80-something mother, listening to her roar with laughter over the stoner scenes in this show.

 

I gave up TV at 12, but remember My Favourite Martian, Green Acres, and the Beverly Hillbillies. Uh, I must be ooooold.

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I would have never believed, in the 70's, that decades later I'd be sitting next to my 80-something mother, listening to her roar with laughter over the stoner scenes in this show.

 

I gave up TV at 12, but remember My Favourite Martian, Green Acres, and the Beverly Hillbillies. Uh, I must be ooooold.

 

I Love Green Acres

 

(The husband)

 

 

 

Green acres is the place for me.

Farm livin' is the life for me.

Land spreadin' out so far and wide

Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.

 

(The wife)

New York is where I'd rather stay.

I get allergic smelling hay.

I just adore a penthouse view.

Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.

 

(The husband)...The chores.

(The wife)...The stores.

 

(The husband)...Fresh air.

(The wife)...Times Square

 

(The husband)...You are my wife.

(The wife)...Good bye, city life.

Green Acres we are there.:D

 

 

 

 

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There's so much overlap it's hard to pick a specific decade. :-)

 

Mary Tyler Moore, MASH, Bob Newhart, Night Court, The Cosby Show, Home Improvement, Everybody Loves Raymond.

 

And *psst* it's "Welcome back, Kotter."

 

LOL....I guess I am not the only one who spelled it Carter. If you google it as Welcome back Carter, you will see other people spelled it wrong, also. Thanks!:lol::lol:

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I'll play:

 

MASH, Cheers & Friends

 

ETA:

 

I never watched any from your list from the 90s!

 

I like Cheers and Friends. However, I never could get into MASH. I always thought the beginning theme music was depressing. Then I did a little research and found out why I felt depressed when I heard the theme music. MASH theme song is a suicide song. The name of the theme song is "Suicide Is Painless."

 

 

MASH (Suicide is Painless)

 

Through early morning fog I see

visions of the things to be

the pains that are withheld for me

I realize and I can see...

 

[chorus]:

 

That suicide is painless

It brings on many changes

and I can take or leave it if I please.

 

I try to find a way to make

all our little joys relate

without that ever-present hate

but now I know that it's too late, and...

 

[Chorus]

 

The game of life is hard to play

I'm gonna lose it anyway

The losing card I'll someday lay

so this is all I have to say.

 

[Chorus]

 

The only way to win is cheat

And lay it down before I'm beat

and to another give my seat

for that's the only painless feat.

 

[Chorus]

 

MASH

The sword of time will pierce our skins

It doesn't hurt when it begins

But as it works its way on in

The pain grows stronger...watch it grin, but...

 

[Chorus]

 

A brave man once requested me

to answer questions that are key

'is it to be or not to be'

and I replied 'oh why ask me?'

 

'Cause suicide is painless

it brings on many changes

and I can take or leave it if I please.

...and you can do the same thing if you choose.

 

 

 

 

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I am not sure what all the years are exactly, but I liked:

 

Mary Tyler Moore

One Day at a Time

Cheers

Malcom in the Middle

 

Mary Tyler Moore (1970–1977)

One Day at a Time (December 16, 1975 to May 28, 1984)

Cheers (1982 to 1993)

Malcolm in the Middle (January 8, 2000 to May 14, 2006)

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Favorite sitcoms ever:

 

I Love Lucy

Dick Van Dyke

Mary Tyler Moore

M*A*S*H

All In the Family

Bewitched

Brady Bunch

Cosby

Family Ties

Mad About You

Seinfeld

 

I hate Everybody Loves Raymond! The mother (Marie) is way too much like my EXMIL. Too close to home to be funny! LOL

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I have never been a big tv fan but we did get Friends and That 70s Show on DVD and we really liked those. I think my family has watched Friends 5 or 6 times and That 70s Show at least twice. I have watched more TV in the last ten years (since DVDs) than the rest of my life put together. Other ones we have really liked are:

 

Buffy (about 5 times now)

Angel (twice)

Firefly (twice)

Dollhouse (one season so far)

 

Big Joss fan here!

 

Charmed

Smallville

LOST

 

Rome

Tudors

Joh Adams

 

I do remember some of the shows from the 70s but none of the ones from the 80s and 90s, except MASH, not really sure about when it came out.

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70's (I was pretty young then but I still remember these, and they used to re-run them in the 80s too)

M*A*S*H

Mork & Mindy

Happy Days

Laverne & Shirley

Bob Newhart

Rhoda (I actually watched this for the first time when they were showing the reruns on Comedy Central in the 90s)

Mary Tyler Moore Show

 

80's

Bosom Buddies

Mr. Belvedere (we're watching these again on DVD and they're still funny!)

Who's the Boss

Moonlighting (not a sitcom, but it was still funny)

 

90's

Seinfeld

Roseanne

King of Queens

 

Gotta throw in some 50s and 60s shows, as we still watch these and think they're hilarious: I Love Lucy (of course), The Dick Van Dyke Show, Get Smart, and Leave it To Beaver (which is surprisingly funny to me now, funnier now than when I was a kid).

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I gave up TV at 12, but remember My Favourite Martian, Green Acres, and the Beverly Hillbillies. Uh, I must be ooooold.

 

 

Are you "ooooold" enough to remember "Mister. Ed" ? (1961-1965)

 

 

A horse is a horse, of course, of course,

And no one can talk to a horse of course

That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mister Ed.

Go right to the source and ask the horse

He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse.

He's always on a steady course.

Talk to Mister Ed.

People yakkity yak a streak and waste your time of day

But Mr. Ed will never speak unless he has something to say

A horse is a horse, of course, of course,

And this one'll talk 'til his voice is hoarse.

You never heard of a talking horse?

Well listen to this: "I'm Mister Ed."

 

 

What about "My Mother The Car"?...although it was awful...even then. (circa 1961)

 

I'm always amazed at how much humor changes over the years...It's quite a living thing.

 

For me, my favorites are more recent. I still quote "Seinfeld" and "Friends" `whenever the situation calls for it. Quite pathetically, I'm sure I'll still be quoting them in years to come...we don't watch television anymore.

 

 

Geo

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All that I can remember from my really young days (4-9 years old) was that my father and I watched M*A*S*H and the Benny Hill Show together....at the time I thought that those were the only shows on TV:confused:

 

But later in life... I love Seinfeld, Cheers, and the Cosby Show. :D

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Favorite sitcoms ever:

 

I Love Lucy

Dick Van Dyke

Mary Tyler Moore

M*A*S*H

All In the Family

Bewitched

Brady Bunch

Cosby

Family Ties

Mad About You

Seinfeld

 

I hate Everybody Loves Raymond! The mother (Marie) is way too much like my EXMIL. Too close to home to be funny! LOL

 

All In the Family was one of my favorites.

 

All In the Family spun........... The Jeffersons and Maude (starring Beatrice Arthur-- Caroll O'Connor's {AKA Archie Bunker} cousin in real life)

 

Maude spun....... Good Times

 

 

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