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Old 12-10-2014, 01:50 PM
 
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Just looking for some suggestions for the most underrated and most overrated sitcoms of all time. My choices?:

Most UNDERrated

Becker
The New Adventures of Old Christine
Green Acres
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
The Jack Benny Program
8 Simple Rules


Most OVERrated

Modern Family
The Office
I Love Lucy
The Cosby Show
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Rosanne
Anything with Tyler Perry's name attached.
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Old 12-10-2014, 02:22 PM
 
Location: Maine
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Most OVER rated: The Mary Tyler Moore show. Blech.

Most UNDER rated: The Tick.

So bad that it's awesome: COP ROCK.
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Old 12-10-2014, 03:11 PM
 
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Most OVER rated: The Mary Tyler Moore show. Blech.

Most UNDER rated: The Tick.

So bad that it's awesome: COP ROCK.
MTM? Overrated? It's an absolute classic.

Patrick Warburton? About as funny as a crutch.
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Old 12-10-2014, 03:12 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis
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Most overrated: Friends

Most underrated: Barney Miller
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Old 12-10-2014, 05:10 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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Becker was one of my favorite shows. I agree. Definitely Underrated
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Old 12-10-2014, 05:18 PM
 
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Most overrated: Friends

Most underrated: Barney Miller
I enjoy Friends, but do agree that it is a little too highly rated.....as, I think, is Seinfeld.

Barney Miller was hilarious. I don't ever see reruns of it anymore.
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Old 12-10-2014, 05:23 PM
 
Location: California side of the Sierras
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The Office is my most favorite sit-com of all time. I have watched every episode multiple times. I still giggle helplessly at almost every episode. I think it is because I have spent so many years working in offices.
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Old 12-10-2014, 05:39 PM
 
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I thought Friends was great its first year, but never really achieved that greatness again, though it had many good moments after that. However, on the balance, it's overrated. I think Modern Family is kind of the same - great its first year and some good moments since, but not quite as good since that first year.

Not sure what I'd call underrated, as most of the sitcoms I've watched over the years would not really be called underrated.
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Old 12-10-2014, 06:42 PM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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Overrated:
How I Met Your Mother
Two and a Half Men

Underrated:
Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23
Third Rock from the Sun
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Old 12-11-2014, 05:57 AM
 
Location: Maine
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MTM? Overrated? It's an absolute classic.
Maybe I'm just showing my age. MTM is one of those shows that for some odd reason appeals to the narcissistic "me-me-me" baby boomer generation. The jokes are so canned and the writing trying so hard to be relevant. Because it aired during the height of the feminist movement, I think a lot of my parents' generation remember it with much more fondness than it deserves because it tried to show the supposed ideal woman of the era. But it's just a bland, unfunny show with unrealistic characters.


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Patrick Warburton? About as funny as a crutch.
Even a crutch can be hilarious in the hands of a good actor. Warburton's deadpan delivery never fails to make me laugh. I'd rather watch Patrick Warburton read the Yellow Pages than watch Mary Tyler Moore read Mamet.
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