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I agree about welcome back kotter the acting is so bad its like watching a high school play.
In the eyes of a 6-10 year old male, it was brilliant. "Up your nose with a rubber hose." That was pure genius for my demographic.
But I'm sure if I went back and watched it now, I would feel the same way you do. But I think that can go for just about every sit com in the 70's, and a lot of them in the 80's too.
There are so many posts that I haven't had time to go through them to see if the two that came to my mind as awful were in there. I hated Small Wonder and Love, Sidney. The story lines on the first were stupid and laughable (not laughable in the sense of a good comedy), and the second show was just plain boring!
All in the family: I didn't like how Archie treated Edith and everyone in the family.
The Jeffersons:I didn't really hate it. It was just some of the characters were annoying.
Good times: way too serious
Sanford and son: redd fox got on my nerves.
All in the Family - agreed
Jeffersons was a favorite
Good Times also a favorite - my wife will see a rerun today and agree with you about it being serious
Sanford and Son - appreciate it more today - wasn't a favorite though
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I never liked Soap. Maybe I just didn't get it.
Any spinoff where a main character in a popular show was recast in another show - those never went well. Actually the Jeffersons was a spinoff from All in the Family - maybe that's the exception.
I did a quick search, because you don't remember the bad shows, here's some that surfaced...
Small Wonder (Vicki the robot)
Mama's Family (Vicki Lawrence as the grandma)
Perfect Strangers (Balki and his American cousin)
Double Trouble (twin girls who were different)
We Got It Made (Teri Copley)
It's a Living (Ann Jillian)
Webster
Mr. Belvedere
I have to give a plug to the funniest sitcom in that day - Police Squad. The early episodes were hilarious.
I have to give a plug to the funniest sitcom in that day - Police Squad. The early episodes were hilarious.
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Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk
I'm not sure I'd classify Police Squad as a "situation comedy." I'd call it a parody...but I fully agree it was hilarious.
Drebbin questions a suspect who wears a Penn State sweatshirt. The guy turns around and the shirt says "State Penn" on the back.
"Police Squad" and "Sledge Hammer!" are two of the funniest shows ever. I can't believe that an earlier poster mentioned "Sledge Hammer!" as one of the worst. Indeed, they are parodies, not sitcoms. But both of them absolutely crack me up.
Here's a bit of dialog from the above-mentioned questioning -
Drebin: So, you weren't at the Club Flamingo? Then explain THIS! (throws "incriminating" Club Flamingo matchbook on table in front of suspect)
Suspect: Well, you take this little cardboard stick with sulphur on the end, rub it against this rough part, and it makes fire.
Didn't like Mash (not my cup of tea for some reason), Good times (horrible), All in the Family (wow, Edith is irritating, Archie's a jerk +), Too Close for Comfort
(awful), Three's a Crowd (ever watch that one? Awful). Dragnet (Friday was always pro establishment and 'lecturing" about the evils of drugs/alcohol, etc.,) Waltons
Purely subjective..
but I thought A Different World was terrible, and overrated.
Another sitcom from the late '80s I didn't like: She's the Sheriff (with Suzanne Somers).
704 Hauser was another bad one. Short-lived '90s series (but spun off from a '70s sitcom, so..) where a Black family moves into Archie Bunker's old crib.
I always wanted those glasses Dwayne Wayne wore in the show. But I agree. That show was very overrated
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