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I too wouldn't put Married with Children anywhere approaching the top of the list. I wouldn't even put it in the top 5 sitcoms, a genre that I really dislike.
Tope 5 of all time? Soooooo difficult. But I'll try, and these are not necessarily in order.
1. Breaking Bad
2. Firefly
3. Twilight Zone
4. Upstairs, Downstairs
5. Ballykissangel
I also should not there are a number of well rated shows I have never seen so this is based solely on the shows I have seen.
lol. The "com" in the word "sitcom" is short for COMEDY.
I haven't seen 4 of your 5, but I'm pretty sure Twilight Zone isn't a Situation Comedy.
For real sitcoms, I'd put All In The Family at the top or very close to the top. It went off the rails when Joey was born, but before that, it couldn't be beat.
lol. The "com" in the word "sitcom" is short for COMEDY.
I haven't seen 4 of your 5, but I'm pretty sure Twilight Zone isn't a Situation Comedy.
For real sitcoms, I'd put All In The Family at the top or very close to the top. It went off the rails when Joey was born, but before that, it couldn't be beat.
But the OP is saying that Married with Children is in the top 5 shows OF ALL TIME, not just the top 5 sitcoms.
Uh, really? ITs not even close. Its not even in the top 100 greatest shows (comedies) of all times. I defy you to find a single television critic who even hints at agreeing with this assertion... Married With Children better than Seinfeld? SEINFELD? You have no taste.
Uh, really? ITs not even close. Its not even in the top 100 greatest shows (comedies) of all times. I defy you to find a single television critic who even hints at agreeing with this assertion... Married With Children better than Seinfeld? SEINFELD? You have no taste.
Just as an aside, saw Amanda Bearse in film "Fright Night" on television past weekend. Had no idea she had done anything else besides playing "Marcy" on MWC.
As for MWC being one of the top sitcoms of all time (comedy) I don't know. While it was funny early on in an 1980's kind of way (you had to have been there, *LOL*) right down to all that Lycra/spandex and big hair, for my money Frasier was a much better show from the same period.
If you want to do "of all time", All in the Family would be on top of my list.
All in the Family is probably the best show in terms of writing and game-changing television and I think most critics put this at the top. In terms of non-animated comedies that have a timelessly funny quality, I think Seinfeld, Frasier, Friends, and even Wings were far funnier than MWC.
All in the Family is probably the best show in terms of writing and game-changing television and I think most critics put this at the top. In terms of non-animated comedies that have a timelessly funny quality, I think Seinfeld, Frasier, Friends, and even Wings were far funnier than MWC.
Thing about MWC is things got old fast. Most of the comedy was about sex (or lack of), with heavy doses of T&A thrown in to rile up the male audience. Once you took away the occasional beefcake and (most often) appearance of scantily clad young women for Al, Steve, Bud and the rest of the men to ogle there really wasn't much going on. Oh yes, and the constant "dumb but hot and easy blonde" jokes at the expense Kelly Bundy.
Roseanne (the other working class/low income family sitcom of the 1980's) did a better job of combining laughs and also social commentary.
MWC IMHO only really lasted long as it did was because most everyone knows someone like Mr. & Mrs. Bundy and their children.
Both Al and Peggy "peaked" at high school and it has been down hill since. *LOL* Yet they keep living in the past (Al's famous winning pass for Polk High that *should* have made him a college draft pick), and Peggy despite being attractive in HS (and apparently putting out for just about everyone), could do no better than Al Bundy in the marriage market.
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