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Year 2006 TV sitcoms?

Posted on 01/08/2006 10:52:36 PM PST by IntheHillsGolden

So, here I am with the boob tube on......... saw some ad for the lameazz Charlie Sheen show (no laughs at all in the multiple playing of the ads) ..wondering where his Dad has been (out of the news).......then an ad (sad) where Henry Winkler is strutting across the stage floor muttering unfunny lines (not Henry's fault).

I do get a kick out of "Desperate Housewives". At least good writing there.

Is anyone watching TV anymore for entertainment?

If so.....what are the shows? .........or does everything stank up the tube with recycled, untalented psuedo writing?

Just checking. Tired.


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1 posted on 01/08/2006 10:52:38 PM PST by IntheHillsGolden
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Sorry..........I guess I really miss 'All in the Family', M*A*S*H, Norman Lear wit, Honeymooners type of TV. Even the cartoons today are horrible. Poor kids; no Roadrunner, bugs or daffy duck.

Very sad.

Indeed.

2 posted on 01/08/2006 10:59:18 PM PST by IntheHillsGolden (You pass through places ...and places pass through you.........)
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To: IntheHillsGolden

UM... LOST... UM... House is good sometimes.... UM.... Monday Night Football.... hhhmmm..... not really much else...


3 posted on 01/08/2006 11:00:27 PM PST by GeronL (http://flogerloon.blogspot.com)
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To: IntheHillsGolden

I love the Gilmore Girls... terrific writing, plots, and acting. It's the best show on TV.


4 posted on 01/08/2006 11:01:40 PM PST by carton253 (Al-Qa'eda are not the Viet Cong. If you exit, they'll follow. And Americans will die...)
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To: IntheHillsGolden

Hi, IntheHillsGolden:

Though not a sitcom, I just finished watching Comedy Network's "Chris Titus: Rockwell Is Bleeding". A ninety minute stand up special featuring Chris Titus doing 90 minutes on his Dysfunctional life and family.

Titus did a sitcom of the same name for Fox several years back and the show was a scream! Especially Stacy Keach, who played Titus's dad. The series is also available on DVD.

As for sitcoms, I'll watch "Two And A Half Men". That's about it.

Jack.


5 posted on 01/08/2006 11:04:59 PM PST by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Disemboweler of the WFTD Thread)
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To: All

24 is always good! Season 5 begins, next Sunday.


6 posted on 01/08/2006 11:08:47 PM PST by TheSpy
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To: IntheHillsGolden
House is great. Prison Break is AWESOME and E-Ring is pretty good. Aside from cooking shows and documentaries, that's about all I watch.

Prison Break is a great story, guaranteed to have you biting your nails and also to keep lame leftist politics out of the show. House is showing signs of getting political, so I might have to ditch it soon. E-Ring is political, but my kind of political (very pro military so far), so I'm with it.

7 posted on 01/08/2006 11:14:59 PM PST by 302damnfast
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To: IntheHillsGolden

Agreed.

Public television programs today are just awful.

Aside from Cable/Satellite (Discovery, National Geographic, History, Fox News, Animal Planet, etc), there is nothing on that is worth 10 seconds of my time.

Any advice on what would make a good program for those without cable?


8 posted on 01/08/2006 11:15:12 PM PST by Emmet Fitzhume ("Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure." President Reagan)
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To: IntheHillsGolden

South Park is crude but there are some humorous episodes.


9 posted on 01/08/2006 11:18:14 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: IntheHillsGolden

Is the "CBS Evening News" a sitcom?


10 posted on 01/08/2006 11:22:16 PM PST by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Thought "Over There" on FX was well written, honest story line about our troops in Iran.

Two and a Half men" is very funny.

Watch the off brand stations for entertainment not the old Three.

NCIS is good as is Las Vegas.

Reruns of Law and Order.

Mad Money however only once a week.
11 posted on 01/08/2006 11:26:09 PM PST by Kozy (Calling Al Gore)
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To: IntheHillsGolden

The quality of television has definitely been on the decline for several years now, even as the quantity has increased substantially.

Current sit-coms, dramas and movies are of no use to me. They're terrible compared to shows from previous decades.

There is still some good stuff on TV if you can wade through all the commercials and stuff that they pop up and scroll across the screen...

***** MY TELEVISION TIPS *****

* Crossroads on CMT (the Bon Jovi/SugarLand episode was a classic!)
* Ice skating specials airing on NBC and Bravo, and the upcoming Olympics on the networks of NBC
* Wheel of Fortune
* Repeats of Password Plus, Super Password and $100,000 Pyramid on Game Show Network
* Special Report with Brit Hume
* A new half-hour series on TVLand called Sit-Down Comedy with David Steinberg. So far, they've had Bob Newhart and Martin Short as guests on the first two episodes. The Martin Short episode, which still has some replay dates left, is really good.
* Musical performances during the last segment of The Tonight Show


12 posted on 01/08/2006 11:33:37 PM PST by billclintonwillrotinhell
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To: 302damnfast
They sort of pulled a bait-and-switch on the Lefties with Prison Break, didn't they?

Spoiler:
The working theory at first was that the oil companies killed the VP's brother because he was developing a fuel cell (leftist conspiracy theory), but it later turned out he never developed a fuel cell! He was funneling the research money into his Hillaryesque sister's campaign! Gotta love it.


I watch zero sitcoms. I have hated what the sitcom has become for years. They used to basically be structured like dramas, with the comedy stemming from the dialog and maybe on occasion the situation. It's now people saying and doing outlandish things that no person would ever do. Case in point, an episode of NewsRadio: the characters are at a Chuck E. Cheese-style pizza restaurant, and one says, "Where is the waiter? I haven't seen him in a while." The waiter suddenly pops up from under the balls in the ball pool. "I was taking a break." Yeah. Okay.

Anyway, after years of not watching TV, here is what I watch this season:

Ghost Whisperer
Invasion
Lost
Prison Break
Smallville
Supernatural
Veronica Mars
13 posted on 01/08/2006 11:35:28 PM PST by Rastus
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To: 302damnfast
Prison Break is AWESOME

Count me as a 'Prison Break' fan also. I don't watch much television (besides sports), but that show I watch. I got my wife into it also.

14 posted on 01/08/2006 11:35:37 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

It seems like a long time until it resumes in March. Lucky it was doing so well--Fox at first was going to have it return in May!


15 posted on 01/08/2006 11:41:31 PM PST by Rastus
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To: IntheHillsGolden

When sit-coms became nothing more than 22 minutes of insults, sexual propaganda and the mocking of the traditional family (especially fathers), I gave up.

No, thanks. There are too many good books out there.


16 posted on 01/08/2006 11:52:11 PM PST by Choose Ye This Day (Win the war. Confirm the judges. Cut the taxes. Control the spending. Secure the border.)
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To: IntheHillsGolden; All

I haven't seen a TV sitcom in a year, since coming to Iraq, and mobilizing before.

The only TV beamed to us is CNN for the officers, and FoxNews for the NCO's.

The only newsprint we get is Stars & Gripes, which is nothing much beyond the AP Body Count on page 3.

My news comes from the Websites I get to use.

I am totally and happily clueless about current pop culture. Troops in theater prefer "The Simpsons," "South Park", classic SNL, and some new stuff, like Dave Chapelle.

Lots of guys watch re-runs of "Friends", mainly because of the occasional hooter shots.


17 posted on 01/09/2006 12:13:49 AM PST by Old Sarge (In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
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To: IntheHillsGolden
Honeymooners type of TV. Even the cartoons today are horrible.

How you ever watched anime, like what's on Adult Swim, Ghost in the Shell, FMA, Scryed, Lupin, Cowboy Bebop. There is also so recent cartoon series that have been very good, Megas XLR, Gargoyles (Season 1 and 2), Justice League Unlimited and Teen Titans.

As on the live action front, Sci-fi Channel's Stargate:SG1, Stargate: Atlantis and Battlestar G have been VERY GOOD as well.

18 posted on 01/09/2006 12:21:32 AM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: IntheHillsGolden

I was just reading the weekly TV Magazine from the paper, and there is a *new* gay-agenda sitcom on the air. Crumbs, starring Fred "Kevin Arnold" Savage as a closeted gay screenwriter. The Wonder Queers?


19 posted on 01/09/2006 12:51:31 AM PST by Rastus
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To: IntheHillsGolden

No, no more sitcoms, sorry, don't watch them, no longer even look for them -- meaning, I've long since gotten the point that there's nothing of value on television any more.

I USED to love "The Honeymooners," "Roy Rogers" and can even still find "Lassie and Timmie" on t.v. Highly recommend those three.

I don't know if we could consider THE SOPRANOS here but that's the only reason I keep HBO and plan to through 2006. After that, I can't say, given that the rest of their serials are hideous dives.

But, sitcoms...I guess there are just some television SERIALS that are very worthy but very little to no comedy among them. There's nothing that compares with THE HONEYMOONERS, you're right. Just nothing today even comes close and you're very, very right about today's 'toons for the kids: Looney Tunes was superb in the past.

I no longer expect or anticipate anything of value on t.v. as to sitcoms, and so no longer pay any attention to anything other than films, and some of the specials/serials.


20 posted on 01/09/2006 1:05:13 AM PST by MillerCreek
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