[IntheHillsGolden]

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.

[GeronL]

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

[Jack Deth]

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.

[302damnfast]

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.

[Dallas59]

Is the "CBS Evening News" a sitcom?

[billclintonwillrotinhell]

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

[Choose Ye This Day]

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.

[Old Sarge]

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.

[Rastus]

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?

[MillerCreek]

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.

[alnick]

Over the past few years I have lost interest in watching network television, both as a result of their anti-Americanism and the fact that I find their offerings dull and stupid.

I tend to watch old black and white movies, the old game shows, TV lands old black and white sitcoms, plus some HGTV, Discovery and History channel, Animal Planet.

I rarely watch FNC anymore either.

[SoothingDave]

If you want comedy, watch "My Name is Earl" and "The Office" on NBC Thursday nights. These are not your usual sitcoms, rather they are slices of life of the characters depicted. There isn't a laugh track or studio audience, you need to decide for yourself what is funny. The writing on both shows is superb.

SD

[MadCharity]

We usually watch:

24
Lost
CSI
Numbers
George Lopez
World According to Jim
Two and 1/2 Men (probably the Charlie Sheen show you saw the ad to, but I love it, and thinks it rather hilarious)
American Idol
Celebrity Dancing/Skating
MXC

A lot of programming has gone down the tubes lately....bad morals and values being taught...

[x]

Lost is as good a show as commercial television has ever shown. The TV shows of the 1960s have an inflated reputation because everyone watched them and so many people grew up with them. But Lost is a lot better than Lost in Space or Gilligan's Island.

Not so crazy about CSI. People watch it for the science. The acting and characters are weak. I've watched it, but don't believe William Peterson's Henry James quoting, roller coaster riding, bug obsessed science geek, Marg Helgenberger's ex-go-go dancer daughter of a gambling mogul, or Gary Dourdan's gambling addict.