But, I love classic television. Right now I'm hopelessly hooked on the Match Game since I was never allowed to watch anything that racy as a child. Dawson so incredibly intelligent/brilliant it's unbelievable. (Which reminds me...Hogan's Heroes is fun.)
I'm a big Cheers fan---did you know one of the co-masterminds of Cheers was the son of one of Duffy's Tavern's collaborators? (James Burrows is the son of Abe Burrows, who mentored under Duffy's creator/writer/star Ed Gardner and credited the experience for helping to inform his later work such as Guys and Dolls.)
Seinfeld may be a 90s phenomenon but I actually find myself enjoying it more with the 90s gone, perhaps because I've unearthed a classic radio show that could have been called the original "show about nothing" and find pleasant similarities in turning the apparently mundane into a good, unobtrusive laugh: Vic and Sade.
I've come to appreciate character humour at least as much as situational humour; if you can have both you've really got something---which I think is why I came to like Seinfeld as much as any other good comedy and why I fell in love with Easy Aces when I discovered it---to my delight, it was also a serial comedy, storylines extending as far as five or six weeks, in which writer Ace and his cast could really plumb a good piece of absurdism.
(Trivia: Goodman Ace eventually became one of television's most respected comedy writers; among his original television assignments was some very early television work for Bob Newhart, plus work for Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and ultimately fashioning the wry, easygoing camera persona Perry Como refined for over a decade.)
Match Game is awesome! I caught the '70's version in its first run and love the replays on The Gameshow Network!
The game itself was basically just an excuse for the drinking, smoking and double entendres!
As funny today as it was in 1974!