Mash is still the best sitcom of all time

[Foreskin]

Never fails to make me laugh. The characters are all colorful and wonderful in their own ways. The one liners are great and there is a plethora of them in each and every episode.

Mash cannot and to this day has not been topped, even by seinfeld. Some of you may be too young to remember.

What is yours?.

 

[JBelushi]

Mash who?

 

[Backdoor Mailman]

Foreskin, soon you'll be telling us I love Lucy is your second favorite :sorry:

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

Mary Tyler Moore show was great in it's day.

Think of how well it's supporting cast did after the show ended.

Ed Asner.......Lou Grant

Ted Knight.....To Close For Comfort

Gavin Mcleod... The Love Boat

Valerie Harper... Rhoda

Betty White...... Golden girls

John Amos.......Good Times

 

[a 1 player]

I have to disagree, I think Seinfeld topped it.

 

[tboy]

Mash rocked in it's day but they play re-runs on Showcase and I watched some of it and it is SO cheesy now.....I mean REALLY cheesy. The canned laughter is pathetic and the acting....well......

I even watched the final episode on Nov 11 and when I watched it in the 80's, I thought it was the bomb...now? Oh man....was just about unbearable.

I'm with Playa.....Seinfeld broke all the rules and ran with it....

 

[Raiden]

I have to disagree, I think Seinfeld topped it.

Ditto, hands down!

 

[a 1 player]

 

[Raiden]

Here are my two favorite clips



Gives me an excuse when I step out of the shower if the MPA is laughing!



Scared the shit out of me, I always look back or at the mirrors to make sure a switch doesn't happen!

 

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As The World Turns or Young and The Restless....

 

[Transient]

The Dick Van Dyke Show set the bar. Barney Miller was always my favorite, saw some reruns a while ago and feel it still stands up. Same goes for Cheers.

 

[ShoelessJoe]

Mary Tyler Moore show was great in it's day.

Think of how well it's supporting cast did after the show ended.

Ed Asner.......Lou Grant

Ted Knight.....To Close For Comfort

Gavin Mcleod... The Love Boat

Valerie Harper... Rhoda

Betty White...... Golden girls

John Amos.......Good Times

Welcome back Carter gave us John Travolta.

 

[BEER]

No one nominated Monty Python.

 

[Jesus Quintana]

M*A*S*H the movie was hilarious. M*A*S*H the TV show turned into a platform for Alan Alda to push his own agenda, without reflecting on what history tells us. Remember that some battles in Korea were lost by the Americans simply because they ran out of bullets. There were that many Chinese attacking. Alda's M*A*S*H made it seem like the US were the aggressors.
Interesting side note is that the Korean War is still going on. They just have had a cease fire in place since '53.

I thought that ROOTS was a hilarious sit-com.

 

[AMd'MAN]

Bob Newhart with his dry sense of humor.

 

[a 1 player]

Bob Newhart with his dry sense of humor.

I don't think he was the best, but I agree that he was brilliant.

 

[Wilt The Stilt]

All in the family. He was one of a kind.

Despite being considerably softer in its approach than its BBC predecessor, the show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for U.S. network television comedy, such as racism, homosexuality, women's liberation, rape, miscarriage, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War, menopause, and impotence.

The show ranked #1 in the yearly Nielsen ratings from 1971 to 1976. It became the first television series to reach the milestone of having topped the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive years, a mark later matched by The Cosby Show and surpassed by American Idol, which notched its sixth consecutive year at #1 in 2010 and whose streak is still ongoing.

The episode "Sammy's Visit" was ranked #13 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.[SUP][3][/SUP] TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time ranked All in the Family as #4. Bravo also named the show's protagonist, Archie Bunker, TV's greatest character of all time.[SUP][4][/SUP]