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07-17-2011, 02:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: NW England | | | Frasier. Greatest Sitcom Ever
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Just watched some old episodes - again - on Comedy Central. Still find it incredibly funny, super clever writing, great acting etc. Stands up against anything before or since and never feels dated, except maybe Kelsey Grammers early 90's mullet. |
07-17-2011, 03:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Finland, EU | | | A local channel shows a bunch of Frasier reruns on Sunday mornings. After a hard Saturday night, what could be better?
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07-17-2011, 03:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | And here I was, all this time, utterly hating that Cheers spin-off.
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07-17-2011, 03:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: WA State | | | It was one funny show, and the reruns on the same channel as JoeTV.
When Roz was pregnant, and met the future grandparents.....with the big noses.
When BB tried to quit smoking.
When Niles & Fraiser kept getting caught in Daphne's underwear drawer/room.
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07-17-2011, 04:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: NW England | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Solarmist It was one funny show, and the reruns on the same channel as JoeTV.
When Roz was pregnant, and met the future grandparents.....with the big noses.
When BB tried to quit smoking.
When Niles & Fraiser kept getting caught in Daphne's underwear drawer/room. | I could trade scene after scene all night. Love 'em all. |
07-17-2011, 04:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Québec | | | I really did not like that show, really not funny to me.
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07-17-2011, 04:36 PM
|  | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | Best ever? No. But certainly one of the funniest. I love that show. Been catching the reruns on one of the cable channels recently.  |
07-17-2011, 06:13 PM
| | | | I think my favorite episode was the gay episode with Patrick Stewart. I enjoyed the David Hyde Pierce joke that was thrown into it.
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07-17-2011, 06:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Horten,Norway | | | Seinfeld FTW.
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07-17-2011, 06:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Not the best ever, but certainly a good one. I'd put the 60's Dick Van Dyke show above it.
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07-17-2011, 06:35 PM
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07-17-2011, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by DeathFromBelow Seinfeld FTW. | Yup, and I'll add Coach on the list.
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07-17-2011, 06:42 PM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | I never liked it. Maybe I was too young to get the humor, but I didn't care for it from what I remember.
Personally, I like Seinfeld and...um...well...I also really like Friends  |
07-17-2011, 06:46 PM
|  | Say something once, why say it again? | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Saint Johns, Michigan | | | Not the best sit-com ever, no. It's certainly one of them, though. M*A*S*H is the best ever...
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07-17-2011, 06:59 PM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Roseanne is on my short list of candidates. I would believe that Arrested Development would be unreachable with the exception of its relatively limited tenure. Simpsons? As a fan of ensemble comedies I prefer Cheers to its spinoff, honestly.
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07-18-2011, 03:12 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I liked Frasier but Cheers and Married With Children were much more my cup o' tea.
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07-18-2011, 04:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: USA | | | I can appreciate that Frasier was way above average, but could never really get very interested in it. Although I'm tired of watching the reruns now, Seinfeld was much better. |
07-18-2011, 06:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: NW England | | | Like most long running sitcoms, of course there was the odd weak episode with lazy script writing and corny one-liners, but as a body of work, I don't think any other show bears up to repeated viewings like Frasier does. Initially in the shadow of Cheers, I think it became a bona fide classic in it's own right fairly soon afterwards, and only die-hard 'non-fans' would be churlish enough to still call it a spin-off after a dozen or so series.
I also think the brilliant supporting cast, DHP in particular, gave the show that extra something.
Niles Crane perhaps one of the greatest TV comedy characters ever.
Watched 'Ham Radio' last night. Still laugh out loud funny. |
07-18-2011, 06:35 AM
|  | Vintage Keys | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Austin, TX | | | I can't believe no one has mentioned Fawlty Towers yet.
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07-18-2011, 06:58 AM
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