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Old 09-13-15, 06:44 PM
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which nbc sitcoms did you like? which ones did you not like?

Liked:
Seinfeld
Cheers
Frasier
Wings
Mad about your
Cosby show
Taxi
The Golden girls

Disliked:
Newsradio
Friends
Scrubs
Community
Will and Grace
Old 09-13-15, 08:53 PM
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Liked:
ALF

Disliked:
Gimme a Break
Old 09-14-15, 09:39 AM
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Liked:
Newsradio
Friends
Scrubs
Community
Will and Grace

Disliked:
Seinfeld
Cheers
Frasier
Wings
Mad about your
Cosby show
Taxi
The Golden girls

See what I did there?
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Liked
Cheers
Seinfeld
Friends
Parks and Rec
Golden Girls
Cosby Show

Didn't like
Night Court
Wings
Newsradio
Frasier
I almost scooped out my eyeballs from the Office spinoff pilot
Old 09-14-15, 10:43 AM
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Re: which nbc sitcoms did you like? which ones did you not like?

These are the sitcoms that I would watch as mainly just a "Thursday Night Only" watcher of NBC:

My "Must See TV":
Seinfeld
Friends
Frasier
Parks and Recreations
30 Rock
Cheers (only the Shelley Long seasons)
The Office (only the Steve Carell seasons)
My Name Is Earl
Taxi (I guess it technically counts even though most of its run was on ABC with only its final season being on NBC)

My "Must Avoid TV":
The Cosby Show (yeah, I was anti-Cosby before it was cool)
Night Court
Mad About You
Wings
and most of the sitcoms NBC tried to launch at 8:30pm or 9:30pm on Thursdays


I also made Thursday night as my laundry night due to how NBC did their schedule with 30-minute crappy sitcoms between the shows that I watched.

So my Thursday night schedule was this for a number of years:
- Before 8:00pm: load and turn on washing machine
- 8:00 - 8:30pm: watch "Friends"
- 8:30 - 9:00pm: while "crappy sitcom #1" is on, move laundry from washer to dryer, and put 2nd load in washing machine
- 9:00 - 9:30pm: watch "Seinfeld" (later "Frasier")
- 9:30 - 10:00pm: while "crappy sitcom #2" is on, removed clothes from dryer (if dry) and/or move 2nd load to dryer
- 10:00 - 11:00pm: watch "ER"
- After 11:00pm: unload dryer and then fold or hang laundry


(BTW, if anyone needs some reminders of what was on the NBC Thursday lineup, go to this LINK )
Old 09-14-15, 11:15 AM
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Seinfeld is the high water mark, and the only sitcom with a laugh-track I can still watch.

I really liked Scrubs - one the first sitcoms where you realize that if it's well-written and well-acted enough, you don't need a studio-audience/laugh-track.

The Office was really good until Steve Carell left.

30 Rock was fantastic all the way through.

The last great show they had was Parks & Recreation, which started off shaky, but got really great and stayed great throughout it's run.

They really don't have anything good on right now.
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Liked:
Cheers
The Cosby Show
Wings
Frasier
Seinfeld
Friends
3rd Rock From the Sun
ALF
Blossom
Diff'rent Strokes
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
The Hogan Family
Mad About You
Family Ties
The Office
Sanford and Son


Disliked:
News Radio
A Different World
Amen
Night Court
Empty Nest
The Golden Girls
Just Shoot Me
Punky Brewster
Will & Grace
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I liked all the obvious ones, Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends, Mad About You, Wings, Office, etc. and most of the "Must See TV" filler like Single Guy and other bombs.

The few I could never get into though were Will and Grace, 3rd Rock from the Sun and Frazier. Cheers is probably my #1 favorite comedy but they changed the character of Frazier too much for my liking. Plus the constant Niles/Daphne nonsense dragged on way too long.
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Thursday Night in the mid 80's on NBC was as good as TV gets:
Cosby 8PM
Family Ties 8:30PM
Cheers 9PM
Night Court 9:30PM
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Re: which nbc sitcoms did you like? which ones did you not like?

Liked:
Seinfeld
Frasier
Friends
Cheers (have only watched the Shelly Long years)
The Cosby Show
Family Ties
The Office
Parks and Recreations

OK:
News Radio
A Different World
Night Court
The Golden Girls
Just Shoot Me
Sanford and Son
The Hogan Family
My Name Is Earl
Scrubs
Community
Wings

Disliked: (most of these I've only seen a few eps)
Mad About You (Helen Hunt - the most overrated TV actress of all time)
30 Rock (I really tried, but I just didn't get it. Plus I hate Tracy Morgan's character)
ALF
Blossom
Diff'rent Strokes
Amen
3rd Rock From the Sun
Empty Nest
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Punky Brewster
Will & Grace
Old 09-15-15, 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by nostalgialover
Liked:
Seinfeld
Cheers
Frasier
Wings
Mad about your
Cosby show
Taxi
The Golden girls
Does Taxi count? It was on ABC 4 of its 5 seasons.
Old 09-15-15, 04:54 PM
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Cheers is probably my #1 favorite comedy but they changed the character of Frazier too much for my liking.
Ugh, tell me about it. I actually stopped watching after they changed his name to "Frasier".
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Re: which nbc sitcoms did you like? which ones did you not like?

Cheers
Friends
Cosby Show
Seinfeld
ALF

I never watched any of the other NBC shows
Old 09-15-15, 05:37 PM
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I read this list and thought, I really never watched any of these and then remembered that Heroes was really the first show NBC ever had that I wanted to watch. They have a couple now, not much of a major network for shows.
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Family Ties
30 Rock
Parks & Recreation
Cosby Show
Hogans Family
My Two Dads

The latter 2 I watched in the 80's but might find cheesy today.

Marry Me, Up All Night, and Michael J Fox Show until they got cancelled.

I have never watched a sitcom on CBS and ABC in the late 80's and early 90's but that is about it.
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Originally Posted by Double_Oh_7
Does Taxi count? It was on ABC 4 of its 5 seasons.
Well, since it still aired 1 season on NBC ,I still would consider it an NBC show.

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