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yes there have been many before and many good sitcoms after but these 3 really set the standard if you were stranded on a desert island with a box set of dvd from the above 3 sitcoms and a dvd players (with monitor and speakers) with would you take for thse down time?

yes i know some people will prefer frasier or seinfield or friends etc etc but this is between the 3 giant classics

I absolutely hate all 3 of them. But i hate cheers the least!

Agree with your top 3, have chosen MASH due to it's longevity.

Geo.

Cheers gets my vote, quality!!!!!!!

Its not just a preference, but yes i did love friends. And surely in terms of everything, friends dwarfs them all easily!

Cheers.

As far an American sitcoms go Will & Grace is so far above anything else!!!!

Cheers by a country mile

All the best!

I do like will and grace but again friends dwarfs it. I think i just like saying dwarf!

As much as I love many of the modern sitcom's, I agree that those 3 are standard bearers in US shows. I instantly went to vote for Cheers (probably because I've seen more of them) but tbh Mash is heads above the other 2 (in my opinion of course )

My last comment on this post now but i cant believe you didnt include Seinfeld. That was epic stuff!

Frasier is the nuts.

good 'friends' episodes are excellent, some of the earlier stuff sucked. 'Everybody loves Raymond', when it's on target, is by far the best I've seen, just watched the 'Midlife crisis' episode, pure genius. Cheers was ok, didn't much care for M*U*S*H dadada da da da

Stop posting shows i agree are better!

That isn't the question though!

But the 3 in the poll are nowhere near the classics of the other ones that have been named! id rather find something sharp on the desert island, cut myself and go and play with the sharks than watch them!

frasier was a a spin off of cheers so no cheers no frazier

i agree seinfield frasier and friends are MODERN masterpieces but cant be called classic when they have not long since finshed filming

Friends is medirocre and Seinfields absolute crap.

Roseanne
Happy Days
The Golden Girls
Married With Children
The Cosby Show

For sure they're all kak, but so was Taxi.

Actually, only the Golden Girls was kak.

I sit through repeats of the rest of them happily enough.

I Love Lucy, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie and Sgt Bilko could probably be classed as classics that have stood the test of time too.

Thats why i said cheers...

loved all three, but Cheers gets my vote.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is all ready a classic imo

Cheers for me one of the very few american sitcoms i have enjoyed.

I voted for Cheers, but I think Curb Your Enthusiasm will become a classic.

cheers   SET the standard.

Cheers.

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Totally agree

Never watched Mash as a kid, but have been watching the re-runs on sky
Quality

Pretty tough choice but I went for Cheers in the end.  Mash was a very close 2nd, but I was never that keen on Taxi

Cheers.

MASH was also very good but never quite lived up to the pilot film. Eventually, when they put canned laughter into MASH I couldn't bear to watch it.

that is the funniest thing I have ever read.

a one joke program full of horrific characters which they have managed to spin out to about 5 years.

i wonder if its possible to have a crap sitcom with an utterly brilliant character ?

That would be the case with "king of queens", and the character is the old guy "Arthur" played by jerry stiller.

He has 100% of the fall down funny lines in this show. His delivery is right on the money too. A bit like the late great Peter Boyle in everybpdy loves raymond.

David Spade in that Blush magazine one (I forget it's name) may be a candidate for that too.


Maybe not an utterly brilliant character, but head and shoulders above the rest of the show makes him look it.

Just shoot me is the name!

:( sad loss.
You sold half of our joint burial plot?
-The neighbours had an emergency, they needed the space!
How do you know it was your half?
-I ALWAYS sleep on the left!
Didn't you think it would upset me when I found out?
-How could it have mattered? You go first, you can't yell at me. I go first, yell all you want!
I think you just want rid of me
-Hey.."Til death do us part." After that, you're on your own

I agree, great actor. I do like the rest of the show though as well. I suppose I just fancy the wife. Just Raymond's wife. Mostly just Raymond's wife.

LOL, I dont think the term "managed to" is correct in describing the shows longevity.

It was a consistently popular show with high ratings that ended before it became hackneyed, much like the office and fawlty towers.

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I forgot to mention The Larry Sanders show!!!

Pure comedic genius!!!!


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Cheers - Great with Shelley Long, never the same with the 'added' characters.  The death of Coach, was the beginning of the end.

Mash- Brilliant.  But canned laughter & When Alan Alda started getting involved in the directing, it all got a bit mushey.  But in it's earliest form - brilliant.  Probably the first sit com that wasn't a jolly fest all the time, so I put it down as THE original of it's kind

Taxi - Judd Hirsh. Taxi made him, and ruined him.  But just think, without Taxi, Danny Devito would never have broken through as an actor.  Imagine life without Twins, Throw Momma From The Train, & god knows how many classics since then.

Everything since has just been the same gags in different scenes 

Ok I'm exagerating. Friends was good every other series, but never pushing the boundaries, Will & Grace - Aren't gay people funny.  Oh & Jews too.  Yes the first series was funny & different, but making Karen speak more quickly & squeeky, & using Jack as a one gag wonder does not a great series make. Frasier - Good but generic, The worse Kelsey Grammer got, the more David Hyde Pierce stole the show.

I've never been a great fan of satires like Larry Sanders & The Office, but to each their own.  Seinfeld actually looked at things from a different slant, so I think he will go down as a classic in time.

But I still think the old black & white Dad's Army, are untouchable.  The early shows had agenuine edge to them, it's just a shame that it went on too long & became just another camp '70s English Comedy

out of these three it has to be cheer!...Norm rules supreme

Very good call, "Curb", Fraiser and Sienfeld have raised the bar so high its almost unfair on cheers/mash/taxi, of the 3 cheers is the only one I could almost watch if it was on, I always hated mash.