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apple cheeks
02-21-2005, 04:22 AM
Have you ever wtahced a show and it reminds you of another show?
The best example i can think of is in Who's The Boss when Tony accidentally walks in on Angela in the bathroom.
The same thing happened in The Nanny,when Fran walked on Mr Sheffield.
So,just wondering if anyone else thinks that there are sitcoms that are much alike in their storylines,etc.
Belair
02-21-2005, 04:32 AM
I found that The Nanny also did alot of things that Lucille Ball would do.There were times when Fran's antics reminded me so much of Lucy.
GARFIELDKOOL
02-21-2005, 01:04 PM
The Brady Bunch where Bobby and Cindy used a sceme to thinking he was sick to get Joe Namath at their home. On Differnt Strokes, Arnold, Willis, and Kimberly used a similar sceme to get Muhammed Ali to visit "sick" Arnold.
USTVFanFromUK
02-21-2005, 06:07 PM
Family Ties and that crapfest Growing Pains. Even the creators of Growing Pains admitted the show was a rip-off of Family Ties.
GARFIELDKOOL
02-21-2005, 06:17 PM
Sanford and Son and Chico and the Man

Different Strokes and Webster

Bewitched and I dream Of Jeannie
sbwalker53
02-23-2005, 06:56 PM
I've always thought of Wonder Years as an updated Leave It to Beaver.
slackermonkey
02-23-2005, 07:42 PM
Friends and the plethora of "young urban twentysomething friends" sitcoms in the mid-90s.

Cheers and Taxi have a lot of stylistic similarities.
barwars
02-24-2005, 08:05 AM
Cheers and Taxi have a lot of stylistic similarities.

I agree. You can notice it most in Season 4. Probably because that was the earliest season that really went out of the bar. The episode "Dark Imaginings" sounds like something they could just rip out of Taxi.
Even though Cheers was more "soapy" (with long story arcs).... it wasn't anything near Friends "soapy."


Also....
The first season of Ellen (then called These Friends of Mine) was a Seinfeld clone (3 girls and 1 guy instead of vice-versa)
treky
02-26-2005, 12:27 AM
I agree! In fact, there was one episode of "Taxi" that they wrote the script for, but before they filmed it, the show was cannceled. So, they changed the script a little and used it for an episode of "Cheers".

And I've seen a couple things in "Cheers" that reminded me of similar moments in "Taxi".
I remember, when "Cheers" debuted, there was a review in our local newspaper that said it might seem like " "Taxi" set in a bar"
slackermonkey
02-26-2005, 01:56 AM
What Cheers episode was it that was originally from Taxi?
barwars
02-26-2005, 08:15 AM
What Cheers episode was it that was originally from Taxi?

I'd like to know as well.

I'm guessing it's from the second season as both Cheers and Taxi aired in the 1982-1983 season.
treky
02-26-2005, 10:34 PM
I'm not entirely sure, but on "Cheers" it was called "Miss Boston barmaid" and I think it's the one where Diane is elected "Miss Boston barmaid" and it's from either the 2nd or 3rd season-I think.

it didn't have a name on "Taxi".
treky
02-26-2005, 10:37 PM
I also saw an episode of "Frasier" once that used a plot that was first used on "Cheers".
slackermonkey
02-27-2005, 02:14 AM
That episode is called "No Contest" and was from the first season of Cheers. That was originally a Taxi episode?
barwars
02-27-2005, 07:45 AM
That episode is called "No Contest" and was from the first season of Cheers. That was originally a Taxi episode?

Well, maybe someone from Mario's restaurant was going to enter.
treky
03-01-2005, 02:10 AM
That episode is called "No Contest" and was from the first season of Cheers. That was originally a Taxi episode?
that's what I read in a book I have abou "Taxi".
Sal
03-02-2005, 10:01 PM
Getting back to what was supposed to be the theme of this thread, sitcoms similar to other sitcoms, I can't help but notice that one of my favorite shows, "Hope & Faith", reminds me a lot of "Laverne & Shirley", which was what attracted me in the first place. The show has a lot of physical, slapstick humour in it, which I love, yet critics tend to scoff at it for some dumb reason, and the situations that the characters get themselves into also seems reminiscent of L & S. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?
barwars
03-03-2005, 04:12 PM
Getting back to what was supposed to be the theme of this thread, sitcoms similar to other sitcoms, I can't help but notice that one of my favorite shows, "Hope & Faith", reminds me a lot of "Laverne & Shirley", which was what attracted me in the first place. The show has a lot of physical, slapstick humour in it, which I love, yet critics tend to scoff at it for some dumb reason, and the situations that the characters get themselves into also seems reminiscent of L & S. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?

I can understand the similiarities, but L&S is just plain and simple the stronger show. Kelly Rippa isn't funny at all, but Faith Ford can be entertaining.
Adamantium
03-03-2005, 10:37 PM
that's what I read in a book I have abou "Taxi".

We may have the same book. Because I have "Hailing Taxi". In the book, it describes that it was originally a plot for Taxi. Louie enters Elaine into the contest. The episode was never made, though.

Talking about Laverne & Shirley, I always though Perfect Strangers was the male version. They even had episodes with the same plots.