View Full Version : Most "Unrealistic" sitcom


Chocolate Moose
12-03-2008, 10:52 AM
Well, Weeds for one ... Curb Your Enthusiasm for another. they're great entertainment but not likely to happen IRL.

Anyone ?

sunshinefizzy
12-03-2008, 10:56 AM
Three's Company, Gilligan's Island, Full House, and Seinfeld (depends which incidents you talk about).

Chocolate Moose
12-03-2008, 01:28 PM
Oh, and 2 1/;2 Men. Not that I don't love it, I just don't think it would really happen.

TV DVD Fan
12-03-2008, 02:35 PM
ALF and Mister Ed are probably right up there... along with Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies and Mork and Mindy. I concur with everyone who has said Gilligan's Island as well... but that one's obvious! Let's make a car made out of coconut shells... that'll work! And it did!

dakert
12-03-2008, 02:51 PM
My Mother The Car LOL

TripperFan
12-03-2008, 04:14 PM
My Favorite Martian

Mr. Ed

Married With Children

Friends

According to Jim

The Beverly Hillbillies

Green Acres

The Munsters

The Addams Family

wkomorow
12-03-2008, 05:25 PM
Aliens in the family

Tubehead
12-04-2008, 01:52 AM
i would say family matters. it was real for a while. then they had steve chaing into a cool guy. then they had him time travling.
boy meets world the older shows
the munster i don't think it was sousseped to be real just funny.
i dream of jennie
bewitched
sarbien,theteeeange witch
Gossbumps
my favorite martian

Tubehead
12-04-2008, 01:54 AM
sorry didn't mean to post twice

Buffyboy323
12-04-2008, 03:59 AM
I Love Lucy
The Munsters
The Addams Family
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeannie
The Brady Bunch
Saved By The Bell

jimpickens
12-04-2008, 05:25 AM
Happy days
My Name Is earl
Laverne & Shirley

comedyfreak
12-04-2008, 09:38 AM
Welcome Back Kotter
Mork & Mindy
Full House
Scrubs
ALF
3rd Rock From The Sun
Get Smart

repeatshistory
12-04-2008, 01:42 PM
Well, Weeds for one ... Curb Your Enthusiasm for another. they're great entertainment but not likely to happen IRL.

Anyone ?

Is Weeds really a sitcom to begin with? No offense intended, I just think it's not a 'sitcom' formula.

And more often than not, we're more willing to accept the IMPOSSIBLE in television and movies, than we are the IMPROBABLE. Could most of the things that happen in Weeds actually happen? Believe it or not, yes.

But I do agree with Curb Your Enthusiasm.

And I would add the Drew Carey Show. It got to the point that things were truly impossible. (Drew being sent to the Great Wall of China, for example.)

Chocolate Moose
12-04-2008, 01:56 PM
Sure Weeds is a sitcom. My kids laugh and laugh at it, while I sigh .....
Zany isn't realistic, but it is entertaining. Many sitcoms resort to zany.

TVFactFan
12-04-2008, 02:47 PM
Well, Weeds for one ... Curb Your Enthusiasm for another. they're great entertainment but not likely to happen IRL.

Anyone ?


Three's company, there would be no way in real life that a straight man could live with two sexy girls and not be intimate with one of them.

Lorimar Television
12-04-2008, 04:39 PM
For all of you who said Full House, Im sorry but I disagree. I mean, sure the show would get sappy, but believe it or not, there really are families who get along well with eachother, and hug alot, out there. Plus they werent always perfect. They just always had a happy ending.

DSfan
12-04-2008, 11:20 PM
I agree. Also, people might it unrealstic because it might have been just so realistic that it was unrealistic for it to be so realistic (huge tongue twister lol hope everyone understood :)

treky
12-05-2008, 03:31 AM
ALF and Mister Ed are probably right up there... along with Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies and Mork and Mindy. I concur with everyone who has said Gilligan's Island as well... but that one's obvious! Let's make a car made out of coconut shells... that'll work! And it did!
Also in "G.I." how their clothes never got holes in them or anything, none of the men ever grew beards, the proffesor could make virtualy ANYTHING out of a cocunut, etc.

treky
12-05-2008, 03:36 AM
well, out of current sitcoms, I'd say "MY NAME IS EARL" & "TWO AND A HALF MEN"-I'm not saying they're bad shows-in fact "EARL" is my favorite-just that they're unrealistic.

littlebelle
12-05-2008, 03:38 AM
I'm thinking Diff'rent Strokes...

dav4463
12-05-2008, 05:46 AM
Hogan's Heroes

treky
12-06-2008, 04:37 AM
out of the older sitcoms, "THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES", "GREEN ACRES", "GET SMART", and DEFINETALY "HOGANS HEROES".

wkomorow
12-06-2008, 07:53 PM
Why is 2 1/2 men unrealstic?

James
12-08-2008, 01:38 PM
My vote goes to The Munsters. Honorable mention goes to Aliens in America, Married ... with Children, and Two and a Half Men. Oh, and all that animated fluff from FOX.

GARFIELDKOOL
12-08-2008, 02:01 PM
Brady Bunch, hands down! How often does a widow with 3 girls meets and marries a widower with 3 boys in the same age bracket as the girls?!

DSfan
12-08-2008, 05:01 PM
Only 1 other time.... on Step by Step.

Lorimar Television
12-08-2008, 07:12 PM
Only 1 other time.... on Step by Step.
Actually they were two divorcees, the mother had 2 girls and 1 boy, and the father 2 boys and 1 girl.

Heidi Dawn
12-09-2008, 05:47 PM
Gilligan's Island - how on earth did Mary Ann and Ginger, plus the Howells get all of those extra clothes.

Goldilocks
12-10-2008, 05:20 PM
Let's not forget The Monkees!

Four guys in their very early 20's living in that fabulous beach house, sharing one hot-rod car and their only visible means of financial support are their inconsistent gigs.

Yeah, that could happen. :lol:

factsoflife
12-10-2008, 06:27 PM
Roseanne---it definetly has no relevance to my life. none whatsoever.

Saved By the bell was pretty unrealistic, even by the standards of a high school show.

Beverly Hills, 90210

Merlose Place

Webster

Different Strokes

Facts Of Life

ALF

Mork & Mindy

dawsongirl
12-12-2008, 09:33 PM
I think it's beyond safe to say any show with a supernatural aspect. Those shouldn't even be listed because that's obvious.

factsoflife
12-12-2008, 09:47 PM
Actually they were two divorcees, the mother had 2 girls and 1 boy, and the father 2 boys and 1 girl.

I'm pretty sure they said that Frank's wife died and that Carol was the only one with a divorce to her name. What i found odd about this show if they were both divorced how come neither one ever had to deal with the ex for custody? or go to court? how come neither ex ever visited or causes issues for the new spouse?

Furienna
12-13-2008, 02:25 AM
I'm pretty sure they said that Frank's wife died and that Carol was the only one with a divorce to her name. What i found odd about this show if they were both divorced how come neither one ever had to deal with the ex for custody? or go to court? how come neither ex ever visited or causes issues for the new spouse?
Frank's wife wasn't dead. She had left her family to go work as a dancer in Las Vegas.