To put this in another way, this concerns sitcoms that somehow managed to run a minimum of three seasons. But in spite of all of this, the shows carried a tendency of being lackluster, unoriginal and/or uninovative, stale, or lame in terms of the storytelling, production values, and jokes.

"Cheers"

Here is a baker's dozen of shows I think fit the category:

1. Cheers
2. Beverly Hills, 90210
3. Married ... with Children
4. The Simpsons
5. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
6. Friends
7. Frasier
8. Saturday Night Live
9. Night Court
10. The Facts of Life
11. All in the Family
12. The X-Files
13. Roseanne

I forgot:

14. Three's Company

A baker's dozen plus one!

Friends, Suddenly Susan, Caroline in he city, Grace under Fire, The Nanny.. and just to let u know 90210 was not a sitcom. even though i put them in this category i will admit that i have watched every one of them and they are all my faveorties.

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Full House. The first couple of seasons were okay, but the last 5 were blah.

How could you have forgotten Familly Matters and Step By Step?

An arguement can at least be made when it comes to Family Matters when it comes to being a rather lame sitcom that managed to last. The show was essentially a repetitious, contrived, and increasingly corny little show. As the show gradually grew more and more cartoonish, it slowly started to lose its grip.

Originally posted by factsoflife:
just to let u know 90210 was not a sitcom.

Maybe so, but 10 seasons of 90210 was 10 seasons too many!

"Home Improvement"

The Cosby show, they should have gone off the air as soon as Rudy Hit Puberty and Denise Left the show.. WAY, WAY BEFORE COUSIN PAM OR OLIVIA... also, Hanging with mr. cooper... the odd couple, gilligans island and three's company. also i think er and friends.

FULL HOUSE,FAMILY MATTERS AND STEP BY STEP.

Step by Step and Full House

Definitely The Nanny! Filler Alert! I guess the Tracey Ullman show isn't a sitcom, but I'd have to say that it is the worst longest running show of all time. The opening theme is still the same from 1984!!

Too the poster that said "Caroline in the City", that show only lasted 4 years. Granted, it wasn't very good, but 4 years isn't that long.

Home Improvement - very overrated show. Plus those kids got fugly.

Cheers - A good show, but it seems they ran out of good ideas by the last season or two.

Simpsons - one of my favorites. I'd rather have this one leave the air with it's fans waiting for more, rather than watching a slow demise.

All in the Famil - another one of my favorites, and it was very painful watching it's slow demise.

And finally, I'm already ducking from all the rotten fruit you guys are going to throw my way for this one, but I didn't find Seinfeld even remotely funny.

Edited to say I before E except after C unless you're spelling Seinfeld. I'm writing Spelling for Dummies....

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I agree about Seinfield. And final episode sucked!!

Nah, Seinfeld could and can give me a good laugh once in awile, but like FOL-FAN said, the final episode really blowed.
I know this is'nt a sitcom, but 'Walker,Texas Ranger' anyone?
What about 'Nash Bridges'? Why don't they put a cool show set in San Francisco?
Yeah,yeah, 'Full House', but that does'nt really count...

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"It was just like Saturday Night Fever, only it was a Friday."

Home Improvement, Full House, and Cheers.

I only enjoyed Home Imrprovement it's first 2 season.
I never enjoyed Full House.
I only liked Cheers when Shelly Long was on.

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Andrew Carden

Originally posted by FOL-FAN:
I agree about Seinfield. And final episode sucked!!

The show had 160+ episodes, and maybe four of them were mediocre. Just because the finale happened to be one of those medicore episodes doesn't mean that it lasted too long. I'm still amazed at how the writers managed to tie in just about every aspect of each plot into the endings. It's unlikely we'll ever see a show that was as original and witty as this show was. About the only attempts at canned laughter on this show were when Kramer would fall down or trip over his own two feet in order to get cheap laughs.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by coily2:
[B]Too the poster that said "Caroline in the City", that show only lasted 4 years. Granted, it wasn't very good, but 4 years isn't that long.

i am sorry but even if it was only four years Caroline in the city was a terrible show and for it to even last one year never mind FOUR is a travisty. first of all Leah Thompson cannot do comedy, and she knows that so why in the hell would she ever try to do a comedy series? second the writers could not come up with an original concept if they had it sitting write in front of them, this show featuered every contrived and cliched story ever thought up. the last season was by far the worst, when they brought in that dam julia.. that was just to much.. julia was a cliche in herself. a beautiful and DUMB women.. please..

[QUOTE]Originally posted by coily2:
[B]Too the poster that said "Caroline in the City", that show only lasted 4 years. Granted, it wasn't very good, but 4 years isn't that long.

i am sorry but even if it was only four years Caroline in the city was a terrible show and for it to even last one year never mind FOUR is a travisty. first of all Leah Thompson cannot do comedy, and she knows that so why in the hell would she ever try to do a comedy series? second the writers could not come up with an original concept if they had it sitting write in front of them, this show featuered every contrived and cliched story ever thought up. the last season was by far the worst, when they brought in that dam julia.. that was just to much.. julia was a cliche in herself. a beautiful and DUMB women.. please..

I never could get the appeal of The Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, Frasier, Will & Grace, Suddenly Susan, Caroline in the City, a lot of other NBC filler, Touched by an Angel, and a lot of other shows.

Coiley2 I agree with you about Seinfeld (I'm also ducking). And Gilligans Island!

Originally posted by WingsFan:
I never could get the appeal of The Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, Frasier, Will & Grace, Suddenly Susan, Caroline in the City, a lot of other NBC filler, Touched by an Angel, and a lot of other shows.

Neither could I. (Add "Cheers" to the list of shows whose appeal I could not get, BTW.)

I have seen "Touched by an Angel" twice, which is more than any of those "NBC filler" shows plus "Cheers" combined.

Step By Step!

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Jack: I'm surprised at you. Where would all the great women of history be if they thought like that!? Look at Joan of Ark and wht she accomplished. And, and Florence Nightengale and Madam Curry.

Chrissy: And Lucretia Borzok.

Janet: She posioned people.

Chrissy: Yeah, but she was very goo at it.
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The You Can Do It Cheer

Chrissy: You Can Do It,
You Can Do It.
You Can, You Can
You Can Do It,
You Can Do It,
You Can, You Can.
Hick-a-chick-a boom,
Hick-a-chick-a ba,
We want a touch down,
ra, ra, ra
Osti Wee-wee,
Osti Wa,
I don't know the rest,
so ha, ha , ha!

Jack: Chrissy, Chrissy
Chew, chew
ra, ra, ra

Above are both from the Three's Company Episode
"Janet's Promotion"

FULL HOUSE
STEP BY STEP
WEBSTER
FAMILY MATTERS