Remembering the Best and Worst of ABC’s TGIF Lineup - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

comedyfreak · 06-28-2014, 07:50 AM

https://tv.yahoo.com/news/rememberin...201135895.html
I only remembered one of the worst in the TGIF Lineup.

tlc38tlc38 · 06-28-2014, 09:12 AM

I remember all those shows and ALL of them are better than most the junk on today.

My favorites on their worst list are:
Aliens in the Family
Teen Angel
You Wish

MrCleveland · 06-28-2014, 10:54 AM

TGIF went downhill fast in late 1996 and 1997.

Is it me or did everything go to **** after 1996?

PS-I'd like to see Doug "Nostalgia Critic" Walker make a review of TGIF...he already mentioned "Full House".

Mr. Television · 06-28-2014, 12:38 PM

Once Family Matters and Step by Step left it died.

TVFactFan · 06-28-2014, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by MrCleveland

TGIF went downhill fast in late 1996 and 1997.

Is it me or did everything go to **** after 1996?

PS-I'd like to see Doug "Nostalgia Critic" Walker make a review of TGIF...he already mentioned "Full House".

Yes because that's around the time all the kids were older and the shows were pretty much done

Step by Step
Family Matters

MrCleveland · 06-28-2014, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by TVFactFan

Yes because that's around the time all the kids were older and the shows were pretty much done

Step by Step
Family Matters

So then I am right about my life as a Gen Y-Er...1996 was the peak and from then on...NO year was the same again, as in 1939 when the movie was at its peak with films like "Of Mice and Men", "Stagecoach", "The Wizard of OZ", "Goodbye Mr. Chips". "Mr. Smith", "Niniochtcka", "Wuthering Heights", "Dark Victory", "Love Affair", and of course the Oscar that goes for the picture of the year...

And for that, TGIF and my childhood by 1997 was basically...Gone With the Wind! (No pun intended).

TVFactFan · 06-28-2014, 09:17 PM

I checked out of TGIF once I entered my 20's

king of comedy · 06-28-2014, 09:29 PM

I enjoyed the best and not the worst. I didn't see Full House and I didn't like Going Places.

factsoflife · 06-28-2014, 09:53 PM

I remember almost all of these. One of my favorites on the worst list is "Hi, Honey I'm Home"... I also really liked "Teen Angel" which also co-starred Maureen McCormick as the mother.

on the "Best" list, I loved Sabrina, Full House, Step By Step and to a lesser extent Boy Meets world and Perfect Strangers.

TMC · 06-29-2014, 02:08 AM

Top 10 TGIF Shows of the 90′s

Ranking the Best and Worst of ABC's TGIF Lineup

TMC · 06-29-2014, 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by MrCleveland

TGIF went downhill fast in late 1996 and 1997.

Is it me or did everything go to **** after 1996?

PS-I'd like to see Doug "Nostalgia Critic" Walker make a review of TGIF...he already mentioned "Full House".

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...e/LiveactionTV

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Because of its very long tenure (late 1980s until late 1990s), it was inevitable that the ABC network's two-hour (8:00-10:00 p.m.) "TGIF" (short for "Thank Goodness It's Friday") sitcom lineup would hit a few speed bumps. The real decline started in the early '90s, when Full House and Perfect Strangers, the mainstays of the lineup since the beginning, went off the air, leaving Family Matters as the block's flagship program. Numerous new shows were test-run, a few of which (Step by Step and Boy Meets World most notably) became huge favorites but most of which were gone within a year or so. Even Family Matters itself began to suffer, as Steve Urkel went from being the sitcom's Breakout Character to being practically the sole reason for the show's existence, with plots tailored around his various "wacky" inventions. And then Toilet Humor started creeping in, and then ethnic humor... and it was all downhill from there. By the mid-'90s, TGIF was little more than a random generator of broad farces, often with ridiculous fantasy themes (Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Teen Angel...), that would have been more appropriate for the '60s than the '90s. A "crossover" arc late in the lineup's run only served to demonstrate how blandly interchangeable the shows had become.

comedyfreak · 06-29-2014, 03:27 AM

Wasn't Mr. Belvedere part of the TGIF lineup at one time?

Tubehead · 06-29-2014, 06:51 AM

only reason I watched the older sereis off step by step cause I had crush on al she got pretty looking when she got older

tlc38tlc38 · 06-29-2014, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by comedyfreak

Wasn't Mr. Belvedere part of the TGIF lineup at one time?

It aired on Friday nights pre-TGIF from '85-'87 then it aired on TGIF for the first year in '88.

It's still hard to believe that networks used to air good shows on Friday and Saturday nights. Now, everything is jammed into 2 or 3 nights a week and the rest of the week is basically crap.

MrCleveland · 06-29-2014, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by tlc38tlc38

It aired on Friday nights pre-TGIF from '85-'87 then it aired on TGIF for the first year in '88.

It's still hard to believe that networks used to air good shows on Friday and Saturday nights. Now, everything is jammed into 2 or 3 nights a week and the rest of the week is basically crap.

As I said before, by 1997 all the networks cared about was ratings. They basically said "No one watches TV on work nights (Sunday-Thursday) so **** Friday and Saturday...let's put in the ****tiest shows on that slot or the shows that no one cares about on those nights)!

Where did they go wrong?

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