has there ever been a sitcom made into a movie?

Yes there has.

yeah like what

M.A.S.H.? The Simpsons Movie? Welcome to Mooseport?

by the way, Dom Passantino... welcome to Mooseport.

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M.A.S.H.?

backwards

But perhaps you've heard of Bewitched and The Brady Bunch?

Straight Outta Mooseport, crazy motherfucker named Ray Romano, from a show called Everyone Loves Raymond

no never heard of those alleged programs, Oily Rags

MASH was a movie made into a sitcom, right?

Dad's Army, Porridge, probably several other British sitcoms of the 60s and 70s.

Also, "Lust, Caution" is a loose adaptation of "Small Wonder."

loads of british sitcoms made into movies in the 70s

Rising Damp, On The Buses

MASH was a movie made into a sitcom, right?

yeah apparently this is something old people know that I didn't

Star Trek, which I've always found very much a sitcom even if that's not the way it's generally perceived.

WEBSIT: THE MOVIE

http://imdb.com/title/tt0119509/

Oh yeah, and on that note: Dennis the Menace

great thread

Oily Rags look we could also talk about Dennis The Menace and the Howdy Dooda Show or whatever but I'm talking about actual sitcoms that matter and are relevant, like, TODAY, as opposed to stuff your grandpa watched during the Great Depression of the Economy and things like that

that last post was an X-Post

oh hey btw X-FILES (??????????????)

(X-FILES WAS NOT A SITCOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

WTF AGEIST!

look iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj, you may want to learn to read and notice that I didn't say a goddamn thing about Dennis the Menace (which was a comic panel before it was a sitcom and far better known in the print than televideo medium anyway) and have just been answering the fucking question you asked, so stow the attitude.

But what the heck, why not give a cutoff date, just for fun.

abortions
how many years should women be sentenced to prison for having them?

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Top 5 ILX posters, easily.

True. I mostly associate Dennis the Menace with yummy Dairy Queen ice cream treats.

The McKenzie Brothers were never a sitcom proper, but Strange Brew was an SCTV spin-off. And the list of SNL spin-offs is nearly endless at this point.

hey what do you call a loaf of french bread who tends to be very rude and thoughtless toward everyone around him?

has there ever been a yummy dairy queen ice cream treat made into a movie?

hey what do you call a loaf of french bread who tends to be very rude and thoughtless toward everyone around him?

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Nad Baguette?

Welcome to Moolatte.

We Got It Made was translated to the silver screen as Whore.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0493627/

Castaway was a somewhat loose adaptation of Gilligan's Island.

Terminator was orginally titled Small Wonder: The Movie.

Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins was, of course, a continuation of the narrative arc initiated bay the hit series Silver Spoons.

Kids was based on a short-lived Channel Four sitcom starring Tony Slattery as a camp baker.

Michael Bay's next movie is a $800million budgeted version of All-American Girl.

Jurassic Park = Land of the Lost?

why don't you say something that's actually true for once in your entire life

xpost: Exciting, yes, but how will the monster truck chase sequence through the Louvre translate to film, I wonder?

Sex and the City

I have vague memories of a "We Dream of Genie" movie, but may be imagining it.

Translated from The Golden Girls

xp

City Slickers reunited us with Daniel Stern's character Kevin Arnold from The Wonder Years. A sequel followed several years later entitled Very Bad Things.

ever see Wild Things? you can see Denise Richards's boobs in it. there are also alligators

That's the one inspired by Three's Company, yeah?

you told a joke

The only thing left is to make a film version.

Wasn't MASH a novel before it was a movie or a sitcom?

They made an I Love Lucy movie back in 1953 - http://imdb.com/title/tt0445461/ - it was 3 episodes of the show with new scenes filmed to make them flow together.

that's just lazy

Does the Family Ties Keatons go to Englishland so Alex can join the Oxford Rowing Team and Mallory can canoodle with a spy who leaves a microfilm in her hairbrush (metaphor galore) and Jennifer pretends she's not the biggest lesbian on primetime since Maude count as a movie?

requiem for a dream is a filmic adaptation of small wonder

growing pains was made into a movie and it won best picture at the ocars

The Honeymooners got inexplicably turned into an urban romp starring Cedric The Entertainer.

http://www.animationstation.net/posterimages/B/Beverly_Hillbillies_The.jpg

Jim Varney, RIP

Are You Being Served?

The movie of which, in a funny sort of way, was the template for the later derived sitcom Grace and Favour, in that it removed the cast to a completely different setting (in the movie they all go on holiday to the Costa Plonka).

Man about the house. Specifically, the bit where Paula Wilcox says "oh, go on then"

Basically, the "Sit" is used as a base, but the majority of the film is filmed on location. Generally, a holiday is involved, sometimes Torremolinos, sometimes the caravan sites of the North of England (yep, saw the "Likely lads" film on Christmas eve, too much I recognised, locationwise and bulldozers knocking down old houseswise.

This question is a lot like "Have any no-talent celebrities made pop records even tho they can't sing?"

generally true, although the first two On the Buses films were actually based around the bus garage and only the third featured the template Mark G has described. That film, Holiday on the Buses was described in the Radio Times as "without doubt the worst film you will see all year" and awarded one star, which is quite a rare thing. However I think it was the top grossing film in Britain in 1973, or was top 5 at least.

this thread gives me a rare opportunity to go all Marcello Carlinish.

What is this "Are You Being Served" thing? If it's a sitcom, I certainly haven't seen a US translation of it.

I'm pretty sure there was a Korean War before M*A*S*H. The movie made from that was called Shaving Ryan's Privates.

holy fuck all this dad's army man about the house are you being served mrs whoevers pussy makes me want to smash shit i fucking hate english comedy so fucking DUMB

wait, sex in the city was a comedy?

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/060629/125050__candy_l.jpg

You missed (whatever happened to) The Likely Lads in yr scattershot, and rightly so.

holy fuck all this dad's army man about the house are you being served mrs whoevers pussy makes me want to smash shit i fucking hate english comedy so fucking DUMB

I agree that some is substandard and crass, but none of it has yet driven me to coprophilia.

good thing you didn't include last of the summer wine or we'd have a problem, sunny.

lj proves my point

atm i havent even heard of that one (BBCAmerica?)

Ban Sunny Successor.

http://imdb.com/keyword/based-on-tv-series/

Wasn't MASH a novel before it was a movie or a sitcom?

Yes, although if you were to read the book after seeing the screen versions you'd hardly recognize it.

middleclass americans who think watching 10 year old british sitcoms on PBS is highbrow, C or D?

pbs, sunny. it's part of their rock block of old(ish) british sitcoms.

The book was called Catch-22.

the dude who voices wallace of and gromit fame is one of the old codgers. those boys sure do get into some shenanigans when they stroll around the town together.

With a light-hearted jibe I single-handed prove the point that all British comedy is DUMB. I'm terrified by this power I wield.

and again!

*smashes shit, thereby proving comedic superiority*

from imdb trivia on LOTSW:
Officially announced by Buckingham Palace in 1996 as being Her Majesty the Queen's favourite television series. Currently in its 30th year, recognized as "the longest-running comedy series in the world".

woah! and yet no movie has been made?! are they scared of the massive worldwide success that would surely follow?!

saw the Dad's Army film the other day. Fucking fantastic.

Make a film of a sitcom, sitcom ends. Generally.

</thousand examples contradicting that statement>

i wonder what kind of tv the queen has.

andrew m needs to do less pbs watching and more beeps meeting.

OK, PP, go for it. UK ones, that is.

um 'dad's army'

One problem with perspectives on British comedy is equating the Queen, royalty, and all sorts of antiquainted nonsense with a general British sense of slightly restrained, upper-class, effete humour.

In fact, there's no general sense at all. There are different personalities at work, and very different types of comedy. If you're gonna single out a type, the very best British comedy is subversive, irreverant, satirical and in fact the very opposite of what many people enjoy making it out to be.

i like where this thread is going.jpg

xp thank you john carey

are there mroe nude spocks or more non-nude spocks on this thread?

kind of a nude spock convention. or a spock the ball competition.

Which one are you gabbneb?

Small Wonder jokes on this thread: 3 so far.

Small wonder at that.

I hope they leave the trilogy alone.

m*a*s*h* was actually a video game before it was a novel or a movie or a tv show.

Most of generation x and y don't realize that Small Wonder was a novel prior to it being made into a sitcom.

Little-known fact: both the Small Wonder novel and the MASH arcade-novelization were actually inspired by a limerick then-Major Jack E. Steele told Martin Caidin at a dinner party in 1967.

That M*A*S*H videogame rocked, at least until you got to the "Hiding on a bus listening to a chicken" round.

There were two or three Get Smart movies made after the series ended. I remember quite liking them as a kid, haven't seen them since.

The Nude Bomb was actually a spin-off from "Hogan's Heroes".

I don't think the "urban romp" recasting of The Hooneymooners was "inexplicable." The main character is an NYC bus driver. It is the 21st century.

Also: Sex and the City is a sitcom, as proven by the fact that it's been syndicated with no problem into late-night network sitcom-rerun blocks.

The 300 was inspired by 227, right?

Suddenly I would kill for an audio/visual montage of

THIS
IS
Meeaaaarrrryyy

The Jackee'/Rue McClanahan show "Runnin' FOr the Gold Spot!" was the inspiration for Thelma & Louise.

<3 <3 <3 iiiijjjj

[wtf this thread.]

So the Friends movie's going to blow, obviously. But why? Why did the SATC movie suck?

Why can't anyone, ever, seem to take a hugely successful sitcom format and translate it into a half-decent film? Seems a shame.

has there ever been a comic book made into a movie?

spiderman

batman returns

high fidelity

i thought the sex and the city movie was fine, tbh

it was consistent with the tv show, maybe.

Aye, but I don't see that as a positive: I think film adaptations of sitcoms/TV shows in general - Serenity, SATC, whatever - have a duty to be distinct from their source material and very clearly "A Movie" rather than just two episodes of the show stuck together.

South Park is a great example of when it works; the Simpsons movie slightly less so.

but then don't you run the risk of stuff like the awful xmas episodes of only fools and horses where they go to florida to make it an 'event'?

simpsons movie was actually better than i expected, but yeah south park.

(xpost) Any episode of OFAH longer than 30 minutes is pretty much a disaster, except for "To Hull and Back"

MUNSTER, GO HOME

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SATC turned out all right I thought, though the first 45 mins were the most awful cinema ever

hardly a ringing endorsement! "31% of this film is 'the most awful cinema ever'."

i'm assuming 'turning out alright' means that the main cast members are disembowelled as a finale.

has there ever been a (non-animated) sitcom made into a remotely enjoyable movie?

in the loop?

has there ever been a (non-animated) sitcom made into a remotely enjoyable movie?

Brady Bunch was OK, making them a collective fish-out-of-water in the real world.

Bean tried to make Bean a fish out of water and it didn't work.

Strangers With Candy.

ding ding ding

here's hoping the Arrested Development film maintains as effective a transition to the big screen as SWC.

the PORRIDGE, DAD'S ARMY, LIKELY LADS, STEPTOE AND SON and UP POMPEII movie spin-offs are all 'remotely enjoyable'

Yeah, the Likely Lads one.

If it ain't 'merican, does it really exist?

Is the Porridge one when they plan to escape during the football? I liked that.

I remember liking the first Get Smart! movie (the one with the original actors, not the recent remake), but it's been something like 15 years since I saw it, so my memory is dim.

Is the Porridge one when they plan to escape during the football? I liked that.

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yeah. has a certain wintry quality, that film.

The first two Naked Gun movies are pretty good too, or at least not any worse than the series.

just thought of naked gun, good call.

was MASH a movie or series first? was it ever a movie? was it ever a sitcom? who knows?

need movie of these guys, stat

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2037/2261447410_8dfbb9b7ea.jpg

Are we counting Reno 911! as a sitcom? Probably not, I guess.

oh it's totally a sitcom

You know...it occurs to me all of the sudden that, even though the show was wrapped up pretty perfectly (which didn't stop the Arrested Development folks), I really wouldn't mind seeing a Larry Sanders movie. I might even love to see a Larry Sanders movie.

i'd like to see a titanic sitcom.

oh, totally

every week the ship could capsize with hilarious results

if only the love boat could have run with that concept

I generally thought of Charlie's Angels as a sitcom, but that's just me.

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bruno

Head was a good movie. It was based on a sitcom about a fictional singing group called The Monkees.

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Ali G (the series) was hardly a sitcom.

has there ever been a tumblr made into a movie?

movie.hipsterpuppies.com

I was just looking up the most recent film of Land Of the lost cos there was a Will Ferrell thread going on and came across this

'But perhaps you've heard of Bewitched and The Brady Bunch?

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, January 1, 2008 7:54 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink'

& had been wondering if Bewitched was actually a sitcom based on Bell, Book and Candle or at least triggered by it. Like I assume Happy Days was brought into existence thanks to American Graffiti.

Odd question behind this old thread since there are stacks of british sitcoms that became films in the 70s at least and it seems to be an ongoing thing. Inbetweeners possibly being the most recent somewhat popular one.
& there's a U.S. version of Only Fools & Horses in the works.

i *think Happy Days' pilot was shot before American Graffitti - a failed pilot that aired as an episode of anthology series Love, American Style in the early 70s - but, following the success of American Graffitti, which highlighted the potential appeal among audiences for 1950s nostalgia, was belatedly greenlit as a series.

The funny thing being that Happy Days was set over half a decade before American Graffiti - a season 2 Happy Days episode concerns the 1956 Eisenhower/Stevenson presidential race, whereas Graffiti's ad campaign asked, "Where Were You in '62?"

in the Uk recently; The Inbetweeners.

that's true. and the paul le mat character is nostalgic for the 50s happy days would later revisit - saying the rock'n'roll's been going downhill since buddy holly died. i guess 1962 still feels pre- what we define as 'the 60s', culturally.

(xp)

.. and soon this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469021/

also arguable; The Thick Of It becoming In The Loop

xp yeah if you look at Mad Men, say, it isn't.. *really* the Sixties until Series 4 (set in '64). the first 3 series have a.. not quite the 60s even though they are set in 1960-61--62-63. they feel late 50s ish for at least teh first 2 series imo.

I'd just thought that Happy Days was either directly an attempt to do something like American Graffiti for tv but somewhat changed in the process.
Had assumed it was set in that same time too. & less and less as it went on.
Post-shark does it even make nodding concession to temporal setting? Or is that even later. I just remember 70s clothing creeping in on characters.

But question was initially was Bewitched an attempt to take Bell, Book And candle to TV? Hot witch marries straightlaced mortal and shenanigans ensue?

Sorry grammar messes up in the above.
I said directly cos I had thought that maybe it had come almost straight from the film through TV writing to the small screen. Even features at least one actor in common.

Indirectly - the alternative would've been that TV execs went what's hip this season saw the success of American Graffiti & thought oh right the 50s might be popular let's do something with that.
MAybe, judging by ideas in somewhat popular circulation the excesses of the late 60s triggered a bad pendulum reaction and people wanted to return to something more wholesome, family values etc. So went back to the more white bread era of the late 50s/early 60s. & I guess the time was more overt in the 1st series with Butch etc,

the oldest answer to this question I know of is from '56:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048459/

but there are a number of radio comedies that underwent the same adaptation.