it's a question that really makes you stop and ask yourself, "hey, has a sitcom ever been made into a movie?"
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes there has.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah like what
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
M.A.S.H.? The Simpsons Movie? Welcome to Mooseport?
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
by the way, Dom Passantino... welcome to Mooseport.
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
^*=-_WeLcOme 2 mOOsepOrt, BITCH_-=*^
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
M.A.S.H.?
backwards
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
no never heard of those alleged programs, Oily Rags
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
MASH was a movie made into a sitcom, right?
Dad's Army, Porridge, probably several other British sitcoms of the 60s and 70s.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, "Lust, Caution" is a loose adaptation of "Small Wonder."
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
loads of british sitcoms made into movies in the 70s
― Alan, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Rising Damp, On The Buses
― snoball, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah apparently this is something old people know that I didn't
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Star Trek, which I've always found very much a sitcom even if that's not the way it's generally perceived.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
WEBSIT: THE MOVIE
― gershy, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://imdb.com/title/tt0119509/
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, and on that note: Dennis the Menace
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
great thread
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
that last post was an X-Post
oh hey btw X-FILES (??????????????)
(X-FILES WAS NOT A SITCOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
WTF AGEIST!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
But what the heck, why not give a cutoff date, just for fun.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
abortions how many years should women be sentenced to prison for having them?
-- iiiijjjj, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:21 (8 months ago) Bookmark Link
Top 5 ILX posters, easily.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
hey what do you call a loaf of french bread who tends to be very rude and thoughtless toward everyone around him?
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
has there ever been a yummy dairy queen ice cream treat made into a movie?
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
-- iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:08 (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
Nad Baguette?
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Welcome to Moolatte.
We Got It Made was translated to the silver screen as Whore.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
http://imdb.com/title/tt0493627/
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Kerm, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Kids was based on a short-lived Channel Four sitcom starring Tony Slattery as a camp baker.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Michael Bay's next movie is a $800million budgeted version of All-American Girl.
Jurassic Park = Land of the Lost?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
why don't you say something that's actually true for once in your entire life
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost: Exciting, yes, but how will the monster truck chase sequence through the Louvre translate to film, I wonder?
― Kerm, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Sex and the City
― Simon H., Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I have vague memories of a "We Dream of Genie" movie, but may be imagining it.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Translated from The Golden Girls
xp
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Kerm, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
ever see Wild Things? you can see Denise Richards's boobs in it. there are also alligators
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
That's the one inspired by Three's Company, yeah?
― Kerm, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
you told a joke
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
The only thing left is to make a film version.
― Kerm, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Wasn't MASH a novel before it was a movie or a sitcom?
― nickalicious, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
that's just lazy
― Kerm, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link
South Park is a great example of when it works; the Simpsons movie slightly less so.
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Monday, 28 September 2009 10:37 (fifteen years ago) link
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'?
― butchered in the spooky twilight (stevie), Monday, 28 September 2009 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
simpsons movie was actually better than i expected, but yeah south park.
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 10:41 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) Any episode of OFAH longer than 30 minutes is pretty much a disaster, except for "To Hull and Back"
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Monday, 28 September 2009 11:26 (fifteen years ago) link
MUNSTER, GO HOME
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 September 2009 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img5.travelblog.org/Photos/30496/352429/f/3225067-Thomond-Park-Limerick-1.jpg
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
SATC turned out all right I thought, though the first 45 mins were the most awful cinema ever
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 28 September 2009 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
hardly a ringing endorsement! "31% of this film is 'the most awful cinema ever'."
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Monday, 28 September 2009 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm assuming 'turning out alright' means that the main cast members are disembowelled as a finale.
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
has there ever been a (non-animated) sitcom made into a remotely enjoyable movie?
― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
in the loop?
― butchered in the spooky twilight (stevie), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Strangers With Candy.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
ding ding ding
― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
here's hoping the Arrested Development film maintains as effective a transition to the big screen as SWC.
― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
the PORRIDGE, DAD'S ARMY, LIKELY LADS, STEPTOE AND SON and UP POMPEII movie spin-offs are all 'remotely enjoyable'
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 28 September 2009 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, the Likely Lads one.
― Mark G, Monday, 28 September 2009 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
If it ain't 'merican, does it really exist?
― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Is the Porridge one when they plan to escape during the football? I liked that.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Monday, 28 September 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, September 28, 2009 3:49 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah. has a certain wintry quality, that film.
― history mayne, Monday, 28 September 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
The first two Naked Gun movies are pretty good too, or at least not any worse than the series.
― Tuomas, Monday, 28 September 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
just thought of naked gun, good call.
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Monday, 28 September 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Are we counting Reno 911! as a sitcom? Probably not, I guess.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 28 September 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
oh it's totally a sitcom
― some dude, Monday, 28 September 2009 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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 HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 28 September 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd like to see a titanic sitcom.
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, totally
― Mr. Que, Monday, 28 September 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
every week the ship could capsize with hilarious results
― Mr. Que, Monday, 28 September 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
if only the love boat could have run with that concept
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I generally thought of Charlie's Angels as a sitcom, but that's just me.
― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Monday, 28 September 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
ali gboratbruno
― Change Display Name: (Steve Shasta), Monday, 28 September 2009 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Head was a good movie. It was based on a sitcom about a fictional singing group called The Monkees.
― scott seward, Monday, 28 September 2009 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Ali G (the series) was hardly a sitcom.
― Tuomas, Monday, 28 September 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
has there ever been a tumblr made into a movie?
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
movie.hipsterpuppies.com
― a midsummer night's cream (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― if i had a goat's cheese tostada i might cream myself a little (stevie), Friday, 10 August 2012 07:22 (twelve years ago) link
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?"
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Friday, 10 August 2012 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
in the Uk recently; The Inbetweeners.
― piscesx, Friday, 10 August 2012 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― if i had a goat's cheese tostada i might cream myself a little (stevie), Friday, 10 August 2012 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
(xp)
.. and soon this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469021/
also arguable; The Thick Of It becoming In The Loop
― piscesx, Friday, 10 August 2012 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Friday, 10 August 2012 11:08 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Stevolende, Friday, 10 August 2012 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
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,
― Stevolende, Friday, 10 August 2012 11:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 August 2012 11:29 (twelve years ago) link