NEW & IMPROVED What's on TV, ILX? It's the American Sitcom Tournament Round 1/Group 4

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This is Group 4:

The Bob Newhart Show vs. Green Acres
The Dick Van Dyke Show vs. Soap
Cheers vs. Night Court
Three's Company vs. Murphy Brown

Poll Results

OptionVotes
The Bob Newhart Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Cheers, Three's Company 7
The Bob Newhart Show, Soap, Cheers, Three's Company 7
The Bob Newhart Show, Soap, Cheers, Murphy Brown 7
Green Acres, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Cheers, Murphy Brown 3
Green Acres, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Cheers, Three's Company 3
The Bob Newhart Show, Soap, Night Court, Three's Company 3
The Bob Newhart Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Night Court, Three's Company 3
Green Acres, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Night Court, Murphy Brown 2
Green Acres, Soap, Cheers, Murphy Brown 2
The Bob Newhart Show, Soap, Night Court, Murphy Brown 1
The Bob Newhart Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Cheers, Murphy Brown 1
Green Acres, Soap, Night Court, Three's Company 1
Green Acres, Soap, Cheers, Three's Company 1
The Bob Newhart Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Night Court, Murphy Brown 0
Green Acres, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Night Court, Three's Company 0
Green Acres, Soap, Night Court, Murphy Brown 0


Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 August 2010 00:00 (fifteen years ago)

Green Acres, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Cheers, Three's Company for me.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 August 2010 00:04 (fifteen years ago)

Dick Van Dyke Show vs. Soap is stupid hard for me. I went with Soap.

kenan, Friday, 13 August 2010 00:09 (fifteen years ago)

The Bob Newhart Show, Soap, Night Court, Murphy Brown

ok haha JF and i are obv comedy polar opposites

gg eileen (jjjusten), Friday, 13 August 2010 00:19 (fifteen years ago)

Cheers feels like a shoo-in for me, though, even against Night Court, which was also all-time great.

kenan, Friday, 13 August 2010 00:21 (fifteen years ago)

Here I am lamely retreading the steps of Bob Newhart from the intro to the show. Except it's summer and not winter, and it's a beach now instead of a park, and Bob had a briefcase instead of a bicycle.

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kenan, Friday, 13 August 2010 00:25 (fifteen years ago)

Green Acres is really pffft.

kenan, Friday, 13 August 2010 00:26 (fifteen years ago)

Newhart vs. Green Acres is a hell of a thing to make people choose between in round 1.

Newhart, DVD, Court, Threesome

My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Friday, 13 August 2010 02:05 (fifteen years ago)

The Bob Newhart Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Cheers, Three's Company

I hate Green Acres.

EZ Snappin, Friday, 13 August 2010 02:08 (fifteen years ago)

Green Acres is delightfully bizarre in much the same way that Bob Newhart's '80s show was.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 August 2010 02:43 (fifteen years ago)

Newhart reminded me of the Vermont of my childhood; Green Acres reminded me of how long 30 minutes was.

EZ Snappin, Friday, 13 August 2010 03:36 (fifteen years ago)

who came up with the brackets? why isn't How I Met Your Mother or Community or Parks and Rec not on here?

you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Friday, 13 August 2010 04:03 (fifteen years ago)

I guess I missed out on the nominations and subtractions round. Also Wings

you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Friday, 13 August 2010 04:07 (fifteen years ago)

wow, no Two and a Half Men either

you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Friday, 13 August 2010 04:09 (fifteen years ago)

maybe those four can suddenly jump in at the end

you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Friday, 13 August 2010 04:10 (fifteen years ago)

I left out freshman shows (I know P&R is technically two seasons old, but we all pretend that first mini-season never happened). HIMYM was in the bracket on the first draft, but didn't make the cut when it got hammered out the second time. Two and a Half Men was never in consideration.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 August 2010 04:12 (fifteen years ago)

I agree with you about Community and Parks and Rec being too new for the poll.

HIMYM, Two and a Half Men and maybe Wings (I never watched it but I've heard people swear by it) do seem like they could of knocked out some other shows but whatever

you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Friday, 13 August 2010 06:26 (fifteen years ago)

I thought about Wings, but it really had no afterlife. It wasn't even until whatshisface showed up in Sideways that any of the cast members even got another decent job (unless Monk as a Shaloub vehicle came before that, but anyway...)

Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 August 2010 09:22 (fifteen years ago)

Two and a Half Men is probably the worst 'comedy' programme I have ever seen. Surely there's no point in putting something that unfunny and terrible in the poll?

emil.y, Friday, 13 August 2010 12:13 (fifteen years ago)

The Bob Newhart Show, Soap, Cheers, Three's Company for me, though I've not seen much green acres, or any Murphy Brown. DVD vs Soap was killer. Cheers was a no-brainer.

are you some kinda rap version of marc loi (stevie), Friday, 13 August 2010 12:25 (fifteen years ago)

Two and a Half Men gives set-up/knock-down joke sitcoms a bad name. I can't at all figure out why it's so popular, seeing as how no one on the show is even likeable in any small way (not even the kid, who's no longer funny now that he's a teenager).

Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 August 2010 12:58 (fifteen years ago)

I'll be surprised if there's a bracket where I have an informed opinion on all four match-ups--I've followed maybe half-a-dozen sitcoms since the '70s. But there are three here I want to vote for--Green Acres, Dick Van Dyke, and Cheers--so I'll cast a vote for Murphy Brown on the basis of never having seen it (except for the fake scene that turned up in Seinfeld). I won't pretend that I wasn't one of those teenage boys who watched Three's Company its first couple of years for the same reason as everyone else...yeah, of course, Norman Fell!

clemenza, Friday, 13 August 2010 20:27 (fifteen years ago)

Two and a Half Men is a show that revels in its badness (sort of like Trailer Park Boys but totally different). Even though TaaHM is quite banal I would much rather watch it than Scrubs, Will and Grace or Sex and the City any day of the week. Actually King of the Hill would have been a decent addition to this poll.

There's a lot of old shows in this poll that might be good but I would trim one out for How I Met Your Mother. There's going to be tons of ILXors who have never watched a lot of the very old stuff.

Sorry for the post-decision making ranting!

you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:06 (fifteen years ago)

The King of Queens and Everybody Loves Raymond are both as worthy as the worst sitcoms on this poll, at the least.

kenan, Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:10 (fifteen years ago)

Raymond, especially. I love how hate-filled that show is. They're both kind of bad shows in a way, but in another way, they both feature a comedian who can be be really funny sometimes. I got no beef with Kevin James, truly I do not.

kenan, Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:13 (fifteen years ago)

I wouldn't expect the stereotypical ILXor to like Two and a Half Men. I would expect them to hate it!
Also I have no qualms with it not being in this poll, or Raymond or King of Queens for that matter. Or Full House

you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:19 (fifteen years ago)

maybe the stereotypical lurker ILXor likes Two and a Half Men

you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:21 (fifteen years ago)

Newhart, Soap, Cheers, Three's Company. Not even a moment's thought about the competitors. From about age 10 to age 15, those shows were like the Holy Grail of comedy.

a mix of music (Lionel Ritchie) and kicks (my tongue) (Phil D.), Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:24 (fifteen years ago)

I voted against Three's Company, even though I probably saw every single episode of it growing up. It's very one-note. Or at the joke goes, "Hey, remember that episode of Three's Company where it all turned out to be a sexual misunderstanding?" Farce, yes, but even farce can be bigger than that.

kenan, Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:42 (fifteen years ago)

as in Fraisure

you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:44 (fifteen years ago)

Indeed.

kenan, Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:45 (fifteen years ago)

Three's Company is of course very simple, but I think the characters did a fine job of filling the empty space that was left behind by the absence of more complex plots. Even between Chrissy and Terri, the one season with Chrissy's cousin Cindy filling in the third roommate spot wasn't a complete wash because it made Jack, Janet, Mr. Furley, Larry, etc. all that much stronger.

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 14 August 2010 09:03 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

bump

Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 August 2010 16:19 (fifteen years ago)

The Bob Newhart Show is one of the greatest television shows ever.

I was never able to get into Cheers or Night Court, but Cheers seems like the lesser of two evils to me, for some reason, even though all of its characters were annoying and the writing always seemed a couple of beats off, in need of some tweaking

Three's Company is classic, if not particularly funny. Absurdly thin concept, even as far as sitcoms go, Norman Fell, a ridiculously likeable John Ritter plus all of his mugging and slapstick, Larry, the Regal Beagle... seemingly every sitcom cliche ever was transplanted into the milieu of the singles life in southern California of that era...

dell (del), Monday, 16 August 2010 16:34 (fifteen years ago)

hype hype

Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 August 2010 22:27 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 16 August 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

three's company beat murphy brown? fine by me, 'cuz i remember neither of 'em.

Eggs, Peaches, Hot Dogs, Lamb (remy bean), Monday, 16 August 2010 23:04 (fifteen years ago)

oh man night court got PWNEd :(

gg eileen (jjjusten), Monday, 16 August 2010 23:06 (fifteen years ago)

Runoff?

Mordy, Monday, 16 August 2010 23:07 (fifteen years ago)

Oh nevermind, I guess we add together everything?

Mordy, Monday, 16 August 2010 23:07 (fifteen years ago)

No ties here. Low turnout, though!

The Bob Newhart Show - 29
Green Acres - 12

The Dick Van Dyke Show - 19
Soap - 22

Cheers - 31
Night Court - 10

Three's Company - 25
Murphy Brown - 16

Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 August 2010 23:23 (fifteen years ago)

Wow, Green Acres was crushed. But I know people love the first Newhart show.

clemenza, Monday, 16 August 2010 23:25 (fifteen years ago)


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