ROUND TWO What's on TV, ILX? It's the American Sitcom Tournament Groups 5 & 6

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It's Always Sunny V. Seinfeld? Impossible to chose.

Impossible? One is genius, the other is Seinfeld and ARGH.

lol

Seinfeld is just a show I liked at the time, but there are very few episodes that benefit the viewer by seeing them a second time. Sunny, otoh, is so tightly packed that repeat viewings are almost always better than the first.

idk, they are both totally transcendent imo in different ways. one is about human beings as minutiae obsessed bullshit generators and the other is about human beings as totally degenerate worthless monsters. and both are hilarious with those conceits.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office

Easiest vote: Seinfeld over Philly.

Hardest: Curb over Futurama, neither of which I've ever cared about, so I just went with a hunch.

I Love Lucy, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, South Park

The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Seinfeld, Futurama, South Park

Easiest: Mary Tyler Moore

Hardest: Seinfeld, because I don't care for either show at all.

Lucy, Sunny, Curb, South Park.

Hardest: South Park over the Office -- I have to concede that the Office is in some sense the better show, but very few TV experiences in my life have struck me with the same "what IS this?" force of those first few times watching South Park.

Easiest: tie -- Curb your Enthusiasm, maybe the best thing in the whole bracket, over the likable Futurama, and the proud and shameless Philadelphia over the snivelling preening Seinfeld. How can anybody watch Curb Your Enthusiasm and still like Seinfeld? It's like going back to Laughing Cow after eating a 15-year-aged Gouda.

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the office beat south park? did people really not know which office they were voting for?

I Love Lucy - 19
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - 23

Seinfeld - 29
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - 13

Futurama - 21
Curb Your Enthusiasm - 21

The Office - 26
South Park - 16

Curb Your Enthusiasm breaks the tie with six thread mentions to Futurama's three.

probably sets up seinfeld vs. curb

South Park got what was coming to it after beating Roseanne in round 1.

probably sets up seinfeld vs. curb

I hope there are more old softies out there like me who will have no second thoughts about voting MTM over Seinfeld in the next round.

Don't worry. Fuck a Jerry.