pre-90s sitcoms that genuinely hold up?

Bewitched, Green Acres, Gilligan’s Island and I Dream of Jeannie prove you wrong in my opinion.

Mary Tyler Moore Show

Bob Newhart Show

Taxi

Cheers

Newhart

Leave It To Beaver

I Love Lucy

Roseanne (started in 1988)

Cheers

Dick Van Dyke Show

M*A*S*H

Designing Women

Newhart

Golden Girls

The Andy Griffith Show

Family Ties!

Golden Girls.

Hold up what?

I don't get The Golden Girl love at all. It's so stereotypically the kind of show aging homosexuals would watch if there were a sitcom about them. A bunch of aging/old women making sex jokes. Agony.

EXCUSE ME?

r10 is a tiresome contrarian, but I do think that the Golden Girls did use a great deal of topical humor that leaves people under 50 scratching their heads.

The Odd Couple

The Beverly Hillbillies

Mary Hartman

Andy Griffith

Leave It to Beaver

Barney Miller

Not only do I not like Golden Girls I despise anything produced by Norman Lear. A sitcom is not a place for self righteous sermons shouted by cardboard characters.

I'm under 50 and love the show, R12 and used to watch it with my mother and grandmother as a child. I'm also not American, so when I was a kid, some of the political and historical references had to be explained to me but nonetheless, I loved it then and now.

Married with children.

Oh and the golden girls. Stillwatch and laugh all the way through

R10/R15 I wonder if it would be possible to just not watch it?

[quote]EXCUSE ME?

[quote][italic]—Suzanne Sugarbaker[/italic]

I mentioned you at R4.

R10 I will speak for myself but as a 30 something watching over 30 years from the og broadcast I get almost every joke and consider it one of the best written comedies in history.

[quote]The Dick Van Dyke Show

Married with Children, the fact that it DOESN'T hold up for these sanitary pc times is what makes it great.

The Brady Bunch!

I just rewatched "Soap" on Tubi. Seasons 1-3 are still great.

[quote]I mentioned you at [R4].

Are you the OP?

Newhart seems like it would. I wonder what a young person (under 30) thinks of it.

I can only think of three: I Love Lucy, The Andy Griffith Show and Leave It To Beaver. I would add the first three seasons of Bewitched, too.

[quote]Married with Children, the fact that it DOESN'T hold up for these sanitary pc times is what makes it great.

The funny thing about that is that when MwC first debuted in the late '80s, it was denounced and protested by the religious right. Many called for its TV cancellation. Nowadays, it is the far-left who finds it offensive (albeit for different reasons) and want it canceled from culture. Whereas the right found the show raunchy and perverted, the new left find it misogynistic and sexist. Whereas the right objected to the presence of homosexual characters/jokes, the new left object to the 'stereotypical' portrayals and un-PC humor.

Aside from some filler episodes and a poor last season, much of Gimme a Break is still funny.

Different Strokes

Good Times

R29 Which is funny because in the 80’s, the conservatives went after Madonna and now the liberals go after Madonna. The last time she got in trouble was for depicting a nightclub shooting for “God Control” and a lot of the liberals came out and bashed her for it.

You’re absolutely right, the liberals have become the old school conservatives.

Before my time but I like Sgt. Bilko. Great ensemble cast of dweebs and shysters.

I loathe canned laughter, so I can't sit through most classic sitcoms. Has anyone ever tried removing it? Or do people like it?

It's not a classic 90s sitcom, but the canned laughter in SCTV is so awful I can never really enjoy the series.

As a kid I didn't mind it. I remember seeing comedies in the movie theater when I was young and being confused by the lack of fake laughter on the soundtrack.

The Andy Griffith Show (Don Knotts' Barney Fife is perhaps the best supporting character in any sitcom ever)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (it remains a delight and so many of the storylines remain relevant)

I Love Lucy (the blueprint for the modern sitcom and just try not to laugh during the William Holden episode)

Green Acres (perhaps the most surreal sitcom ever, people actually communicated with a pig)

Good Times (a fascinating and sometimes very amusing snapshot into the mid-70s)

[quote] Nowadays, it is the far-left who finds it offensive (albeit for different reasons) and want it canceled from culture.

Where are all these liberals protesting Married with Children? I somehow have completely missed this.

The Burns and Allen Show is still as funny as ever. Timeless comedy.

The Munsters

The Addams Family

R34 - the canned laughter in SCTV is intentionally awful - they are mocking stupid mainstream TV, including stupid laugh tracks. SCTV may not be to your comic taste, but they knew what they were doing.

I will get almost no co-signers for this one, but ALF. It holds up.

It’s an odd mix of family-friend corn and somewhat risqué adult humor that flies over the head of kids. The latter comes from the same “Jewish sarcasm by way of NYC” mindset that informed shows like Seinfeld. But yeah, yeah, I know— dumb premise, puppet, Max Wright and his crack use, the miserable cast & crew under hot lights for long hours, blah blah blah. Whatever. It’s brilliant. I love it as much now as I did when it premiered in 1986 when I was 6.

Seinfeld

Married with Children

Sanford & Son

Golden Girls

Roseanne

227

All in the Family

A Different World

The Jeffersons

MASH

Small Wonder

[quote]Aside from some filler episodes and a poor last season, much of Gimme a Break is still funny.

Especially when Nell vacuums up the fish in the aquarium. And little Joey Lawrence in blackface.

What's Happening? mainly because of Dee.

Good Times was good until John Amos left and it became The JJ show.

Another glass raised for Gimme A Break! Agreed that the last season was a disappointment, as moving the show could not have been the only option for renewing interest, but many of the topics handled would still raise eyebrows today & were approached realistically, unflinchingly & always humorously. I have the entire series on DVD & have a binge every now & then.

So many great British ones from the 80s...Blackadder, Are You Being Served, The Young Ones, Yes Minister, Never the Twain, The New Statesman, Hi de Hi, Open All Hours, To the Manor Born..

Dozens more but those are ones I liked.