What is the most accurate sitcom?

I preferred The Middle, mainly because the characters were white trash, but likable white trash.

Accurate in terms of … what?

Dinner Ladies.

The Honeymooners. Despite the wacky escapades, the central relationship was very believable and the setting was borderline grim.

R2 Accurate in how most Americans live. I think Roseanne and The Middle really show the life of middle aged, middle class, middle Americans.

Phyllis

The Flintstones

Thirtysomething was fairly accurate.

r8 Possibly, but it was in no way a sitcom.

I agree with Roseanne and The Middle, but they really showed lower middle class. Where I grew up, the main employers were three factories. Most of the town was filled with factory workers and their families who were all lower middle class. Roseanne and The Middle captured in a humorous way how many of them lived.

I always loved the Roseanne episode where Dan's father Ed, played by Ned Beatty, gives the family a VCR in an episode set in the 1990s. Darlene's comment is something like, "A VCR. The Connor family leaps into the 80s."

Scrubs was surprisingly accurate (except for the backwards x-ray in the opening montage).

I hated that Modern Family and The Middle came on back-to-back (at least where I lived.) I always wanted us to be Modern Family, but it was painfully clear our family was The Middle.

Everybody Loves Raymond depicted one side of my Italian-American family very well.

The Sopranos depicted the other side of my family accurately but I digress...

All in the Family was pretty accurate for me. My dad WAS Archie Bunker, so the show was always uncomfortable for me to watch growing up.

“Blackish” has many episodes lifted straight from my life.

My spouse and I aren’t as successful as Dre and Bow, but we are much more successful than our parents (the source of a lot of the humor in “Blackish.”)

Good times

The Office accurately shows the boredom ad bickering of office life. It jumped the shark when Steve Carell left.

I like to think that "Bewitched" was real life.

Yes, Scrubs. Reminded me of when I did residency.

[quote] "Phyllis"

Phyllis at R6, it sure isn't you!

My first thought was "Roseanne" as well. The first few seasons, before Roseanne came back looking Asian (beginning of season 6). Season Four was the end of the best of the best of the show. Those are the only ones I re-watch.

Picture it, R18, 1164 Morning Glory Circle in 1965.

Married with Children

Fame becuase it was the only one I could easily recall that showed any kind of real diversity. . . although, I was surrounded by quite a few fame whores, too. The teachers were quite well represneted, I think, too. The rest is far more of a stretch.

M*A*S*H - having grown up in and around bases, there were many aspects that were quite true, albeit far more toned down.. but the kind of craziness that builds with the chronic monotony and boredom, the love/hate and otherwise dysfunctional relationships with the military and displaying the many reasons why skilled officers are so often despised.

Our House, Punky Brewster, Diff'rent Strokes, My Two Dads for those that had non-traditional guardians or older parents. Our House the more accurate, tho, but it's not realy a sitcom now that I thnk about it.

Alice did well with the single mom barely keeping her head above water... and Roseanne for the class divides.. that odd space of barely scraping by and having to maintain variety of gigs even with a relatively small household... you'd be poor but technically your income and assets are too much to qualify. But mostly, I think it's the class divides. The mentality from the outside onto you and the resentment that grows within your community against the outside.

Don't laugh, but "Leave It To Beaver". I love the relationship between Beaver and Wally, it was just like mine with my brother. We both had our own sets of friends, but the family relationship was central.

Accurate to my upbringing in lower-income rural Britain, THIS COUNTRY.

I've known people exactly like Kurtan, Kerry, Big Mand, Sluggs, Len et al. my whole life.

Accurate because the cast was mostly ugly and they had shitty homes?

Friends, for a certain type of New Yorker in the 90s

Room 222

Where's the freaking POLL ?

Malcolm in the Middle. The first season was spot on in regard to the relationship between the brothers.

R30 Reese & Malcolm had a really strange incestuous overtone to their relationship by the end.

Queer Ass Folk. What? You say it wasn’t a sitcom? Oops, my bad!

All Black families are as wealthy and smug as we were. We were groundbreaking.