Sitcoms no longer on the air that you miss.....

[64BEL]

In the spirit of Ginger or Mary Ann, I always preferred Bailey (Jan Smithers) to Jennifer (Loni Anderson).

 

[beanhead]

In the spirit of Ginger or Mary Ann, I always preferred Bailey (Jan Smithers) to Jennifer (Loni Anderson).

I get it. I always preferred Janet to Chrissy and Jaclyn to Farrah! And then married a blonde anyway lol.

 

[Kern Dog]

P.S. The two best series I've witnessed in my years were both on cable channels:
- Better Call Saul (superior to its' parent series, Breaking Bad)
- Justified (might just be the best series I've ever watched - and ended too soon IMO)

BCS better than Breaking Bad ??

I only watched the show since it was a spinoff. I was bored most of the time watching it. I understand the concept of a "slow burn" but THAT show moved like a tortuga....

 

[Budnicks]

Honestly I never was a sitcom guy except when we were kids and then it was wholesome shows like Leave it to Beaver, Andy Griffith, Father knows Best - stuff like that. But as I got a little older I never enjoyed sitcoms. If you look back at Kerns post he names a bunch of shows - but none are sitcoms. I liked pretty much all those shows he named and a few more. What I want to really say is while I wasn’t much for them - many people were, especially kids. What started to happen in TV production sometime back was the insertion of unending (and it gets worse every year) shows of violence, wokeness, weaving in of political biases and maybe the worst is the jamming down our throats of all this in your face racism and any kind of sexual smorgasbord of some peoples choices. This all has had a major, major impact on the deterioration of our culture and lost morals - We older adults know better - but kids are being fed this garbage in subliminal and outright in your face ways. As they grow up that’s all they’ll know. How destructive is it? Well you tell me. I think Hollywood pretty much across the board is a big part of the ruination of our culture and country. Sorry to be a downer but this is how I honestly feel and it really bothers me.

The communist/s infiltration of Hollyweirdos, both out here & now Ga.
(or specific religious sects) since 1940's or earlier
even worse today, there's no checks & balances, for any of it now
no moral compass, so to speak

 

[JR_Charger]

C'mon people, no one misses ALF?

 

[moparedtn]

BCS better than Breaking Bad ??

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I only watched the show since it was a spinoff. I was bored most of the time watching it. I understand the concept of a "slow burn" but THAT show moved like a tortuga....

Far superior, yes. Not alone in that opinion, either - but to each his own.

 

[Kern Dog]

I'd sometimes call the show Better Call for Smelling Salts.

I kept expecting the higher intensity of Breaking Bad to drift in. It did in the last season toward the end. Mike made the show, in my opinion. In the episodes without him, the show moved too slow for my tastes.
I didn't like the petty vendetta against Howard Hamlin. The guy didn't deserve his end.
One criteria I look at with spinoffs is that I consider if they would have survived without their "Parent" show to pave the way.
I'm a fan of The Walking Dead. They developed a spinoff titled Fear The Walking Dead. I liked it at first but quickly discovered that it was but a shadow of the Source material.

 

[moparedtn]

I'd sometimes call the show Better Call for Smelling Salts.

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I kept expecting the higher intensity of Breaking Bad to drift in. It did in the last season toward the end. Mike made the show, in my opinion. Without him, the show moved too slow for my tastes.
I didn't like the petty vendetta against Howard Hamlin. The guy didn't deserve his end.
One criteria I look at with spinoffs is that I consider if they would have survived without their "Parent" show to pave the way.
I'm a fan of The Walking Dead. They developed a spinoff titled Fear The Walking Dead. I liked it at first but quickly discovered that it was but a shadow of the Source material.

1. You got about halfway through the show, apparently - but your "criteria" is illogical for the basic reason that there would
obviously be no spinoff without an original to begin with.
2. The show was never "without Mike" - that's Breaking Bad you're thinking of, where that weasel Walter shoots him.
Mike has all sorts of scenes and opportunities in BCS - because the showrunners learned their lesson about his
being so popular in BB and went with it this time around.
In fact, the "everything deteriorates to the point of all involved being trashed and/or dead" sucks as a show model
to begin with, at least with viewers - which is why BCS ended on a different method entirely.
3. In fact, the same bunch that created both shows, Vince Gilligan included - have all pretty much said BB was where
they learned how to do a series, with BCS being the beneficiary and therefore the better show.
4. I have never had the "pleasure" of watching any of that Walking Dead stuff. Zero appeal for me.

Interestingly, both shows can be favorites of the same people, of course - as witnessed by their identical scores on
Rotten Tomatoes and such - and you and I can both be in disagreement here, too.
I liked both and do not trash the one that isn't my favorite. I can do that, too. Most folks can.
I'm done.

 

[Kern Dog]

I think you missed my points.
I was trying to assess a value of a show based on it's own merits. Spinoffs can go on to be more popular than the show they spawned from but it isn't that common for that to happen. If a person were to never see Breaking Bad, would they be more or less likely to enjoy BCS? My thought is no. It did have it's own style of storytelling but that style moved too slow to keep me engaged. I did watch every episode and was entertained by it but for me, I watched the show because it was associated with Breaking Bad.
I used to LOVE 24 with Kiefer Sutherland. The show kept me interested from one scene to the next. I like shows that have that level of intensity.
I liked Rescue Me for the blend of action and locker room humor.