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M-su
Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:23 am Post subject: SEINFELD is the best sitcom of all time! |
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There are other funny TV shows out there, but not in the same way as Seinfeld.
Seinfeld,
Still a classic? Hell yes!
Last fresh breath of comedy? |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:24 am Post subject: |
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is this a joke? |
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pkang0202

Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:25 am Post subject: |
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I like the King of Queens better. |
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losing_touch

Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Location: Ulsan - I think!
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:31 am Post subject: |
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I prefer Curb Your Enthusiasm. |
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maddog
Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Location: Daegu
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:32 am Post subject: |
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I vote for Arrested Development. Still makes me p1ss myself laughing.
"I prematurely blew my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, so now I have something of a mess on my hands" - Tobias Funke |
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Ginormousaurus

Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:06 am Post subject: |
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My top three would be
1. Seinfeld
2. Curb Your Enthusiasm
3. Arrested Development
Arrested development would probably have become number one if there would have been more seasons. |
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Beej
Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Location: Eungam Loop
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:13 am Post subject: |
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Seinfeld along with Friends, while good shows, are the two most overrated sitcoms of all time. For a show to be truly great, it has two work on more than one level. MASH, All In the Family, The Simpsons do, Seinfeld doesnt. |
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ulsanchris
Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: take a wild guess
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:15 am Post subject: |
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The Simpsons. Especially the first ten seasons. Maybe not the first season. Seinfeld looks quite dated now. Even when it was running new episodes I got the feeling that at times they were having the same conversation just in different episodes with different story lines. Seinfled had more than its fair share of classic moments though. |
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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008 Location: Down by the river
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:37 am Post subject: |
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I like the Simpsons (yeah early seasons), curb your enthusiasm, what I managed to see of arrested development. Best Simpsons is season 3 through 6 or 7 maybe.
I liked Seinfeld for George and Kramer. Very funny characters, especially George (Worlds collide Jerry! World's collide! or I'm bald, unemployed, and I live with my parents! ). But Seinfeld himself had such an ego, and Elaine was just so so.
Cheers and Mash in their best seasons were funny. Gary Shandling's show on HBO (I forget the title, where he was the talk show host) was good.
Still, overall the Simpsons would be my choice. Homer: "Give me the number for 911!" |
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Beej
Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Location: Eungam Loop
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:05 am Post subject: |
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aka Dave wrote: |
I like the Simpsons (yeah early seasons), curb your enthusiasm, what I managed to see of arrested development. Best Simpsons is season 3 through 6 or 7 maybe.
I liked Seinfeld for George and Kramer. Very funny characters, especially George (Worlds collide Jerry! World's collide! or I'm bald, unemployed, and I live with my parents! ). But Seinfeld himself had such an ego, and Elaine was just so so.
Cheers and Mash in their best seasons were funny. Gary Shandling's show on HBO (I forget the title, where he was the talk show host) was good.
Still, overall the Simpsons would be my choice. Homer: "Give me the number for 911!" |
That Gary Shandling show was "The Larry Sanders Show" Awesome. So funny and really the first of the new breed of comedies. |
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bangbayed

Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:35 am Post subject: |
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I guess this might keep this thread from being off topic and eventually deleted by mods:
That episode where Elaine goes to the Korean nail salon was funny, but did you know they weren't Korean? At least that's what my gfriend at the time said.
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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008 Location: Down by the river
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Beej wrote: |
aka Dave wrote: |
I like the Simpsons (yeah early seasons), curb your enthusiasm, what I managed to see of arrested development. Best Simpsons is season 3 through 6 or 7 maybe.
I liked Seinfeld for George and Kramer. Very funny characters, especially George (Worlds collide Jerry! World's collide! or I'm bald, unemployed, and I live with my parents! ). But Seinfeld himself had such an ego, and Elaine was just so so.
Cheers and Mash in their best seasons were funny. Gary Shandling's show on HBO (I forget the title, where he was the talk show host) was good.
Still, overall the Simpsons would be my choice. Homer: "Give me the number for 911!" |
That Gary Shandling show was "The Larry Sanders Show" Awesome. So funny and really the first of the new breed of comedies. |
You know, I just realized bald guys are the best because pathetic is funny. Homer, George, and "Hank" the side kick on the Larry Sanders show were all hilarious.
My favorite Larry Sanders show was when the writer egged Hank's car. It was a reference to the O.J. Simpson trial. Hank was saying "O.J. hasn't been proved guilty! He's a friend of mine! The evidence is inconclusive"
So the writer is sitting in the room with a carton of eggs on the table, his shoes perched up covered with eggs. Hank comes in and says "some ass**** egged my car".
He lookes at the writer and he says "Did you egg my car?" The writer says "Hank, there's no conclusive evidence I egged your car. This is just circumstantial evidence. It's inconclusive. Remember OJ?"
Hank considers this and says "Okay. I believe you.I won't blame you based on this, kind of circumstantial evidence"
The writer says "Hank, I egged your goddam car."
Hank: "You bastard!"
I know relating this is unfunny, but it really was one of the funniest things I've ever scene on tv. |
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Doogie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Location: Hwaseong City
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:16 am Post subject: |
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Yea, Seinfeld is probably number one. Funniest character of all time, hands down, was Archie Bunker. I still just die laughing at Caroll O'Connor's genius. |
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KAMAKAZI
Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Location: Jamshil
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:58 am Post subject: |
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Don't all laugh at once, but I downloaded a few seasons of The Beverly Hillbillies in black and white for my parents, and man, a lot of it is as funny as hell! The characters are all good, especially Granny and Jethro
It was made brilliantly for something that was filmed in the 60's or whatever |
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Starla

Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:16 am Post subject: |
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Beej wrote: |
Seinfeld along with Friends, while good shows, are the two most overrated sitcoms of all time. |
I agree. Not sure how the cult following came about and Jerry Seinfeld's acting was always too horrible for me to endure. If most New Yorkers were as eccentric and pathetic as on the show, I would have moved out of here a long time ago.
My current favorite is the The Office. Can't get any better than that nowadays. As for past sitcoms, I'm an 80's child so I grew up watching I Love Lucy, Three's Company, Laverne & Shirley and What's Happening! among other shows. The comedy was a bit different than it is nowadays but still funny to this day. |
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