While I don’t particularly disagree with any of the choices on this list (Frasier got my vote by a nose), it’s awfully U.S.-oriented. Shout out to Fawlty Towers, Are You Being Served?, The I.T. Crowd, and The Red Green Show.
@Fuzzalini The Lodge segments were done with an audience. You could get tickets, and if you showed up in costume, there was a chance they’d bring you up for the “New Member” sketch. The crowd in the end credit Lodge meetings was also made up of audience members.
Man, I am realizing how little I enjoy sitcoms. The more I think about which is best, the more I realize I hate the format. This poll has changed my life.
No love for Better Off Ted? I’ve never understood why it was dropped so early in its run. I’ve watched each episode multiple times and it still makes me laugh.
Same for the British sitcom Coupling.
@carlharkins@RiotDemon I really liked the episode where Tim did something stupid and Jill got mad at him. Then after talking with Wilson, Tim made it up to her at the end and all was well. How did those writers come up with such great scripts?
@hchavers@TellarHK Excellent example is Big Bang Theory. The most popular sitcom in the market is single camera. Arrested Development, Always Sunny, Modern Family, Silicon Valley, You’re the Worst, all single cam.
AFAIK, if it’s shot live in a studio in front of an audience, it’s multi-cam.
If it’s shot “on location” instead of in a studio, then it’s not multi-cam.
@katylava lol I “sing” the S & Son theme all the time (“bowt dew BWAH doop…” ) but I get your point, it is a fun song.
To each their own (but Quincy Jones for everyone)!
Cheers people. You young’uns wouldn’t understand…
I might be the only person here that didn’t like Seinfeld.
He’s funny; I just don’t like the show.
@JT954 It was correctly characterized as a show about nothing.
@2many2no Which is why I prefer a show about something. :p I’ll take All In The Family over it any day.
All in the Family…
That being said, how does this list leave off “I Love Lucy” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”?
@2many2no
While I don’t particularly disagree with any of the choices on this list (Frasier got my vote by a nose), it’s awfully U.S.-oriented. Shout out to Fawlty Towers, Are You Being Served?, The I.T. Crowd, and The Red Green Show.
@dannybeans Stared for Are You Being Served
@dannybeans I think the red green show is single camera. It’s not in front of an audience, just a laugh track.
@Fuzzalini The Lodge segments were done with an audience. You could get tickets, and if you showed up in costume, there was a chance they’d bring you up for the “New Member” sketch. The crowd in the end credit Lodge meetings was also made up of audience members.
@dannybeans Props for Fawlty Towers.
A John Cleese masterwork.
Trivia: Polly was Cleese’s IRL wife at the time.
¡Mañuel!
@dannybeans @mike808 BASIL!!! Correct that
sign!
@dannybeans @mike808 @rtjhnstn Don’t mention the war!
Man, I am realizing how little I enjoy sitcoms. The more I think about which is best, the more I realize I hate the format. This poll has changed my life.
@simplersimon There really wasn’t much else to do in the 80s…
The original, “I Love Lucy”.
@rtjhnstn Had to scroll way too far down to find this.
@rtjhnstn - See today’s Google doodle. It’s Desi Arnaz’s 102nd birthday.
“I Love Lucy” was never my kind of humor.
How old does it have to be to make it classic? I’d vote for the original “Murphy Brown”.
@kdemo Lucille Ball was the first to use multi-camera recording of a TV show.
@rtjhnstn - Well that sounds noteworthy.
All In The Family
No love for Better Off Ted? I’ve never understood why it was dropped so early in its run. I’ve watched each episode multiple times and it still makes me laugh.
Same for the British sitcom Coupling.
@macromeh writers’ strike killed it, I’m almost certain.
and you forgot “Home Improvement”
@carlharkins loved that show!
@carlharkins @RiotDemon I really liked the episode where Tim did something stupid and Jill got mad at him. Then after talking with Wilson, Tim made it up to her at the end and all was well. How did those writers come up with such great scripts?
@carlharkins @macromeh real life experience, maybe?
Maybe it was single cam, but nobody in this esoteric community pulls News Radio?
@jitc NewsRadio was definitely the best. And this article says it was multi-cam: NewsRadio was the best sitcom of the 1990s
What sitcom is not multi-camera?
@hchavers Lots and lots and lots of them, especially from the 1990s back.
@hchavers @TellarHK Excellent example is Big Bang Theory. The most popular sitcom in the market is single camera. Arrested Development, Always Sunny, Modern Family, Silicon Valley, You’re the Worst, all single cam.
@hchavers @ruouttaurmind @TellarHK the article I was just reading (and linked) says big bang is multi camera.
@hchavers @ruouttaurmind @TellarHK Scrubs.
@hchavers MASH
AFAIK, if it’s shot live in a studio in front of an audience, it’s multi-cam.
If it’s shot “on location” instead of in a studio, then it’s not multi-cam.
Big Bang is definitely multi-cam.
@RiotDemon Mea culpa. I misread the source I was relying on. It was referencing Young Sheldon, the Big Bang spin-off.
Who’s The Boss — RIP Mona
This has left me confused as to the difference:
https://screencraft.org/2016/06/21/differences-single-camera-multi-camera-tv-pilot-scripts/
Best theme song (ever):
Thank you, Quincy Jones (for everything).
There is a correct answer to the poll today, and that answer is Seinfeld.
Since MASH was single camera, this list is okay I suppose.
Blackadder
Why are there even other options
Dobie Gillis
Last Man Standing, Tim Allen is genius. I didn’t care for Seinfeld and I’ve had Archie & Edith as neighbors(omg, the daily comedy)
I voted Fresh Prince, but a lot of that has to do with it having the best theme song.
@katylava It’s Quincy Jones vs. Quincy Jones, everybody wins!
But this is the best, IMO:
@DennisG2014 a great theme song, but I prefer the ones I can sing along to
@katylava lol I “sing” the S & Son theme all the time (“bowt dew BWAH doop…”
) but I get your point, it is a fun song.
To each their own (but Quincy Jones for everyone)!
Friends
I Love Lucy
People…
Why does the number of cameras matter?