Well I think your wondering why I have an image of Rolling Stone Magazine up there, well I like to start off my blog posts with an image. It's kinda my thing I dunno, I just like the way it gets done. I chose this issue with Cyndi Lauper because I do not get the scary future and most of it makes me want to scream and run head first back into the past. I have no idea who any of the people in those magazine covers from recently are but I know Cyndi. I like Cyndi. She's a cool lady and I respect cool ladies. Anyway Rolling Stone did a whole big thing on The Top 100 Sitcoms of All Time and well I'm going to shit all over it because I feel like it. If you want to read the terrible list you can go to it right here
First off, I don't like the fact they picked several one season only shows. I'm sorry but you can't judge something like a sitcom that lasted one year. That one year could have been fantastic but the next year they could have fiddled with it and made it a whole new show. It just feels like oh what ever here's some filler. I'm sure the shows with Venus Flytrap and Principal Prickly were both great for that one season they were on but I don't think they deserve to be on a top 100 list.
Secondly, I also think shows that are still on and have been recently cancelled as in the last few years shouldn't be on the list either. What makes a sitcom stand is how it stands the test of time. No one gives a piss about Leave it to Beaver in 2021 because its dated boring horse shit, I personally think I Love Lucy still holds up after 7 fucking decades. Wait to see if these shows are still great in at least a decade before putting them on this list.
This list has too much garbage on it. Will and Grace, Roseanne, Everybody Loves Raymond, Scrubs, The Big Bang Theory, MASH, and Friends are utter dog shit. I don't give a shit how popular they were they aren't well made or entertaining. Shove them off this list. Don't even give them an honorable mention because garbage doesn't deserve that. You also now know some of my SITCOM SECRETS which is just a few shows I don't like. Fuck Zach Braff.
Also Phineas and Ferb along with Spongebob Squarepants are not sitcoms. They are not. I will die on this hill. Do better when putting stuff like this together. I refuse to ever list those as sitcoms. Ever.
I'm not knocking British Comedies but I do find it funny how many of them made the list when the episode count ends up being like 12. Lazy British jerks. GIVE US MORE OF THE FUNNY YOU BASTARDS.
I know all the TGIF sitcoms are looked down upon by tons of people and probably looked down upon by the hoity toity people at Rolling Stone but couldn't you have given one of them a pity fuck? Like just one? It's weird not seeing any of them on the list when that whole thing was so popular for a big decade for sitcoms. Strange. Oh, also they should have replaced one of the garbage shows I put in my garbage show lists or maybe SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS A NOT SITCOM with Married With Children? You know ALBERT BUNDY? Wait was his full name Albert or Alan? or did they never say? PORT CHIME IN HERE YOU SHITLOAF. Also no Munsters or Addams Family? or Mr. Ed!? Bewitched or I Dream of Jeanie, or BEVERLY HILLBILLIES.
I know the Simpsons was going to get in the top ten and yes it deserves a top ten spot but I don't think it deserves #1. Now you can put those pitchforks down and let me explain. A tv show that is influential and amazingly done for a decade can't just SHIT ITS FUCKING PANTS FOR 20 YEARS LIKE ITS BEEN DOING. It doesn't matter how great the material from that first decade was its still SHITTING ITS PANTS FOR 20 YEARS. Give Seinfeld the top spot. At least they knew when to fucking quit.
Now thats me blathering on about a list of dumb shit. It's a bad list. Don't read it. Rolling Stone can eat my stinky hairy asshole.
Thank you for this genuinely hot take on this garbage list. We disagree a lot... All the time, but everything you said is good and fun about this shit and crap list. You actually have an understanding of sitcoms. Great sitcoms evolve and honestly, a lot of good ones are mediocre in season 1 and don't find their groove and others flame out after their first when they run out of material or the good writers bolt. So stupid.
ReplyDeleteI agree 10% that SpongeBob and the like are not sitcoms. If you allow them in, you have to allow Beavis and Butthead. I think they threw those in for troll factor. British sitcoms can be good but it's very ETHNOCENTRIC to not consider other foreign sitcoms. Reeks of "oh I know that one, let's include it for diversity".
The omissions are the worst part. They certainly raided the hot commodity cupboard to squeeze out TGIF and MwC (which was surely a woke victim... But if you watched the show, you'd know that for all of Al's lecherousness, he always suffers for it... And he loves his wife and family. Definitely omitted by people who never watched it). There has been good TV in recent years but it has largely missed sitcoms.
I know you hate Zach Braff but Scrubs is the best sitcom of the past 25 years. It's accurate (a close friend of mine is a doctor and said it's the only show that portrays a hospital life accurately) and it's genuinely funny. John C McGinley is a treasure.
Al's full name is Alfonse.
Good article, jerk.