Fide Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Mention for Dr Cox in Scrubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Stewart Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Scrubs was soppy shite. Frasier was miles ahead of Friends, one of my favourite sitcoms. Arrested Development is also a magnificent American comedy that's not been mentioned yet. You've all made a huge mistake not mentioning it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fide Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 3 minutes ago, J_Stewart said: Scrubs was soppy shite. Frasier was miles ahead of Friends, one of my favourite sitcoms. Arrested Development is also a magnificent American comedy that's not been mentioned yet. You've all made a huge mistake not mentioning it. Whilst Scrubs may not have been to everyone's taste, some of Dr Cox's rants were tremendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Co.Down Hibee Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Frasier out of those 2... Arrested Development is far better though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 1 hour ago, YER SISTERS YER MAW said: Never watched an episode of Frasier tbh but liked Friends. My all time favourite American sitcom has to be 'Married With Children'. Beat me to it. The last few seasons went rapidly downhill but it was the funniest thing on TV for seven or eight years. Out of the two in the OP, Frasier for me. Never really got Friends - always wondered how a struggling actor, a waitress and a shite singer/songwriter managed to afford to live in Greenwich Village for starters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YER SISTERS YER MAW Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 1 minute ago, Hillonearth said: Beat me to it. The last few seasons went rapidly downhill but it was the funniest thing on TV for seven or eight years. Out of the two in the OP, Frasier for me. Never really got Friends - always wondered how a struggling actor, a waitress and a shite singer/songwriter managed to afford to live in Greenwich Village for starters. Yeah, two or three seasons too long. You could tell they were running out of ideas by then and just milking it for what they could get out of it. I've got the boxset on DVD and stick it on every now and then and it still cracks me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 10 minutes ago, Hillonearth said: Beat me to it. The last few seasons went rapidly downhill but it was the funniest thing on TV for seven or eight years. Out of the two in the OP, Frasier for me. Never really got Friends - always wondered how a struggling actor, a waitress and a shite singer/songwriter managed to afford to live in Greenwich Village for starters. uh, er, it's not actually based on real people if that is any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 10 minutes ago, Fullerene said: uh, er, it's not actually based on real people if that is any help. Or any recognised form of reality, which was more the point I was making. A situation comedy based on a situation that's unlikely to happen is a bit flawed from the start. They all seemed fairly unsympathetic characters as well - possibly the funniest scene I remember in it was where one of their dates who was a psychiatrist deconstructed their relationships... "You know, this kind of co-dependent, emotionally stunted, sitting in your stupid coffee house with your stupid big cups which, I'm sorry, might as well have nipples on them, and you're all, like, "Oh, define me! Define me! Love me, I need love!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallochSonsFan Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Friends is shite. Frasier is slightly less shite but does lose points for regularly being unbearably smug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 1 hour ago, Hillonearth said: Or any recognised form of reality, which was more the point I was making. A situation comedy based on a situation that's unlikely to happen is a bit flawed from the start. They all seemed fairly unsympathetic characters as well - possibly the funniest scene I remember in it was where one of their dates who was a psychiatrist deconstructed their relationships... "You know, this kind of co-dependent, emotionally stunted, sitting in your stupid coffee house with your stupid big cups which, I'm sorry, might as well have nipples on them, and you're all, like, "Oh, define me! Define me! Love me, I need love!" I recall a sitcom called "Mork and Mindy" which was set in Boulder, Colorado. I know what you are going to say. "Why would anyone want to live in Boulder, Colorado?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Friends was bearable because of Jennifer Aniston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Friends. I could relate to the characters more. I felt that Frasier targeted an older audience with him having a kid, being divorced and looking for love in his late 30s/40s. Friends was also consistently better over the series. Fraiser had some good moments but it was unwatchable after the introduction of Daphene's horrific family. Friends didn't have a same drop in quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 American sitcoms are generally shite and last for too many series (hence "jumping the shark") but I do enjoy The Big Bang Theory. And it has Penny in it, who pisses all over Rachel, Monica and Phoebe (in my fantasies). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daydream Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 The Frasier Ice Fishing episode is one of the best episodes of TV I've ever seen. Friends was pretty good too IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I'm pretty sure that Frasier would make my list of top ten TV shows of all time. I really liked Friends when it was on, but it isn't aging particularly well. It's more pleasant, familiar background noise if it comes on now, rather than something I'd actually laugh at. Mind when Channel 4 showed new episodes of Frasier, Friends, and Father Ted between nine and ten-thirty on Friday nights? Er...no, me neither. I was also out sexing up the ladies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54_and_counting Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 frasier's jokes at times were much better, however at times they could be quite far apart, friends humour might not have been as good, but at least it was regular scrubs pisses all over both them imo, especially for characters, dr cox, dr kelso, ted and janitor were utterly class Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Friends is hateful, evil shite. Frasier is snobby deluded shite. Both are spectacularly unfunny. However I despise Friends far more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 5 minutes ago, 54_and_counting said: frasier's jokes at times were much better, however at times they could be quite far apart, friends humour might not have been as good, but at least it was regular scrubs pisses all over both them imo, especially for characters, dr cox, dr kelso, ted and janitor were utterly class Coxy hates guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecto Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Whilst Scrubs may not have been to everyone's taste, some of Dr Cox's rants were tremendous. Dr Cox was really the only reason to watch Scrubs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54_and_counting Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 27 minutes ago, ecto said: Dr Cox was really the only reason to watch Scrubs no chance, janitor, ted and kelso were outstanding as well, plus pretty much every bird in it was a fucking ride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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