To say that Seinfeld is the greatest sitcom ever?

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And nothing even comes close?

A lot of the sitcoms named - both US and UK - are very old.

There are loads of funny female sitcom characters if you try watching things that have been made since the 90s

• Leslie Knope, April and Gloria in Parks and Rec
• Gloria and Hayley in Modern Family
• Lucille Bleuth and Lindsay in Arrested Development
• Amy Farrah Fowler in TBBT
• Shirley and Annie in Community
• Kath and Kim

I loved Seinfeld, not seen it for years. Can so done remind me of the name of the girlfriend whose name sounded like genitalia? Was it Regina?

I think Raymond is funny too. Only recently discovered it in the morning before work. It does make me laugh out loud.

The jerk store called, they're running out of you !

I love Gloria in modern family! Blackadder is def one that will always be funny. I actually thought the inbetweeners was really funny too. I didn't watch IT crowd obsessively but that was also good.

Cringe funny - the thick of it.

Dolores!!!

I love 30 Rock. The episode in which she doesn't wax her upper lip is brilliant.

dolores - looks blank for a minute - OH ok ;)

Also - and I'll get off my uptight feminist soapbox now - Roseanne, Gavin and Stacey and Dinnerladies had LOADS of brilliant female characters - not just one.

Sorry but I just can't buy that Seinfeld was hugely groundbreaking in its female characters - it had one main female lead who was young and pretty.

Can't get past the mullet and the slap bass interludes.

Curb had much funnier female chars and on par with the men a lot of the time, Seinfeld just had an army of eye candy.

Gavin and Stacey wore thin really quickly though didn't it, not as rewatchable as most sitcoms?

if it's groundbreaking female leads you're after, I give you...Mrs Doyle in Father Ted! Definitely my favourite British sitcom

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Who had a mullet in Seinfeld?

I think Seinfeld was pretty groundbreaking at the time. But my favourite thing about it is that they're all just complete arseholes. Really, unapologetically selfish people with very little going on under the surface. So refreshing! and the only programme other than Spaced that has me full on belly laughing through every episode.

thanks for the thread op. I'm going on mat leave ("maybe the dingo ate your baby!") in the autumn and you've made up my mind to watch the whole thing through again.

Ab Fab was pretty much all female characters, all funny but not that like-able.

Seinfeld was brilliant.

Roseanne is great and groundbreaking too

I love many English sitcoms but Seinfeld is my all time favourite

The characters are not meant to be likeable or have depth it's a show about nothing and the characters are superficial and self absorbed

I can not think of a female character in sitcoms before Elaine who was central to the script and did not conform to the pretty but dumb or quirky not so pretty
but clever character. She was feisty, was not searching for the one, not obsessed by how she looked or what she wore, was aggressive at times, she did not squeal (like they did endlessly in Friends), loved sex and had many casual partners and she was pro choice (this was considered daring for a sitcom) she was a great feminist sitcom character for the time

Dolores . Thank you Business

Now you are talking. dinnerladies. Best ever british comedy series. Bar none.

I am 40+1 with my first baby. DP and I have been joking that during labour we'll be screaming "serenity now!".

We've also talked about how we're going to tell people that they've "got to see the baby!".

Seinfeld is useful for all occasions.

Well I still sing "believe it or not, george isn't at home........"

There are so many! I loved Fawlty Towers (although they only made twelve episodes), Blackadder and The Royle Family!

Drop the Dead Donkey?

(OK not the last season - that was shite)

Green Wing?

(Same comment about the last series as for DTDD)

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