TERRIBLE TV sitcoms of the 80s and 90s

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I can't find the remote control - have just watched Keeping Up Appearances and now Allo Allo is on.

What a crock of shit.

Terribly contrived situations with 'hilarious' consequences.

Patricia Routledge is a great actress but the canned laughter, slobby family and just everything in it is so dire.

And Allo Allo - I don't get it. Who thought it would be funny to have a comedy about german occupation and the French resistance? Made by the BBC? With canned laughter? And Madonna with a big boobies? Were people complete divs back then?

Oh yes, Reece Dinsdale, Bupcakes. It was 'Home To Roost' I had such a crush on him then.

I think I know far too much about sitcoms.

What was that one with Nigel Havers playing a WWII plane flyer? He was always dressed up like Biggles in it.

That's his Scandinavian working name. < nods >

Plane flyer - pilot, blates.

I exist on this thread merely to say "What was that one where..." :(

How do you spell it? Thaw? Thore? Thawe? THOR is so much better.

Home to Roost! yes!

Plane Flyer.

Wasn't that not a comedy and he was actually a bit of a sod and it had that "You're the Tops" as the theme tune and it was called Chancer or Charmer or summat?

There is NO Home To Roost on Youtube!

What the flip?!

Shirley, the one where he was a plane flyer was A Perfect Hero. He did star in one called The Charmer which was set in the 1930s.

I love Havers. I would go on a Saga holiday with him.

Bupcakes - "Home to Roost"? Poor John bloody Thaw.

I liked "Waiting for God"
Agree "The Good Life" still watchable - Margot was wonderful. I still say "Language Jerry!" to the children. Not that they pay any attention but it amuses me.

It is!

Oh sorry. On closer inspection, A Perfect Hero was not a comedy. It was about burns victims from the army It's that soding theme tune. It was so jolly that I thought it was a comedy.

Home Sweet home - with a very young Martin Clunes and the other one (Bob the builder) was 'sammy the shammy'

The two onnies had a weekly sketch called where basically the women were the breadwinners and the men made tea .....

.....seriously - where to begin on that one!!!???

X-post with several dozen posters!

I thought when I grew up my life would be like Rhoda's. Was a bit of a shock to discover it wasn't.

That's made my week, Flossie!

Has anyone mentioned that dire "comedy" with jasper carrot and meera syal yet?

Get Some In. It was set on an RAF base........

OhTinky

OMG! I had blocked that one out. The most polically correct comedy known to man with the kid in the wheelchair who...............

I really cannot go on..................

Again. There. Are. No. Words.

Bupcakes -

I'm gonna have a youtube watching afternoon.

Ooh I loved Get Some In. Wonder if there's a box set ...

I quite liked Gimme Gimme Gimme - esp the neighbours ... something and suze - and the one where they all dressed up as BucksFizz

Hated the one with Sam Janus in though and the 'double hard bastard' stuff....

Just caught up with this and delighted to find other people out there who also loathed Allo Allo and didn't find it remotely funny. Ditto Keeping Up Appearances.

Jez and Suze! Gimme Gimme Gimme was hilarious in such a puerile way. Tom Farrell was such a great character. Even my curmudgeonly old dad laughed at GGG!

Oh and also, like some others, hated anything by Carla Lane.

One thing I did like was A Bit of a Do, written by David Nobbs - not exactly a sitcom, more of a comedy drama, written by David Nobbs and very well acted. (Even though I'm not generally a fan of David Jason who was in it).

And I did love Love Hurts with Zoe Wanamaker and Adam Faith, and also Just Good Friends, by John Sullivan.