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?

[ That was it ... Jez]]

Was 'a bit of a do' the one where the couple turned up and took it in turns to get absolutely plastered....

Everyone used to mistake my mum for Jan Francis (Penny in Just Good Friends) in the '80s.

I met a real life Jez and Suze at a dinner party. I swear the writer of that show met them as well as the characters were identical. She called him Babycakes and he called her Schnooky.

I got some sick in my mouth every time they spoke.

I used to love Butterflies when it was originally broadcast but when I saw it again recently I watched it like this -->

Just get a job and/or learn to cook you useless self-obsessed wankery excuse for a woman!

Nobody else remember the Piglet Files? That's got to be up there as all time worst.

The Brittas Empire could actually have been a fly-on-the-wall documentary of the sports centre I worked at. My boss could out-Brittas Brittas.

I went to a comedy writing workshop at the Cheltenham Lit Fest. The guy running it wrote 'Goodnight Sweetheart' (the Nicholas Lyndhurst thing) and was showing us clips to demonstrate the art of comedy writing. I remember thinking 'that's just not funny mate' but thought it was just me..
I know Rhoda was a spin-off from Mary Tyler Moore show, wasn't Mary Tyler Moore a spin-off from the Dick Van Dyke show (was she his wife or something)

I was at a lesson last year with someone from a sitcom from the 80s. There was a McGann brother and he was either the dad or the nanny to a couple of kids - ha ha hilarious - and she had played one of the kids. It was TRAGIC. (But she was v nice.)

I loved Allo Allo when it was on because I was about 9 and big boobeez are funny when you're 9.

I remember loving Coupling, but only a few moments in it, genuinely funny well-written good comedy but not rich enough to be properly good.

What was the one with the Scottish flight attendants? "You fuck off, eh? I said, You for coffee??"

I have just really laughed at psammead saying 'listen very carefully, I will say dis only once' to her German husband

'the high life' About Scottish cabin crew? Alan Cumming. Air Scotia.

Just watched the link! Haha.

Thank you idnf!
Alan Cumming makes me laugh so much.
And Shona Spurtle. There was a Mner with that name, I was v jealous. I wonder if it's only funny to porridgemaking Scots.

GetOrf I ahve just had a 'Nam flashback to sitting in a bar in Cologne getting drunk with some German businessman and telling my equally drunk boyfriend, repeatedly, to not mention ze var.

Oh come on people.

Bottle Boys

A bunch of cockney sparrers as milkmen.

Anyone?

Was Bottle Boys with Bob Grant, of On the Buses?

Sad about Bob Grant.

Ah, I see not..but it DOES have Robin Asquith..I love him!

I still like 'Allo 'Allo.

I actually saw a surprising amount of the cast in panto a few years ago. "Tis I, le King"

Nigel Planer/Liza Goddard "comedy" was Roll Over Beethoven.

Does anyone remember Lame Ducks? It had Lorraine "Luton Airport" Chase in it.It was so great it only ran for one series!

I remember about 98% of all those mentioned including The Happy Apple, Colin's Sandwich... anyone remember He's The Gaffer? (see him walking down the street, he's the gaffer from his head down to his feet...). I used to love all shite sitcoms in the 80s as a child. Really like one with a weird artist type with a lion glove puppet living in a house with his family... think the actor may have been involved in some scandel though.

Thinking of the theme tune to A Fine Romance makes me feel queasy! Totally back to Friday nights of my youth... Play Your Cards Right followed by Blankety Blank then A Fine Romance!

Anyone mentioned Brush Strokes?

Only when I laugh was truly poor, but I alway wanted to stay up to watch it

Whenever we go to the US, I always seem to discover a channel that runs 'Keeping Up Appearances' on a loop. How embarrassing.

I remember that dreadful thing with Linda Robson & Pauline Quirke.