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?

What was that sitcom in the 90s with the geezer from Brushstroke and Samantha Janus? AWFUL.

Up the Garden Path dolly?

Donald Sinden and Windsor Davies = Never the Twain.

Cackola.

Yes I also loved After Henry - Joan Sanderson terrified the life out of me. She and Prunella Scales were fabulous actresses.

What is the one with the chap from Man About The House who was widowed and looked after his teenage daughter?

Goodnight Sweetheart

I'm nooootttt I swear! I think he might have worked for the railway company, possibly answering the phone or something.
There was Nightingales too, with Robert Lindsay and "that bloke with the curly hair who played the irish zookeeper in that other thing about the zoo vet and is in lots of other things but I don't know his name". They were security guards and the catchphrase each time was "There's nobody here but us chickens" with flappy arm actions...
(Or have I just outed myself as being from an alternate reality with different telly?)

What was the one about the fifty-something English couple who retired to France with 'hilarious' culture clash consequences? That was dire.

Oh on On the Buses.
Possibly the most sexist comedy ever.
Two ugly middle aged blokes getting off with pretty young 'clippies', poor old Olive and her vile husband...fuck, today's feminists don't know they're born.
I still giggle at Good Moanin and I vill say this only once though.

I have to disagree Allo Allo is brilliant!!! I watched all the Birds of a Feather episodes when on mat leave. It hasn't aged well but it's still funny.

Friday night, LWT's finest offerings!

somewhere I know what you mean - it had some bird called Hester in it and the geezer from May to December.

French Fields - just remembnerd.

Anyone remember American sitcom My Two Dads? It was so bad it was good. And I loved, loved, loved Blossom although with reflection that really was a bit shit. Her brother Joey only had one line: Woah!

Everybody was ugly in the 70s.

You look at the programmes from then - did they have any fucking soap?

YUK at On The Buses.

I loved My Two Dads.

Babes in the Wood.

You rang M'Lord

GetOrf, the Richard O'Sullivan one was Me and My Girl.

Still like Are you being served

Was it called Two Up, Three Down? That utter shite with Angela Posh and Michael Rough-Diamond and Lisette Anthony and That Bloke and aaaaaargh.

And yes, the Upper Hand with Joe McGann was a crime against life.

Babes in the Wood - that's it. That is from the Two Pints of Lager school of sitcom (i.e. not funny).

Hi De Bastard Hi

That's it, me and My Girl. That was quite good actually, iirc.

You can't slag off you rang m'lord- excellent! We have the DVDs

Mr fucking Bean. What a shit programme that was. Nowhere near as good as Blackadder which still makes me hoot.

Everybody was ugly in the 70s. You look at the programmes from then - did they have any fucking soap?

Quote of the week no?

Hi De Hi makes me want to murder my family. Actually, My Family, that's another one. WTactualF were Zoe Wanamaker and Citizen Smith thinking when they took that on??