Lunch Thread

I don’t think we watched much tv that decade; too busy with the kids’ activities. I like that all of your choices are sitcoms.

Beverly Hillbillies
Gilligan’s Island
My Favorite Martian

Otherwise, I agree with your list

1950’s: I Love Lucy
1960’s: Gillgan’s Island
1970’s: All in the Family Hello, Larry
1980’s: WKRP (I realize it started in the 1970s, but I watched it alot in the 80’s)

50’s:n/a
60’s:n/a
70’s:happy days
80’s:21 jumpstreet
90’s:home improvement
00’s:king of the hill

1950’s thru 1970’s:
Gunsmoke, Mission Impossible, Star Trek. Not sitcoms but what we watched because they were my father’s favorites, and this is what we watched or else. Back in the day when most people just had one household television.
 
 80’s: Married With Children, because I was friendly with Katey Sagal at the time. She was very cool.

50’s?!?!
60’s Car 54, Where Are You?
70’s What’s Happening
80’s Mork and Mindy
90’s Homeboys from Outer Space
00’s The Game

50s I Love Lucy
60s Get Smart
70s Sanford & Son
80s Night Court
90s Seinfeld
00s Two & A Half Men

50s I love Lucy
60s Leave it to Beaver (Didn’t care for the show, but I think it really captures the 60s well)
70s All in the Family (The definitive 70s sitcom IMO though you can’t go wrong with just about anything else Norman Lear put out)
80s Family Ties or Cheers
90s Seinfeld
00s Family Guy

1950’s: I Love Lucy
1960’s: Gilligan’s Island
1970s: M.A.S.H.
1980s: Cheers
1990s: Home Improvement
2000s: Two and a Half Men

TAXI

1950’s: Fractured Fairy Tales (I still cannot stand I Love Lucy. Never been able to stomach it.)
1960’s: Batman. Barely in front of The Addams Family. And The Andy Griffith Show. The Munsters were pretty great, too.
1970’s: M.A.S.H.
1980’s: Cheers
1990’s: Frasier
2000’s: I don’t do sitcoms anymore. I got nothin’ here…(And why isn’t anybody saying Arrested Development, or The Office? I thought those were huge?)

50s: Lucy/Ozzie and Harriet/I Married Joan
60s: Green Acres
70s: Bob Newhart Show
80s: Famous Teddy Z
90s: King of Queens
00s: King of Queens

50’s: Leave it to Beaver
60’s: The Munsters (my sister made me watch this and Gidget repeatedly in reruns during the 80s). 2nd favorite: Get Smart
70’s: Gilligan’s Island
80’s: Family Ties
90’s: Seinfeld. 2nd favorite: Parker Lewis Can’t Lose!
00’s: The Office

I thought Gilligan’s Isl. ran into the early 70s, I see on imdb.com it ended in 1967. In that case I make my vote for 70’s “Taxi”

60’s is a logjam for me, and I wasn’t even around back then… let’s say 1. Gilligan’s Island 2. The Munsters 3. Get Smart

50s The Phil Silvers Show [aka “Sgt Bilko” or “You’ll Never Get Rich”], hon. mention to You Bet Your Life
60s Bewitched, Addams Family, Monkees, Gidget [Carolyn Jones: Hottest Woman on TV Ever], What’s My Line?
70s Mary Tyler Moore & Newhart … Fernwood 2Nite … Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
80s [The 80s were a blur of alcohol and women]
90s Seinfeld, Ellen Degeneres, Murphy Brown, Ben Stiller Show [Tom Cruise: Dress Casual – genius!]
00s Arrested Development. I mean COME ON! also, the British “the Office”
10s The Eric Byrnes Goodtime Hour
20s Leave It to Hudler

…every sitcom I watched was already mentioned. Except for one…that had one good season, then was terrible after that. It was the launching pad for a very well known and highly respected actor. It started in 1981. Any guesses?

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Bosom Buddies, starring Pete Scolari and Tom Hanks.

And Rev, if you saw the show, I hope you now have Billy Joel’s “My Life” stuck in your head!

That would be the second BNS with Suzanne Pleshette . I have no memory of the first one which ran in the early 60s.

The finale of Newhart was terrific, where he wakes up next to Pleshette and the whole Mary Frann/Vermont hotel/Larry and the two Darrels/Handyman George Utley (Tom Poston) had only been a dream. A strange dream. My kids still quote a line from that series, “Tonight youy sleep with the cheeses!”

50’s – Father Knows Best
60’s – I Dream of Jeanie
70’s – The Bob Newhart Show
80’s – Simpsons
90’s – Friend’s
00’s – Two and a Half Men