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OctoMan
Joined: Aug 22 2005
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I haven't been much of a TV-watcher for years, so I thought I'd get your guys' opinions on this.
It seems to me that 80's sitcoms definitely had a different flavour than they do nowadays. I'm not sure quite what it is... maybe it has something to do with the fact that sitcoms today are all about single late-twentysomethings? It seems like older sitcoms were about more than just sex.
Anyway, who remembers Cheers? Perfect Strangers? Night Court? Family Ties? Others?
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RandomFarthead™
Title: Billy Buttfarter™
Joined: Jul 27 2006
Location: Fartin' Alluponz
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Cheers and Night Court both ruled.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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I was a big fan of Night Court and Perfect Strangers. The Perfect Strangers theme, in all its 80s badness, is on my WinAmp.
I also used to watch Small Wonder, ALF, Charles In Charge, Growing Pains, Who's The Boss, Step By Step, Full House, Family Matters, and the best sitcom ever, Married... With Children.
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Tebor
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Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Gotham City
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Damn, you named "Perfect Strangers". The show won me over the moment one of the characters wore Spider-Man pajamas. ALF I also love and now have entirely on DVD*
*In syndicated form.
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Murdar Machene
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Title: bimmy
Joined: Nov 06 2005
Location: the black warriors turf
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I never cared for alf. It was always awkward and stupid how his voice was dubbed; it sounded like he wasn't even there, and besides, who would let a dumb-fuck alien chill in their home? I never understood the appeal for shit like alf.
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OctoMan
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Posts: 328
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| Murdar Machene wrote: |
| besides, who would let a dumb-fuck alien chill in their home? |
 You wouldn't?!?
 Oh well, I am a big muppet fan. ALF was a muppet, right?
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Murdar Machene
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Title: bimmy
Joined: Nov 06 2005
Location: the black warriors turf
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Is the Muppet Show an 80's show, because if so I loved it. I loved all the Muppets movies as well. Who else but Jim Henson could make fucking muppets ride a fucking bike? MUPPETS ON BIKES? UNHEARD OF.
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niku
Joined: Jun 29 2006
Location: tustin, ca
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ya i agree 80s sitcoms rocked...did anybody say mr. belvedere? tv these days is garbage, they can have shows about desperate houseskanks but people get up in arms when bugs bunny shots elmer fudd in the face with a shotgun.
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DarkMaze
Joined: Feb 24 2006
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I loved Night Court. Really need to get that on DVD...
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Valdronius
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Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: The Great White North
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Remember that episode of Night Court, where there was a ghost haunting the courthouse? And they had a seance to find out what it was the ghost wanted, and the message they received was
JUST
ICE
And everyone was like, 'Wha? The ghost watns ice?'
But someone figured out that the ghost wanted justice cuz he had broken some law and died before he could serve his pennace. So Dave went and judged the ghost in absentia (sort of) and ordered it to pay a fine. Then money rained from the ceiling.
Dude, that shit was scary.
</dumb-assery>
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DarkMaze
Joined: Feb 24 2006
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YES! I remember that episode, particularly the "JUST ICE" part.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
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It was also unclear as to whether there really was a ghost... lots of things, like the lights going out, turned out to be just coincidences.
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Valdronius
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Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
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But how do you explain away the money falling from the sky? You can't! That's how! 
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| A Hispanic dude living in Arizona knows a lot of Latinas? That's fucking odd. |
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DarkMaze
Joined: Feb 24 2006
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Wasn't Mac stuck in the air ducts, which explained the ppounding and wailing/yelling?
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
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I remember one episode where I think it was some reporter was going around interviewing all the staff and when he gets to Mack, Mack shows off his computer and says "With this computer, I can do anything" *presses a button and SMB2 starts playing by itself*
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