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Sitcoms you'd happily watch to your dying breath

We may be boring farts to most of you, but we Belgians know quality when we see it. Unfortunately for us, most quality as far as comedy is concerned, is to be found in your neck of the woods. Fortunately for us, most quality (UK) sitcoms are being aired by Belgian television, undubbed, and we get BBC 1 and 2 (and ITC and C4 in some areas as well) over here too.
To the question now: even if there are enough different sitcoms to last anyone's life, I derive curious pleasure from watching and rewatching certain shows, among which are my personal favourites, such as (in no particular order and by no means exhaustively) OFAH, I'm Alan Partridge, The League of Gentlemen, Father Ted, Yes (Prime) Minister, The Office, Blackadder and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin ... and especially one that does not immediately seem to fit in with the rest, Are You Being Served? I have 9 of the 10 series on DVD and tend to watch all episodes every 2 months or so. Hook, line and sinker, I suppose.

Anyone got the same need / vice / pleasure?

Sitcoms I can watch over and over the most:

1. Blackadder
2. Fawlty Towers
3. Seinfeld
4. I'm Alan Partridge

Quote: peter vh @ June 18 2009, 6:12 PM BST

... and especially one that does not immediately seem to fit in with the rest, Are You Being Served? I have 9 of the 10 series on DVD and tend to watch all episodes every 2 months or so. Hook, line and sinker, I suppose.

Anyone got the same need / vice / pleasure?

Yikes! I enjoyed the show when I was a kid and could happily dip in every now and then but 9 series every 2 months? That's essentially the best part of a week of your year devoted to watching AYBS!

Congratulations! You've come to the right place! :D

Sitcoms I'd watch in this situation...

1. Only Fools and Horses
2. One Foot in the Grave
3. My Family
4. Not Going Out
5. The Green Green Grass

The sitcoms I know backwards/forwards and can't get enough of are:

1. Spaced

2. Black Books

3. Lead Balloon

4. Drop the Dead Donkey

5. The Thick of It

To a less extreme extent:

Teachers

Coupling

Friends

Then there are the non-sitcoms that I can't live without:

Bodies

Have I Got News For You

A Bit of Fry and Laurie

Add Green Wing to the list.

It's a tough one.
Now if it was Sitcoms you'd happily watch after your dying breath then I'd have a longer list.

Dad's Army.

Father Ted - As a Christmas Catholic, I can't get enough of this.

Rab C. Nesbitt
Still Game
Operation Good Guys
Seinfeld
The Larry Sanders Show
Reno 911

Birds Of A Feather (watch at least every other day)
Are You Being Served? (watch at least every other day)
The Smoking Room
Benidorm
2 Point 4 Children (watch at least every other day)
Waiting For God
Watching
Second Thoughts
The Upper Hand

Open All Hours
Last Of Summer Wine
Seinfeld

Porridge, never grows tired.

Hancock
Hancock
Hancock
Hancock
Hancock
Hancock !

Dad's Army
Blackadder
Yes Minister/Prime Minister
Ever Decreasing Circles
Potter

;)

I'm Alan Partridge
Arrested Development
Spaced
Fawlty Towers
Black Adder 2 - 4
Father Ted
The Office

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