I've only been registered with this site for just a month or so, but have been a visitor for a lot longer. I've been reading various posts with interest and I'm sure this has been brought up before, but to learn a little more about the people posting I would be interested to hear their 5 favourite sitcoms to get a feel for the stuff they like. Mine are:
1. Frasier
2. Dad's Army
3. The Office
4. Only Fools and Horses
5. Rising Damp
Pretty good call Mike.
No room for Fawlty Towers or Yes Minister?
My top 5 would be:
1. The Young Ones
2. Fawlty Towers
3. Yes Minister/Prime
4. The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin
5. Bottom
Apart from the first three, I find this exercise hard to do. I have a favourite 11 shows that sort of meander around each other, and their placing will depend on the mood I'm in at the time. It would therefore continue thus:
6. The Office
7. Are You Being Served?
8. I'm Alan Partridge
9. Red Dwarf
10. Absolutely Fabulous
11. Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Def.
A hard question but mine would probably look something like this:
Blackadder
Red Dwarf
Yes Minister/Prime Minister
Father Ted
Hancock's Half Hour
Gosh this is hard. Obviously liable to regular change, but:
1. Father Ted
2. Peep Show
3. Fawlty Towers
4. The Office
5. Blackadder
Quote: Geoff Mutton @ October 7 2008, 10:24 AM BSTPretty good call Mike.
No room for Fawlty Towers or Yes Minister?
Fawlty Towers would be my number six, but I just love Rising Damp so it just pipped FT to the post.
Very difficult!
In no particular order:
- Spaced
- Still Game
- Fawlty Towers
- Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister
- Blackadder Goes Forth
(I only left our Frasier because it's not British!)
1. I'm Alan Partridge - Knowing Me, Knowing You was also great, but, the first series of I'm Alan Partridge is, for me, still the greatest sitcom series of all time.
2. The Young Ones - Yes, a lot of it was childish, and yes, the endless shouting does now get on my nerves a bit, but, when I first saw this, as a little kid, it was the coolest thing ever. I saw the second series before the first, and the first episode I watched, began with Vivian taking a bite out of a dead rat! My mum has got a phobia of rats, and I remember, she had to leave the room, because she felt sick. Now, for a little kid, you couldn't get much cooler than that!
3. The Simpsons - Possibly the most influential sitcom of all time.
4. The Office - Brilliantly written, with an excellent performance by Gervais.
5. Nathan Barley - I know this one might surprise a lot of people, but I really think this show deserved way more credit than it got. It was really clever (it was written by Morris and Brooker, afterall), and I think a lot of it went over people's heads.
If I was to go to 10, then Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Larry Sanders, The Golden Girls and Yes Minister would probably make it.
1 Yes Minister/Prime Minister
2 Father Ted
3 Fawlty Towers
4 Peep Show
5 The Office
Blimey, even I'm surprised I like Yes Minister best of all.
These are always difficult to decide, so I'll do it without thinking too much:
I'm Alan Partridge
Spaced
Seinfeld
Arrested Development
Father Ted
But thers several more that deserve to be in there, but aren't because the others popped in my head first, such as Black Books, 30 Rock, Blackadder, Peep Show, Red Dwarf, etc, etc. Five isn't enough!!
Very happily pleased by the Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister love. 
Quote: Aaron @ October 7 2008, 12:50 PM BSTVery happily pleased by the Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister love.
Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister are shows I love yet never watch when they are on, I don't know why. I think I'll buy the DVDs and watch them like that.
I've never said hello to Aaron before although have read thousands of your posts, so hello. In fact I've never said hello to anyone on here before, so hello.
Hello.
Quote: Mike Dan-Carter @ October 7 2008, 1:24 PM BSTYes Minister and Yes Prime Minister are shows I love yet never watch when they are on, I don't know why. I think I'll buy the DVD's and watch them like that.
Go to Play.com. The complete box set, containing both Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister is now only £17.99. (I bloody paid £50 for it! Grrrr!!)
I would do one of those link web thingy's where you click on the picture of the dvd box and it take you straight to it, but I don't know how to do that...
See Amazon product listing
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...will you look at that! I can do it. (I bet Aaron posts beneath me and repeats the above - as though 'he' showed me how to do it! 
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Oh, and hello Mike Dan-Carter, welcome to the boards.
Def.
Hello.
See Amazon product listing
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