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I watched Saved by The Bell quite a bit, I think it was more for Tiffany Amber Thiessen in retrospect. I think Screech got too annoying on that show, so the show suffered along with it.
Very good point you bring up about Seinfeld being too New York. I've been to the city so maybe I "get it" more with some of the zany situations. There's so many funny episodes, how can you not laugh at the close talker, the muffin stump shop, Calzone. The writers did more with nothing than anyone. And Lucy and the Honeymooners set the precedent for comedies after them.
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I live on the other side of the world, and me, and more or less all my friends agree that Seinfeld is the best sitcom ever... so too New York (which is basically just a PC way of saying too jewish) is bull in my eyes!
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I don't like Lucy either, but she did pave the way for women in comedy. Both Lucy and the Honeymooners are overrated and outdated. My hubby hates them both too. I remember going through my parents' albums when I was a kid, and they had some Jackie Gleason one, and I was totally confused cuz he was on the Honeymooners. He was conducting an orchestra? Ha,ha! I guess he was a man of many talents.
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xchazx said it best. Seinfeld IS one of the best comedies ever made. Doesn't mean everyone will like it though. That's why threads like these should not be titled, "best or worst" ever....they should simply be titled, "favorites or non-favorites."
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As a Brit, I can remember when Seinfeld and Larry Sanders where being shown together, and all the critics were raving about Larry Sanders whilst being dismissive of Seinfeld. After watching a few episodes of both, I thought Seinfeld was genius and couldn't understand why people weren't watching it. It's been reappraised now, and everyone over here thinks it's a classic (seemingly without realizing nobody watched it during it's lifetime). I wonder where they all were when the show was slammed for being 'too American/too Jewish/too New York'?
Like it or not, think it's overrated or not, laugh at it or not; Seinfeld doesn't belong on a list of the worst shows of all time. As 80's Rocked said, there's a difference between good and bad and like and dislike.
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