WEBVTT - #658 - Bobby Ranks the 25 Greatest Sitcoms of All Time 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:09.640 Welcome to another episode where I will count you down 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:13.560 the biggest, the greatest, the best twenty five sitcoms of 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.040 all time. This all started because I said on my 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:18.480 show that I didn't think Seinfeld was a top five 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.279 sitcom of all time for me, and then I started 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.520 to think about it. I don't think Seinfeld's top ten 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:28.200 sitcom for me. That I watch them all on TBS, yes, what, 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.640 I've rather been watching dinosaurs back from the TGIF days. Yeah. Probably, 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:34.400 so they didn't show that because they didn't make as 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.840 many episodes. So we're gonna walk number twenty five all 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:42.680 the way to number one my greatest sitcoms of all time. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:47.640 Here's the thing. A sitcom, to me thirty minutes must 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.520 have a studio audience. So one of my favorite shows 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.720 ever is The Office. It did not make it. There 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.440 is no studio audience. So if we're doing honorable mentions 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:01.400 the Office parks and rec not tradition and a sitcoms, 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.479 we'll do more honorable mentions later. Let's start at number 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.440 twenty five. Family Ties. Now I was really young. There 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.759 was also an episode of Family Ties where a teenager 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:13.920 had a baby, and I remember asking my mom, how 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.640 does a teenager have a baby, and she said, it 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:18.600 comes out of your belly button. So for a long 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.520 time I thought babies came out of belly buttons. And 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:23.760 it's because of an episode of Family Ties that I 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.920 saw where there was a teen pregnancy. That's what my 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:29.640 mom said to me. And she was a teen mom. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.440 You would think she would at least tell me the truth. 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:38.240 Family Ties, the show was about two former hippies that 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.960 became parents and then raise kids. Michael J. Fox was 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.240 the star of the show, or at least ended up 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.360 being the star of the show, and so Alex P. Keaton, 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.680 which some of you will only know from LFO Summer Girls, 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.520 where the line goes, Michael J. Fox was Alex P. Keaton. 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:59.440 That's from Family Ties. Fun fact about this show that 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.920 during the show's run he filmed Back to the Future 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.760 at night while shooting the television show all day. And 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.959 the show wasn't supposed to be based on Alex P. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:14.200 Keaton Michael J. Fox. It's just he became so popular 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.520 during the show they slowly modified it so at twenty five, 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.840 Family Ties at twenty four, the show I often confuse 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:25.680 with Family Ties growing pains. It's two words Parents heart 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:29.320 throb son. The heart throb this time is Kurt Cameron. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.239 The fun thing about Growing Pains Well, great theme song, 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.120 show me that smile? Look again, show me that smile. 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:43.919 Don't waste another minute on You'll cry in great theme song. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.960 And speaking of theme songs, the Dad Alan Thick was 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:52.080 already known as a television host and songwriter before playing 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.880 Jason Sever the dad on the show. He co wrote 0:02:56.000 --> 0:03:01.520 several famous television theme songs, including Different Strokes and the 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.880 Facts of Life. Freaking Allen Thick. You take the good, 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:06.799 you take the bad, you take them all. In there 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:11.280 you have freaking Allen Thick. That's right. DiCaprio was actually 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.200 on Facts of Life back in the day. He was 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.600 a homeless teenager who was taken in by the Sever family. 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.000 He was around sixteen and still a couple of years 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.360 away from being a major star. But when you think 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:28.120 about DiCaprio, you have to think about number twenty four, 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.520 Growing Pains at number twenty three. The Andy Griffith Show 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.800 maybe the only black and white show that makes the list. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:40.280 Don Knott's comedy legend Andy Griffith one of the first 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.360 records that I ever learned songs to My grandma used 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.880 to play Andy Griffith gospel records for me back in 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.640 the day. I thought that was contemporary country, but no, 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.200 it was Andy Griffith Gospel. Loved the Andy Griffith Show, 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:53.560 you know. And I loved when they would bring on 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.960 the family that played the music with the jugs. That 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.520 was good too, Number twenty three, Andy Griffith two twenty two. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:05.320 When you talk about great TV theme songs, I just 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.760 say this, We'll moving on up, and then you go 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.600 moving on up, and then I go to the east 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.800 side and you go to the east Side. George and Weezy. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.240 They were a spinoff of The Bunkers, by the way, 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.000 and All the Family, in case you didn't know that, 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.400 So The Jeffersons was a spin off of All in 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.160 the Family eleven seasons, two hundred and fifty three episodes. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:31.560 Fun fact actually went longer than All in the Family did. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.320 All in the Family Honorable Mention did not make the list, 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.280 but that was a show with Archie Walker and he'd 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.280 be like the bit the piano heard the song Glay 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:44.160 Miller played, and then you go Allison County Hit Parade 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.800 didn't make the list, but The Jeffersons did a number 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:56.039 twenty one, the greatest most descriptive television theme song in 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.320 the history of television theme songs. If you just watched 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.320 the beginning of the show, you knew the exact premise 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.159 of the show, and it set you up for total 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.880 success with getting all of the jokes that were about 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.039 to happen. Now, it's not the greatest show of all time. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.359 It's actually number twenty one on my sitcom list, But 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.120 if we just did theme songs, I think it'd be 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:20.880 number one. The Nanny. The entire theme song of The 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.800 Nanny tells the entire story of the Nanny. You don't 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.240 even need to check in and be like, what's this 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.760 show about? You just turn theme song on and it 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.880 tells you. Friend Dresher was the star of that show, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.080 and she ran into the president of CBS on a 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:38.440 fight and said, hey, give me a pitch meeting. Well 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.680 that's my that's my impression her. But that wasn't very good, 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.200 and so she got a pitch meeting with her the 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:49.880 president of CBS and her husband, and The Nanny was successful, 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.440 and it's my number twenty one. Number twenty is Reba. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.400 I don't know if you heard about this lady pretty successful. 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:01.240 Reba McIntyre. Now Reba had acted before Reba, but it 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:05.320 was our first time carrying a weekly sitcom. We had 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.040 Melissa Peterman on this show. You can go back and 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.839 check some episodes, and she talked about how the show 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.479 wasn't even called Riba at first. It was another placeholder name, 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.880 but then once Reba said yes to the show, it 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:23.520 immediately became Riba. By the way, Melissa Peterman, who's Barbara 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:27.200 Jean on Riba one of the funniest side characters in 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.960 any sitcom. This is also a show that I did 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:34.960 not watch live. I guess they're not showing alive. How 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:36.240 would I say that? This is not a show that 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.320 I would watch as they were producing it. This is 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.680 a show that, again, like a lot of these, I 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:46.000 saw every single episode on TBS. We're now at number nineteen. 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.240 If you're wearing socks, hold on to them. If you 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:57.240 underwears loose, be careful, and number nineteen. Seinfeld, whoa, whoa. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.240 I heard my boys go woof in the back behind 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:04.480 the cameras and they're woofing me the number nineteen episode, 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.920 the number nineteen. I can't even get my words out 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:12.800 because everyone's so in shock sitcom is Seinfeld. The original 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:17.239 pilot name was called These Seinfeld Chronicles, Kramer was actually 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:22.200 named Kessler, and Elaine wasn't in it at all. NBC 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:26.920 did not order a normal full season, and an executive 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:32.000 used money from special budgets to fund four episodes and 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:36.760 so they kind of patch milled it together. It is 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:41.320 arguably the biggest sitcom of all time. Yeah, I heard 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.600 to say not my favorite. I like it. It made 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.360 my list and I've watched I think every sitcom. I 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.440 think if you're born in the nineties, you probably watched 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:56.160 a lot of these in studio laugh track type sitcoms 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.120 because that was what was dominating television. Also, if you 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:03.840 didn't have parents, pause for all. Thank you at number eighteen, 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.760 very underrated. Freaking loved this show and the only reason 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.640 it's not any higher is because they just needed more 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:21.360 seasons of it. Three letters A L. F ALF Alien 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:26.960 freaking Life Form ALF was created by this dude and 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.320 if you ever watch like the documentary on it, this 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.760 dude was hardcore, like he made everybody's life miserable. And 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:34.760 also how they had to move ALF around there would 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.160 be holes in the floors and so they'd have to 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.840 shoot a scene with the guy doing Alf from below, 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.839 puppeteering it, and then they'd have to fill the hole, 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:47.400 stop the shot, move everybody. It was miserable, and he would. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:52.720 According to the documentary I watched, require twenty and thirty takes. 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.320 So the Tanners not to be confused with the Tanners 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:03.040 from Full House. They were a family and Saleen landed 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.560 in their garage and then he lived with them and 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:07.720 they wanted to keep a secret, and he tried to 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.160 eat their cat, and he was from melmac Man. As 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.520 much as that show was miserable to make, I loved it. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.599 And they tried with ALF and many other things that 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.240 had a pretty funny ALF cartoon, and they tried to 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.400 give ALF a late night talk show at some point. 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:27.600 It's fine, but at number eighteen, for sure, Alf number 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:32.959 seventeen on my list. There's only a few newer sitcoms 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.240 on my list, and this is one of them. And 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:39.280 it's How I Met Your Mother, And so the beginning 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.920 and the end of each episode it's the two kids, 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:48.480 Ted's children, and it's the voice telling Ted's children the 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.080 story of how he met their mother. And so the 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.560 crazy thing about this the scenes involving Ted's kids had 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.720 to be filmed years in advance because the actors would 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:02.880 obviously age so much. Because if you're just going one 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:04.600 season to the next, but the actors are three and 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:09.240 four years older, the continuity there is gone. So the 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.360 So what they did they would just sit the kids 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:16.000 down and they would have multiple seasons written out. Or 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.360 even better, they would just shoot the kids with no 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.760 understanding of what the voice was going to say. But 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.640 they shot them in so many ways. They could just 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.400 do the voiceover and the kids would just have all 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.760 these reactions and it would just go with the voiceover. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:33.079 So that's what's up. I love the finale. Most people didn't. 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.959 I love the finale was fantastic. I don't want to 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:41.840 spoil the finale, but most folks hated it. The creator 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.559 of the show said that they knew the ending for 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:49.640 roughly nine years kept it a secret, said that people 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.040 tried to bribe the information from him, never gave it up. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.520 And it's impressive because there's no way I could keep 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.640 a television secret for nine years. How I Met Your Mother? 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:03.240 Number seventeen at number sixteen another show that I've seen 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.240 every single episode, and this is not a TBS. This 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.040 is more of a Nicket Knight because way back in 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.880 the day, some of you are gonna remember this. Nick 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:16.120 and I used to show things like Dobie Gillis Gilligan's Island. 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.040 They would show Mary Tyler Moore show. They would do 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.280 that show. They look alike and talking like at times 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.120 they even walk alike. What a while, o pair, but 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:29.040 their cousins identical cousins. It was all those old black 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:33.760 and white shows. But I remember one day, because I 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:38.560 watch it every night, they started showing sitcoms in color 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.040 from the eighties and from the nineties. I was like, 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.920 this is amazing, And eventually The King of Queens started 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.839 to be shown on Nicked Knight, and The King of 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:51.480 Queens started to be shown on TBS. Before this series, 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.440 Kevin James had never actually been the lead of a 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:59.200 sitcom series before the series was developed. After his appearances 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.640 on Everybody Loves Raymond and so you say it's a 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.760 spin off of Raymond and So Doug Heffernan was on 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.600 Raymond became a separate character, Leah Remedy, who, by the way, 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.800 to me is always Stacey Crosi from Saved by the 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:16.160 Bell she was love interesting. At the time, everyone thought, Wow, 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.880 she's way too hot for that guy, but then that 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.600 started to be a theme in all sitcoms. And so 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.040 I was watching an interview with her and she was 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:28.120 just talking about how their chemistry was perfect, their relationship 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.319 work because they weren't a perfect couple. They loved each other, 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.600 but they were also competitive and constantly trying to get 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.079 away with something, and it was a really funny show. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.120 And one time I text my wife the lyrics to 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.000 the theme song of King of Queens, just as a 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.400 straight text. She said, Oh, that's so sweet, and I said, 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.560 you know why, because it's the lyrics to the theme 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.880 song to King of Queens at number fifteen or ten 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.600 through here Night Court. This is the old school for me. 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.920 I was a child watching Night Court. But I thought 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.400 that Judge Harry Anderson. I thought that the fact that 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.800 he could do magic was the coolest thing ever. And 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.560 I wouldn't know who mel Tormae was to this day, 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:11.760 and his name was Harry Stone on the show, but 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.160 Harry Anderson was the magician in real life. I wouldn't 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.640 know who mel Tormay was at all if it wasn't 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:22.840 for Judge Harry t Stone from Night Court playing his 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.160 music and doing magic tricks. And Bull was the big 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:30.200 bald bailiff who was massive. Roz was like the not 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.360 taking into your crap bailiff. Christine was like the hot lawyer. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.480 John Leri Quette was like the pervy other lawyer. Man. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.720 Go back if you ever get a second and you're 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.120 curious about me talking about Nightcourt and talking about Harry Anderson, 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.400 if you go back. He did a magic set on 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.640 SNL where he took the needle and went through his arm. 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:56.280 It's pretty wild to see, but really great magician. Bull 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:00.800 was six foot eight. I saw that, and mostly they 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:05.600 said he was higher because one looked intimidating, but two 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.840 could reach stuff that they needed off the shelves. There 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:14.600 number fourteen. Step by Step, what a great show. I 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.880 never watched Dallas, and I think that's where the dad 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.880 is from Dallas, one of those show. It's not Dynasty. 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.160 I'm pretty sure it's Dallas, that show where they go 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.520 who killed Jr. So I didn't know him from that. 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.280 I just knew him as the dad on Step by 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:32.000 Step and it was TGIF and if you're on TGIF. 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.840 I loved it. I didn't really love Sabrina the Teenage Witch, 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.280 but I gave it the pass because it was on TGIF. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.840 The premise of Step by Step was essentially the Brady 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:47.360 Bunch for TGIF Generation two single parents, they marry, they 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.360 combined six children. The difference here was it wasn't three 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.680 boys and three girls. He got a nineties up a 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.960 little bit, so he got a couple boys and a girl, 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.480 a couple of girls and a boy, and ABC canceled 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.680 it after only six seasons. It feels to me like 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.000 that show was around for twenty years. Right after that, 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.520 CBS did pick it up, but for only one season, 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.400 so the final season is CBS. It did not feel 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.400 the same. It feels wrong that the final season of 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:21.360 Step by Step was not on TGIF but at number fourteen. Man, 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:26.640 what a theme song? What a theme song? I don't 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:31.560 want to spoil anything, but that theme song was saying 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:36.320 written by the same people that did Full House Family Matters. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:50.880 Hang tight, the Bobby Cast will be right back, and 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.400 we're back on the Bobby Cast. 0:15:54.000 --> 0:16:00.760 Number thirteen. Coach as a kid who liked sports and sitcoms. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:07.480 I freaking loved Coach. Minnesota State not even a real Team. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:12.600 Craig T. Nelson played Hayden Fox for nine seasons. This 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:17.520 show ran for almost two hundred episodes. That is crazy. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:22.160 It began with Hayden coaching the fictional Minnesota State Screaming Eagles. 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.320 It got kind of weird when he started coaching in 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.920 the NFL. That happened near the end. Jerry Van Dyke, 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.040 he played Luther, one of the greater sidekicks of all time. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.120 Super popular. But I once Peede beside I'm at Oakland Racetrack, 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.720 and I did not look down. I waited until he finished, 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.960 and I said, mister Van Dyke, I'm a massive fan, 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:46.120 and he said thank you and departed the bathroom. Fun 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.880 fact Jerry Van Dyke is Dick Van Dyke's brother, So 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.720 Coach comes in at number thirteen. The most fun fact 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.440 about Coach, though, is that the guy who plays Dauber 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:08.240 is the voice of Patrick on SpongeBob. Yeah. Yeah, that's 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.159 my second bat impression. Can't do the Nanny and it 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:14.800 can't do Patrick all right. Number twelve is the sitcom 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.160 my mom loved the most, so we watched every single 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.360 episode when it came on. I was in I ended 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.520 up loving it as well and then watching all the episodes, 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:28.760 is Roseanne fantastic? Roseanne Barr's original stand up persona is 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.840 what ended up making this show work, and it's what 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.320 they built the show around. Roseanne was a working class 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:39.240 mom who was raising kids and paying bills and being married, 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:43.600 but showed how hard that was as well. Lanford Illinois 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.520 is a great show. Is different than most sitcoms because 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:50.600 there was kind of a grittier quality to it. I 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.960 think what attracted me to it, what felt the most 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:57.760 real about it, was like they worried about money on 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:03.560 that show, and that felt odd because most shows didn't 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.359 worry about paying the bills. I grew up in a 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.440 family that we worried about paying the bills, and I 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.080 think that's why we kind of felt like that was 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:14.199 our show. So they had ordinary jobs, they fought over 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.320 the bills, They had loser boyfriends. 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:18.320 Man. 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:22.200 I hated how the show ended, though, really one of 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.680 the most cop out endings of all time, because at 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:30.760 one point they win the lottery and they're now multi 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:37.159 millionaires bam rocking. It turns out they didn't really win 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.640 the lottery. It started to be where Roseanne was writing 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:42.480 and it was kind of her dream but she was right, 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.280 you know, writing fiction about their life after Dan died. 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.520 Dan had a heart attack and died and that's when. 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:49.199 But you didn't know that till the end, so you 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.800 watch like a season or two thinking they won the lottery. 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.639 Terrible ending. I hate dream endings, or like I wrote, 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:56.639 this is a fictional thing that I wrote, I've been 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:01.320 fooling you for the past. That's stupid in solid a minus. 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.880 The only thing that runed it was the real cop 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:10.480 out ending. There number eleven, the Golden Girls. It's crazy 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:14.199 how old they weren't, because when you look at pictures 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:15.879 of them now, they all look like they're one hundred 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.560 and fifty years old. There's a bunch of old ladies 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:23.880 living in Florida. But they weren't. They were like fifty 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:31.560 forty seven. And also so Dorothy Juboornac, she was actually 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.040 older than the woman who played her mom as still Geddy, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.920 I still Getty was a little lady. And b Arthur 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:44.720 played Dorothy, So Dorothy younger but taller, a still Geddy, 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:49.480 smaller mom, but the daughter was actually older than the 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:51.320 mom in real life. Anyway, that was weird. That always 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:58.000 tripped me out. And then they the mcclan the Rose 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:02.959 was like a whore Blanche. Oh yeah, yeah, Rose was good. 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.760 That's right. Rose was the Minnesota one. That's right. Ye. 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.919 Good job, good job, good job, good job. Yeah, Rue McClanahan, 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:12.040 that's what. That's where I got them mixed up, thank you. Yeah, 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:13.639 Blanche was a horror How about that? She was just 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.639 banging dudes like crazy in her back rooms. What the heck? 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:20.440 And it was a constant joke. So I put that 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.280 number eleven the Golden Girls. Now we're now into the 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:27.200 top ten and there is no Seinfeld to be found, 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:31.359 because it was way back there at number nineteen. At 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.679 number ten, this one is going to be because I 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:39.840 am extremely biased, and I loved this show so much 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.639 for a couple of reasons. One because it reflected what 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.400 I wanted to do when I grew up in two 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.760 because one of the main characters was a guy from Arkansas. 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:51.480 And there was this one episode of the show where 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.440 they're throwing turkeys out of a helicopter as a prize, 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.720 except they didn't realize turkeys couldn't fly, so all the 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:02.160 turkeys are dying. It's a WKRP in Cincinnati, so it's 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:06.280 about a radio station in Cincinnati, And so the turkey 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.199 drop episode is still probably the most famous episode because 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.359 it was inspired by our real radio promotion where they 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.719 were just going to throw turkeys out, but then they 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:19.959 realized that turkeys don't fly or even glide, so they 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:23.080 all died right in front of everybody. They all slammed 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:27.840 to their death. So Les Nessman was the news guy, 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:34.879 but the guy from Arkansas was Herb Tarlick, and he 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:37.560 was the sales guy. And for a long time, and 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:40.160 I would check into hotels, especially when I was working 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:42.280 for ABC, they made me use a fake name to 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:44.280 check in, and it was Herb Tarlik. It was always 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:48.359 Herb Tarlick. It's not anymore because I don't check in 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:50.679 with a fake name anymore, but when I was told to, 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:55.159 my fake name was always Herb Tarlick. In honor of 0:21:55.280 --> 0:22:01.960 WKRP in Cincinnati at number nine. Family matter another spinoff 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:08.040 of Perfect Strangers. Honorable Mention Perfect Strangers. Blacky bar Takin 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:12.120 Moose Hilarious cousin Larry Hilarious did not make the list, 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:16.160 but pretty close. But Family Matters was the spinoff because 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.959 Harriet Winslow had been the elevator operator in a building 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:24.399 where Larry worked, which was the newspaper. And so nineteen 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:29.159 eighty nine that was the year there was an advertiser 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:32.800 boycott on this series because there was an episode that 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:34.760 was considered, Oh let me start again on the starting 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:38.600 guns again. Can you edit this? Okay, yes, I'm gonna 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:42.800 do a different fact and if we talk about characters 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:44.760 that were never supposed to be the central theme, it's 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:51.600 Steve Erkle. So Erkele was a one episode guest character, 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:54.520 not even episode one. He showed up at the end 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:56.560 of an episode about a third of the way through 0:22:56.600 --> 0:22:59.879 the first season. People loved him so much they continued 0:22:59.920 --> 0:23:02.240 to put him on the show and eventually they shifted 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:05.800 the whole show to be the Erkele Show. So there 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:08.480 was a lot of resentment within the cast because of that. 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:11.320 Jelle White played Arkle. He was twelve years old when 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:15.520 he auditioned, and Erkele was one of the most popular 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:20.960 characters t shirts television shows. I don't know if there 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:22.960 was Anarkle video game, but there should have been. He 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:27.000 had a catchphrase, did I do that? So not even 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:30.040 supposed to be on the show. Boom nailed it. He 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:32.400 was what that show was about. Then stefan Urkel came 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:34.919 in and that wasn't even terrible, Like he was playing 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:37.760 like sleep. I was like kind of a time machine 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:40.840 type thing. This wasn't really a time machine. But Steve 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:44.200 Erkele would go in and then he'd go and then 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.240 stefan Urkel would come out and he'd be all slick, Yeah, 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:52.439 it's good. Number eight married with Children. This show to 0:23:52.480 --> 0:23:56.280 me was like a funnier Roseanne because it was gritty 0:23:56.320 --> 0:24:00.520 like that. It was Fox's first big show, so it 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:02.560 may have been one of the first primetime shows that 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:07.000 Fox ever launched themselves. Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:08.960 a single game. If he didn't know that he was 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:12.480 a shoe salesman, his life sucked. He'd go home to Peggy, 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:19.040 who really didn't care. Christina Applegate was like the hot daughter, 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:20.560 you know, to every one at the time. She was 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:22.320 older than me at the time. It's weird because I'm 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:24.159