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  1. Disorderly Progress
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    Disorderly Progress What's cookin?

    Oct 12, 2020
    Mine would probably be...

    1. The Office
    2. Peep Show
    3. Extras
    4. Curb Your Enthusiasm
    5. The Larry Sanders Show
     
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  2. Worm
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    Oct 12, 2020
    Seinfeld
    Always Sunny
    The Office
    Arrested Development
    Chappelle Show
     
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  3. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Oct 12, 2020
    Curb Your Enthusiasm
    King of the Hill
    Peep Show
    Arrested Development original run (though I think season 4/5 are solid)
    30 Rock

    hm: Office 1-7, first 10ish seasons of the Simpsons, Home Movies, seasons 2-8ish of South park
     
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  4. Ricky
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    Ricky FORUM BOY SUMMER

    Oct 12, 2020
    Married With Children first 3 seasons >>>
    Chappelle's Show!!!
    The Office seasons 1-7
    News in 2020!!!!!!!

    Top 4
     
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  5. pHiLLip fARkLe
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    Oct 14, 2020
    Ill have to check out peep show ive never heard of it, not really versed in uk comedies but ill give it a go
     
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  6. icecube
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    icecube West Coast is the Best Coast

    Oct 13, 2020
    No order...

    The Office US
    Arrested Development
    Brooklyn 99
    Scrubs
    Faulty Towers
     
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  7. Oldboy
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    Oldboy

    Oct 12, 2020
    Op list is rly good
     
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  8. DKC
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    Oct 15, 2020
    The first couple seasons are especially horrible—it definitely gets better but as someone who likes the Office who's watched a decent number of Parks & Rec episodes thinking I must be missing something, it's not worth it in any capacity. It just sucks lol.
     
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  9. icecube
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    Oct 14, 2020
    s---, forgot about IT Crowd. I need to make way for that in my top 5. Absolutely asking program.
     
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  10. Ordinary Joel
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    Ordinary Joel Happiness begins when selfishness ends

    Oct 14, 2020
    Seinfeld
    Peep Show
    The Office (both versions)
    Arrested Development
    Trailer Park Boys
     
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    Oct 21, 2020
    Yeah Ron and Andy were great characters. Aziz Ansari had his moments but sometimes was a little bit too much. Jean-Ralphio cameos were pretty funny. Larry or whatever his name was being the biggest loser in the world but married to a model with the perfect family was good for a chuckle
     
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  12. Ricky
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    Oct 21, 2020
    Appreciate lol
     
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    SHUDEYE Kerser is the sickest.

    Oct 21, 2020
    Yeah, I found the US one probably better for more laughs consistently but the UK one I almost found closer to a real documentary instead of a mockumentary as in it seemed more real. Just because I didn't laugh as much at the UK one doesn't mean it was worse, it was infinitely more clever and it genuinely made you feel actually uncomfortable. That's also because Ricky is a f---ing genius, the things that make Ricky so good with his portrayals aren't the big things. It's the hundreds of little things he incorporates, like one quick example is with Brent and his constant straightening of the tie or whatever it is he does after a joke etc. basically as a nervous twitch. Multiple little things like that are what creates such a realness with his characters. We have a comedian here in Aus, Chris Lilley, who is similar. He's most famous for Ja'mie, if you're from America you may have heard of it/him, I know people in America obsessed with it.
     
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  14. Disorderly Progress
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    Disorderly Progress What's cookin?

    Oct 19, 2020
    Yeah cause there's two writers lol.

    Big network comedies have like teams of writers.

    Quality over quantity. 54 eps is still a lot, plus the material is WAYYYYYY deeper, in terms of its execution - the realism, the acting, everything.
     
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  15. JEB
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    JEB

    Oct 15, 2020
    Seinfeld
    Always Sunny
    The Office
    Curb
    King of the Hill


    Also, I suppose I need to check out Peep Show. Never even heard of it
     
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  16. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Oct 15, 2020
    I thought the second season was pretty bad too but seasons 3-4 are def way better. I mean saying it's outright terrible is obviously hyperbole, but it just never gets above like "this is fine background TV" to me.

    Agree with you overall about the warmhearted michael shur shows, but I will say that Brooklyn 99 is leagues better than Parks & Rec. I thought it was going to be horrible—I watched the first episode when it autoplayed after something on Hulu and almost stopped then and there cuz it was awful but I'll give most sitcoms the first season for a chance to find their footing. Seasons 2-5 are genuinely funny and well written. 6-7 have their moments but Chelsea Peretti left and it's definitely winding way down so I hope they end it after this next one.
     
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  17. lil uzi vert stan
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    lil uzi vert stan

    Oct 15, 2020
    ehhh. so. i feel like, it finds a groove once it loses the michael scott vibes of the first season and adam scott shows up. but u might be right its overrated, and kind of indicative of alot these cheeky wacky warmhearted michael schur productions. office is classic, P&R is not, but i think its goooooooooooood mostly. just not deserving of the cult fans it has. perfectly nice obama era show.

    like i said, i do tire of the cheeky predecessors it has. havent gotten into brooklyn 99 or whatever.
     
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  18. Zeugma
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    Oct 15, 2020
    brooklyn 99??? :riwtf:
    can't stand parks & rec or big b--- theory either

    i'd go curb, the office (until s7), south park (until s9), malcolm in the middle, seinfeld
    haven't seen trailer park boys, i'll check it out
     
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  19. Detroit24
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    Detroit24

    Oct 15, 2020
    Seinfeld
    curb
    The office
    Trailer Park Boys
    Mad TV / Chappelle show ...tied

    ...eastbound and down, Arrested development, that 70s show...honourable mention
     
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    Oct 14, 2020
    + Chappelle's Show
     
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