I've seen "Blackadder" loads of times and I still love it!



I suppose there's no help for some people!

Hello Andy...Why no calls? Oh well this isn't the place.... I forgot to reply about the office, i have and never will work in an office, it however it is not about that at all, it is about mailse and settiling for second best in life, a life of monoitiny and terminal boredom, i have never had a david brent esq boss, my sympathies lie with Tim, and Dawn they are trapped in a life of mediocrity, now that is something we can all identify with...soz about blackadder but i find it as funny as scabies possibly because my generation have seen it to death, which is unfortunatley what has happened to the office (4th bbc2 showing) but i'm with you on spaced anyone for brasseye? xxx

I like to think of The Goodies as above the genre of 'sitcom'. I think they were an island unto themselves and I'm happy for it to stay that way. Who really cares if The Goods don't get into the top 10 sitcoms ever people's-poll "let's-make-a-show-for-cheap-out-of-nothing" type thing. It's not really going to encourage that many more people to buy the DVD, and it's certainly not going to twist Jane Root's arm, is it?



Oh, and Zoe, my only quibble with your hate list is Blackadder. Yeah, it wasn't very original, but it damned well made me laugh. Personally, I'm hoping Black Books and Spaced get some recogniction in the poll. Black Books especially, is one of the funniest shows with had in years, and blatantly is influenced by The Goods, The crazy prop-orientated one-liners and the claustrophobic dialogue is all characteristic of mid-season Goodies.



...I've talked too much already.

I think the Goodies genre is SLAPSTIC 7O'S STYLE WITH POLITICAL CONOTATIONS AND SITUATIONS!

  or am I talking a load of codswallop? (no, don't answer that!)

I must protest here!  If "The Goodies" was the best comedy of the 70's, then "Blackadder" and "Red Dwarf" was the best comedies of the 80's and 90's.

The other shows mentioned here, I can take or leave

Of course it does all come down to personal opinion in the end.

I didn't mean it like that!



What I mean was that people often say "The Goodies isn't really a sitcom, it's (insert other type of show here)".



In fact, I was reading another board earlier on where someone said they would have included The Goodies in their vote but "it's not really a sitcom".



I was just pointing out that this poll's definition of sitcom wasn't confined to "Two people who don't get on end up living together, with hillarious consequences.  And a sofa." type sitcoms and included other, more borderline cases/unusual formats meaning The Goodies should have been included.



As it happens though, I've only really seen season 1 of the League of Gentlemen (I got the DVD on a recommendation), and in the commentary they admit that it was meant to be a sketch show with a few threads running through the 6 episodes to link them together (e.g. the new road's effect on the shop), and were surprised when people picked up on them as being the point of the show.  It may have developed more that way since, but it still seems pretty sketch-showy when I've seen it.



It just goes to prove my point that the definition of sitcom used is fairly broad.



p.s. And I don't like The Office.  I've spoken to quite a few people about it, and they seem to fall into two camps.



1. People who say "The Office?  Ohhh, it's great because my boss is just like David Brent/I know someone just like David Brent at work, and we all call him that now. I remember the time the bloke at work did [long story about the guy] ...and it was just like him. And what about that dance, eh?  It was nearly as funny at the time Del Boy fell through the bar, etc, etc, etc..."



2. People who don't like it.



Just an observation...

sorry message garbled, i can't believe that you call the league of gentlemen a sketch show, it is a complete sitcom  with well rounded characters definate plot, and what is your definition of the office, it is third in the best of recent efforts, it is in a situation and it is a comedy, if you are going to be predantic then lets call fawltty towers a farce and steptoe and soe kichen sink drama and be done with it, there are problems with the list, But there are shows possibley missing that are more deserving that the goodies and also less desserving. I mean the young one is a gash awful lift off of the goodies but every one thinks it's great, ditto red dwalf, terrible, lets be gallant to good stuff and prick the bubbles of over revererd crap!!! I HATE BLACKADDER, THE GOOD LIFE, SOME MOTHERS DO 'AVE 'UM, AND THE GOD AWFUL ARE YOU BEING SERVED!!!!!!!!!!!

you should write it in on your poll vote and you should also metion the high life, people like us, marion and geoff , these are great sitcom and they whizz all over the second series of i'm alan partridge and spaced. And please, dead ringers???? as jerermy hardy said if you have to say who you are then you are worse than mike yarwood who was gash. so stop talking about it. forget they did a below awful impression, let's face it thier handful of viewers did, Manchester masive for a weekend then returning to london slums, soz for any mistakes, drunk!?! xx

The BBC is currently running a vote on the best sitcoms of all time, out of a list of 100 (with an apparently wide definition of sitcom including "The League of Gentlemen (sketch show) and The Office ("Fly-on-the-wall" documentary parody), which should cover The Goodies).



The list doesn't actually include The Goodies (!), but you can write it in the box at the bottom of the page to vote for it.



It's at www.bbc.co.uk/sitcom