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Originally Posted by kunkstyle
Let what slide exactly? Like the show or not you can hardly dispute that it wasn't a classic sitcom. 63 Primetime Emmy nominations, and an average of around 20 million viewers a season for 10 years. I don't think the Flintstones is the best animated show of all time, but I'm not going to sit here and claim it wasn't a classic animated show.
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depends if you consider things like Justin Bieber or Lil Wayne a classic. Friends was popular, absolutely, but classic I do not think so. It was abhorrently formulaic and it had a laugh track (both combined really made it just a show going through the motions); joey is stupid, monica likes clean things, ross is a nerd that is clueless, rachel was a typical dumb bimbo, phoebe was insane and chandler was the funny guy. That's all the show ever was.
Seinfeld was a classic, they had more original ideas in one episode than I ever remember from friends. The reverse episode, the episode where Kramer is a serial killer, Kramerica industries, Fusili Jerry, when Elain meets the mirror image of George, Kramer and Jerry, the soup nazi... and on and on. That was a classic show, nearly every episode had a unique concept. (this is all obviously just my opinion). There are a ridiculous amount of cultural idioms that Seinfeld single-handedly created. Friends was the same thing over and over again, will ross get with rachel... again? time for some comedic interjections from the goof troop, cue the laugh track.