Trip down the memory lane – 90s sitcoms
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Dear faithful readers,
I like me some blood and gore just as much as the next girl. But sometimes I fancy watching something funny. Really, really funny. And I haven’t found that one show that will make me giggle over the last few years. I’ll start watching something and then just give up half way through. I’ve been watching the Golden Girls and now I’ve switched to Malcolm in the Middle. Now we know 80s were great for sitcoms but 90s were nothing to sneer at either. It is the decade that brought us Friends but Seinfeld too.
So without further ado I will present to you some of the sitcoms I thought were funny back in the day.
Do you remember this show? It starred Jamie Lee Curtis as Hannah Miller and Richard Lewis as Marty Gold as writers at Chicago Weekly who have romantic feelings for each other but do not want to ruin their friendship so romance is put on a back burner. Given the premise is a bit to sickly sweet for my liking but the show was actually funny. And witty. And clever.
How I loved Murphy Brown growing up. I loved her mad painter Eldin (played by Robert Pastorelli and totally OT but I didn’t have a clue he died in 2004 from a heroine overdose), I loved all of her crazy secretaries, I loved all of it.
Mad About You was a bit of a hit and miss with me but overall there were more enjoyable episodes then rubbish ones (if that makes sense). For some reason I also loved it because of it’s New York setting, not that we saw much of that anyway since it was filmed in the studio. And Murray? Cracked me up every single time.
3rd Rock from the Sun gave me horrible case of the giggles quite often. John Lithgow was right on the mark, Joseph Gordon-Hewitt grew up in front of our eyes, I think the whole cast just had this wonderful chemistry together. It did help that writing was quite good too.
We can all agree that Roseanne might be a bit mad but say what you will that lady is funny. Brash, sarcastic but funny too. The show dealt with tons of topics that were deemed controversial at the time like homosexuality, teenage pregnancy, drug abuse – whatever was considered a no-go zone, Roseanne went there. No wonder the show was so successful.
Don’t know how many of you watched NewsRadio, it is maybe one of those shows you might have caught in the reruns? It is a show about a New York radio station that is full of odd characters and eccentrics. I thought the show was clever, well written and the cast was spot on (that was back in the day when Andy Dick was sort of likable and not known for being such a… well dick really).
So tell me dear readers, do you have any favorite sitcoms from the 90s?
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