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Topic: Best New York based sitcom?

There seems to have been an inordinate amount of American sitcoms based in New York through the years - I don't know if it's because there's a disproportionate number of sitcom writers who come from there or what, but many have certainly found a lot of humour to be found in the city that never sleeps.

I've picked 13 of the best (otherwise known as 13 that I've watched and could think of while I was in the shower 15 minutes ago) - which one is your pick?

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I'll go for HIMYM... mostly because of NPH, but also because I'm in love with Cobie wink
Friends would be my second choice...

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Went with HIMYM also. But 30 rock is good too.
i thought that i will write little more..

HIMYM got Neil Patrick Harris..
30 rock got Alec Balwin and Jordan Tracy..
friends got Matt LeBlanc..
others i have seen not at all or only too little to judge...

So How I Met Your Mother FTW just because NPH character.. and second place for 30 rocks because Alec Balwins and Jordan Tracys characters..

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30 Rock... hands down...

i'm going to eat your brains and gain your memories...

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I love 30 rock, HIMYM and friends, but come on people Seinfeld is clearly the best... I know its a bit old now but ... its Seinfeld

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Cosby Show... Maybe that's a little bit sentimental, but that was one of the first foreign show that I've seen on polish tv at the beginning of 1990's... also that was one of the first I've seen  wink

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kaibren wrote:

Went with HIMYM also. But 30 rock is good too.
i thought that i will write little more..

HIMYM got Neil Patrick Harris..
30 rock got Alec Balwin and Jordan Tracy..
friends got Matt LeBlanc..
others i have seen not at all or only too little to judge...

So How I Met Your Mother FTW just because NPH character.. and second place for 30 rocks because Alec Balwins and Jordan Tracys characters..

Friends got Matt Perry too... he's funnier than LeBlanc.. at least in my eyes big_smile

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Could there _be_ a better show than Friends...

(p.s. 600th)

...where did I put that rat's ass I could give?

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Ok, KB, seriously... clearly an unfair poll... Friends will OBVIOUSLY win! smile smile

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Mxyzptlk wrote:

Friends got Matt Perry too... he's funnier than LeBlanc.. at least in my eyes big_smile

My bad, your right, Perry also, but still third place in my eye tongue

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Mxyzptlk wrote:

Friends got Matt Perry too... he's funnier than LeBlanc..

When I watched Friends for the first time back in the day, it was dubbed. No one really understood the humour pouring out of Perry's character back then, and everyone thought Joey was the shit.

When I started downloading tv series, I re-watched the whole friends series in english, and man, Chandler is the funniest character in there, hands down. It's nearly impossible to translate his humour properly it seems...

And we should probably have a Funniest Character EVAR poll, Chandler is in my Top3 ...

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Yeah Chandler is one of the funniest sitcom characters ever.  Certainly the funniest of the 6 Friends by far.

Taking relatively recent sitcoms, I love Chandler Bing, Sheldon Cooper, Barney Stinson, Jack Donaghy, Bill McNeal...

Man, they really need to come up with some funnier roles for women in sitcoms.

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So, we already have a new poll, on the subject smile The problem with that poll is, I'd be split... Chandler, Barney, Sheldon, Farnsworth (He got up there, among the best, in the first scene of the first movie)... the Janitor should prolly be in the poll too smile And I just don't know what to pick...

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was just trawling through an old hard drive full of junk and bits and pieces and found a folder full of odd videos and stuff... so this is pretty old, and i'm sure you've all seen it... not a huge freinds fan myself, but this did make me giggle, and due to a friends loving ex-flatmate, i have seen this episodes... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khGUPEdY-Fk

i'm going to eat your brains and gain your memories...

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big_smile That was awesome!! And it was taken from "The one with the embryos", which is my favourite episode tongue

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HIMYM

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I love Friends...

...where did I put that rat's ass I could give?

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I hate Friends....

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himym...it's way way better than anything else in sitcoms big_smile

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Best.  Thing.  Ever!! big_smile

I loved the bit where Chandler/Flash was spinning and Ross/Superman told him to stop it - brilliant!

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So did I!
The person that made that video, really knew what he/her was doing....

Oh, and I don't hate friends... my post saying that, might make sense after checking the heroes thread wink

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I hate Friends. All the characters are like Sylar without powers; SO boringly lame.

HIMYM is far better.

-Rob

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HIMYM has this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih4BqCM0apk ...but Friends is still better.

...where did I put that rat's ass I could give?

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theConundrumm wrote:

was just trawling through an old hard drive full of junk and bits and pieces and found a folder full of odd videos and stuff... so this is pretty old, and i'm sure you've all seen it... not a huge freinds fan myself, but this did make me giggle, and due to a friends loving ex-flatmate, i have seen this episodes... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khGUPEdY-Fk

Amazing!! smile hahahaha

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Daemonius wrote:

HIMYM has this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih4BqCM0apk ...but Friends is still better.

Ha Hu Haa haa ha ha big_smile big_smile funny big_smile big_smile

thus far, never watched an ep of HIMYM yet... (must start watching)

I sleep through most or all of these tongue

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