There is actual money riding on this between me and another FCP'er.
Your vote determines the winner.

The choices are:
Andy Griffith v Mary Tyler Moore
Good Times v Sanford and Son

(both presented in alphabetical arrangement so not to insinuate anything)

Tiebreaker:
Was Friends A Good Show (he has one position, I have the other)



I am a stone cold lock for one, pretty sure I will carry the other and I like my position on the tiebreaker, so please, you drooling retards, don't blow this)

The first is really a push
The second isn't a contest cuz you know Redd Foxx rules
Friends is a good show - and I'll watch whatever re runs come on just to see what Jennifer Aniston is wearing

How Ya Doing?

Andy
Sanford
No

Was there a bet on how many responses it would take before we called you old? Because apparently the winner is 3.

3. The winner is 3.

I'm not old but I do really like old TV shows.

You guys don't think Friends was a good show?

What do you look for in a sitcom? Shakespeare?

How many questions can I ask in this post?

5?

Everyone knows Rachel Ray is the best show on television. Past, present, and future.

Mary Tyler Moore pwns Andy Griffith. Although I have a nostalgic piece of straw in my mouth for Andy, Mary landed squarely in my TV viewing wheelhouse from Day 1. One of the first sitcoms featuring a woman, not only was she single and hot, she was funny as hell and has a much better cast of characters surrounding her than Andy.

Sanford and Son completely crushes Good Times. It was sour, borderline profane and railed against the Man.

As for Friends, I grudgingly voted that it was a good show. i was never a full time watcher and I don't really like the characters much, except for Jennifer Aniston's nipplitis, I will say that it has become a classic sitcom. But give me Arrested Development on my death bed, please.

PS: IMO, Rachael Ray is fckn hot

Andy
Sanford
Yes


Granted I didn't watch much of any of the older ones besides maybe a little Sanford here and there. But I'm confident.

Hot? No

Cuteish? Sure

Doable? Yes

Annoying? Extremely

Good Cook? Occasionally

Chef? Not by a long shot

Hate sex? Definitely

Sausage jokes? I hope so

Mary
Good Times
NO

I mean, come on! She almost looks as sweet as Alba in the last pic...

I voted:

Mary Tyler Moore

Sanford and Sons

Yes



Some of the writing on Friends was pretty solid in the middle years. It was a sitcom, and Courtney Cox couldn't act in a gradeshow rendition of "A Christmas Carol," but as far as situation comedies go, the show was definitely in the 90th %ile. I suppose that's irrelevant when we're discussing the binary "good" and "not good," but I digress.

Anj AINEC - C'mon you have Barney, Howard the barber and Goober.

S&S - Red Foxx FTW. Saw him in Vegas. Dirty mofo.



Friends - Exept for the hotties...meh.

you make it sound like that isn't enough

Friends was a really good show. I like Seinfeld better, but I notice that I actually laugh out loud when I watch Friends a lot more than when I watch Seinfeld.

I can tell you were a Deputy Fife fan

Andy
Sanford
Yes

Friends was ok, bad at times, amusing at times, made for chicks.

It was plenty. The 2 hotties, were the only reason to watch.




Who couldn't be a Barney fan? Nip it in the bud

Can you please release the full details of the bet? Who had who and who won what?

I won. No need for a tie breaker.
That is all.

Sanford was a mortal lock.
I took Andy in spite of the fact that MTM was probably the better show- it was certainly more sharply written. I just knew a show that had as much exposure as Andy Griffith (it's pretty much playing on at least one channel 24 hours a day, 365 days a year) was bound to get more votes, ya know... since it is a great show, comparatively or not.

If somebody had Sanford and Son as well as "Yes" to the Friends question, he can probably be declared the winner. The only one that's close is the Mary Tyler Moore vote. I don't think enough people will vote for MTM to make up the gap, but it's significantly more likely in that case than either of the others.

I have a feeling one person has "Sanford" "Mary Tyler Moore" and "No." I'm guessing that's Scram's position, but I don't really know. He could have had "yes" for the last one.


EDIT- I also could have waited two minutes. I would like to add that I thought Scram had MTM simply because I imagined this bet borne out of an argument, instead of the calculated, predictive polling-results wager it appears now to have been. (That might have been the worst sentence I have ever written. It is so poorly worded -- strange tenses, superfluous words, and utter nonsense all rolled into one -- that I refuse to edit it.)

Andy Griffith v Mary Tyler Moore
Andy Griffith had a superior theme song (whistle) and always had a good feeling script. Mary Tyler Moore wasn't as hot as she was on the Dick Van Dyke show and her friends were losers. She cried too much and was generally a basket case.

Good Times v Sanford and Son
Sanford and Son was funny. You have 2 black guys living in a junk yard with funny friends and relatives. Good Times was too depressing. A poor black family that was always about to be homeless, hungry, cold or something bad.

(both presented in alphabetical arrangement so not to insinuate anything)

Tiebreaker:
Was Friends A Good Show
One of the best sit-coms ever. Great writing packed with hot chicks.... big hit. Not as good as Seinfeld but what is/was?

Andy's on TV Land right now.
They're showing "Aunt Bea and the Medicine Man", which is one of the episodes that's included in the $2.99 "Andy Griffith Show DVD" random episode sets they sell in the big DVD bin by the front door at Wal Marts.

When I was in Americorps NCCC, we had 13 people and 1 TV stuck in a cabin in the middle of the woods, so I made extensive use of the laptop DVD player and that bin- I've probably seen this one 100 times.

The show really lost something when it went color.

(also, I just realized that on MASH, Frank Burns and Charles Winchester were two, distinct characters. In my mind, they kinda amalgamated into one guy and I just assumed that Charles Winchester is what happened to Frank Burns when he got older, fatter and balder in the later seasons. It was kind of a shock when I realized that they were two guys playing two characters.)

i landed in the minority on all three of those voting categories. but my preferences aren't the same as what I would have bet on.