Welcome to the World Cup of Sitcoms! Over the next few days/weeks, some of your all time favourite sitcoms will be battling it out against each other to be the ultimate winner.

 

STAGES

• GROUP STAGE: 8 Groups
• QUARTER FINALS: 4 Groups
• SEMI FINALS: 2 Groups
• FINAL: 1 Group

Before that, we need to find which sitcoms should qualify for the Group Stage! So, in this thread, NOMINATE A MAXIMUM OF THIRTY SITCOMS from around the world - they do not have to be ranked. ~40 of the sitcoms with the most nominations will then be split into 8 groups for the Group Stage. To help generate ideas for nominations, I've tried to draw up an extensive list of both UK & US sitcoms but please please note THIS IS NOT AN EXTENSIVE LIST so don't feel you have to only nominate sitcoms on the list!!! You can nominate any show but it must come within a vague definition of sitcom - essentially it would be a scripted comedy show. Possibly controversial but I won't be accepting any animated shows, we've already got a separate competition for that!

 

Have fun nominating! You have until Wednesday 15th August!!

 

IDEAS for nominations:

 

2 Broke Girls

30 Rock

3rd Rock from the Sun

8 Simple Rules

Absolutely Fabulous

Allo Allo

Are You Being Served?

Arrested Development

Atlanta

Back

Bad Education

Benidorm

Birds of a Feather

Black Books

Black…ish

Blackadder

Bless This House

Bottom

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Catastrophe

Cheers

Citizen Khan

Come Fly With Me

Community

Coupling

Cuckoo

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Dad's Army

Dear White People

Derek

Derry Girls

Dinnerladies

Don't Trust the B--- in Apartment 23

Episodes

Everybody Hates Chris

Everybody Loves Raymond

Extras

Father Ted

Fawlty Towers

Frasier

Fresh Meat

Fresh off the Boat

Friday Night Dinner

Friends

Full(er) House

Gavin & Stacey 

Gimme Gimme Gimme

Green Wing

Happy Days

Haters Back Off

Hi-De-Hi

How I Met Your Mother

I'm Alan Partridge

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Ja'mie: Grammar School Girl

Kath & Kim

Keeping Up Appearances

Last of the Summer Wine

Life's Too Short

Little Britain

Love Thy Neighbour

Lovesick

M*A*S*H

Malcolm in the Middle

Man About The House

Married… With Children

Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere

Men Behaving Badly

Miranda 

Modern Family

Mom

Mr Bean

Ms. Browns Boys

My Family

My Hero

My Name is Earl

New Girl

Nighty Night

Not Going Out 

On the Buses

One Day at a Time

Only Fools and Horses 

Open All Hours

Outnumbered 

Parks & Recreation

Peep Show

Peter Kay's Car Share

Phoenix Nights

Porridge

Psychoville

Raised By Wolves

Red Dwarf

Rising Damp

Roseanne

Santa Clarita Diet

Scrubs

Seinfield

Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em

Spaced

Stella

Steptoe & Son

Summer Heights High

The Big Bang Theory

The Brady Bunch

The Catherine Tate Show

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

The Golden Girls

The Good Life

The Good Place

The Green Green Grass

The Inbetweeners

The IT Crowd 

The Job Lot

The League of Gentleman

The Middle

The Office

The Office (US)

The Rise & Fall of Reginald Perrin

The Royle Family

The Thick of It

The Vicar Of Dibley 

The Young Ones

This Country

Trollied

Twenty Twelve

Two and a Half Men

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Veep

W1A

We Can Be Heroes

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads

Will & Grace

Yes (Prime) Minister

Do they need to be nominated in order of favourites? Or can they be nominated in any order?

Nominated in any order!

The Big Bang Theory

Friends

Modern family

Brooklyn nine nine

The inbetweeners

Friends will do amazingly well and I'm here for it, but as I'm watching through Seinfeld, I must say, half of the gags and plot points from Friends are directly taken from Seinfeld. It's quite odd to watch but it's so clearly influenced it reveals a lot about its originality.

Birds Of A Feather

Come Fly With Me (;o)

Father Ted

Friday Night Dinner

Miranda

Not Going Out

Outnumbered

The Inbetweeners

 

Didn’t watch much comedy growing up but getting into more old and new now! I adore all of these but I’d actually put Not Going Out as my fave, so many laughs even if it is a bit predictable. They have ruined it (sort-of) with the kids :’( Miranda said if she would do another series she and Gary would’ve had kids as well, yay x

30 Rock

Arrested Development :wub:

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Community

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Fresh Meat

Friends

Gavin & Stacey

How I Met Your Mother

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia :wub: :wub:

Modern Family

Only Fools and Horses

Parks & Recreation

Peep Show

Seinfield

The Inbetweeners

The IT Crowd

The Office (US)

The Thick of It

The Vicar Of Dibley

Veep :wub: :wub: :wub:

 

Plus these which weren't on the OP list:

Joey

Green Acres

Rules of Engagement

Anger Management

 

I did think about putting forward some Australian ones just for the reach but it's all crap

 

IASIP & Veep are my Top 2 tv shows of all time fyi so if neither of them go through (which I think will be the case) I will cry. In fact a good bunch of those I've nominated would be in my Top 50. More realistically I hope The Office (US), Seinfeld, and Arrested Development can do well here.

Edited August 11, 20186 yr by Dickston

Absolutely Fabulous

Birds of a Feather

Extras

Friends

Gavin & Stacey

Keeping Up Appearances

Miranda

Modern Family

Only Fools and Horses

The Inbetweeners

The Vicar Of Dibley

Cuckoo

Dads Army

Fawlty Towers

The Rise & Fall Of Reginald Perrin

Are You Being Served

Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em

Trollied

Early Doors

The Royle Family

The Good Life

Peep Show

Man About The House

Red Dwarf

Porridge (original series)

Lame Ducks

Bottom

Mr Bean

Blackadder

One Foot In The Grave

Goodnight Sweetheart

The Goodies

Don't Wait Up

Citizen Smith

Butterflies

Brush Strokes

Big School

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads

The Office

Colin's Sandwich

Peter Kay's Car Share

The Inbetweeners

'Cuckoo' really deserves to be on the main list so more people consider nominating it. Love it.

It’s added!

It’s added!

Thanks! :cheer:

Come Fly With Me

Not Going Out

Outnumbered

Peep Show

The IT Crowd

Chucklevision

Bad Education

Benidorm

Blackadder

Come Fly With Me

Cuckoo

Fresh Meat

Friday Night Dinner

Full(er) House

Miranda

Modern Family

Mr Bean

Ms. Browns Boys

Open All Hours

Outnumbered

The Inbetweeners

The League of Gentleman

My Parents Are Aliens

Bad Move

Yonderland

White Gold

Ja'mie: Private School Girl

Big School

Plebs

This Country

Edited August 12, 20186 yr by WhoOdyssey

Here's my nominations:

 

- Dad's Army

- The Good Life

- Friends

- Absolutely Fabulous

- The Vicar of Dibley

- Father Ted

- Miranda

- As Time Goes By

- Dinnerladies

- Coupling

- Green Wing

- Will & Grace

- 8 Simple Rules

- Jam and Jerusalem

- Frasier

- Ja'mie: Grammar School Girl

- Derry Girls

- The Young Ones

- Blackadder

- Bottom

- The IT Crowd

- Black Books

Friday Night Dinner

Friday Night Dinner

add more plz x

 

we cant do a comp with one show!!

It’s the only show that matters x

 

Friday night dinner

Brooklyn 99

Parks and rec

Cuckoo

Outnumbered

Gavin and Stacey

Little Britain

Come fly with me

Jamie private school girl

Miranda

Community

The office US

Blackadder

Bottom

Dad's Army

Father Ted

Fawlty Towers

Friday Night Dinner

Friends

I'm Alan Partridge

Last of the Summer Wine

Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere

Only Fools and Horses

Open All Hours

Outnumbered

Peter Kay's Car Share

Phoenix Nights

Porridge

The Big Bang Theory

The Inbetweeners

The Royle Family

The Young Ones

Trollied

 

Absolutely Fabulous

Bad Education

Birds of a Feather

Cuckoo

Extras

Fawlty Towers

Friends

Gavin & Stacey

Keeping Up Appearances

Malcolm in the Middle

Miranda

Modern Family

Mr Bean

My Family

Not Going Out

Only Fools and Horses

Peep Show

The Good Life

The Inbetweeners

The Middle

The Office

The Royle Family

The Vicar Of Dibley

Two and a Half Men

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps