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 Posted:   Aug 7, 2017 - 3:26 PM   
 By:   jenkwombat   (Member)

Yeah, that Christmas ep where we find out Fonzi has no family and has to spend the Holiday alone; gut- busting hilarious!

Just because a show is unfunny doesn't mean it's not defined as a sitcom, or trying to be one, or sometimes dealing with something "serious". I've never laughed at an episode of "Full House" or "Charles In Charge"; that doesn't mean they weren't trying to be funny or in the category of sitcoms. Just bad ones, I'm sorry to say.... frown

 
 Posted:   Aug 7, 2017 - 3:52 PM   
 By:   Scott McOldsmith   (Member)

Yeah, that Christmas ep where we find out Fonzi has no family and has to spend the Holiday alone; gut- busting hilarious!

You've never seen a sitcom with a heartwarming holiday episode before? Shit, MASH was a sitcom and a good portion of the episodes were dramatic, especially in the later years. All in the Family had a guy blown up in his car in the final minutes of one episode. Complete shocker. Yet, sitcom.

And, by the way, the running gag of the Cunningham's broken and unstoppable mechanical Santa is pretty f'n funny.

Happy Days: sitcom.

 
 Posted:   Aug 8, 2017 - 1:15 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

no laugh track, no comedy*

no woman , no cry
brm

*if I am wrong about the lack of a laugh track for s.1 I will concede defeat.
Otherwise, I challenge you to find a single sitcom of that era or before that did not employ a track or "live" audience

 
 Posted:   Aug 8, 2017 - 1:16 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Yeah, that Christmas ep where we find out Fonzi has no family and has to spend the Holiday alone; gut- busting hilarious!

You've never seen a sitcom with a heartwarming holiday episode before?
.


I KNEW you would counter with that ARGUMENT.
I concede that particular point!
smile

 
 Posted:   Aug 8, 2017 - 1:16 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Yeah, that Christmas ep where we find out Fonzi has no family and has to spend the Holiday alone; gut- busting hilarious!

You've never seen a sitcom with a heartwarming holiday episode before?
.


NO

 
 Posted:   Aug 10, 2017 - 1:44 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

My lasting memory of Happy Days--other than Chachi's Time Lord-like ability to travel from the '70s to the '50s--was when Joanie was smoking cigarettes and doused a butt in a can of cola, which Richie unknowingly drank.

Disgusting! LOL

 
 Posted:   Aug 12, 2017 - 7:50 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Saw a 1980 ABC advert for Happy Days and the blink-and-you'll-miss-it sitcom, The Goodtime Girls, and if one didn't know any better, one would have difficulty choosing the show that lasted ten years and the show that vanished without a trace.

 
 Posted:   Aug 14, 2017 - 4:48 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Speaking of ANGIE:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Angie-Complete-Collection/23575

September 1, 2017 (a Friday)

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 14, 2017 - 9:08 PM   
 By:   Joe 1956   (Member)



"It was always a sitcom. From episode one. Live audience or laugh track, film or video tape, it was a sitcom."


Actually, it (Happy Days) first was a standalone piece on Love, American Style, (with a laugh track).

 
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