My thoughts on these shows:

Grace Under Fire - never watched it

Cybill - never watched it

Dharma & Greg - watched it some. Pretty funny as I remember.

Two and a Half Men - the Sheen years were great - I watch the reruns frequently. Of course, after he left it died, but like a bean fart in an unventilated space, it lingered. Can't believe it kept going as long as it did. It was like M*A*S*H without Alan Alda.

The Big Bang Theory - of course it got lame toward the end, but all shows do. Funny as hell in the early years.

Mike & Molly - never watched it. I don't watch anything set in Chicago. Because fuck Chicago.

Mom - I've started watching the reruns some, and it's funny as hell. Also sometimes hits uncomfortably close to home, reminding me of people I've known and dark places I've been before, thankfully all long, long ago. Clearly the writers have some serious life issues/trailer trash in their backgrounds. Alison Janney is amazing.

Young Sheldon - the commercials alone make my cringe. I hate kids.

The Kominsky Method, Disjointed, and Bob Hearts Abishola - never heard of any of them.

Isn't he also responsible for Two Broke Girls? God that show sucks. Kat Dennings is gorgeous, and it still sucks. In the handful of episodes I've watched all I can remember is her rack, the blonde's giant toothy grin, and flat, badly timed jokes. Ugh. If Cats was a sitcom, it would be Two Broke Girls.

Never could stand Roseanne. Barr was and is nasty.
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No, standup Whitney Cummings and that Sex in the City . . . dude, Michael Patrick King. Though MPK did produce on Cybill with CL.
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Ah. I guess if Lorre had been involved it probably would have been much better.
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Sex and the city woot woot.
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I'm friends with the people that produce and write Mom, and I'm super close friends with their head writer/EP. Sitting in a room with these people is un-fucking-believably funny. The comedy gets "dark" sometimes but that's because we're all drinking or doing edibles or whatever and shit goes off the rails. But they're all normal people (besides the fact that some of them of stupid wealthy-big time Fuck You money). A few of the people are originally from Iowa and Missouri.

Some of the same people are involved in Komisnky Method and I finally caught up with the show late last year, more of a courtesy than anything else.

If you're fan of "Old School" actors like Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin, you'll probably like the show. For me, the premise was a bit surprising, even though it's right there in the title. It's a comedy but it really borders on "Dramedy", so it's not funny all the time. I found the show to be a little "uneven" at times but it's worth watching overall, mainly to see Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin.
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Yeah, it shows. :-)

My compliments to your friends. They do a great job.

The relationship between the mother and daughter remind of the real life relationship between my Goddaughter's mother and her alcoholic mom. I swear I've sat a kitchen table and heard some of those conversations before.
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Who’s responsible for “The Neighborhood” ?

I’ve recently started liking it.
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Jim Reynolds, BBT alum.
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Lorre is kinda hit and miss, imo. The new sitcom god has gotta be Michael Schur.


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Allison Janney is crazy. Great writing for her. I think that had to be tampered down on West Wing.

Best part of of Two and half men were the women that came across the screen. Holy cow.

Dane-Agreed with Frazod. The show is very well written and I am sure real for some people.
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April Bowlby, . . . Hnnnnnuuunnnnnngggggg!!!!!
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Candy-OH MY YES
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No ability to disagree with this! :-)
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The Big Bang Theory was a great show. It has also proven to be a very good rewatching show.
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Norman Lear. /thread

Dude repurposed two British ideas into "All In The Family" and "Sanford and Son". Spun "The Jeffersons" and "Maude" off "All In The Family"; spun "Good Times" off "Maude" and then threw in "One Day At A Time" for good measure. It took a middle-aged Jew to decide to tackle head-on some things in the 1970s that were not exactly popular (race relations, women's lib, divorce).

Honorable mention goes to Sherwood Schwartz, another little old Jew who worked on some early radio and TV comedies (Bob Hope, Red Skelton, "Ozzie and Harriet") before delivering two of the stupidest and most endearing childhood memories for anyone currently 50 or older: "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch".
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