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Can you recomend a good sitcom?

We hate commercials so we DVR everything.

So far we have our Favorite: NCIS, then Elementary, then NCIS Los Angeles (good but not great), then Hawaii 5-0 (Just OK but I watch it because I love Hawaii), Burn Notice gets honorary mention but I hesitate to get my wife started on that series (as much as I like it). We are also watching the Sherlock BBS series on netflicks.

As you can see we are a bit heavy on the crime shows... would like to lighten it up with some good comedy. (no evening cartoons please)

My wife had me try Private Practice (not a comedy I know) and waaaaaay too much of a soap opera for me.

Is there anything good on regular TV we are missing?

We did Downton Abbey (much better than I expected) but they are slooooow in coming out with the forth season.

Arrested Development.
The Big Bang Theory.

Modern Family (awesome), Rules of Engagement, The Mindy Project

Ditch Elementary and replace it with Perception which is another Holmes and Watson show, but better. Another vote for The Big Bang Theory. Also Warehouse 13 is funny/light but not really a sitcom.

Scandal

Continuum cause i'm a scifi freak.

House of Cards on netflix if you haven't watched it yet.

barney miller.
wilfred.
mash.

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Dallas.

Little behind the times over there is Sweden, are we?

If you like funny nerds and can laugh at anal OCD jokes, Big Bang. The blonde is in my top ten dreams....

The old cowboy/westerns are a big yuck as well as Andy Griffith.

Fat people comedies, suck.

Mike and Molly seems pretty popular.

Mike and Molly, Modern Family and Anger management.

We like Rules of Engagement... pretty funny stuff.

These are from an episode when these guys were supposed to be working late... can't remember the details, but these scenes are occuring in an an empty store where one of the wives had thought about opening a bakery or something...

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Depending on how much you like quirky humor, Raising Hope could be worth a look: "Jimmy becomes a single parent to an infant after the mother he had a one-night stand with ends up on death row."

If you can find the first episode online somewhere, it will give you a good idea of what the show is like. Imagine Martha Plimpton as Jimmy's cigarette-smoking mom seeing a TV alert about the serial killer (who is sitting in her kitchen eating breakfast with the family) and picking up the 13" TV sitting on the counter and whacking the killer in the back of the head. It's almost like Coen brothers gone full-on comedy.

Raising Hope (TV Series 2010

User review: I have to admit, from the previews, I wasn't planning on watching this show. I was simply setting up my DVR to record another Fox show and figured, why not record this one too since I have been a fan of Martha Plimpton since the Goonies. I am so glad I did.

I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!! The show is hilarious. I go from laughing out loud, thinking, "I can't believe they did that" to feeling warm and fuzzy. Garret Dillahunt is absolutely hilarious, Lucas Neff is adorable, and I love watching Martha Plimpton's character capture both a roughness and sweetness at the same time. She is brilliant. I find myself watching the episodes twice and laughing out loud each time. Looks like a great show and I hope it continues to stay as funny as the first two episodes have been.

Check out Suits, and Graceland on USA.

New Netflix series that looks interesting. From the same folks that did Weeds. Upper middle class woman goes to jail after something from her distant past catches up with her:

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If you like a bad azz like Gibbs on NCIS, check out Longmire kind of a modern western with a strong main character.

Of course, in my opinion.....the best sitcom in TV history was M*A*S*H.......

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I know there are reruns running somewhere.

Sounds crazy but that show actually impacted my life....

Hell on Wheels.

It's not a comedy but I find it very interesting and I don't even care for storyline shows.

Rules of Engagement is very funny.