Worst UK Sitcom in history!

[Wilko]

What about that politically correct SHITECOM with Jasper Carrot, an Indian wife and a kid in a wheelchair. Now that was some FUCKIN awful shite.

I have to confess to quite enjoying some of the options mentioned

 

[The Spanish]

What about the late 70s/early 80's one with John Inman working in a rock factory in Littlehampton?
That made never the twain look pure class.

Take a Letter Mr Jones. A hilarious reversal of gender stereotypes and reinforcement of others.

Duty Free - as per Ednas post, any Costa based sitcom is cursed with rubbishness.

Goodnight Sweetheart - apparently adultery is fine if its in different eras, morally dubious at best.

 

[blockhseagull]

That f***ing shite one with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden in.

God that was awful

 

[hart's shirt]

Oh Doctor Beeching!
Enlisting the likes of Paul Shane, Su Pollard and Jeffrey Holland from the Hi-Di-Hi retirement home was doomed from the start.

Home James
2 words. Jim Davidson.

Teenage Kicks
From the sublime Vyvyan in the Young Ones to the ridiculous for Ade Edmondson.
Just how many stereotypes can one sitcom have?

After You've Gone
Nicholas Lyndhurst does it again.
Having watched a few episodes, I still don't know what the point of this is.

The Thin Blue Line
Ben Elton continues his sell-out from alternative comedy to luvvie mainstream mediocrity.
Lowest-common denominator scripts achieve the near-impossible in making Rowan Atkinson unfunny.

 

[chez]

Does "The Office" count as a sitcom? If so then that has to be the worst be a country mile. If I had to choose one from the list it would be "Bread"

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Anyone remember 'Don't drink the water' when the bloke from 'On the Buses' moves to Spain?

 

[ryeseagull]

I don't think it's on there but there was this uk sitcom to do with the young irish bloke from father ted... being a superhero? And having a talking baby that on one else could know about, think it was called 'My Hero'... Worst thing I've ever seen, do not know what convinced him to do it

+1.

 

[bhaexpress]

On the face of it's actually a lot easier to talk about the sitcoms that weren't crap. Off the top of my head the only two that seem to have endured are Only fools and Horses and Dads Army. Very hard to think of many more.

 

[Danny-Boy]

I'm torn between the painfully cliched overacting of My Family, or the never ending, canned-laughter retirement home for elderly actors that is Last Of The Summer Wine. A toughie but I'll go for My Family on the basis that LOTSW is prob the only thing keeping some of it's cast alive.

We really do churn out some shit-coms here don't we? They STILL repeat Keeping Up Appearances on Sunday mornings

My Family, I can't believe that Robert Lindsay would demean himself over so many years, it's absolute wank.

Does anyone remember him in "GBH"? Now THAT was ACTING.

 

[sod1]

"my family" and "Friends" get my vote.... biggest pile of shite ever !

 

[GT49er]

Butterflies (with Wendy Craig wittering on about having an affair and then not having one) was the most appalling unfunny tedious navel-gazing self-indulgent drivel I can ever remember watching. It might have been meant to be deep and meaningful and all that, or it might have been an attempt to turn Brief Encounter into a sit-com series; either way, it failed miserably..................

 

[looney]

There are lot missing: It ain't half hot mum, Love thy neighbour and Mind your language - all based around the single idea that foreigners/black people are funny

They are funny if your not to far up your own arse. Aint half hot mum was brilliant.

Vicar of Dibley. Dawn french has never been funny.

 

[The Large One]

Rings on the Fingers with Martin Jarvis and Diane Keen.

Anything by Carla Lane - Bread, Butterflies, The Liver Birds, Bless This House...

 

[looney]

Friends, the golden girls, benson, cheers, mork and mindy.

All utter shite from the states

 

[Barrow Boy]

On the face of it's actually a lot easier to talk about the sitcoms that weren't crap. Off the top of my head the only two that seem to have endured are Only fools and Horses and Dads Army. Very hard to think of many more.

Fawlty Towers?

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

I can't believe you've got My Family on there. One of the best comedies of the past 20 years. It's been going for nearly a decade now, and 8million viewers every week can't be wrong.

most of those 8M viewers are watching in nursing homes or psychiatric wards and have no choice in what they watch.

 

[seagullsoverlincoln]

on the buses was complete bollocks-in fact quite creepy - a bloke in
his fifties tring to pick up young crumpet-looked on with nostalgia for some unknown reason

 

[Beach Hut]

Bread - scouse humour bypassed me

 

[Billy the Fish]

What was that one with Johnny Vaughan in a few years back? Absolute gash of the highest order

'orrible was brilliant, I've got the DVD

Two pints of lager get my vote, absolute pile of shit

 

[Stumpy Tim]

What was that awful Pauline Quirck comedy, with a blonde woman - they played sisters with their husbands in prison. With a slaggy older women (Dorian?) next door... Birds of a Feather I think. f***ing rubbish