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Which, in your opinion, is the best series/season.

I just started browsing internet descriptions of this US sitcom, and I was wondering which series/season do people think was best.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Lucy

When I first hit this thread, I though it was going to be about how much you loved LSD.

But unfortunately, I can't really help you there, I never got into that show...never found it very amusing.

My absolute favorite one was where She and Ricky hosted a commercial-show for a department store called "Phipps". I used to think the show was one of the funniest on television before I was hit with "Arrested Development".

i despised lucille ball's brand of moron humor when i was 5 freaking years old. im not going to start liking it now.

she should be extremely popular with anyone who enjoys cringe humor today.

My absolute favorite one was where She and Ricky hosted a commercial-show for a department store called "Phipps". I used to think the show was one of the funniest on television before I was hit with "Arrested Development".

Arrested Development was good, but I preferred Grounded for Life.

Arrested Development was good, but I preferred Grounded for Life.

I saw every episode of grounded for life on reruns and to me it was just a grittier copy of every other family sitcom I've ever seen. I liked some of them, but no Show had me so consistently on the floor of my living room than arrested development.

Veta-vita-vegimin.

I don't know the season numbers or anything, but when they lived in the apartment, not the house owned by the Mertles.

i despised lucille ball's brand of moron humor when i was 5 freaking years old. im not going to start liking it now.

she should be extremely popular with anyone who enjoys cringe humor today.

That would be me. I even listen to cringe humor radio at cringehumor.net. I love Lucy, but Morticia Adams from The Adams Family was hotter.

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I Loath Lucy.

That would be me. I even listen to cringe humor radio at cringehumor.net. I love Lucy, but Morticia Adams from The Adams Family was hotter.

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I tried to explain to a foriegner the other day the difference between The Addams Family and The Munsters. It was surprisingly difficult. Not because they're the same, but because The Addams Family is so damn odd...Morticia is hot, though.

I tried to explain to a foriegner the other day the difference between The Addams Family and The Munsters. It was surprisingly difficult. Not because they're the same, but because The Addams Family is so damn odd...Morticia is hot, though.

Yeah they're pretty much the same.

The only difference being, the Munsters were actual monsters. Frankenstein's monster, Bride of Frankenstein, a vampire for an uncle, a werewolf for a kid, and *here's the twist* a perfectly normal (hot) daughter that thinks she's ugly. Actual monsters, as opposed to really weird people with monsters around them (Thing, Lurch, Cousin It, etc)

I think that twist was the kicker that made me like Munsters more when I was a kid, but then they made those Addams Family movies in the 90's and I got a crush on Christina Ricci. From then on, I liked the Addams Family and Casper.

I tried to explain to a foriegner the other day the difference between The Addams Family and The Munsters. It was surprisingly difficult. Not because they're the same, but because The Addams Family is so damn odd...Morticia is hot, though.

oh i thought it was because the addams family is funny and the munsters isnt

oh i thought it was because the addams family is funny and the munsters isnt

Yeah, well, I was trying to stay away from a value thing and actually explain the premise differences. Once you get past "the Addams aren't monsters" it's hard to follow up with what they are, except weird...but really really nice.

But yeah, always way more of a Addams Family guy than Munsters, though they did have a Barris hot rod...

I never saw that show, actually. The only Lucy I know this one, and no, I don't love her:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3f/Elfen_Lied_ep4_Lucy.jpg/250px-Elfen_Lied_ep4_Lucy.jpg

Yeah, well, I was trying to stay away from a value thing and actually explain the premise differences. Once you get past "the Addams aren't monsters" it's hard to follow up with what they are, except weird...but really really nice.

But yeah, always way more of a Addams Family guy than Munsters, though they did have a Barris hot rod...

that anyone should prefer the munsters over the addams family is as unexplicable to me as preferring the original battlestar galactica over the new battlestar galactica

even though the munsters was marginally watchable and the original BSG wasnt.

I never thought I Love Lucy was funny, just irritating.

that anyone should prefer the munsters over the addams family is as unexplicable to me as preferring the original battlestar galactica over the new battlestar galactica

even though the munsters was marginally watchable and the original BSG wasnt.

The Munsters was moderately watchable but no way held a candle to the Addams Family.


PS. You people don't have a sense of humor. I Love Lucy is great.

Ah, I Love Lucy: back from the good old days when women couldn't vote and certain folk weren't allowed on golf courses.
(Petridge Farm remembers)

Ah, I Love Lucy: back from the good old days when women couldn't vote and certain folk weren't allowed on golf courses.
(Petridge Farm remembers)

But Pepperidge Farm ain't gonna' keep it to Pepperidge Farm's self free of charge Maybe you go down to the store and buy some of these here distinctive Milano cookie. Maybe the whole thing disappears.

But Pepperidge Farm ain't gonna' keep it to Pepperidge Farm's self free of charge Maybe you go down to the store and buy some of these here distinctive Milano cookie. Maybe the whole thing disappears.

:confused:

Ah, I Love Lucy: back from the good old days when women couldn't vote and certain folk weren't allowed on golf courses.
(Petridge Farm remembers)

you are SOOO far offbase.

lucy was from the time when women could vote but not be business executives and certain people WERE allowed on the golf course (as caddies)

Nip/Tuck, FTW.

The Munsters was moderately watchable but no way held a candle to the Addams Family.


PS. You people don't have a sense of humor. I Love Lucy is great.

when i was a kid, lucy was on the tv 3 times a day!

i love lucy in the moring

the lucy show in the afternoon

and the lucille ball show in prime time (but ok, not every day, just once a week)

lets just say she was over exposed.

Well, the Lucille Ball Show wasn't that good anyway.

Well, the Lucille Ball Show wasn't that good anyway.

i dont really remember which was which and i think there might have been a 4th one.. maybe even a 5th.

the one on in the afternoon was when she was a secretary for ....mr moody?...and her best friend was a blonde who was not joan blondelle.

the one on primetime was her last show and it was pretty sucky even though i dont remember the details.

you are SOOO far offbase.

lucy was from the time when women could vote but not be business executives and certain people WERE allowed on the golf course (as caddies)

...it's a fake commercial from Futurama.

ANNOUNCER
Do you remember a time when chocolate
chip cookies came fresh from the oven?
Petridge Farm remembers.


FRY
Ah, those were the days.


ANNOUNCER
Do you remember a time when women couldn't
vote and certain folk weren't allowed
on golf courses? Petridge Farm remembers.

Nip/Tuck, FTW.

Nip/Tuck? F that. The Riches kicks every other FX show's ass.

...it's a fake commercial from Futurama.

ANNOUNCER
Do you remember a time when chocolate
chip cookies came fresh from the oven?
Petridge Farm remembers.


FRY
Ah, those were the days.


ANNOUNCER
Do you remember a time when women couldn't
vote and certain folk weren't allowed
on golf courses? Petridge Farm remembers.

It was not from Futurama, it was from Family Guy!

see! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_5nqIBChAZ0)

Anyways I used to like I Love Lucy, but just like Full House, I hate it now.

Also, let's face it, the Munster was a total rip off of The Addams Family, the Addams Family rules!

It was not from Futurama, it was from Family Guy!

see! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_5nqIBChAZ0)

Hold the phone...

You're taking a show that's been noted for it's plagiarism, and giving it credit for a joke that appeared about seven years beforehand? The Petridge Farm commercial appeared in the first season of Futurama (April 27, 1999), whereas the Pepperidge Farm commercial appeared in the fifth season of Family Guy (September 24, 2006).

Now that grinds my gears...

...it's a fake commercial from Futurama.


No, mine was a fake commercial from Family Guy. And much better.

No, mine was a fake commercial from Family Guy. And much better.
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Hold the phone...

You're taking a show that's been noted for it's plagiarism, and giving it credit for a joke that appeared about seven years beforehand? The Petridge Farm commercial appeared in the first season of Futurama (April 27, 1999), whereas the Pepperidge Farm commercial appeared in the fifth season of Family Guy (September 24, 2006).

Now that grinds my gears...

READ:

Actually they are slightly different jokes. In the Futurama episode the parody is of rose colored nostalgia, that the time that Peppridge Farms is 'remembering' with all that 'down home simplicity' also had somethings that went with it that were not as 'wholesome.'

The Family Guy episode is a play on blackmail, it's a play on the phrase "Peppridge Farms remembers" that indicates that the farms remember some thing you did, in this instance hitting someone with a car, and that if you want the farms to keep it to themselves you'll buy Milano cookies.

The old man asking if you remember because Peppridge Farms remembers is an iconic campaign that has been made fun of a lot. I would say that the Futurama joke is a better take, especially since it actually plays into the theme of the episode and that specific scene so that it's funnier when watched with the whole episode (that has Fry being nostalgic for the 20th century), but that's a matter of taste I guess.

READ:

Did you read mine?