Sitcoms that were better than their predecessor

Man About The House was better and before Three's Company

Curb Your Enthusiasm is better than Seinfeld

I feel like just fell into a Boomer convention.

It’s sad how much time everyone in this thread has wasted watching tv. You guys should spend your time in more productive ways. Perhaps try spending hours a day on Letsrun like I do.

What were you expecting to find when you intentionally opened a thread about sitcoms?

Seasons 1 and 2 of Happy Days were terrific, and hold up well today. Starting with Season 3 it went downhill fast.

Two reasons for this:

1. Starting with Season 3, the show was filmed before a studio audience. This really was noticeable in the Cunningham house: the formal dining room that separated the living room from the kitchen disappeared, and was replaced with a combination living/dining room. Also the living room lost a lot of its best features/qualities. Overall, the show became a lot more static & confined due to the studio filming. There were far fewer “remote” locations used. (Remember seeing the hardware store run by Howard? It was never seen again after the first two seasons.)

2. When Fonzie became the focus of the show, rather than a secondary character, the story lines lost a lot of the 50’s charm that was so evident in the first two seasons.

Why did they have to get rid of Chuck?

What about Bill Cosby spin offs?

"The King of Queens" isn't a spinoff of "The Honeymooners," it's more of an updated version, but it's a great sitcom.

"Better Call Saul" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" are both good calls. Most of the others I haven't really watched. I am aware of the Bob Newhart final episode though and that's gotta be the best final episode ever.

Spot on.

I was a kid and loved Happy Days and even I noticed that it just "looked different" in season 3. I really liked the first 2 seasons and it looked like it was shot like a movie, instead in S3 they started to look like all the other noticeably cheaper looking sitcoms of era.

The Fonzie stuff is crazy because Henry Winkler is so so so so just NOT that guy at all.

I think King of Queens was a spinoff from Everybody Loves Raymond. KOQ definitely better

Maybe something from this century??

Depends upon what you call "going downhill." Maybe the quality but certainly not the viewership. It's popularity jumped in season three and exploded by season 4. From a viewership perspective, the network made good changes.

Was Chico and the Man a spin-off of Sanford and Sons?

King of the Hill COULD be considered a spinoff. Hank was really a reimagination of Tom Anderson from Beavis and Butthead.

Warren the Ape was a spin off from Greg the Bunny. Greg the Bunny was pretty funny, but Warren the Ape is legendary. Unfortunately, it got lost in the shuffle of the rapidly expanding universe of entertainment products as cable was expanding and streaming was coming into play.

dailymotion.com

Warren the Ape S01 E02 Abstinence

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Warren the Ape S01 E02 Abstinence

Link:www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pxj9v

Alright boomers

It was not.

Maybe I missed it, but how is "The Office" the predecessor to "Parks and Rec"? Similar style (faux doc) but I am not aware of any connection.