Trust me, you wouldn't be the first person to make that comparison. Actually I've called Gina Cheryl to try and get people to watch the show.

Yeah that's why I said Cheers had the better ensemble. Frasier is the series I'd like more overall, but it has a smaller cast of characters.

I haven't watched it so here's how I imagine it went.

I'd largely agree with that, but with the proviso I got very attached to so many of the Cheers cast and it honestly has the best ensemble I've ever seen in a sitcom, just such a breadth and depth of strong performances.

It's awful and everyone should watch Brooklyn 99 instead. Everyone.

I'd agree that comedies age better, but a lot of people seem to just not be interested in most older TV period.

Maybe, I'm just repeating something I saw him write once.

If he also rewrote them, it'd be the trashiest best thing.

And Orlando Jones' tweets are pretty hilarious.

That sounds like a pretty great line-up of shows, honestly. I might even watch the Sleepy Hollow one on youtube.

Mira Furlan!

If you say that over there, you're a braver man than I.

Oh yeah the sense of humour in the Culture not to mention the staggering size of it and the anarchic utopianism of it was all very appealing. Excession was probably my favourite book because so much of it was the ships talking to each other. Ah, the Interesting Times Gang, I'll miss you lot.

I feel that's kind of the consequence of the 'Golden Age of TV is now' rhetoric. I seriously offhandedly referenced Cheers as my standard of a good Ted Danson sitcom on a Community review and got into a long argument with someone who felt it was extremely overrated.

I'm not sure how familiar people are with Cheers, really. I discovered it via Frasier.

That's probably my favourite blog to drop into like once every two years, read for a few hours, and then forget all about it. It's got some great stuff about sitcom history and sitcom writing.

I like your selection of great American sitcoms, sir.

IIRC Star Trek shows are the only pre-Seinfeld stuff that has done well, according to TDVW.

Werner Herzog's documentaries number among the most memorable documentaries I've ever seen precisely because of his narrative voice, among other things.

Oh there's Herzog. God I loved Rescue Dawn the year it came out, I got the DVD like immediately but I don't think I've seen it since.