Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Feb 24, 2024 6:02:37 GMT -5
I love Step by Step but it is basically just a more dysfunctual Brady Bunch.
Any others?
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 24, 2024 8:03:36 GMT -5
Malcolm in the Middle spawned a few knock-offs. Like The Middle, which even stole part of the title.
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Post by thechase on Feb 24, 2024 8:49:21 GMT -5
Anything Saban did besides Power Rangers in the 90s with Toku genre shows, and the actual 'knock offs' from rival productions like Superhuman Samurai Sybersquad and Tatooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Feb 24, 2024 9:33:18 GMT -5
Brooklyn 99 feels in so many ways like an updated take on Barney Miller.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Feb 24, 2024 11:19:22 GMT -5
Friends was just Living Single just not as good or funny.
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Post by alexm on Feb 24, 2024 12:20:41 GMT -5
Chuck is a better Jake 2.0, a Jake 3.0, if you will.
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Post by Secret Clown on Feb 24, 2024 14:30:10 GMT -5
Chuck is a better Jake 2.0, a Jake 3.0, if you will. I’m so glad someone else remembers Jake 2.0
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Post by J. Hova on Feb 24, 2024 14:44:41 GMT -5
I mean seemingly every sitcom there for a while was the same formula: Dipshit husband and his shenanigans, brilliant wife who always pulls husband out of the jam he gets himself (and usually best friend who lives next door) in, and cute kid(s) who are just...there.
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 24, 2024 14:47:57 GMT -5
King of Queens is just the Honeymooners. So are the Flintstones. So are about 500 other sitcoms.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Feb 24, 2024 14:59:33 GMT -5
Friends was just Living Single just not as good or funny. I know this is a particular bit for Amber Ruffin, but it really isn't very hard to find precursors of a show that basically amounts to "a group of young adults get into wacky situations while trying to score". Honestly, the show I've seen that I feel is the closest to being a genuine proto-Friends is the short-lived early 90's Fox sitcom Down the Shore, about six co-workers (three male and three female) sharing a summer vacation home on the Jersey Shore.
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Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Feb 24, 2024 15:30:38 GMT -5
I mean seemingly every sitcom there for a while was the same formula: Dipshit husband and his shenanigans, brilliant wife who always pulls husband out of the jam he gets himself (and usually best friend who lives next door) in, and cute kid(s) who are just...there. If you want to lose weight just run upstairs as often as sitcom kids does.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 24, 2024 15:33:08 GMT -5
A lot of shows are premised on "What if Sherlock Homes was ____", so there is going to be some overlap, though obviously, Monk and House MD are WILDLY different in actual execution.
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Post by chrom on Feb 24, 2024 18:27:36 GMT -5
I mean seemingly every sitcom there for a while was the same formula: Dipshit husband and his shenanigans, brilliant wife who always pulls husband out of the jam he gets himself (and usually best friend who lives next door) in, and cute kid(s) who are just...there. Has there ever been a reversal, where the wife was the idiot who fouled things up and the husband was the smart one who fixed things? I Love Lucy perhaps
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Post by Feyrhausen on Feb 24, 2024 18:37:41 GMT -5
I mean seemingly every sitcom there for a while was the same formula: Dipshit husband and his shenanigans, brilliant wife who always pulls husband out of the jam he gets himself (and usually best friend who lives next door) in, and cute kid(s) who are just...there. Has there ever been a reversal, where the wife was the idiot who fouled things up and the husband was the smart one who fixed things? I Love Lucy perhaps King of the Hill on many occasions.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Feb 24, 2024 18:38:57 GMT -5
Friends was just Living Single just not as good or funny. I know this is a particular bit for Amber Ruffin, but it really isn't very hard to find precursors of a show that basically amounts to "a group of young adults get into wacky situations while trying to score". Honestly, the show I've seen that I feel is the closest to being a genuine proto-Friends is the short-lived early 90's Fox sitcom Down the Shore, about six co-workers (three male and three female) sharing a summer vacation home on the Jersey Shore. Starring Anna Gunn. And Pamela Adlon and Kenny from Frasier.
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Post by mountaindew on Feb 24, 2024 18:54:13 GMT -5
Friends With Better Lives was a show that was cancelled after 6 episodes, I think. It was basically a copy of Friends.
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 24, 2024 18:58:33 GMT -5
There was an attempt at a Fox show, Enemies….get it? ! It had its back door pilot on an episode of Married with Children. A subplot even has Al watching Friends…with the sound off and binoculars. Speaking of which, Unhappily Ever After is just Married clone. One of the same creators.
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Post by Spider2024 on Feb 24, 2024 19:02:15 GMT -5
There was an attempt at a Fox show, Enemies….get it? ! It had its back door pilot on an episode of Married with Children. A subplot even has Al watching Friends…with the sound off and binoculars. Which is hilarious considering they tried launching another back door pilot a few years prior... starring Matt LeBlanc.
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 24, 2024 19:04:07 GMT -5
There was an attempt at a Fox show, Enemies….get it? ! It had its back door pilot on an episode of Married with Children. A subplot even has Al watching Friends…with the sound off and binoculars. Which is hilarious considering they tried launching another back door pilot a few years prior... starring Matt LeBlanc. And another around the same time that would re-introduce David Garrison as Steve. Keri Russell was also in it.
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Post by Cyno on Feb 24, 2024 19:36:39 GMT -5
Deep Space Nine started off as basically the original idea for Babylon 5 with a Star Trek coat of paint. Granted, DS9 predated B5 by a year, but JMS pitched B5 to Paramount even earlier. And there's too many similarities between earlier DS9 and B5 to be coincidence.
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