POLL: "Still Standing" or "Yes, Dear"

Yes, there was a thread on this once, but unfortunately there was no poll. Both of these shows are very, very near and dear to my heart, and if I had it my way, they would still be on the air. We need more "family oriented" shows and less yuppie shows, IMO. Would you agree??

Anyway, please vote and then discuss. Did you love these shows, like I did?

 

You know something folks? I'm going to have to go with "Yes, Dear". It had more "natural" acting. "Still Standing", though a great show, tried way too hard to be "witty" and "cute" with the overly-clever back-and-forth "machine gun" dialogue between the husband and the wife all the time... reciting complex memorized lines quickly. Though it was well done, nobody really talks like this, folks !!

Anyway, we need more good family oriented shows. "Grounded for Life" was - in my opinion - both obnoxious and annoying.

 

I used to watch Still Standing. I used to work evenings so I found it syndicated not long after it ended.

 

So, by "family oriented" you mean "straight-male fantasy shows" with plain, overweight men married to impossibly beautiful women?

There is still that Tim Allen show. Forget the name, but it's family-ish.

And there is that one show with "Family" in the title, but I have a feeling there is a reason you aren't mentioning it....

 

By family show, I mean situations centered around families (as opposed to a show like "Seinfeld", "Friends", "Fraiser", "Cheers", etc. that appeal to a different demographic).

"Malcolm in the middle" was "okay" I guess ... but a little on the annoying side.

Didn't even know Tim Allen had a new show - shows how out of touch I am.

 

I should mention that one of the great shows of our time "Till Death" was originally centered around an aging couple who never had any children. As the show went on, they figured they better do something to increase the demographic to compete with the more family friendly shows of the time, so all of a sudden, a "daughter in college" appears out of nowhere in the middle of the season - a person you never heard about before until she was invented by writers. This way, they could have the best of both worlds (shows centered around themselves and the neighbors as adults, and interaction with their college bound daughter if need be).

 

It was a good show, I always enjoyed it.

I think "Yes Dear" has more appeal though, due to the fact that - even though both families on the show have children - the shows aren't centered on the children - a formula that worked well IMO. Best of both worlds.

 

You mean like Roseanne or Married With Children?

 

The Tim Allen show is "Last Man Standing". It's okay enough. Nancy Travis plays his wife, and I find that coupling more realistic than many of the "According to Jim"-type shows. His character's politics lean right, if that matters to you.

 

I'm not familiar with Still Standing. I watched Yes, Dear a handful of times thought it was dreadful. I recall the wife being kind of cute though.

 

I liked Still Standing but just couldn't get into Yes, Dear.

 

I liked them both, but I chose Still Standing. The lead male characters in Yes, Dear could get old after a while.

 

Still Standing to look at Jami Gertz. I never did like Yes, Dear.

 

Still Standing was funnier overall. That one episode where the little girl steals the Jesus statue from the other family cracks me up. So many great gags in that show. The dad in Yes, Dear is pretty annoying after a while. But it was a pretty good show too.

 

It really didn't occur to me but you're right....the Yes, Dear dad is annoying! Jami Gertz and Mark Addy had better chemistry together.

 

If you liked her here, go get Doc Hollywood.

BTW, two horrible shows.

 

I never saw Still Standing but watched Yes Dear weekly. I enjoyed Yes Dear during it's run but it went a little off the rails at the end. I stopped watching before it went off the air. I chose Yes Dear because I'm more familiar with it.

 

It's a toss up - one had Sally Struthers as Grandma, the other had Tim Conway as Grandpa. What they really should have done is give Sally and Tim their own show.

 

Roseanne was actually pretty good. I wouldn't consider "Married" a family show.

 

Yes dear was absolute mediocrity and must've been cheap to produce because I never understood how it got renewed year after year

 

Sorry, wrong actress.

 

She was in "Mr Hollands Opus" though.

 

I believe she is the oldest daughter from Uncle Buck.

 

I hope that genre comes back so I can develop my idea for a sitcom about a morbidly obese man with some learning disabilites who's married to a supermodel.

 

You are both correct. Not to mention the MCI operator who challenged AT&T. She is Jean Louisa Kelly