Watching Sitcoms

The 80’s were my favorite time ever. If I could go back and just live those days over, I really might do it. I’m a fan of the music and the movies and even the amazing (and sometimes terrible) clothes and hair styles. I mean, like, totally. You know?

Here are the nominees for Best Show of the Eighties: Alf, The A Team, Benson, The Facts of Life and Married With Children. Once again there are more sitcoms than not in the picks.

First of all, let me say that I had no idea that Married With Children actually hails from the 80’s. I thought it was a lot more recent. But I looked it up. It was actually on from 1987 to 1997, which, in my opinion makes it more of a 90’s show. I never watched it cause I thought it was just too ghetto. If you know what I mean.

I actually have an Alf story. I never really liked the show, but did watch it and I can’t deny that it was iconic. It was on Monday nights - I believe - opposite MacGyver, which I really wanted to watch, but my mother insisted on Alf. Since my mother also worked very long days, she often fell asleep on the couch just moments into the show. I would try to sneakily change the channel, but that always caught her attention. So I was forced to sit and watch every ep, even the repeats, while she slept.

I did watch Facts of Life, although it wasn’t an absolute favorite, as well as The A-Team and Benson. I loved, loved, loved both shows. I just adored Murdoch on The A-Team- not Faceman, as could have been expected - and I remember touring the backlot at Universal and seeing their van. If I recall correctly, it was fairly close by to Tarzan’s “forest” and the Psycho house.

Benson was a complete family favorite and for years afterwards my mother would yell from the other room, “I can hear, you” in her best imitation of a Swedish accent. I have to say that if I’m voting for the Best of the 80’s, I’d go with Benson, cause I think appealed to a wider audience than any of the other shows listed.

Have fun voting: