The Sitcom Study

Best Sitcom Hangouts!

From bars and restaurants to attics and garages, we're celebrating all the places where the gangs congregate and the zany schemes are hatched... This episode is all about our favorite sitcom hangout spots!
 
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Next week's trope is Going on a Diet!

The Charles in Charge Mixtape & Trivia Throwdown!

This week is all about the new boy in the neighborhood, who lives downstairs and it's understood... You know the rest- the hunky housekeeper and sage advice-giver has come up four times on the podcast so far, and we're revisiting all of our discussions about Charles, Buddy, the Powell Family, and to a lesser degree the Pembroke Family! Plus we'll face off in a brutally intense trivia challenge on all things Charles!
 
Here's what we're watching:
Charles in Charge S4 E14-15 "Charles Splits" from our Bonked On the Head, New Personality podcast
Charles in Charge S3 E1 "Yule Laugh" from Snowed in for Christmas
Charles in Charge S1 E8 "A Date with Enid" from Makeovers
Charles in Charge S2 E19 "U.F. Oh No!" from UFO Sightings
 
It's not a clip show; it's a mixtape! We'll be back with a new episode next week!

Bachelor Parties!

Martin and Gina dive into debauchery, Lucy goes undercover at Ricky's "Daddy Shower," and Archie and Edith head upstate for a politically polarized wedding weekend (not to mention the back-door pilot for Maude)... This week's trope is Bachelor Parties! Here's what we're watching:
I Love Lucy S2 E14 "Ricky Has Labor Pains"
All in the Family S2 E24 "Maude"
Martin S3 E25 "The Bachelor Party"
Parks & Rec S5 E10 "Two Parties"

Sitcom Shakespeare!

The immortal Fonz takes on the immortal Bard, Gilligan and the gang turn Hamlet into an opera, and Frasier and Niles stage a must-miss production for the ages... This week's trope is Shakespeare in Sitcoms! Here's what we're watching:
Gilligan's Island S3 E4 "The Producer"
Happy Days S2 E10 "A Star is Bored"
Head of the Class S1 E8 "Critical Choices"
Frasier S8 E12 "The Show Must Go Off"

Bar Wars, Slap Bets & Other Yearly Traditions!

Cheers forms a rivalry that will last for generations, How I Met Your Mother gets slap-happy, and the Community campus engulfs itself in paintball apocalypse... for the first of many times! This week's all about storylines that became beloved every-season traditions! Here's what we're watching:
Cheers S4 E9 "From Beer to Eternity" & S6 E23 "Bar Wars"
Community S1 E23 "Modern Warfare"
How I Met Your Mother S2 E9 "Slap Bet"
Brooklyn Nine-Nine S1 E6 "Halloween"

90s Reboots!

The Tanners return after three decades, Boy Meets World spawns a new generation, and the Fresh Prince is FINALLY reimagined as a gritty, melancholy drama... This week we're discussing 90s REBOOTS! Here's what we're watching:
Girl Meets World S1 E1 "Girl Meets World"
Fuller House S1 E1 "Our Very First Show Again"
Bel-Air S1 E1 "Dreams and Nightmares"

Kids Aging Several Years Between Seasons!

From the Keatons to the Seavers to the rich tapestry of Modern Family, sitcoms have a habit of blithely skipping over the terrible twos and playing fast and loose with the ages of their youngest cast members... This week's trope is kids who age several years between seasons! Here's what we're watching:
Family Ties S5 E1 "Be True to Your Preschool"
Growing Pains S6 E13 "The World According to Chrissie"
Step by Step S6 E19 "The Facts of Life"
Modern Family S3 E13 "Little Bo Bleep"

Caught Smoking!

Beaver packs the perfect pipe, Arnold Drummond hits tobacco road, and Hank Hill employs the age-old parenting technique of making your child smoke the whole carton... This week's trope is Getting Caught Smoking! Here's what we're watching:
Leave it to Beaver S2 E9 "The Pipe"
Diff'rent Strokes S6 E12 "Where There's Smoke"
King of the Hill S1 E10 "Keeping Up With Our Joneses"
Abbott Elementary S3 E4 "Smoking"

The British Sitcom Invasion!

Blimey! This week we're skipping across the pond to check out two iconic British sitcoms and the American remakes/imitators they inspired! Here's what we're watching:
Man About the House S1 E1 "Three's a Crowd"
Three's Company S1 E1 "Man About the House"
Absolutely Fabulous S1 E1 "Fashion"
Cybill S1 E1 "Virgin, Mother, Crone"

U.F.O. Sightings!

Dick Van Dyke spots a flying saucer, Bob Newhart contemplates the likeliness of aliens, and Scott Baio solves the mysteries of the universe... This week's trope is UFO Sightings! Here's what we're watching:
The Dick Van Dyke Show S5 E3 "Uhny Uftz"
Newhart S1 E19 "Heaven Knows Mr. Utley"
Charles in Charge S2 E19 "U.F. Oh No!"
The Hogan Family S3 E21 "Close Encounters"