re: Better show: Cheers vs Fraiser

Probably Cheers. Perfectly cast and acted show.

But...

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While I like Frasier, it has not aged well and today would look no different than the garbage that CBS has been selling for decades.

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Disagree with this completely. Only similarity that Frasier has to the CBS comedies is that it is a multi-cam sitcom. Frasier's strengths were in clever wordplay (something the Lorre shows do have to a degree), an extremely strong cast, and perfectly constructed farce.

I can't think of a recent sitcom that does farce better than Frasier did it (however the Modern Family Las Vegas episode deserves a mention in this regard). I think MF has gone downhill on the whole over the last three or four seasons, but that particular episode was constructed and executed perfectly. But still, not the level of consistency that Frasier was able to pull off weekly.

TL; DR - Frasier and Cheers are both in the Top 10 of situational comedies (maybe all-time, definitely last thirty years). Cheers > Frasier but barely.