Will Modern Family be the best sitcom no one remembers?

Big Bang Theory is half baked wannabe nerdy knock knock jokes for people with an IQ hovering around room temperature.

I love Modern Family. The first 4 seasons are absolute gold and it remained hilarious well into season 8.

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Newsradio. That show still holds up but is long gone in pop culture annals. It was as good as any sitcom
in the 90’s

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I miss that show. Would love to find a station that shows reruns.

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Terms of Engagement

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Did you just confuse "Rules of Engagement" and "Terms of Endearment"?

It featured a bumbling, dumb white male as the central figure so PC police will likely leave it alone.

It started out as a "refreshing" look at the new American family, with a gay couple, a mixed race inter-generational couple, and a "normal" nuclear family. But when it came down to race, they still had their "we're so white" episodes where they stumbled through interactions with black people and other races.

Right now it's not in danger, but neither was 30 Rock a couple of years ago, and now they're pulling "problematic" episodes from their streaming services and from syndication. So this (and most shows) will be in danger in the coming years.

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It featured a bumbling, dumb white male as the central figure so PC police will likely leave it alone.

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I've seen this argument before: In a sitcom the comedic roles go to the male comedic actor instead of a female one, this is sexist and starves female comedic actors of opportunity.

However, this is a catch-22, because if they ever showed a sitcom family where the male characters played it straight while the female ones acted like dumb buffoons - it would most assuredly come under fire for being all out sexist.

That's probably why the Dunphy family had 3 kids. As soon as they decided there was going to be a ditzy daughter they HAD to have another female sibling who is completely opposite. They couldn't do a Married With Children setup with just Luke/Haley.

It actually mocked that stereotype.

Phil was a brilliant hardworking man who loved his family and would do anything for them.

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Somebody post the Ariel Winter gifs

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Man, that's a sad story.

I haven't watched that many sitcoms since the Seinfeld era, although Modern Family is probably my favorite of the past decade. I still haven't finished the past couple of seasons but the early seasons were great.