Recently, Reddit user u/Green-Cress-2882 asked: "What successful famous sitcoms [did you not] find funny at all?"
Here's what people said.
1. "Friends."
2. "2 Broke Girls. It was like fingernails on a chalkboard to me!!!"
"I never figured out how that show got past the pilot or at least the first season: cardboard acting, horrible writing with contrived joke setup with every line of the show. And there wasn't a single likable character. Except maybe the horse. But then, I think of what that apartment must've SMELLED like."
—u/the_silent_one1984
3. "Two and a Half Men."
"To this day, I never understood the hype. 99% of jokes are about how everyone is a sex-crazed narcissist who hates everyone, including their family. The remaining 1% is funny but not enough to warrant watching the entire show."
"I don't think I've ever seen a show about such miserable and spiteful people so heavily idolized. And I've seen Roseanne."
—u/Saberleaf
4. "Baby Daddy."
"I saw a few episodes of that show and couldn't believe how fucking horrible it was."
5. "Roseanne. Could never find her funny."
—u/ApartNefariousness95
6. "The Big Bang Theory."
—u/Regnaruk123
7. "Full fucking House. I get it’s meant to be family-friendly content, but the popularity always baffled me."
—u/Rockitrulz
8. "Mike & Molly. The crass things the characters say make Two and a Half Men look like a religious documentary."
9. "How I Met Your Mother."
10. "Everybody Loves Raymond. Every episode I've seen is a grown-ass man letting his family come into his home to annoy and bully the shit out of his wife, to her obvious distress, while he refuses to set boundaries and stick up for her like a proper adult."
"(My own in-laws find this show hilarious. I don't think it's a coincidence. LOL and sigh.)"
11. "iCarly. But like the literal iCarly web show within the sitcom, where they would do silly stuff on camera. I always found that part kind of cringe. The rest of the show was great, though."
12. "Home Improvement."
13. "Seinfeld."
14. "Schitt's Creek. I tried it three times and just couldn't do it."
—u/david13z
15. "Anything on CBS where a fat guy has a wife that’s way too attractive for him."
"It all started with The Honeymooners 70 years ago. Then The Flintstones. Then every other sitcom with a bumbling fat guy and the smarter, hotter wife who puts up with his shenanigans because he's got a good heart and needs her guidance."
—u/Blinky_
16. "George Lopez. The show tried to have serious moments, leaving you hoping for some element of realism, but then the mother, Benny, would come out of nowhere and say something stupid. You couldn't tell if it was a comedy or a drama. It just felt like an awkward watch, like the show didn't know what it wanted to be."
17. "Sex and the City. Rude, mean women who shit on other women and body-shame people aren't appealing. I think the writers took 'less likable characters' too literally."
18. "Will & Grace. It was banal."
19. "The Cosby Show. He was so pretentious and arrogant toward all his kids' issues."
—u/Dunkman83
21. "The Office. I've tried. I've tried to watch it many times. Everyone says it's hilarious. I know the memes just from internet osmosis, but…it's just not funny to me. I know people who rewatch and love it repeatedly, and I don't find it funny."
—u/pikaboo27
22. "I didn't like Community, which is odd because my favorite comedies include Arrested Development and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which aren't too dissimilar to Community. To each their own, I guess."
—u/tennoskoom_
What are your thoughts on these? Have any that you'd like to add? Tell me in the comments below!
Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.