World Cup Of... US Sitcoms
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Our first bonus episode is all about US sitcoms, the World Cup of US sitcoms. I am joined to discuss them by Maisie Adam, hello Maisie. Hello. And John Robbins, hello John.
Hello, I'm good, thank you, lovely to be here.
See, that's how you're supposed to do that. The way this works is, more in common, our lovely polling partners have given a massive list of 60, 70 US sitcoms to the British public. The British public have told them which is their favourite. I don't have the results yet, but I know what the top eight are, and I'm going to draw them in four quarterfinals. We're going to talk about those quarterfinals, predict who's going to win, and then find out who actually did win. We'll go quarterfinals, semifinals, final, and we will discover which US sitcom is... is the favourite of the British public. Now, I've done World Cups of before, World Cups of Christmas, things like this. What I will say is, the result is always disappointing.
What a great trailer for the podcast.
We might as well call this, and this is why democracy doesn't work. Our first quarterfinal is Friends versus MASH. Oh, wow. Well, that's it. When there's only eight teams, every game's a big game.
I mean, also, Battle of the Great Themes.
Yeah, Battle of the Great Things. So I'll Be There for You by the Rembrandts. Suicide is Painless. Do you know who wrote Suicide is Painless, the lyrics?
Who did what now?
So Robert Altman, who directed the movie, his son wrote the lyrics for that when he was like eight. Really? Made like a million dollars out of it.
Can you imagine pitching a sitcom now where the lyrics to the theme tune are suicide is painless?
It wouldn't really list off, I don't think, would it?
It's got an odd vibe to navigate.
But also, yeah, Sid, I'll tell you what it's going to be. It's going to be a sitcom. It's going to be about a mobile hospital unit in the Korean War, the funniest war, of course. And it's going to have a theme tune that says suicide is painless. And also, it's going to have the highest rated episode of any sitcom ever. in the entire history of sitcoms whoa that's the problem the highest rated yeah i think the uh the finale 105 million good grief that is like even with when mock the week add like two episodes together they're not getting to 105 million right even you know even when i started in tv in the early 90s we weren't getting 105 million for stuff me and ellis are lucky if we get that in a month
Friends final, what was that?
It was super big. That's got to be 60 million.
Yeah.
But it was, yeah, it wasn't 105. I don't think anything would ever get 105.
I always thought Friends finale was the biggest one.
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