Black sitcoms ranked (by Naima Cochrane)

[AP3.0]

Family Matters is the longest running show out of all these shows

should be at the top

Nah

Once they decided to double down on Steve Ur-kel, it was in hospice at that point

The occasional appearance was cool but it was clear the show was running on fumes by the time they introduced Orlando brown as a main stay in the series

I don't even know how that shit ended. I assumed Steve and Laura finally got married?

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Nah

Once they decided to double down on Steve Ur-kel, it was in hospice at that point

The occasional appearance was cool but it was clear the show was running on fumes by the time they introduced Orlando brown as a main stay in the series

I don't even know how that shit ended. I assumed Steve and Laura finally got married?

Something like that the last episode Steve proposes then goes out of space gets lost then come back and they get married but they never show a wedding or nothing

 

[oldman_Ghost!]

Family Matters is the longest running show out of all these shows

should be at the top

Definitely.

 

[Chi-Town B]

Nah

Once they decided to double down on Steve Ur-kel, it was in hospice at that point

The occasional appearance was cool but it was clear the show was running on fumes by the time they introduced Orlando brown as a main stay in the series

I don't even know how that shit ended. I assumed Steve and Laura finally got married?

Nobody was watching until Steve showed up, the show was on it's way to getting canceled

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Plus my nigga Steve was the youngest black producer of a TV show AND was getting like 250k an episode

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

I have my thoughts on some of these shows but I really wanna point out how fuckin sad it is that there is really only one black show (blackish) that reps us right now on tv. 80s, 90s, 00s was the best for us.

Slim I made a thread that ranked the black tv couples on here years ago. And said the same thing.

Co-fuckin-Sign

 

[oldman_Ghost!]

That list need to be revaluated and redone....

 

[400Degreez]

No knock for people hyping Family Matters. People loved Urkel and wanted more if him which I get. But the show fell off huge once grams left and they introduced Stephon. It went from comedy-drama to full blown sci-fi.
Shame too cause in earlier episodes they tackled real issues.
Eddie getting racially profiled by those racist cops. Then Carl going check them mofos.

 

[oldman_Ghost!]

No knock for people hyping Family Matters. People loved Urkel and wanted more if him which I get. But the show fell off huge once grams left and they introduced Stephon. It went from comedy-drama to full blown sci-fi.
Shame too cause in earlier episodes they tackled real issues.
Eddie getting racially profiled by those racist cops. Then Carl going check them mofos.

Every show "jumps the shark" at one point. "Family Matters" had longer success than it had failures...

And it wasn't just about the comedy. It showed a good successful chill black family on TV and it touched on all kind of topics as well.

 

[AP3.0]

I meant to say stephon

 

[Chi-Town B]

All that transformation chamber stuff was trash

 

[Marc123]

No knock for people hyping Family Matters. People loved Urkel and wanted more if him which I get. But the show fell off huge once grams left and they introduced Stephon. It went from comedy-drama to full blown sci-fi.
Shame too cause in earlier episodes they tackled real issues.
Eddie getting racially profiled by those racist cops. Then Carl going check them mofos.

Classic scene. But the average white person in the 90s wasnt tryna see that at 8:30pm on a Friday nite. They rather watch a non threatening, happy go lucky blk family w a blk happy go lucky nerd. Who makes them feel good, thats why they switched it up.

 

[400Degreez]

Classic scene. But the average white person in the 90s wasnt tryna see that at 8:30pm on a Friday nite. They rather watch a non threatening, happy go lucky blk family w a blk happy go lucky nerd. Who makes them feel good, thats why they switched it up.

Not just that scene but when they had episode of people getting shot over shoes. Or when Laura wanted to do black history and they spray painted Nigger on the locker.
So i see your point.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

All that transformation chamber stuff was trash

When Steve became producer and wanted to do more than play the annoying nerd.... so they created all that Stefan and transformation was to appease him

 

[AP3.0]

All that transformation chamber stuff was trash

nah

I actually liked that for a few reasons

my issue was fully implementing him into the show along with Steve. that was corny

 

[AP3.0]

When Steve became producer and wanted to do more than play the annoying nerd.... so they created all that Stefan and transformation was to appease him

didn't realize this

but it makes sense

 

[400Degreez]

Every show "jumps the shark" at one point. "Family Matters" had longer success than it had failures...

And it wasn't just about the comedy. It showed a good successful chill black family on TV and it touched on all kind of topics as well.

Ehhh I'll say half and half. But I see where you coming from.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Ehhh I'll say half and half. But I see where you coming from.

Oh really?

 

[Chi-Town B]

nah

I actually liked that for a few reasons

my issue was fully implementing him into the show along with Steve. that was corny

It became corny to me when that started happening

 

[400Degreez]

Oh really?

Lol. This nigga.
I actually liked that show. Not list worthy but enjoyable.
Ol girl doesn't age I swear.