25 Widespread Sitcoms That Both Aged Nicely Or Terribly

— u/PillBaxton

“I feel that is for a couple of particular causes (aside from the final high quality of the writing/performing general).

1. In case you wrote pompous, ‘excessive tradition’ characters like Frasier and Niles in the present day, they might nonetheless have the identical classical music, literature, and so on. pursuits, so the distinction with Martin stays the identical.

2. They’re additionally sufficiently far into center age that a number of their struggles round divorce, co-parenting, and growing older dad and mom are nonetheless related.

3. Radio exhibits, regardless of the rise of podcasts, are nonetheless made and produced in a lot the identical method as they had been within the ’90s — not less than from the POV of Frasier and Roz. So many of the office plotlines nonetheless maintain up — particularly, the well-known episode the place they’re making an attempt to report an old-timey Nineteen Forties radio play, which might be precisely the identical in the present day.”

— u/EndlessPug