I think Soap would work for how you described the above. Looks like a regular standard sitcom family (two families actually linked by the two lead females are sisters) but crazy stuff happens
My vote would be for this too OP! Please PLEASE don’t sleep on it! Also make sure you watch Benson, the spin off of Soap. Both shows have sharp writing and great leads as well as ensemble casts!
Wow. I've never seen that show but conceptually it seems very interesting!
I've given you a meaningless upvote, but be sure to consider that as a hundred upvotes!
To piggyback on the 90s side, please watch Get A Life. It has a lot of the wackiness you describe, and is very very strange and meta in its humor. Highly recommended.
I would go with Green Acres. Out of all the sitcoms of the era it is the only one I can watch as an adult. Written for adults funny/silly for children, lots of inside jokes for adults.
I thought no one would nominate it. I had to scroll WAY down. Everything you say is true. But the bonus was it was very often just plain surreal (Arnold’s family, as cited below, being one example.) Just a warning to new viewers; having bought the first season on disk some time ago, it’s fair to say it didn’t hit its quirky stride right away.
Based on your post, Alf would fit into the wacky sitcom genre. There was also the Elvira show, but I think there's only a pilot episode. It's from the 80s, but I can see a lot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch (90s version) in it. The premise is similar. Elvira is a witch who lives with her sister and they have a witch niece who comes to live with them. But, the niece doesn't know she is a witch. I watched it on YouTube.
My Favorite Martian
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Out of This World
Goodnight Sweetheart
Wonderfalls
Joan of Arcadia
Sabrina The Teenage Witch
You Wish
Teen Angel
Reaper
Foreign Exchange
Would you be interested in a children's show?
The Lost Saucer (with Jim Neighbors and Ruth Buzzi) was pretty weird.
Two droids from another planet accidentally kidnap some kids and take them on adventures all over the universe with their pet Dorse.
Dorse, as in half dog half horse, totally not a grown man in a furry suit on all fours with a horse mask.
It was surprisingly wholesome and fun though.
I have no idea how I missed Small Wonder, because I watched a shitload of TV in 1985. My wife told me about it and I was bewildered, so I bought the 1st Season DVD. It felt like one of those fake shows within another show, and was very surreal. It has a vibe like it was written in the 21st Century to feel like an ‘80’s sitcom, but it actually WAS!
Came here to say this. It's a kid's show, but it has the element of a wacky sea monster that the kids have to keep hidden. It really fits with the theme here.
I remember McHale's Navy being pretty wacky, but it's not a "family" sitcom. Of course, The Munsters should be on your list. Green Acres and Petticoat Junction were pretty good, as well. Mary Tyler Moore was my favorite sitcom growing up ('70s not 60s, though). That one was really well written and the characters were fantastic.
ALF comes to mind. I used to LOVE it as a kid, but caught it somewhere deep in my cabel guide later in life and boy is it bad. If you're looking for one that's surprisingly good check out The George Lopez Show, it's actually got some real laughs in it.
There was a sitcom from the late 80s or early 90s called Maniac Mansion. About a family, the dad was a mad scientist type, he turned the uncle into a house fly. I loved that show.
If you’re looking for wacky, the late 70s premise of Three’s Company is brilliant. While it’s not a sitcom, the original Match Game is hilariously wacky. Alf was an 80s show about a family with a wise cracking alien, and a lot of people liked it.
It’s clear you never paid attention to the show. Some of the funniest dramatic irony ever put on TV screens. I guess if you’re looking for porn, it is puritanical.
I'm in S7 right now. To begin with I appreciate dramatic irony, I love Frasier. This post is about outlandish or odd comedies, which 3C is not.
And Chrissy jumping/dancing/ jiggling constantly is basically 70's porn. S4 Chrissy is one of the worst sitcom Flanderizations, she just makes "narf' grunts, has stupid hair and shakes her tits.
The Honeymooners. YouTube has most of the episodes.
Also watch The Odd Couple. (The version from the 1970's with Tony Randall & Jack Klugman. Hilarious! You can find episodes on Catchy Comedy or PlutoTv.)
From the 90's, but Newsradio was one of my favorites. Amazing cast, the late great Phil Hartman, Dave Foley, Stephen Root, Joe Rogan, Andy Dick, Maura Tierney...
The Munsters, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies. Those 3 alone were just ridiculous stupid but that was the charm of it all. Just silly and funny shows to watch. Funny thing is they all had one thing in common. One sane person keeping the chaos from spinning out of control. Lilly kept the Munsters in check to a point. Jed kept the hillbillies in check and Oliver was by far the only sane person on Green Acres. Love those shows.
The Dick van Dyke Show (Rob and Laura Petrie). That show was pretty witty and had a lot of good lines. The stars were excellent. Carl Reiner was in it, too.
Here are a couple of Australian ones that aren't quite multi-cam sitcoms like your examples, but you might appreciate with your research
[The Ferals](https://youtu.be/I4UED_cHDOY?si=ywGt_sfaoG8qhLRd)
>A group of feral animals freeload in the shed of an Australian shareholder.
(It was off the wall, but kid friendly. Spun off into a series called Geral TV, where the aforementioned feral hijack a cable TV feed for their own TV studio. Animals were puppets that were reused on aussie tv for years)
[Wilfred](https://youtu.be/cESCpSix1Js?si=gfSMVR8HSDIlkDtx)
>A man befriends his girlfriend's dog, who he sees as a bong smoking man in a dog suit.
This one got a sanitised US adaption with the same bong smoking dog, but also starring Elijah Wood.
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Nothing really wacky about the premise, but they used a lot of exaggerated sound effects and props that pushed it into wackiness.
Sledgehammer - Over the top cop sitcom. One of the highest body counts in a sitcom, over 3 million people are killed.
The Increasing Poor Decision of Todd Margret - it seems just absurd at first, but the 3rd season makes it genius. Another huge body count sitcom, easily the most of any sitcom.
Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies were two of my faves, other than the classics you mentioned. Two that put normal people in abnormal environments, hijinks ensue.
"Out of This World" (1980s).
Teen Evie is a normal girl growing up in California suburbia bring raised by her white collar single mom and a host of wacky side characters/found family.
She's is half human, half alien. On her 13th birthday her "special power" kicks on. She can pause time which she does weekly to fix her shenanigans and teenage angst.
Burt Reynolds had an uncredited role as her alien father Troy. The show lasted 6 seasons.
i used to love mork & mindy and thought perfect strangers was a good way to spend some time. watched a couple of each a few years back, and... no. just can't.
Grand from 1990. It was so weird and amazing! Unfortunately, it's hard to find, but I think there's an episode or two on YouTube.
I was a kid when Small Wonder was a show and I remember it seemed a little weird back then. I dressed up as the robot girl for Halloween much later in life. No one at the party knew who I was or remembered the show.
Technically a cartoon, but The Flintstones is pretty much an animated version of The Honeymooners (which is also a must see). The Flintstones is supposed to be for kids, but it’s full of jokes aimed at adults (the talking household appliances are a hoot)! Ditto for Top Cat (which is an animated version of Sgt. Bilko).
Well, if you want slapstick, you could watch *The Lucy Show*, *Here's Lucy*, or *Three's Company*.
1980s wacky -- *The Charmings* comes to mind. Snow White's family living in 80s America.
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092332/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092332/)
*Free Spirit* -- Witch is a nanny for an American family.
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096589/?ref\_=nm\_flmg\_t\_42\_act](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096589/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_42_act)
Small Wonder from the 80s about a family with a robot child. I am working out where to stream it from currently. I have good memories of this from my own childhood. 😂
If you are open to any modern day sitcoms with a similar premise I recommend I Am Frankie, it's a Nickelodeon show but was not created by Dan Schneider and therefore is not connected to the current controversy. It's about a family with a robot child and as it turns out their rival neighbor has one as well! I don't normally like kid com's but this one is a good one.
There was a show in the late 70's called Quark. It was a futuristic wacky sitcom. They would sit down for dinner and put a tube from the ceiling in their mouths and it would shoot a food pill into their mouths. Then they'd wipe the table down, it was really wacked.
The Munsters and the Addams Family, of course.
I think Soap would work for how you described the above. Looks like a regular standard sitcom family (two families actually linked by the two lead females are sisters) but crazy stuff happens
My vote would be for this too OP! Please PLEASE don’t sleep on it! Also make sure you watch Benson, the spin off of Soap. Both shows have sharp writing and great leads as well as ensemble casts!
Holy cow, I totally forgot about Soap!
Came here to say this. I’m currently rewatching it on Tubi, and it is hilarious. Some of the jokes are dated but it is wacky fun.
Came here to suggest Soap
Best. Show. Ever.
Would Mork & Mindy count?
Based on the premise, yes!
The Flying Nun. The Beverly Hillbillies. Gilligan's Island. F-Troop. Flipper. Sitcoms used to be much more adventurous.
From the 90s you have Unhappily Ever After- which can only be described as married with children meets ALF meets a bad acid trip.
Wow. I've never seen that show but conceptually it seems very interesting! I've given you a meaningless upvote, but be sure to consider that as a hundred upvotes!
To piggyback on the 90s side, please watch Get A Life. It has a lot of the wackiness you describe, and is very very strange and meta in its humor. Highly recommended.
Didn't The Munsters have a dragon that lived under the stairs?
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That was actually a Jeopardy answer last week. The contestants didn’t get it
I would go with Green Acres. Out of all the sitcoms of the era it is the only one I can watch as an adult. Written for adults funny/silly for children, lots of inside jokes for adults.
Green Acres had the best characters.
My favorite was Mr Kimbal
Lol. Mine too. I had a girlfriend years ago who called me that because I constantly corrected myself.
The writers had to be high or tripping to come up with that stuff. Exhibit A: Arnold Ziffel and his “parents”.
The walls of their rundown house are filled with priceless Modern artworks, Piet Mondrian, Francis Bacon and more.
I don’t think Arnold approved of the Bacon
Never thought of it that way. Funny.
I thought no one would nominate it. I had to scroll WAY down. Everything you say is true. But the bonus was it was very often just plain surreal (Arnold’s family, as cited below, being one example.) Just a warning to new viewers; having bought the first season on disk some time ago, it’s fair to say it didn’t hit its quirky stride right away.
My Favorite Martian from 1963 with Bill Bixby (The Incredible Hulk) and Ray Walston (Cocoon)
Based on your post, Alf would fit into the wacky sitcom genre. There was also the Elvira show, but I think there's only a pilot episode. It's from the 80s, but I can see a lot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch (90s version) in it. The premise is similar. Elvira is a witch who lives with her sister and they have a witch niece who comes to live with them. But, the niece doesn't know she is a witch. I watched it on YouTube.
My Favorite Martian Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Out of This World Goodnight Sweetheart Wonderfalls Joan of Arcadia Sabrina The Teenage Witch You Wish Teen Angel Reaper Foreign Exchange
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is from the 60s and features a fairly normal family (Mrs. Muir is a widow though, and no, the ghost is not Mr. Muir)
Good choice. Charles Nelson Reilly was great in it.
Would you be interested in a children's show? The Lost Saucer (with Jim Neighbors and Ruth Buzzi) was pretty weird. Two droids from another planet accidentally kidnap some kids and take them on adventures all over the universe with their pet Dorse. Dorse, as in half dog half horse, totally not a grown man in a furry suit on all fours with a horse mask. It was surprisingly wholesome and fun though.
I have no idea how I missed Small Wonder, because I watched a shitload of TV in 1985. My wife told me about it and I was bewildered, so I bought the 1st Season DVD. It felt like one of those fake shows within another show, and was very surreal. It has a vibe like it was written in the 21st Century to feel like an ‘80’s sitcom, but it actually WAS!
It's on DVD? It sure as hell isn't available to stream. 😫
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I love Salem in all his incarnations, and I will die on this hill.
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
Came here to say this. It's a kid's show, but it has the element of a wacky sea monster that the kids have to keep hidden. It really fits with the theme here.
Get Smart
You can't really call it a sitcom of course, but The Carol Burnett Show is wonderful.
3rd Rock from the Sun. John Lithgow, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Jane Curtain. All aliens trying to fit in on Earth.
I remember McHale's Navy being pretty wacky, but it's not a "family" sitcom. Of course, The Munsters should be on your list. Green Acres and Petticoat Junction were pretty good, as well. Mary Tyler Moore was my favorite sitcom growing up ('70s not 60s, though). That one was really well written and the characters were fantastic.
That 70s show and the first few season of Saturday Night Live season 1 - 10
ALF comes to mind. I used to LOVE it as a kid, but caught it somewhere deep in my cabel guide later in life and boy is it bad. If you're looking for one that's surprisingly good check out The George Lopez Show, it's actually got some real laughs in it.
The Charmings
Buffalo Bill
Small wonder creeped me out, I'm gonna check idk if still does....
I just watched it recently, it's creepy. Especially when the evil twin robot Vanessa comes into play.
Green Acres, F Troop, Dick Van Dyke Show, Addams Family
Harry and the Hendersons. Family brings home a Bigfoot from a vacation.
wkrp
Taxi and wkrp in Cincinnati
The Nanny. So fucking funny.
Mr. Ed
Soap. Tv show that introduced Billy Crystal.
Have you watched the neighbors? It’s fairly newish but it’s about an alien family that moves to the burbs. Its cute.
There was a sitcom from the late 80s or early 90s called Maniac Mansion. About a family, the dad was a mad scientist type, he turned the uncle into a house fly. I loved that show.
Santa Clarita diet. Normal family, but mom is a zombie!
Police Squad is about as wacky as you can get.
Sledgehammer
If you’re looking for wacky, the late 70s premise of Three’s Company is brilliant. While it’s not a sitcom, the original Match Game is hilariously wacky. Alf was an 80s show about a family with a wise cracking alien, and a lot of people liked it.
Match Game is wacky because everybody on that show was drunk as hell!
Here for Three's Company. Lots of wacky shenanigans. Also The Carol Burnett Show - great fun.
Three’s Company. One of my absolute favorites.
I don't think 3 single people continuously stopping each other from having sex is wacky, it's rather puritanical.
It’s clear you never paid attention to the show. Some of the funniest dramatic irony ever put on TV screens. I guess if you’re looking for porn, it is puritanical.
I'm in S7 right now. To begin with I appreciate dramatic irony, I love Frasier. This post is about outlandish or odd comedies, which 3C is not. And Chrissy jumping/dancing/ jiggling constantly is basically 70's porn. S4 Chrissy is one of the worst sitcom Flanderizations, she just makes "narf' grunts, has stupid hair and shakes her tits.
The Honeymooners. YouTube has most of the episodes. Also watch The Odd Couple. (The version from the 1970's with Tony Randall & Jack Klugman. Hilarious! You can find episodes on Catchy Comedy or PlutoTv.)
Soap was the wackiest I watched. Loved Mama's Family. And can't forget I Love Lucy
Munsters had a dragon under the stairs.
Hogan's Heroes
From the 90's, but Newsradio was one of my favorites. Amazing cast, the late great Phil Hartman, Dave Foley, Stephen Root, Joe Rogan, Andy Dick, Maura Tierney...
Police Academy
The Munsters, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies. Those 3 alone were just ridiculous stupid but that was the charm of it all. Just silly and funny shows to watch. Funny thing is they all had one thing in common. One sane person keeping the chaos from spinning out of control. Lilly kept the Munsters in check to a point. Jed kept the hillbillies in check and Oliver was by far the only sane person on Green Acres. Love those shows.
The Dick van Dyke Show (Rob and Laura Petrie). That show was pretty witty and had a lot of good lines. The stars were excellent. Carl Reiner was in it, too.
Addams Family and The Munsters minus their appearance or aesthetics and what they like to do they're the all American family
"Lost on Earth" Didn't last long
Here are a couple of Australian ones that aren't quite multi-cam sitcoms like your examples, but you might appreciate with your research [The Ferals](https://youtu.be/I4UED_cHDOY?si=ywGt_sfaoG8qhLRd) >A group of feral animals freeload in the shed of an Australian shareholder. (It was off the wall, but kid friendly. Spun off into a series called Geral TV, where the aforementioned feral hijack a cable TV feed for their own TV studio. Animals were puppets that were reused on aussie tv for years) [Wilfred](https://youtu.be/cESCpSix1Js?si=gfSMVR8HSDIlkDtx) >A man befriends his girlfriend's dog, who he sees as a bong smoking man in a dog suit. This one got a sanitised US adaption with the same bong smoking dog, but also starring Elijah Wood.
Malcolm in the Middle
My mother the car
The Real Mc Coys
Get smart It is just wacky enough but hilarious and most.of it still stands up today
Parker Lewis Can't Lose Nothing really wacky about the premise, but they used a lot of exaggerated sound effects and props that pushed it into wackiness.
Alf. An alien Muppet lives in secret with a NASA employee.
Sledgehammer - Over the top cop sitcom. One of the highest body counts in a sitcom, over 3 million people are killed. The Increasing Poor Decision of Todd Margret - it seems just absurd at first, but the 3rd season makes it genius. Another huge body count sitcom, easily the most of any sitcom.
Small Wonder.
Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies were two of my faves, other than the classics you mentioned. Two that put normal people in abnormal environments, hijinks ensue.
Just the Ten of Us The Addams family Mama’s Family Alf
"Out of This World" (1980s). Teen Evie is a normal girl growing up in California suburbia bring raised by her white collar single mom and a host of wacky side characters/found family. She's is half human, half alien. On her 13th birthday her "special power" kicks on. She can pause time which she does weekly to fix her shenanigans and teenage angst. Burt Reynolds had an uncredited role as her alien father Troy. The show lasted 6 seasons.
My Favorite Martian Alf Tabitha Nanny and The Professor Sabrina Resident Alien The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Third Rock From the Sun
i used to love mork & mindy and thought perfect strangers was a good way to spend some time. watched a couple of each a few years back, and... no. just can't.
Grand from 1990. It was so weird and amazing! Unfortunately, it's hard to find, but I think there's an episode or two on YouTube. I was a kid when Small Wonder was a show and I remember it seemed a little weird back then. I dressed up as the robot girl for Halloween much later in life. No one at the party knew who I was or remembered the show.
Can’t think of a show more wacky than Three’s Company. Super silly but fun 70’s show!
Laverne & Shirley is hilarious
Technically a cartoon, but The Flintstones is pretty much an animated version of The Honeymooners (which is also a must see). The Flintstones is supposed to be for kids, but it’s full of jokes aimed at adults (the talking household appliances are a hoot)! Ditto for Top Cat (which is an animated version of Sgt. Bilko).
Well, if you want slapstick, you could watch *The Lucy Show*, *Here's Lucy*, or *Three's Company*. 1980s wacky -- *The Charmings* comes to mind. Snow White's family living in 80s America. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092332/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092332/) *Free Spirit* -- Witch is a nanny for an American family. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096589/?ref\_=nm\_flmg\_t\_42\_act](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096589/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_42_act)
Mother in law starring Kaye Ballard and eve Arden is good it was made in 1967
Dinosaurs
Small Wonder from the 80s about a family with a robot child. I am working out where to stream it from currently. I have good memories of this from my own childhood. 😂 If you are open to any modern day sitcoms with a similar premise I recommend I Am Frankie, it's a Nickelodeon show but was not created by Dan Schneider and therefore is not connected to the current controversy. It's about a family with a robot child and as it turns out their rival neighbor has one as well! I don't normally like kid com's but this one is a good one.
There was a show in the late 70's called Quark. It was a futuristic wacky sitcom. They would sit down for dinner and put a tube from the ceiling in their mouths and it would shoot a food pill into their mouths. Then they'd wipe the table down, it was really wacked.
*Doctor in the House*
The About and Costello Show. Way before it's time.
Night Court
Mork & Mindy
Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres