Anyone got any opinions on Wings? (1 Viewer)

[Nick*Z]

One of the more featherweight but still highly enjoyable 80s sitcoms, a joy and a hoot and very much good for the badly needed laugh we are sorely missing from our television viewing today. Is it just me, or does virtually EVERY sitcom on the tube today make Wings seem like Citizen Kane? I suppose that makes Cheers the Lawrence of Arabia and The Golden Girls, the Gone with The Wind. As for Mary Tyler Moore and All In the Family - they are in a class apart. Ditto for the sadly underrated and rarely seen Lou Grant. With honorable mention to The Jeffersons, Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, One Day at a Time, Empty Nest, Amen, and, 227.

I can't watch today's sitcom without feeling my I.Q. is exponentially plummeting into the abyss. No Big Bang, 2 Broke Girls, or any of that other filth and dreck passed off as (choke) humor. Sorry, but crotch jokes and stories about bad sexual experiences don't make me want to tune in. There's more to life than navel gazing. Give me an intelligent, barb-laden good ole fashion play on words every day. Where is the wit in today's TV rom coms. It's not there.

 

[DaveHof3]

I marathon the 'Wings' Christmas episodes every December. And there's a Halloween show, "The Gift of Life" from the final season, that's as funny as any show they ever did.

 

[JayHink]

I just ordered Wings' on DVD. Never caught it except for the occasional snippet while channel surfing. Look forward to watching it.

 

[Bob_S.]

I can't watch today's sitcom without feeling my I.Q. is exponentially plummeting into the abyss. No Big Bang, 2 Broke Girls, or any of that other filth and dreck passed off as (choke) humor. Sorry, but crotch jokes and stories about bad sexual experiences don't make me want to tune in. There's more to life than navel gazing. Give me an intelligent, barb-laden good ole fashion play on words every day. Where is the wit in today's TV rom coms. It's not there.

Agreed. The only modern day sitcom I watched where I laughed out loud was King of Queens. Love that show.

 

[shoeshineboy]

So Mill Creek is putting out a smorgasbord of 90s comedy in the first 20 episodes of Wings, The Larry Sanders Show and Just Shoot Me? I wonder who came up with that idea? Pricing it at $20 would leave me to say - who cares who thought of it - I'm in!
Of course they'll be crammed onto 9 or 10 discs, but that's a great way to get a fix of series that i'm not so willing to buy a full package of (beyond Larry Sanders, which I liked a lot but just never got around buying)...

 

[Jimbo64]

Absolutely hysterical

 

[jperez]

Good band, just not as good as The Beatles.