And the same old sitcoms are mostly going "bye, bye" as well. What's left next year that counts as an old sitcom? Raymond and its clones. That's about it that I can think of.

Scrubs is up to its fourth season, I think. That might count. I'm stuck beyond that.

I have no one to blame but myself. I'm just too cheap. I wouldn't mind paying for some additional cable channels, but can't see paying an extra $40 for 50 more channels when I only want 3-5.

Scrubs almost counts for cable. It's actually kind of clever.

And the same old sitcoms are mostly going "bye, bye" as well.

Trying to see a down side here...

Scrubs got through by the skin of its teeth. But old sitcoms are disappearing, and precious few new ones being picked up.

I love Scrubs when I watch it but I can almost never remember to.

Hee, hee.

I hate sitcoms. I hate laugh tracks. I hate the formula of, "husband did something stupid, tries to hide stupidity from wife who is entirely too good looking to have married the stupid and poor slob, husband gets caught, wife gives Barney-esque speech about sharing and caring, show ends with husband repeating behavior in a more sneaky way."

The fuck?

Lots of sitcoms don't have that formula, though, Allyson.

It helps to start out with no married couples (although not needed).

The only currently airing domestic sitcom I can think of that doesn't follow that formula is Arrested Development.

When I do watch sitcoms, I tend to prefer the workplace ones, which generally rely on funnier stereotypes.