Sitcoms, though, are american imports.
But it is also very popular in China.
Left many classic works that the audience can't help but want, even "classic shapes".
"I Love My Home" Ge You Lie
But
How long have you not seen a decent new sitcom?
Today we will review:
The 10 best-known sitcoms in China over the past 30 years.
See who is the most classic and who is the most memorable to the audience.
If you have a different answer in mind, feel free to discuss it in the comments section.
10. "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang": 4000 episodes of super long standby
How popular is this Cantonese dialect comedy?
The audience has been watching and filming, and finally it has become the longest-lived TV series in China.
It was first broadcast in 2000 and has been uninterrupted for 21 years, with a total of 4226 episodes so far.
The ratings once exceeded 41.39% in the local area, and almost everyone will hum the theme song.
The plot is not complicated, it is a playful grassroots story around a big house in Guanxi, Guangzhou, and a foreign daughter-in-law.
"Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang" is the debut work of liu Tao, the queen of the TV series, in which she plays the daughter-in-law Sachiko from Shanghai.
And the actor Guo Chang in the play who looks a bit like Li Youbin.
In 1992, he also appeared on the Spring Festival Gala and co-starred with Pan Changjiang in the sketch "Caotai Team".
《Grass Bench Team》
Although "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang" is a rice god drama for Cantonese people.
However, subject to dialect control, the "appreciation threshold" of provincial audiences is quite high.
It's just that for friends who want to learn Cantonese, its role is somewhat similar to a Cantonese version of "Friends".
Douban score: 8.6 points (first season)
Audience favorite: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
National popularity: ☆
09. "The Story of the Cooking Class": "Parallel Universe of Wulin WaiChuan"
Here is the "most of the wall" of "Wulin Wai Biao".
Sand overflow of young slag can be seen.
"The Story of the Cooking Class" is a rare modern military theme comedy.
Focus on the daily story of a cooking class in the Air Force.
Fat Hong, Handsome Hu, Lao Gao, Da Zhou, Xiao Jiang, Xiao Mao, six characters and six personalities, each pleasing to the eye.
Especially the old Gao played by Fan Ming, from time to time, the sentence: "I am optimistic about you."
Xing Yusen, who crossed over to "The Tale of Wulin" in minutes, made people can't help but smile.
In 2007, the third season of "The Story of the Cooking Class" ended.
The six people ran to their own things, leaving the audience with embarrassment.
It is worth mentioning that the scene where the old high retired from the army.
The remaining five people's lines, most of which are the actors' own true confessions, also contain the sadness of farewell outside the play.
"The Story of the Cooking Class" is not the pinnacle of Chinese sitcoms.
But its excavation of the grounding of military life is refreshing.
To say regret, that is, in terms of funny paragraphs and forms, the restricted theme is not so free.
Douban score: 8.9 points (first season)
Audience favorite: ☆☆☆☆☆
National popularity: ☆☆☆☆
08, "Family with Children": precious and short childhood
"Family with Children" analyzes the problems of all aspects of the Chinese family in the gag of family life.
Originally, the target audience was mainly teenagers.
As a result, Liu Xing and Xiao Xue fiercely circled a wave of aunt and uncle powder.
The protagonists in the play can still easily evoke the happy memories of the Chinese people watching the drama in those years.
But the regrets left behind are also enormous.
At the beginning of the third season, the reputation of "Family with Children" collapsed completely, and the Douban score fell off a cliff.
There are two reasons for this:
First, the planner and chief screenwriter Li Jianhong ran away, resulting in a decline in the quality of the story.
Second, Yang Zi quit filming because of the middle school entrance examination, and Xiaoxue changed the audience and did not buy it.
Coupled with the fact that Mr. Wen Xingyu had physical problems at that time, he could not continue to participate, so that the sequel had one less familiar face.
After the substitution of "Family with Children"
However, the real reason for the lack of follow-up to "Family with Children".
Maybe it's just shooting too much.
As the netizen said, as the little lead actor grows up, this is no longer a story related to childhood.
"They've all grown up, hey."
Douban score: 9.0 points (first season)
Audience favorite: ☆☆☆☆☆
National popularity: ☆☆☆☆
07, "Neighbors": "Le is the fog capital! ”
The mountain city of Chongqing in 2000.
Hongya Cave has not yet been built into a scenic spot.
"Crazy Stone" has not yet brought The Chongqing dialect to the fire.
However, the dialect sitcom "Neighbors" took the lead in explaining what is called "Le is the Fog Capital".
As the name suggests, it is about neighbors.
There are literary and artistic youths, laid-off workers, beautiful commissary lady, obstetricians and gynecologists with "rake ears".
They interpret the grassroots spirit and ancient road hot sausage of Chongqing people.
The Douban score of this drama is as high as 9.1 points.
Ling Lin, the actor who played Liu Weidong, later starred in "HotPot Hero" and Zhang Yimou's unreleased "Rock Solid".
"Hotpot Hero" Ling Lin and Qin Hao
Surprisingly, as a dialect comedy, there are still many stars who have guest starred in "Neighbors".
Sun Chun and Guo Donglin
Liu Yiwei
This drama is to the people of Chongqing, just as "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang" is to the Cantonese people.
In Chongqing dialect, it is: "It looks miserable!" "
However, the same restricted dialect is obviously not as well-known in the country as dramas such as "Northeast Family".
Douban score: 9.1 points
Audience favorite: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
National popularity: ☆☆
06. "Confused Little Angel": a god work delayed by the title of the play
A fairy who fell from the sky.
She used her magic to change the fate of several big masters.
In the memory of many netizens, this drama is two words: good-looking.
Take a look at this Poke 80s Saint Seiya Terrier and forgive me for not smiling cheekily.
"This one of your Ya is called the Platinum Cloak?"
Quitting smoking can quit a wave of life and death sorrow of the big male protagonist of Qiong Yao drama.
"I hate my weakness, I hate my weakness (the essence is to repeat it twice)"
You can even find underage baby Fat Guan Xiaotong inside.
It is precisely because it is good-looking, this drama Douban score of 9.3, the praise rate of up to 96%.
But the biggest failure of "Confused Little Angel" comes from publicity and packaging.
Obviously, it is a hilarious urban magic sitcom, which makes the title like "Barabala Little Magic Fairy".
The poster was designed in the style of "Happy Planet".
This dissuaded many people, and also led to it sinking on the Internet in the future.
Douban score: 9.3 points
Audience favorite: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
National popularity: ☆☆
05. "Xiangyang Barbershop": "Sunken" works
"The Story of the Cooking Class" and "The Tale of The Martial Arts" director Shang Jing's sitcom debut.
Launched in 2001, Xiangyang Barbershop revolves around an ordinary barbershop, from the liberation of Peiping to the 1990s.
For a sitcom, this time span is simply magnificent.
Although funny, it shows in detail the lives of ordinary people in China for half a century.
One of the main actors was Hou Yong, who was extremely young at that time.
"Xiangyang Barbershop" Hou Yong
"In the Name of the People" Hou Yong
But it's a pity.
The show aired once 21 years ago and has never been replayed.
The exact reason is unknown.
At present, there are no resources on the whole network, and even the director Shang Jing said that he did not know where to find this drama.
The stills that can be pulled out are almost too mushy to watch.
This is still a screenshot taken from the program "Lu Yu Has a Date"
Even so, it does not prevent those netizens who have been fortunate enough to have seen it from stubbornly giving it a high score of 9.4 on Douban.
With no resources to watch, "The Sunny Barbershop" became a living sitcom in legend.
Douban score: 9.4 points
Audience favorite: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
National popularity: ☆
04. "Underground Traffic Station": The super "Anti-Japanese Drama"
Premiered in 2007 as a sitcom directed by two cousins, Indah and Yingzhuang.
It is a "latent" story about the Japanese-occupied areas during the War of Resistance Against Japan, with a small mission in one episode and a relatively independent plot.
One of the protagonists is the martial arts star Wu Fan.
At least one big name will be invited to make a cameo in each episode, and Guo Degang and Yu Qian have even come together.
Several of the supporting characters in it are also particularly outstanding.
For example, Jia Gui, played by Yan Guanying.
Although there is one villain, it is like jumping out of the comic, vivid and vivid.
The mantra is, Oh, I'm shit! ”
Character, logic genius.
Therefore, whenever he is unlucky, he will cause laughter in the hall.
How great is this show?
The same period of the year was the first in the ratings.
When replayed on a certain station, more than 10,000 bullet screens were brushed together, which showed its reputation and popularity.
Therefore, some people say that because of the existence of "Underground Traffic Station", "anti-Japanese drama" is no longer a simple derogatory term.
Douban score: 9.4 points
Audience favorite: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
National popularity: ☆☆☆☆
03. "I Love My Home": China's first sitcom
When Yingda was studying in the United States, he pointed to the TV series in which the actors acted in front and the audience laughed off-camera.
Stunned, he asked his classmates, "What is this?" ”
Many years later, he brought back to China the "things" he had seen.
This is China's first sitcom, "I Love My Home."
The framework and inspiration of the series came from the "Cosby Family" that he had watched that year.
"I Love My Home" has "three mountains":
The first is Jia Zhixin, played by Liang Tian.
Mixed and cute and cute, a face of "greasy mouth and slippery tongue", a belly of warm kindness.
The second is the old Fu played by Wen Xingyu.
The first comedy veteran cadre on The Chinese screen.
He created a way of speaking with a tone of voice and talked about housework in an official manner.
Because it is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Yingda has also explained to the outside world many times that Wen Xingyu usually speaks in this way.
The third is a cameo star.
Uncle Ge's famous lying position is not to be mentioned.
Jiang Wen, Jiang Wu, Xia Yu, Li Xuejian, Ni Dahong, Li Chengru, Pu Cunxin, Wang Zhiwen and so on have all come.
Encompassing most of the show business, later TV series can hardly be reproduced.
Li Chengru
Ni Dahong
"I Love My Home" not only makes people laugh, but the story also integrates into state affairs and society, with small views and big weights.
It very accurately records the humanistic style of China's new era in the early 1990s and has become the memory of several generations.
Douban score: 9.4 points
Audience favorite: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
National popularity: ☆☆☆☆☆
02. "The Legend of Wulin": the ceiling of domestic sitcoms
In the 2006 National Top Ten Buzzwords Ranking.
Surpass "Crazy Stone" "I'll top your lungs" and make it into the top three.
It was the sentence that Tong Slapped His Chest and stomped his feet: "Forehead Drop God."
Overnight, it was as if watching a foreign movie, and I felt that "oh my God" had a Xi'an flavor.
In that year, the fights of elementary school students were also changed to: "Sunflower Point Cave Hand" and "Overwhelming Sea".
Shang Jing, the director of "The Legend of Wulin", also plays this meme himself
That's right, it's all thanks to the Tale of Wulin.
In the Chinese comedy industry, content can be played as a cultural phenomenon and "invaded" everyday language on a large scale.
In addition to Zhou Xingchi and Feng Xiaogang, it is the ceiling of this sitcom.
What's so good about "The Tale of Wulin"?
First, the story is full of humanity and highly entertaining.
The second is that each character cannot be copied.
Tong Xiangyu, Bai Zhantang, Guo Furong, Lv Xiucai, Li Dazui, Mo Xiaobei, Zhu Wushuang, Xing Yusen, Yan Xiaoliu, etc., are still remembered.
The ultimate problem of the universe of "the first master" Lu Xiucai
Bai Zhantang imitated Andy Lau
What is the highest state of a drama?
The audience is completely convinced of your worldview and setting, even if it is a funny sitcom that is a bit nonsensical.
"How to learn sunflower point cave hands and mountains and seas"
Douban score: 9.6 points
Audience favorite: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
National popularity: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
01, "Friends": the hottest sitcom
Friends is the most popular sitcom of human history, and there is no one.
It has been broadcast in 220 countries and regions around the world, and has been replayed 100 billion times.
In China, it is equally popular.
From the 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century, young people and students learned spoken language as a grand textbook.
Douban's last ten seasons of "Friends", a total of nearly 2 million viewers scored an average of 9.77, which is unique.
The love story of the lives of these six New York youths has made countless people laugh and cry, and watch it over and over again.
Even Xinhua praised it as "loved by everyone."
The structure of "The Tale of Wulin" is inspired by "Friends", and the creators publicly pay tribute.
The same story of six people, the promotional photos are almost "exactly the same".
Another translation of "Friends" is "Six People's Row", which also appears many times in "The Tale of Wulin".
Lu Xiucai's bedside reads "Sixsome"
White Exhibition Hall after "Crossing"
Even the beginning of the story, it's very similar.
The rich family who ran away from home melted into a group of five people and led to an endless story.
In addition to the public tribute to "The Tale of Wulin".
Like "Love Apartment", it is "local optimization" of many famous scenes of "Friends".
So, why is Friends the most popular sitcom in China.
Because it is not only the audience that likes and the reputation is capped.
Including domestic sitcom practitioners, they are deeply affected by it.
Douban score: 9.7 points (first season)
Audience favorite: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
National popularity: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Sitcoms are hard.
It is necessary to have the baggage density of cross-talk, a smooth narrative, and the performance is both drama and film.
Song Dandan once "spit bitter water" at the "Family with Children 3" press conference: sitcoms are difficult to produce and cannot be sold at a high price.
"Chinese sitcoms earn too little, and merchants buy dramas that feel that TV dramas with "haha" laughter are not worthwhile, but this is not the case, and we may pay more effort." ”
That's why there are fewer good sitcoms today.
I sincerely hope that it can overcome the difficulties, get better and better, and let the next "I Love My Family" and "Wulin Wai Biography" come out sooner.
Well, that's it for an inventory of ten plays.
See if it's the same ranking as you expect in your mind.
Text/Porco Rosso Watch Movie Editorial Department: Van Silli
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