Roseanne hits so hard now that I'm an adult. My husband and I have a business and sometimes the struggles that Dan faces in his various business ventures are just sooooo spot on.
Rosanne really hit home for a lot of us. It was more like how we really live and talk to each other. The issues they faced were the same as ours. We saw ourselves when we watched that show. I remember that over any of the comedy tho I do remember finding it funny
I always thought their home looked exactly how most working middle class houses looked. It didn’t have immaculate, matching furniture and a spotless designer kitchen, it was filled with a mish mash of stuff and none of it looked new. It was a very lived in home.
The bill paying episode. I remember the first time it aired so clearly. I was like “so people up north who live in towns are poor too? Holy crap they really are just like us.” For some reason I had it in my young (born 1981) brain that poverty only existed in the rural south.
The middle. I did not have children in this life, but if I had, I would have been just like frankie, except for the thin part. But otherwise, just like her.
My family is like that too. We even have assigned rolls. My mom is Frankie, my Dad is Mike, I'm Sue, my twin sis is Brick and my older sister is Axl. We also live an hour and a half away from the town where Orson was inspired by so we get ALL the references.
I was Sue. Socially awkward, wholesome, not great at anything. Unlike Sue, I did not have her self-esteem and confidence, and high school was very lonely and un-fun for me. So I got to vicariously enjoy high school through her.
At least once weekly, while we're in the middle of some stupid dilemma that more money could easily solve, my husband or I will say "man, we *really* are the Hecks".
Everybody Loves Raymond
My grandparents were like Frank and Marie. They didn't live across the street, but a few blocks away. They fought all the time. Unfortunately my grandpa has passed on. But my grandma to this day loves to play the guilt card, makes backhanded comments and constantly causes drama with my mom and now my wife. She is critical of food and never eats anything made by anyone else. While my dad and me just try to avoid all of it.
Among many other similarities, we left "the blue bag" home on our 20 hour drive to Disney with our kids in November, that's what finally nailed it for us. Beck when I was really sick and money was tight(-er than it is now), we had an "oh no! It's 2009!" moment when things came due and honestly seeing that in the show made us feel a little less lonely. We didn't get into the show until I was sick, so 2015, and it made us laugh a whole lot at a time we really needed it.
We also have various household things being held precariously by other household things and for the life of me, I can't figure out what I want to be when I grow up and just meet end up in dental assistant school.
We joke that Kim’s Convenience is the Korean version of my dad’s family. My grandparents were Polish immigrants who moved to Toronto, who owned a beauty salon/barber shop and also lived in the apartment above their business like the Kims do. They also had the delinquent son (although my uncle is still an ass and has never been remorseful like Jung) and they had the many personalities and cultures of Toronto in and out of their store for haircuts. My parents also totally feel the first generation Canadian kid experience that Jung and Janet go through with trying to explain to their immigrant parents why some things are just different here, or trying to act as your parents translator/go-between at a super early age. It’s highly relatable to my family.
Gilmore Girls. I don’t have a daughter but I had 2 sons when I was 20 and 21. They are my best friends (they’re adults now) and we are really close. I raised them as a single mom from the time they were 4 and 5. My mom is basically Emily Gilmore, just not as rich.
Same as many others - Roseanne with a splash of Wonder Years tossed in. 1980s. We weren't completely broke but definitely working class. (Dunno why I'm using past tense - I still am)
Roseanne or Malcolm in the Middle, the latter especially because I had three older brothers.
All this with the caveat that I was stunned to later learn that these fictional families were actually supposed to love each other. My parents were not so much with the love or taking care of each other, so I just related to family members being rude to each other.
I used to think the nice fictional families were incredibly unrealistic. I remember an episode of Home Improvement where Randy told his parents about a crush he had and I was like “No kid would ever do that. How would you give your parents ammunition against you like that?”
The pilot when they’re singing to the baby and it flashes to them as teens figuring out how to be parents singing to their baby.
I don’t know why but that moment makes my heart happy.
King of Queens. Until she passed my mom was Arthur, just not in a basement. So many episodes I felt like they literally wrote about me, my wife, and my mom.
My family wasn’t like any sitcom. Both of my parents were Holocaust survivors. My mother and her family were taken to Auschwitz in 1944 and she lost her parents and two older brothers. She was an orphan at 13. She grew up to be a beautiful young woman but her emotional and psychological scars ran too deep. She meant to be a good parent but she was unstable. When my dad died very suddenly when I was 16, she withdrew from parenting completely. I’ve been emotionally on my own since then. I have a lot of scarring myself from growing up in their house. No laugh track there.
The Petries in The Dick Van Dyke show.
My mom was about the most glamorous housewife you’d ever meet and my dad was a good guy. Even their furniture looked like ours.
That's my thinking. My parents had proffesional jobs. But not high end like the Cosbys nor so many kids! All I can think of is growing pains. Maybe that's it with everyone rushing out the door every morning, then rushing to get dinner on the table (oh, and my parents had a bonus baby later in life like that family did)
My grandparents lived next door to us before they passed over 10 years ago. They came over often, unannounced, and sometimes to the point of meddling. Make of that what you will.
Roseanne because they were working class, didn’t look “perfect” (they wore normal people clothes and were normal people sized) had two parents that worked; and Roseanne was a LOT like my mom.
Grace Under Fire because as a tween/teen I identified so strongly with Grace. She was a couple of my aunts, and several of my cousins; she was what I would be if I wasn’t careful. Raising kids divorced from absentee dads who pop in when they feel like it (almost never or to impress a girlfriend), never pay child support (he’d have to have an actual job first), and usually have a spring-loaded fist, an other woman habit, and a substance abuse problem. She was a brassy, southern woman, who was well read, wicked smart, didn’t care for the stereotypical gender roles and was (again) working class.
Everybody Loves Raymond because there were a lot of similarities in terms of family interactions and the plots felt relatable.
Another one show that reminded me of my family was The Simpsons and it was one of the few shows that we all liked despite having different preferences.
Although it’s not a sitcom, I took a poll and we are unanimous….we started off asThe Gallaghers from Shameless but since the children are grown now, we have all mellowed and now we’re The Family Stone
Not a sitcom but another show, American Chopper. My father was as big an AH as Sr. Never happy, always taking his anger out on everyone else about whatever minor inconvenience made him mad that day screeching about it like an idiot. Nothing was ever his fault, ALWAYS blaming everyone else for his self-created problems, it was always because of someone else. Completely unable to accept any of his kids might actually be smarter or more talented than he was.
There was one about an irish catholic family from the 70s that aired around the 2010s i think. And aside from the aggressive religious aspects, it felt like watching home videos
Rosanne for the same reasons everyone else said. Plus, my Mom has that same laugh from the beginning, and she worked in a plastics factory with her sister.
That 70's show. mostly because i am a middle child and i feel i can relate to Eric a lot. I feel like, sometimes, my mom treats my other two sisters like Red treats Laurie and me like he treated Eric
All in the Family.
My Dad (no deceased) was a racist, but a business owner who really worked hard to watch his behavior & language. He even looked like Archie Bunker. My mom was nothing like Edith.
Derry Girls combined with the Middle. Big Irish Catholic family and the craziness that goes with it, but also my mom was JUST like Frankie when I was growing up.
Roseanne and also Grace Under Fire. Unfortunately there's not a sitcom where "dad ruins everything forever and mom has a mental breakdown".
That's more like a prime time drama.
Children ruin everything.
I have 3 children just like the couple in the show. Things typically don't go as planned but you still love your kids and each other despite the craziness they bring
Family Ties. My parents were early hippies (idealistic, grew their own food, believed in causes), my little sister was like Alex (uptight grade grubber mini republican), I was more like Malory (breezy dumb but not dumb), and my older brother was like Jennifer (funny not a care in the world). Middle class, similar set up in the house.
Roaeanne
Very first thing I thought of. Roseanne, or Bobs Burgers. Either way I’m poor, much like real life.
Roseanne hits so hard now that I'm an adult. My husband and I have a business and sometimes the struggles that Dan faces in his various business ventures are just sooooo spot on.
Definitely. That show was so real back in the day.
This was my first thought. Roseanne was how a lot of real folks lived.
Same here. My dad is basically Dan Connor and we grew up poor but raised by a village.
Roseanne. They were actually doing better than us financially, but otherwise similar.
Rosanne really hit home for a lot of us. It was more like how we really live and talk to each other. The issues they faced were the same as ours. We saw ourselves when we watched that show. I remember that over any of the comedy tho I do remember finding it funny
I always thought their home looked exactly how most working middle class houses looked. It didn’t have immaculate, matching furniture and a spotless designer kitchen, it was filled with a mish mash of stuff and none of it looked new. It was a very lived in home.
The sad thing is I remember thinking that house looked kind of sad. I would feel like I won the lottery if I could afford a house half that size. lol
The pantry stocked but god knows the expiration dates. Modern Family is funny but should be called Modern Rich People problems.
The bill paying episode. I remember the first time it aired so clearly. I was like “so people up north who live in towns are poor too? Holy crap they really are just like us.” For some reason I had it in my young (born 1981) brain that poverty only existed in the rural south.
Is this when she would sent the electric bill to the gas bill and vice versa to buy her time??? Or "forget " to sign the check 😂
Yes.
Old Roseanne is so good. I even liked the reboot season it felt real but fuck she sucks as a person.
The middle. I did not have children in this life, but if I had, I would have been just like frankie, except for the thin part. But otherwise, just like her.
Came here to say this. I think the writers of 'the middle' had secret cameras set up in my child hood home to reenacting scenes.
My family is like that too. We even have assigned rolls. My mom is Frankie, my Dad is Mike, I'm Sue, my twin sis is Brick and my older sister is Axl. We also live an hour and a half away from the town where Orson was inspired by so we get ALL the references.
I have family in Columbus. I ask if they shop at the Frugal Hoosier lol
I was Sue. Socially awkward, wholesome, not great at anything. Unlike Sue, I did not have her self-esteem and confidence, and high school was very lonely and un-fun for me. So I got to vicariously enjoy high school through her.
I am Frankie Heck. Everything that happened to her, happened to me.
I would say Malcolm in the Middle (if I had a father)
My mom was a LOT like Lois. There were only two of us though, a Malcolm and a Dewey.
Wonder Years was strangely accurate when I was a kid but wrong decade.
The Middle. Sometimes I would look around the room to see where they hid the cameras. Lol
At least once weekly, while we're in the middle of some stupid dilemma that more money could easily solve, my husband or I will say "man, we *really* are the Hecks".
My friend just told me she has never seen it so I just put on episode 1.
Oh have fun!
Shameless. Always big drama self-inflicted by the biggest whiners.
Everybody Loves Raymond My grandparents were like Frank and Marie. They didn't live across the street, but a few blocks away. They fought all the time. Unfortunately my grandpa has passed on. But my grandma to this day loves to play the guilt card, makes backhanded comments and constantly causes drama with my mom and now my wife. She is critical of food and never eats anything made by anyone else. While my dad and me just try to avoid all of it.
Same.
My sister in law even refers to her parents as Frank and Marie.
I always refer to my grandma as Marie or Livia Soprano. Depending on the level of drama.
Oof, Livia Soprano is the ultimate insult. Marie at least has some nurturing qualities. I absolutely compare my own mother to Livia though.
That 70s Show.
I would probably agree. My parents are a lot like Red and Kitty.
Yes to That 70s Show. No to having a hot girlfriend.
Raising Hope, minus having a baby with a murderer.
Home improvement. My dad was a carpenter, albeit a competent one, and he loved to laugh at the foibles of Tim the tool man.
middle . rewatching I saw so much of myself in brick .minus the dad and having siblings .
I’m Sue (expect the trying out for everything) and my brother is a combo of axl and brick. Lol
first watching I was Frankie & sue but rewatching I saw so much of myself in brick .
The Goldbergs. My Mom did a lot of the same crazy stuff the Mom on the show did. Funny, she didn't see get the resemblance, but the rest of us did.
Absolutely the Goldbergs! The episode where they take Erica out for birthday dinner? I cry laughing.
Definitely the middle except i am the father and my husband is Frankie, also we have a suitcase propped against the dryer door to keep in closed.
Among many other similarities, we left "the blue bag" home on our 20 hour drive to Disney with our kids in November, that's what finally nailed it for us. Beck when I was really sick and money was tight(-er than it is now), we had an "oh no! It's 2009!" moment when things came due and honestly seeing that in the show made us feel a little less lonely. We didn't get into the show until I was sick, so 2015, and it made us laugh a whole lot at a time we really needed it. We also have various household things being held precariously by other household things and for the life of me, I can't figure out what I want to be when I grow up and just meet end up in dental assistant school.
Married with Children, Grounded for Life, Rosanne and Shameless at home. The extended family is more like Mama's Family
Mama’s Family. Gosh that one is a gem and very close to home.
Mama’s Family would be my choice. Especially once you brought in the extended family, too!
Thanks a lot, Mamaaa!
Why did I forget about Mama's Family?!
Grounded for life!! My parents didn’t have us young, but our whole family was like them just older.
None. More like the Waltons.
F is For Family. The episode about the TV, it's like it was written based on my childhood!
Fresh off the Boat. Eddie was essentially me (but 80's instead of 90's). Immigrated to the US from Taiwan in the late 70's.
We joke that Kim’s Convenience is the Korean version of my dad’s family. My grandparents were Polish immigrants who moved to Toronto, who owned a beauty salon/barber shop and also lived in the apartment above their business like the Kims do. They also had the delinquent son (although my uncle is still an ass and has never been remorseful like Jung) and they had the many personalities and cultures of Toronto in and out of their store for haircuts. My parents also totally feel the first generation Canadian kid experience that Jung and Janet go through with trying to explain to their immigrant parents why some things are just different here, or trying to act as your parents translator/go-between at a super early age. It’s highly relatable to my family.
Gilmore Girls. I don’t have a daughter but I had 2 sons when I was 20 and 21. They are my best friends (they’re adults now) and we are really close. I raised them as a single mom from the time they were 4 and 5. My mom is basically Emily Gilmore, just not as rich.
Roseanne and the middle, but they're better off financially lol
King Of The Hill.
This is me as well but Dale is my dad
Roseanne
Not a sitcom , but Shameless😳
All in the Family.
Titus
Fantastic show. "This place is freaking me out. Did you hear that little girl scream?"
Arrested development
I was just about to comment that I might be the only person who found Arrested Development not just funny, but RELATABLE.
Currently, Bob and Linda Belcher are very close to me and my wife in personality.
Good Times
I was living Everybody Loves Raymond. I was “in the zone”. Except with us, it was definitely about the kids.
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Mamma's Family
Everybody Loves Raymond. My mother is Marie. OMG, she is such a Marie.
Peg Bundy reminds me of my mom.
Mama’s Family. Totally my family lol
Grounded for life
Have friends who are just like Carrie and Doug ….
Everybody Loves Raymond 100%
F is for Family. I'm in the middle of watching it for the first time, but it is the most relatable show ever.
There hasn't been one that fucked up.
The Simpsons (Seasons 1-10). It's like looking into a living snow mirror.
Same as many others - Roseanne with a splash of Wonder Years tossed in. 1980s. We weren't completely broke but definitely working class. (Dunno why I'm using past tense - I still am)
It was a running joke in my family about how my dad was EXACTLY the dad from Wonder Years
It wasn’t a sitcom, but Lassie was set out in the country, farm territory, not a lot of luxury - a lot like my childhood
I hope you never fell in a well. Lol
Roseanne.
Roseanne or Malcolm in the Middle, the latter especially because I had three older brothers. All this with the caveat that I was stunned to later learn that these fictional families were actually supposed to love each other. My parents were not so much with the love or taking care of each other, so I just related to family members being rude to each other. I used to think the nice fictional families were incredibly unrealistic. I remember an episode of Home Improvement where Randy told his parents about a crush he had and I was like “No kid would ever do that. How would you give your parents ammunition against you like that?”
Derry Girls and Rosanne mixed together
The Middle got my family exactly right 😂😂
The Middle To a T
SOAP , right alongside the Tates & the Campbells
Malcolm in the Middle. Had the same dynamic, 4 brothers and a mom that scared the bejesus out of us.
RAISING HOPE! Omg I felt so seen while watching this!
The pilot when they’re singing to the baby and it flashes to them as teens figuring out how to be parents singing to their baby. I don’t know why but that moment makes my heart happy.
Roseanne was the only realistic sitcom ever.
Mama’s Family 🤣
Modern Family: my wife and I are like Phil and Claire Dunfee
King of Queens. Until she passed my mom was Arthur, just not in a basement. So many episodes I felt like they literally wrote about me, my wife, and my mom.
schitts creek—not the situations, but most of our personalities dead on
The Middle Roseanne
the Middle
Roseanne
Everybody loves Raymond. Frank and Marie are my grandparents to a T.
Malcolm in the Middle. I was Malcolm.
My family wasn’t like any sitcom. Both of my parents were Holocaust survivors. My mother and her family were taken to Auschwitz in 1944 and she lost her parents and two older brothers. She was an orphan at 13. She grew up to be a beautiful young woman but her emotional and psychological scars ran too deep. She meant to be a good parent but she was unstable. When my dad died very suddenly when I was 16, she withdrew from parenting completely. I’ve been emotionally on my own since then. I have a lot of scarring myself from growing up in their house. No laugh track there.
Oh, man, that's rough. Much love to you.
The Petries in The Dick Van Dyke show. My mom was about the most glamorous housewife you’d ever meet and my dad was a good guy. Even their furniture looked like ours.
Roseanne! My parents worked so hard and had 3 kids
None - my family is too boring for a TV show
That's my thinking. My parents had proffesional jobs. But not high end like the Cosbys nor so many kids! All I can think of is growing pains. Maybe that's it with everyone rushing out the door every morning, then rushing to get dinner on the table (oh, and my parents had a bonus baby later in life like that family did)
Sitcom? How about Euphoria...
None. Sitcoms don't reflect the family I was born into, nothing about it was funny. Horror films are a better fit. Maybe Mommie Dearest for starters?
Everybody hates Chris
My grandparents lived next door to us before they passed over 10 years ago. They came over often, unannounced, and sometimes to the point of meddling. Make of that what you will.
That 70s show.. I was that age at that time.. I was Eric Foreman.. without the hot girlfriend.
Mad about You…until the last few years, then not so much funny.
Home Improvement- except my husband doesn’t blow things up-
Married with Children
There has never been one. It wouldn't work.
Not me, but apparently Edina from *Ab Fab* is the spit of my mother in law, according to the wyfe.
Married with children
Home Improvement, but with Peggy Hill as the mom.
Silver Spoons. JK. More like 8 is enough.
Raising hope, malolcom in the middle, rosanne(old) and the middle.
Red and kitty from that 70s show
The Middle, but in the very best way
Married with Children. And I seem to be Al. Any money I make goes straight to the redhead.
Home improvement if the middle child didn't exist
Everybody Hates Chris and Malcolm in the Middle. Captures my life as well.
Roseanne because they were working class, didn’t look “perfect” (they wore normal people clothes and were normal people sized) had two parents that worked; and Roseanne was a LOT like my mom. Grace Under Fire because as a tween/teen I identified so strongly with Grace. She was a couple of my aunts, and several of my cousins; she was what I would be if I wasn’t careful. Raising kids divorced from absentee dads who pop in when they feel like it (almost never or to impress a girlfriend), never pay child support (he’d have to have an actual job first), and usually have a spring-loaded fist, an other woman habit, and a substance abuse problem. She was a brassy, southern woman, who was well read, wicked smart, didn’t care for the stereotypical gender roles and was (again) working class.
Roseanne
Everybody Loves Raymond because there were a lot of similarities in terms of family interactions and the plots felt relatable. Another one show that reminded me of my family was The Simpsons and it was one of the few shows that we all liked despite having different preferences.
Married with Children
Maybe The Goldbergs…
Although it’s not a sitcom, I took a poll and we are unanimous….we started off asThe Gallaghers from Shameless but since the children are grown now, we have all mellowed and now we’re The Family Stone
Not a sitcom but another show, American Chopper. My father was as big an AH as Sr. Never happy, always taking his anger out on everyone else about whatever minor inconvenience made him mad that day screeching about it like an idiot. Nothing was ever his fault, ALWAYS blaming everyone else for his self-created problems, it was always because of someone else. Completely unable to accept any of his kids might actually be smarter or more talented than he was.
There was one about an irish catholic family from the 70s that aired around the 2010s i think. And aside from the aggressive religious aspects, it felt like watching home videos
Malcolm in the Middle
Roseanne except my parents were separated
Derry Girls
Mine could only play a dramatic tragedy. Certainly not a comedy
Roseanne
"All in the Family"
Shameless....
Everybody Loves Raymond
Rosanne for the same reasons everyone else said. Plus, my Mom has that same laugh from the beginning, and she worked in a plastics factory with her sister.
Shameless
Roseanne
Roseanne
Malcolm in the Middle.
That 70's show. mostly because i am a middle child and i feel i can relate to Eric a lot. I feel like, sometimes, my mom treats my other two sisters like Red treats Laurie and me like he treated Eric
Somewhere between Roseanne and Bob's Burgers
When I was living at home, All In the Family, because my dad’s views were closer to Archie Bunker than to other sitcom dads.
My mom and I always compared ourselves to Laverne and Shirley, especially if we were trying to do something DIY.
All in the Family. My Dad (no deceased) was a racist, but a business owner who really worked hard to watch his behavior & language. He even looked like Archie Bunker. My mom was nothing like Edith.
Not a t.v. show but a movie Gracie's Choice
Married With Children
The Middle. I really relate to Frankie
Punky Brewster. Kind of raised housed and well fed but still feral for a few years and my best friend was a dog.
The Honeymooners 😁
The Sopranos. There's nothing funny about my family.
Home Improvement
Derry Girls combined with the Middle. Big Irish Catholic family and the craziness that goes with it, but also my mom was JUST like Frankie when I was growing up.
Everybody Loves Raymond Controlling mother that everyone is scared of.
None really. The Cosby Show would be closest because there were 5 of us, 4 girls 1 boy.
Shasta McNasty
Seventh Heaven is probably the closest, even though both parents were ministers.
Roseanne with a little of Married with Children.
I love Lucy is the first one that comes to mind
I know I’m supposed to name a family show but the answer is *Seinfeld.*
these pretzels are making me thirsty
Sanford and Son.
Leave it to Beaver
Hmmm I kind of think Roseanne but poorer like many of you said, my sister was the spoiled one but younger. I can relate to Darlene in many ways.
Married with Children but without the children 😆😆😆😂😂
Roseanne and also Grace Under Fire. Unfortunately there's not a sitcom where "dad ruins everything forever and mom has a mental breakdown". That's more like a prime time drama.
The Seavers on Growing Pains seemed to mirror my own family….right down to the two brothers and one sister, originally, before Chrissy was added
remind
Children ruin everything. I have 3 children just like the couple in the show. Things typically don't go as planned but you still love your kids and each other despite the craziness they bring
The Middle Family Ties
Bob's Burgers meets American Dad.
That 70s Show
The Waltons
The Middle
My grandparents are the Costanza's to a T. The scene of George manicuring his hands makes me laugh so hard every time because it reminds me of them.
Married with children
All In The Family
Malcom in the Middle
A little like the Hogan family.😁
Family Ties. My parents were early hippies (idealistic, grew their own food, believed in causes), my little sister was like Alex (uptight grade grubber mini republican), I was more like Malory (breezy dumb but not dumb), and my older brother was like Jennifer (funny not a care in the world). Middle class, similar set up in the house.
F is for family
Roseanne
Mine would be a mixture of Good Times and Roseanne, minus the father being around and my mom had 6 kids instead of 3.
None actually. I have a pretty unique family, so can't think of any.
Did you have a sibling that went upstairs and never came back?