I Love Lucy vs Seinfeld

Both are brilliant, but I go with ILL, as there is much more humanity to the series. Also, a 90 year-old retired professor can enjoy ILL as much as a five year-old can. "Seinfeld" appeals to a much narrower audience, great as it is.

Both are great but I Love Lucy is the winner.

I’m giving Seinfeld the win, even though it lost its mojo towards the end and entered “whacky” comedy over whitty.

I Love Lucy lost its mojo twice, by moving to Hollywood and relying on celebrity appearances that haven’t aged well (who are these people?) and then again by moving to the suburbs and somehow the Mertz, who manage an inner city apartment, move with them to maintain the same dynamic as neighbours.

I also watch Ricky at times and think that his poor pronunciation and poor singing ability makes him poorly cast.

I Love Lucy is the runaway winner. People still watch it 70 years after it first aired. I highly doubt the Seinfeld will last 70 years.

Of course, most people who come to the "I Love Lucy" board will be biased in favor of "I Love Lucy". I never found the show funny--not when I was five, not when I was ten, not when I was a young adult, and not now. Seinfeld, on the other hand, is better-written, better-acted, more sophisticated, and consistently funny. It ended its original run more than two decades ago and is still more popular than most shows that are producing new episodes. "Seinfeld" probably does not appeal to most small children, but that's not a shortcoming. Most things that are funny to little kids are not that funny to adults.

GOAT? Cheers.

I Love Lucy is the winner without question.

Seinfeld has already lost a fair amount of appeal as it is not continuously run as it was 15 years ago in syndication so the exposure is not there to draw new fans. Also, Seinfeld never drew well away from its core audience of urban well to do intellectual people.