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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I need a ruling on Rosanne. It progressed quite a bit over its run, though any one individual episode can be watched (generally) in a vacuum.
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Roseanne and Three's Company are both sitcoms in the traditional sense. It doesn't require that there be no developments whatsoever in the characters' lives, like characters added, subtracted, or aged --- hell, on DVD, even little Richie grew up --- it just requires that there be no "large story arc" of which each episode is merely a snippet. You can miss an episode and not tear your hair out figuring out what happened "last time."
In this way, the Ross/Rachel or Niles/Daphne threads make Friends and Frasier newfangled non-traditional sitcoms. Animated series are going even more po-mo with jokes expressly
about the fact the cast never changes, grows up, or (permanently) dies. Think Treehouse of Horror, ATHF, or Sealab.
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