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Sunday, September 14, 2003

Succesful sitcoms have short names 

Seinfeld. Frazier. Friends. Cheers. What do all of these shows have in common? They lasted a long time. What else do they have in common? They all are going to take themselves off the air, not the networks (Seinfeld and Cheers already did that). And what else do they have in common? They have very short names! Which brings me to my thesis. Succesful sitcoms have short names.

Does anybody remember "My big fat greek life?" I wanted to watch it but I didn't. So after one year it got taken off the air. Why wasn't anybody watching it? It has a really long name and there is no way to give it a nickname. You cant call it "big" or "fat" or "greek", nobody will know what you're talking about. So nobody watched it.

How about Andy Richter Controls the Universe? Well wait, everyone shortened it to Andy Richter. So that was just the ignorance of Fox. There have been thousands of sitcoms with lengthly names that were shot down off the airwaves that nobody remembers.

Some people may be saying, "Well you stupid moron, explain how shows like Malcolm in the Middle and Everybody Loves Raymond and still here." Simple: it's easy to shorten their name. Malcolm in the Middle is commonly called 'Malcolm' and Everybody loves Raymond is called 'Raymond'.

So if you're going to start a new sitcom, give it a one word name like: Philly, or Chicago, or Death. And if you must give it a long name, make sure you can shorten it to something like: Randy, or Billy, or Death. Eeebe-eeebe-eeebe- That's All Folks!

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