Best of the #sitcomnovels Twitter Hashtag

WWNorton started a Twitter hashtag on Saturday combining books and TV shows...and, within an hour, it was trending in the U.S.! Not all #sitcomnovels are sitcoms (or novels, for that matter), but they're all guaranteed funny (or your money back). Here are my TOP 25:

• Saved By the Bell Jar (literally 200 different people tweeted this one)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray's Anatomy
• Malcom Gladwell In the Middle
• Who's the Bossypants?
• Lolita, the Teenage Witch (via @paulruditis)
• Gossip Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (via @waterock)
• Kafka Explains It All
• A Tale of My Two Dads (via @AlanKercinik)
• Catch 90210 (via @TommyCM)
• Two and a Half Mice and Men (via @MaureenJohnson)
• Everybody Loves Raymond Carver (via @MaureenJohnson)
• Like Seinfeld For Elephants (via @MyraMcEntire)
• A Vist from the Mod Squad (via @TheBookMaven)
• Gilligan's Island of Dr. Moreau (via @JasonPinter)
• Full House Rules
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Ed (via @DanFriedman81)
• For Whom Saved by the Bell Tolls (via @TommyCM)
• Full House of Leaves (via @KristelAutencio)
• I Love Lucy in the Time of Cholera (via @MegGardiner1)
• The Pale King of Queens
• That 1984 Show (via @Bleisner)
• Ernest Hemingway Goes to Camp
• Far From the Madding IT Crowd (via @BroughtonLass)
• For Whom Mr. Belvedere Tolls (via @AGidgetWidget)
• Jurassic Parks and Recreation (via @totesmarisa)
• BONUS! --> Boy Meets Brave New World (no idea who listed it first)

Uncredited titles by me (Evil Wylie). Add yours in the comments, or on Twitter using the hashtag "#sitcomnovels"!

Comments

[Sarah]

Mansfield Parks and Recreation (which I would totally watch).

[Dean O'Carroll]

I know I'm an obnoxious stickler to say this, but several of these aren't sitcoms. "Portrait of Dorian Gray's Anatomy" is a REALLY clever play on words, but it doesn't fit the category. Why not start a #TVdramanovels hashtag or even a #soapoperanovels one. I love these games, but surely they need to have SOME rules.

[spm]

Another picky one- Gossip Girl isn't a sitcom either... Maybe the Golden Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?

[Andrew Shaffer]

I don't play by the rules. GOSSIP GIRL STAYS.

[Funkelit]

Do I get no points at all for The Moby Dick Van Dyke Show?!

[Craig Pittman]

You missed "Sanford and the Native Son" (@daveyjohnson) and "Tender Is the Night Court" (@toastbat) and "Middlesex in the City" (@gangrey) -- ALL of which are in fact sitcoms.

[Hashtag Police]

a lot of these are questionable

[John]

May I be the first to say 'Who gives a shit' if they aren't sitcoms. Funny is funny.

The Moby Dick Van Dyke Show deserves a spot as well, but that's because it's friggin' hilarious.

[hildyjohns]

The Office Lolita
Good Times at The House of Mirth
Addams Family Tales of the City
What's Happening, Madame Bovary?

[Hildyjohns]

The Dangerous Liaisons of Ozzie and Harriet

[Dean O'Carroll]

Okay, you've sold me! Who cares if these aren't sitcoms? Here are some suggestions "Burp Fart McBurpfart" True, that's neither a book nor a sitcom, but, hey, burps and farts are always funny, right?

How hard would it be to start a new hashtag game that WOULD work, people? The answer: zero hard. That's how many hard it would be.

I agree, that the ones that don't actually fit the category are funny! They're great, but they're like a linebacker playing second base -- it's just the wrong game.

[Rosa Jurjevics]

Waitaminnit, "Everyone Loves Raymond Carver" was mine, an RT by the fab Ms. Johnson. *Flail*

[Andrew Shaffer]

The first tweet about Raymond I saw was Ms. Johnson's "Everyone Loves Raymond Carver," but I corrected the title of the sitcom from "Everybody" to "Everyone." Since Twitter removes the timestamps after a few hours, I can't go back and declare a winner in this dispute. Sorry.