To be fair, there’s a significant proportion of sitcoms that are just regurgitated formulas.

Some studio is almost certainly feeding sitcoms and standup comedy into some horrific LolLLM, but it would almost certainly reject prompts such as “The gang goes black” or “Frank gets molested”, and the outcome of “The gang makes Lethal Weapon 6” is unlikely to be even half as entertaining.

Significant portion of sitcoms are formulaic yes. But Frasier was upper crust legitimate good writing.

Off topic, but have you seen the trailer for the upcoming season? It looks like it might as well have been written by AI. We’re about to get a reminder of how important the supporting cast was on that show. Sad!

I saw the first 2 episodes. It wasn't good.

No Niles or Daphne?

David Hyde Pierce (Niles) and Jane Levees (Daphne) have both declined to return, and John Mahoney (Martin) passed away in 2018; the only returning member of the main cast is Peri Gilpin (Roz), who's only going to make a single guest appearance. Bebe Neuwirth (Lilith) is the only recurring cast member to commit to the new show, and only in a single guest appearance.

I haven't watched it yet but do bare in mind that a lot of great shows took a few episodes (or even a couple of seasons) to find their stride. Frasier was no exception, the first few episodes were setting stage for the rest of the show.

But as I said, I haven't seen the new series so I cannot comment on whether there's anything there to grow from.

Frasier was good writing?! I'm not even going to touch the 'upper crust' comment.

Was this post actually written by Frasier the character?

Well, not the current generation of AI. The one we'll have soon, when AI gets good at comedy.

/s