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The winner for me is Young Sheldon, although honestly mainly due to one character.

I watched every episode of young sheldon, most when they aired. I am even watching the spin off (though it's not nearly as good).

I watched many episodes of Fresh off the boat with my wife, but probably would not have watched many if it was't with her. What was the difference?

Well first, the moms. Fresh off the boats mom can be annoying/controlling etc, but she is often funny, cares about her family and generally isn't selfish, nor does she belittle her husband etc.

Marry from young sheldon always got on my nerve (both the version in young sheldon and BBT for that matter). She totally mishandled sheldon and spoiled him, and blocked his dad from raising him how he wanted. She was selfish a few times, holier than tho alot and just flat not funny pretty much ever. She was my least favorite cast member by far.

So while the mom from Fresh off the boat was not my favorite character, she was not my least favorite (in fact I had no characters that I totally didn't like).

The dads. I would pretty much call them a wash, I liked George Snr in young sheldon and though he was an upright, good father, who was faithful and cared about his family. He also could be funny which was nice compared to Mary. He was in my top 3 characters and he brought alot to the show.

Jim on the other hand from Fresh off the boat was ALSO funny (I would say even more so) but was also a bit weaker and let his wife Pam run over him often (but not always). He was a good and honorable man and father and also brought alot to the show.

The kids, gonna just bunch em all up, were mostly a wash for me. My favorite was definatly Missy, and my least favorite was Sheldon, so all together it was pretty even. They often brought comedy to the series and other than Sheldon being annoying sometimes, I think they were all a positive on the series. Sheldon was kinda mandatory due to it being a spin off, and there were curtailed on how much they could change him.

Now the REAL difference was the grandmothers lol. FoTB's was mostly forgetable, though she did have some humorious scenses, she was more of a side character than a main one. There is no comparison to Memaw though who was my favorite character and who I wish they had done a spin off with. She MADE the show and I am 100% sure I would not have seen all the episodes if she wasn't part of it, or if she had left before it ended. The main thing that made YS so much better, was her.

That being said, the side characters in YS were generally better as well. Paige etc were very interesting/fun and heck I woulda loved to see a Paige/Missy spin off where they run off together or something lol. There were good side characters in FoTB as well, but they were usually more short term, and not as deep (at least didn't seem to be to me). Nothing really drew me in and made me want to see what happened next like in YS.

So over all, YS was the better show, at least to me looking back. Enjoyed both, but YS was more in line with competing with Malcolm in the middle (pretty much my favorite family show) while FoTB was more like competing with The Middle (still good, but no MiTM).

What are your opinions on the shows if you watched them?