User blog comment:Jessie1010/Nickelodeon Come Back - It'll Suprise Ya!/@comment-5314473-20120806204022/@comment-228338-20120807151059

That's not always the case. You can always cite "AfterMASH," and "Joey" as evidence of the failure of spin-offs, but "Frasier" was an incredibly successful spin-off of "Cheers." With Norman Lear's work, it has been half-and-half. You've got a total of seven spin-offs from "All In the Family;" "Maude," "Good Times," and "The Jeffersons," all of which everybody raves about today regardless of how long they lasted, and "Archie Bunker's Place," Gloria," "704 Hauser," and "Checking In," each of which many critics slam, regardless of how good or popular they were.