# Need a good sitcom I haven't seen I can binge watch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 10, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508 "2020-04-10T15:34:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/21 "2020-04-10T17:58:13Z")
[My Name Is Earl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Earl)! I see from that wiki page that it didn’t really have an ending, but dang. I thought it was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/22 "2020-04-10T18:33:20Z")
Letterkenny! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/23 "2020-04-10T18:36:39Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > [My Name Is Earl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Earl)! > I see from that wiki page that it didn’t really have an ending, but dang. I thought it was hilarious. If you like that, Raising Hope was from the same showrunner and was kind of, sort of, similar. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/24 "2020-04-10T18:46:42Z")
I’m surprised [How I Met Your Mother](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother) hasn’t been mentioned yet. I really quite enjoyed the show but I offer this warning, many people really hate the ending. _Really_, it’s hard to describe the level of betrayal that some people feel. You’ve got nine seasons to mow through to get to that point though. Adding another vote for the _Drew Carey Show_. I always thought it was pretty formulaic and inconsistent but for the most part, it worked. _Mom_ is another solid show. Should you choose to sample both it and _3rd Rock from the Sun_ (I wouldn’t waste my time on it but enough people seemed to like it.) then it’s interesting to compare/contrast the roles that French Stewart played on those shows. If you’re open to animation then I’d suggest watching _King of the Hill_. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/25 "2020-04-10T19:00:40Z")
One I watched a couple years ago and enjoyed was [Don’t Trust The B\_\_\_\_ In Apartment 23](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1819509/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0). Might be a little edgier than Friends. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/26 "2020-04-10T19:09:49Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > If you like that, Raising Hope was from the same showrunner and was kind of, sort of, similar. Yeah, I saw that, but it didn’t work as well for me. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/27 "2020-04-10T19:10:10Z")
Brooklyn 99 The Goldbergs Black-ish _edit_ I quite enjoyed both seasons of Speechless ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/28 "2020-04-10T19:18:14Z")
The OP mentioned Friends, so I’d recommend the UK series Coupling, which also featured three men and three women and was hilarious. Another sort-of similar show was the US series Happy Endings. ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/29 "2020-04-10T19:22:41Z")
An old one I would recommend is Cheers. I believe it may be on Hulu. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/30 "2020-04-10T19:27:35Z")
**Ashtura** , have you seen _The Santa Clarita Diet_ yet? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/31 "2020-04-10T19:52:54Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > I’m surprised [How I Met Your Mother](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother) hasn’t been mentioned yet. I really quite enjoyed the show but I offer this warning, many people really hate the ending. _Really_, it’s hard to describe the level of betrayal that some people feel. You’ve got nine seasons to mow through to get to that point though. I’m not aware of any show by that name. It never existed. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/32 "2020-04-10T21:13:55Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I’m not aware of any show by that name. It never existed. oh, you must have seen it. It was on for 207 1/2 episodes. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/33 "2020-04-10T21:57:35Z")
I have plain old cable tv. I see re-runs of Everybody Loves Raymond, (another is called Everybody Hates Chris, I don’t know what that is), King of Queens, How I Met Your Mother, Two-and-a-Half Men (the first few episodes are as hilarious as the last few episode are vomitous). The Goldbergs (HATE HATE HATE IT). Last Man Standing (with Tim Allen, a right winger tongue bath, I haven’t watched it.) Frasier (LOVE it). Mom. (LOVE it). Roseanne is on all the time, Golden Girls is on all the time, Reba (with yeah, Reba McIntire) is on all the time. Julia Louise Dreyfuss starred in ‘The New Adventures of Old Christine’, maybe three seasons, I never heard or read much about it. She plays an annoying adorable ditz, single mom, every episode is ‘zany’ because I think she has ADHD or something. She’s the type who drives off leaving her purse on top of the car roof. Divorced but leads a charmed life with a great support system. She gets by with all her annoying fuckery because she f’s all her beaus like a screen door in a hurricane - and she is cute, just crying out for some man to rescue her, has a bangin’ figure!. (oh, and Wanda Sykes, who seems like she should be in another tv show altogether and wandered into this one by mistake, is her ‘best friend’. I love Wanda Sykes!). It’s actually a lot of fun, I love the brother she lives with and her friendly ex and his new very young but no dummy wife. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/34 "2020-04-10T22:17:04Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Better Off Ted. > Pushing Daisies. Yes to both of those. Better Off Ted is certainly on my short list of favorite shows, but so few people have even heard of it that it’s never just ‘on’, I have to go seek it out. But I’ve probably watched it at least 3 times since it ended. Another one to add to the list is Tacoma FD. I’m not even sure if I’d heard of it previously, but I ran across this [youtube clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iqjGCLXQyA) and had to go find it\*. It’s really good. It’s the guys from Super Troopers. It’s essentially the Brooklyn 99 of fire departments. \*And even after initially seeing that clip, watching that show all the way through the second season to where that clip comes from, I still laughed out loud, at work, watching it again now. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/35 "2020-04-11T01:08:14Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > I’m surprised [How I Met Your Mother](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother) hasn’t been mentioned yet. I really quite enjoyed the show but I offer this warning, many people really hate the ending. _Really_, it’s hard to describe the level of betrayal that some people feel… But everything up to the ending is fun. If I rewatched it, I’d do what I did with LOST. Skip the last episode and make up my own ending. Pretend the show got cancelled just as they were about to start filming the last episode. I grew up on classic comedies (still love Dick Van Dyke), and can’t say enough about Arrested Development, Community, and The Good Place. How quirky can you handle? Netflix has Derry Girls, The Kominsky Method, Trailer Park Boys and Bojack Horseman. And not for everyone, but another vote for The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (especially the way David Cross made sure they couldn’t continue it after Season Two… and then found a very creative way to shoot a third season). Watch the trailer or the first scene. Cross and Will Arnett, with Spike Jonz as a dweeby boss. Hey, watch the pilot and see if it’s your _“cup o’ tea, guv’nor!”_ (that was David Cross’s bumbling American trying to fit in with the Brits). In fact, trying first episodes is how I’ve found a number of my favorite shows. One night my daughter and I said “Hey, let’s browse Netflix, and just watch twenty minutes of every show anyone’s recommended.” But as soon as we’d seen the first five minutes of Arrested Development, we said “Screw the plan!” and watched nothing else until midnight. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/36 "2020-04-11T01:38:33Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > _Mom_ is another solid show. Should you choose to sample both it and _3rd Rock from the Sun_ (I wouldn’t waste my time on it but enough people seemed to like it.) then it’s interesting to compare/contrast the roles that French Stewart played on those shows. Wait. Did you just dis _3rd Rock_? Kristen Johnston won two Emmys for that show, I’ll have you know. > [@Yodalicious](#): > > Black-ish Oh, YEAH! this is great. Don’t know why it didn’t get more attention as a prime time show. It’s kind of like a movie that’s a sleeper. More people seem to watch it in reruns than ever saw it when it was in first-run. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/37 "2020-04-11T02:00:46Z")
Wait are you referring to Black-ish in the past tense? It’s still a current show on ABC although I agree that 3rd Rock from the Sun was great. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/38 "2020-04-11T02:02:55Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Wait. > > Did you just dis _3rd Rock_? Kristen Johnston won two Emmys for that show, I’ll have you know. And I like Kirsten. If I could have watched her in a version of _3rd Rock_ that wasn’t polluted by John Lithgow and Jane Curtain then I maybe could have made it past season two. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/39 "2020-04-11T02:04:09Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Wait are you referring to Black-ish in the past tense? It’s still a current show on ABC although I agree that 3rd Rock from the Sun was great. _Blackish_ Is current? I searched for it and couldn’t find it. Stupid Xfinity. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508/40 "2020-04-11T02:06:07Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > And I like Kirsten. If I could have watched her in a version of _3rd Rock_ that wasn’t polluted by John Lithgow and Jane Curtain then I maybe could have made it past season two. Really? Jane Curtin was my second favorite original SNL player. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-sitcom-i-havent-seen-i-can-binge-watch/851508.md?page=3)