# What are your five favorite sitcoms of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2013, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-five-favorite-sitcoms-of-all-time/665487 "2013-08-06T12:18:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-five-favorite-sitcoms-of-all-time/665487/81 "2013-08-07T22:42:00Z")
I Love Lucy Newsradio Better Off Ted Big Bang Theory 30 Rock ---
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In an order from favorite to least that, like the titles themselves, be completely different if i did it another day: Sanford & Son All in the Family Community Arrested Development Barney Miller ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-five-favorite-sitcoms-of-all-time/665487/83 "2013-08-07T22:59:07Z")
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Frasier My Name is Earl Futurama Scrubs ---
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MASH Soap Get Smart The Andy Griffith Show The Beverly Hillbillies ---
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The Big Bang Theory Barney Miller News Radio WKRP In Cincinnati Get Smart ---
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One Day at a Time Mork & Mindy Bosom Buddies It’s a Living Welcome Back Kotter Alternates: House Calls I’m a Big Girl Now ---
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Unordered: Seinfeld Futurama Better Off Ted How I Met Your Mother Bored to Death Side note: My girlfriend and I were watching another crummy horror movie when suddenly she pointed out that one of the actresses was from - … I recognized the actress vaguely, and then it started to come back to me - she was what’s-her-name in what’s that show… what was it again… Oh yeah, “Raising Hope”! We had watched the complete run of it (to the time at least, I don’t know if it’s still on) and remembered absolutely nothing of it. Finally we remembered that the chick played Sabrina in the show, but other than that we were very weak on the details. It was like we began to recall memories of a fugue state or something. ---
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1. Scrubs 2. Seinfeld 3. Frasier 4. Roseanne 5. The Wonder Years HM: Archer, Blackadder ---
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> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > 1. The Wonder Years Another great one I’d forgotten. ---
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> [@Fenris](#): > > The single best moment of WKRP (and possibly any other sitcom) that’s been ruined by music rights issues is an early ep. Les has won an award (the Silver Sow or something). He wants to ask Jennifer to go with him. Herb not only laughs out loud at Les, he actively discourages Les from even trying. Les (stammering) asks anyway\*. Jennifer (of course) accepts. Herb’s jaw drops. > > Cut to Les, in his “office”. He’s got a mirror out and is about to comb his hair and get dressed. And he pauses for a minute…and turns on the speaker-box near his desk. And (perfectly) Foreigner’s “Hot Blooded” comes on. And he dresses/grooms himself to the rhythm of the song as his confidence grows. > > In the neutered version, it’s just some generic elevator rock music. Totally ruining the entire scene. > > \*This is early enough in the run that Les isn’t as annoying/fussy/obnoxious as he is shy and awkward Yeah, one thing I noticed re-watching some episodes: if they were Les-centric, I was in for disappointment. He was quite unlikeable. I can’t remember now how quickly he turned that way, but he did end up that way. Even Herb was a decent-enough guy in his own way if you dug down far enough, and more importantly, he was funny, not annoying. ---
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> [@drewtwo99](#): > > You guys voting for My Name Is Earl are seriously making me want to revisit my list. > > WHY ONLY 5??? UGHHHH!!! > > My Name Is Earl is by far and away the most under appreciated sit com ever. I don’t get why it wasn’t wildly popular and go on for 8 or 9 seasons. I notice “Raising Hope” isn’t on your list. I hope you’re at least watching it. It was created by the same guy who did “Earl”, and he often has the Earl cast guest-star. ---
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30 Rock Scrubs Family Guy Community dunno ---
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> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Wondering if folks’ choices are based on their recollections, or recent reviewing? Reason I ask is more than once I’ve been diamayed at how “unfunny” some of my favorites were. Barney Miller, Sanford and Sun, KRP, and Odd Couple come to mind. I’ve never liked Sanford & Son, and I never watched Odd Couple before I entered my 40s. But watching Barney Miller as an adult – particularly during the Dietrich years – I’m amazed at how hiliarious it is, at how well it used its minimalist set. And WKRP is just as funny as I remember it. That said, my answer to the thread question, in no particular order: M_A_S\*H Gilmore Girls Will & Grace Cheers Scrubs ---
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> [@D\_Odds](#): > > _Better Off Ted_ would make my top ten, but not my top 5. I might be giving it bonus points because in the back of my mind is a voice shouting “OH WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN!” ---
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Simpsons Friends News Radio Cheers Seinfeld ---
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**In no order:** _The Dick Van Dyke Show The Mary Tyler Moore Show Barney Miller Night Court The 60s Batman TV Show._ ---
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Men Behaving Badly The Office The Middle Love, American Style Bewitched ---
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1. WKRP in Cincinnati 2. The Young Ones 3. Barney Miller 4. Night Court 5. Green Acres ---
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> [@Fenris](#): > > The single best moment of WKRP (and possibly any other sitcom) that’s been ruined by music rights issues is an early ep. Les has won an award (the Silver Sow or something). He wants to ask Jennifer to go with him. Herb not only laughs out loud at Les, he actively discourages Les from even trying. Les (stammering) asks anyway\*. Jennifer (of course) accepts. Herb’s jaw drops. > > Cut to Les, in his “office”. He’s got a mirror out and is about to comb his hair and get dressed. And he pauses for a minute…and turns on the speaker-box near his desk. And (perfectly) Foreigner’s “Hot Blooded” comes on. And he dresses/grooms himself to the rhythm of the song as his confidence grows. > > In the neutered version, it’s just some generic elevator rock music. Totally ruining the entire scene. > > \*This is early enough in the run that Les isn’t as annoying/fussy/obnoxious as he is shy and awkward The same goes for the episode where Arthur’s wife finds out she’s pregnant. At the end, “The Big Guy” is talking with Venus, who has no clue of the blessed event and takes Arthur’s comments out of context. Finally, Arthur asks for Venus to play a request. The original request is “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” which makes the joke and leaves Venus staring dumbfounded at the turntable as it plays. The post-rights version was some other song that made no sense at all and didn’t play to Venus’ reaction. ---
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Will & Grace Cheers Soap Happy Days [I never though the laugh-track was beneficial] Barney Miller I don’t think they actually ran during the same years, but I always thought a Barney Miller/Night Court pairing would be good on a classic/rerun TV station. It would be as close as we could get to a comedy Law & Order. I kind thought Taxi and Cheers should have been back-to-back since the cabbies would often go to a bar after work and we’d see scenes there. Different towns, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-five-favorite-sitcoms-of-all-time/665487.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-five-favorite-sitcoms-of-all-time/665487.md?page=6)