What are your five favorite sitcoms of all time?

[Mahaloth]

1. Arrested Development
2. MASH
3. Scrubs
4. Better off Ted - am I the only one who loved this show?
5. Seinfeld? - It has aged very poorly, but I loved it once.

[SpoilerVirgin]

@Dinsdale

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 just watched the complete series of Barney Miller on DVD. I was struck by just how incredibly good and funny it was, and felt that it totally justified the position it has held on my list since the '70’s. YMMV.

1. MASH
2. Barney Miller
3. Soap
4. The Jeffersons
5. Benson

I think of Britcoms as a separate category, but As Time Goes By and Yes, Minister would be at the top of my list.

[pancakes3]

@Mahaloth

Better off Ted - am I the only one who loved this show?

You, me, and post #6 makes three.

[Son_of_a_Rich]

@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. Sure, even the best shows had an off epp or so. But as I’d watch one “off” ep after another, I found myself wondering if I wasn’t just fondly remembering the occasional flash of brilliance…

I wonder if “When Things Were Rotten” was as funny as I remember it.

[I_Made_French_Toast_For_You]

1. Roseanne
2. The Simpsons
3. Arrested Development
4. Seinfeld
5. 30 Rock

I’m watching Curb Your Enthusiasm right now. It could definitely be a contender if it keeps being this hilarious.

[KneadToKnow]

Taxi
The Bob Newhart Show
Barney Miller
Soap
WKRP in Cincinnati

[Chefguy]

I would have to base it on what I’ve watched more than once. Many shows like MASH don’t seem all that funny to me now. Given that criteria:

Larry Sanders
Extras
Seinfeld
The Simpsons (the early years)
Veep (a new fave)

[Kent_Clark]

1. WKRP in Cincinatti
2. Police Squad! (in color)
3. The Simpsons
4. Cheers
5. The Bernie Mac Show

[DMark]

1. All In The Family
2. Frazier
3. Cheers
4. Curb Your Enthusiasm
5. Keeping Up Appearances

(Lots of others - but those hit me on first draft…)

[panache45]

All in the Family
Mary Tyler Moore
MASH
Frasier
Seinfeld

All were watched both in original airing and in reruns.

[Gatopescado]

Bilko needs to be included somewhere.

[D_Odds]

@SykoSkotty

5. Everybody Loves Raymond

So you’re the one responsible…

@Mahaloth

4. Better off Ted - am I the only one who loved this show?

@pancakes3

You, me, and post #6 makes three.

Better Off Ted would make my top ten, but not my top 5.

1. Married with Children
2. Barney Miller
3. Get Smart
4. Black Adder
5. Soap

Honourable Mentions:
Fawlty Towers, Better Off Ted, F-Troop, Taxi, Cheers, Larry Sanders, Community, Parks & Rec, Red Dwarf, Seinfeld, Night Court and probably a few others I’m forgetting to give proper recognition.

[Exapno_Mapcase]

In no particular order:

1. The Dick Van Dyke Show
2. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
3. Remember WENN
4. NewsRadio (the R is capitalized, guys)
5. Community

A couple new to the thread, at least. Better Off Ted was wonderful, but it didn’t last long enough to be a favorite. The Monkees should be considered, somewhere. It hasn’t held up all that well but you can’t imagine how it blew minds in 1966.

[muldoonthief]

1. Married With Children
2. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
3. Arrested Development
4. Seinfeld
5. Modern Family

[Fenris]

In no particular order:

1. Barney Miller
2. Dick Van Dyke Show
3. South Park
4. Better off Ted
5. Fraiser
   with a big “conditional” replacement for Frasier: if How I Met Your Mother pulls off the final season without degenerating into the directionless crapfest that was LOST, I’d swap it with Frasier. If they pull it off–if the last season lets us see Ted and The Mother meet and fall in love/get married, it wins. If it ends with the last season being how they JUST missed each other and the last episode has them finally meet face-to-face for the first time…then the hell with them.

Also: Honorable mention to I Love Lucy.

Finally: I loved Night Court when it was coming out but I recently did a marathon viewing of all the seasons and…to me, it does NOT hold up.

[Carmady]

1. Arrested Devlopment
2. Community
   (Simpsons and Futurama if I lumped them with live action sitcoms)
3. Seinfeld
4. Scrubs
5. NewsRadio

[suranyi]

Mary Tyler Moore
Dick Van Dyke
Seinfeld
Friends
Cheers

[standingwave]

Cheers / Frasier
Seinfeld / Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Big Bang Theory

[YogSothoth]

1. Simpsons
2. Seinfeld
3. Family Guy
4. Curb your enthusiasm
5. BBT

[drewtwo99]

1. Seinfeld - Easily. I still go back and watch it, and love it.
2. Golden Girls - I’m a gay guy, what can I say? It’s incredible.
3. How I Met Your Mother - It’s been going a bit downhill, but the first 5 or 6 seasons were some of the best sitcom ever.
4. Futurama - If I’m gonna pick a cartoon to put on here, it has to be Futurama.
5. The Office - Not a typical sitcom but I loved it. Both the UK and the US version were great, but I guess I’m voting for the US version. There was just so much more to love.