What are your five favorite sitcoms of all time?

Cafe Society
41

That would have been my #6.

42
  1. Futurama
  2. Night Court
  3. Simpsons
  4. MAS*H
  5. Seinfeld
43

No love for Small Wonder? For shame…

44

In alphabetical order

Barney Miller
Get Smart
The Honeymooners
The Odd Couple
Seinfeld

I’m sure it’s purely coincidental that four of them were set in New York City.

45

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[li]Girlfriends[/li][li]The Fresh Prince of Bel Air[/li][li]The Game[/li][li]Martin[/li][li]King of Queens[/li][/ol]

Honorable mention to: I Love Lucy, The Cosby Show, Living Single, Good Times, The Jeffersons, Three’s Company, The Bernie Mac Show, Sherri, Half & Half, and Reed Between the Lines.

46

Will & Grace
The Vicar of Dibley
Wings
WKRP in Cincinnati
Frasier

47
  1. MASH
  2. The Simpsons (pre-season 10)
  3. WKRP
  4. Seinfeld
  5. It’s always sunny in Philadelphia
48
  1. Seinfeld
  2. Frasier
  3. Futurama
  4. The Big Bang Theory
  5. The IT Crowd
49

Simpson
South Park
Futurama
Big Bang Theory
It’s Always Sunny in Philly

50

MAS*H
The Bob Newhart Show
Newhart
WKRP in Cincinnati
Big Bang Theory

51

The Thin Blue Line
Barney Miller
Bob Newhart Show
Soap
Machale’s Navy

52

Britcoms
Blackadder
Thin Blue Line
Father Ted
Vicar of Dibley
Dad’s Army tied with Good neighbors

Sitcoms
MASH
Frasier
Big Bang Theory
Night Court
a shitload tied for the remaining slot

53

MASH
I Love Lucy
The Simpsons
Mary Tyler Moore
All In The Family

54

1-Seinfeld
2-Curb Your Enthusiasm
3-The Office
4-South Park
5-The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

55

You know, I came into this thread thinking this would be a snap. Now that I’ve read some of the responses, keeping it to five is freaking hard!!

Family Guy
News Radio
South Park
Grounded for Life
Married with Children

It is with heavy heart, I can only choose five.

56

Roseanne
Cheers
Fraiser
I love Lucy
Seinfeld

I’m probably forgetting something though.

57

Frasier
MASH
Father Ted
Roseanne
Gilligan’s Island/Brady Bunch (childhood guilty pleasure tie)

58

Coupling (British version)*
The Office (U.S. version)
Modern Family
How I Met Your Mother
Gilligan’s Island

*I haven’t seen anyone else mention this one, which is surprising because it is VERY good IMHO… funny, clever writing, engaging characters (think a British version of “Friends” except EVERYTHING is about sex). I can only assume that not many have seen it or it surely would be mentioned more often. Last time I watched was on Netflix, btw.

59

Judging by past threads, a lot of us are familiar with Coupling. I would put BlackAdder over it if I were going to add a Britcom, though.

So that may be the problem. First, it’s not even the best British series and limiting the list to five American series is bloody hard. Pardon my French. Second, both shows had three good six-episode seasons and a fourth not-as-good season. Most shows have at least one weak or worse season, but that’s a big chunk of a limited series. Even if you add them all together those series total far fewer episodes than one season of Gilligan’s Island. That’s a huge advantage American series have. A 200-episode show will burn itself into your memory more than a 24-episode show and make 25 weak episodes stand out less.

60

If I can list only the top five, I guess they’d have to be

  1. Big Bang Theory
  2. Dick Van Dyke
  3. Cheers!
  4. Night Court
  5. Fawlty Towers

I could go on a lot longer, though, if I were to list all my favorites.