# Your 5 All-Time Favorite Sit-Coms

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**Created:** [March 26, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900 "2006-03-26T00:03:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/1 "2006-03-26T00:03:30Z")

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I was just watching a Mad About You marathon on Oxygen, and have to count it in my all-time favorites. It got me wondering… what are YOU guys’ favorites?

No slamming one anothers’ tastes, please, just a list of your 5 favorites, ever. I admit, I have some cheesy ones 😃 .  
5. Will & Grace

1. Mad About You

2. Night Court

3. Friends

4. **The Beverly Hillbillies**

Honerable Mention: Wings

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[ol]  
[li]All in the Family[/li][li]The Dick Van Dyke Show[/li][li]The Office (US)[/li][li]Titus[/li][li]Will and Grace[/li][/ol]

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/3 "2006-03-26T00:12:28Z")

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hard to narrow it down  
in no particular order, 5 of my favorites are

Will & Grace  
WKRP in Cincinnati  
Friends  
Scrubs  
Mad About You

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1. Seinfeld
2. Friends
3. Cheers
4. Scrubs
5. Frasier

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/5 "2006-03-26T00:24:42Z")

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In no order:

Night Court  
Cheers  
Friends  
How I met your mother  
WKRP

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/6 "2006-03-26T00:25:35Z")

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1. Arrested Development
2. Scrubs
3. The Office (U.S.)
4. Seinfeld
5. Night Court

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/7 "2006-03-26T00:27:43Z")

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1. Family Guy
2. WKRP in Cincinnati
3. The Simpsons
4. Cheers
5. Friends

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/8 "2006-03-26T00:35:23Z")

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1. The Dick Van Dyke Show
2. Will and Grace
3. The Nanny
4. The Golden Girls
5. Roseanne

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/9 "2006-03-26T01:10:21Z")

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1. WKRP
2. Dick Van Dyke
3. Night Court
4. Addams Family
5. Bewitched

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1. The Drew Carey Show
2. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
3. The Bob Newhart Show
4. F Troop
5. M_A_S\*H

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/11 "2006-03-26T01:16:17Z")

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In no particular order:

Steptoe & Son  
NewsRadio  
The Young Ones  
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin  
On the Air

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/12 "2006-03-26T01:17:08Z")

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1. WKRP
2. Arrested Devlopment
3. Green Acres
4. MASH
5. Night Court

However, if British shows are to be considered, move Red Dwarf to #1 and bump Night Court.

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Red Dwarf  
WKRP  
Simpsons  
Fawlty Towers  
The Young Ones

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1. Dick Van Dyke Show
2. Arrested Development
3. Green Acres
4. Mary Tyler Moore Show
5. M_A_S\*H

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Soap  
Family Ties  
The Jeffersons  
Alice  
All in the Family  
Soap is number one. There are probably about ten that could easily follow.

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/16 "2006-03-26T01:44:48Z")

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In no particular order:

1. Friends
2. NewsRadio
3. Scrubs
4. Night Court
5. Wings

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1. Roseanne
2. Seinfeld
3. M_A_S\*H
4. Mad About You
5. The Golden Girls

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/18 "2006-03-26T02:55:38Z")

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1 Newsradio  
2 Seinfeld  
3 Family Guy  
4 Night Court  
5 Red Dwarf

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Scrubs  
Night Court  
WKRP  
Cheers  
Wings

If I can get all of these on Dvd, I’ll drop half my cable.

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/20 "2006-03-26T04:52:29Z")

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1. Seinfeld
2. The Simpsons
3. Arrested Development
4. M_A_S\*H
5. The Office (US)

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