# Your 5 All-Time Favorite Sit-Coms **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/21 "2006-03-26T05:01:38Z")
Old: All in the Family Cheers Barney Miller Taxi Soap Recent: My Name is Earl The Office Scrubs Family Guy Black Books ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/22 "2006-03-26T05:06:01Z")
In no particular order: Night Court Cheers The Golden Girls Murphy Brown The Cosby Show ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/23 "2006-03-26T05:46:50Z")
1. Seinfeld 2. Scrubs 3. Night Court 4. Cheers 5. Newsradio Honorable Mention: Arrested Development, Friends, My Name is Earl, I Love Lucy, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Cosby Show. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/24 "2006-03-26T06:11:04Z")
WKRP in Cincinnati Barney Miller News Radio Wings The Mary Tyler Moore Show ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/25 "2006-03-26T06:33:47Z")
_Mad About You_? It didn’t even make the [playoffs.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=364223) ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/26 "2006-03-26T08:15:21Z")
1. All In The Family 2, Golden Girls 2. Curb Your Enthusiasm 3. I Love Lucy 4. Seinfeld Special Mention: Mary Tyler Moore Frasier Cheers Friends Keeping Up Appearances Absolutely Fabulous The Comeback Malcom In The Middle The Burns and Allen Show ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/27 "2006-03-26T08:18:48Z")
In alphabetical rather than qualitative order, and going with American only: _All in the Family Arrested Development Bewitched Sanford & Son WKRP_ My five _least_ favorite major hit sitcoms, given unsolicitedly: Everybody Loves Raymond (can’t stand Romano), The Cosby Show (way too perfect), Full House (I’d send them all to reeducation camps in Alaska), The Honeymooners (too depressing, and I’ve seen 8th grade shows with better sets) and tied for last place: Andy Griffith Show post-Barney (got too syrupy and slow) or Designing Women post-Suzanne (when Julia became a horror and the title could have been changed to The Bloodworth Thomason Social Commentary Show). ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/28 "2006-03-26T08:31:51Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] My five _least_ favorite major hit sitcoms… [/QUOTE] Aw, now you’ve gone and opened a new can of worms here. (Perhaps a new thread should be started so as not to hijack this one?) But I’ll join in on the **worst sitcoms** as well (using so-called “hits” as a basis, not short-lived sitcoms). 1. The Office (both US and Brit version) 2. Home Improvement 3. Hope And Faith 4. Perfect Strangers 5. Joey (too bad, as I had hopes for that one.) ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/29 "2006-03-26T11:02:44Z")
1. Seinfeld 2. I Love Lucy 3. Taxi 4. Newsradio 5. Soap ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/30 "2006-03-26T16:24:03Z")
Barney Miller The Bob Newhart Show Scrubs Married with Children Murphy Brown ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/31 "2006-03-26T16:46:49Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] The Office (US) [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] The Office (U.S.) [/QUOTE] This is not slamming your tastes, but why are you preferring the American version over the British? I thought it was all about the original cast. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/32 "2006-03-26T16:53:54Z")
1. MASH 2. The Bob Newhart Show 3. Mary Tyler Moore Show 4. Cheers 5. Taxi ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/33 "2006-03-26T16:54:11Z")
INPO: Fawlty Towers, The Bob Newhart Show, Taxi, Frasier, Night Court. Honorable Mention: Wings. (I met Rebecca Schull years ago at a party. Total sweetheart.) ---
**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:** [March 26, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/34 "2006-03-26T17:22:29Z")
Scrubs Night Court\* Frasier Sanford and Son\* Jeffersons\* \*I saw all of these for the first time thanks to tvland. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/35 "2006-03-26T18:33:53Z")
1. Seinfeld 2. Simpsons 3. Scrubs 4. Arrested Development 5. Cheers ---
**Author:** ![New\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@New\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/36 "2006-03-26T18:34:05Z")
Just Shoot Me Will and Grace Seinfeld Are You Being Served? Keeping Up Appearances Cartoons Doug Family Guy King of the Hill ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/37 "2006-03-26T19:43:05Z")
Dick Van Dyke Mary Tyler Moore Barney Miller Coupling Yes, (Prime) Minister ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/38 "2006-03-26T19:49:14Z")
1. Arrested Development 2. Scrubs 3. The Office - I’d say a tie between Brittish and U.S version. 4. Cheers 5. M_A_S\*H ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/39 "2006-03-26T20:00:46Z")
I love That '70s Show. Does get any serious airtime over here, though. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900/40 "2006-03-26T20:00:50Z")
For live action–non-animated–sitcoms, my top five are: Seinfeld Arrested Development Married with Children Barney Miller Andy Griffith not necessarily in order [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-all-time-favorite-sit-coms/349900.md?page=3)