From I Love Lucy to Seinfeld to South Park, this is Collider's ranking of the greatest sitcoms in TV history.
Sitcoms have been a television staple for essentially as long as there have been television sets in most households. Everyone likes a laugh or two, and some would argue that humans may well need a laugh or two every now and then, given that old cliché of laughter being the best medicine and whatnot. And with sitcoms being a reliable and popular source of humorous entertainment , there have been plenty of great ones made over the decades.
The reception to Schitt's Creek got more favorable as the family at its center grew more lovable, making the show something of an underdog one, while also being - in a strange way - its own kind of underdog story featuring people who used to be top dogs. This culminated with a sixth and final season that aired in 2020 and became the show's most beloved, especially when it came to awards recognition.
It takes place in the Atlanta hip-hop scene, and centers on a rapper and his manager exploring a version of said scene that seems to get more fantastical and bizarre as the show goes on. It bowed out gracefully after four seasons in 2022, and is so utterly singular and bold as a piece of television that it kind of has to be seen to be believed .
24 '30 Rock' From the late 1990s until 2006, Tina Fey was well-known for being a cast member and eventual head writer for the long-running sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. When she left the show, she developed 30 Rock as her next creative project, with it being a sitcom largely based around her experiences with working on Saturday Night Live.
22 'The Jeffersons' Running for 11 seasons and having more than 250 episodes, The Jeffersons is one of the most groundbreaking sitcoms of its day, mainly owing to the representation it offers. It wasn't the very first sitcom to focus mostly on Black characters, but it was an early one that did so while finding strong mainstream popularity and acclaim.
Still, quality over quantity and all that applies, because besides a slightly awkward first season, Blackadder is gold. It has many of the same cast members across seasons, but in each one, they play a different set of characters at different times in history - the 1400s in Season 1, the 1500s in Season 2, the late 1700s or early 1800s in Season 3, and the early 20th century for the fourth and surprisingly devastating final season.
17 'Modern Family' It's impressive to look back on Modern Family and realize it was on the air for the entirety of the 2010s . It followed a family living in - unsurprisingly - modern-day America, and though it seems on paper to be another family-centered sitcom, its presentation added a layer to the proceedings to make it stand out.
15 'The Honeymooners' Unlike many old sitcoms from the genre's early days that people still talk about, The Honeymooners did not run for very long at all. In fact, it lasted only a season, with a mere 39 episodes airing in 1955 and 1956 before it came to an end.Maybe it was ahead of its time to some extent, because nowadays, the show's well-recognized for helping define what sitcoms became, and for being one of the first TV shows to center on a working-class couple.
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