#1

Newsradio!

#2: Seinfeld
#3: Friends
#4: Simpsons
#5: Sportsnight
#6: MASH
#7: Everybody loves Raymond
#8: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
#9: Frasier
#10: Big Record (Canadian sitcom)

No real order:

Sanford and Son
Seinfeld
Simpsons
Frasier
Cheers
Are You Being Served?
The Addams Family
The Wonder Years
Three's Company
Good Times
Freaks and Geeks

Seinfeld
Just Shoot Me
Friends
The Simpsons
That 70s Show
Family Guy
The Wonder Years
Cheers
Home Improvement
Newsradio

In no specific order:

Seinfeld
Friends
Saved By The Bell
That 70's Show
Malcolm In The Middle
Undeclared
Alf
Growing Pains
Family Guy
Boy Meets World

Excuse me, sirs.


MASH
Seinfield
Cheers
The Wonder Years
Married with Children
Night Court
Newhart
NewsRadio
Home Improvement
Parker Lewis(wouldn't have thought of it
except for previous poster.)

In no particular order:

MASH
Barney Miller
Taxi
Cheers
Frasier
Seinfeld
Mad About You
NewsRadio
Cosby Show
Larry Sanders Show

I didn't include Britcoms but Black Adder and Fawlty Towers would figure in this if I did.

1. Family Ties
The 80s yuppie values vs the 60 hippie ethics is funny stuff to me. Plus mostly everyone was pretty likeable and were a great fictional family

2. Growing Pains
Looking back, Carol was the highlight of the show. Mike could get annoying at times, along with Ben later on.

3. Three's Company
I used to hate this show as a kid with the retro looking apartment and clothing. I think the manager wore a scarf and bell bottoms. Now though, Jack is hilarious and the back and forth between him and Mr. Ferly are great. Even though Chrissy was hotter, I though the nurse added more to the show.

4. Boy Meets World
An average, safe sitcom. The show really found it's groove when the show started to focus on the cool, older brother's mental regression.

5. Frasier
This show has some of my favorite episodes of all time. When Frasier is dating the supermodel but no one believes him or when Daphne teaches Niles how to dance.

6. Seinfeld
Of course. Kind of dislike it now though.

7. Cheers
Made me think that everything and anything could happen in a bar.

8. Bosom BuddiesSeeing a big time movie star acting a tv show was pretty cool at the time. A show I never realized was weird until seeing it much later.

9. Arrested Development
Not enough good can be said of this show.

10. Golden Girls

Seinfeld
Arrested Development
My Name Is Earl
Scrubs
The Office (US)
Beverly Hillbillies
Sanford And Son
Parks And Rec
Married With Children
Curb Your Enthusiasm

I just started looking through this thread and was like, ummm, ok, so no one listed Arrested Development?

Then I realized the thread was a freakin' decade old, and the two posts that are recent both included AD.

Wow how the "sitcom" has evolved over the past ten years. Or heck, television in general.

I'll have to think about this one.

No particular order and including sketch comedy...

Monty Python's Flying Circus
Curb your Enthusiasm
All in the Family
SCTV
The Bob Newhart Show (70s)
Barney Miller
Seinfeld
Sanford and Son
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Frasier

10. Saved by the Bell
9. 30 Rock
8. Married With Children
7. Good Times
6. Fresh Prince
5. What's Happening
4. Friends
3. Modern Family
2. Arrested Development
1. New Girl

Number 1 is M*A*S*H

Then, INPO:

Friends
Seinfeld
Happy Days
Three's Company
All in the Family
The Brady Bunch
King of Queens
The Big Bang Theory
Roseanne

In random order

Fawlty Towers
Red Dwarf
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Seinfeld
The Simpsons
MASH
Futurama
Arrested Development
Cheers
Family Ties

1. Seinfeld
2. How I Met Your Mother
3. King of Queens
4. Friends
5. Parks and Rec
6. The Office (US)
7. Community
8. 30 Rock
9. Cheers
10. Modern Family

Pretty current I know, just don't remember enjoying the older series like I'm enjoying these shows...

In no particular order...

All In the Family
Friends
Arrested Development
Coach
SOAP
Fawlty Towers
Roseanne
The Bob Newhart Show
Newhart
NewsRadio

In order of title length:

Scrubs
Cheers
M*A*S*H
Seinfeld
The Office (UK)
I Love Lucy
Night Court
The Simpsons
The Cosby Show
Arrested Development

Cheers
Seinfeld
All In The Family
Family Ties
Friends
Arrested Development
The Honeymooners
Modern Family
The Office (UK version)
Happy Days

In no order:
Arrested Development
Cheers
Modern Family
IT Crowd
Perfect Strangers
Night Court
Black Books
Blackadder
How I Met Your Mother
The Office

Gone too soon, but had real promise:
No Heroics
Greg the Bunny
The Tick

Top 10 animated sitcoms:
Archer
Venture Bros
Futurama
SeaLab 2021
Space Ghost
South Park
Boondocks
King of the Hill
Robot Chicken
Aqua Team Hunger Force

Loosely ordered:

Arrested Development
Community
Parks & Recreation
Futurama
Seinfeld
How I Met Your Mother
Scrubs
Newsradio
Friends
The Simpsons

1. WKRP
2. Action
3. Cheers
4. Titus
5. Soap
6. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
7. The Addams Family
8. Hogans Heros
9. Newsradio
10. Frasier

No order, except MASH is number 1 and South Park is number 2.

MASH
South Park
Simpsons
Cheers
All in the Family
Taxi
Good Times
Seinfeld (don't really like it that much, but it's brilliant)
Family Ties
Sports Night

Honorable Mention
Bob Newhart
Happy Days
Newsradio
Frasier
WKRP
Friends
Married with Children

Love that your list includes King of Queens and Roseanne. To me, two of the most underrated shows of all time. I guess Roseanne was a big enough hit that it is hard to call it underrated, but KOQ definitely did not get the respect it deserved.

Random order:

Frasier
Cheers
M*A*S*H
All in the Family
Barney Miller
Taxi
Gilligan's Island (yes, Gilligan's freakin' Island, dammit!!)
Arrested Development
WKRP
Dick van Dyke Show

I'm a little confused here. I always thought "sitcom" referred to the sort of stage-bound, taped-in-front-of-a-live-audience sort of thing (like AITF, Sandord, Cheers, Frasier, Barney Miller, Honeymooners, etc.) as opposed to just plain comedies such as Gilligan's Island.

Some comedies seem to have a foot in both camps...Seinfeld, for instance, used a lot of locations but was primarily located in the characters' apartments. However, I still always thought of 'sitcoms' as those shows that placed characters in a more-or-less static situation (thus the term) and rarely strayed from that location. I noticed a lot of people mentioned Addams Family...I never once thought of that as a "sitcom". Likewise, shows such as Freaks & Geeks seem like classic comedies rather than sitcoms.

If this thinking is wrong, it's hard to believe that one of the gems of tv history (Andy Griffith Show) didn't make almost everyone's list. The first five "Barney" years are nonstop classics that never grow old.