Herman's Head became Pixar's Inside Out

What other sitcom has a fan club like this? None. Mr Belvedere... I mean, Brocktoon... stands alone.

How did The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer not make your list?

1. Scrubs
2. Always Sunny
3. Seinfeld
4. Community
5. Arrested Development

That's true, I never thought of that.

1. Fawlty Towers
2. Community
3. Barney Miller
4. Arrested Development (Season1-3)
5. Spaced

Toast of London is peak Berry, though. It'd be #6 on my list.

1) The black-and-white episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (159 episodes)

2) Seasons 1-8 of The Simpsons (178 Episodes)

3) Seinfeld (180 episodes)

4) MASH, up until Radar leaves (178 episodes)

5, tie) Scrubs, not including the last season

5, tie) 30 Rock

On a serious level, I find this is kind of difficult to do. There are a lot of great sitcoms out there, but a lot of them don't have full runs that art particularly great. Most kind of have a bell-curve where the first couple years they're figuring themselves out, there's an incredible middle period, then they sort of run out of steam. Seinfeld exemplifies this.

So, yeah, All in the Family was pretty great for the first few years, but once Mike and Gloria moved out and the Bunkers ended up raising their niece, it wasn't the same anymore.

Or Happy Days is also a good example. The earliest seasons (with Chuck) were quite different from the more popular period, but even then, over time, the greatness got chipped away when Richie and Ralph left, and then it became this weird thing about Fonzie and his girlfriend and her daughter and Ted McGinley. It's also the show that gave us the idea of "Jumping the Shark." Happy Days, as good as it was for a while, is a also a textbook case of qhat not to do -- losing cast members, letting a side character become the focus, jumping the shark, bringing in cute kids...

Cheers is one that I think started out strong from the gate, always maintained its focus, and managed cast changes with ease (ie, replacing Coach with Woody, adding Frasier, losing Diane, bringing in Rebecca), and it ended its run strong.

I don't think you have to take a full run and average the quality though... if something had a few seasons of greatness and that's good enough to vault it up, that's fine too.

Though I just can't do it with HIMYM even if it is excising just one season (or even one episode).

Cheers is #1 and everything else is a distance second. It also fits Josh's requirement of strong start to finish. I did a rewatch around the time of Covid and the only real dip was Rebecca's first season as it didn't seem like the writers totally knew what to do with the character, but the cast is large and very strong so it's easy to overlook some rocky plots/jokes involving Rebecca. It also didn't help that Shelly Long was so much stronger in the Diane role.