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The 20 Best NBC Sitcoms of All Time

by YPB Team

Peacock comedy across five decades, from black-and-white junk yards to Pawnee parks departments. Some of these built the format; a couple quietly outlived it.

  1. Seinfeld — ranked #11
    Seinfeld
    Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David's 1989-98 comedy about four New Yorkers and the small print of daily life.
  2. Friends — ranked #22
    Friends
    Ten seasons of six twentysomethings sharing coffee, apartments and each other's love lives in Manhattan.
  3. The Office — ranked #33
    The Office
    Mockumentary about the Scranton branch of a failing paper company, led by the world's worst boss.
  4. Cheers — ranked #44
    Cheers
    Eleven seasons in a Boston bar where a former ballplayer pours drinks for a fixed cast of regulars.
  5. Frasier — ranked #55
    Frasier
    The Cheers spinoff that moved a radio psychiatrist to Seattle and won a record run of comedy Emmys.
  6. Parks and Recreation — ranked #66
    Parks and Recreation
    A relentlessly optimistic mid-level bureaucrat tries to improve a small Indiana town.
  7. 30 Rock — ranked #77
    30 Rock
    Tina Fey's backstage satire of a live NBC sketch show and the network executives above it.
  8. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air — ranked #88
    The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
    A West Philadelphia teenager is sent to live with his wealthy relatives in Bel-Air.
  9. The Golden Girls — ranked #99
    The Golden Girls
    Four older women share a Miami house and refuse to be written off by anyone.
  10. Taxi — ranked #1010
    Taxi
    Late-1970s comedy set in a Manhattan cab garage, with a cast that produced several film careers.
  11. Will & Grace — ranked #1111
    Will & Grace
    A gay lawyer and his straight best friend in Manhattan, one of network TV's first mainstream gay leads.
  12. News Radio — ranked #1212
    News Radio
    Cult workplace comedy set at a New York AM news station with an unusually deep bench of comics.
  13. 3rd Rock from the Sun — ranked #1313
    3rd Rock from the Sun
    Four aliens pose as an Ohio family and fail, loudly, to understand human behaviour.
  14. Night Court — ranked #1414
    Night Court
    A young judge presides over the night shift of a Manhattan criminal court and the oddities it attracts.
  15. Mad About You — ranked #1515
    Mad About You
    A married Manhattan couple navigate the 1990s one small domestic negotiation at a time.
  16. The Good Place — ranked #1616
    The Good Place
    A woman who does not belong in the afterlife tries to earn her place in it.
  17. Family Ties — ranked #1717
    Family Ties
    Ex-hippie parents raise a Reagan-worshipping teenage son in 1980s Ohio.
  18. Community — ranked #1818
    Community
    A study group at a wildly dysfunctional community college, and the sitcom that kept breaking its own format.
  19. Sanford and Son — ranked #1919
    Sanford and Son
    A Watts junk dealer and his son bicker their way through the 1970s.
  20. Superstore — ranked #2020
    Superstore
    The staff of a big-box store handle customers, corporate policy and each other.

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Comments

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