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The 17 Best Sitcoms to Binge, Ranked
Vote up the sitcoms that are worth the binge.
In a world where endless streaming options can be overwhelming, sometimes all you need is a solid sitcom to unwind and have a good laugh. That's why we've put together this list of the best sitcoms to binge. Whether you're into quirky humor, heartfelt moments, or hilarious ensemble casts, these sitcoms offer everything you'd want for a binge-worthy experience.
Take New Girl, for example, which captures the amusing antics of a group of friends navigating love and life in Los Angeles. Or Brooklyn Nine-Nine, where the laughs are endless thanks to the dynamic squad of detectives at the 99th precinct. And let’s not forget Community, with its meta-humor and eclectic group of community college students who make even the most mundane situations ridiculously entertaining. Each show brings its unique flavor of comedy that makes it irresistibly bingeable.
Now it's your turn. We want to know which sitcoms keep you glued to your screen for hours on end. Vote on your favorite sitcom TV shows to binge and help fellow readers find their next great series to indulge in. Your opinions will shape the ultimate binge-watch list, so make sure your voice is heard!
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Total Number Of Episodes: 153
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 56 hours
Why It's So Good: Police procedural shows often come across as self-important and self-serious; however, Brooklyn Nine-Nine takes the opposite approach by making it all about the humor. In addition, it doesn't rely on harmful stereotypes or tropes to land punchlines. Instead, it embraces and celebrates the diversity of its characters, while never being afraid of challenging serious issues.
Highlight Reel: Season 4, episode 16, titled "Moo Moo," tackles the important subject of racial profiling, while also showing the consequences of what happens when people speak out about injustices. It's a seminal piece of television that delivers an important lesson about the importance of doing the right thing and standing up for what's right.
Bingeworthy?- 1Captain Ray Holt1,044 Votes
- 2Detective Jake Peralta1,009 Votes
- 3Sergeant Terry Jeffords827 Votes
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Total Number Of Episodes: 126
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 53 hours
Why It's So Good: On the surface, Parks and Recreation looks to be the story of Leslie Knope, the deputy director of the Pawnee Parks and Recreation Department, who tries to build a new park. However, it's all about the outlandish dynamics of a wild cast of characters and how their lives change after meeting each other.
Highlight Reel: Ron Swanson as a whole. Nick Offerman's character has become a pop-culture icon and meme. Without him, Parks and Rec would be much poorer.
Bingeworthy?- 1Ron Swanson3,277 Votes
- 2Andy Dwyer2,959 Votes
- 3April Ludgate2,920 Votes
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Number Of Episodes: 201
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 84 hours
Why It's So Good: The Office is arguably the most real, authentic show about working in an office with other employees. From the ambitious brown-noser and snitch (Dwight), to the lovable slacker (Jim) and the distracting and clueless manager (Michael), this sitcom showcases a number of archetypes every viewer probably recognizes from their own job.
Highlight Reel: The second season is where the magic really kicks in, because the characters at Dunder Mifflin are by then fully defined. Special guest stars include James Spader, Kathy Bates, and Will Ferrell.
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Total Number Of Episodes: 81
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 30 hours
Why It's So Good: Essentially, Schitt's Creek is a fish-out-of-water tale as the Rose family learns how to be middle class after being disgustingly wealthy for so long. Of course, in the beginning, their reaction toward anything less than luxury makes for amusing viewing; however, their journey toward finding out what really matters in life is at the heart of the sitcom.
Highlight Reel: The sixth and final season of Schitt's Creek is arguably one of the finest in sitcom history. It cleaned up at the 2020 Emmys, winning all seven comedy categories.
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Total Number Of Episodes: 110
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 46 hours
Why It's So Good: Despite the shenanigans of Community being largely set in a community college, the story never gets old for a second. Even when characters come and go throughout the seasons, they bring something fresh to the table and add to the narrative rather than serve as wallflowers.
Highlight Reel: Not only does the main cast of Community consist of powerhouse actors, but the show also attracts incredible guest appearances from the likes of John Goodman, Brie Larson, and Betty White.
Bingeworthy?- 1Epidemiology33 Votes
- 2Regional Holiday Music36 Votes
- 3Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps29 Votes
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Total Number Of Episodes: 251
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 96 hours
Why It's So Good: Moving away from the tropes of sitcoms past, Modern Family modernizes - pardon the pun - itself with pertinent and side-splitting everyday challenges that most families deal with. More important, it showcases how every family looks and acts differently, and doesn't need to fit into the traditional nuclear family mold with mom, dad, 2.5 kids, and a white picket fence.
Highlight Reel: Modern Family received 85 Emmy Award nominations during its run, winning 22. It's not just TV - it's award-winning TV at its finest.
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Number Of Episodes: 146
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 54 hours
Why It's So Good: Much like New Girl lead Zooey Deschanel herself, the sitcom has an offbeat, goofy charm. It's like a quirkier version of Friends, with Jess, Nick, Schmidt, and Cece navigating a more modern world of challenges. For example: nobody is living in a luxury New York apartment on an ordinary salary here.
Highlight Reel: The first season of New Girl is sheer perfection - the characters shine in all their beautiful awkwardness. The show dips around Season 5 when Megan Fox's Reagan briefly subs as the lead because Deschanel was on maternity leave, but Reagan wasn't the focus for long.
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Total Number Of Episodes: 50 and counting
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 21 hours and counting
Why It's So Good: Who doesn't want to watch a mockumentary about vampires and how they live in the modern world?! In essence, What We Do in the Shadows is the National Geographic show that everyone deserves as they find out that being an immortal bloodsucker isn't everything it's painted out to be.
Highlight Reel: Initially a supporting role, the energy vampire Colin Robinson grows into one of the best characters on the show. The scenes when he's in an office and sucking the life out of his human co-workers by boring them to death are pure comedic genius. Give Mark Proksch all the awards for this outstanding performance.
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Total Number Of Episodes: 84
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 37 hours
Why It's So Good: Arrested Development shines because of the stellar writing. As the characters experience familial drama, it's like watching a family fight at the grocery store over the kind of milk they buy - it might be serious to the people in the moment, but it's hilarious to the bystanders.
Highlight Reel: Season 1, episode 6, titled "Pier Pressure," still stands as one of the funniest episodes of television. It's mishap after mishap as harsh lessons and Hot Cops collide to provide a cacophony of laughter.
Bingeworthy?- 1Gob Bluth1,957 Votes
- 2Tobias Fünke1,894 Votes
- 3Lucille Bluth1,608 Votes
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Total Number Of Episodes: 53
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 20 hours
Why It's So Good: The Good Place asks the question: What happens in the afterlife? However, it flips the premise on its head by sending the "bad" people to "the good place" to see what happens. It's an alluring concept and conundrum to ponder, and as soon as the viewer thinks they have figured it out, the show throws another twist into the mix.
Highlight Reel: After the Season 1 finale, “Michael's Gambit,” blows minds with a huge and unexpected twist, audiences must complete the rest of the series.
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Total Number Of Episodes: 208
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 76 hours
Why It's So Good: How I Met Your Mother is a sitcom with a mystery element that keeps everyone glued to their screens. Viewers know that Ted Mosby meets his wife, but they aren't sure who, why, what, or when, so the show takes the audience on a laugh-a-minute ride to find out more about Ted and his friends as he journeys toward meeting his future wife and mother of his kids.
Highlight Reel: Neil Patrick Harris's Barney Stinson illuminates every scene. While Barney is a sleazy womanizer with a questionable moral compass in the beginning, his character grows and he becomes far more entertaining and exciting than his buddy, Ted.
Bingeworthy?- 12
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Number Of Episodes: 236
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 87 hours
Why It's So Good: It's more than a sitcom; it's a hangout with, well, friends. It's relatable to see what Ross, Rachel, Joey, Chandler, Monica, and Phoebe get up to as they encounter everyday situations in love, life, and everything in between. Plus, it helps that there's genuine chemistry between the performers.
Highlight Reel: Guest stars galore pops up on Friends, from Brad Pitt to Bruce Willis. Also, the series finale was watched by a mind-blowing 52.5 million viewers, establishing the sitcom's last episode as one of the most-watched TV finales of all time.
Bingeworthy?- 1The One Where Everybody Finds Out1,622 Votes
- 2The One with the Embryos1,378 Votes
- 3The One Where Ross Got High970 Votes
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Total Number Of Episodes: 180
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 66 hours
Why It's So Good: Even though Seinfeld fictionalizes comedian Jerry Seinfeld's life, this sitcom doesn't try to make it more extravagant. The show possesses a wicked sense of realistic humor as it finds the funny side of everyday life problems and pushes its flawed characters to the brink. It's the TV show equivalent of that one friend everyone has who is so extra about everything in their life.
Highlight Reel: In “The Couch” (Season 6, episode 5), George doesn't want to read Breakfast at Tiffany's and decides to rent the movie instead. All the copies are rented out, however, which leads to him visiting an unknown family to watch the movie with. It's one of the most awkward and utterly hilarious episodes in TV history. Also, Jerry's parade of girlfriends over the years included a number of well-known actresses, such as Teri Hatcher, Courteney Cox, Lauren Graham, Kristin Davis, and Lori Loughlin.
Bingeworthy?- 1It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia191 Votes
- 2Brooklyn Nine-Nine166 Votes
- 3After Life58 Votes
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Total Number Of Episodes: 170 and counting
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 65 hours and counting
Why It's So Good: Raunchy, funny, and unafraid to get dark if it needs to be, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia pushes its satire and nihilistic characters to the max throughout each episode. Impressively, it's a sitcom that grows in stature with each season.
Highlight Reel: The show truly kicks off in Season 2 with the introduction of Danny DeVito's Frank Reynolds. From there onward, the tomfoolery only gets further out of hand and out of control.
Bingeworthy?- 15
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Total Number Of Episodes: 139
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 51 hours
Why It's So Good: For anyone who works in the entertainment industry - or dreams of doing so - 30 Rock peels back the curtain of how outrageous and madcap the world of television is. Essentially, it's a fictionalized version of what it's like to be a part of Saturday Night Live.
Highlight Reel: Where to start? Countless awards. Memorable guest appearances. Critically acclaimed performances. Oh, and the series finale is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time. This is primetime TV, baby!
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Total Number Of Episodes: 113
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 41 hours
Why It's So Good: Superstore captures the daily life of working in a big chain store, including the challenges of dealing with customers, colleagues, and climbing the imaginary corporate ladder that leads to nowhere. Similar to The Office, it's a quirky workplace comedy with a likable ensemble cast that pokes fun at common and relatable situations and character archetypes.
Highlight Reel: Every season proves to be better than the last, as the sitcom grows into itself. Season 3, in particular, captures lightning in a bottle as the storylines, characters, and humor click for a rollicking good time.
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Total Number Of Episodes: 39 episodes and counting
How Long It Would Take To Watch: 14 hours and counting
Why It's So Good: There's a heartwarming quality to this sitcom as it sees optimistic teacher Janine Teagues keep her spirits up and strive for excellence even though she teaches at the drastically underfunded and underappreciated Abbott Elementary. Despite the odds being against her, the teacher uplifts and improves her students' lives and inspires her peers.
Highlight Reel: Abbott Elementary is the little show that can, nabbing three Golden Globe Awards in 2023, including one for star Quinta Brunson. Excellence personified.
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