![]() You can rest assured that many of our favorites didn’t either, which means we can tweet out our angry, but respectful, responses. We apologize in advance that one (or more) of your favorites did not make the cut. So, with a focus on quality over nostalgia-no matter how much it hurt-the Paste editors and writers have chosen the 100 best sitcoms of all time (first voting in 2016 and updating the list in 2022). Some of our favorites managed to weave the high-brow with the low-brow many of them seemed unconcerned with either brow, as long they made us happy. The sitcom did that, and though it has evolved and morphed into the stuff of dreams, it always had those high-brow, cinematic qualities in its fiber. And Peak TV did not invent good storytelling in episodic form. ![]() Families and relationships (and the dysfunctional and/or loving ties that bind them), workplace drama, compelling historical settings and characters who made even the mundane seem worthy of our attention-these things are at the core of good storytelling. We have arrived at a glorious point in history, where watching an excellent TV show might finally be intellectually on par with reading a great book, and even the most prestigious of shows are all the descendants, in some way or another, of the good ol’ sitcom. Putting together a list like this is always equal parts painful and enjoyable for editors and writers, but I can’t think of a better time to look back on the greatest sitcoms of all time. We laughed, we cried, we raged against the dying of the light which sought to snuff out our personal favorite shows.
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