25 Best Sitcoms Of All Time, Ranked

21. Freaks and Geeks

Canceled after one season but still managed to launch about a dozen Hollywood careers and cause a million ‘what ifs’. It’s the only show that truly gets what it feels like to be awkward, unpopular, and 15. Moreover, it has the best bad high school band ever: Dimension.

17. Parks and Recreation

Leslie Knope is America’s actual sweetheart. What started as a shaky ‘The Office’ clone grew into a vibrant, sweet, laugh-out-loud sitcom with a cast so lovable that we’d move to Pawnee tomorrow. Even if Li’l Sebastian is no longer with us. RIP, tiny horse.

15. Veep

If politics had a blooper reel, this would be it. ‘Veep’ is sharp, savage, and features the most creative swearing. Julia Louis-Dreyfus commits to being the worst person in the room and somehow makes it look effortless. If you’re looking for moral lessons, look elsewhere. But if you’re looking for a show where someone says “Jaffar from Al-Qaeda” with a straight face, congrats.

14. Schitt’s Creek

A riches-to-rags story where everyone starts off insufferable and ends up being enduring. The slow-burn transformation of the Rose family is sitcom evolution at its finest. Also, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ gave us Moira Rose, who speaks like a cursed thesaurus and deserves her own dictionary.

13. Modern Family

This show was the Volvo of sitcoms—reliable, safe, always there for you on lonely nights. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t funny. It took the faux-documentary style into the family home and created a generation of viewers who believed in the Pritchetts’ chaotic yet charming dynamics and celebrated Phil Dunphy as the pinnacle of Dad Goals.

9. The Office

The paper company that launched a thousand memes. Between Jim's glances, Dwight’s beet farming wisdom, and Michael Scott’s…well, everything, ‘The Office’ turned workplace drudgery into comfort TV gold.

7. M*A*S*H

How does a comedy about war work? Very carefully, with brilliance. ‘M*A*S*H’ managed to mix slapstick, sarcasm, and real emotional gut-punches—all while making Alan Alda one of the most beloved TV characters ever. Also, it lasted eight years longer than the actual Korean War.

4. Friends

Love it or hate it (or pretend to hate it but secretly quote it), ‘Friends’ defined a generation. The coffee, the style, the on-again, off-again relationship that somehow kept going like a sitcom Energizer bunny. It’s cliché to say it, but, they really were there for us all.

1. Seinfeld

Yes, the list ends exactly where it should. ‘Seinfeld’ wasn’t about lessons or growth, it was about nothing. Which somehow made it every-damn-thing! Sharp, nihilistic, and brilliantly written, it made the mundane miraculous and introduced the world to Festivus, the Soup Nazi, and the majesty of shrinkage. Serenity now, forever.