2000/2010 gave us Community, The office, 30 Rock and Parks all at the same time absolutely no other decade come close to that.
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The 90's had the highest density of Good sitcoms. The 2000's had the Best sitcoms. Quantity? Or Quality?
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DEFINITELY the 90s. I mean, you had: - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire - Family Matters - Friends - Frasier - Seinfeld - Martin - The Jaime Foxx show - Boy Meets World - All That - Kenan and Kel - Step by Step - Full House - Everybody Loves Raymond - The Wayans Brothers - In Living Color - Hanging with Mr. Cooper - Smart Guy And many others that I am blanking on. The 90s was the PEEK of sitcoms. 2000s had some, but they didn't have much. Reality TV and drama shows pretty much dominated the 2000s.
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I’m slightly biased given my generation, but mid-late 2000’s was unparalleled. Arrested development, community, the office and hit tv sitcom jimmy neutron all released.
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Born in the 80s but the sitcoms of the 1970s have a special place in my heart. Thanks to reruns and syndication.
1 month ago | 55
Community and arrested development are strong enough by themselves to beat any other decade even if it was just those two shows.
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"Married... With Children" is one of my favorites that I don't think I've seen mentioned yet
1 month ago | 8
I'm one of the first voters so I can't see the chart yet, but my guess is 90's and 2000's will be the most popular by far. I went with 90's but man it's a tough call
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I know laugh tracks are hated, but something in my brain broke when sitcoms abandoned them in the 2000s.
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I’d probably say the 60’s. You had: • Bewitched • Sanford and Son • Gilligan’s Island • Green Acres • The Beverley Hillbillies • Hogan’s Heroes • The Addams Family • Batman And for kids you got The Flinstones and Scooby-Doo starting. Followed by that, I’d say the 90’s.
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Seinfeld, friends, everybody loves Raymond, Frasier. Doesn’t get any better than that if you ask me.
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Dude. 90s was the golden era. Not even a contest. Every sitcom afterwards was just trying to chase that dragon
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This poll is going to be a bit biased by the average age of your audience (including me, who didn't live through a lot of the 90s), but here's my take: Sitcoms were definitely bigger in the 90s (e.g. Simpsons and Seinfeld), but overall the 2000s gave us more higher-quality sitcoms, like Arrested Development, Community, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. The 2000s also introduced serious character drama into the sitcom, through shows like Scrubs, as well as expanding the sitcom into the workplace utilizing diverse settings to tell novel kinds of stories for the genre (e.g. Scrubs, The Office). In a sense I think each decade is a response to the previous one. The 80s was the last hoorah of the typical sitcom, which had become stale by the 90s and ended both by peaking in popularity with Friends and being destroyed by deconstructions like The Simpsons and Seinfeld. The 2000s saw the reconstruction of the sitcom, exploring creative new avenues for storytelling and comedy, challenging what it means to be a sitcom. Sitcoms could be set anywhere now, they could tell linear stories, they could have episodes that were outright genre parody. Then the 2010s saw that reach an apex and once again be deconstructed, only this time overly-cynical deconstructions like Rick and Morty, alongside a lack of creativity and quality in sitcoms and a general interest pivot towards prestige TV, plunged us into a sitcom dark age. Faint rays of light exist here and there, but we haven't been near the highs of the 2000s for a long time. I'm a bit biased due to my age, but outside of a few high points, I think in general the 2000s delivered much better sitcoms than the 90s. The Office is far greater than Friends as far as the hyper-popular shows go, and the 2000s gave us subversive masterpieces like Always Sunny and Community, as well as amazing writing and linear storylines with jokes that take episodes to come to fruition like Arrested Development. We even got Seinfeld 2 in Curb Your Enthusiasm. Sitcoms began to tug at your heart strings and tell stories that were watchable one episode at a time, but really benefitted if you saw the whole thing. There were a lot of standard sitcoms like Modern Family and How I Met Your Mother, but in general, the 90s' deconstruction of the sitcom required a boom of creativity and innovation to reconstruct it into a better format, with many shows people still watch to this day (some of which still have new episodes, 2 decades later).
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I was born in 1996, but the 90s, without a doubt, had the best sitcoms... BY FAR! They were the most real, unique and enjoyable. They never try too hard and they're just that awesome to watch!
1 month ago | 27
the 90s was probably the peak of their cultural relevance/popularity, but the 2000s has the highest quality output for my tastes
1 month ago | 2
The 90s and 2000s were both great, and I'm tempted to give the edge to the 2000s for the way it had so many comedies that could occasionally make me cry as well as laugh (Futurama, Scrubs). But in the end, sitcoms just felt more important in the 90s. Seinfeld and the Simpsons were my tether to society.
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What was THE best decade for sitcoms? Comment for any decade pre-1980s, I didn't have space for more options!
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