Choose Your Big-Three Sitcoms

[Jason]

I guess I'm going with the "Desert Island" thing. If you could pick three TV sitcoms where you could access every episode at any moment forever, but you couldn't have access to any other sitcoms, which three would you go with?

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Do they have to have live studio audience/laugh track?

[Jason]

Do they have to have live studio audience/laugh track?

I would say The Office definitely counts. :p If that's what you're talking about...

As long as it's considered a TV sitcom. I'd consider The SImpsons, The Office, etc... to be sitcoms, despite no laugh track.
One of my three doesn't have a laugh track, actually.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Off the top of my head...

Married With Children, Arrested Development, The Office

MwC would be the unbudgable one, while I'd have to put more thought if the other two are worthy to stay or not (for me, I don't give a shit what others think I should put there )

[Jason]

Married With Children is the only one on the list I'm really familiar with. I've caught maybe a couple episodes each of Arrested Development and The Office.

Might come as a shocker to everyone, but Married With Children was barely edged out for me. It is easily one of my all time favorite shows but it didn't make the desert island list. I tried to pick 3 sitcoms that are completely different from each other to get a nice variety of comedy. Married With Children, Home Improvement and Roseanne are shows I can watch forever, but all three are pretty similar. So here are my three in chronological order:




ALL IN THE FAMILY
I haven't even finished watching this show yet and I've already developed the opinion that it's the most important sitcom in history. While two of the main characters clash heads on certain political topics in just about every episode, I've never seen a show display so much unity in its message. Many episodes I'll find myself agreeing with Archie, but in some instances I agree with Mike. Archie Bunker is the most remembered character in the show, and he's certainly deserving of that title, but I actually think Edith is the show's most important character. She has a bit of an airheadedness about her that is endearing to the audience and she serves as the centerpiece of unity when the characters have conflict. She always says the right thing.

SEINFELD
I'm a 3rd generation Seinfeld viewer. My grandpa introduced this show to my Dad, who also fell in love with it and it is possibly his favorite sitcom ever. Of course, I got to see it as a kid when he'd tune in every night to watch it. I always liked it, but it's best appreciated as an adult. I continued seeing episodes more and more as I became an adult, ended up buying the Complete Series and when I first binged the entire show about 10 years ago, it really elevated to the top of the line for me. Every episode, Seinfeld took events from our every day lives and expressed it in a way that only true comedy can.

SOUTH PARK
The quality of this show is remarkable, and the way its maintained its longevity is really unbelievable. It has been going for well over 20 years and it is arguably as funny now as it has ever been. South Park feeds on all the silly things happening in the real world and applies their own perspective on it with a tweak of tough love and a mountain of obscenities specifically designed to offend anybody it can. I'm not sure what show on this list is my favorite, but this is the only show that could make me laugh so uncontrollably. There is no show like it, and there will never be another one. For that, it has to make my list.

[showa58taro]

If we count South Park I’ll probably go:

South Park, The Office (US), and Modern Family

Was close to replacing MF with Friends.

[Monster]

Cheers, Night Court, and The Simpsons.

[Headhunter]

It's Always Sunny, The Simpsons, Arrested Development

HM: Parks and Recreation, South Park

[Tiggnutz]

Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory , The Simpsons

[DancesWithWerewolves]

It's Always Sunny, The Simpsons, Arrested Development

HM: Parks and Recreation, South Park

I was just thinking about It's Always Sunny at work today as one that could slip in. Like The Office it's incredibly rewatchable at any time.

[zombie]

newsradio, new girl, parks and recreation

[Headhunter]

It's Always Sunny, The Simpsons, Arrested Development

HM: Parks and Recreation, South Park

I was just thinking about It's Always Sunny at work today as one that could slip in. Like The Office it's incredibly rewatchable at any time.

There are so many episodes I never get tired of. And laugh just as hard as the first time.

[showa58taro]

Man, never even heard of ax’s first one. How bad is that!

[Ava]

3)Community

I really liked Becker for the short while it was on.

[Headhunter]

Malcolm is a great choice.

[Reign in Blood]

Hold the phone! Does Saved By the Bell count? Fuck, what else would it be? Way to spring existential crisis on me, J.

[Reign in Blood]

Off the ol' dome, and this is tough.

Old me/cooler answer:
Married with Children
Beavis and Butthead (replace it with South Park if you must)
Seinfeld

Truthfully:
Home Improvement
Friends
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Honorable mention to Roseanne and Full House here.

Those bottom 5 are the ones I've definitely seen every episode, some episodes watched too many times I want to admit to, and recite shit like the back of the hand. The first three are definitely ones I would have said, but don't really pass upon reflection.

And I'm taking the easy way out and giving Saved By the Bell the red all Universe belt, seeing as how my young world revolved around Kelly Kapowski...

[Reign in Blood]

Actually, Kapowski, anybody think that's a cute nickname for a chick that likes to box?

[Ava]

3) Community.
Lot of laughs with that group.

[Jmac Attack]

Three's Company
Roseanne
Married With Children