The 10 Best Sitcoms of All Time

The show about nothing is about everything: petty grudges, social codes, and four selfish New Yorkers who never learn. Every engine put it at #1, every time. Its influence on modern comedy is almost impossible to overstate.

A Boston bar where everybody knows your name, and where Sam and Diane's will-they-won't-they powered eleven seasons. Warm, sharp and endlessly rewatchable, it made every engine's top five, which is rare consistency for a show this old.

Springfield's yellow family turned a cartoon into the longest-running sitcom in American history. Its golden-era seasons are among the densest joke machines ever built. Gemini ranked it near the very top, while Claude was cooler on it.

Lucille Ball's slapstick genius invented the multi-camera sitcom template and the rerun itself. The grape-stomping and chocolate-factory scenes are still comic gold. ChatGPT had it near the top; Claude often left it out entirely.

The Bluth family's collapse is a dense, callback-stuffed farce that rewards every rewatch. It was canceled early, then became a cult legend. All three engines kept it in their top ten every single time.

A Korean War army surgeon unit that mixed wisecracks with real heartbreak. Its finale was one of the most-watched broadcasts in TV history. Gemini was its biggest booster, and it made every engine's top ten.

Two snobbish Seattle psychiatrist brothers, one cranky dad and a lot of sherry. Frasier spun out of Cheers and arguably surpassed it in verbal wit and farce. A steady top-ten pick across all three engines.

Twelve episodes of John Cleese raging at guests, staff and a damn moose head. Basil Fawlty is the perfect comic meltdown. Claude ranked it near the top, while Gemini never listed it at all.

The American take on the mockumentary workplace turned Michael Scott's cringe into something oddly lovable. It's the comfort-watch of a generation. ChatGPT and Gemini both kept it in their top ten every time.

Archie Bunker's bigotry and the family arguments around him made this the sitcom that took on race, war and politics head-on. It reshaped what TV comedy dared to say. Gemini listed it in all five runs.