How the Sitcoms bracket works
Sitcom tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Friends or The Office? Seinfeld or Parks and Recreation? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. The awkward pairings are the point: they are the calls a drag-and-drop tier list quietly lets you avoid.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 shows in the field. The field is reshuffled on every play, so the same show can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Friends, The Office, Seinfeld and Parks and Recreation.
Friends
1994-2004
The Office
2005-2013
Seinfeld
1989-1998
Parks and Recreation
2009-2015
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2013-2021
How I Met Your Mother
2005-2014
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2005-present
Schitt's Creek
2015-2020
Arrested Development
2003-2019
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000-2024
The Good Place
2016-2020
New Girl
2011-2018
Modern Family
2009-2020
The Big Bang Theory
2007-2019
Community
2009-2015
30 Rock
2006-2013
Frasier
1993-2004
Cheers
1982-1993
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1990-1996
Everybody Loves Raymond
1996-2005
Two and a Half Men
2003-2015
Ted Lasso
2020-2023
The Bear
2022-present
Abbott Elementary
2021-present
Fleabag
2016-2019
Malcolm in the Middle
2000-2006
Scrubs
2001-2010
That '70s Show
1998-2006
Veep
2012-2019
Will & Grace
1998-2020
King of the Hill
1997-2010
Superstore
2015-2021
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 7 completed Sitcoms brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
The Office
18W - 4L · won 2 brackets
82%
win rate
- 2
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
14W - 5L · won 1 bracket
74%
win rate
- 3
How I Met Your Mother
11W - 4L · won 2 brackets
73%
win rate
- 4
Arrested Development
10W - 5L · won 1 bracket
67%
win rate
- 5
The Big Bang Theory
14W - 7L
67%
win rate
- 6
Friends
12W - 6L
67%
win rate
- 7
Ted Lasso
10W - 7L
59%
win rate
- 8
Seinfeld
8W - 6L
57%
win rate
- 9
Modern Family
8W - 6L
57%
win rate
- 10
New Girl
7W - 6L
54%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Judge the whole run, not just the best season, or every prestige show wins by default.
- 2The default run puts all 32 shows in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Sitcoms bracket FAQ
How many shows are in the Sitcoms bracket?
The pool holds 32 shows. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which shows are included?
Friends, The Office, Seinfeld, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, How I Met Your Mother, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Schitt's Creek, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Good Place and New Girl, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the sitcom tier list take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up and nothing is stored until you reach the final.
Is this a sitcoms tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other show grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two shows that never met. If you would rather place the shows into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community sitcoms ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the Sitcoms community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which shows are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own shows, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.