The Best Sitcoms of All Time, Ranked
All 32 shows here, ranked by 109 players. The Office leads: it wins 73.2% of its matchups (n = 298) and was champion in 21 of 109 brackets. Disagree? Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
The Bear2022-2026
Cheers1982-1993
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
Sitcoms: the community’s best
Win rate across 2,851 head-to-head picks from 109 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | Sitcom | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Office2005-2013 | 218–80 | 73.2% | 21 | 298 | |
| 2 | Friends1994-2004 | 180–92 | 66.2% | 10 | 272 | |
| 3 | Modern Family2009-2020 | 151–85 | 64% | 6 | 236 | |
| 4 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine2013-2021 | 136–86 | 61.3% | 2 | 222 | |
| 5 | How I Met Your Mother2005-2014 | 147–94 | 61% | 9 | 241 | |
| 6 | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia2005-present | 127–88 | 59.1% | 10 | 215 | |
| 7 | Seinfeld1989-1998 | 114–80 | 58.8% | 5 | 194 | |
| 8 | Malcolm in the Middle2000-2006 | 120–85 | 58.5% | 6 | 205 |
Sitcoms: the community tier list
From 2,851 head-to-head picks in 109 finished brackets. Placed by win rate, steadied toward 50% for entrants with few matchups: S is 75% or more, A 60%, B 50%, C 40%, D 25%.
Stier, win rate 75% or more
- Nobody yet
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- The Office
- Friends
- Modern Family
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- How I Met Your Mother
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Seinfeld
- Malcolm in the Middle
- The Big Bang Theory
- Parks and Recreation
- Arrested Development
- New Girl
- The Good Place
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Abbott Elementary
- Community
- Ted Lasso
- Schitt's Creek
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- Two and a Half Men
- That '70s Show
- + 3 more
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- The Bear
- 30 Rock
- Cheers
- Fleabag
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- Frasier
- Will & Grace
- Veep
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Nobody yet
How the Sitcoms bracket works
This sitcom ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Friends or The Office? Seinfeld or Parks and Recreation? — and after 15 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 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 32 shows. The draw changes every day and New draw reshuffles it whenever you like, 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 32 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Friends, The Office, Seinfeld and Parks and Recreation. Updated
- Friends1994-2004
- The Office2005-2013
- Seinfeld1989-1998
- Parks and Recreation2009-2015
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine2013-2021
- How I Met Your Mother2005-2014
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia2005-present
- Schitt's Creek2015-2020
- Arrested Development2003-2019
- Curb Your Enthusiasm2000-2024
- The Good Place2016-2020
- New Girl2011-2018
- Modern Family2009-2020
- The Big Bang Theory2007-2019
- Community2009-2015
- 30 Rock2006-2013
- Frasier1993-2004
- Cheers1982-1993
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air1990-1996
- Everybody Loves Raymond1996-2005
- Two and a Half Men2003-2015
- Ted Lasso2020-2023
- The Bear2022-2026
- Abbott Elementary2021-present
- Fleabag2016-2019
- Malcolm in the Middle2000-2006
- Scrubs2001-2010
- That '70s Show1998-2006
- Veep2012-2019
- Will & Grace1998-2020
- King of the Hill1997-present
- Superstore2015-2021
Tier list instead?
Load all 32 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
Open the tier list makerMissing something?
Build your own sitcom bracket with exactly the entrants you want, then share the link.
Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Judge the whole run, not just the best season, or every prestige show wins by default.
- Start at 16 slots. If the result feels too obvious, replay at 32 so more of the 32 shows make the field.
- Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Questions people ask
What is the best sitcom?
According to 109 BracketRanker players, The Office (2005-2013). It wins 73.2% of its head-to-head matchups (n = 298) and was champion in 21 of 109 brackets (19.3%).
How many shows are in the Sitcoms bracket?
The pool holds 32 shows. A default run uses 16 of them and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. 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 Sitcoms bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up, and your progress is saved on this device after every pick.
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 15 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.