If you turn on your TV at any given time during the evening hours, you are able to find a plethora of sitcoms to watch. In fact, there are new sitcoms to watch on other streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu. However, the sitcoms that started even before the 2000s are ones that everyone should watch at least once in order to fully appreciate sitcoms.
- “Growing Pains”
“Growing Pains” is a sitcom following a psychiatric doctor and his wife’s life, specifically, their children and the issues they face with them. Most of the problems they face are confronted with humor and only serve to push the family closer together.
- “The Brady Bunch”
This sitcom follows the marriage of two widowed people, Brady and Carol. Brady has three sons while Carol has three daughters. The eight of them also live in the house with the maid, Alice. The plot follows the issues that arise after the boys and girls are living together under the same roof with a new mother and a new father.
- “Full House”
“Full House” is about how a family bonds over the death of their mother. DJ, Stephanie and Michelle Tanner all learn to live without their mother, with their father Danny, their Uncle Jesse and their father’s friend, Joey, all taking care of them. The sitcom includes problems that are specific to the ages of the children, as well as the adults. There is now a sequel on Netflix called “Fuller House,” starring DJ, Stephanie and Kimmie’s families.
- “Facts of Life”
“Facts of Life” is centered around four girls and their housemother at Eastland School for Young Women. Each of the four girls has a distinctive and unique personality. The sitcom follows them through their school lives and beyond graduation.
- “Roseanne”
This sitcom is focused on the ordinary actors who show the struggles of having a job and being part of a family. “Roseanne” is known for its hilarious one-liners and has a reboot scheduled on ABC.
- “Gilligan’s Island”
“Gilligan’s Island” is focused on the shipwreck of the charter boat, The Minnow. A diverse group of people aboard are then stranded on the island and make multiple attempts to escape the island.
- “Happy Days”
The plot of this sitcom follows a father, a mother and their two children. The father owns a hardware store while the mother stays at home. Richie, the son, and his friends are often featured until he leaves home to join the U.S. Army. It is set in the 1950s and 1960s in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- “Three’s Company”
“Three’s Company” stars two women and one man living together as roommates in an apartment in Santa Monica. Throughout the sitcom, the three characters experience many misadventures with each other and with their neighbors.
- “Seinfeld”
The sitcom stars four friends dealing with the absurdities of their life in New York City. Jerry Seinfeld stars in “Seinfeld” playing a comedian. In fact, he is acting as himself in it. For those living in New York City, this sitcom can be very relatable since it deals with the struggles found inside the city.
- “Friends”
“Friends” follows six best friends who live in the same apartment complex as they experience love and life in New York. They often find themselves in each other’s business and sometimes swapping romantic partners.
