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Friends (1994)
8.8/10on IMDb
First aired
The New York friends turn small disagreements into reasons to reconvene, and the coffeehouse gives them a place to do it. Try it when you want the pleasures of knowing where a group will be after a long day. The romances matter, but the real draw is how easy it is to drop into the company.
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Living Single (1993)
7.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Start here for a Brooklyn friend group with a life outside the apartment. Khadijah runs a magazine, and her friends and neighbors bring their own work and dating disasters home. The appeal is the teasing shorthand of people who know one another well enough to call out a bad idea before it gets started.
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Seinfeld (1989)
8.8/10on IMDb
First aired
A 1989 debut with most of its run in the 1990s. Pick it when you want a social rule nobody agreed to explained with the seriousness of a court case. The four friends take petty problems so far that the separate stories can snap together just when you think they have nothing to do with one another.
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
7.9/10on IMDb
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Will moves from Philadelphia into his aunt and uncle's Bel-Air home. The pleasure is watching him and the Banks family size one another up, especially when Carlton's certainty collides with Will's improvisation. Try it when you want family comedy that can take a serious turn without losing the personalities that made it funny.
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Frasier (1993)
8.2/10on IMDb
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Frasier Crane gives advice on Seattle radio and has to share his home with his father. Try it when you want elaborate farce set in motion by people who believe they can explain their way out of anything. The scenes with Niles work especially well when the brothers agree on a plan the rest of the room can see is doomed.
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Cheers (1982)
8.0/10on IMDb
First aired
The Boston bar is the place to go for a hangout where even an interruption feels like part of the welcome. The show began in the 1980s. Its early-1990s seasons are the later stretch with Rebecca, Woody and the regulars who can keep a joke going from one end of the bar to the other.
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Everybody Loves Raymond (1996)
7.3/10on IMDb
First aired
Ray and Debra live across the street from his parents. The short distance means a small disagreement can turn into a family discussion before anybody asks for one. Pick it for domestic comedy where a look from Debra can be funnier than another speech from Ray.
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NewsRadio (1995)
8.0/10on IMDb
First aired
A manager walks into a New York news radio station staffed by people with little interest in being managed. If you want workplace comedy with hardly a pause for breath, this is the choice. The station's deadlines are just enough of an excuse to watch private feuds become everyone's problem.
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3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
7.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Four aliens pass themselves off as a family while studying people on Earth. The joke is how seriously they commit to customs everybody else barely thinks about. Choose it for the actors' big physical reactions and a living room where even knowing when to stop talking seems like advanced science.
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Night Court (1984)
7.7/10on IMDb
First aired
On the night shift at a Manhattan court, Judge Harry Stone and his staff have to make sense of a new set of cases every evening. Try the original run for a workplace comedy where the defendants keep changing and the regulars are every bit as unpredictable.
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The Simpsons (1989)
8.6/10on IMDb
First aired
The animated series began in 1989 and spent the next decade turning Springfield into a town full of people you can recognize in a few seconds. Try the 1990s seasons if you want a family argument that can take in an entire town meeting or briefly become a parody of another kind of TV show.
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The Golden Girls (1985)
8.2/10on IMDb
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Four women share a Miami home, and a good conversation can bounce from Blanche’s dating life to a Rose story or something Sophia probably shouldn’t repeat. The show began in the 1980s and ran into the 1990s. Pick it for a hangout comedy built around friends well past the usual sitcom starting age.
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The Nanny (1993)
7.2/10on IMDb
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Fran Fine comes into the Sheffield household and has little reason to take its manners as seriously as its residents do. Try it for bright clothes, much louder entrances, and arguments where Niles can do real damage with a well-timed aside. The family setting gives the jokes more warmth as the kids get used to Fran.
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Sister, Sister (1994)
6.3/10on IMDb
First aired
Tia and Tamera find each other after being adopted into different families. Living together gives the twins a chance to compare notes on school and dating, and the contrast between their parents keeps the household stories moving. Choose it for teen comedy that gives you both sides of a sibling argument.
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The Larry Sanders Show (1992)
8.5/10on IMDb
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The show follows a late-night host whose smile on camera can disappear the moment he steps backstage. Start here when you want the uncomfortable side of workplace comedy. A producer, sidekick and booking sheet give Larry plenty of ways to turn a mild insecurity into a crisis.
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Martin (1992)
7.5/10on IMDb
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Detroit radio host Martin Payne can pick a fight with just about anyone, which makes his home and work equally good places for teasing that gets out of hand. Pick it for the speed with which Martin Lawrence can get an ensemble argument moving and for the sharply different comic characters he plays.
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Ellen (1994)
6.1/10on IMDb
First aired
Choose the 1990s sitcom about Ellen Morgan, who runs a bookstore and makes small social decisions feel like public ordeals. The 1997 two-part The Puppy Episode turns her coming out into a landmark story while keeping the awkward comic timing that gives quieter episodes their charm.
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The Drew Carey Show (1995)
6.9/10on IMDb
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Drew's department-store job gives him a place to be frustrated and his Cleveland friends give him somewhere to take it afterward. Start here if you like blue-collar hangout humor with room for a show to break into a bigger performance than its ordinary setting seems to call for.
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That '70s Show (1998)
8.1/10on IMDb
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For a 1990s sitcom looking back one generation, start in Eric Forman's basement. The setting lets friends hang out long enough for the smallest question to become a group debate. Try it if you want teen comedy where the sniping upstairs can be as funny as what goes on downstairs.
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Mad About You (1992)
6.8/10on IMDb
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Paul and Jamie Buchman are New York newlyweds who can stretch an everyday decision into an argument with its own logic. Try the original 1990s run for the pleasure of seeing two people improvise their way to agreement. It works especially well if you want a couple's comedy with no need for a big premise.
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Designing Women (1986)
7.3/10on IMDb
First aired
The Sugarbaker sisters open a decorating firm, and each client gives the Atlanta office something new to disagree about. Try it for a workplace comedy where Julia’s insistence on saying what she means is part of the appeal. It started in the 1980s and aired new seasons into the 1990s.
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