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Blossom (1990)
6.1/10on IMDb
First aired
Blossom Russo grows up in a household with her father and two brothers. Try it if you want a high-school comedy that can get a laugh through a conversation with a friend and still spend a whole episode on something that seriously worries the people in the room.
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The Jamie Foxx Show (1996)
6.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Jamie King wants a career in entertainment and works at his aunt and uncle's hotel in Los Angeles. If you like watching somebody perform for an audience even when the audience is just his coworkers, this is a good place to start. The hotel gives him somewhere to test every scheme while he waits for a break.
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Step by Step (1991)
6.6/10on IMDb
First aired
A newly married couple brings two sets of kids under the same roof, which means even a room assignment can turn into a loyalty test. Pick it for big blended-family farce and the amusement of watching children who know their old household's rules try to make them work in a much more crowded one.
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Wings (1990)
7.3/10on IMDb
First aired
Two brothers run a small airline from a Nantucket airport where they see the same people almost every day. Pick it for a different kind of workplace comedy, where the space is small, the rivalries are old, and the pleasant feeling that everybody will be back tomorrow is part of the joke.
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Grace Under Fire (1993)
6.4/10on IMDb
First aired
Grace is a single mother trying to raise three children and get through the working day after leaving a bad marriage. Choose it when you want candor and a family comedy that gives its lead real reasons to be tired. The sharp responses have more bite because you can see what she has been dealing with.
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South Park (1997)
8.7/10on IMDb
First aired
Four boys give South Park a child's-eye view of adults working themselves into a frenzy. The cutout look keeps the early episodes as blunt as their jokes. Choose the 1990s episodes when you want rude, deliberately abrasive animation instead of the more patient mood of King of the Hill.
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Family Guy (1999)
8.1/10on IMDb
First aired
The first season puts Peter Griffin, his family and their talking dog Brian together in 1999. Try it for an animated family comedy that can veer into a throwaway gag and then return to the dinner table as if nothing happened.
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Sex and the City (1998)
7.4/10on IMDb
First aired
Carrie Bradshaw's column gives the show a way to turn dates into questions for her three closest friends. It is a good adult hangout pick when you want the characters to have very different answers to the same problem. The first seasons put the dating stories in short, easy-to-revisit chapters.
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Saved by the Bell (1989)
7.1/10on IMDb
First aired
The Bayside kids can make a school day feel like an elaborate plan of Zack Morris's, right up until somebody has to deal with the consequences. Try the original run for cheerful high-school farce with a recognizable classroom, cafeteria, and group of friends.
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Married... with Children (1987)
8.1/10on IMDb
First aired
The Bundys spend a great deal of time together without feeling any duty to make home look inviting. Al's shoe-store job and the family's quarrels give the jokes a sour edge. Pick its 1990s seasons if you want a family sitcom that takes pleasure in how little anyone has learned by the end of the argument.
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Murphy Brown (1988)
7.0/10on IMDb
First aired
The original series follows a television journalist whose convictions and tendency to interrupt can make a newsroom as combative as any interview. Try its 1990s run when you want an office comedy that lets national debates reach the desks of people who have to cover them.
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The Wayans Bros. (1995)
7.3/10on IMDb
First aired
Shawn and Marlon Wayans put their brotherly friction into a New York sitcom. Try it if you like an argument that speeds up until the two people having it can barely fit one more reaction into the scene. Their father Pops gives them somebody who knows when a flimsy story is getting out of hand.
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