A sitcom is a comedy series in which situations occur, most of the time, in the same places and with the same characters. We would all know to list a few of the best sitcoms in history such as Friends and the legendary Central Perk or Cheers cafeteria and the bar that bears the name of the series. Series of comedies that became popular during the sixties and now remain one of the best options if you are looking for short, entertaining episodes and easy-to-follow stories with the same characters regularly.
We already know what are the characteristics of a sitcom: they are the same characters as always in the same place as always. In Forced Parents, for example, we will not leave the family home and it will be there where all the adventures will occur and always with the same characters. Fun, simple, entertaining series and one of the best options when you get home and want to see something that doesn’t make you think.
Friends
Perhaps the best known sitcom and view of history, thanks to its multiple remissions and the possibility of seeing it again on Netflix. With millions of fans worldwide, Friends is one of the best sitcoms you can see in full and will never go out of style. In addition, its chapters have the perfect formula: Short, full of gags and love stories between the characters.
Chandler, Monica, Ross, Phoebe, Joey, Rachel and Ross sneaked into half-world homes in the 1990s and are still the benchmark for a successful sitcom series. Its meetings in the Central Perk cafeteria, its messes, its enamored dramas and the thousands of situations generated in its 236 episodes make Friends a unique and perfect series to get you hooked on. You can swallow many chapters in one afternoon almost without knowing or skipping among your favorites if you’ve already seen it more than once.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 1994
Chapters : Ten Seasons, 236 Episodes
Duration per episode : Approximately 25 minutes
Genre : Comedy, sitcom
Recommended age : For over 13 years
How I Met Your Mother
A series that became instant classic and that we can remember again and again on Netflix. The adventures of Ted Mosby and his gang of friends, told by the protagonist himself to his children in the future, hooked millions of spectators thanks to the humor and misadventures of Ted in search of love . Ted and his friends, the well-known Robin, Lily, Marshall and Barney, will star in a series told as autobiography of their protagonist’s children.
In the Friends style, the gang of friends also meets in a bar and their experiences are the focus of this story. Situations and love affairs between them and a lot of fun stories that are formed around the thread: Ted’s life until he meets what will be the mother of his children. Its final season was an event and a legion of fans was created who know each and every one of the chapters of How I Met Your Mother.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 2005
Chapters : Nine Seasons, 208 Episodes
Duration per episode : About 25 minutes
Genre : Comedy, sitcom
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Big bang theory
Leonard and Sheldon are two physicists from the California Institute of Technology who live together and whose life changes when Penny moves to the apartment on the other side of the corridor, an aspiring waitress for an actress Leonard falls in love with when she sees her. The series is one of the great sitcoms of recent times and throughout its 12 seasons has been engaging more and more followers, while expanding the payroll of characters.
The difficulty of Leonard to try to attract Penny , the few social skills of the genius Sheldon and the secondary messes of Raj and Howard make The Big Bang Theory one of the most fun series that have been broadcast this century and now on Netflix we can review from the first chapter the evolution of the characters or see it for the first time, if we have not yet entered their particular universe.
Platform : Atresplayer Premium
Year : 2007
Chapters : Twelve Seasons, 279 Episodes
Duration : About 20 or 22 minutes per chapter
Genre : Comedy
Age : –
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The prince of Bel Air
Here we saw for the first time Will Smith characterized as himself in a series in which he was going to live with his uncles and cousins in a luxurious house in the residential neighborhood of Bel-Air, being a rebellious kid in Philadelphia, where he believed and he lived without paying much attention to the police. His move to a world of luxury, rules and people from another social class generates many fun situations and allowed us to discover several of the most unforgettable characters on television, such as Uncle Phil or Cousin Carlton Banks.
Despite the passing of the years, The Prince of Bel-Air never goes out of style and his humor is still in force and it is undoubtedly one of the most mythical series that we remember from our childhood. Now you can see it again or review only those chapters that were stored in your memory and that made you very funny.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 1990 – 1996
Chapters : Six seasons, 148 episodes
Duration : About 23 minutes per chapter
Genre : Sitcom
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Modern Family
Modern Family is an intelligent series, very funny and with characters of those who do not forget you. It tells the adventures and misadventures of three families united by the patriarch, Jay Pritchett. It is shown in a false documentary mode , as if the protagonists knew at all times that the cameras are there. In fact there are many times we see them speak directly to the camera, as if they were scenes of a confessional.
They are three completely different families that cover a broad representative field of society. The Latin woman, the homosexual couple and the adopted Asian girl will give rise to endless misunderstandings and crazy plots. A perfect series to watch as a couple and one of the best comedies that have been made in recent years. In addition, it is a good option if you are looking for a series to improve your English thanks to the amount of different accents you will find.
Platform : Netflix / Movistar Plus
Year : 2009
Chapters : Nine seasons. 223 chapters
Duration per episode : About 20 minutes
Theme : Family Comedy
Age : Recommended for over 13 years
Two and a half Men
The controversial Charlie Sheen plays a very similar role, that of Charlie Harper, an alcoholic and single womanizer who lives alone in his Malibu mansion, until his newly divorced brother and his son Alan and Jake appear on the scene. , who begin to live with him and alter the order that governed his house and his life until then. Alan is a loser from head to toe and his luck in life contrasts with that of his brother, as well as his power of seduction.
Between Charlie and Alan they must take care and educate Jake , who will grow by taking a little of the personality of the two and participating in the thousand misadventures of these two brothers who are taken to kill but who end up living and starring in one of the best sitcoms of All the times, I’m sure you’ve ever seen on television and now you can watch the whole thing on Amazon Prime Video.
Platform : Amazon Prime Video
Year : 2006
Chapters : Twelve seasons, about 260 episodes
Duration per episode : About 22 minutes per chapter
Theme : Comedy
Age : Recommended for over 12 years
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Family Guy
The Simpsons style , but with a much more humorous and adult humor than the yellow family. Family Guy is one of the best current animated series although it was already released twenty years ago. In this series, Peter Griffin and his wife Lois run a house with three children: Meg, Chris and baby Stewie, who talks to the dog Brian and whose plan is to dominate the world. Its more than 300 chapters are full of black humor, satire and hooligan jokes, something that makes it a series not suitable for the whole family, even if it is animation.
From the American middle class they deal with all kinds of issues and have the support of secondary characters just as crazy as the main characters to create delusional plots and often taken to the edge of the absurd. A great option if you want to die of laughter and do not feel like thinking a lot when sitting down to watch a series.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 1999
Chapters : 17 seasons and more than 300 chapters
Duration : 26 minutes per episode
Age : Over 16 years old
Day to day
One of the best series of 2019 on Netflix is Day by day, which is also one of the best sitcoms you can see on the platform and one of the most interesting of recent times. Day by day he tells us the story of the Álvarez family and their family moments, their moments and the routine of a single mother, Penelope, who lives together with her mother (Lydia, a proud Cuban) and her two teenage children. Curious and very funny personalities in a house where the grandmother’s Cuban nostalgia , the problems of a hipster teenage daughter …
A necessary, interesting, intelligent series. Every day, all kinds of current topics that you would find in the media or on Twitter are treated every day: workplace harassment, tolerance, homosexuality, respect, minorities, migration … A critique and reflection in all areas of daily life thanks to dialogues between family members and (almost) always without leaving home.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2017
Chapters : Three seasons, 39 episodes
Duration per episode : Between 25 and 30 minutes
Theme : Comedy
Recommended age : For over 13 years
Full House
One of the best sitcoms of the eighties was Forced Parents (Full House) in which the widowed father Danny Tanner must remain in charge of his three daughters: DJ Tanner, Stephanie Tanner and Michelle Tanner. To try to do his best, his best friend (Joey Gladstone) and his brother-in-law (Jesse Katsópolis) will move alongside him and raise the three girls together and survive all kinds of everyday situations.
Forced parents is an iconic series of the eighties that you can watch in full on Netflix with almost two hundred episodes ideal to watch all together and perfect for those times in which you are looking for one of the best sitcoms for all audiences and with those great moments of the small Tanner that anyone over 30 remembers.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 1987 – 1995
Chapters : Eight Seasons, 192 Episodes
Duration per episode : About 30 minutes
Theme : Series for the whole family
Recommended age : Recommended for over 7 years
Fuller House
Surely you remember Forced Fathers, one of the best classic series of all time, a series of comedy for the whole family. Short chapters of thirty minutes, entertaining, light and in which everyone will end up hugging. Forced Mothers is the continuation of the usual series. Now, the children of Forced Fathers have grown up, DJ Tanner has been widowed staying in charge of his three children and his sister Stephane Tanner and her friend Kimmy Gibbler move with her to help her with the family. Far from being helpful, they star in all kinds of fun family moments, situations in which to laugh when you need something light.
One of the best Netflix sitcoms for the whole family, with short episodes and a very easy to follow thread . A current, entertaining series, with all kinds of characters and moments but almost always in the famous Gibbler house.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 2016
Chapters : Four seasons, 57 episodes
Duration per episode : About 30 minutes
Theme : Family Comedies
Recommended age : Recommended for over 7 years
