r/sitcoms

Which Sitcoms had the most consistent quality from their very first season to their very last season?

Usually I hear about comedy shows that were REALLY good, the quality either goes down slowly or completely plummets in one season so I’m curious to know if there were any that were still as good when they ended as they started.

Or was Michael Gross and/or Meredith Baxter?

Basically what I am talking about is an episode that is not the Pilot of the show but is easily a very unique episode that defines the show while also being the perfect advertisement of the show.

Some of episodes come to mind:

Community- Remedial Chaos Theory

Friends - The One where everyone finds out

Brooklyn 99 - Halloween V

The Office - Stress Relief

Big Bang Theory- Bath Room Gift Hypothesis

The Simpsons- Last Exit to Springfield

I'm Canadian, we have no way to watch the show right now outside of a Pluto TV channel which doesn't let you choose which episode you wanna watch and a Prime Video paid add-on channel that 1. nobody has and 2. only has the first 2 seasons (and before you say the DVDs, the Sony DVDs got rid of Love and Marriage after Season 2 and the Mill Creek DVDs have terrible compression because they put too many episodes onto a disc). They just took it off the only service where they actually had the entire show so hope you Americans enjoy while we Canadians suffer.

My hot take (maybe it's not-idk) is that Brock never stopped being in love with Reba. He wouldn't have married BJ if she wasn't pregnant, and clearly regretted it later on. I do think that Brock and BJ's personalties make more sense than Brock and Reba, but I was always rooting for him to come back to Reba to be honest. I did love BJ though just as a side note. She was really well written in that she was likable despite being a big part of breaking up the family.

When is the last time you’ve watched a sitcom? The only one we watch is “Abbott Elementary“. My wife and I mostly watch British mysteries or taskmaster.

Which shows do you think took things in a different direction, whether that be storylines or characters that had a positive effect on the show?

I have the dvds but they only go up to Season Four. I'm not super picky on quality but the youtube uploads are pretty ghastly. r/MrBelvedere

I only liked the episodes focusing on Drummond and Arnold. Willis was insufferable and Kim was whiny.