r/sitcoms

I had a hard time thinking of sitcoms with characters who are both mothers to children and work full time through the majority of the series. You’d think there would be lots of comedy sources from real-life struggles of working moms, but I can only come up with these:

The Cosby Show
Roseanne
The Middle
Malcolm in the Middle
Home Improvement - edited to add

A few come to mind where the MC has a baby and may or may not go back to work but then the series is ending: Friends, Parks & Rec, The Office. Or the kids are grown up and then the mom gets a job: Modern Family. Why do you think it’s more common to see a woman be one or the other, when middle class life shows the opposite?

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Like they do comedy well but they don’t compromise on the romance section as well.

I think Jake and Amy in Brooklyn 99 were pretty good.

I have also watched Friends, Big Bang Theory, Modern Family and New Girl(left halfway) and think their love stories were a’ight.

Title is simple what are examples of sitcoms and dramedies that are overanalyzed to death to the point?

For me it's Gilmore Girls, this show is supposed to be wholesome with some dark humor, it's not meant to be overanalyzed to pieces

It's a toss up between Joey and Chandler, Oscar and Felix and Lenny and Squiggy

For me it has to be Modern Family. Easily the funniest and most relatable sitcom at least for me. The life lessons learned from this show have also made me a better human being.

Funniest Dunphy: Phil. Hands down. Ty Burrell is a clown in any roll he plays. Lmao I will wake up randomly in the night, Phil will say something, and I'll literally laugh myself back to sleep.

Funniest Pritchett: Mitchell. Jay is a close second. Mitchell wins me over with his wittiness and his dramatic way of showing his emotions. The scene where Cam is directing the play and Mitchell goes outside when Jay and his brother is soooooo funny. "The kids are tired, you're making this all about yourself, no intermission, what are we animals?! *ensues to goose frabba himself back to Zen Mitchell*" My favorite line from Jay has to be during the famous white picture episode, "What are we a Cricket team?!" lmao

Funniest non main char: This one usually changes for me. It goes between Dylan and the guy who played Santa Clause in that one episode when Mitch and Cam get him fired for not being fat enough lmaooooooo. "You were nice, he was naughty" has a direct line to my funny bone.

Shout-out to Cameron who is arguably the funniest character in the show. I feel like he's the glue that holds this cast together. "Do you really trust what a grown man named Bobby says?" lmao.

Shout out That 70s Show, easily the runner up for GOAT sitcom imo.

I honestly can’t remember the last time a sitcom ending disappointed me this much.
What makes it worse is that The Upshaws wasn’t a bad show at all — actually the opposite. The earlier seasons felt authentic, emotional, funny, and surprisingly grounded. The characters felt real. Bennie, Regina, Lucretia, the kids… it genuinely felt like a messy but believable family trying to survive life together.
That’s why the last episodes hit so strangely.
Everything suddenly became rushed. Important conversations were skipped. Emotional moments barely had time to breathe before cutting to the next scene. Character decisions that should have taken an entire season to build happened in minutes.
And Bennie wanting to sell the garage honestly made no sense to me.
The garage was basically part of his identity for the entire series. It represented his pride, his struggles, his role in the family, and his growth over the years. Then suddenly near the end it feels like the writers forced conflict just to wrap things up quickly.
The tonal shift was also weird. Earlier seasons balanced comedy and emotional realism naturally, but the ending felt like a checklist:
resolve this conflict;
push this character arc;
end this relationship tension;
roll credits.
It didn’t feel earned.
Maybe Netflix rushed the production or maybe the writers didn’t get enough episodes to finish things properly, but the final stretch genuinely felt unfinished. Not unfinished in a “leave room for interpretation” way — unfinished in a “we ran out of time” way.
What surprised me most is how emotionally frustrating it felt. When you spend years watching characters grow, you expect the ending to respect that investment. Instead, the final episodes almost felt disconnected from the heart of the show.
I still love the series overall, but the ending honestly left me more empty than satisfied.

I mentioned Malcolm because it's also middle class family. But I was also wondering was Roseanne during peak seasons as good as best sitcoms, or below that.

Or do they just hire a lot of extras to recreate that appearance? Obviously not every show will be the same, but I’ve always wondered if it was a typical industry practice or not.

Dwight Schrute and George Constanza

I am basically looking for episodes from any sitcom where preferably rain or rainstorms is a major part of the plot. A good general storm is fine too. Plus points if characters hunker down.

An almost perfect example is King of the Hill S08E15 "Après Hank, le Deluge" or It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia "The Storm of the Century"

Edit:thank you guys for all the great suggestions