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I guess it’s down to me to beat the drum for ‘Corporate’, a viciously funny and bleak evisceration of capitalism and business culture. It also showed off the incredible comic timing of the late great Lance Reddick.

The line “I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards!” will live in my heart forever.

Happy Endings 100% belongs near the top of the list, but I also wanted to tell you that we also watched Pivoting and were bummed it didn’t even get a second season.

New Girl being as high as it was and Happy Endings not being on there at all is astounding. That’s like making a list of best 90s sitcoms and putting Friends at the top while leaving Seinfeld off.

Holy shit this list is chaotic.

It’s acceptable to not label Succession a comedy like the others on this list. And I’m in full agreement that nothing can touch AD’s first three seasons, including their dogshit later seasons. But where’s I Think You Should Leave?

Yeah that was an omission - but so was Happy Endings.

Good list of snubs in the comments and I’ll add another in Better Off Ted.

Happy Endings was done dirty by ABC. The release schedule for S3 was anything but consistent. How they turn a 6-8 million viewer show in S2 down to a 3-4 million show in S3 still doesn’t make sense to me.

Honestly, the further I scrolled I was starting to be both excited and worried - it was either going to be ranked as highly as I would personally rank it, or it was going to be snubbed entirely, which should be illegal.

The failure to mention Happy Endings surprises me, mostly because of the love affair AV Club had for the show at the time. Then again, that’s when the site had actual writers.

No B99, no Ted Lasso, No Scrubs (but not in a TLC way).

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You’re missing out leaving “Miracle Workers” off this list. Each season takes the same actors but completely changes the premise and characters (season 1 is angels in heaven, season 2 is the Dark Ages, 3 was Oregon Trail, and the current season is basically a riff on Mad Max). Daniel Radcliff’s “She’ll Be Coming Round

I’m gonna be that person.

Party Down, Silicon Valley, Happy Endings?

I am genuinely astounded by the fact that Ted Lasso isn’t on this list. I realize people think the second and third seasons had some ups and downs (and some people thought it went “off the rails” -- I disagree, personally), but the first season alone should get it on the list. The first season is basically perfect,

So the “hasn’t aged well” episode of HIMYM is the Britney one, not the yellowface one? 

People are watching Night Court? Huh.

It's the same sun for the whole world, believe it or not!

Yes, babies with a 43 year old who already got 3 of her own. You people are incredibly fucking stupid.