Favourite Sitcom

The show about the lives and relationships of the six New York friends, Joey, Chandler, Ross, Rachel, Phoebe and Monica made superstars of all the cast and ended up offering them some of the largest paychecks ever seen in sitcoms.

Based on the comedy of stand up comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, the Seinfeld Show primarily takes place in an appartment block in Manhatten. Besides Jerry Seinfeld who actually plays a fictional version of himself, the show features Jerry's ex-girlfriend the edgy and neurotic Elaine Benes and his two friends, the self-loathing George Constanza and the eccentric, tactless Cosmo Kramer.

Featuring Alan Alda as the unorthodox surgeon, the show about the staff of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War emptied the streets in countries all over the world. It is said that at any given time an episode of MASH is running somewhere in the world.

The Office is a mockumentary originally adapted from the British version of the same name. It depicts the life in the office of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company of Scranton, Pennsylvania. A defining element of The Office is the documentary perspective in which the characters actually acknowledges the presence of the camera and sometimes even speak to it.

Charlie Sheen is the happy, easy-going, drunk, womanizing jingle-writer who lives the care-free life in his beach house in Malibu, when his looser brother moves in - fresh of a divorce - with his little imbecile son.

Rapstar Will Smith got his actor-breakthrough with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air catapulting him into the super stardom he enjoys today. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is about the young Philadelphian Will Smith who is sent to live with his rich aunt and uncle in Bel-Air, and all the controversy of the clash of lifestyles.

A spinoff from the popular Cheers-show, Frasier is one of the most successful spinoff-shows ever seen in television. Featuring Kelsey Grammer as the psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane who once lived near the Cheers-bar in Boston and now host a radio talk show in Seattle, the Frasier show won a record 37 Emmys during its 264 episodes.

Cheers is the name of both the show and the Boston Bar in which almost all of the scenes take place. The main character played by Ted Danson is Sam Malone an ex-baseball player who is now bartending for an eccentric crowd of beer drinking locals. Among the locals was the psychiatrist Frasier Crane played by Kelsey Grammer who later got his own spinoff-show.

Features the life of Al Bundy played by Ed O'Neill and his dysfunctional family. Al Bundy is an ex-high school football player who once scored four touchdowns in a single game and is now selling shoes for a living while trying every get-rich-quick scheme known to man. During the early seasons Married with Children portrayed the American working-class family rather realisticly, but as the show evolved it became more and more cartoonish.

The show about the new young doctors at the Sacred Heart Hospital is mostly based on the life and daydreams of the central character J.D. Dorian played by Zach Braff. In addition to the usual scripts, the fast-paced dialogue and slapstick type of comedy is supposedly a result of a large amount of improvisation from the actors.

Soap was originally created as a parody of the daytime soap operas with plot elements like amnesia, love affairs, murder and kidnapping. Besides mocking the daytime soap operas Soap also caused quite a bit of controversy at its time by featuring the openly gay character Jodie Dallas played by Billy Crystal and depicting various controversial topics like incest, impotence, social class problems and the like. Soap is also famous for its hilarious voice-over cliffhangers at the end of every episode.

One of the biggest shows in the 1980s The Cosby Show focused mainly on the everyday lives of the Huxtable family and the father of the family Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable played by Bill Cosby. Besides featuring numerous funny incidents every show had some educational value as the Huxtable children always came away with some well-earned lessons about the morale and ethics of todays world.