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Plot Summary:
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 469000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, funny, mockumentary, entertaining, hilarious, teen, realistic, exciting, feel good
Best tv shows and movies like Modern Family (2009):
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It's All Relative (2003)
Plot Summary:
It's All Relative is an ABC sitcom about a man who dates the adoptive daughter of a gay couple, which forces their very different families to learn to coexist.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sitcom, light, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Everybody Loves Raymond (1996)
Plot Summary:
Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom starring Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, and Peter Boyle. It originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff. The main characters on the show are also loosely based on Romano's and Rosenthal's real-life family members. The show reruns in syndication on various channels, such as TBS, TV Land, and in most TV markets on local stations. From 2000 to 2007, KingWorld distributed the show for off-network syndication and Warner Bros. Television Distribution handled international distribution. In 2007, CBS Television Distribution took over King World's distribution. CBS only owns American syndication rights; ancillary rights are controlled by HBO and Warner Bros. Television.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, feel good, not serious, realistic, funny, hilarious, fun, odd, nostalgic
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Dharma & Greg (1997)
Plot Summary:
Dharma & Greg is an American television sitcom that aired from September 24, 1997, to April 30, 2002. It stars Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as Dharma and Greg Montgomery, a couple who got married on their first date despite being complete opposites. The series is co-produced by Chuck Lorre Productions, More-Medavoy Productions and 4 to 6 Foot Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The show's theme song was written and performed by composer Dennis C. Brown. Created by executive producers Dottie Dartland and Chuck Lorre, the comedy took much of its inspiration from so-called culture-clash "fish out of water" situations. The show earned eight Golden Globe nominations, six Emmy Award nominations, and six Satellite Awards nominations. Elfman earned a Golden Globe in 1999 for Best Actress.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, feel good, realistic, not serious, mystic, hilarious, witty, romantic comedy, mystical
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Schitt's Creek (2015)
Plot Summary:
Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing town they once bought as a joke.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 140000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, ironic, light, funny, realistic, feel good, captivating, satirical
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Soap (1977)
Plot Summary:
Soap is an American sitcom that originally ran on ABC from 1977 into 1981. The show was created as a night-time parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy. Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial format and included melodramatic plot elements such as alien abduction, demonic possession, murder, and kidnapping. In 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME," and in 2010, the Tates and the Campbells ranked at number 17 in TV Guide's list of "TV's Top Families". The show was created, written, and executive produced by Susan Harris, and also executive produced by Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas. Each returning season was preceded by a 90-minute retrospective of the previous season. Two of these retrospectives were made available on VHS in 1994. The show aired 85 episodes over the course of four seasons. The final four episodes of the series aired as one-hour episodes during the original run on ABC. These hour-long episodes were later split in two, yielding 93 half-hour episodes for syndication. All episodes are currently available on region 1 DVD in four separate box sets. In the past, the series has rerun on local syndicated channels as well as on cable on Comedy Central and TV Land. It ran on over-the-air television on Antenna TV, until December 30th, 2012.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, sitcom, humorous, clever, witty, not serious, offbeat, soap opera, cliffhanger, retro
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Mike & Molly (2010)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a working class Chicago couple who find love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, sentimental, realistic, not serious, slapstick, idiotic
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Arrested Development (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 320000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, witty, funny, surreal, mockumentary, black comedy, hilarious, dark comedy, clever
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The New Normal (2012)
Plot Summary:
The New Normal was an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 10, 2012, to April 2, 2013. The series was created and principally written by Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler. The storyline follows a wealthy homosexual couple, Bryan and David, who are living in Los Angeles. Deciding to have a child, they choose a surrogate mother, Goldie Clemmons, who moves in to their home with her nine-year-old daughter Shania.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, captivating, exciting, realistic, fast, queer cinema
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Mom (2013)
Plot Summary:
Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety is her formerly estranged mother, now back in Christy's life and eager to share passive-aggressive insights into her daughter's many mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, light, realistic, entertaining, captivating, funny, hilarious, not serious, black comedy
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According to Jim (2001)
Plot Summary:
According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children. It originally ran on ABC from October 1, 2001 to June 2, 2009.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, feel good, realistic, not serious, funny, hilarious, fun, situational comedy
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Cougar Town (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jules Cobb is a mom in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter. Along for the journey is her son, her ex-husband, her husband/neighbor and her friends who together make up her dysfunctional, but supportive and caring extended family... even if they have a funny way of showing it sometimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, light, sexy, sexual, entertaining, realistic, humorous, not serious, feel good, captivating
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Melissa & Joey (2010)
Plot Summary:
Melissa & Joey is an ABC Family original television series starring Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence that premiered on ABC Family on August 17, 2010. The series follows local politician Mel Burke and Joe Longo, whom Mel hires to look after her niece and nephew after a Ponzi scheme leaves him broke.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, hilarious, sitcom, nostalgic
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Married... with Children (1987)
Plot Summary:
Married... with Children is an American sitcom that aired for 11 seasons. It featured a dysfunctional family living in a fictional Chicago, Illinois, suburb. The show, notable for being the first prime-time television series to air on Fox, ran from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997. The series was created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt. The show was known for handling nonstandard topics for the time period, which garnered the then-fledgling Fox network a standing among the Big Three television networks. The series' 11-season, 259-episode run makes it the longest-lasting live-action sitcom on the Fox network. The show's famous theme song is "Love and Marriage" by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, performed by Frank Sinatra from the 1955 television production Our Town. The first season of the series was videotaped at ABC Television Center in Hollywood. From season 2 to season 8, the show was taped at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood, and the remaining three seasons were taped at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City. The series was produced by Embassy Communications on its first season and the remaining seasons by ELP Communications under the studio Columbia Pictures Television.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, hilarious, parody, light, feel good, funny, retro, psychedelic, deep
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Step by Step (1991)
Plot Summary:
Step by Step is an American television sitcom that starred Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers as two single parents, who spontaneously get married after meeting one another during a vacation, resulting in them becoming the heads of a large blended family. The series aired for seven seasons, originally running on ABC as part of their TGIF lineup on Friday nights from September 20, 1991 to August 15, 1997, and was canceled by the network after six seasons, reportedly due to declining ratings. The series was picked up on CBS and aired on that network from September 19, 1997 to June 26, 1998 for its seventh and final season.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, sincere, witty, not serious, retro, vintage, nostalgic
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Roseanne (1988)
Plot Summary:
A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, funny, realistic, witty, cynical, biting, suspense, iconic
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Parenthood (2010)
Plot Summary:
Parenthood is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Jason Katims. Loosely based on the 1989 film of the same title, Parenthood tells of the Braverman clan which consists of an older couple, their four children and their families.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious, sincere, captivating, sitcom
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8 Simple Rules (2002)
Plot Summary:
What happens to a loving, rational Dad when his darling, pliable daughters morph into hormonally-challenged, incomprehensible teenagers? If he's Paul Hennessy, he reacts in ways even he finds crazy. Thank God he has a 13-year-old son who still speaks his language.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, touching, realistic, witty, hilarious, not serious, nostalgic
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Good Luck Charlie (2010)
Plot Summary:
Good Luck Charlie is an American television sitcom, which premiered on April 4, 2010, on Disney Channel. The series was created by Phil Baker and Drew Vaupen, who wanted to create a program that would appeal to entire families, as opposed to only children. It focuses on a Denver family, the Duncans, as they try to adjust to the births of their fourth and fifth children, Charlotte "Charlie" Duncan and Toby Duncan. In each episode, Teddy Duncan creates a video diary containing advice for Charlie about their family and life as a teenager. Teddy tries to show Charlie what she might go through when she is older in the video diaries for future reference. Each video diary ends with Teddy saying the eponymous phrase, "Good luck, Charlie". Among other decisions, executives included adult-centric scenes and changed the series title from Oops to Love, Teddy and finally to Good Luck Charlie in order to ensure the series would appeal to all family members. Good Luck Charlie premiered on Disney Channel in the United States on April 4, 2010. It premiered in Canada on April 5, 2010, the United Kingdom and Ireland on May 14, 2010, and in Australia and New Zealand on July 23, 2010. Good Luck Charlie was renewed for a second season, with production beginning in August 2010 with a season premiere on February 20, 2011. A feature-length Christmas Disney Channel Original Movie based on the series entitled Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! began production in March 2011 for a December 2011 premiere.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, humorous, witty, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, funny, fun, nostalgic
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The Middle (2009)
Plot Summary:
The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, not serious, realistic, sitcom, offbeat, funny, game show, hilarious, odd
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Everybody Hates Chris (2005)
Plot Summary:
Everybody Hates Chris is an American television narrative sitcom that depicts the troubled teenage experiences of comedian Chris Rock while growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City. The show is set between 1982 and 1987, but Rock himself was a teenager between 1978 and 1983. Rock grew up with a boy named Kenny Montero, whom he has often referred to as the inspiration for a lot of the episodes. In many of his interviews, Rock has described Kenny as the reason he got into comedy in the first place. The show's title parodies the hit CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, in which Rock stated: "Everybody Loves Raymond, but Everybody Hates Chris!". The show's lead actors are Tyler James Williams, Terry Crews, Tichina Arnold, Tequan Richmond, Imani Hakim, and Vincent Martella. In 2008, the The CW moved Everybody Hates Chris and The Game to the Friday night death slot. The fourth season of the series premiered Friday, October 3, 2008, at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central. On May 21, 2009, The CW announced that it had cancelled Everybody Hates Chris. Prior to this, Rock announced that the end of season 4 matched up with his own past—dropping out of high school to become a comedian—and that it was time to end the show.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, touching, witty, hood, hilarious, realistic, retro, sentimental
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Two and a Half Men (2003)
Plot Summary:
A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 276000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, funny, buddy comedy, hilarious, exciting, intellectual, entertaining
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The Goldbergs (2013)
Plot Summary:
Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up, and peanut allergies, there was a simpler time called the '80s. For geeky 11-year old Adam these were his wonder years and he faced them armed with a video camera to capture all the crazy. The Goldbergs are a loving family like any other, just with a lot more yelling.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, feel good, realistic, sentimental, sitcom, hilarious, light, entertaining, funny
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The O.C. (2003)
Plot Summary:
The series centers on Ryan Atwood, a troubled youth from a broken home who is adopted by the wealthy and philanthropic Sandy and Kirsten Cohen. Ryan and his surrogate brother Seth, a socially awkward yet quick-witted teenager, deal with life as outsiders in the high-class world of Newport Beach. Ryan and Seth spend much time navigating their relationships with girl-next-door Marissa Cooper, Seth's childhood crush Summer Roberts, and the fast-talking loner Taylor Townsend. Story lines deal with the culture clash between the idealistic Cohen family and the shallow, materialistic, and closed-minded community in which they reside. The series includes elements of postmodernism, and functions as a mixture of melodrama and comedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: touching, soap opera, witty, teen, exciting, entertaining, sad, anime, serious, realistic
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The Fosters (2013)
Plot Summary:
Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their lives are disrupted in unexpected ways when Lena meets Callie, a hardened teen with an abusive past who has spent her life in and out of foster homes. Lena and Stef welcome Callie and her brother, Jude, into their home thinking it's just for a few weeks, until a more permanent placement can be found. But life has something else in store for the Fosters.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, melancholic, teen, sincere, sex comedy, anime, hispanic, controversial, semi serious
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The Big Bang Theory (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Big Bang Theory is centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers, mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali. The geekiness and intellect of the four guys is contrasted for comic effect with Penny's social skills and common sense.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 850000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 5702 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, humorous, witty, intellectual, clever, funny, hilarious, atmospheric, thought provoking
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Sex Education (2019)
Plot Summary:
Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 339000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 1755 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, feel good, light, captivating, humorous, uplifting, touching, erotic, funny
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Friends (1994)
Plot Summary:
The misadventures of a group of friends as they navigate the pitfalls of work, life and love in Manhattan.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 5280 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, humorous, not serious, witty, funny, entertaining, talky, hilarious, epic
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New Girl (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 241000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sitcom, buddy comedy, captivating, humorous, talky, entertaining, hilarious, funny
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How I Met Your Mother (2005)
Plot Summary:
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014. The series follows the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in Manhattan. As a framing device, Ted, in the year 2030, recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting their mother.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 717000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 4576 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, light, humorous, funny, sexy, entertaining, witty, hilarious, romantic
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This Is Us (2016)
Plot Summary:
Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 154000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, exciting, sad, saga, heartbreaking, family saga, crying