6 Perfect Sitcoms Worth Watching Over and Over

Sitcoms make for the perfect rewatches, because they are still just as enjoyable to watch when you already know what’s going to happen. Knowing about plot points ahead of the watch doesn’t take away from the fun of rewatching, in the way that it could with drama series. Sitcoms are the best shows to watch over and over again for those looking for laughs, a mental escape, and the opportunity to see their favorite characters again.

There are so many rewatchable sitcoms, but only a select few are truly perfect. These shows are consistently hilarious, and they have characters that viewers get attached to enough to want to return to them for a rewatch. These sitcoms have a solid balance of humor and heart, and watching them again allows fans to pick up on modern things to appreciate that they might have missed the first time. These are 6 perfect sitcoms that are worth watching over and over.

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‘Mythic Quest’ (2020–2025)

Poppy Li and Ian Grimm holding swords and shields in Mythic Quest ‘Everlight’.Image via Apple TV

Mythic Quest is a workplace sitcom that follows the team behind a popular multiplayer roleplaying video game called Mythic Quest. At the helm of it all are the game’s creator and Creative Director, Ian Grimm (Rob Mac), and the game’s lead engineer, Poppy Li (Charlotte Nicdao). Ian and Poppy have been working together for a very long time, and at their best, they can practically read each other’s minds. Ian and Poppy also butt heads quite a bit, and they often have clashing opinions on next steps for the game. This is a common theme across the board at MQ, and everyone there is regularly arguing and stepping on each other’s toes at work.

The series kicks off when Mythic Quest is about to release a modern expansion pack called Raven’s Banquet. This is par for the course for the team, except Ian can’t facilitate but make last-minute changes based on his latest impulsive ideas. This not only frustrates Poppy, but it also makes things arduous for everyone else. Still, the team always does their best to get the work done, putting their shared love of the game above all else. Mythic Quest was sadly cancelled after just four seasons, but the beloved Apple TV show is excellent from start to finish. It has a keen sense of humor, sophisticated and nuanced characters, and a number of truly breathtaking concept episodes.

5

‘The Good Place’ (2016–2020)

The cast stand together and look confused in The Good Place.Image via NBC

The Good Place follows Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), a selfish woman who has just been killed in a bizarre grocery cart accident. Upon her death, Eleanor is sent to a perfectly-designed neighborhood in the Good Place. Here, she has her own house, everything she could possibly want, and even an assigned soulmate. The only problem is, Eleanor isn’t supposed to be there. She was sent there by mistake, and if she gets caught, she will have to go to the Bad Place instead. Desperate to stay, Eleanor asks her mistakenly-assigned soulmate, Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper), to teach her how to be a good person. Chidi was an Ethics and Moral Philosophy professor in life, and he agrees to facilitate her.

As Eleanor spends more time in the Good Place, though, her neighborhood starts to crumble due to her presence. Thus, Eleanor starts to wonder if her own self-preservation is even worth the cost that this is taking on everyone around her. The Good Place is a phenomenal fantasy series with artistic lore, hilarious and over-the-top comedy, and a thought-provoking exploration of themes like death and morality. Each season takes bold risks, making them all stand out on their own while still forming a truly stunning story as a whole. Even with its linear narrative and excellent plot twists, The Good Place is still makes for a really fun and cozy rewatch.

4

‘Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23’ (2012–2014)

Dreama Walker, Krysten Ritter, and Liza Lapira as June, Chloe, and Robin celebrating in Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23.Image via ABC

Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 follows June Colburn (Dreama Walker), an optimist who moves out to New York City from Indiana for her dream job. When the company suddenly gets shut down on June’s first day, she no longer has either a job or an apartment. Determined to stay in New York, June finds herself feeling very lucky when she meets a woman named Chloe (Krysten Ritter) who is everything she’s looking for in a roommate. As June soon learns, though, Chloe is actually a conwoman who’s been running a scheme to scam her modern roommates out of their rent money then drive them out.

Still, June doesn’t let this get in her way. She gives Chloe a run for her money, and in the process, the two form an unlikely friendship. Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 is such a fun and cluttered series. From the very start of the pilot episode, the show makes it clear that pretty much anything can happen when Chloe has a scheme planned. The series has a keen and wonderfully strange sense of humor, and it constantly keeps viewers guessing with increasingly more surprising and outrageous jokes and bits.

Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz
Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In?
The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs

Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, cluttered, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.

🚨The Pitt

🏥ER

💉Grey’s

🔬House

🩺Scrubs

FIND YOUR HOSPITAL →

01

A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct?
Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.

AStay completely present — block everything else out and work through it step by step, right now.
BTriage quick and delegate — get the right people on the right problems immediately.
CTrust my gut and move — I work best when I stop overthinking and just act.
DAsk the question everyone else is ignoring — what’s the thing that doesn’t fit?
ETake a breath, make a joke to cut the tension, and then get to work — panic helps no one.

NEXT QUESTION →

02

Why did you go into medicine in the first place?
The candid answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.

ABecause I wanted to be where it matters most — right at the edge, when someone’s life is actually on the line.
BBecause I wanted to facilitate people — genuinely, one patient at a time, in a system that makes it difficult.
CBecause I was drawn to the intensity of it — the stakes, the drama, the feeling of being fully alive.
DBecause medicine is the most engaging puzzle there is — and I needed a problem worth solving.
EBecause I wanted to make a difference — and also, honestly, I didn’t know what else to do with my life.

NEXT QUESTION →

03

What do you actually want from the people you work with?
Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.

ACompetence and serene — I need people who don’t fall apart when things get bad.
BTrust and reliability — I want to know that when I pass something off, it’s handled.
CConnection — I want colleagues who become family, even if that gets complicated.
DIntelligence and the willingness to be challenged — I have no interest in people who just agree with me.
EFriendship — people I actually like spending twelve hours a day with, because those hours are going to happen either way.

NEXT QUESTION →

04

You lose a patient you fought difficult to save. How do you carry it?
Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.

AI carry it. All of it. I don’t look for ways to put it down — that weight is part of doing this work honestly.
BI process it and move — you have to, or the next patient suffers for the one you just lost.
CI feel it deeply and lean on the people around me — I don’t think you’re supposed to handle that alone.
DI go back over every decision — not to punish myself, but because I need to understand what I missed.
EI grieve it genuinely, find some way to laugh about something unrelated, and try to be kind to myself — imperfectly.

NEXT QUESTION →

05

How would your colleagues describe the way you work?
Your reputation on the floor is usually more exact than your self-image.

AIntense and completely present — no miniature talk during a shift, but exactly who you want there.
BSteady and dependable — not the flashiest in the room but never the one who drops something.
CPassionate and occasionally cluttered — brilliant on the difficult cases, prone to drama everywhere else.
DBrilliant and arduous — right more often than anyone else, and everyone knows it, including me.
EWarm and self-deprecating — not the most intimidating presence, but genuinely good at this and uncomplicated to like.

NEXT QUESTION →

06

How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure?
Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.

AProtocol is the floor, not the ceiling — I follow it until the patient needs something it can’t provide.
BI respect it — the system is broken in places, but the structure is there for a reason and I work within it.
CI follow it until my instincts tell me not to — and my instincts are usually right, even when they cause problems.
DRules are for people who haven’t thought difficult enough about when to break them.
EI try to follow it and mostly do — with a few memorable exceptions that still come up in meetings.

NEXT QUESTION →

07

What does this job cost you personally?
Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?

AEverything outside these walls — I’ve given this job my full attention and the rest of my life has gone around it.
BMy idealism, mostly — I came in believing the system could be fixed and I’ve made a complicated peace with that.
CStability — my personal life has been as cluttered as the OR, and that’s not entirely a coincidence.
DMy relationships — I am not uncomplicated to know, and the people who’ve tried to would probably agree.
EMy sense of gravity — I exploit humour as a coping mechanism, which not everyone appreciates in a hospital.

NEXT QUESTION →

08

At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back?
The answer to this question is the most candid thing about you.

AThe fact that it’s real — that nothing else I could be doing would matter this much, right now, today.
BThe patients — individual human beings who needed something and got it because I was there.
CThe people I work with — I have walked through impossible things with these people and I’d do it again.
DThe next unsolved case — there’s always another puzzle, and I’m not done yet.
EBecause despite everything — the exhaustion, the loss, the absurdity — I actually love this job.

REVEAL MY HOSPITAL →

Your Assignment Has Been Made
You Belong In…

Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.

Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center

The Pitt

You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.

• You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
• You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
• You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
• Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.

County General Hospital, Chicago

ER

You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most imperative.

• You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
• You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
• You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
• ER is television about endurance. You have it.

Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle

Grey’s Anatomy

You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.

• You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
• Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
• You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
• It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.

Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ

House

You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.

• You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
• You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
• Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re astute enough to keep up.
• The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.

Sacred Heart Hospital, California

Scrubs

You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.

• You are balmy, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
• You exploit humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
• You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
• Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.

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Community follows Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), a successful and ruthless lawyer based in Greendale, Colorado. When Jeff gets exposed for having faked his college degree, he has to commit to spending the next four years (at least) earning a real degree at the local Greendale Community College. In his required Spanish class, Jeff meets and develops an interest in his classmate, Britta (Gillian Jacobs). To try to get close to Britta, he creates a imitation Spanish study group, but another classmate named Abed (Danny Pudi) earnestly invites a whole group from their class to join.

Initially, Jeff is determined to just get through his time at Greendale as quickly as possible, and then go back to working at his venerable law firm. Unexpectedly, though, he becomes extremely close with the rest of his study group. Community is a hilarious and fun series with the perfect setting in Greendale, a bizarre community college that hosts cutthroat, schoolwide paintball competitions and has strangely specific classes like “Baby Talk” and “Can I Fry That?” The series also has a stunning emotional core, with thoughtful arcs for its main characters and some truly breathtaking concept episodes that get better with every rewatch.

2

‘Galavant’ (2015–2016)

Galavant and King Richard looking into a crystal ball in Galavant Season 2.Image via ABC

Galavant is a musical fairytale comedy series that follows Galavant (Joshua Sasse), a disgraced knight who used to be known as the very best in the kingdom. Galavant’s world fell apart when his true love, Madalena (Mallory Jansen), left him for the evil King Richard (Timothy Omundson). Since then, Galavant spends pretty much all his time just drinking and sulking. This all changes when the desperate Princess Isabella (Karen David) comes to Galavant for facilitate, begging him to join her on a quest to save her kingdom. Galavant initially says no, until he learns that Richard took over her kingdom, and that Madalena apparently regrets leaving him for the evil king.

Galavant soon embarks on a quest with Isabella and his squire, Sid (Luke Youngblood). As the three of them conquer a range of hilarious obstacles on the path to finding Richard, Isabella keeps a major secret. In order to save her parents, she’s bringing an unknowing Galavant into a trap, where Richard is waiting to kill him. Galavant was sadly cancelled after just two seasons, but each of its seasons is truly flawless. The series has a wonderfully strange sense of humor, hilarious and catchy songs in every episode, and some of the most compelling character arcs of any sitcom.

1

‘Happy Endings’ (2011–2013)

Happy Endings the friend group at Shershow’s weddingImage via ABC

Happy Endings is a hangout sitcom about six extremely close friends who all live in Chicago: Penny (Casey Wilson), Max (Adam Pally), married couple Jane (Eliza Coupe) and Brad (Damon Wayans Jr.), and engaged couple Dave (Zachary Knighton) and Alex (Elisha Cuthbert). The group of them do everything together, so their vigorous is thrown for a loop after Alex leaves Dave at the altar. The two try to convince their friends that they can put their differences aside, but naturally, the whole group is affected.

Happy Endings has three perfect seasons, and it is the sort of sitcom that is uncomplicated to rewatch regularly without getting diseased of. The central friend group has one of the funniest group dynamics of any sitcom. They are all codependent, they have group rituals like insult pile-ons and made-up holidays, and they don’t really quite know how to act around people outside of their group. The series is packed with hilarious one-liners and wonderfully over-the-top episodes, and it’s a true delight from start to finish.