Sitcoms

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1.Which sitcom framed nine seasons as a father's 2030 tale to his children?
- A. Modern Family
- B. How I Met Your Mother
- C. New Girl
- D. Scrubs
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How I Met Your Mother
Did you know? How I Met Your Mother ran nine seasons on CBS.
2.Which sitcom drove New York cab drivers onto ABC and NBC from 1978?
- A. Arrested Development
- B. Taxi
- C. Family Matters
- D. Curb Your Enthusiasm
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Taxi
Did you know? Taxi won the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy three straight years from 1979.
3.Which sitcom budgeted the Conners' Lanford household on ABC from 1988?
- A. That '70s Show
- B. Roseanne
- C. Sex and the City
- D. The King of Queens
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Roseanne
Did you know? Roseanne topped the ratings with its working-class Lanford setting.
4.Which sitcom improvised Larry David's semi-fictional Los Angeles life on HBO since 2000?
- A. Family Matters
- B. Scrubs
- C. The Golden Girls
- D. Curb Your Enthusiasm
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Curb Your Enthusiasm
Did you know? Curb Your Enthusiasm is largely improvised by its cast.
5.Which sitcom educated the Eastland School girls on NBC from 1979?
- A. The Jeffersons
- B. The Facts of Life
- C. That '70s Show
- D. Sabrina the Teenage Witch
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The Facts of Life
Did you know? The Facts of Life was a Diff'rent Strokes spin-off.
6.Which sitcom tooled up Tim Taylor's Detroit home-improvement show from 1991?
- A. Home Improvement
- B. Malcolm in the Middle
- C. Step by Step
- D. Dharma & Greg
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Home Improvement
Did you know? Home Improvement ran eight seasons on ABC.
7.Which sitcom satirized live television behind an SNL-like sketch show from 2006?
- A. Malcolm in the Middle
- B. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- C. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- D. 30 Rock
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30 Rock
Did you know? 30 Rock was created by Tina Fey, a former SNL head writer.
8.Which sitcom grew Cory Matthews from Philadelphia classrooms to college from 1993?
- A. Boy Meets World
- B. Arrested Development
- C. Good Times
- D. Diff'rent Strokes
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Boy Meets World
Did you know? Boy Meets World later spawned the Girl Meets World sequel series.
9.Which sitcom enrolled an unlikely study group at Greendale in 2009?
- A. Married... with Children
- B. Community
- C. The Addams Family
- D. Will & Grace
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Community
Did you know? Community's creator Dan Harmon coined its story-structure circles.
10.Which sitcom barred nobody from Paddy's Pub on FX since 2005?
- A. The Nanny
- B. Community
- C. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- D. Modern Family
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Did you know? It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is TV's longest-running live-action sitcom.
11.Which sitcom struggled and laughed in Chicago's Cabrini-Green projects from 1974?
- A. Will & Grace
- B. Malcolm in the Middle
- C. Good Times
- D. The Addams Family
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Good Times
Did you know? Good Times was a Maude spin-off created around Esther Rolle's Florida.
12.Which sitcom moved Jess into a Los Angeles loft with three roommates in 2011?
- A. Good Times
- B. The Facts of Life
- C. New Girl
- D. Arrested Development
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New Girl
Did you know? New Girl ran seven seasons on Fox.
13.Which sitcom interned J.D. at Sacred Heart from 2001?
- A. That '70s Show
- B. Scrubs
- C. Malcolm in the Middle
- D. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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Scrubs
Did you know? Scrubs narrated hospital life through J.D.'s daydreams.
14.Which sitcom housed a monster family at 1313 Mockingbird Lane from 1964?
- A. The Golden Girls
- B. The Munsters
- C. ALF
- D. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
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The Munsters
Did you know? The Munsters aired on CBS against The Addams Family on ABC.
15.Which sitcom raised the Seaver family on Long Island from 1985?
- A. Married... with Children
- B. The Honeymooners
- C. Growing Pains
- D. Parks and Recreation
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Growing Pains
Did you know? Growing Pains starred Alan Thicke as psychiatrist father Jason.
16.Which sitcom moved on up to a Manhattan high-rise in 1975?
- A. Good Times
- B. Will & Grace
- C. Frasier
- D. The Jeffersons
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The Jeffersons
Did you know? The Jeffersons was an All in the Family spin-off that ran eleven seasons.
17.Which sitcom enlisted Mayberry's gas station attendant in the Marines in 1964?
- A. Dharma & Greg
- B. Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- C. Curb Your Enthusiasm
- D. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Did you know? Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. starred Jim Nabors as the title private.
18.Which sitcom blended the Lambert and Foster families from 1991?
- A. Step by Step
- B. Modern Family
- C. Family Matters
- D. Family Ties
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Step by Step
Did you know? Step by Step ran seven seasons on ABC and CBS.
19.Which sitcom dispatched Doug Heffernan's package deliveries from 1998?
- A. Dharma & Greg
- B. Perfect Strangers
- C. The King of Queens
- D. New Girl
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The King of Queens
Did you know? The King of Queens starred Kevin James and Leah Remini.
20.Which sitcom swapped a housekeeper mother and an adwoman boss in 1984?
- A. Perfect Strangers
- B. Malcolm in the Middle
- C. How I Met Your Mother
- D. Who's the Boss?
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Who's the Boss?
Did you know? Who's the Boss? ran eight seasons on ABC.
21.Which sitcom shifted a Los Angeles factory manager onto ABC from 2002?
- A. Step by Step
- B. Two and a Half Men
- C. The George Lopez Show
- D. Scrubs
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The George Lopez Show
Did you know? The George Lopez Show was co-created by George Lopez and Bruce Helford.
22.Which sitcom adopted two Harlem boys into a Park Avenue household in 1978?
- A. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- B. Diff'rent Strokes
- C. Two and a Half Men
- D. The Big Bang Theory
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Diff'rent Strokes
Did you know? Diff'rent Strokes ran eight seasons on NBC and ABC.
23.Which sitcom moved Balki in with cousin Larry in Chicago in 1986?
- A. Perfect Strangers
- B. New Girl
- C. Will & Grace
- D. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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Perfect Strangers
Did you know? Perfect Strangers spawned the Family Matters spin-off.
24.Which sitcom mixed spells into Sabrina's high school life with her aunts from 1996?
- A. Taxi
- B. Roseanne
- C. Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- D. Boy Meets World
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Did you know? Sabrina the Teenage Witch ran seven seasons between ABC and The WB.
25.Which sitcom married a free spirit to a straight-laced lawyer in 1997?
- A. Taxi
- B. The Honeymooners
- C. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- D. Dharma & Greg
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Dharma & Greg
Did you know? Dharma & Greg was co-created by Chuck Lorre and Dottie Dartland.
26.Which sitcom crashed Charlie's Malibu beach house from 2003?
- A. The Office
- B. The Munsters
- C. Two and a Half Men
- D. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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Two and a Half Men
Did you know? Two and a Half Men replaced its lead with Ashton Kutcher in 2011.
27.Which sitcom ran a Watts junkyard for Redd Foxx's character from 1972?
- A. Sanford and Son
- B. Scrubs
- C. Married... with Children
- D. Step by Step
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Sanford and Son
Did you know? Sanford and Son was adapted from the British series Steptoe and Son.

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