The Wonder Years

Frasier vs Seinfeld The first round of our sitcom showdown has ended and, thanks to your voting, the options have been narrowed down quite a bit.

For this round, we’ve taken the top vote-getters from each of our last polls and mixed them up with the others in their own decade. We’re using decades for these early rounds because, with so many great shows, we feel it’s the best apples-to-apples comparison — programs that were produced in the same general timeframe and had to compete for the same viewers.

In round three, we’ll uncover the best shows by decade and then pit them against one another until we have the show that you think is the greatest sitcom in TV history.

More about: 30 Rock, 3rd Rock from the Sun, All in the Family, Arrested Development, Bewitched, Boy Meets World, Cheers, Everybody Loves Raymond, Family Guy, Family Ties, Father Knows Best, Fawlty Towers, Frasier, Friends, Full House, Get Smart, Gilligan's Island, Green Acres, Happy Days, Hogan's Heroes, Home Improvement, How I Met Your Mother, I Dream of Jeannie, I Love Lucy, King of Queens, Leave It to Beaver, M*A*S*H, Married with Children, Mary Tyler Moore, Modern Family, Mork and Mindy, Murphy Brown, Newhart, Night Court, Roseanne, Scrubs, Seinfeld, Taxi, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, The Andy Griffith Show, The Big Bang Theory, The Brady Bunch, The Burns and Allen Show, The Cosby Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Golden Girls, The Honeymooners, The Jack Benny Show, The Monkees, The Munsters, The Muppet Show, The Office (US), The Phil Silvers Show, The Simpsons, The Wonder Years, Three's Company, Two and a Half Men, Who's the Boss, WKRP in Cincinnati