1.   By this standard, half the sitcoms would be off the air.

2.   Several family-oriented sitcoms are on in the early evening.

3.   The sitcom was offbeat and interesting in its first season, but has since become predictable and stodgy.

4.   Although the two animated sitcoms are vastly different in style and content, a sly sense of humor and subversive sensibility suffuses both.

5.   And it works, in that the show feels consistently honest, funny, and clever, insomuch as a sitcom can be any of those.

6.   And from the looks of it, so is his sitcom.

7.   And, with their predictable insert-joke-here moments and embarrassing laugh tracks, sitcoms have not been kind to viewers.

8.   A sitcom is nothing but a little play.

9.   But sitcoms are like water fountains in the old South.

10.   But the sun still rises in the east, TV sitcoms are still stupid and dogwoods still bloom in the spring.