The 70+ Best Romantic Comedy TV Series Of All Time, Ranked By Fans

Defining 1990s television required just one coffee shop and six completely chaotic roommates. NBC struck pure comedy gold when creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman built an empire around a close-knit New York City group. The romance between Ross Geller and Rachel Green set the standard for the will-they-won-they trope. 

A yellow umbrella became an iconic piece of pop culture history thanks to one incredibly long story. CBS landed a massive hit with the clever sitcom format created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays. Ted Mosby spends nine seasons of How I Met Your Mother telling his kids about his romantic history in New York City.

Trading a fast-paced New York medical career for a tiny Alabama town sets up the perfect fish-out-of-water comedy. The CW series Hart of Dixie stars Rachel Bilson as a fast-talking surgeon completely out of her element. Creator Leila Gerstein packed the show with eccentric Southern townspeople and massive love triangles. 

Dial-up modems and floppy disks drive the major plot points of this deeply nostalgic comedy. Generation 56K is a Netflix original series that splits its narrative between the late 1990s internet boom and the modern dating scene. Creators Francesco Ebbasta and Alessio Maria Federici explore what happens when Daniel and Matilda reconnect in Naples Italy two decades after their childhood friendship. 

Moving into a Los Angeles loft with three strange guys sounds like a terrible idea after a bad breakup. Fox proved it was actually brilliant television with New Girl. Zooey Deschanel plays quirky middle school teacher Jessica Day. Creator Elizabeth Meriwether wrote one of the best slow-burn romances in television history.

Pairing socially awkward nerds with a street-smart waitress generated massive ratings for twelve seasons. Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady created the CBS juggernaut The Big Bang Theory. Penny moves across the hall from theoretical physicists Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper. Leonard and Penny anchor the early seasons with their unlikely attraction.