The Best TV Sitcoms of 2011

10. The League

Let's face it, fantasy football is nothing more than "Dungeons & Dragons" for jocks - a way to live out the lives of the characters that we obsess over in either sports or tales of mythical beings. We're all just admiring talent in the end. But this show always manages to bring consistent laughs.

9. The Office

I just like to think that the current season is just an extended Ambien-induced dream that Michael Scott is having on the plane ride to Colorado. He dreampt that celebrities came to vye for his position, made Dwight a Bond villain and inexplicably gave Stanley a catch phrase. He'll wake up any minute now and this show will be blessed with a mercy kill.

8. Onion News Network

Topical humor!

7. The Daily Show/Colbert Report

Topical humor done slightly better!

6. Curb Your Enthusiasm

Another great season which took Larry, Jeff and Suzy to New York and gave us the instant classic "The Palestinian Chicken", which some college kid probably used in their college final as a way to make peace in the Middle East.

5. Archer

The three-part premiere, which featured Archer as a pirate king was very inspired and gave us hilarious moments that we'll flash back upon as we lie their in our deathbeds, remembering the thousands of hours we WASTED on movies and TV (but it was worth it, damnit!) and we'll painfully chuckle at remembering the pool ball-swallowing Pam or the tragic yet classy backstory of Woodhouse, before Death's sweet whisper devours our souls.

4. Childrens Hospital

Widely known fact: "Childrens Hospital" is shot on the same hospital set as "Scrubs" was, so every morning the cast and crew have to make a human sacrifice to the Nordic gods that Zach Braff pissed off when he possessed a hooker in season 4. They usually pick an extra who just got off the bus in Hollywood, because their mid-West relatives will just roll their eyes when they get the news, sayin', "See? That's show business, hon. Buncha jackals, I tell ya."

3. Parks & Recreation

Introducing the political race for Leslie Knope gave the show a sense of purpose moving forward, though she's gotta lose, right? Cause if she's on city council, then the name of the show doesn't make sense. Unless we follow her in season 5 on the council, making real change in Pawnee, but then realizes that cutthroat politics is the only way things work around here, missy, so she retires and joins back up with her gang in the good ol' Parks Dept. Oh yeah, and we met Tammy 1, Ron Swanson's first wife, which can only mean that Tammy 3 is entering his life soon.

2. Louie

Yo, "Duckling" almost made me cry. But Louis CK just keeps shoveling gold at the screen and it's miraculously sticking (though technically, gold would probably break the screen) as they wrapped up another killer season. They went dark this year, with Doug Stanhope playing a sucidial pathetic comedian who tells Louie he's going to kill himself and Louie can't even come up with something to stop him, letting him leave. And a great guestspot from Joan Rivers who gave Louie a talkin' to about business etiquette and ended up... well, you'll have to see the episode.

1. Community

With amazing episodes like "Critical Film Studies", where we got a (fake) glimpse of Abed lamenting how he hasn't lived due to all the media he consumes and "Remedial Chaos Theory", where different timelines (including the darkest) played out as the study group decided who'd get the delivered pizza, it's no wonder that a show with compelling characters, versitile visual/storytelling styles and solid jokes was put on hiatus by NBC. But due to the fans heightening the show's exposure (even an "Occupy Rockefeller Center" protest), I suspect the show will be back in March, and given one more season to led Greendale's brightest graduate community college.