If you have recently go obsessed with ABC's newest workplace one-act, Abbott Unproblematic , only know yous are not lone. In January, information technology was reported that Abbott Uncomplicated quadrupled its ratings in MP35 — the first ABC one-act to do and then. The evidence follows the everyday anarchy that is involved in being an elementary school teacher in West Philadelphia. The bandage of characters includes a strong-headed veteran teacher, a tone-deaf principal, an over-eager second-year instructor, and then many more. While in that location are many network comedies today that reign in large audiences, not virtually equally many can say that their success is deserved. Abbott Uncomplicated is not only popular only an extremely well-written show that handles the of import and pressing issues educators face with grace and humor. For more shows that will make y'all express mirth and think, here's a list for y'all!

A Black Lady Sketch Show

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Though this show may not seem like it has a lot in mutual with Abbott Unproblematic on its surface as it is non a sitcom simply a sketch testify, the two have one person in common: Quinta Brunson. Before ABC picked upwards Abbott Elementary, Brunson, the testify's star and creator, was working on A Black Lady Sketch Bear witness . When it was released, the bear witness was a breath of fresh air. Nearly sketch comedy shows similar Saturday Night Live! and Portlandia have a history of centering their comedy around what white male audiences find funny. All the sketches in this prove are written, produced, and starring blackness women. With a bandage of writers that includes the likes of Ashley Nicole Blackness and Bister Ruffin and guest stars like Angela Bassett and Laverne Cox, there'southward no manner you won't exist doubled over laughing by the end of every skit.

Modernistic Family

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Before Abbott Uncomplicated broke every record for a sitcom on ABC, the network's highest-performing testify was Modernistic Family . The show revolves around three unlike types of families (nuclear, blended, and same-sexual activity) who are continued through their patriarch, Jay Prichett. The testify delves into bug of adoption, clearing, homophobia, and the everyday problems that all families face. Along with that, the prove is too incredibly funny. SofĂ­a Vergara as Gloria is deliciously unhinged at times and Ty Burrell's performance every bit Phil, the "absurd dad" who ends upwardly looking more than like a bumbling fool, are reasons enough to watch this show in its entirety. Seeing every bit how Abbott Elementary is just in its first season, it's a good idea to hunker down with the eleven seasons Modern Family to see what it has to offering.

The Office

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Whether showrunners and creators like to admit it or not, The Office is and always will be the template on which all workplace sitcoms are built. Based on the Ricky Gervais testify of the aforementioned name, The Office follows the everyday lives of people who work at a mid-level paper company chosen Dunder Mifflin. Though many are merely at that place to quietly do their work and go home, their childish, insensitive, and lovable boss, Michael Scott (Steve Carell) makes that incommunicable. This show, more than whatever other, found beauty and hilarity in the mundane. Every bit an audience, we got to watch our favorite characters autumn in dearest, rise up in their job, and often make fools of themselves. Information technology'southward ane of the few shows that can make yous cry from sadness and from laughter.

Parks & Recreation

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This show was also created by the writers of The Office but contains a political tinge that is more in line with that of Abbott Simple. Parks & Recreation follows Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) an idealistic government worker who has to fight her ambitious and idiotic townspeople, her somewhat uncaring coworkers, and the decadent elite, all with a smile on her confront. Unlike Abbott Simple, the show had a rocky first flavour and represents one of the great improvement stories of tv. After getting middling reviews, many of the characters changed a lot and the one-act became much more political. Of all the shows mentioned in this list, Parks & Recreation contains the most interesting grapheme developments for its main and supporting characters as well as of import and accessible social commentary.

Superstore

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When America Ferrera decides to star in and produce a prove, you can be sure it will be universally funny and with a large focus on working-class struggles. Superstore is just that show. It takes identify in a big-box concatenation store like to Walmart or Target and follows the lives of the wide bandage of people that work there. Superstore blends the ideas of workplace comedies similar The Office and Parks & Recreation, by showcasing the boiler and sense of humor that comes from working in a middling task merely attaches important political bug to what some might believe to be an "unpolitical" place. Throughout the series, these characters fight for unionization, proper motherhood leave, and try to overcome undocumented status. With nifty performances from Ferrera as well every bit Ben Feldman and Lauren Ash, this is a great alternative to Abbott Elementary.

AP Bio

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Like Abbott Uncomplicated, this is a slap-up network bear witness that focuses on the lives of public school teachers, admitting with a more contemptuous and less heartwarming lens. When Jack Griffin, a disgraced Harvard philosophy professor loses his job, he returns to his hometown in Ohio to work as an AP Biology replacement teacher. His interests prevarication less in pedagogy and more in using these eager-to-please laurels curl students to enact his revenge on his previous professional rival Miles Leonard and to help him write what he believes will be a best-selling book. Glenn Howerton is not bad at playing morally questionable narcissists like Dennis Reynolds in It's E'er Sunny in Philadelphia , but in AP Bio , he really shines. With the hilarious Patton Oswalt at his side, you lot volition laugh until your sides injure!

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Motion picture this: yous're a successful lawyer living the high life until y'all are suddenly disbarred and suspended from your law firm when information technology is discovered that you lied about possessing a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and are now forced to enroll in community higher. That is Jeff Winger's dilemma in the inventive sitcom, Community . The show follows Jeff's trials and tribulations and his relationship with a group of various and hilarious friends who form a Spanish study group. The creator, Dan Harmon, who went on to create Rick & Morty , wrote an incredibly meta show that makes fun of the sitcom format itself and has fun by playing with a diverse array of genres. Yous tin enjoy a western-style episode, a My Dinner with Andre episode, or a sci-fi episode. If y'all want a sitcom about the other side of the education system, this is the only one that matters.