The Small Fries

Hello Small Fries and welcome to the first ever Top Five Wednesday! In honor of Fuller House hitting Netflix later this month, I figured it would be a good time to bring you my Top Five 90s sitcoms!

5) Will & Grace

Premiering in 1998, Will & Grace pioneered the movement of having more realistic gay characters on television. This show revolves around a gay man Will and his best friend Grace living in New York City. The ONLY reason this show is so low on the list is that the bulk of it aired in the 2000s, otherwise it would be much higher.

4) Sabrina the Teenage Witch

The title is pretty self-explanatory: a teenage girl finds out she’s a witch and balances her magical powers with the pressure of being a high school student. Along with her aunts and her talking black cat Salem, Sabrina learned the ways of being a witch. Starring Melissa Joan Hart, this show originally aired on ABC’s TGIF programming block. Fun fact: Sabrina actually crossed over with another one of the shows on this list!

3) Friends

Of course, this list would be incomplete without Friends. The quintessential sitcom of the 90s, Friends featured a group of six twenty-somethings navigating through life in New York City. The show launched all six of the cast members’ careers, including Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox. While most people would have Friends at the top of a list like this, I felt it was too predictable. Plus, it wasn’t MY favorite sitcom of the 90s. Moving on…

2) Full House

Another show that was on the TGIF lineup, Full House is a sitcom about a widowed father named Danny Tanner raising his three daughters with the help of his best friend Joey and his brother-in-law Jesse. The show became a family friendly hit and launched the careers of twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who were only nine months old when the first season was filmed. This month, Netflix is releasing a spin-off series, Fuller House, which applies the same formula to Danny’s oldest daughter, DJ. 

1.Boy Meets World

As Stefon from Saturday Night Live would say, “This show has EVERYTHING!” Boy Meets World revolves around Cory Matthews, a middle child from the Philadelphia suburbs, navigating through adolescence with his best friend Shawn and the love of his life Topanga. The show is a perfect mix of humor, life lessons and serious moments that make it a must-watch for anyone. This show shares a few common traits with other shows on the list: it also aired on ABC’s TGIF block and currently has a spin-off show in Girl Meets World. Additionally, it crossed over with, you guessed it, Sabrina the Teenage Witch!

--Julie