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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Hey and welcome to The Podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and this is part two of our

very special two-part episode on sitcoms.

sitcoms.

Everybody.

That's right and we're going to shoot for 30 minutes here.

If you remember an episode one we explained all about how sitcoms are made and the history of sitcoms.

And today we begin with part two of whether or not these things were successful and boy were they.

Yeah, apparently between 1950 and 2019 the top rated show for the entire year in America at least

was a sitcom for 26 different seasons.

So that's a pretty significant number considering there's all sorts of different kinds of shows.

sitcoms are not the only kind of show out there.

Yeah, that's 40%.

I guarantee you that between 1950 and 2000 that number is more like 80%.

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