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Top 5 TGIF Sitcoms to Relive Friday Night

Pizza on the coffee table, the whole family on the couch — ranking the best of ABC's legendary Friday night block.

BY THE FAN DESK · MIN

For a generation of kids, Friday night meant one thing: TGIF. ABC's family-comedy block turned the end of the school week into appointment television, with a lineup built to be watched by everyone in the house at once.

These are the five shows from that era that still hold up best — the ones with the catchphrases you can still recite and the very special episodes you still remember.

THE RANKING · TOP 5

BEST → REST
RANK
1
SITCOM 1987–1995 · ENDED
★ 6.1
Full House
The anchor of the whole block. Three dads, three daughters, and a San Francisco house that felt like everyone's second home. Full House perfected the TGIF formula — big laughs, a hug-it-out lesson, and a studio audience going 'awww' right on cue.
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2
SITCOM 1989–1998 · ENDED
★ 5.8
Family Matters
It started as a Perfect Strangers spin-off and turned into a phenomenon the moment Steve Urkel knocked on the Winslows' door. Underneath the gadgets and 'Did I do that?' is a warm, grounded show about a Chicago family that never stopped showing up for each other.
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3
SITCOM 1993–2000 · ENDED
★ 7.2
Boy Meets World
The TGIF show that grew up with its audience. Cory, Topanga, Shawn, and Mr. Feeny took viewers from middle school to marriage, and the show quietly got deeper and more ambitious with every season.
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4
SITCOM 1991–1998 · ENDED
★ 7.0
Step by Step
A blended-family comedy with Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers as newlyweds merging two very different households. Step by Step is pure comfort food — broad, loud, and impossible not to enjoy.
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5
SITCOM 1994–1999 · ENDED
★ 5.9
Sister, Sister
Twins separated at birth, reunited by chance at the mall — it's the kind of premise only '90s TV could pull off. Tia and Tamera Mowry's chemistry carries every episode, and the show's affection for both of its mismatched households is what makes it last.
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