10 Hilarious TV Sitcoms You Totally Forgot About

2. Happy Endings

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Despite not getting the ratings when it was on the air, Happy Endings has achieved cult status since being cancelled in 2013 after three seasons. Some people immediately wrote the show off as a Friends clone about six young men and women living in Chicago instead of New York. But for anyone who gave the series a chance, there was so much more going on.

Happy Endings did bear some similarities to Friends, except that one of the main characters was a black man and the other was a gay man. In many ways, the show was more like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia than it was Friends. The six characters on Happy Endings were absolutely brutal to each other, doing as many horrible things as they could get away with on ABC.

If this show had been on a network like FX instead of ABC, it would have had the opportunity to push the boundaries even further. That is exactly what it Happy Endings needed to thrive. There is continually chatter about new episodes being made, which would give the series the chance to continue a show with much more story to tell.

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