Sitcoms. Love them or loathe them, one thing for certain is that we all spend far too many hours of our relatively short existence mesmerised by them. Wash some dishes? Sure, but only after having devoured this episode of Big Bang that I've already seen 17 times. Tidy the house? You're kidding, the latest Parks and Recreation starts in five minutes. You get the jist. But hey, give yourself a break. They're a release from the mundanity of everyday life regard them as the 30 minutes of sunshine and fresh air you didn't get because for your working lunch you ate a Boots Meal Deal (always the Chicken Triple). At your desk. Our unwaning obsession with the protagonists' lives, trials and tribulations is further-augmented by the fact that, nine times out of ten, the lead female characters are clandestinely smoking hot. Not necessarily the obvious first pick of a show's XX chromosome-based contingency, these women are the choice of the thinkers among us. Off the beaten track and often calamitous, clumsy and straight-up crazy, we take a look at eight of the genre's finest who you didn't realise you fancied.