History Of The SitcomSeason 1, Episode 8 - Movin' On

Although the American dream of social mobility underpins America's social contract, that dream is so often beyond reach that it takes sitcom humour to help laugh at the struggles of getting ahead. The Honeymooners, The Andy Griffith Show and Roseanne all offer funny snapshots at class divisions in America, divisions that are even starker in Arrested Development and Schitt's Creek. But it is It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia that asks the hardest, perhaps funniest question of all - is this aspirational game we're all playing rigged against us?

History Of The Sitcom was broadcast on SBS ONE at Saturday 28 March 2026, 18:00.