Part of the reason TV fans are so enamored with sitcoms is that it often seems like something unexpected is going to happen, only to have the more predictable option actually occur. There's a strange amount of comfort in that. Over the decades, sitcoms have developed a pool of plot twists that generally occur across the genre, but some have found ways to toy with the fabric of the established formula and catch viewers off guard. A six-season sitcom that ran between 2015 and 2020 certainly did this throughout by taking a familiar trope and making it impossible to guess how it would play out in its various forms.

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