If you're not wiped out by March Madness yet, go vote in the championship round of this Best Will Ferrell Character Tournament. One of the competitors has many leather-bound books, and his apartment smells of rich mahogany. The other abides by the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup. The choice is yours.
Welcome to the Best Sitcom Episode Ever Tournament! This page gives a full rundown of the current voting and results of the tournament. The full, squinty bracket is above, and a more legible breakdown of the four "regions" — to be updated when results are available — follows:
Round two of the Best Sitcom Episode of All Time Tournament has come to a close, and we're now down to just eight episodes in contention from an original pool of 32. This round actually had more blowouts than the last round — the real heavyweights emerged. But don't expect that to be the case next week during round three, when we'll have such battles as Seinfeld's "The Contest" up against tourney favorite "Marge vs. the Monorail." And Community still has two episodes in the tournament, but we'll see if it manages to hold its own against the Arrested Development juggernaut.
In any case, on to the results!
Here's a fun thought experiment: of all the episodes of all the sitcoms that have aired over the years, what is the single best one? Obviously there is no objective "best" episode out there that everyone can agree on, but still, certain candidates come to mind immediately: Marge vs. the Monorail! The Contest! Lucy Does a TV Commercial!
Because there are few things more fun for comedy nerds than revisiting some of the best TV comedy ever produced and then talking about it, we're prepping a tournament pitting 32 of the greatest sitcom episodes ever against each other, March Madness style. We'll be creating a bracket and then opening [...]
Today, we're kicking off a pretty big and relatively ridiculous project: the Best Sitcom Episode Ever Tournament. We here have gathered up 32 nominations for the single best sitcom episode to ever air (thanks in part to all of your suggestions) and made a bracket. We'll now be pitting all of these classic and future-classic episodes against each other in a single-elimination battle for supremacy, with your votes determining which episode advances and which stays behind.
And I know, comedy is subjective and there's no real "best" episode out there. Some people will find their all-time-favorite didn't even make the bracket. But don't sweat it: this is the internet. [...]
