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20 best sitcom squads we want to be friends with

By Reed Gaudens

FRIENDS -- Season 2 -- Pictured: (l-r) Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay (Photo by NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
FRIENDS -- Season 2 -- Pictured: (l-r) Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay (Photo by NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) /
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Friends will always be there for you, but sitcom friend groups will always make you laugh. Which sitcoms have the best friend groups of all time?

When you’re growing up and catching a marathon of Friends, you start to believe that someday, you will also have an abnormally close group of friends who you’ll drink coffee with every day and walk into each other’s apartments without keys. Maybe you believed that you’d move through your whole life with your friends like in Boy Meets World or retire together in a home in Florida like The Golden Girls. Whatever the case, sitcom friend groups set the friendship standard.

When your rain starts to pour, which sitcom friend groups will be there for you? From How I Met Your Mother to The Good Place, friendship on the small screen won’t ever let you down. Click through our ranking of the 20 best sitcom friend groups of all time, beginning below with Single Parents, and share which ones you would want to join in the comments!

Single Parents
SINGLE PARENTS – ABC’s “Single Parents” stars Kimrie Lewis as Poppy, Devin Trey Campbell as Rory, Tyler Wladis as Graham, Leighton Meester as Angie, Ella Allan as Amy, Marlow Barkley as Sophie, Brad Garrett as Douglas, Taran Killam as Will, Mia Allan as Emma, and Jake Choi as Miggy. (ABC/F. Scott Schafer) /

20. Single Parents

Members: As sitcom friend groups go, Single Parents has one of TV’s most expansive ones since there’s technically two in one show. First, there’s the handful of titular single parents in Will (Taran Killam), Angie (Leighton Meester), Poppy (Kimrie Lewis), Miggy (Jake Choi), and Douglas (Brad Garrett). And then there’s their precocious children: Sophie (Marlow Barkley), Graham (Tyler Wladis), Rory (Devin Trey Campbell), and Amy and Emma (Ella and Emma Allan).

Memorable moments: While it’s true that Single Parents only has one hilarious season in the books so far, and the memorable moments are currently limited, the series and its characters have made a serious case for a long future as an all-time best. The newcomer made an impressive premiere with a singalong to a hit Moana song, and it continued to showcase its unique sense of humor as the single parents lean on each other to host sleepovers and parties centered on getting back Douglas’ collectible Ronald Reagan pen.

Running gags: When Single Parents returns for its second season (and with any luck, many more after that), a new crop of running gags will naturally weave their way into the DNA of the series. But since the sitcom comes from the creator of New Girl, running gags are practically its lifeblood. So far, Douglas flexing his wealth, Will’s love for the weather, and the twins’ unbelievable work ethic are some of the common recurring jokes that have made the wonderfully weird characters on Single Parents one of TV’s best new sitcom friend groups.

Key episodes: “Beyoncé Circa Lemonade,” “Ronald Reagan’s White House Collectible Pen,” “Graham D’Amato: Hot Lunch Mentalist,” “A Radiant Cloak of Sexual Irresistibility,” “Lance Bass Space Cump.”