It’s been more than two years since the series finale of Schitt’s Creek appeared on our Netflix home screens, and while there have been plenty of other excellent shows in the meantime, there’s still a hole in the hearts of devoted fans who miss the nightly antics of Moira, Johnny, David, and Alexis Rose (not to mention the cherished additions of Patrick and Stevie). Though the cast are soon moving onto various new projects, including Annie Murphy joining the cast of Russian Doll, and Dan Levy set to produce and host the cooking show, The Big Brunch, we’ll always remember their time spent in the little backwater town of Schitt’s Creek.

Schitt’s Creek slowly became one of the most beloved series of all time, getting better with each new season until it swept the Emmys in 2020, winning nine and becoming the first show to win all seven major awards. While Schitt’s Creek stands in a league of its own for popular and critical appeal, there are a variety of other comedies that might give you a similar recurrence of belly laughs and even offer you a brand new sitcom family to obsess about, whether it’s the nostalgic-yet-faintly-snarky humor of the Short family, or the chaotic disorderliness of the genre-bending Communitycast. If you enjoyed watching Schitt’s Creek, here’s a list of the best TV shows to watch next.

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4 Life In Pieces

     20th Television

For fans of the close-knit comedy, Life in Pieces is one of the funniest sitcoms to depict the nuances of family life. Featuring a glittering cast that includes Colin Hanks, Betsy Brandt, James Brolin, Dan Bakkedahl, and Dianne Wiest, the plot follows the lives of a multi-generational family and the highs and lows of sustaining suburban life, from the potty-training adventures of the youngest Short family member, Lark (Ana Sophia Heger), to the retirement struggles of the oldest, John (Brolin).

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Though the Short family are a little less snarky than the Roses (except for Zoe Lister-Jones as Jen, who shines in her position as sarcastic lawyer-in-law with a constant influx of witty one-liners), the events that transpire are often just as funny and ridiculous as seen in Schitt’s Creek, despite no-one attempting the signature Moira Rose accent. Whether it’s the family patriarch John debating whether to add “of sound mind and dope body” to his wedding vows, or Tim accidentally misspelling his wife’s name as “Heater” during a prominent back tattoo, this show is set to have you laughing just as hard as watching Eugene Levy try and figure out what to do after buying an inordinate amount of illegal unpasteurized milk.

3 Arrested Development

     Netflix

There’s no better way to describe Arrested Development than as Schitt’s Creek’s older, evil twin; if the Rose family had managed to keep up their wealthy appearances and were never forced to move to the town of Schitt’s Creek, you could certainly imagine them conspiring with Saddam Hussein for the cash, or stealing money from the company accounts — fter all, one of the prominent opening lines in Schitt’s Creek was when the Inland Revenue Service arrived to empty out the Roses’ mansion and Moira melodramatically cried out, “My very soul has been kidnaped — there’s no ransom, no one’s coming to save me.”

Starring Jason Bateman, Portia De Rossi, Will Arnett, Jessica Walter, David Cross and Jeffrey Tambor (with some unique appearances from Liza Minnelli), Arrested Development tells the story of the Bluth family’s struggle to remain on top of the plummeting family business and subsequent legal proceedings, following the patriarch of the family’s incarceration for fraud. Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman), being the only “sane” member of the family, exists in a constant state of damage control as he wrestles for authority with his cold-hearted, alcoholic mother, reckless magician brother, and cousin-loving son. Not only did this show win six Primetime Emmys and one Golden Globe Award, it contained some seriously career-forming performances by its leading cast.

2 Community

     An image of the cast of Community standing together in front of a colorful chalkboard. 

Though Community may not contain the same “dramatic family” component as TV shows like Schitt’s Creek, it has an equally clannish dynamite cast and band of supporting characters. In fact, it wouldn’t be unrealistic to find Alex “Starburns” Osbourne knocking about in a dusty bar somewhere in the town of Schitt’s Creek, probably still wearing his signature top hat and trying to sell meth from his car boot/trunk (if he weren’t in the midst of faking his own death or entertaining his pet bearded lizard).

Community follows a group of misfits and mess-ups who find themselves attending Greendale Community College, most of whom are long past the traditional age to coexist as freshmen. Joel McHale plays Jeff Winger, the uber-suave former lawyer who faked his own law degree, Danny Pudi plays Abed Nadir, the socially incompetent savant with a penchant for movie trivia, and Gillian Jacobs plays Britta Perry, the hypocritical political activist, who all join forces together to form a Spanish study group.

Alongside this steadfast trio include other cast members, such as Chevy Chase, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, and Yvette Nicole Brown, who all seem to play mildly inflated versions of themselves — the most noticeable being Chase’s Pierce Hawthorne, a rich and self-important old man who takes pleasure in making everyone as uncomfortable as possible. Ultimately, Community was the community college show to end all college shows, changing the face of American humor with its blatant self-awareness, combination of slapstick gags with intellectual themes, and fan-appreciated “nerd humor.”

1 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

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While you might not think a TV show focusing on a woman who had just spent fifteen years stuck inside a doomsday cult could be funny, let alone resembling anything like Schitt’s Creek, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was another show created by Netflix that surpassed all expectations, and established itself as a rising comedic force within the bracket of streaming sitcoms. Created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock (of 30 Rock fame), the plot follows the wide-eyed Kimmy Schmidt (delightfully played by Ellie Kemper) as she discovers the modern world in the scenic hub of New York City, stumbling across new friends and undergoing new experiences, while trying to come to terms with the fact that the world as she knew it hadn’t actually ended.

If you were to subscribe to the idea that the Rose family in Schitt’s Creek were entrapped in their own metaphorical money-oriented cult, their plight was greatly similar to that of Kimmy Schmidt — moving to a new, unforeseen location, making sacrifices when it came to comfortable living and wealth, acknowledging betrayal from trusted influential figures (whether it was Kimmy Schmidt acknowledging the manipulation facilitated by doomsday cult leader Reverend Richard, played by the eternally charismatic Jon Hamm, or the Roses’ discovery that their business manager had embezzled all their money). Though the show has a slightly different comedic tone to Schitt’s Creek, both are guaranteed to have you holed up watching Netflix for the foreseeable future.