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Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a vice president surrounded by idiots; the best insults on television.

A start-up with a compression algorithm and the tech industry as farce; Mike Judge.

Issa Rae in South Los Angeles through her late twenties; five seasons of friendship.

A family funeral home in Los Angeles; the finale is the one everyone cites.

David Brent at Wernham Hogg in Slough; twelve episodes and a Christmas special that invented the form.

Dunder Mifflin, Scranton; nine seasons of Michael Scott, Jim and Pam.

The show about nothing; nine seasons of Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer.

Springfield since 1989; the first ten seasons are the ones people mean.