The BEST TBS shows of all time
Every TBS show, ranked
We've compiled the average episode rating for every TBS show to compile this list of best shows!
#1 - A Song to the Sun
While working at a seaside inn with his high school buddies, Fujishiro Koji meets Kaoru Amane, a street musician. Kaoru is suffering from an incurable disease called XP (xeroderma pigmentosum), and can’t be exposed to the sun. Under the sun, the two would never have met. Still, destiny brings the two together. Since the day he suddenly lost his job, Koji has lost sight of his dreams. But when he meets Kaoru, who is making positive efforts to become a singer, Koji regains his long-forgotten passion for music.
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#2 - The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
Computer wiz Jonny Quest and his friends battle international criminals using the resources of the Quest Foundation. Their chief weapon, and the target of many of their enemies, is the permanent, variable, sometimes unpredictable computer-generated VR domain, Questworld, which is entered using VR headsets. Inside Questworld, they must solve puzzles, locate hidden objects, battle evildoers and escape very-real danger if they are to succeed.
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#3 - American Dad!
CIA Agent Stan Smith is constantly fighting off terrorists who threaten the safety of the USA (sometimes causing more harm than good). His wife Francine is an average housewife with two kids: Hayley, an average rebellious teenager and Steve, a geek who enjoys Dungeons and Dragons, gaming and comic book conventions. Then there’s Roger, the home’s illegal (space) alien who the Smith’s are keeping protected. Last but not least, there’s Klaus, the Smiths’ wisecracking talking fish (swapped from his human body years ago by the CIA).
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#4 - Conan (2010)
Conan O'Brien and his co-host Andy Richter discuss current news topics and interview celebrities and personalities. Conan was filmed at Warner Brothers Studios, 3400 W. Riverside Drive, Burbank, CA (Stage 15).
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#5 - All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
All Elite Wrestling features a world-class roster of diverse male and female wrestlers, giving fans a new wrestling experience for the first time in 20 years.
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#6 - Cougar Town
Cougar Town follows the life of recent divorcée Jules Cobb (Courteney Cox). Jules runs a successful business, has the best friends, and a great son. But when it comes to relationships, she has a lot to learn. However, the more Jules puts herself back out there, the more she discovers that the only way to find yourself, is to let yourself go. After all, you only get one chance to experience your 20s. Even if it’s when you’re 40 something.
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#7 - The Detour
Contemporary husband and father takes his family on a road trip.
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#8 - Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Applying her smart and satirical point of view to current and relevant issues, Samantha Bee provides her nuanced perspective on world events, repartees with newsmakers from across ideological spectrums and stabs injustice with the hot poker of comedy.
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#9 - Ripley's Believe It or Not! (2000)
A revival of the series based on the newspaper feature by Robert Ripley. Former TV Superman Dean Cain is the host.
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#10 - Are We There Yet?
Centers on the blended Kingston-Persons of Seattle facing the challenges of everyday life in a new blended family.
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#11 - Men at Work
When Milo is thrust into single life after discovering his girlfriend has been cheating, he finds comfort in three best friends who help reinvent his manhood with the promise of sex, alcohol and some serious bromance.
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#12 - Wrecked (2016)
The single-camera comedy centers on a diverse group of survivors adjusting to being stranded on an uninhabited island, a dangerous new world where they must face many threats – mostly brought on by themselves. No longer plugged into the rest of the world, the group struggles to navigate their makeshift society while also learning to live without such modern comforts as indoor plumbing, Wi-Fi, social media and Chipotle.
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#13 - Ground Floor
A workplace comedy with a romantic twist, "Ground Floor" is set in the modern world of corporate America. The show centers on Brody, a young hot-shot banker at Whitestone Trust who thought he was just having a one-night stand with Jennifer, a beautiful woman he met at a bar. But when he discovers that she works in maintenance for the building where he works, their worlds begin to collide in the most unexpected way. Facing Brody’s critical boss, Mr. Mansfield, as well as annoyed colleagues, the pair must find a way to deal with their growing feelings for each other in this modern take on Romeo & Juliet.
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#14 - People of Earth
Journalist Ozzie Graham is skeptical when he investigates a support group for oddballs who think they have been abducted by aliens -- yet the more he learns, the more confused, intrigued, and seduced he becomes.
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#15 - Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Seeing the Earth in its profound environmental peril, Gaia, goddess of the Earth, summons five kids from around the world to become the Planeteers, an opposing force to fight back and educate others in the need to be environmentally responsible. To accomplish that task, each kid is given a magic ring that each has a power of earth, wind, water, fire and heart. When the threat they face is too big for them to face, they can combine and amplify their powers to create Captain Planet, who has the power to stop catastrophic environmental disasters himself, while the Planeteers contribute with the things anyone can and should do to help.
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#16 - Angie Tribeca
Lone-wolf detective Angie Tribeca and a squad of committed LAPD detectives investigate the most serious cases, from the murder of a ventriloquist to a rash of baker suicides.
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#17 - 10 Items or Less
10 Items Or Less stars John Lehr (Memron) as a struggling New York City businessman who moves home to take over the family supermarket following the death of his father. This scripted and improvised half-hour comedy series comes from the creators of the mockumentary Memron. The show is set in the fictional supermarket known as Greens & Grains which is 'located' at 5th Street and Tiberius. The following is a character guide: Leslie Pool is the owner/manager of G&G. Yolanda Nelson works in the produce department. Ingrid Wakowski is in customer service. Todd Sykes works in the meat department. Carl Dawson is a stockboy. Richard Mednick works as a cashier, while Buchwald Washington is a bagger.
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#18 - My Boys
My Boys follows PJ, a twenty-something professional sportswriter who is looking for love within her world which is dominated by her group of male friends. Her tomboyish, no-nonsense approach to relationships tends to freak out potential suitors which leads her only female friend to advise her to dress and act more feminine.
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#19 - The Guest Book
Guests bring their baggage and own special brand of crazy to a vacation cottage and record their confessions, alibis and farewells in the cottage’s guest book. Each season features a new town, and along with it a new cottage and town locals, though characters from previous season often come along for the ride.
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#20 - Sullivan & Son
Sullivan and Son takes place in a popular and legendary neighborhood bar in a working-class neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Penn. Filled with locals and regulars, Sullivan & Son is the unofficial “town hall” to the neighborhood. Steve Sullivan is the son of the current owner of the bar and the grandson of its founder. His Irish-American father and his Korean-American mother never expected their son to leave his job as a successful corporate attorney in New York and return to the old neighborhood to take over Sullivan & Son. But that’s just what he’s done. And so begins Steve’s quest for a more meaningful and rewarding life behind the bar.
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#21 - Meet the Browns
The series follows Leroy Brown as he transforms his inheritance — a dilapidated house — into Brown Meadows. It’s not the sprawling, green facility of geriatric dreams, but small, quaint and filled with quirky residents and employees struggling to keep their lives in order. Combine that with a lively fraternity house bustling with collegiate activity next door, and Brown gets way more than he bargained for.
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#22 - Miracle Workers (2019)
Miracle Workers is an American anthology comedy television series, based on the writings of humorist Simon Rich — with each season being based on a different work. The first season was based on Rich's 2012 novel What in God's Name and the short story Revolution provided the basis for the second season. The series was created by Rich, and it stars Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Jon Bass, Karan Soni, Sasha Compère, and Lolly Adefope.
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#23 - The Bill Engvall Show
"The Bill Engvall Show" is a new TBS comedy series starring the Blue Collar Comedy Tour veteran, Bill Engvall, as Bill Pearson, a family counselor who's just struggling to understand his own children. There's his wife, Susan Pearson (Nancy Travis), who is a stay-at-home mom determined to keep her family in line, his teenage son, Trent Pearson (Graham Patrick Martin) who's attempting to live a teenage boy's life while trying to live up to his father's hopes, their teenage daughter, Lauren Pearson (Jennifer Lawrence), who is struggling between the choices of going with her parents wishes or being rebellious and defying them, and then Bill's young son, Bryan Pearson (Skyler Gisondo), who is just being a the little kid he is and constantly getting into trouble for such things as his pet snake getting loose. Then, there's Bill's two closest friends, played by Tim Meadows and Steve Hytner.
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#24 - Neighbors from Hell
The Hellmans are a typical, all-American suburban family in every way except one: they're from hell. They've been sent to Earth by Satan, on a mission to stop humans from drilling into their underworld home. As they pose as everyday earthlings, dad Balthazor grows to like the odd but endearing qualities of humans, while his wife, Tina, would rather not be in the company of other suburban housewives. Rounding out the Hellmans are Josh and Mandy, typical teenagers in hell who find adapting to life on Earth fairly easy, and the family pet, Pazuzu. As Satan says, follow the credo ``Seem Normal, Fit In, Destroy Drill, Save Hell, Go Home'' and the Hellmans will have no worries.
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#25 - Wedding Band
"Wedding Band" centers on the bromance between four likable but occasionally reckless young men who can't figure out their own lives. One thing they have figured out, however, is that weddings are the wildest parties in town. Together as the band called Mother of the Bride, these four guys provide the soundtracks to other people's lives.
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#26 - The Last O.G.
An ex-felon is shocked to see just how much the world has changed when he is released from prison for good behavior after a 15-year stint and returns to his newly gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood.
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#27 - Your Family or Mine
Based on an enormously popular Israeli comedy, Your Family Or Mine comes from the producers of Friends, Will & Grace, How I Met Your Mother and Happy Endings. The new series revolves around Oliver and Kelli, who are living proof of the adage, “When you marry someone, you don’t just marry them, you marry their whole family.”
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#28 - Wipeout (2021)
Hosted by John Cena and Nicole Byer, with Camille Kostek serving as field host, this game show pushes contestants’ athleticism and determination to even greater extremes, all while delivering some wildly epic fails! Each game is three rounds, with each round featuring a jaw-dropping, multi-stage obstacle course with numerous strategy and decision points designed to further challenge the stamina of the competitors and deliver hilarious and surprising wipeouts. And of course, the iconic staple of the show — the big balls! — are returning with a vengeance.
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#29 - WCW Thunder
The war between World Championship Wrestling and the New World Order boils over to Thursday nights as WCW presents Thunder.
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#30 - Glory Daze
GLORY DAZE follows the fun – and awkward – misadventures of four freshmen as they navigate college life, trying to figure out who they are and who they want to be. Joel (Kelly Blatz) is a typical guy next door who is determined to keep his focus on pre-med, at least until he meets his unattainable dream girl, Christie (Julianna Guill). Eli (Matt Bush) is a virgin who desperately wants to be cool. Jason (Drew Seeley) is a buttoned-downed conservative, attached at the hip to his preppy girlfriend. Brian (Hartley Sawyer) is a star baseball player struggling to get out of his father’s shadow. Together, the guys agree to check out fraternity houses, finally coming to the steps of Omega Sigma, where they are greeted by pledge recruiter Mike (Callard Harris). Intrigued by the fraternity’s cool factor, their fate is sealed. They begin a journey that will make a lifetime of memories.
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#31 - The Misery Index
Two teams, each with one contestant and two Impractical Jokers, will compete against each other by attempting to rate hilarious and miserable real-life events on a scale of 1-100 based on the “Misery Index,” a ranking system created by a team of therapists.
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#32 - King of the Nerds
Hosted by Robert Carradine and Curtis Armstrong, King of the Nerds is the ultimate nerd-off. The series will follow eleven fierce competitors from across the nerd spectrum as they set out to win $100,000 and be crowned the greatest nerd of them all. King of the Nerds will take the glory of geekdom to a whole new level as the eleven competitors live together in "Nerdvana." Each week, they must face challenges that will test their intellect, ingenuity, skills and pop culture prowess. In each episode, the nerds will first compete as teams and then as individuals, facing challenges that range from live gaming to a dance-off to life-sized chess. One competitor will be eliminated each week until one nerd stands alone as the ultimate champion off all things nerdy.
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#33 - Clipped
A group of misfits from high school who work together at a Charlestown, Mass. barbershop called Buzzy's. Their dreams may lie across the Charles River in Boston, but for now, their work, their lives and their loves - not to mention their sense of humor - remain in Charlestown.
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#34 - Go-Big Show
An hour-long extreme talent competition showcasing supersized talents on a scale never before seen on television. Featuring monster trucks, alligator trainers, stunt archery and other radical feats, the program celebrates daring acts alongside personal, behind-the-scenes stories from the challengers as they battle head-to-head to impress the judges and advance toward the finale’s ultimate $100,000 prize.
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#35 - Conan Without Borders
Conan Without Borders takes late night host Conan O'Brien to different parts of the globe, proving O'Brien is television's perfect traveling everyman, with an uncanny knack for diving into a local culture and infusing it with his trademark humor.
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