In my opinion you're both wrong. 'Situation Comedy' is a label I'd apply to something like Full House or just about any television show involving the Olsen Twins. However you can easily draw parallels between Full House and something like Married With Children, which also has misanthropic comedy that easily ties it to shows like Curb, It's Always Sunny and 30 Rock. I'd argue that calling all of the above 'Comedies' is the right idea, as 'Situation Comedy' is a pretty flexible label in our modern lexicon of TV. I'd go so far as to suggest sitcoms of today have taken on the features of the comedy shows from 15 years ago.
IMDB lists every show you're discussing as a comedy (except for Parks and Rec which is inexplicably a Comedy-Drama) but Parks and Rec started as a mockumentary styled show in the same tradition as The Office USA. So is the USA Office a Sitcom? I guess so. But The British Office definitely wasn't according to my standards. You see how circular this is?
I was going to argue that to be a sitcom a show needed a laugh track or some implication of a studio audience. However The Big Bang Theory has both of these things and as far as I can tell has never even bothered with anything that comes remotely close to 'comedy'. I guess you can label a lot of these shows Quasi-Dramas or Quasi Comedies, but that's my point; why bother? The Nomenclature hasn't accurately reflected the industry for decades as far as I'm concerned.
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