When do you know that you love a sitcom?

Moments that make you realise you are in love with a sitcom (situational comedy):

1) When you cannot wait to watch the next episode after binge-watching the third or fourth (choose your number) season and are panic-stricken to come to know that you don't have the next season on your hard drive and the internet connection is spotty enough.

2) You call your buddy at an odd hour and ask, "Bro, have you seen this TV show?", and are overjoyed when he replies in the affirmative and adds, “I loved it." Now your friendship gets even stronger. If that person was a stranger before you asked that question, you have now made a friend for life maybe. This may be a slight exaggeration but may also happen. Because birds of the same feather flock together. They always have and always will.

3) You are at work or in classes when suddenly a watched scene pops up on the mind screen, making you lose yourself in its fond remembrance and then you are jolted out of your reverie when people around you ask, "Dude, what happened? What’s the matter? Why are you smiling for no reason?"

4) The binge-watching itself is a reminder that you cannot get enough episodes to feast your eyes and mind upon.

5) The characters become an integral part of your life. You compare them with your friends, arguing about who is better or more entertaining one. Sometimes, you relate to them, their everyday problems and dilemmas.

6) While watching the last few episodes of a season you feel sadness enveloping you even if it is going to end on a happy note and do not want the season to end despite knowing that the next season is still there waiting for you. So I think people who follow their favourite TV shows can understand what it’s like when they are watching the last season and they are running out of episodes to watch. I know. The answer is difficult. Very difficult.

7) The recurring theme music of the sitcom gets you all up and ready to watch the next episode. It reinforces your attachment with the series every single time it gets played at the beginning of each episode.

8) The vanity cards at the end of each episode (as in The Big Bang Theory) carry short reflective pieces that are quite interesting to read and sometimes turn out to be informative too.

9) And last but not the least, the dull and sad moments are quite a few, and the happy ones so many!