The 7 Best TV Families Of All Time

We all know the phrase, “You can’t choose your family,” with many of us–perhaps even all of us–relating to that sentiment more than a few times in our lives. Yet even by our individual standards, few families have proven as overarchingly dysfunctional as the ones that appear on TV.

Over the years, the television medium has introduced audiences to an unending assortment of colorful families, many of whom bicker, fight, and constantly hurl themselves at each other’s throats throughout their series’ runs.