I agree with your decision about animated shows.
I think selecting the definition to use for the word sitcom might have been the hardest decision to make and I appreciate how hard that might have been. For example, I don't think Orange meets the definition of sitcom (nor Sex in the City), but of course that is just my opinion. Someone mentioned the laugh track idea and that might very well be the most defining characteristic of a sitcom and a good solution, but that would have eliminated some good shows from the voting too. (whether a live audience or added laugh track is irrelevant to the answer). Anyway, I look forward to continuing this journey through the voting.
Very well said and lot of what you said was discussed as a committee. Defining sitcom was difficult for us and we tried to do best we could. Committee was rather small and something this big and vast with a bigger committee would probably be better.
Hopefully we get bigger committees when doing more of these in the future. It was really fun process putting this together.