Let’s take a look at some more sitcoms that debuted this fall season.

“Suburgatory” (ABC): “Suburgatory” might not be the best show of the new fall season, but it is certainly the most fun. It is the teenage, high school sitcom that network television needed, and it strikes this note so well that it feels so different from all the other sitcom offerings networks are providing these days.

Tessa Altman (Jane Levy) loves life in New York City. But when her single father George (Jeremy Sisto) finds a box of condoms in her room — yes, that is the landmark event that changes everything here — he decides to move them from the city to the suburbs.

Viewers are never really told where these suburbs are, but that feels like an artistic choice, a point about the generic nature of these gated communities. These suburbs are full of essentially the plastics from “Mean Girls,” men who emphasize obscene spending, mothers with inappropriate outfits and daughters who spend their days drinking the town’s horrid drink of choice: sugar-free Red Bull.

The show finds a number of polar opposites between the two locales, most exemplified in episode six, “Charity Case,” where Tessa tries to put a stop to the school’s constant waste of food. The show portrays Tessa here as someone who has lived with less and understands the importance of sharing the wealth, but when she attempts to make a change, it turns into the whole community thinking she is too poor and needs their help.

But the show earns points for not just sticking to the characterization of “city people smart, suburbanites stupid,” with episode four, “Don’t Call Me Shirley.” Tessa gets excited when she hears emergency sirens because it reminds her of the plethora of noise from the city. She openly makes fun of suburbanites for calling the police about missing Shirley Temple dolls and glorifies how city police would not give this case the time of day. Her father cheerfully reminds her that it’s a good thing if police have nothing better to do in a town than pursue a case that is not murder or something more serious.

evy as Tessa hits just the right beat, not trying to emulate “Juno” or any other recent teenage movies but going for the more retro ’80s or ’90s feel to a teenage sitcom, the loner trying to fit in. This show feels more like a sitcom version of “My So-Called Life” as a result.

Sisto, most memorable as Brenda’s troubled brother Billy from “Six Feet Under,” shows his acting versatility as George. It is still so strange to see Sisto outside the Billy role.

“Suburgatory” also features an excellent ensemble cast, the highlight being Cheryl Hines as fellow neighborhood resident and Southerner Dallas Royce. Hines pulls off a believable accent, and she miraculously manages to straddle a line between clueless and endearing remarkably.

After seeing the pilot episode of this show, I immediately watched the other five episodes that have aired. It’s a fun watch, in a television landscape with not enough of those shows.

“Man Up” (ABC): I was going to review the Tim Allen-led “Last Man Standing,” but I decided to pick this man-centric show, feeling it might actually have a chance of being good.

But the pilot is just O.K. Of course it is all about manhood. The main plot shows a father agonizing over his son’s 13th birthday present, because that birthday is apparently the one where you are supposed to get a really manly gift. The B plot centered on one of the father’s friends, in a moment of weakness, crashing his ex-girlfriend’s wedding. The groomsmen follow him back to the 13th birthday party, and the boys have to summon the courage to fight — again, like men would.

 ABC’s fascination this year with the apparent loss of manhood in society is insufferable, and the only way this show could possibly succeed would be to ditch its own premise. The acting is good enough, especially Dan Fogler as buddy Kenny, but it seems unlikely that a show called “Man Up” that features its main characters playing video games with headsets for scenes, will change enough to be worthwhile viewing.

“Allen Gregory” (Fox): Why, oh why, didn’t “Bob’s Burgers” come back in September instead of January? That show is so much better than this. Jonah Hill is already annoying, and here, he plays one of the most annoying roles imaginable: illogically pretentious child. It’s just awful.

— Robby O’Daniel is a graduate student in communications. He can be reached at rodaniel@utk.edu.