one of the characteristic of the sit-com is the narratives always end in the same manner they begin: everything is resolved and the audience looks forward to next week's shenanigans. whatever the storyline for the particular episode is always able to resolve without altering the main characteristics of the show. this is indicative of the episodic style of a sit-com. this means that the show will be based on individual stories per an episode.
This aspect of the sit-com fits within the genre of the sit-com because it would make the show more reliable to the viewer, its safer. the show wouldn't change in such a drastic way as to shock the audience. this made the show a consistent distraction for the audience. this expectation with a prescribed storyline drew in weekly viewers who could watch a show for half an hour and go about their lives much like the characters in the show would presumably do. this also allowed the writers to continue using the formulas they used to write.
Comparing this to the show Futurama, you can see this formula is still apparent (even in the year 3010). This aspect of the show has even been referenced several times. flat out in an epsiode where aliens want the end of a show and when they try to remake the end Fry explains to everyone how the ending of a show should be like the start where nothing dramatic happens and everything is the same. But what makes this show brilliant is that they adopt this style, but exaggerate it ten-fold: going so far to as to play out the entirety of the universes life... TWICE and end up in the same place the episode began.
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