In every sitcom there's a bar/diner where the main cast of characters spends almost all of their time. Real life doesn't work like that. The restaurant you take someone on a first date is NOT the bar you want to drown your sorrows in when they inevitably dump you. Here are 10 fictional hangout spots and the purpose they'd serve in your life.

1. Cheers - After Work Drinks

If you're looking for somewhere to unwind after a long day at the office, Cheers is the gold standard of fictional bars. It's casual and friendly - perfect for bitching about Donna in HR with minimal disruption. Maybe you'd even become one of the bar's beloved regulars if you're quirky/loud/miserable enough. Actually, the bar that inspired the show has opened up asecond location that's an exact replica of Cheers, but without Sam and Diane's sexual tension it's basically just a Bennigans. Booooring.

2. Paddy's Irish Pub - Getting Shitfaced

If Paddy's existed it would almost certainly be the kind of seedy alley bar that has a very specific purpose. You'd NEVER take a date there, but you WOULD go alone because you got fired/dumped/crabs and want to get wasted without judgment. Paddy's could be that for us. The It's Always Sunny gang are terrible people, sure. But they're entertaining terrible people who'd be fun to play flipcup with.

3. The Three Broomsticks - Homework

I just think it'd be really funny to go catch up on emails in The Three Broomsticks because in a place filled with self-cleaning dishes, the horns of magical creatures and blood flavored lollipops, everyone there would be fascinated by your 4-year-old computer. It'd be a real power trip if you're feeling sad about your own mediocrity and witches and wizards think your Macbook is the coolest thing they've ever seen. Plus, how cool would it be to hang out in a cozy pub surrounded a hot bartender, delicious butterscotch beverages and MAGIC? (the one in Orlando only has 1 out of 3.)

4. MacLaren's - Meeting Friends 

Given that the How I Met Your Mother gang hung out here literally all the time, MacLaren's seems like a great place to meet friends to catch up on a Saturday night. Honestly, MacLaren's didn't seem like that cool of a place. It was just another generic, kinda Irish-y bar that are all over New York City. The gang's enthusiasm for their beloved bar is what makes us want to hang out at MacLaren's, if only to steal their booth that's somehow always miraculously empty.

5. Luke's Diner - Small Town Charm

Luke's is everything a small town diner should be, from the handwritten specials chalkboard to the old hardware store sign out front. It'd be the perfect beginning and/or end to a weekend getaway in Connecticut. If this were to exist, though, I'd also need a young, tortured Milo Ventimiglia to flirtily banter with and Babette and Miss Patty sitting in the corner gossiping about it.

6. The Max - Skipping School

I'll never forgive Saved By The Bell for leading me to believe that every high school clique gets to hang out at a magical burger joint. Literally. Max was a magician. When I finally got to high school and the coolest hangout was the Wawa parking lot, I was crushed. If the Max existed, it would be the perfect place for high school kids to grab burgers and angst about crushes when they should be in 4th period Chemistry. 90s nostalgia is so in now, a replica of The Max has to be in the works. Although I think some of the decor's colors and shapes stopped existing after we hit the millennium.

7. Mos Eisley Cantina - Celebrity Stalking

If the cantina existed, the gritty criminal clientele would be run out by sci-fi fan-girls and -boys trying to catch a glimpse of Han Solo, and it would lose everything that made it cool. I'm not sure if that's more or less pathetic than middle-aged women obsessed with Bono hanging out in the lobby of that hotel he owns.

8. The Krusty Krab - Drunk Food

Forget IHOP and Taco Bell, The Krusty Krab would be the PERFECT late night drunk food spot. How does a grill work underwater? Are Krabby Patties made from actual crab? If so, what does that say about Mr. Krabs? And how does he have a whale daughter anyway? These are the tough questions that a drunk person would come up with hilarious answers to.

9. Bob's Burgers - Family Dinner

The Belchers are the loudest, craziest, coolest family on television and hanging out in their diner would be a constant source of entertainment. You'd get to try a new punny special every day and witness Bob's slow descent into insanity at the hands of his children, making your lame family seem more normal and MUCH more boring. Your mom probably wouldn't feel the need to ask you when you're going to find a nice boy and settle down for the 600th time when your waitress is a 9-year-old who won't take off her pink bunny ears.

10. JJ's Diner - Breakfast Meeting
  

 If Leslie Knope has taught us anything, it's to tenaciously pursue your professional goals and that breakfast food is the best. So obviously JJ's is the perfect place to schedule a breakfast meeting. Or if your boss keeps asking why you feel the need to drag her out of bed early for constant useless meetings, have breakfast food at a lunch meeting. No one will judge you for eating waffles at noon. Waffles are the best.