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When it premiered this fall, the new CBS sitcom The Great Indoors came under fire for relying heavily on unimaginative jokes about millennials: They’re obsessed with social media and political correctness, addicted to technology, sheltered, entitled, and lazy.

But the series, which just received a full-season order, at least suggests that portrayals of Generation Y are prevalent enough in the public consciousness to justify a network show dedicated to making fun of them.

The pop-cultural footprint of Millennials is especially apparent in the broader TV landscape, which has seen a boon of stories focused on members of that age group over the past five years.

At least a dozen current shows examine the generation’s varied experiences wit