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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Seinfield
Futurama
Southpark (earlier seasons were more rewatchable)
The office
How i met your mother
Black books
Scrubs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The Simpsons. Pick your favourite seasons or watch them all, you can’t go wrong

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Futurama. I’ve seen it thousands of times. That’s not an exaggeration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really should get around to re-watching Futurama. I often say Professor Farnsworth's 'Good news, everyone!' to myself :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

You won’t regret it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm surprised I don't see Battlestar Galactica or Star Trek Next Generation here yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Mythbusters

How its made

Haven't seen these as alternate options

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Band of Brothers

It's an annual thing for me

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Futurama is my comfort show. The wet humor gets me everytime

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

This is my go-to. I have the old DVDs ripped onto my Plex server so that I can hit shuffle on all the old seasons and just watch episodes at random.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I feel like I’ll get roasted but, maybe Family Guy. I always understand new references and catch new jokes each rewatch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Extreme elimination challenge.

Doesn't matter the episode or if you join half way into an episode, still a silly watch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Seinfeld for me.

Closely followed by IT Crowd

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Surprised not to see Generation Kill here. I'll watch it twice a year. Along with, as mentioned by many above, Seinfeld, Firefly, Community (preferably early seasons) etc.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Surprised no one’s brought up Futurama yet.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Unpopular Opinion: The endless reboots killed it for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

I dont see them as endless reboots i see them as repeated assaination attempts.
This is a good analysis of the shows life cycle where its pretty clear the show was fucked over repeatedly by the networks hosting it and its just refused to die. A case of when fans love something by execs dont.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  • Black Adder
  • Adventure Time
  • The Last Of Us
  • The Expanse
  • Community
  • Friends
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The expanse is top tier tv. Not sure how it wasn't more popular. Community is gonna go down as one of the classics

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Expanse may be the best bit of sci-fi I have ever had the joy to watch and read.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't get that far into the show because I was bored and lost in the space battles. Action scenes are always shakey cameras and me being confused about who's on what ship. I was extremely interested in the human dramas, politics, and especially the mystery of the fungal thing. The acting and dialects were really cool though, and I'd probably miss out on those unless the author does a good job writing them. Does it seem like I'd prefer reading it instead? I kind of feel like I just talked myself into trying the show again. :s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

A lot of the issues you mentioned get solved in season 2. I think there was a network shift and the camera work got better. Later on Amazon pumped a lot of money into the show as well. It's really worth the watch and I'd love to hear back from you if you do.

If you're a gamer there's a Telltale game that follows this account's namesake. Camina Drummer.

The writers did a fantastic job writing all the dialogue in the books. I would argue it's on par or even better than the show. Which is hard, considering the writers for the books produced and even wrote the screenplays for the show.

As someone who shares a line of work with Bobby Draper and many other characters, the military jargon and quips are also spot on. Never have I heard such accurate lingo and expression in sci-fi.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I watch too much tv:

Ted Lasso

The Good Place

Parks and Rec

The Office

Brooklyn 99

Northern Exposure

Friends

Schitt’s Creek

Sherlock

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Fawlty Towers

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This tells me I need to watch Northern Exposure, Schitt’s Creek, and Fawlty Towers.

And that you need to watch 30 Rock, Community, Scrubs, and Arrested Development.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Babylon 5.

Every time I watch it I’m stunned at how relevant it still is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I sooo wanted to rewatch that. But I just cannot get past the special effects these days. I thought it was great when it was on, now it's unwatchable for me. It's like, Playstation 1 cutscenes: the show.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I just finished watching the series for the first time the other day. I started out a little skeptical it would have aged well and there's a few moments that reminded me it came out in the early 90s, but wow what a fantastic show. And what a time to be watching it, some of those newscast episodes hit close to home.

I think it'll be on my rewatch list too now.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Arrested Development has such intricate humor that it takes multiple passes to absorb it all. For some jokes, the punchline for the set-up doesn’t come until some episodes—or even seasons—later. Just the first three seasons, though. Season 4 & 5 were made years later and aren’t the same.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

+1 for arrested development. Took me until season 3 to realize the next episode previews were fake

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Arrested Development, Always Sunny, and Archer for me. Always reliable when you just want half an hour of laughs. Although I do then tend to get drawn into yet another full rewatch.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

the glory (korean tv series)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

Bob’s Burgers

I like how every single character is incredibly weird in at least one way, but their weirdness is usually a source of joy and hardly ever used as the butt of a joke.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Red Dwarf

Monty Pythons Flying Circus

IT Crowd

Mr. Robot

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

King of the Hill

  • Friends
  • Golden Simpsons Era
  • Futurama
  • Star Trek TNG/Voyager
  • X-files
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Black Books

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

30 rock Curb Seinfeld Arrested development The Simpsons

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