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Leverage and the continuation Leverage: Redemption.
Monsters (1988)
The Andy Griffith Show, but I don't know about the adjective "weirdly." The show is supposed to be cozy and comfortable, and it succeeds better than any other show I know. Hilarious, too. Barney Fife is the funniest character in the history of TV. I even named my Lemmy handle after him.
Perhaps a better choice would be one of my favorite Star Trek series - Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, or Voyager. I record them on TIVO, so I have a huge bank to choose from. I often watch an episode as the last thing before going to bed.
Ds9? I don't watch shows anymore, though I like remembering it
The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
OG SatAM Sonic the Hedgehog, the dark one where his family and friends have been roboticized.
It used to be That 70s Show, but too many of the cast is too weird/creepy now
House MD
ReBoot and Beast Wars
The Great Big North
Thats the alaska one right?
Yeah
With Alannis Moriseette
BoJack Horseman is very oddly cozy for me. It shouldn't be. There's a lot of angst in there, but it's comfort.
my ex loved that show. i thought it was funny but meh.
turns out she had major lying/alcohol/money issues. go figure. and i was too stupid to realize it until we were about to move in together. her love of the show was her love of her fucked up treatment of me.
Good thing she's your ex now, buddy. Glad you made it out.
The underwater episode is great though, tbf
There's even more episodes that are as good as that one IMO. The show doesn't have many bad episodes. Just a handful -- maybe -- of less interesting ones.
X-Files
For me, itβs delicious in dungeon. Iβm vegetarian and generally very weirded out by the cultish behaviours people have around meat, so a show about people killing and eating monsters should definitely not be as enjoyable to me as it is, but here we are. Very fun and cute show tho so Iβm not complaining
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Burn Notice. I dont know what it is but it's like watching a version of "How It's Made" from a fictional universe. All of the voiceovers about spycraft are bullshit but my brain just buys it for whatever reason.
Also, can't belive I forgot this, but "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".
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If I had to pick just one it would be Red Dwarf. I watched it so many times I can't even count it.
There are also some series that aired at the time I was returning from school I'd happily watch if they were on right now. Even though I'm not that interested to search for them though. Shows like Renegade, Walker Texas Ranger, Baywatch or whatever that Star Trek with captain Picard was. This is hugely influenced by time and place as our eastern block country just opened to western shows and movies and everything looked so flashy and bombastic. And everything was flashy and bombastic compared to bland and gray local production at the time.
Black Adder?
Yeah, that one is great too. I really dig that British humor, also Monty Python's, Black Books or Yes, (Prime) Minister.
Star Trek: Voyager. I was raised on that shit. Not objectively the "best" Star Trek. (Far from the worst, though.) But it's the one that's most nostalgic and, indeed, "cozy" for me.
The first time I watched Voyager, I went into it only knowing that more folks liked TNG and DS9 (at the time I had only ever seen random eps of TNG, TOS, and a few of the TOS movies). So while I went on a random deep watch of all of Trek at the time (Discovery was either about to come out, or had started). I was very happy to find out that Voyager was much better than I expected. Also didn't take as long to get good (TNG was very weird the first few seasons which I found out quickly).
After watching all the stuff before Discovery, it felt so different and kind of makes it and the other new shows seem strange. Not always bad, just so much modern effects that take attention away from the actors. So far I am in season 3 of Discovery, season 2 of Picard, and only one episode of SNW. Still looking forward to them, just need to be in a "time for Trek" headspace to power through them like I did for everything before.
I personally find Enterprise to be the most weirdly cozy of the pre-Discovery shows (not near being the best taken as a whole like TNG/DS9/Voy). Has a nice mix of the "feel" of the 90s shows, but with some of the "modern" effects for me. Sure they went ham on stuff like "we need some kind of 'directive' for handling first contact", and they killed the show as it was really getting its flow. Really curious what even just one more season could have done as that last ep really felt like a quick end and was so jarring on the characters.
Still pissed that Paramount said they will not do a touch-up remaster for DS9 and Voy like they did for TOS/TNG (and the 1080p remaster for ENT). They say it is because the amount of time and money that TNG alone required, and the sales of the TOS/TNG Blu-rays weren't high enough. Which sucks since DS9 and Voy are so badly needing something (even a more simple upscale of the non-sfx stuff since the effects would need full re-doing), and the fans of those are really dedicated.
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- Keeping Up Appearances
- Agatha Christie's Poirot (with David Suchet)
- A&E's Nero Wolfe
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Stargate SG-1
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Monk. Most episodes follow the same formula, but it's always a lot of fun and when they do deviate a bit, it's so good!
I will watch a Joy of Painting episode anytime I come across one on PBS (they stream on YouTube but itβs more fun to find it βin the wildβ)
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Whenever I'm sick I will always just put on The Venture Bros. while I recover. The show spanned so many years, makes me feel better watching the show evolve and remembering what point in my life I was in when various episodes aired.
Still gotta watch the movie they made about a gorilla heart I think
Detectorists. A delightfully quaint and funny series.
Bluey. I'm an adult and don't have children. It's my guilty pleasure.
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