I just realized--{blank} and {blank} are basically the same show!

[Skald the Rhymer]

I'll start with NCIS and House.

Totally the same idea in different settings. Brilliant, curmudgeonly boss leading a time of investigators in solving a different mystery each way, involving lots of dubious science, snappy patter, and ridiculous schemes. Ducky = Wilson. The three junior agents = House's diagnostic team. Neither lead gets along with the boss, though I don't think Gibbs wants to sleep with the Rocky Carroll, and if he does I prefer not to know about it. The biggest difference is that NCIS rarely takes itself seriously, and, of course, the fact that Gibbs, however grumpy, is neither insane nor an asshole.

Anybody else?

[Swallowed My Cellphone]

King of Queens/According to Jim/Everybody Loves Raymond

[postcards]

Just about every Norman Lear 1970's sitcom.

[Chronos]

Knight Rider and the Dukes of Hazard. A couple of guys in a car that makes cool jumps, acting just sort of outside of the law, mentored by an old guy and helped by a hot girl that isn't quite romantically involved with either of the guys. The only difference is that in Knight Rider, one of the guys is permanently built into the car.

[Ellen Cherry]

The Honeymooners / The Flintstones

[Swallowed My Cellphone]

Oh and I've always been fond of the Quantum Leap-style shows like The Pretender and New Edition, where the former was a genius who could assume any role (surgeon, pilot, etc.) to help people out, and the latter got tomorrow's newspaper one day early so he could try to change the outcome of bad events.

[Sigmagirl]

The Honeymooners / The Flintstones

The Honeymooners / The Flintstones/The Jetsons

[maladroit]

Leverage and The A Team

[SpoilerVirgin]

I'll start with NCIS and House. Neither lead gets along with the boss, though I don't think Gibbs wants to sleep with the Rocky Carroll, and if he does I prefer not to know about it.But he did sleep (had slept?) with the previous boss (played by Lauren Holly). I'll add Mental to this list, although they're not even trying to make it look like it's not House 2.0.

[BrotherCadfael]

Royal Payne and Burn Notice - I've never seen either one, but the promos make them look very similar in concept -- Guy gets fired, has to make a new career aided by wacky sidekicks -- and style.

Cold Case/Without a Trace/Close to Home - three ensemble cop shows with a very similar feel.

[Swallowed My Cellphone]

Cold Case/Without a Trace/Close to Home - three ensemble cop shows with a very similar feel.A couple years prior to Cold Case, there was a Canadian TV show called Cold Squad. Identical premise. And at least two of the detectives ended up on BSG. Cold Squad ran 1998-2005, and Cold Case started in 2003.

I also found The Profiler to be near identical to another show of that same time frame, but I can't remember what it was.

[Big_Norse]

Oh and I've always been fond of the Quantum Leap-style shows like The Pretender and New Edition, where the former was a genius who could assume any role (surgeon, pilot, etc.) to help people out, and the latter got tomorrow's newspaper one day early so he could try to change the outcome of bad events. Early Edition (I love me some Kyle Chandler)

[Intergalactic Gladiator]

Knight Rider and the Dukes of Hazard. A couple of guys in a car that makes cool jumps, acting just sort of outside of the law, mentored by an old guy and helped by a hot girl that isn't quite romantically involved with either of the guys. The only difference is that in Knight Rider, one of the guys is permanently built into the car.

The Highwayman was Knight Rider -- with a truck.

[MPB in Salt Lake]

King of Queens/According to Jim/Everybody Loves Raymond

I would say that According To Jim and Everybody Loves Raymond are more similar to Still Standing (and each other) than any of them are to King Of Queens--- Jims, Raymonds, and Still Standings families all revolve around children, where King Of Queens has no kids (instead of a kid K.O.Q. has the most annoying old man ever, played by Jerry Stiller)

Maybe my loathing for Stiller and the characters he plays is clouding my vision, but despite how much I would like to see him slowly beaten to death (both as a TV character and in real life) I still like King Of Queens more than the other three shows, which all have children in the cast...........

[Swallowed My Cellphone]

Early Edition (I love me some Kyle Chandler)Ah, of course. I stand corrected! I must've been thinking of the 80s boy band...

[Intergalactic Gladiator]

Street Hawk was Airwolf on a motorcycle. There was another high tech crime fighting vehicle show in there too that I can't think of. Not Knight Rider or Automan.

Simpsons is like Family Dad except funny.

Joan of Arcadia and Wonderfalls were similar, but different enough that Fox execs shouldn't have flipped out over Wonderfalls like they did.

Ark II and Damnation Alley both had similar vehicles.

Tales of the Gold Monkey and Bring 'Em Back Alive both debuted after the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[mobo85]

There was a recent blog post stating that 30 Rock is basically the same as The Muppet Show (http://bloglynch.blogspot.com/2009/06/30-rock-is-rip-off-of-muppet-show.html). Entertainment Weekly responded to this by commenting that it has a lot of parallels with a lot of shows, and compared it to Murphy Brown as an example, apparently not realizing Liz Lemon actually is a Muppet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlLv268-JhE).

[KneadToKnow]

Deal or No Deal = Let's Make a Deal - Silly Costumes - Doors + Ridiculously Over-Hyped "Drama"

$x,000 Pyramid = (Password * 7) - Secret Puzzle Category + Multiple Clues

Family Feud = (Match Game's Super Match round - Celebrities) * 5

[Swallowed My Cellphone]

Simpsons is like Family Dad except funny.Dinosaurs was SO much like The Simpsons that one Simpson's episode has Homer complaining that nothing was on TV "except a bunch of dinosaurs trying to be us."

[Smeghead]

Cleopatra 2525 and...hmmm, what was that other one called...?

[bouv]

TNT (I think it's TNT...) has a show called "The Closer" that has Keyra Sedwick as a "tough as nails older, blond, chick cop who doesn't take no guff from nobody!"

TNT has another show called "Saving Grace" that has Holly Hunter as a "tough as nails older, blond, chick cop who doesn't take no guff from nobody!"

USA has a show called "In Plain Sight" that has Mary McCormack as a "tough as nails older, blond, chick cop US Marshal who doesn't take no guff from nobody!"

[Jragon]

Street Sharks was basically Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... WITH SHARKS!

Edit: Oh, and who can forget the Smurfs and the Snorks, they didn't even TRY to mask that one.

[Dewey Finn]

I think that Lie to Me on Fox is similar to The Mentalist on CBS. And then there's another show on Fox called Mental, which, I think airs opposite The Mentalist.

[Captain Amazing]

apparently not realizing Liz Lemon actually is a Muppet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlLv268-JhE).

Yep, she is (http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/File:30Rock-TinaFeyCaricature.jpg). Here's Jack (http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/File:30.rock.-.anything.muppets.jpg)and Tracy (http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/File:30Rock-TracyMorganCaricature.jpg).

[Manduck]

Street Hawk was Airwolf on a motorcycle.

You missed an obvious one: Airwolf was pretty much a knockoff of Blue Thunder (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086671/episodes)

[Captain Carrot]

Royal Pains and Burn Notice - I've never seen either one, but the promos make them look very similar in concept -- Guy gets fired, has to make a new career aided by wacky sidekicks -- and style..
That's a pretty generic description, though.

Friends and Seinfeld seem very similar to me.

[FordTaurusSHO94]

Futurama is a funny, animated Star Trek.

[GuanoLad]

Royal Payne and Burn Notice - I've never seen either one, but the promos make them look very similar in concept -- Guy gets fired, has to make a new career aided by wacky sidekicks -- and style.
I always thought Burn Notice was just like Magnum PI: A hero for hire.

[Quasimodal]

Transformers and Go Bots

Jetsons and Flintstones

Hercules and Xena

[kunilou]

In 1994 there was a show on Thursday nights at 10:00 about the doctors and nurses at an inner-city hospital in Chicago. It was called E/R on NBC and Chicago Hope on CBS.

[Bijou Drains]

Hogan's Heros and McHale's Navy

[mobo85]

In 1994 there was a show on Thursday nights at 10:00 about the doctors and nurses at an inner-city hospital in Chicago. It was called E/R on NBC and Chicago Hope on CBS.

No, the show on NBC was called ER. E/R was a sitcom that ran from 1984 to 1985. Easy to confuse though, given that George Clooney was in both.

[Bijou Drains]

Mary Tyler Moore/Rhoda/Phyllis

[KneadToKnow]

Mary Tyler Moore/Rhoda/Phyllis

doo-doo-doo-doot
Alex Knead?
Knead What is "funny, sad, and pathetic"?

[dropzone]

The Honeymooners / The FlintstonesIn this case, they were literally the same, and someone from Hanna-Barbera had either an incredible memory of old, live, broadcast once and they were gone, shows on the DuMont network, or he had access to Jackie Gleason's safe. When the "lost" episodes of The Honeymooners were broadcast it seemed like all of the plots and more than half of the dialog had been recycled on The Flintstones.

[kaylasdad99]

Also Sgt. Bilko and Top Cat.

[Bijou Drains]

I told a friend that about 15 years ago I saw the same plot on 3 different shows. Then he told me the same plot was on about a month ago on another show.

[Attack from the 3rd dimension]

Lost is actually Gilligan's Island, just not played for laughs.

[KneadToKnow]

I told a friend that about 15 years ago I saw the same plot on 3 different shows. Then he told me the same plot was on about a month ago on another show.

If it was the one where the guy has a date with two different girls on the same night, I have some bad news for you ...

;)

[USCDiver]

Thundercats and Silverhawks

With the same voice actors no less.

[dropzone]

Also Sgt. Bilko and Top Cat.It didn't reduce the confusion that Maurice Gosfeld played the same character on both shows.

[Gail]

Welcome Back Kotter/ Head of the Class

[Ruffian]

This is pretty obvious, since they were inspired by the same show from overseas:

Don't Forget the Lyrics and The Singing Bee
SuperNanny and Nanny 911

Oh sure, they tweak each show a tad to try and make them different, but they're still the same freakin' show (well, the pairs of them are; not all four of them together).

[drpepper]

At the risk of getting skewered, I think the following shows are pretty much the same fundamental concept, [covers ass] in spite of having outstanding acting, scripting, cinematography, pacing, plotting, and dialogue. The formula is:

"They're just your average, run-of-the-mill suburban American family, with 2 cars, 2.5 kids, problems with the kids, conflict, struggles, hopes and dreams just like yours, except for "X"!"

X= something totally outrageous and / or outside the average viewer's experience, thus making it seem exotic, such as [pick one]:

- Dad is a high level mafioso
- Mom sells marijuana
- Dad manufactures meth
- They're Mormon, and therefore bigamist
- it takes place in a stylized, 1950's atmosphere with a lot of unstated tensions and undercurrents which are highlighted by the period-piece political/social events and mores of the time which now seem quaint/strange/hopelessly unenlightened but yet manage to be in sharp focus in every episode.
- The family runs a funeral home
- I'm sure there's one or two I've missed.

[Attack from the 3rd dimension]

So I just watched an episode of Gilligan's island with the Attackkids.

Jack is the Professor,

Hurley is Gilligan (but with Mr. Howell's money), Jin and Sun Kwon are the Howells (in that they are the married dyad, and Sun had money), Kate is Ginger, the seductress, and Claire is Maryanne the wholesome one. Sayid with his combat experience and general competence is the Skipper.

Ben and Desmond and the others are the natives and visitors who come to the island and cause trouble and near rescues.

[Jilaad]

If you want movies that are the same, Dances With Wolves and The Last Samurai are the exact same movie. Exact. Same. Movie.

[mswas]

Heh, shows follow archetypal patterns, news at 11.

I don't think it means that they are the same show. 'Lie to Me', fits your criteria in the OP and I don't think it's the same show as House even though it's about a curmudgeonly boss who is brilliant and solves problems.

People fall into a few basic roles and Pop Culture pulls from these ideas, just as Carl Jung or his puppy Joseph Campbell.

[Ellis Aponte Jr.]

This one is for the old-timers: 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Bourbon Street Beat, and Surfside 6 were basically the same show, created by the same people, produced by the same company, and often utilizing the same actors. For the youngsters, this was the late '50s & early '60s - these shows were in black & white, so you wouldn't be interested.

[Little Nemo]

TNT (I think it's TNT...) has a show called "The Closer" that has Keyra Sedwick as a "tough as nails older, blond, chick cop who doesn't take no guff from nobody!"

TNT has another show called "Saving Grace" that has Holly Hunter as a "tough as nails older, blond, chick cop who doesn't take no guff from nobody!"

USA has a show called "In Plain Sight" that has Mary McCormack as a "tough as nails older, blond, chick cop US Marshal who doesn't take no guff from nobody!"That's why I was annoyed when they cancelled Karen Sisco. Carla Gugino played a "tough as nails older, brunette, chick cop who doesn't take no guff from nobody!" It was nice to have an original character for a change.

[chrisk]

At the risk of getting skewered, I think the following shows are pretty much the same fundamental concept, [covers ass] in spite of having outstanding acting, scripting, cinematography, pacing, plotting, and dialogue. The formula is:

"They're just your average, run-of-the-mill suburban American family, with 2 cars, 2.5 kids, problems with the kids, conflict, struggles, hopes and dreams just like yours, except for "X"!"

X= something totally outrageous and / or outside the average viewer's experience, thus making it seem exotic, such as [pick one]:

- Dad is a high level mafioso
- Mom sells marijuana
- Dad manufactures meth
- They're Mormon, and therefore bigamist
- it takes place in a stylized, 1950's atmosphere with a lot of unstated tensions and undercurrents which are highlighted by the period-piece political/social events and mores of the time which now seem quaint/strange/hopelessly unenlightened but yet manage to be in sharp focus in every episode.
- The family runs a funeral home
- I'm sure there's one or two I've missed.

You forgot to actually list any titles. ;)

[Kobal2]

You missed an obvious one: Airwolf was pretty much a knockoff of Blue Thunder (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086671/episodes)

I love how both shows totally ditched the ethical angle that was, y'know, the whole point of the seminal movie. Kinda like how Rambo went from "veteran comes back a suicidal schyzo, war is hell" to "Boom ! Ratatatata ! America, fuck yeah !" :D

If you want movies that are the same, Dances With Wolves and The Last Samurai are the exact same movie. Exact. Same. Movie.

Except Costner doesn't end the movie a better Indian than the actual Indians. Tom Cruise, on the other hand...

[ExTank]

OK, all you pop-culture gurus: what's Breaking Bad a copy/rip-off of?

[Ellen Cherry]

In this case, they were literally the same, and someone from Hanna-Barbera had either an incredible memory of old, live, broadcast once and they were gone, shows on the DuMont network, or he had access to Jackie Gleason's safe. When the "lost" episodes of The Honeymooners were broadcast it seemed like all of the plots and more than half of the dialog had been recycled on The Flintstones.

I KNEW IT. I've been saying this for years and people go, 'oh yeah, they are similar' and I say, "no, they're the exact same show!" I mean, Fred hollers, "WILLLLLMAAAAA!" in the exact same Jackie Gleason growl.

[mshar253]

OK, all you pop-culture gurus: what's Breaking Bad a copy/rip-off of?

"Weeds"? Man of the house dies/is dying, member of middle-class white family decides to get into the drug business, drug dealing suburbanite is too close with someone who works for the D.E.A., drug dealer might be getting in over his/her head ...

[Bijou Drains]

TLC has a bunch of shows that are clones of British shows , 1 example is What Not To Wear.

[Chanteuse]

I've read the thread twice over and didn't see this one, so I hope I'm not repeating!

Starsky and Hutch and CHiPs were essentially the same. Two cops of differing physical types (so we have something for ALL the ladies!) who go all out to solve/prevent crime and who always have each other's backs. Both shows even featured one partner who was called by a shortened version of his surname (Hutch=Hutchinson/Ponch=Poncherello). And they were always doing something unorthodox that would irritate their superiors, but would be just the thing necessary to "break the case."


The Honeymooners / The Flintstones


In this case, they were literally the same, and someone from Hanna-Barbera had either an incredible memory of old, live, broadcast once and they were gone, shows on the DuMont network, or he had access to Jackie Gleason's safe. When the "lost" episodes of The Honeymooners were broadcast it seemed like all of the plots and more than half of the dialog had been recycled on The Flintstones.

And in this vein, we have Get Smart and Inspector Gadget. Gadget was even voiced by Don "Maxwell Smart" Adams.

[ExTank]

"Weeds"? Man of the house dies/is dying, member of middle-class white family decides to get into the drug business, drug dealing suburbanite is too close with someone who works for the D.E.A., drug dealer might be getting in over his/her head ...

Never heard of it. But after checking it out at IMDB... fair 'nuf.

[Chanteuse]

Starsky and Hutch and CHiPs were essentially the same. Two cops of differing physical types (so we have something for ALL the ladies!) who go all out to solve/prevent crime and who always have each other's backs. Both shows even featured one partner who was called by a shortened version of his surname (Hutch=Hutchinson/Ponch=Poncherello). And they were always doing something unorthodox that would irritate their superiors, but would be just the thing necessary to "break the case."

I almost forgot--these were made into a movie called Lethal Weapon.

[mobo85]

I KNEW IT. I've been saying this for years and people go, 'oh yeah, they are similar' and I say, "no, they're the exact same show!" I mean, Fred hollers, "WILLLLLMAAAAA!" in the exact same Jackie Gleason growl.

The voices of Fred and Barney are intentionally meant to mimic the voices of Jackie Gleason and Art Carney. (A lot of Hanna-Barbera characters- particularly those voiced by Daws Butler- are meant to sound like celebrities, but in this case the Honeymooners inspiration actually makes the fact that the characters sound like celebrities sensible.)

[kaylasdad99]

Keeping in mind that Fred was voiced by Alan Reed, and Barney by Mel Blanc. I don't know if Daws Butler worked on the show at all.

[Sr Siete]

"The Sarah Connors chronicles" is about a young man destined to save mankind who faces a different superpowered menace-of-the-week every episode and is followed around by a girl who can't show human emotions.






Yep, it's "Smallville" all over again.

[kaylasdad99]

Keeping in mind that Fred was voiced by Alan Reed, and Barney by Mel Blanc. I don't know if Daws Butler worked on the show at all.My bad.

According to Imdb, Daws gave voice to Barney in 18 episodes between '59 and '65. He also played some bit parts, and celebrity impersonations.

[mobo85]

Keeping in mind that Fred was voiced by Alan Reed, and Barney by Mel Blanc. I don't know if Daws Butler worked on the show at all.

I knew Reed and Blanc were the voices of Fred and Barney. (I didn't realize Daws Butler did Barney in a few episodes- that must have been when Mel was recovering from a car accident.) I was referring to the fact that most Hanna-Barbera characters voiced by Daws Butler are meant to mimic well-known actors' voices: Yogi Bear is Art Carney, Snagglepuss is Bert Lahr, etc.

[Skald the Rhymer]

TNT (I think it's TNT...) has a show called "The Closer" that has Keyra Sedwick as a "tough as nails older, blond, chick cop who doesn't take no guff from nobody!"

TNT has another show called "Saving Grace" that has Holly Hunter as a "tough as nails older, blond, chick cop who doesn't take no guff from nobody!"

Grace & Closer couldn't be less alike. The blond cop aspect is pretty much the only thing they have in common. Grace the show is replete with magic realism, while Closer is grounded pretty firmly in the real world; the dynamics of the character relationships are entirely different; and Brenda, while something of a lying bitch, is not in fact a nutjob.

[JThunder]

Dusty's Trail is basically Gilligan's Island without the island.

[Sunshine and Smiles]

Family Guy = American Dad

[Skald the Rhymer]

Family Guy = American Dad

Now that doesn't make a lick of sense. American Dad is, after all, funny. :)

[Red Barchetta]

Family Guy, American Dad

(and soon to be The Cleveland Show?)

[jayjay]

Street Hawk was Airwolf on a motorcycle. There was another high tech crime fighting vehicle show in there too that I can't think of. Not Knight Rider or Automan.

Viper (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIHb6x6lDw)

[emcee2k]

Suddenly Susan was just a really crappy NewsRadio.

[GuanoLad]

Suddenly Susan was just a really crappy NewsRadio.Actually, NewsRadio, Wings, Veronica's Closet, Spin City, Just Shoot Me, and Suddenly Susan all had that "We're hoping to be as good as Cheers" ensemble comedy approach.

[Skald the Rhymer]

Actually, NewsRadio, Wings, Veronica's Closet, Spin City, Just Shoot Me, and Suddenly Susan all had that "We're hoping to be as good as Cheers" ensemble comedy approach.


Nitpicking your nitpick, I'd say Spin City was actually aiming to be Family Ties: Now That Alex Is All Growed Up. For Zeus' sake, Meredith Baxter actually appeared as Mike's mother!

[Dewey Finn]

And the Wikipedia entry on Cheers says that they were trying for a workplace ensemble comedy like The Mary Tyler Moore Show. So everything is modeled on something earlier.

[mobo85]

So everything is modeled on something earlier.

Gene Roddenberry once called Star Trek "Wagon Train to the stars."

[Red Barchetta]

Family Guy, American Dad

(and soon to be The Cleveland Show?)

God dammit, didn't see there was a second page to this thread. Now I look silly :smack:

[GythaOgg]

'Eureka' = 'Andy Griffith' - single-parent Sheriff in a rural town, dealing with the colorful locals, and trying to find romance. In 'Eureka', Aunt Bee is the talking house. The 'Eureka' writers are quite aware of the parallels - Carter gets referred to as 'Mayberry' at least once, and a character called 'Sheriff Andy' is being introduced this season.

[kunilou]

Starsky and Hutch and CHiPs were essentially the same. Two cops of differing physical types (so we have something for ALL the ladies!) who go all out to solve/prevent crime and who always have each other's backs. Both shows even featured one partner who was called by a shortened version of his surname (Hutch=Hutchinson/Ponch=Poncherello). And they were always doing something unorthodox that would irritate their superiors, but would be just the thing necessary to "break the case."

Whic also happened to be the same premise of 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Bourbon Street Beat, and Surfside 6, right down to the "colorful" sidekick characters.

[notfrommensa]

CBS Evening News
NBC Nightly News
ABC World News Tonight

20/20
60 Minutes
Dateline

Oprah
Dr Phil

[crazyjoe]

I have always thuoght of Burn Notice as a revamped MacGuyver, not Magnum, PI.

MacGuyver never used guns, though, until he got promoted to Lt Colonel.

[phreesh]

80 posts and nobody notes 'Medium' and 'Ghost Whisperer'? They're so similar, a network (CBS?) picked up one of them and will be running them back to back this season.

Also, hat tip to the Dukes/Knight Rider comparison. Great observation!

[Skald the Rhymer]

I have always thuoght of Burn Notice as a revamped MacGuyver, not Magnum, PI.

MacGuyver never used guns, though, until he got promoted to Lt Colonel.

It was more than that he never used guns--Angus was simply useless as a hand-to-hand combatant.

[crazyjoe]

It was more than that he never used guns--Angus was simply useless as a hand-to-hand combatant.

Wha? He got into a fistfight in a whole lot of episodes, if I recall. He was a master at using terrain to his advantage :)

But generally, you are right, he preferred to set booby-traps and distractions allowing for escape. I think it generally acknowledged teh reality better that one person wasn't going to fight his way out of most situations.

Burn Notice resorts to physical violence a lot more often (and I love it, don't get me wrong), and I can't help thinking that someone who had to get physical that often would have gotten himself killed by now in all likelihood.

[panamajack]

Although I never watched it regularly, it took seeing a few episodes of Step By Step before I realized it was an exact copy of The Brady Bunch (including cousin Cody in the Alice role). They even brought in an annoying little child near the end of the show's run.

Anything that premiered within the last year or so on The Discovery Channel is at least 80% Mythbusters.

I always felt Danger Mouse owed a bigger debt to Maxwell Smart than to John Drake or James Bond, or even Simon Templar.

At least now I finally understand why Barney sounded so weird in a few episodes.

[CaptMurdock]

Ark II and Damnation Alley both had similar vehicles.

I used to think that they were the same vehicle -- thinking Filmation bought the Damnation Alley rig and redressed it -- but no. Ark II was a -- Hee -- garbage truck. Check out the Wikipedia page.

Street Sharks was basically Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... WITH SHARKS!
.
Lord, spare me from all the TMNT comic book knock-offs. Adolescent Radioactive Black-Belt Hamsters...Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos...the list goes on and on.

If you want movies that are the same, Dances With Wolves and The Last Samurai are the exact same movie. Exact. Same. Movie.

Actually, if you think about it, Dances WIth Wolves is just like F-Troop. Really. Nice but clueless Captain sent out to the frontier populated with a shifty Sergeant and a friendly Indians...

[The Second Stone]

30 Rock is a remake of The Mary Tyler Moore Show with Liz as Mary, Jack as Lou, Pete as Murray, Tracy as Ted

Cybil was a remake of Absolutely Fabulous with Cybil as Edwina, MaryAnn as Patsy. Only nobody ever told Cybil.