# Bring 'em back alive! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 22, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797 "2011-05-22T18:46:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/81 "2011-05-24T00:59:55Z")
**Freaks and Geeks** , by far, my all-time favorite show. I don’t know whether to be sad that they cancelled it so early or glad that it didn’t live long enough to get bad. Every episode was bittersweet, especially since I was the same age as Sam in 1980. Also, _Andy Richter Controls the Universe_. ---
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/82 "2011-05-25T23:36:54Z")
“Hart to Hart,” most definitely. Wagner and Powers made that ABC series one of my most favorites, and one that I keep going back to often (I have both of Sony’s DVD releases-- all they’ve released so far; I wish they’d release more). ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/83 "2011-05-26T15:10:56Z")
> [@Sodalite](#): > > Is this a whoosh? It’s back on right now except it’s called [Drew Carey’s Improv-A-Ganza](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Carey%27s_Improv-A-Ganza). It’s got the same cast, the same games and only a few slight changes to the rules. Except the camera guy. Is Sheen controlling the camera or something? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/84 "2011-05-26T15:23:15Z")
**My Mother The Car** just because I care. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/85 "2011-05-27T08:05:13Z")
I have to go with SGU. It had a lot of unresolved potential and ended on a cliffhanger. Plus it had the prettiest damn special effects I’ve seen on TV. They really should have won an emmy for the sun recharging scenes. Close second: The Lost Room. Fantastic miniseries with huge potential for ongoing. I’m just glad the original creators are working on a sequel comic book. Honorable mention: Pushing Daisies, Kings, Firefly, Caprica. For Firefly, I actually quite liked how the movie turned out, so two sequel movies would be better in my mind than a continuation of the series itself. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/86 "2011-05-27T08:13:09Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > Close second: The Lost Room. Fantastic miniseries with huge potential for ongoing. I’m just glad the original creators are working on a sequel comic book. Oh, yeah–_The Lost Room_ was really great! I like to call it the best Stephen King story not written by Stephen King. I was very disappointed that they never turned it into an ongoing series (or at least shoot a sequel miniseries). I didn’t know about the comic book–I will look forward to that. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/87 "2011-05-27T08:44:28Z")
> [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](#): > > Since the votes for _ **Firefly** _ seem to be covered, I’ll go with another casualty of FOX, _ **Kitchen Confidential** _. Excellent cast with snappy writing. Good call. Sometimes it felt like I was the only one watching that show and even then I was using the dark arts to get hold of it. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/88 "2011-05-27T08:48:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > _Reaper_, a very funny show about a slacker collecting souls for the Devil, who may or may not be his dad. > > _My Name is Earl_, AKA “Touched by a Redneck,” one of the consistently funniest TV shows I’ve ever seen. > > Both ended on cliffhangers of sorts. I miss 'em. Can someone do a spoiler reminder for me of the cliffhanger to Earl. I seem to have forgotten it. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/89 "2011-05-27T22:17:25Z")
Already mentioned: **Greg The Bunny** - I swear I barely missed peeing on myself due to laughter many times. And I really don’t like Seth Green. **My Name Is Earl** - but I saw cancellation coming so I wasn’t too sad. **Better Off Ted** - If they can pick up Cougartown, I don’t see why they couldn’t grab this one up. Different demographic, I suppose. **Dead Like Me** - They did wrap it up quite well (but the movie should not have been made), but I would have liked to see it go on for a bit more. I’ll add: **The Unit** - It had a pretty good run, but I liked it. Though it was getting weak at the end, but I’d have liked to see the writers step it up. \*\*Still Standing \*\*- They have reruns on ABC Family, and I watch 'em all the time. Jami Getz is (was) hot then, and the cast has (had) good chemistry, IMO. Maybe the kids all started to grow too fast. \*\*Fear Itself \*\*- NBC’s effort for Thursday night scares, but it didn’t work out too well. So they went to comedy night. It started off slow as a shocker, but it started to get better. Only lasted one season, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Generally\_Giap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Generally\_Giap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Generally_Giap)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/90 "2011-05-29T21:39:25Z")
\*\*Keen Eddie or Brimstone \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/91 "2011-05-29T21:46:54Z")
\*\*The Larry Sanders Show Seinfeld\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/92 "2011-05-29T23:37:34Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Can someone do a spoiler reminder for me of the cliffhanger to Earl. I seem to have forgotten it. Earl’s last episode: [spoiler]I don’t remember all the details, but I’ll give it a try. I have it on DVD, but they’re all packed away right now, and I’m not sure which box marked “DVDs” it might be in. Something prompted Joy and Darnell to do DNA testing on the boys, and it turned out Earl actually was Dodge’s father. There was a flashback to a Halloween party at the Crab Shack, with Earl dressed as a skeleton, and Joy thinking he was someone else. They had a quickie in the bathroom and that was the night she got pregnant with Dodge. Further DNA tests proved that Darnell was \*not \*the father of Earl, Jr., to which Joy replied, 'Wellllll…" and that was it. Last episode of the season, meant to be a cliffhanger, but the show was cancelled and that was that. I wish they had done some sort of wrap-up episode for the DVD release, but no. It just ends like that.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/93 "2011-05-30T01:05:24Z")
> [@KennerTheGreat](#): > > Whose Line Is It Anyway The U.S. version. (or as many call it,“Drew’s Line”) ---
**Author:** ![cain7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@cain7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cain7)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/94 "2011-05-30T01:07:33Z")
> [@medstar](#): > > I vote for **Profit** , starring Adrian Pasdar, since **Brimstone** was taken. There were only a few episodes, but the premise was intriguing and I couldn’t guess what was going to happen next; the sign of a TV program that I’m going to like. Yes, the American Psycho of television. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/95 "2011-05-30T01:10:24Z")
I also agree with _Sports Night_. I have new candidate: _The Drew Carey Show_, with the following changes: 1.Kate never left 2.Drew still works at Winfred-Lauder. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797/96 "2011-05-30T02:34:15Z")
Avoiding ones that have already been mentioned: _Clone High_. A really good animated series that was cancelled after a single season. And ended on a cliff-hanger. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-em-back-alive/582797.md?page=4)