My Name Is Earl!
I see from that wiki page that it didn’t really have an ending, but dang. I thought it was hilarious.
Letterkenny!
If you like that, Raising Hope was from the same showrunner and was kind of, sort of, similar.
I’m surprised How I Met Your Mother hasn’t been mentioned yet. I really quite enjoyed the show but I offer this warning, many people really hate the ending. Really, it’s hard to describe the level of betrayal that some people feel. You’ve got nine seasons to mow through to get to that point though.
Adding another vote for the Drew Carey Show. I always thought it was pretty formulaic and inconsistent but for the most part, it worked.
Mom is another solid show. Should you choose to sample both it and 3rd Rock from the Sun (I wouldn’t waste my time on it but enough people seemed to like it.) then it’s interesting to compare/contrast the roles that French Stewart played on those shows.
If you’re open to animation then I’d suggest watching King of the Hill.
One I watched a couple years ago and enjoyed was Don’t Trust The B____ In Apartment 23. Might be a little edgier than Friends.
Yeah, I saw that, but it didn’t work as well for me.
Brooklyn 99
The Goldbergs
Black-ish
edit I quite enjoyed both seasons of Speechless
The OP mentioned Friends, so I’d recommend the UK series Coupling, which also featured three men and three women and was hilarious. Another sort-of similar show was the US series Happy Endings.
An old one I would recommend is Cheers.
I believe it may be on Hulu.
Ashtura, have you seen The Santa Clarita Diet yet?
I’m not aware of any show by that name. It never existed.
oh, you must have seen it. It was on for 207 1/2 episodes.
I have plain old cable tv. I see re-runs of Everybody Loves Raymond, (another is called Everybody Hates Chris, I don’t know what that is), King of Queens, How I Met Your Mother, Two-and-a-Half Men (the first few episodes are as hilarious as the last few episode are vomitous). The Goldbergs (HATE HATE HATE IT). Last Man Standing (with Tim Allen, a right winger tongue bath, I haven’t watched it.) Frasier (LOVE it). Mom. (LOVE it). Roseanne is on all the time, Golden Girls is on all the time, Reba (with yeah, Reba McIntire) is on all the time.
Julia Louise Dreyfuss starred in ‘The New Adventures of Old Christine’, maybe three seasons, I never heard or read much about it. She plays an annoying adorable ditz, single mom, every episode is ‘zany’ because I think she has ADHD or something. She’s the type who drives off leaving her purse on top of the car roof. Divorced but leads a charmed life with a great support system. She gets by with all her annoying fuckery because she f’s all her beaus like a screen door in a hurricane - and she is cute, just crying out for some man to rescue her, has a bangin’ figure!. (oh, and Wanda Sykes, who seems like she should be in another tv show altogether and wandered into this one by mistake, is her ‘best friend’. I love Wanda Sykes!). It’s actually a lot of fun, I love the brother she lives with and her friendly ex and his new very young but no dummy wife.
Yes to both of those. Better Off Ted is certainly on my short list of favorite shows, but so few people have even heard of it that it’s never just ‘on’, I have to go seek it out. But I’ve probably watched it at least 3 times since it ended.
Another one to add to the list is Tacoma FD. I’m not even sure if I’d heard of it previously, but I ran across this youtube clip and had to go find it*. It’s really good. It’s the guys from Super Troopers. It’s essentially the Brooklyn 99 of fire departments.
*And even after initially seeing that clip, watching that show all the way through the second season to where that clip comes from, I still laughed out loud, at work, watching it again now.
But everything up to the ending is fun. If I rewatched it, I’d do what I did with LOST. Skip the last episode and make up my own ending. Pretend the show got cancelled just as they were about to start filming the last episode.
I grew up on classic comedies (still love Dick Van Dyke), and can’t say enough about Arrested Development, Community, and The Good Place.
How quirky can you handle? Netflix has Derry Girls, The Kominsky Method, Trailer Park Boys and Bojack Horseman.
And not for everyone, but another vote for The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (especially the way David Cross made sure they couldn’t continue it after Season Two… and then found a very creative way to shoot a third season).
Watch the trailer or the first scene. Cross and Will Arnett, with Spike Jonz as a dweeby boss. Hey, watch the pilot and see if it’s your “cup o’ tea, guv’nor!” (that was David Cross’s bumbling American trying to fit in with the Brits).
In fact, trying first episodes is how I’ve found a number of my favorite shows.
One night my daughter and I said “Hey, let’s browse Netflix, and just watch twenty minutes of every show anyone’s recommended.” But as soon as we’d seen the first five minutes of Arrested Development, we said “Screw the plan!” and watched nothing else until midnight.
Wait.
Did you just dis 3rd Rock? Kristen Johnston won two Emmys for that show, I’ll have you know.
Oh, YEAH! this is great. Don’t know why it didn’t get more attention as a prime time show. It’s kind of like a movie that’s a sleeper. More people seem to watch it in reruns than ever saw it when it was in first-run.
Wait are you referring to Black-ish in the past tense? It’s still a current show on ABC although I agree that 3rd Rock from the Sun was great.
And I like Kirsten. If I could have watched her in a version of 3rd Rock that wasn’t polluted by John Lithgow and Jane Curtain then I maybe could have made it past season two.
Blackish Is current? I searched for it and couldn’t find it. Stupid Xfinity.
Really? Jane Curtin was my second favorite original SNL player.