Shows/films that everyone should have discovered

Cafe Society
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Inspired by Ellef’s thread I’ve only just discovered The Princess Bride, here’s my (alphabetical) ist of things that everyone should have discovered (films, TV shows, etc.):
[ul]
[li]Arrested Development[/li][li]Ealing comedies – any and all of them![/li][li]Fawlty Towers[/li][li]The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - the original radio series and TV series, as well as the 5-book “trilogy”, but not the recent movie, I’m afraid[/li][li]Monty Python[/li][li]The Princess Bride[/li][li]Ripping Yarns[/li][li]Strictly Ballroom[/li][/ul]

Clearly such a list is personal and biassed, in spite of the alleged universality. So what would others have on a list like this?

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My answer to this is always HBO’s The Wire.
Also, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

I know neither of those is obscure here, but I tend to get zealout-y when I discover that someone has not partaken of either.

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I must confess to not even having heard about either: I’m going to have to remedy that personal deficiency.

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Get thee to a media distribution outlet! Aieeeee!

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Great list.

I’d add: The Collected Works of Joss Whedon.

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Suicide Kings - Very decent black comedy/drama about some college guys who kidnap a retired mobster (Christopher Walken) so that his people will rescue their friend who has likewise been kidnapped. Went straight under the radar, but it’s a very good movie. Also has Dennis Leary, and he’s pretty good considering that he ad-libbed nearly every line he had.

Also unfamiliar with The Wire and Good Omens. Going to have to find them.

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Movies: Breaker Morant, The Hidden, Dark City

Books: Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin, Aztec by Gary Jennings, Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis, Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills

All masterpieces, I tells ya.

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Movies: The Conversation, Round Midnight, Hopscotch

Books: I’ll second Good Omens and add the works of Simon Shaw and Chuck Klosterman

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I never get tired of reading Lonesome Dove or watching Singing in the Rain.

In the nonfiction aisle, Guns, Germs and Steel.

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Freaks and Geeks. I still think that show got shafted big time.