What are your comfort shows?

[Juan]

Shows that you always watch before bed or just to have something on in the background?

My go-to’s are

The Office (of course :roll:)
Friends
King of the Hill
King of Queens (hasn’t aged that well but I love Jerry Stiller)
Simpsons (1-10)

Also, I find old episodes of the original Law & Order very comforting for some reason.

[ron the dial]

it was the office for years and years and years but more recently has been dawson's creek. more often than not, though, i go with old eps of last podcast on the left when i sleep.

[ron the dial]

maybe a bit of recency bias here but schitt's creek also comes to mind. and since i already broke the rules, i want to include all godzilla movies especially godzilla against mechagodzilla (2002).

also freaks and geeks.

[Juan]

Yes! Schitt's Creek quickly became one of my top shows ever

[Lock Jaw]

Simpsons
Seinfeld

Put these on in the background extremely often.

I will say that more often than not I will just watch "YouTube" clips of shows instead of the actual shows.... watch a lot of clips from Simpsons, The Office, Whose Line is it Anyways... Community...

[Juan]

Seinfeld a is good one too. It's usually on TV when I'm doing some cleaning or cooking and it's on in the background for sure

[Lock Jaw]

Oh yeah, add Arrested Development to the YouTube clips list....

[M-A-G]

The X-Files. Not even a question.

[Sepholio]

Ancient Aliens
X-Files
Fringe
Trailer Park Boys
Futurama

[Good News Gertie]

Brooklyn 99
Bojack Horseman
The Mindy Project
New Girl
The Office
Broad City
Black Mirror
The Twilight Zone
Peep Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm

[Lock Jaw]

Shows that cause anxiety and existential dread = comfort?

[ron the dial]

i'm with her on the twilight zone. reminds me of childhood.

[Lock Jaw]

I was talking about New Girl

[Lock Jaw]

Just kidding.... mainly Black Mirror.... I have seen very little Twilight Zone actually...

[Seanny One Ball]

Brooklyn 99
Bojack Horseman
The Mindy Project
New Girl
The Office
Broad City
Black Mirror
The Twilight Zone




Rod Serling would consider you a terrorist, lol.

[Seanny One Ball]

i'm with her on the twilight zone. reminds me of childhood.


The Twilight Zone is the most intelligent, diverse science fiction ever written.
Nothing could ever hope to equal it given how thoroughly it moralised and categorised it’s themes.

[Good News Gertie]

Rod Serling would consider you a terrorist, lol.

Yeah and ACAB but Brooklyn 99 is still funny. :-\

[Good News Gertie]

Shows that cause anxiety and existential dread = comfort?

Just kidding.... mainly Black Mirror.... I have seen very little Twilight Zone actually...

Honestly, yeah. Sometimes I watch horror movies for comfort too. Stuff that’s worse than reality can be comforting in contrast.

[Seanny One Ball]

You sound like a skinhead lol.

[Seanny One Ball]

Yeah and ACAB but Brooklyn 99 is still funny. :-\

Sorry, this is where you sound like a skinhead.

[Good News Gertie]

I don’t get it.

[Seanny One Ball]

You should look into the history of the term before you use it.

[Seanny One Ball]

Rhiannon shave all your hair off you poser.

You might as well now you are using the terminology.

[Good News Gertie]

You should look into the history of the term before you use it.

:|

I’m not sure you’re sure which skinhead subculture you’re referring to.

[Seanny One Ball]

It is racist terminology lol

[Seanny One Ball]

This is the first time I’ve realised quite how stupid you actually are.

It is unbelievable.

[Good News Gertie]

https://i.imgur.com/r7BncoC.jpg

You’re literally Scottish. :rofl:

[Seanny One Ball]

I am, and I didn’t say lefties never used the term.

Just more scumbags innit.

[Seanny One Ball]

Why even mention my race there btw?

Racism.

[Good News Gertie]

Ethnicity is not the same as race. :lol:

[Seanny One Ball]

I’m black though

[Good News Gertie]

Ok?

[Lock Jaw]

Please don't destroy another thread

Thx

[Seanny One Ball]

She should be banned to be honest.

[Seanny One Ball]

Just for annoying me.

[Good News Gertie]

Just for exposing me.

[Seanny One Ball]

If you read Mein Kampf it would just be the thank you’s.

That’s your level of understanding on any topic. Page 1.

[Good News Gertie]

What’re your comfort shows, Seanny? Or did you just cyber stalk me into this thread? :$

[Seanny One Ball]

Don’t clear your calendar just yet love

[Tom Guycott]

Firefly is the first thing that popped into my head.
Followed by Leverage.

[Lock Jaw]

I see Rhi added Curb Your Enthusiasm to the list.... good call... that is another one that I watch a lot of random YouTube clips of....

[Shisen Kopf]

I watch the YouTube channel Videos of Irish Farming Life. I highly recommend the video about churning in the olden days. Churning butter.

[M-A-G]

Joy of Painting. I mean, come on.

[Good News Gertie]

I see Rhi added Curb Your Enthusiasm to the list.... good call... that is another one that I watch a lot of random YouTube clips of....

Yeah my list is pretty long depending on the sort of comfort I’m looking for. If things are REALLY bad I just watch Bridesmaids for the 104620270th time. :$

Have watched all of Peep Show and The Office more than three times.

[drave]

Don't watch much TV..... but comfort shows, when on are:


Roseanne
George Lopez
Two and A Half Men


Those are more what my wife enjoys. I tend to watch other shit, can be random.


Any of these for me personally (watching alone):


Star Trek TNG or Deep Space Nine
X-Files
Leverage
Sons of Anarchy

[Jordan]

Forensics Files and Midsomar Murders

[drave]

Have watched every episode of Forensic Files. Love that show because they don't bullshit. They get right through a case in 30 mins.


Forensic Files II is great.

[Tom Guycott]

Joy of Painting. I mean, come on.

This wins hands down, actually.

In fact, isn't it up on Netflix?

[M-A-G]

I wouldn't really bother. They're pretty much all on YouTube.

[Tom Guycott]

I wouldn't really bother. They're pretty much all on YouTube.

1) Apparently, it was on Netflix, but it isn't there anymore.

2) Youtube has become somewhat unreliable for comfort backgrounding anymore. At least for me, anyway. Things don't rabbithole like they used to, and anything that's a series generally doesn't continue to play: it will jump to other shit I've watched before of a completely different fashion.

[Sepholio]

I should be ashamed of myself for not mentioning Star Trek: TNG as well as DS9. I've probably watched those 2 series more than any other show ever. They used to live on my TV every morning when Spike (I think it was Spike), and then BBC, would have marathon mornings for them every day.

[M-A-G]

1) Apparently, it was on Netflix, but it isn't there anymore.

2) Youtube has become somewhat unreliable for comfort backgrounding anymore. At least for me, anyway. Things don't rabbithole like they used to, and anything that's a series generally doesn't continue to play: it will jump to other shit I've watched before of a completely different fashion.

I don't use autoplay as a rule so I don't have to worry about the algorithm being a moron. Plus, nine times out of ten I'm knocked the fuck out before the video even ends so that's another problem off my plate.

[drave]

I should be ashamed of myself for not mentioning Star Trek: TNG as well as DS9. I've probably watched those 2 series more than any other show ever. They used to live on my TV every morning when Spike (I think it was Spike), and then BBC, would have marathon mornings for them every day.




LOLOLOL!!! I remember the Star Trek ad campaign on Spike. Specifically, with a character named "Jesse" and his manager. Shit cracks me up.


Specifically this one, all the way down to the god damn chair squeak. Still cracks me up today because I'm a child.


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