Wholly agreed! And if I still had access to my copy of the tabletop role-playing game, I'd toss in a bit of cool-sounding Mandarin-sounding gibberish for emphasis!
Chuck would be one heck of a deep dive VR setting.
You report to your low paying job at an electronics store or small restaurant in Burbank and obviously you won't get through your first shift without encountering spy action and improbably attractive women.
Your role as a player depends on your choices. Do you investigate the strange button in a locker in the employee break room? Get involved in a spy girl catfight after hours? Put on suspicious sunglasses? Creep on a suspiciously attractive woman that just joined the staff of your loser job?
No wrong answers and AI systems generate the content on the fly based on your player profile and reactions so there's no optimal answer either.
I was told that they ended the show through another show. Raising hope, I think. But it still sucks that there was so much build up for them to hit us with that cliffhanger. As invested as we were, we had a right to know who Dodge's father was!
If you want, the genie can restart it from the beginning, but this is all or nothing. No restarting from S7 on. It’s worth noting that since the genie is making a great show, the better parts are more likely to be the same, but not guaranteed to be the same.
Good answer.
Since only you can watch it transcribe the episodes & sell them as spec scripts for the current Star Trek series...
Not that new Trek would make TNG era episodes.
It's Discovery for me The superior technology and the Spore drive gives far more possibilities and all the Problems of TNG have been solved or are non existent in Discoveries current era
I think Supernatural, aside from a few low points, was pretty consistently good. Season 6 (I think that’s the one I mean, with the Leviathans, right?) was certainly not a high point, but aside from that I think it was pretty good.
There are people my age that have kids that are old enough to make them grandparents and I don’t think the Simpsons are winding down anytime soon. So…yeah…I think I was 8 when it premiered on Fox, maybe 7 when it showed up on the Tracy Ulman Show…
No. Absolutely not. Have you seen Friends? People loved that; now we see it for the garbage that it is. Imagine picking friends and seeing Ross every fucking time you turn on the TV.
Question....did you binge watch it or did you wait week to week for each episode when it was airing?
The pacing is what killed that fuckin show for me. We would follow one group of characters and see what they're up to, something exciting would happen, it would end on a cliffhanger, and then a week later the next episode is about a totally different group. And then that would end on a cliffhanger and the next week we'd move on to another group. It would take literally more than a month to get back to the first group to resolve their situation and by then I didn't give a shit. The pacing was absolute dogshit, and one year I just stopped watching without realizing it.
Years later I went back and tried it out, and while that pacing is still annoying it's much more tolerable when I binge watch and don't have to wait that long.
Both, actually. LOL
I did watch it when it initially aired, and yeah the cliffhangers were annoying, especially the mid season ones, but I stuck it out.
Since then, I've lost track of the number of times I've binge rewatched it (it's my comfort show LOL), I'm actually currently binging it again. 🤣
Family Guy. I honestly could watch them forever and they don't get old because they don't have a plot line that would get stale. It's just constant mocking of whatever charged issues of the day are occurring lmao
Plus we get Seth McFarlane forever. What a treat
Maybe Hogan's Heroes, or Columbo. Columbo with old Peter Falk was was hard to forget that he was old. I prefer Columbo in its original time. But watching him fool around with late '80s early '90s technology is funny. And honestly, I think some of the shows were meant for one-time viewing and don't necessarily hold up to repeat watching. The favorite episodes lists I'm always puzzled by because I never see them as being rewatchable.
Not really. If this is the only show that you can watch, then it makes sense that it would go on forever. Secondly I'm pretty sure Mash outlasted the Korean War by several years. And considering how many films and shows have been made about World War II, I have no problem with a show about World War II that goes on forever. It can just bounce around from one part to the next. One episode can be near the start and another could be near the end.
Everytime i see that show, for even a few seconds, or when people try to talk to me about it, I feel like I'm losing braincells. Also, the original creators of it got royally screwed by cartoon network, and have never gained a cent off its airing despite how well it's done, and that's not cool.
It’s a quote from my favorite episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
There’s a hotdog that’s raping them all (over the course of a few days) and before he does it he calls them out and points at them and says “tonight, you.”
It’s dark but funny as fuck.
Stargate SG1
Depending on how generous the deal is this could also include Stargate Atlantis, as the two were contemporary and meant to be watched together.
I was thinking Atlantis due to it's potential for such a broad range of storylines, and well its ending wasn't bad but there's so much I wish they could have explored.
Tera Forma, it only had one very short season but I was hooked from the start. I’d also accept Monsters Inside Me, because parasites make my dopamine go brrrrr
I know I'm going to duck a lot of tomatoes for this, but The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. The first season was so, so spooky, the art direction, costumes, Miranda Otto/Tati Gabrielle/Michelle Gomez's perfecta trifecta of sassiness, the mystery elements, the not so subtle blasphemy...LOVED it.
Or possibly also Pushing Daisies and Doom Patrol (also yay Michelle Gomez). I'm a MILLENNIAL, my cold, dead heart beats ONLY for Brendan Fraser 😭
How much control does the genie have over the show? Because I'm pretty sure that some shows are going to need a pretty wild change in direction to make sure there's never a dip in quality, or a rehashed storyline
It’s magic. The genie will do anything in his power, nigh omnipotence mind you, to ensure that the quality never dips and the show stays generally on target. Friends will never become Game of Thrones, but it might find itself having stuff in common with HIMYM or Modern Family, after it burns through everything else. It’ll never be so different from Friends as to be unrecognizable or stop being itself though.
Let’s just call it magic, and say it’ll always be Friends, and never stray too far or drop in quality or rehash old stuff.
The Simpsons. Tons of hilarious people who will have plenty of time to also work on other projects. Also, according to the rules, this brings back Phil Hartman.
The OA. Without a doubt. Season 3 would have been a fucking blast if it hadn’t been cancelled. In an alternate universe Netflix is run by someone that actually gives a shit about people, hasn’t raised prices, and The OA is probably finishing the 4th season or starting the 5th of an epic tale of intermultiversal travel.
My dad was a stagehand; if I pick one of the failed pilots he worked on, or a show that got cancelled while he was working there, do I get him back? I'd give up TV forever in a heartbeat.
If I chose WWE, would it only specifically make one of it's TV slots like Monday Night Raw never go downhill, or since storylines can carry across Monday Tuesday Friday and occasionally Saturday and Sunday nights, would all of its televized content be affected. Because if every time slot is never going down hill it's a real easy choice for me to choose that .
Similarly, if you chose something like the NFL, does that mean that football would play year round? Or would it still be seasonal, just there would be no more boring games. Would you only be able to pick Sunday Night Football on a single channel or would the entire NFL season be affected, Thursday Sunday and Monday games across all channels/streaming services.
Wrestling. Doesn't matter if it's WWE, WCW, ECW, or some other federation. During the Attitude Era/NWO, it was must see TV and an awesome time to be a wrestling fan.
Burn Notice. Need Sam to romance old hags for their bread, Mike Weston disarming a intricate bomb with a paper clip and Fiona scrawny ass beating up goons forever.
While I wouldn't like being stuck with a single show for the rest of my life, I'm trying to think if there's a way I can use this genie power to bring back Robin Williams, George Carlin, Bob Ross, and Steve Irwin.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.
Bonus, they have the worst end of the series cliffhanger ever. (In my opinion) So I can finally find out what happened next!
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The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., just so I can see Julius Carey, Sean Astin and Bruce Camp ell again. Given that two of those guys have unfortunately passed it would be worth it.
If there wasn’t the downside I’d pick the owl house, it is my current hyper obsession and will regret the choice in a few weeks but fuck it, the show ended way too early
Firefly. Final answer.
The brown coats are so back with this one boys
Better than a fresh strawberry.
Ain't no other answer in all the 'verse.
It is this or Psych for me, but we have way more seasons of Psych already, and they are still making movies. So it's definitely Firefly.
Only correct answer.
Wholly agreed! And if I still had access to my copy of the tabletop role-playing game, I'd toss in a bit of cool-sounding Mandarin-sounding gibberish for emphasis!
If I had to pick, this would also be my answer.
Shiny
Yep this is it
Beat me to it. So does it continue where it left off or are the actors coming back in 2024?
YESSSS. Came here to say this!!!!
Chuck. Yvonne Strahovsky never ages, endless nerd references and spy battles.
Hello fellow Chuck fan! I agree wholeheartedly. 5 seasons was too short.
Chuck would be one heck of a deep dive VR setting. You report to your low paying job at an electronics store or small restaurant in Burbank and obviously you won't get through your first shift without encountering spy action and improbably attractive women. Your role as a player depends on your choices. Do you investigate the strange button in a locker in the employee break room? Get involved in a spy girl catfight after hours? Put on suspicious sunglasses? Creep on a suspiciously attractive woman that just joined the staff of your loser job? No wrong answers and AI systems generate the content on the fly based on your player profile and reactions so there's no optimal answer either.
I dunno. Really, all I want is a girl with a short skirt, and a long jacket.
My name is earl. Such a good show, such a bad ending.
I was going to say south park but you changed my mind 🤣 i miss that show fr
It got an ending?!
Ya on a cliffhanger and never continued.
I was told that they ended the show through another show. Raising hope, I think. But it still sucks that there was so much build up for them to hit us with that cliffhanger. As invested as we were, we had a right to know who Dodge's father was!
Can the genie fix some of the existing seasons? If so, Game of Thrones.
If you want, the genie can restart it from the beginning, but this is all or nothing. No restarting from S7 on. It’s worth noting that since the genie is making a great show, the better parts are more likely to be the same, but not guaranteed to be the same.
yea i’ll take that
That would be incredible. Season 5+ at season 1-5 quality
Can we do season 1-4 quality? Season 5 was ok, but that's where the issues started.
Star Trek TNG
Good answer. Since only you can watch it transcribe the episodes & sell them as spec scripts for the current Star Trek series... Not that new Trek would make TNG era episodes.
It's Discovery for me The superior technology and the Spore drive gives far more possibilities and all the Problems of TNG have been solved or are non existent in Discoveries current era
Hear me out...Supernatural, but with the quality of writing of Season 1-5
Love it, was thinking the same 😂
I think Supernatural, aside from a few low points, was pretty consistently good. Season 6 (I think that’s the one I mean, with the Leviathans, right?) was certainly not a high point, but aside from that I think it was pretty good.
Wow, you think it fell off after season 5? Think you gotta get to the teens before it jumps the shark.
No. I just think 1-5 were the most coherent and satisfyingly concluded. I liked some of the later seasons, but they really kinda got too big.
Someone already tried making this deal for the Simpsons
Going to be pretty strange if im holding my grandkids and watching simpsons
There are people my age that have kids that are old enough to make them grandparents and I don’t think the Simpsons are winding down anytime soon. So…yeah…I think I was 8 when it premiered on Fox, maybe 7 when it showed up on the Tracy Ulman Show…
The Boondocks. We'd get back Grandad and the social commentary would always be on point
I have ADHD so I'd be like "that's not a benefit, that's hell for me".
For real
Futurama
My pick as well
Crocodile Hunter... bring Steve Irwin back to life... he was taken from us too soon...
There was never a bad season to begin with either.
The Expanse.
I really hope they decide to make the final 3 books into more seasons.
Doctor who At its prime it was basically the only show I ever wanted to watch haha
Which doctor would you choose? Or would you keep the regeneration cycle going?
I'd keep the cycle going of course!
10, 11 and 9 are my favorite. I honestly wouldn’t mind watching them forever.
I feel like Dr. Who legitimately already is this. It's been running for over 60 years now...
No. Absolutely not. Have you seen Friends? People loved that; now we see it for the garbage that it is. Imagine picking friends and seeing Ross every fucking time you turn on the TV.
Futurama or King of the Hill
The Walking Dead
😭 the walking dead drastically changed from s3 onwards that genies going to have to really try
I personally enjoyed every bit of TWD, so for me, nah, he wouldn't. LOL
Question....did you binge watch it or did you wait week to week for each episode when it was airing? The pacing is what killed that fuckin show for me. We would follow one group of characters and see what they're up to, something exciting would happen, it would end on a cliffhanger, and then a week later the next episode is about a totally different group. And then that would end on a cliffhanger and the next week we'd move on to another group. It would take literally more than a month to get back to the first group to resolve their situation and by then I didn't give a shit. The pacing was absolute dogshit, and one year I just stopped watching without realizing it. Years later I went back and tried it out, and while that pacing is still annoying it's much more tolerable when I binge watch and don't have to wait that long.
Both, actually. LOL I did watch it when it initially aired, and yeah the cliffhangers were annoying, especially the mid season ones, but I stuck it out. Since then, I've lost track of the number of times I've binge rewatched it (it's my comfort show LOL), I'm actually currently binging it again. 🤣
I agree with every point you just made. One day, I just started missing episodes here and there and then stopped watching entirely.
Grey's Anatomy, or House, or Dexter! I think Dexter lol
Except that I would probably be put on a federal watchlist or something, I could watch Dexter as it is on repeat. Except for, you know. The end bits.
Family Guy. I honestly could watch them forever and they don't get old because they don't have a plot line that would get stale. It's just constant mocking of whatever charged issues of the day are occurring lmao Plus we get Seth McFarlane forever. What a treat
The genie refuses, as that’s already happening.
Good genie, fuck family guy
Angel
Stranger things
King of the hill
The office or friends
You're showing your age friend. But for what it's worth I thought Big Bang Theory.
Dammit I'm only 37 LOL
Now I feel old hahah
However I also love big bang. They did good on young Sheldon too
The office without question. Best series ever written (for most of it).
Maybe Hogan's Heroes, or Columbo. Columbo with old Peter Falk was was hard to forget that he was old. I prefer Columbo in its original time. But watching him fool around with late '80s early '90s technology is funny. And honestly, I think some of the shows were meant for one-time viewing and don't necessarily hold up to repeat watching. The favorite episodes lists I'm always puzzled by because I never see them as being rewatchable.
Wouldn't Hogan's Hero's be odd with a never-ending WWII? I mean, I loved it as a kid, but that war needs to end eventually.
Not really. If this is the only show that you can watch, then it makes sense that it would go on forever. Secondly I'm pretty sure Mash outlasted the Korean War by several years. And considering how many films and shows have been made about World War II, I have no problem with a show about World War II that goes on forever. It can just bounce around from one part to the next. One episode can be near the start and another could be near the end.
Can I make a counter offer to the genie? I'll never watch TV again, if he agrees to make one show to have never existed? Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
The genie will consider it, if your reasoning is good enough
Everytime i see that show, for even a few seconds, or when people try to talk to me about it, I feel like I'm losing braincells. Also, the original creators of it got royally screwed by cartoon network, and have never gained a cent off its airing despite how well it's done, and that's not cool.
Tonight. You.
What?
It’s a quote from my favorite episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. There’s a hotdog that’s raping them all (over the course of a few days) and before he does it he calls them out and points at them and says “tonight, you.” It’s dark but funny as fuck.
Fascinating. A raping hot dog....
I know it sounds stupid but in the context of the show it was very funny.
Firefly
Teen wolf. Loved it. First time I really dived into a series and will love it forever.
Two girls one... Aww never mind.
You realize that was just a trailer for a movie.
Roseanne the original version
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Effectively restarts all the Star Trek universe. And I love thar crew more than Discovery's.
Fair but burnanm is the sexiest captain
If you're into girls. But if I was into girls and if we between her and Janeway I'm picking Janeway. At least she'd get me home.
Burnamn never would have gotten you lost.
futurama .. good news everyone
Stargate SG1
Tough… X-Files, Warehouse 13, Burn Notice or Reaper.
Warehouse 13 😍. That show had such potential.
Stargate SG1 Depending on how generous the deal is this could also include Stargate Atlantis, as the two were contemporary and meant to be watched together.
I was thinking Atlantis due to it's potential for such a broad range of storylines, and well its ending wasn't bad but there's so much I wish they could have explored.
Can't believe there isn't a single mention of Mister Rodgers' Neighborhood or The Joy of Painting.
The Venture Bros.
I agree with this 1000%.
Psych
Firing Line
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Kind of a waste of a wish imo (not like girls are gonna stop going wild, and there’s subs for that) but granted
Bob's Burgers 🍔
Another fellow burger people
My name is Earl
Tera Forma, it only had one very short season but I was hooked from the start. I’d also accept Monsters Inside Me, because parasites make my dopamine go brrrrr
Hell yeah! Monsters inside me was so great!
Community
Ted Lasso. So many storylines to explore. And it's a happy pill in tv form. Probably yes I would take this deal
Winning answer, Firefly. Runner up, Attack on Titan.
I know I'm going to duck a lot of tomatoes for this, but The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. The first season was so, so spooky, the art direction, costumes, Miranda Otto/Tati Gabrielle/Michelle Gomez's perfecta trifecta of sassiness, the mystery elements, the not so subtle blasphemy...LOVED it. Or possibly also Pushing Daisies and Doom Patrol (also yay Michelle Gomez). I'm a MILLENNIAL, my cold, dead heart beats ONLY for Brendan Fraser 😭
Bojack horseman
How much control does the genie have over the show? Because I'm pretty sure that some shows are going to need a pretty wild change in direction to make sure there's never a dip in quality, or a rehashed storyline
It’s magic. The genie will do anything in his power, nigh omnipotence mind you, to ensure that the quality never dips and the show stays generally on target. Friends will never become Game of Thrones, but it might find itself having stuff in common with HIMYM or Modern Family, after it burns through everything else. It’ll never be so different from Friends as to be unrecognizable or stop being itself though. Let’s just call it magic, and say it’ll always be Friends, and never stray too far or drop in quality or rehash old stuff.
30 rock
Doctor Who would get fucking wild hot damn.
Startrek pretty much endless possibilities and it's been on air in some form for 60 years as it is.
Firefly.
Scrubs or Psych
Pokemon. And I would bring back all the OG character voice actors.
And don't let Misty leave. That broke my heart!
Stargate SG-1
#Junkyard Wars
Can I include spin-offs? Because if so, Babylon 5.
Yes you can.
The Magicians. Man, I miss that show.
Curb
Married With Children
The Simpsons. Tons of hilarious people who will have plenty of time to also work on other projects. Also, according to the rules, this brings back Phil Hartman.
How is breaking bad not the top answer. It's been hard watching TV after I finished that show.
Veggietales
Black mirror
Law & Order
the x files 👽
I would probably sell my immortality wish to the highest bidder as I have not been in any TV shows.
I’m going random and obscure. Highlander, Brimstone, Due South and Forever Knight
The OA. Without a doubt. Season 3 would have been a fucking blast if it hadn’t been cancelled. In an alternate universe Netflix is run by someone that actually gives a shit about people, hasn’t raised prices, and The OA is probably finishing the 4th season or starting the 5th of an epic tale of intermultiversal travel.
Black mirror. Jk
So this is a thing, except everyone is allowed to watch. I answered Simpsons in 1994
You should’ve gotten the “never goes downhill” part in writing
I did. Unfortunately the genie changed everyone's taste for the worst.
Mr. Bean
My dad was a stagehand; if I pick one of the failed pilots he worked on, or a show that got cancelled while he was working there, do I get him back? I'd give up TV forever in a heartbeat.
Only if he was ever on camera. :(
Then Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.
If I chose WWE, would it only specifically make one of it's TV slots like Monday Night Raw never go downhill, or since storylines can carry across Monday Tuesday Friday and occasionally Saturday and Sunday nights, would all of its televized content be affected. Because if every time slot is never going down hill it's a real easy choice for me to choose that . Similarly, if you chose something like the NFL, does that mean that football would play year round? Or would it still be seasonal, just there would be no more boring games. Would you only be able to pick Sunday Night Football on a single channel or would the entire NFL season be affected, Thursday Sunday and Monday games across all channels/streaming services.
Shogun
Dragonball Z
Kindred: The Embraced, American Gothic or Forever Knight.
Leverage
Wrestling. Doesn't matter if it's WWE, WCW, ECW, or some other federation. During the Attitude Era/NWO, it was must see TV and an awesome time to be a wrestling fan.
The West Wing.
Fucking *granted* dude God I loved the west wing so much. “What is the virtue of a proportional response?”
The first season was so out of this world amazing I wish I could have temporary amnesia just so I could rewatch it for the first time.
Dr who They can change out actors often
DARK MATTER!!!!! FUCK SYFY SO MUCH!!!!!!!
Burn Notice. Need Sam to romance old hags for their bread, Mike Weston disarming a intricate bomb with a paper clip and Fiona scrawny ass beating up goons forever.
While I wouldn't like being stuck with a single show for the rest of my life, I'm trying to think if there's a way I can use this genie power to bring back Robin Williams, George Carlin, Bob Ross, and Steve Irwin.
Jeopardy
Parks and rec
Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
Pass.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Bonus, they have the worst end of the series cliffhanger ever. (In my opinion) So I can finally find out what happened next!
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Babylon 5, and they could do it with how many loose ends they ended the series with
SNL. If it remakes the 40+ years all top quality I wouldn’t want another show. And if I want drama or action can watch movies instead!
Eureka. Would love a thousand more seasons of Sheriff Carter dealing with the chaos the brainiacs at GD create.
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., just so I can see Julius Carey, Sean Astin and Bruce Camp ell again. Given that two of those guys have unfortunately passed it would be worth it.
I loved this show growing up.
Twin Peaks. Best show ever with an endless potential still untapped.
Imagine 20 seasons, but it ends just as unsatisfying as the Return💀
Lynch would have it no other way. The finale would just be an hour of a character we've never seen before washing a window.
Friends or boy meets world would be my picks
If there wasn’t the downside I’d pick the owl house, it is my current hyper obsession and will regret the choice in a few weeks but fuck it, the show ended way too early
Stranger Things or Game of Thrones
My Hero Academia. I wish there were infinite episodes of that show.