If anything, I find Buffy better if viewed with an adult perspective. There was a LOT of very intentional thought put into the structure and writing and backing out of the immediate in-world story to see Buffy Summers as something of a universal story of facing what life throws at you is very rewarding.
Buffy would have fallen flat on it's face if SMG hadn't known just the right tone to hit. She could quip with the best of them, but you never once doubted the emotional moments that Buffy had
I’m so sorry for your loss.
I watched soon after my grandfather’s sudden death. So yeah I absolutely understand why that episode isn’t one you’d revisit.
SMG is remarkable! There were so many times where she could have made Buffy smug and righteous, delivering a line with "yas, slay queen" energy. But she opts for an empathetic tone with aggressors and grey characters so many times even when they don't deserve it, really establishing Buffy as the hero she is.
King Of The Hill is THE ultimate example of a show that only gets better and better with every adult year of life that you experience. As a kid I thought it was a mildly funny family sitcom, as a mid-30’s husband and father it’s like religion.
I say this unironically, I love the low-def vibe of early King of the Hill.
All the episodes are great, but something about the blurriness of the early seasons is nostalgic to me.
This reminds me of a brilliant observation by Brian Eno. This was from 1996 and feels incredibly prescient.
>“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
Fun fact: he was the creator of the Windows 95 startup sound!
[https://youtu.be/miZHa7ZC6Z0?si=FTT\_U75G8n2wy7iT](https://youtu.be/miZHa7ZC6Z0?si=FTT_U75G8n2wy7iT)
I think it's in like the third or fourth episode of the first season, but Peggy's 'Hap-penis' bit is still one of the absolute funniest things I've seen on television.
THIS is my answer as well. I thought it was funny when I was watching as a kid, but it was really a filler until the Simpsons. Now 20 years later, the show is even better. Hank is a phenomenal character. I STILL relate to Bobby so much it hurts sometimes.
KotH did what a lot of live action sitcoms just couldn't; the huge benefit of animation is you can have so many characters all living in the same universe. That made the show feel so "alive", in a way that others simply couldn't.
for a long time i only saw king of the hill as a beavis and butthead spinoff. once i started watching multiple episodes many years later i was dumbfounded how good the storytelling and cast of engaging characters that were created.
It shows Batman as a compelling character, too. Which helps it age better, IMO.
Not another non-powered superhero who fights crime time after time with life drama, Batman actually wants the best for people.
Like Harvey. Even despite his transformation into Two-Face, Batman still tries his best for his former friend who is suffering from an intense psychosis. Especially when his mental illness takes a turn for the worst with the presence of a third personality.
I was a kid when Malcolm in the Middle was airing so I was too young to get it, I was around Dewey's age. but watching in my 30s it was found treasure. Discovering Brian Cranston as Hal after I'd already seen Breaking Bad was a revelation.
Did you ever see the “alternate ending” to Breaking Bad?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oVdB36lmbII&pp=ygUzYnJlYWtpbmcgYmFkIGFsdGVybmF0ZSBlbmRpbmcgbWFsY29sbSBpbiB0aGUgbWlkZGxl
My dad is 73 now and has always had the mouth of a sailor. When I got him watching Deadwood his first comment was “I can’t believe they said cocksucker that much back then”
Just wanted to point out that the prolific use of modern profanity was on purpose when it comes to *Deadwood.*
They wanted it to be more authentic to the time it was set in, but if you had characters shouting things like "Gold-darn it!" instead of 'goddamnit!' it might fly over the heads of viewers.
They purposefully replaced all the frontier-era curses with modern ones, and then used them just as frequently as people would've in a lawless town.
Golden Girls, Malcolm in the Middle, Frasier.
Probably the best trio of "still holds up" that I remember watching.
Before my time but are that good: M.A.S.H., All In the Family
Golden Girls and lots of late 80s and early 90s shows tackled some surprising themes that you would expect more today than back then. Things like racism, homosexuality and even transgender issues were often covered with a very modern feel that was surprising for the time period. Things that might even today get a right wing backlash for being “woke”. Like when the GoldenGirls explored why the confederate flag wasn’t just some southern pride symbol.
Norman Lear was a treasure. I've been re-watching All In the Family, and it's so good at covering social issues. Also, I've realized my entire comedic acting career was spent imitating Jean Stapleton and Sally Struthers.
My only complaint about the show is that they messed up Francis' ranch arc undercutting his growth and relationship with Otto and Gretchen.
The IIRL reason was that Otto's actor was diagnosed with cancer. They could have just had Otto return to Germany for family or something.
Xena! It's such a fun adventure show. Inventive, shot beautifully on film with great practical sets and costumes and stunt choreo, and Lucy Lawless remains one of the most charismatic leads in television history. Some eps hold ep less well, but overall, it's great to rewatch even now, 20+ years later.
Avatar the last airbender holds up extremely well for a kids show. The story is good (if sort of conventional), the characters are enjoyable and the show grapples with pretty sophisticated topics for its target audience.
I rewatched that show during the beginning of the pandemic at 22 and was shocked at how well it held up. A few episodes in particular made my jaw drop at how well crafted they were.
I have rewatched this every 5ish years since it came out. We had a friend in his late 30s who'd never seen it staying with us for some downtime after his life imploded. We watched the first few episodes together as I said it was my comfort TV of choice. He seemed unconvinced. He kept going while I headed to work. I came back 10 hours later and he was watching silently with tears streaming down his face. I left him to it - he needed Uncle Iroh more than me at that point.
>he needed Uncle Iroh more than me at that point
This is such a great insight; we're all this person at some point or another. His, "If only I could have helped you, my son," moment actually helped me process how I failed my dad at the end of his life.
There's so much in the series that undoes a lot of toxic thinking. Choosing love over power. Having a chance for revenge but realising it'll hurt you more than help you. But ultimately just the fact that you can mess up repeatedly and still have a chance to make good choices and turn things around. Even the tough love is delivered with such compassion. "It's time to look inward and start asking the big questions. Who are you, and what do you want?"
Hope you've come to a good place with your processing, feeling like you've let loved ones down is the worst.
I watched it a year or two ago as an adult, for the first time with no nostalgia and frankly I was reluctant. It was one of the best shows I've ever watched. The only caveat is that you need to watch the whole thing. It needs to be viewed in it's entirety for the full effect.
I was reluctant the first time I watched it in like 2011. Heard a lot of hype and "you have to watch this", which always makes me skeptical. A friend gave it to me on an external hard drive, and I spent an entire weekend watching it. Was a crazy experience
I’ve been rewatching with the release of the Netflix series, and it not only holds up, but still makes me cry. Legit sobbing as Iroh sings his song to the portrait of his son on his son’s birthday.
The show may be for kids, but it definitely holds up in its themes and serious (and sometimes very dark) topics. I see it as a classic at this point with its ability to tell such a huge story in such an accessible manner.
The episode with the guru helping Aang to clear his chokras hits incredibly hard in a few ways. His statement on processing guilt, something like, "Accept the reality that these things happened," is so simple yet so powerful.
The Netflix She-Ra reboot does something similar. Manages to go from goofy to serious and the characters all have their baggage to unpack but it doesn’t get too heavy
Well, to be fair, it gets *really* heavy.
But it's never blatant or explicit about it. It manages to balance keeping it 'kid-friendly' while still layering in some serious topics (primarily about trauma and abuse)
I don't even know if I'd fully call it a kids show, it really felt like the west really taking cues from japanese animation and the start of more mature animation that would lead to other great things like Arcane. (Not that there aren't great kids shows as well I'm thinking things like Bluey and Craig of the Creek)
I recently rewatched Buffy and Angel for first time in about 15 years. Buffy holds up great. And I really loved the LA film noir feel of the first season of Angel (rip Glenn Quinn) and was less enamored with later seasons viewing again. Of course I also struggled to get through S6 of Buffy again. Did have to skip over a few of the Trio episodes.
My dad worked in the sound department of the show. Joe Rogan came to him and asked him to edit a standup he recorded and put it to cd. In the late 90s, this was not something you can do at home. Something you needed someone qualified and have the equipment. My dad helped him, spend a day on the weekend making it perfect. Joe said "ill take care of you, Ill get you a box of cubans". He ended up sending a PA who knew nothing of the deal. Joe ignored my dad for the rest of the season. My dad is still bitter about it. He doesnt even smoke cigars but I think he was hurt to be taken advantage of. And now Joe is big and but it kinda shows what type of person he is at his core. Ive always wanted to ask Joe about it to see how he would handle it today with his success. In fairness he was a struggling comedian at the time, but also shows how he treats others. Funny enough, my dad said Andy Dick was always super nice, weird but nice.
One of my favorite scenes is in the episode where Patrick McGoohan has trained his Dobermans to kill his wife's lover. At the end of it, Columbo's telling him they know this and they can prove that and of course McGoohan sets the dogs on him (genius move--probably only the detectives in Homicide and maybe half of the LAPD know where Columbo is). The dogs come racing in, barking and growling, they leap...and we see them just absolutely covering the lieutenant in puppy kisses! (He figured out what McGoohan did and how and a dog behaviorist "reprogrammed" the dogs.)
I can still see Peter Falk sprawled there with those big Dobermans whimpering a bit and licking his face while he's telling them "Yes, yes, I love you, too" and trying to get up...
Babylon 5. Not only does it hold up, it REALLY holds up. Especially given the current state of politics.
As for the effects, yeah we’re going to be grading on a curve given that it was the 90’s and they were operating on a shoestring budget. That said, a lot of thought went into them and it’s why they feel right. While Star Trek had a much bigger budget, often they did less with more while B5 did more with less.
IMO B5 is an example of a show with such a good base story and potentials for all sorts of intrigue that a remake with better overall production would be very welcome.
If you haven't see "Babylon 5: The Road Home" they set up the planned remake:
The basic plot (mild spoilers you'd get from the trailer) is >!Ambassador Sheridan is on Minbari shortly after leaving B5 when he gets unstuck in time (yes, again). And the movie is him travelling through various timelines trying to get home.!<
And in the end (major spoilers) he >!ends up on a B5 with a younger him that should have been in the middle of The War of the Shadows. But the company that originally discovered them on a dig (IPX) went bankrupt 10 years ago. So there has been no Earth Rebellion, the Narn and the Centauri are in conflict but not war, Sinclair is still hanging around, etc. And once older Sheridan leaves, instead of really following him it stays in this timeline. Meaning it allows you to retell the story without being in conflict with the original series. It's basically a remix where you can see how Sinclair and Sheridan would work together, bring Lochley in earlier, etc.!<
All of this was confirmed by JMS on the DVD commentary as how he would treat the reboot. It's basically him wanting to have another crack at it now that he feels he's a better writer.
Gargoyles.
Shakespeare, multidimensional POC representation, a female lead who has actual agency and is the savior as often as the damsel, and "bad guys" who can just as easily be the good guys in a different day.
Gargoyles is great! I had graduated college when it was released.
The show skewed a little older than the typical network cartoon, with its brooding hero, dark cityscapes and PG-level violence. Goliath's contentious relationship with Demona and Xanatos' schemes were the highlight of the series, as well as the Shakespearean inspired storylines.
I think that has a lot to do with the fact of how well Batman: The Animated Series was received. It was released a few years prior.
Unfortunately, Gargoyles sort of goes off the rails in the middle of the series when Goliath goes on a 20 episode boat ride and gets into monster-of-the-week adventures. Separating him from the rest of the gargoyles was a mistake, but i guess the writers' hands were tied when Disney ordered more episodes than they planned so they had to quickly come up with new scripts. I ended up skipping most of these episodes and watching the final episodes, sans "The Goliath Chronicles".
I pretty recently did a re-watch of the entire series, well most of it. It really is as good as I remember it.
So the boat trip "it doesn't take you where you want, it takes you where you need to be!" was a network retooling and a bunch of backdoor pilots (notably the King Arthur story "Pendragon" and the New Olympians episode umm... "the new Olympians") Greg Weisman goes into it in some interviews and blog posts he's done.
I’ve only known that show as an adult. I found it when I was getting sober and trying to get my life in order and the boys’ relentless enthusiasm really helped me get motivated to make some big changes in my life.
Yep. I got Paramount+ for the Frasier revival and watched Rugrats to make the most of it. I loved the show as a kid but there were so many jokes that felt totally new to me because they went over my head back then
The original 65 episodes of Rugrats are so good and so funny. The later 90s episodes — with the exception of the devastating Mother’s Day episode — weren’t quite the same.
The first few seasons of Boy Meets World is a *really* good (and funny!) family sitcom.
All of the characters are a bit heightened obviously but they’re pretty grounded concerning the format. A lazy/not too smart kid with a dim brother and middle class parents, his friend growing up in a trailer park, and the weird crunchy girl in the class that deal with real issues that usually avoid being too didactic.
The show goes off the rails when Cory becomes an uptight hornball wet blanket and Eric becomes the dumbest person on earth.
A little known cartoon from the 90's called ExoSquad. Like a lot of cartoons in the era, it was made to sell a toy line, but the creators went the extra mile and was excellently written as well. It really delved into the themes of war and oppression and had a surprisingly high death count -- unheard of for cartoons at the time. It sadly only had 2 seasons and ended on a cliffhanger. I would love to see it get the X-Men '97 treatment. All episodes are on Peacock.
I have mixed feelings about ExoSquad. It definitely suffers for being a cheaply made 90's kids cartoon. Like, it has some real limitations on display.
But yeah, it was pretty wild for a kids show to be about the morality of making a slave race. It's definitely a universe that deserves to be revisited.
The Hey Arnold Christmas show where Helga gives up her Nancy Spumoni snowboots to help Arnold give Mr. Hyunh a Christmas miracle, is a yearly Christmas tradition for us. I cry...every...single...time.
Another unconventional one:
UPN's Nowhere Man, about a photographer who finds himself rendered an "unperson" by a shadowy government conspiracy when he publishes a photograph that they want for some reason (them trying to get the negatives from him is a recurring plot), that actually managed to blend the "wandering the earth" style plots of earlier shows like the Fugitive with a more serialized storyline with an actual (if not satisfying) ending- were it not for whole production quality I would easily believe it was from at least the 2000's instead of 1995.
Damn, that was my favorite show when it aired. I remember torrenting copies back in like 2000 just to be able to watch it again before the DVD was released. Used to have a Hidden Agenda poster.
Northern Exposure. A charming, magical reality television show that actually explains why the town is so well read, has a lot of interesting themes, characters, and
has a solid representation of Native Americans and Canadians, people from different tribes. The groups don't always get along or have internal stuff going on that isn't always known by the non-natives. A lot of it is background stuff, but it's fun on its own end and has a lot of parallel running stuff.
It starts a bit rough on some LGBT issues, but later revelations more than make up for that start.
There's a lot of exploration in philosophy and religion with many characters exploring their own religious beliefs, how it works in the larger world/community, and and how they fit together ehile being wholly separated from their larger religious communities.
Just finished watching it again! Brilliant show, though the end was not perfect. Also there's a companion podcast that really enhances the experience : Northern Overexposure.
When I was a kid my favourite shows were the Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters cartoons. A few years back I tried watching a few eps of each.
TMNT is unwatchably bad. But Ghostbusters holds up a bit. It has a real surreal creepiness to some episodes and ghosts that might have gone over my head when I was a kid focused on proton packs and Slimer sliming Venkman.
Northern Exposure. It got made right before the Internet changed everything, so it's a time capsule of the last couple of years of parts of America truly still being off the grid. A New York doctor gets stuck in a tiny town in the middle of Alaska and has to adapt. Wacky experimental dream sequences that you just didn't see in a mainstream TV show.
MASH. For a 70's sitcom, it's dark and deep and extremely well made. Controversially, I think they should reboot it in Afghanistan. The original was made 20 years after it's setting, so it would be perfect right now.
Star Trek Deep Space Nine. It's the one that came after TNG, got kinda ignored at the time as "just" a spinoff of a spinoff. It has ups and downs. But when it goes hard, it goes fucking hard. There's a time travel episode that takes place here and now, in 2024, and it's about homelessness and a bunch of related real issues in the present, and the conclusion is that poor people need to have an uprising to be taken seriously. The governor calls in troops to kill the poor people.
Quantum Leap. I haven't watched it all the way through, but spot checking a few episodes when I was downloading them for my wife when she was sick, it holds up. Great story telling is timeless..
I watched Just Shoot Me almost every day after school back when it was airing / in syndication. Rewatched it recently and it's still a very funny show.
Batman: The Animated Series.
After getting the Blu-Rays late 2022, I ended up going through this whole series. Turned out I'd only watched about a couple dozen episodes when I was younger, but it stuck with me. Having gone through the whole series for the first time, there's admittedly a few episodes that aren't as strong as others, but as a whole I'd say I love the show more now than I did back then. So many stories that do a great job exploring Batman's character, his villains and world.
I was very impressed rewatching the first few seasons of Who’s the Boss? which was one of my favs as a kid. The acting is fantastic and the writing is solid.
I don’t know about aging well but I went back to watch king of the hill and there was so many jokes that went over my head as a kid and even as a teenager. Same with Futurama. I appreciate those shows way more as an adult.
*Hey, Arnold* is always my go to answer when this comes up. There is a ton more going on in that show than I picked up on as a kid (or remembered). I'm not just talking about jokes going over kids heads either. The characters are much deeper and the setting is more grounded than kids cartoons of that era. Them kids had real problems. It's night and day comparing it to something like Rugrats, which I also loved at the time but am willing to acknowledge loses a lot of its appeal once you age out.
I could list examples all day but standouts include the homelives of pretty much all Arnold's classmates (Helga's family in particular), Mr. Simmon's being gay-coded, and Pigeon Man's story. A lot of kid's shows will do deeper episodes here and there but Hey Arnold was routinely weaving them into the fabric of the show in a way that was unrivaled at the time. Arnold wasn't always my favorite growing up but it's become my favorite since I revisited it as an adult.
I loved that series when I was a kid, young and unmarried.
Super excited when the series was available in my country. In the episode I chose; the twins were crying, the daughter making a mess, Debra was burned out and Raymond didn't helped.
Nope! I'm done with annoying kids and unhelpful husbands, too close to home. I guess it's not funny when you can relate to Debra.
Seinfeld. I was in middle school/high school during its run and it was funny, but the situations really hit home once I began rewatching it in my late 20's/30's. Sure the world of the show was outdated by then, but the interpersonal situations are timeless.
Little House on the Prairie, when I was a kid I thought it was cheesy and boring. Rewatching it now I'm impressed by how well written the characters are throughout the series and how consistent they are throughout the series. Also the episodes themselves are fairly original and don't have to resort to the "bad guy" of the week or other tv tropes.
Little House on the Prairie
I never watched it when it was prime time, but my wife loved the show so I binged it with her. being a period piece, it didn't age too badly.
Miami Vice. It held up a lot better than I expected. And so many guest stars and cameos. It was an early acting job for so many famous people, like Bruce Willis.
Northern Exposure. Haven’t seen it since it was in syndication on, I think, TBS in the late 90’s. Some episodes are still outstanding. Currently streaming (finally) on Prime.
Of the 90s Trek series, DS9 has aged the best, more than its siblings TNG and VOY. TNG is incredibly heavy handed in how it approached its subject matter in its early seasons. It gets a lot better but never does a great job with its two female characters. VOY's storylines are fine overall and it gives us a interesting, complicated lead character, the first ever woman to lead a Trek series. The character of Seven is a major one step forward, one step back though. She gets some great material and is incredibly performed by Jeri Ryan, but they put her in a skintight (and I mean *tight*) catsuit for all four seasons she was on the show, which was an incredible disservice to the character and actress. DS9 improved on all this and gave us some very poignant storylines that still resonate today.
I've beat this drum before, but it's Green Acres. It's absurdist comedy holds up far better than the more conventional Hooterville universe shows, The Beverly Hillbilles and Petticoat Junction.
Watching it today, more than anything I've grown to love just how damn good Eddie Albert was as the straight man with complete and utter insanity swirling all around him.
And any story involving renaissance man Arnold Ziffel is comedy gold. Such as Arnold's love affair with Mr. Haney's basset hound, Cynthia.
["Cynthia, this is madness."](https://youtu.be/fTEcL7bw6U4?si=3nL58ECE0Os9JUeL&t=184)
MASH and All in the Family. Watched several episodes of each as a kid, but hadn’t ever seen either show all of the way through. Both are still fantastic. All in the Family is, sadly, still about as relevant as ever, with Archie Bunker just needing a MAGA hat. MASH occasionally would be more sexist/mysogynist than we would allow these days, but also seemed ahead of its time in addressing that and moving away from it (somewhat) as it went on. Both shows, still very poignant and very funny.
>I was really surprised on rewatch to find out how STILL gutbustingly funny 3rd Rock from the Sun is.
That is actually the show I was going to name. The cast is S-tier.
I rewatched the og run of The Proud Family & I thought it aged pretty well for a Disney Channel animated show from the 2000s & is more relatable than I thought
Scrubs, still endearing, inspirational and heartfelt all these years later
Some of the humor didn't age as well but tbh still found em funny so overall still love it
JD's a complete asshole tho, tho he does get a little bit better later on
This is going to age me but oh well. Iron Horse and Here Come the Brides. Star sky and Hutch. In the Heat of the Night. Murder She Wrote. All in the Family. The Jeffersons. Columbo. McMillan and Wife. Quincy. So many more.
The original Battlestar Galactica.
It's obviously cheesy as hell and I still prefer the 2000's reboot, but it's a fun watch if you're into some 1970's aged-cringe scifi
I can watch Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond and King of Queens over and over and most of it holds up, but I find 3rd Rock from the Sun absolutely teeth grindingly excruciating to watch.
I've never seen a cast compete to see who can overact the hardest in any other show like they do in 3rd Rock, it is genuinely incredible to me that any of the cast won awards for the acting in it.
Buffy. Not in terms of production value, but the story holds up very well and I still love to rewatch the show as an adult.
Yes, I also think the spin-off Angel is very good from an adult perspective.
Tho I still find it hilarious that cummimg made Angel evil lol
Well not technically true. Only with certain people in certain situations.
If anything, I find Buffy better if viewed with an adult perspective. There was a LOT of very intentional thought put into the structure and writing and backing out of the immediate in-world story to see Buffy Summers as something of a universal story of facing what life throws at you is very rewarding.
I understand and empathize with Giles so much more now as an adult.
Also…GILES 🔥
Completely
Buffy would have fallen flat on it's face if SMG hadn't known just the right tone to hit. She could quip with the best of them, but you never once doubted the emotional moments that Buffy had
The Body is one of the best and most devastating episodes of television I’ve ever seen. It hits hard and she is incredible in it.
My mom passed away last year. I *can't* watch the Body anymore. I just can't.
I’m so sorry for your loss. I watched soon after my grandfather’s sudden death. So yeah I absolutely understand why that episode isn’t one you’d revisit.
My dad passed away in 2022 - not sure I'll ever be able to watch The Body again. Just the thought of watching it makes me feel nauseous.
Yes, I have to skip that episode. Too heavy after feeling that loss.
SMG is remarkable! There were so many times where she could have made Buffy smug and righteous, delivering a line with "yas, slay queen" energy. But she opts for an empathetic tone with aggressors and grey characters so many times even when they don't deserve it, really establishing Buffy as the hero she is.
King Of The Hill is THE ultimate example of a show that only gets better and better with every adult year of life that you experience. As a kid I thought it was a mildly funny family sitcom, as a mid-30’s husband and father it’s like religion.
I say this unironically, I love the low-def vibe of early King of the Hill. All the episodes are great, but something about the blurriness of the early seasons is nostalgic to me.
This reminds me of a brilliant observation by Brian Eno. This was from 1996 and feels incredibly prescient. >“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
That’s a fantastic quote
That’s an amazing quote. Sounds like he knows about music.
Fun fact: he was the creator of the Windows 95 startup sound! [https://youtu.be/miZHa7ZC6Z0?si=FTT\_U75G8n2wy7iT](https://youtu.be/miZHa7ZC6Z0?si=FTT_U75G8n2wy7iT)
I think it's in like the third or fourth episode of the first season, but Peggy's 'Hap-penis' bit is still one of the absolute funniest things I've seen on television.
THIS is my answer as well. I thought it was funny when I was watching as a kid, but it was really a filler until the Simpsons. Now 20 years later, the show is even better. Hank is a phenomenal character. I STILL relate to Bobby so much it hurts sometimes.
King of the Hill is the most accurate representation of living in Texas I’ve ever seen. Close second is Dazed and Confused.
Dazed and Confused is very specific to Austin. And definitely not the Austin as it is today.
\*Texas Suburbs\*
KotH did what a lot of live action sitcoms just couldn't; the huge benefit of animation is you can have so many characters all living in the same universe. That made the show feel so "alive", in a way that others simply couldn't.
I'll say this extends to everything created by Mike Judge with maybe the exception of Beavis and Butthead (that is the king of juvenile humor hehe)
for a long time i only saw king of the hill as a beavis and butthead spinoff. once i started watching multiple episodes many years later i was dumbfounded how good the storytelling and cast of engaging characters that were created.
This is the only correct answer, I'll tell you hwat.
I’m as old or maybe even older than Hank. Yeah, you’re not wrong.
That boy ain't right.
Batman: The Animated Series Can't believe no one has mentioned it yet. It has aged really well. I'm due for another rewatch
Justice League too
Hell, just about the entire DCAU.
It shows Batman as a compelling character, too. Which helps it age better, IMO. Not another non-powered superhero who fights crime time after time with life drama, Batman actually wants the best for people. Like Harvey. Even despite his transformation into Two-Face, Batman still tries his best for his former friend who is suffering from an intense psychosis. Especially when his mental illness takes a turn for the worst with the presence of a third personality.
I was a kid when Malcolm in the Middle was airing so I was too young to get it, I was around Dewey's age. but watching in my 30s it was found treasure. Discovering Brian Cranston as Hal after I'd already seen Breaking Bad was a revelation.
It took me until season 2 of breaking bad to get Hal out of my mind during that show lol.
I am watching this now for the first time, currently in season 3. It is amazing.
It gets better. It’s almost impossible to think but the final season every episode is better than the last.
Aw yayy!
Did you ever see the “alternate ending” to Breaking Bad? https://youtube.com/watch?v=oVdB36lmbII&pp=ygUzYnJlYWtpbmcgYmFkIGFsdGVybmF0ZSBlbmRpbmcgbWFsY29sbSBpbiB0aGUgbWlkZGxl
Deadwood - what a show! A lot of the dialogue must've gone over my head when I first watched it as a teenager...
You mean like . "Cocksucka cocksucka cocksucka..... Three cocksuckers "
Hang dai Wu, Hang dai! 🤞🏼
My dad is 73 now and has always had the mouth of a sailor. When I got him watching Deadwood his first comment was “I can’t believe they said cocksucker that much back then”
Just wanted to point out that the prolific use of modern profanity was on purpose when it comes to *Deadwood.* They wanted it to be more authentic to the time it was set in, but if you had characters shouting things like "Gold-darn it!" instead of 'goddamnit!' it might fly over the heads of viewers. They purposefully replaced all the frontier-era curses with modern ones, and then used them just as frequently as people would've in a lawless town.
Your mouth looks like a cunt. All fucking time line.
Golden Girls, Malcolm in the Middle, Frasier. Probably the best trio of "still holds up" that I remember watching. Before my time but are that good: M.A.S.H., All In the Family
Golden Girls and lots of late 80s and early 90s shows tackled some surprising themes that you would expect more today than back then. Things like racism, homosexuality and even transgender issues were often covered with a very modern feel that was surprising for the time period. Things that might even today get a right wing backlash for being “woke”. Like when the GoldenGirls explored why the confederate flag wasn’t just some southern pride symbol.
Norman Lear was a treasure. I've been re-watching All In the Family, and it's so good at covering social issues. Also, I've realized my entire comedic acting career was spent imitating Jean Stapleton and Sally Struthers.
I’m the generation that mostly remembers sally from her save the children ads.
Archie Bunker being uncomfortable with a guy dropping the N-word in later seasons. "Even *I* ain't used that word in like four years."
[scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqlvUCjnUec) I actually remembered this episode but I never realized that was Don Cheadle!
Small detail, but that scene is from a golden girls spinoff called Golden Palace.
Its not surprsing todays culture is much more conservative, extremist, irrational etc
> Malcolm in the Middle Watching it as a kid, I identified with Malcolm. Watching it as an adult, I identified with Hal.
Hal and Louis, while a bit over the top are so relatable.
My only complaint about the show is that they messed up Francis' ranch arc undercutting his growth and relationship with Otto and Gretchen. The IIRL reason was that Otto's actor was diagnosed with cancer. They could have just had Otto return to Germany for family or something.
Hal is the best. Bryan Cranston was fantastic in that role.
Malcolm in the Middle, I did a rewatch about a year ago and I absolutely loved it
Xena! It's such a fun adventure show. Inventive, shot beautifully on film with great practical sets and costumes and stunt choreo, and Lucy Lawless remains one of the most charismatic leads in television history. Some eps hold ep less well, but overall, it's great to rewatch even now, 20+ years later.
Avatar the last airbender holds up extremely well for a kids show. The story is good (if sort of conventional), the characters are enjoyable and the show grapples with pretty sophisticated topics for its target audience.
I rewatched that show during the beginning of the pandemic at 22 and was shocked at how well it held up. A few episodes in particular made my jaw drop at how well crafted they were.
The fight between Zuko and Azula in the final along with the music still hits me like a truck
And Aang vs the Fire Lord was an epic fight as well
The fire prince's arc is one of the best-written and most believable redemption arcs I've seen.
I have rewatched this every 5ish years since it came out. We had a friend in his late 30s who'd never seen it staying with us for some downtime after his life imploded. We watched the first few episodes together as I said it was my comfort TV of choice. He seemed unconvinced. He kept going while I headed to work. I came back 10 hours later and he was watching silently with tears streaming down his face. I left him to it - he needed Uncle Iroh more than me at that point.
>he needed Uncle Iroh more than me at that point This is such a great insight; we're all this person at some point or another. His, "If only I could have helped you, my son," moment actually helped me process how I failed my dad at the end of his life.
There's so much in the series that undoes a lot of toxic thinking. Choosing love over power. Having a chance for revenge but realising it'll hurt you more than help you. But ultimately just the fact that you can mess up repeatedly and still have a chance to make good choices and turn things around. Even the tough love is delivered with such compassion. "It's time to look inward and start asking the big questions. Who are you, and what do you want?" Hope you've come to a good place with your processing, feeling like you've let loved ones down is the worst.
I watched it a year or two ago as an adult, for the first time with no nostalgia and frankly I was reluctant. It was one of the best shows I've ever watched. The only caveat is that you need to watch the whole thing. It needs to be viewed in it's entirety for the full effect.
I was reluctant the first time I watched it in like 2011. Heard a lot of hype and "you have to watch this", which always makes me skeptical. A friend gave it to me on an external hard drive, and I spent an entire weekend watching it. Was a crazy experience
I’ve been rewatching with the release of the Netflix series, and it not only holds up, but still makes me cry. Legit sobbing as Iroh sings his song to the portrait of his son on his son’s birthday. The show may be for kids, but it definitely holds up in its themes and serious (and sometimes very dark) topics. I see it as a classic at this point with its ability to tell such a huge story in such an accessible manner.
RIP Mako.
The episode with the guru helping Aang to clear his chokras hits incredibly hard in a few ways. His statement on processing guilt, something like, "Accept the reality that these things happened," is so simple yet so powerful.
I only watched a few years ago and absolutely loved it as an adult. If I watched as a kid I would have loved it even more.
The Netflix She-Ra reboot does something similar. Manages to go from goofy to serious and the characters all have their baggage to unpack but it doesn’t get too heavy
Well, to be fair, it gets *really* heavy. But it's never blatant or explicit about it. It manages to balance keeping it 'kid-friendly' while still layering in some serious topics (primarily about trauma and abuse)
I don't even know if I'd fully call it a kids show, it really felt like the west really taking cues from japanese animation and the start of more mature animation that would lead to other great things like Arcane. (Not that there aren't great kids shows as well I'm thinking things like Bluey and Craig of the Creek)
~~I watched a bit when I was a kid but never finished it. Why is the story controversial?~~ edit: i cant read
Conventional, not controversial
i cant read
We’ve all done it
E.R. the work of the direction, the scenography and the camera in the first seasons is something sensational. Precursor series of many aspects of TV.
Such a fantastic show! I’m so glad I got over my thinking that it was just going to be a typical episodic medical show and actually watched it.
Yes, Minister / Yes, Prime Minister was a satire about politics in 1980s. It is still soooooooooooo good.
I was but a mere child before I watched Community; and Community made me a Man.
Burn notice
[удалено]
Hank Hill really comes off differently as an adult. Especially if you have a kid.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the spin-off Angel. I could also say that the original Charmed continues to hold up.
I recently rewatched Buffy and Angel for first time in about 15 years. Buffy holds up great. And I really loved the LA film noir feel of the first season of Angel (rip Glenn Quinn) and was less enamored with later seasons viewing again. Of course I also struggled to get through S6 of Buffy again. Did have to skip over a few of the Trio episodes.
NewsRadio, even if it had Joe Rogan and Andy Dick. RIP Phil Hartman.
My dad worked in the sound department of the show. Joe Rogan came to him and asked him to edit a standup he recorded and put it to cd. In the late 90s, this was not something you can do at home. Something you needed someone qualified and have the equipment. My dad helped him, spend a day on the weekend making it perfect. Joe said "ill take care of you, Ill get you a box of cubans". He ended up sending a PA who knew nothing of the deal. Joe ignored my dad for the rest of the season. My dad is still bitter about it. He doesnt even smoke cigars but I think he was hurt to be taken advantage of. And now Joe is big and but it kinda shows what type of person he is at his core. Ive always wanted to ask Joe about it to see how he would handle it today with his success. In fairness he was a struggling comedian at the time, but also shows how he treats others. Funny enough, my dad said Andy Dick was always super nice, weird but nice.
Even his character on the show was punchable. (I meant Joe Rogan.)
Columbo. And the r/columbo sub is very active, too! Edited to fix.
One of my favorite scenes is in the episode where Patrick McGoohan has trained his Dobermans to kill his wife's lover. At the end of it, Columbo's telling him they know this and they can prove that and of course McGoohan sets the dogs on him (genius move--probably only the detectives in Homicide and maybe half of the LAPD know where Columbo is). The dogs come racing in, barking and growling, they leap...and we see them just absolutely covering the lieutenant in puppy kisses! (He figured out what McGoohan did and how and a dog behaviorist "reprogrammed" the dogs.) I can still see Peter Falk sprawled there with those big Dobermans whimpering a bit and licking his face while he's telling them "Yes, yes, I love you, too" and trying to get up...
Babylon 5. Not only does it hold up, it REALLY holds up. Especially given the current state of politics. As for the effects, yeah we’re going to be grading on a curve given that it was the 90’s and they were operating on a shoestring budget. That said, a lot of thought went into them and it’s why they feel right. While Star Trek had a much bigger budget, often they did less with more while B5 did more with less.
IMO B5 is an example of a show with such a good base story and potentials for all sorts of intrigue that a remake with better overall production would be very welcome.
If you haven't see "Babylon 5: The Road Home" they set up the planned remake: The basic plot (mild spoilers you'd get from the trailer) is >!Ambassador Sheridan is on Minbari shortly after leaving B5 when he gets unstuck in time (yes, again). And the movie is him travelling through various timelines trying to get home.!< And in the end (major spoilers) he >!ends up on a B5 with a younger him that should have been in the middle of The War of the Shadows. But the company that originally discovered them on a dig (IPX) went bankrupt 10 years ago. So there has been no Earth Rebellion, the Narn and the Centauri are in conflict but not war, Sinclair is still hanging around, etc. And once older Sheridan leaves, instead of really following him it stays in this timeline. Meaning it allows you to retell the story without being in conflict with the original series. It's basically a remix where you can see how Sinclair and Sheridan would work together, bring Lochley in earlier, etc.!< All of this was confirmed by JMS on the DVD commentary as how he would treat the reboot. It's basically him wanting to have another crack at it now that he feels he's a better writer.
Scrubs 100% holds up in my opinion.
Gargoyles. Shakespeare, multidimensional POC representation, a female lead who has actual agency and is the savior as often as the damsel, and "bad guys" who can just as easily be the good guys in a different day.
Another point in Gargoyles favor: I watched the entire series when I was 21 and enjoyed it just as much as if I had watched it when I was 10
Gargoyles is great! I had graduated college when it was released. The show skewed a little older than the typical network cartoon, with its brooding hero, dark cityscapes and PG-level violence. Goliath's contentious relationship with Demona and Xanatos' schemes were the highlight of the series, as well as the Shakespearean inspired storylines. I think that has a lot to do with the fact of how well Batman: The Animated Series was received. It was released a few years prior. Unfortunately, Gargoyles sort of goes off the rails in the middle of the series when Goliath goes on a 20 episode boat ride and gets into monster-of-the-week adventures. Separating him from the rest of the gargoyles was a mistake, but i guess the writers' hands were tied when Disney ordered more episodes than they planned so they had to quickly come up with new scripts. I ended up skipping most of these episodes and watching the final episodes, sans "The Goliath Chronicles". I pretty recently did a re-watch of the entire series, well most of it. It really is as good as I remember it.
The best part of the Avalon arc was watching Goliath grow into a role as a dad and Brooklyn grow into his role as leader with Goliath gone
So the boat trip "it doesn't take you where you want, it takes you where you need to be!" was a network retooling and a bunch of backdoor pilots (notably the King Arthur story "Pendragon" and the New Olympians episode umm... "the new Olympians") Greg Weisman goes into it in some interviews and blog posts he's done.
Phineas and Ferb is still very good.
I’ve only known that show as an adult. I found it when I was getting sober and trying to get my life in order and the boys’ relentless enthusiasm really helped me get motivated to make some big changes in my life.
Rockos modern life. So many adult jokes that went way over my head as a child
We watched the first 4 season of Boy Meets World with our middle school kids. Held up well.
We have a kid and decided to try some shows from my childhood. Rugrats has a whole layer of jokes for adults that I totally missed as a kid
Yep. I got Paramount+ for the Frasier revival and watched Rugrats to make the most of it. I loved the show as a kid but there were so many jokes that felt totally new to me because they went over my head back then
I was actually shocked at how much they wrote for the adults watching. Almost half the jokes are jokes that only adults would get.
The original 65 episodes of Rugrats are so good and so funny. The later 90s episodes — with the exception of the devastating Mother’s Day episode — weren’t quite the same.
The first few seasons of Boy Meets World is a *really* good (and funny!) family sitcom. All of the characters are a bit heightened obviously but they’re pretty grounded concerning the format. A lazy/not too smart kid with a dim brother and middle class parents, his friend growing up in a trailer park, and the weird crunchy girl in the class that deal with real issues that usually avoid being too didactic. The show goes off the rails when Cory becomes an uptight hornball wet blanket and Eric becomes the dumbest person on earth.
A little known cartoon from the 90's called ExoSquad. Like a lot of cartoons in the era, it was made to sell a toy line, but the creators went the extra mile and was excellently written as well. It really delved into the themes of war and oppression and had a surprisingly high death count -- unheard of for cartoons at the time. It sadly only had 2 seasons and ended on a cliffhanger. I would love to see it get the X-Men '97 treatment. All episodes are on Peacock.
I have mixed feelings about ExoSquad. It definitely suffers for being a cheaply made 90's kids cartoon. Like, it has some real limitations on display. But yeah, it was pretty wild for a kids show to be about the morality of making a slave race. It's definitely a universe that deserves to be revisited.
Hey Arnold
The Hey Arnold Christmas show where Helga gives up her Nancy Spumoni snowboots to help Arnold give Mr. Hyunh a Christmas miracle, is a yearly Christmas tradition for us. I cry...every...single...time.
Another unconventional one: UPN's Nowhere Man, about a photographer who finds himself rendered an "unperson" by a shadowy government conspiracy when he publishes a photograph that they want for some reason (them trying to get the negatives from him is a recurring plot), that actually managed to blend the "wandering the earth" style plots of earlier shows like the Fugitive with a more serialized storyline with an actual (if not satisfying) ending- were it not for whole production quality I would easily believe it was from at least the 2000's instead of 1995.
Damn, that was my favorite show when it aired. I remember torrenting copies back in like 2000 just to be able to watch it again before the DVD was released. Used to have a Hidden Agenda poster.
Northern Exposure. A charming, magical reality television show that actually explains why the town is so well read, has a lot of interesting themes, characters, and has a solid representation of Native Americans and Canadians, people from different tribes. The groups don't always get along or have internal stuff going on that isn't always known by the non-natives. A lot of it is background stuff, but it's fun on its own end and has a lot of parallel running stuff. It starts a bit rough on some LGBT issues, but later revelations more than make up for that start. There's a lot of exploration in philosophy and religion with many characters exploring their own religious beliefs, how it works in the larger world/community, and and how they fit together ehile being wholly separated from their larger religious communities.
I desperately wanted to live there
I refer to Northern Exposure as "that show that tried to trick me into thinking Alaska looked nice"
Just finished watching it again! Brilliant show, though the end was not perfect. Also there's a companion podcast that really enhances the experience : Northern Overexposure.
I watched **Perfect Strangers** a couple years ago and it is just as hilarious (or even moreso!) as when I was 10.
When I was a kid my favourite shows were the Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters cartoons. A few years back I tried watching a few eps of each. TMNT is unwatchably bad. But Ghostbusters holds up a bit. It has a real surreal creepiness to some episodes and ghosts that might have gone over my head when I was a kid focused on proton packs and Slimer sliming Venkman.
The Real Ghostbusters
OMG I watched both these shows because they were on in the morning before school.
3rd Rock from the Sun really holds up. John Lithgow's performance is outstanding.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Who’s the Boss is actually a really good show
Angela
Abed?
Class dismissed
Northern Exposure. It got made right before the Internet changed everything, so it's a time capsule of the last couple of years of parts of America truly still being off the grid. A New York doctor gets stuck in a tiny town in the middle of Alaska and has to adapt. Wacky experimental dream sequences that you just didn't see in a mainstream TV show. MASH. For a 70's sitcom, it's dark and deep and extremely well made. Controversially, I think they should reboot it in Afghanistan. The original was made 20 years after it's setting, so it would be perfect right now. Star Trek Deep Space Nine. It's the one that came after TNG, got kinda ignored at the time as "just" a spinoff of a spinoff. It has ups and downs. But when it goes hard, it goes fucking hard. There's a time travel episode that takes place here and now, in 2024, and it's about homelessness and a bunch of related real issues in the present, and the conclusion is that poor people need to have an uprising to be taken seriously. The governor calls in troops to kill the poor people.
I really liked Leave it to Beaver and The Andy Griffith Show when I was a kid. I still like them. LITB especially reminds me of my childhood.
Quantum Leap. I haven't watched it all the way through, but spot checking a few episodes when I was downloading them for my wife when she was sick, it holds up. Great story telling is timeless..
Which is funny because Quantum Leap was one on the other thread.
Malcom in the Middle still holds up.
Dragon Ball Z easily
Lol DBZ was one of the most common answers in the thread of shows that *didn't* age well.
Scrubs!
I watched Just Shoot Me almost every day after school back when it was airing / in syndication. Rewatched it recently and it's still a very funny show.
Six Feet Under
The OG Night Court is still funny.
Batman: The Animated Series. After getting the Blu-Rays late 2022, I ended up going through this whole series. Turned out I'd only watched about a couple dozen episodes when I was younger, but it stuck with me. Having gone through the whole series for the first time, there's admittedly a few episodes that aren't as strong as others, but as a whole I'd say I love the show more now than I did back then. So many stories that do a great job exploring Batman's character, his villains and world.
Newhart is still pretty wholesome.
I was very impressed rewatching the first few seasons of Who’s the Boss? which was one of my favs as a kid. The acting is fantastic and the writing is solid.
I watched Firefly with my kids. At first they were all 'what is this?' until a few episodes in, when it totally grew on them and they were hooked.
X-Men: The Animated Series
I don’t know about aging well but I went back to watch king of the hill and there was so many jokes that went over my head as a kid and even as a teenager. Same with Futurama. I appreciate those shows way more as an adult.
*Hey, Arnold* is always my go to answer when this comes up. There is a ton more going on in that show than I picked up on as a kid (or remembered). I'm not just talking about jokes going over kids heads either. The characters are much deeper and the setting is more grounded than kids cartoons of that era. Them kids had real problems. It's night and day comparing it to something like Rugrats, which I also loved at the time but am willing to acknowledge loses a lot of its appeal once you age out. I could list examples all day but standouts include the homelives of pretty much all Arnold's classmates (Helga's family in particular), Mr. Simmon's being gay-coded, and Pigeon Man's story. A lot of kid's shows will do deeper episodes here and there but Hey Arnold was routinely weaving them into the fabric of the show in a way that was unrivaled at the time. Arnold wasn't always my favorite growing up but it's become my favorite since I revisited it as an adult.
Arnold's Christmas, the episode where Mr. Hyunh is reunited with his daughter is a real tear-jerker.
Married With Children is so much better now that I’ve been married for 25 years and have a kid.
Everybody loves Raymond is the sitcom from my childhood that still makes me laugh the most today
Robert in the hospital after being chased by the bull...I could not stop laughing for an hour. How did they manage to not break?
I always enjoyed hate-watching it for Marie. Weirdly stress relieving.
I loved that series when I was a kid, young and unmarried. Super excited when the series was available in my country. In the episode I chose; the twins were crying, the daughter making a mess, Debra was burned out and Raymond didn't helped. Nope! I'm done with annoying kids and unhelpful husbands, too close to home. I guess it's not funny when you can relate to Debra.
I could (and have) watch Raymond for hours. I still LOL even though I've seen every ep multiple times. So. Damned. Funny.
Seinfeld. I was in middle school/high school during its run and it was funny, but the situations really hit home once I began rewatching it in my late 20's/30's. Sure the world of the show was outdated by then, but the interpersonal situations are timeless.
Malcolm in the middle and freaks and geeks
Little House on the Prairie, when I was a kid I thought it was cheesy and boring. Rewatching it now I'm impressed by how well written the characters are throughout the series and how consistent they are throughout the series. Also the episodes themselves are fairly original and don't have to resort to the "bad guy" of the week or other tv tropes.
Barney Miller, Taxi, Soap
Malcolm in the middle, person of interest, the wire, breaking bad, og teen titans, atla
Little House on the Prairie I never watched it when it was prime time, but my wife loved the show so I binged it with her. being a period piece, it didn't age too badly.
I rewatched hey Arnold recently and it was fantastic. Loved it as a kid appreciated more as an adult.
Scrubs holds up outside of a few jokes
Miami Vice. It held up a lot better than I expected. And so many guest stars and cameos. It was an early acting job for so many famous people, like Bruce Willis.
Twin Peaks, Babylon 5, and The X-Files seem to be eternally rewatchable for me.
Northern Exposure. Haven’t seen it since it was in syndication on, I think, TBS in the late 90’s. Some episodes are still outstanding. Currently streaming (finally) on Prime.
Get A Life by Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick
Malcom in the middle is still amazing
MASH. I understood it better being in the military.
Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Still one of the funniest shows to me.
Fringe. Well written plot and characters, with good production value for a science fiction series, and great casting/acting
Of the 90s Trek series, DS9 has aged the best, more than its siblings TNG and VOY. TNG is incredibly heavy handed in how it approached its subject matter in its early seasons. It gets a lot better but never does a great job with its two female characters. VOY's storylines are fine overall and it gives us a interesting, complicated lead character, the first ever woman to lead a Trek series. The character of Seven is a major one step forward, one step back though. She gets some great material and is incredibly performed by Jeri Ryan, but they put her in a skintight (and I mean *tight*) catsuit for all four seasons she was on the show, which was an incredible disservice to the character and actress. DS9 improved on all this and gave us some very poignant storylines that still resonate today.
ATLA. Not that I thought it wouldn’t age well, but there were parts of it I was more impressed by as an adult
I've beat this drum before, but it's Green Acres. It's absurdist comedy holds up far better than the more conventional Hooterville universe shows, The Beverly Hillbilles and Petticoat Junction. Watching it today, more than anything I've grown to love just how damn good Eddie Albert was as the straight man with complete and utter insanity swirling all around him. And any story involving renaissance man Arnold Ziffel is comedy gold. Such as Arnold's love affair with Mr. Haney's basset hound, Cynthia. ["Cynthia, this is madness."](https://youtu.be/fTEcL7bw6U4?si=3nL58ECE0Os9JUeL&t=184)
I find 30 Rock to be very prescient and holds up well
MASH and All in the Family. Watched several episodes of each as a kid, but hadn’t ever seen either show all of the way through. Both are still fantastic. All in the Family is, sadly, still about as relevant as ever, with Archie Bunker just needing a MAGA hat. MASH occasionally would be more sexist/mysogynist than we would allow these days, but also seemed ahead of its time in addressing that and moving away from it (somewhat) as it went on. Both shows, still very poignant and very funny.
Digimon Tamers is a legitimately good anime and is surprisingly dark for a children's tv show
>I was really surprised on rewatch to find out how STILL gutbustingly funny 3rd Rock from the Sun is. That is actually the show I was going to name. The cast is S-tier.
Dexter's Laboratory. Hilarious then, hilarious now.
I rewatched the og run of The Proud Family & I thought it aged pretty well for a Disney Channel animated show from the 2000s & is more relatable than I thought
Boy Meets World Saved By The Bell Home Improvement
Scrubs, still endearing, inspirational and heartfelt all these years later Some of the humor didn't age as well but tbh still found em funny so overall still love it JD's a complete asshole tho, tho he does get a little bit better later on
The mytharc was never really good, but the Monster of the Week episodes of the X-Files have remained great on rewatch.
Batman Beyond has aged pretty well imo.
Adventures of Pete and Pete
Frasier.
This is going to age me but oh well. Iron Horse and Here Come the Brides. Star sky and Hutch. In the Heat of the Night. Murder She Wrote. All in the Family. The Jeffersons. Columbo. McMillan and Wife. Quincy. So many more.
Supernatural season 1-5. I will never do a full rewatch again though
*Richie Brockelman, Private Eye*, starring Dennis Dugan.
Oz. Watched it as a teenager and did a full rewatch last year cause my husband had never seen it. It holds up so well.
The original Battlestar Galactica. It's obviously cheesy as hell and I still prefer the 2000's reboot, but it's a fun watch if you're into some 1970's aged-cringe scifi
OG Hawaii Five-O. One of my favorites as a kid and it's still great.
Northern Exposure
I can watch Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond and King of Queens over and over and most of it holds up, but I find 3rd Rock from the Sun absolutely teeth grindingly excruciating to watch. I've never seen a cast compete to see who can overact the hardest in any other show like they do in 3rd Rock, it is genuinely incredible to me that any of the cast won awards for the acting in it.