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Which TV show do you watch again and again?

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It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
- Absolutely!

- the most accurate depiction of corporate IT support that has ever been put to screen
- Tom Baker era of Doctor Who. So good.

TNG, Voyager and DS9.
- Gotta finish off with Enterprise, it has been a long road.
  
  Underrated take. The true end of the TNG era of shows.
  (not era of time, obviously)
  
  Binging it right now. The NX is probably my favorite trek ship design. I loved the less polished design.

Futurama.
I put it on to fall asleep. I'm out before the episode ends. A downside is that I've seen the start of so many episodes, but rarely the end.
- lol I'm the same for the 90s Berserk series, it's given me a strange perspective on it

Avatar, Korra, Firefly.
- Yes
  Yes
  And
  Yes

Community, Bob's Burger, Firefly, Avatar the Last Airbender
- +1 for Firefly!
- Haven't watched Bob's Burgers. Watch all the others (plus LoK) every year, so I'll try it!
  
  It's pretty cosy and wacky at times. If you like Community you'd definitely like it as well
- Bob's burgers is great!

Community, BoJack Horseman, Adventure Time.
- I'm not sure I could go through BoJack a second time.
  Unless it was like, Chicago-style.
- Deleted, posted under another comment by mistake rather than under the post itself.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
Arrested Development
Childrens Hospital
Futurama
- Haven't seen Harvey in forever, haha. Thanks for the reminder
  
  "Didja.... Didja get that thing I sent ya??"

Band of Brothers once per year, without fail. Curahee!
- Oh, man. Fantastic show, but I find it really hard to watch because I know it's so damn accurate.
  I admire your commitment, it should be in high school history classes. It shows better than anything I've ever watched, how hellish it was for everyone.
  The D-day beaches, holy hell.
  
  They did a great job of being even handed, and the final episode where the general is addressing his men was so well done, it's very moving.
- 3 miles up; 3 miles down.
  An annual audiobook listen for me is Winters' memoirs, Beyond Band of Brothers. Helps keep me grounded.
- I do this with The Pacific too. Masters of the Air was also really good
- The line I look forward to the most is: “We’re paratroopers lieutenant. We’re supposed to be surrounded.”

I’m dating myself:
Hogans Heroes
Mission: Impossible (the TV series from the 60’s & 70’s, not the movie franchise that’s just a Tom Cruise adrenaline fantasy)
- Lol, yep. Thanks for the reminders. I recently got all the Get Smart episodes from my library.
- Hello fellow ancient one, your taste in series is magnificent

The Office.
I throw it on in the background constantly.
- Surprised how low this is. I was certain it would be the top pick.

Gravity Fall and Avatar the Last Airbender.
- Hell yes to both!

Arrested Development
\ Archer

Community never ceases to cheer me up

- What's that from? She looks familiar.
  Never mind, I zoomed in and could see it's Lucy in Xena
- The most divine answer

The expanse, altered carbon, billions, mr robot.
- Yeah I've probably watched the Expanse 4 times. I don't know if I'd rather watch it again or read it again.
- Altered Carbon is great.
  
  It's just too bad they only made one season of that show. Netflix probably would have ruined a second season anyway by slashing the budget and miss casting the lead.

Firefly
Yeah I cry a lot, what of it?

Babylon 5

Futurama, Las Vegas, 30Rock.

Star Trek. Specifically TNG and DS9.
- TREK; enterprise, voyager, tng, and DS9. Enterprise was supposed to go on much longer, but LES MOONVES hated the series and wanted nothing to do with it. nutrek; STD, PICARD, SNW were not good at all.

Usually, it's Parks and Rec, The Office, Scrubs, and IASIP. But I have gotten sick of those after watching most of them a dozen plus times, so now it's Community, Zoeys Playlist, and Cougar Town until I get sick of them too
- Have you seen 30 Rock? And Schitts Creek? Would fit in your lists.
  
  I never liked 30 Rock most of the cast I can't stand. But as a Canadian Shitts Creek is required watching, just not one I found myself wanting to rewatch (the ending with Ted and Alexis really pissed me off)

Taskmaster
Uk, new Zealand, Australian, on repeat forever and ever. Even throw some of the Scandinavian versions on when I'm feeling focused enough for subtitles
- This 100%. Even the kids version is good.

SG1, ALL 3 series. some law and order and house. 2000s the golden era of shows. and also TREK shows, not the crappy nutrek(too much kurtzman, jj abrams meddling). ISAIP (S1-12 only), 13+ seasons were just terrible and ionly fan service with cringey skits. the animated nutrek is much better than the 3 live series.
SPN 1-5, by kripke, 6+ and they made to fanfiction and made it homoerotic because the fans are fantasizing about the characthers.
- IASIP... The final episode of season 16 is worth a watch.
  
  13+ clips, and other people defending it just left a bad taste, plus the creators, are all sketchy people now.

The Simpsons

Star Trek: TNG, VOY, DS9

The Wire and Luther. Can you tell I love Idris Elba?

King of the Hill
Haunting of the Hill House
Haunting of Bly Manor
Batman (Animated Series)
IT Crowd

Not so much any more, but I used to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus any time it was on.

The Boondocks
Chappelle's Show
Random Sopranos/Wire episodes
Da Ali G Show
Check it out! With Dr. Steve Brule
Welcome to the NHK (some random older anime I just seem to always relate to a lot.)

Uk here. Peep Show, Black adder, Dad's Army and The Sopranos.

Not really "again and again" but the only show I've watched twice is The Good Place. Maybe I should go for a third time, it was really good.

It's always sunny in Philadelphia, Seinfeld, Community, How I met your mother, Psych, Classic Trek (TNG,DS9,VOY,ENT), Firefly, Bones.
Mostly just as background noise when doing stuff. Doesn't absorb me like a podcast or audio book might since it's old information and doesn't amp me up like music does.

White Collar
Stargate SG1
Stargate Atlantis

Any of the Star Treks, the West Wing (because I love fantasy), Firefly, IT Crowd, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place....
- A person of culture. Though I've never watched the West Wing I approve of the rest.
  
  West Wing has some fantastic acting from some really talented people. It's definitely a guilty pleasure in that it paints a (very) idealistic portrait of modern politics and life in the White House as only Hollywood can provide. One can dream, right? :D

The Venture Bros. is my go to show
- I watch it through one or two times a year
- That show and I, we grew up together.

Clone High
- People say all if the bullshit in the world started with Harambe
  I say it's because we never got a Clone High season 2
  
  Well then why did shit not get better when HBO Max made Season 2?

Futurama and avatar are endlessly rewatchable imo

Xavier: Renegade Angel
The dialog moves so fast that it always feels fresh and enjoyable.
- What…doth… life?
  Wow haven’t thought about that show in a decade, time for a rewatch!
  
  Dude everything they do is so good, check out their other shows :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFFR
- Adult swim has been uploading it to YouTube.
  
  Yeah, I've been re-watching them. They're higher quality than the ones I recorded off cable over a decade ago :)

90's Trek is my go too comfort food. Especially TNG and Voyager. Less so Enterprise. And I never got into DS9 at all (fight me). When I'm looking for a random episode to watch in the background, it's usually one of those.
Comedy-wise, Community, Night Court (the original), The IT Crowd, The Office, Futurama, all fill the same role as Star Trek above.
Less often, but still on a pretty regular rotation, 80's shows like Quantum Leap, Simon & Simon, MacGuyver, Knight Rider. Just dumb shows where they have a one hour adventure and then have a new one the next week; where you don't have to stress about watching every damn episode because the entire season is one big plotline.
- In Trek, there's ToS and TNG. After that, meh. They became soap operas, full on. ToS was Greek Morality Plays, and TNG followed that, though had it's issues too.
  Great closing bullet point.

NCIS, Bones, Castle

I watch Friends when I just want to laugh. When I want more serious stuff I watch HIMYM. God I love those shows.

Bob's Burgers gets rewatched a lot. We also do a full rewatch of Taskmaster before each new series begins (UK and NZ versions) though that tradition may have to end now that the UK version is nearing 20 series.
There are also a number of UK panel shows that we keep looping through as background noise. Hypothetical, QI, WILTY, selected Buzzcocks episodes, Guessable, Alan Davies: Untitled, Big Fat Quiz, Outsiders.

The Wire
- Shiiiiiiiiiiit

Adventure time, courage the cowardly dog

None.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Community
Trackers

mash

Voyager, Rick and Morty and The Office lmao
- without the OG showrunner, s7 wasnt that good, yea hes been expelled for being a creepy pervert.

Green Wing
Blackadder
That Mitchell and Webb Look
- If you like Green Wing do you like Black Books and IT Crowd?
  
  Yes, and yes.
  First two series of both are very good, I just rewatch them less frequently.
- That Mitchell and Webb Look
  It is a tragedy I hadn't heard about them till long after they parted ways
  
  Their work remains out there to enjoy, and Peep Show has ages better than Green Wing overall.
  Maybe by virtue of having run longer.

Trailer Park Boys. I can never get enough of the chaos

Comedy:
The Young Ones
Red Dwarf
Bottom
The Office (UK)
Coupling
Peep Show
Little Britain
Roseanne
3rd Rock From the Sun
Futurama
30 Rock
Arrested Development
Broad City
Joe Pera Talks with You
Science Fiction:
Star Trek: TNG
Firefly
The Expanse
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Travellers
Real Humans/Äkta Människor
Foundation
Drama:
Six Feet Under
Breaking Bad
Anime:
Golden Boy
Dutch:
Rembo & Rembo
Zaai
Dunya & Desie
Jiskefet
All Stars

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