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Friday OT #2 - It's My Safety

Angie

Angie

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Do you have a "safety" or "comfort" TV show that you either watch when you just want a familiar story, or that you've rewatched so many times that you know it by heart?

I think I've rewatched all of Parks and Rec at least four times. Scrubs, The Office, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee - I have seen some episodes maybe a half dozen times each, and I really don't watch much TV at all. I will usually maybe have a new show that I'm watching here and there as I get time, but don't want to be watching it if I'm busy doing other things. I can turn on my "comfort" shows while cleaning something up or checking my phone and not miss anything.

Do you have any comfort or "safety" shows? How did they become that for you - how many times have you watched them?
 
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Not so much anymore. Used to just put King of Queens, Raymond, New Christine, Seinfeld on the sleep timer as I drifted off.

Watching Leave It to Beaver now, all 6 seasons front to back. Part way through season 4. I knew I always appreciated it but I'm actually literally laughing out loud at something in almost every episode. Yes, the stories are corny and the lifestyle is 50's idealistically perfection. But the writing is pretty clever and there's something universally attractive about it.
 
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The Office and New Girl

Roommate introduced me to The Office freshman year of college. I thought it was stupid and now it's easily my favorite show of all time and have watched every episode probably 6 times at least. About two years ago I started watching New Girl. Enjoyed it but just stopped for whatever reason about the third season. Going back through it now and it's so funny. The last couple weeks I've probably scrolled through Netflix for ten minutes a couple times trying to find a movie, just to settle on New Girl
 
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The Office and New Girl

Roommate introduced me to The Office freshman year of college. I thought it was stupid and now it's easily my favorite show of all time and have watched every episode probably 6 times at least. About two years ago I started watching New Girl. Enjoyed it but just stopped for whatever reason about the third season. Going back through it now and it's so funny. The last couple weeks I've probably scrolled through Netflix for ten minutes a couple times trying to find a movie, just to settle on New Girl
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I gave up on The Office sort of in the middle of the James Spader stuff (or at the end), mostly because we also had a new baby at the time and I wasn't getting any TV time. I finally watched the whole series from beginning to end at the beginning of the pandemic (it took me months, because I just don't watch TV much). It was weird to finally see the finale, when I'm sure I'd seen "Ryan started the fire" probably four times already.
 
Al_4_State said:
Always Sunny and Parks & Rec.
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Always Sunny is so reliably hilarious (as is P&R), but just has this style that sets it completely apart. Both fantastic shows that are so unique.
 
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Everwood - just started watching this series from 2002-2006. Chris Pratt is a HS kid in the series
Twister
Labrynth
Acapulco - series on Apple TV - hoping they have a Season 2
Outlander - just like the books, I can rewatch the series and enjoy it
The Waltons
Ridiculousness
The Wizard of Oz
Dances With Wolves
Band of Brothers
 
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MASH, Home Improvement, Family Guy, King of the Hill. The first 2 are usually safe to watch around my young kids the last 2 usually after they have gone to bed. That's the trick on our house with a 7 and 4 year old is there may be something on that I would like to watch but content or language is not something I want my kids picking up on at that age.
 
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"Friends" (I have seen the entire series too many times to count. And I still laugh.)
"Law & Order: SVU" (I'm not sure how this is comforting, but whatever)
"Forensic Files" (See above)
 
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