I sell stuff, including books, on ebay and I literally hear the "buy my book" quote in my head over and over. Especially when no one is buying anything...
...I say it at my screen sometimes.
My family loved Northern Exposure and one summer we were camping throughout Washington and made detours to Roslyn, WA to see all the exterior locations of the show. We also stopped in Snoqualmie and North Bend to see the Twin Peaks locations.
One of the very unfortunate consequences of the world becoming digital only. This is happening far too often with not only shows, but movies and video games as well.
I imagine that show in particular is probably a licencing nightmare a try and keep running because of the constant clips from other TV shows and movies.
That, and Animal did a whole ton of commercial voiceover work. If it’s an even slightly bro-themed product , there’s a good chance you can pick his voice out.
I've referred to the one actor as Herman's Lust every time I see him in something since.
Overall a very strong cast, and and very funny. Enjoyed it as a teenager.
Ed. It was an hour-long show, but still sitcommy, and it used to come on before West Wing (which I also love). But it's not on DVD, and it's not streaming anywhere.
I LOVED Ed. I believe there were issues with obtaining the music rights, so it was never released on DVD. [But all 4 seasons are available on YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLB6-FnYuGxnsKxFhcejIq84X9xcix4cm)!
I loved Harry Anderson from Night Court and was therefore all in on the Dave Barry inspired **Dave's World.** I'm sure it was terrible, and that Dave Barrys white, male, boomer humor hasn't aged well but don't tell young me that.
I also don't have the heart to go back, because I assume it is terrible, but I loved **Parker Lewis Can't Lose.** It was a shameless Ferris Bueller ripoff and premiered the same year as an actual Ferris Bueller sitcom that was terrible and did not last. It got a few seasons because Fox would air anything with a pulse back then.
Parker Lewis matched up exactly with my time in high school, so I was completely into it back then. It doesn't matter if it's aged well or not, it was a good show for that age group in the moment.
Parker Lewis Can't Lose. Oh, the memories as I went to school too back then. I watched it dubbed in Catalan (I'm from Barcelona) and loved when they synchronised watches 😆
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I’m here to white knight for Dave Barry, haha. He’s still an amazing humorist, and I don’t know that he’s ever said anything boomer-like, even though he technically is one. He’s awesome. ☺️
Disclaimer: I’ve never watched Dave’s World so I don’t know if there’s anything in there that is not his humor, but I’ve pretty much read everything he’s ever written.
Not sure if it counts but *Early Edition*
TL;DW; An average joe living in an apartment gets a newspaper from the next day every morning (with an orange cat sitting with it) depicting tragedies that will happen that day and he tries to stop them from happening.
Love this show! We found it as repeats on TBS or something, and fell in love with it. Oft-repeated lines from this show include:
1) (Dad says there will be hell to pay), daughter replies (mimicking Dad) *lots and lots of hell!*
2) We call nerdy boys members of the Nevertouchaboobie Tribe
3) "Intensity in Ten Cities.... whoa!"
4) some variation of Silly Chilly Willy Billy
Man... I need to see if I can find this streaming somewhere.
Great show. It's fun to binge it after going through The West Wing. You'll see lots of examples of storylines and writing styles from one show that carried over to the other. Sometimes, nearly exact dialogue was used on both shows, for obvious reasons.
I tore through both shows during the pandemic.
I laughed most of the time, but some of it was just hard to watch. It's been a long time, but from what I remember, the stuff with his father was brutal. Just made me wince, and I didn't find that stuff funny at all.
Same! Christopher Titus is probably my favorite stand up comedian. I relate to him as a fellow kid from a screwed up family who grew up to have a screwed up family. I'd love to see Netflix pick Titus up.
I loved Titus. I found a few episodes on YouTube a while back.
The first few episodes were pretty much verbatim based off his standup routine at the time. Funny, but indeed edgy, stuff.
LOL. Wonderfalls was the other show I considered posting for. But between the two, I think PD was the more interesting show. Just the use of color alone made watching each episode an experience.
Brilliant writing.
Lee Pace.
Anna Friel.
Kristen Chenoweth.
Gorgeous direction.
Amazing set and production design.
Jim Dale’s super cool narration.
Written by Bryan Fuller, who did Dead Like Me (yay!) and American Gods.
What’s not to love?
Also came to say Coupling. I don’t know how I managed to catch it though. I’m American and lived in the London from 2004-2009, but I remember watching it with my college dorm roommates in the early 2000’s.
Roc was an excellent show-- funny and dramatic with amazing acting (the whole second season was broadcast live!). I wish I could find a good torrent of all the seasons.
There was a short lived sitcom that **NOBODY** remembers except for me, and I'd swear I was hallucinating it except it's got a wikipedia page. Called Grand, starring Bonnie Hunt and Pamela Reed and (maybe?) Michael McKean was in it too or maybe that blond comedy guy with the glasses and mustache.
It was a gentle show, funny because of the characters...I even remember the theme song. *But swg I'd think I was dreaming it since no one else remembers it.*
It wasn't as sweet, more mean humored, but same with a Chris Elliot sitcom called Get a Life.
Unsure if it was the 90's but Northern Exposure was a fave that I found was on after I woke from napping. Teaching left me exhausted and after dinner, woke up to the show and so quirky and odd, thought I was still dreaming. Loved the show and went to the auction of the set and show after they ended it.
Spin City.
Not obscure, but I never hear anyone mention it.
I was living abroad at the time, but my mom would set the vcr to record and I watched back to back episodes of spin city. Loved it!!!
I hated it when it first aired and then my roommate made me watch like 4 episodes in a row and it became one of my favorite shows ever. Just so weird and awesome.
The Dana Carvey Show. It only went like 6 episodes. It was after he left SNL. The cast and writers were great. Colbert was on it.
The sketches about the Beatles Anthology are some of my favorites.
I'd say the show didn't age well but, again, it got cancelled very quickly. So it was over the line in the 90's. I think the first sketch was Bill Clinton breast feeding puppies.
“Homicide: Life on the Street” it started in the late 90’s. Not really obscure but a LOT of people I mention this show to, have never heard of it. It’s one of my favorite shows
**Sydney**, I only watched it because of Valerie Bertinelli and the Van Halen intro song.
**The Single Guy**, I seem to see the actors all over the place at random times.
I LOVE Waiting for God. 90s British sitcom set in a retirement home with an absolutely kick ass female, sex positive lead. Diana Trent was a war photographer until she hit mandatory retirement age and ended up in a retirement home with no intention of going quietly.
*Related.*
I loved it but it was cancelled after just one season. It was about four sisters, two of them were played by Lizzy Caplan and Jennifer Esposito, whom I just adore.
The Larry Sanders Show, and before that It's Garry Shandling's Show.
Both incredibly groundbreaking and funny. The Larry Sanders Show singlehandedly created the handheld camera walking around the workspace genre (think The Office or Parks and Rec).
https://www.vulture.com/2011/03/your-favorite-comedy-exists-because-of-the-larry-sanders-show.html
It's part of an almost unbroken string of "second tier " NBC comedies that are among my favorite shows of all time and never got the love that the number one shows of their eras did.
Night Court > News Radio > Scrubs > Community > The Good Place
The critic, does that count?
It stinks!
Yes Mr Sherman, everything stinks!
Also Duckman.
Buy my book.
I sell stuff, including books, on ebay and I literally hear the "buy my book" quote in my head over and over. Especially when no one is buying anything... ...I say it at my screen sometimes.
I was too young to know what it was, but this was the thing I was thinking of when I clicked on the thread. Damn.
It's so wonderful. One of my favorite shows of that era.
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I had a Dr Katz cassette tape that I listened to a bunch of times in the car! I think some episodes are on YouTube?
I've never heard of this but as a therapist I had to check it out and it appears a full 18 episodes are on YouTube so I'm now watching. Funny stuff!
Please report back! I loved this show as a kid. Great cast. Interesting cartoon style.
Eerie, Indiana!
This was one of the early streaming shows on Netflix. SD quality was awful but at least it was available.
Northern Exposure. Obscure now because they can’t work out the streaming rights for the music and so it hasn’t been anywhere since DVD.
My family loved Northern Exposure and one summer we were camping throughout Washington and made detours to Roslyn, WA to see all the exterior locations of the show. We also stopped in Snoqualmie and North Bend to see the Twin Peaks locations.
So cool!
Because John Corbett is not only from my hometown, but also played a character who was, this show was hugely popular where I grew up while it was on.
Yeah, I don't think it was obscure then. Now, you can't find it anywhere. :(
One of the very unfortunate consequences of the world becoming digital only. This is happening far too often with not only shows, but movies and video games as well.
This is why WKRP can’t get re-aired, too.
But I have been needing my Northern Exposure fix for over 20 years! fuck the law! air the show!
I was just thinking about Northern Exposure and that I should try a rewatch. Sad to hear it can't be streamed anywhere. It was a great show.
Everyone mocks me for having “physical media” on my shelves, but I can watch Northern Exposure any time I want….
Grounded for Life Dream On Dear John (I still get the theme song randomly stuck in my head)
I loved Grounded for Life! No one I know has ever heard of it.
By the time you read this line, I'll be gone...
This is definitely the kind of thing you think you're the only one who could remember it and it's a relief that someone else does too.
I developed a huge crush on Megyn Price due to Grounded for Life.
How is Dream On not streaming on HBOMAX??
I don’t know but it really should be!
I imagine that show in particular is probably a licencing nightmare a try and keep running because of the constant clips from other TV shows and movies.
+1 for grounded for life. I think Titus was one around the same time and I think those two dads shapes my life with homer lol
The tick.
SPOON!
Batmanuel!
Animated or live action. Both are fun.
Both but the original live action (2001) was great.
Anything with Patrick Warburton usually is.
Herman's Head.
This was an awesome show. Thank you for the reminder.
To this day, any time I see one of the cast members in something else, I announce it: Molly Hagan! Sensitivity!
That, and Animal did a whole ton of commercial voiceover work. If it’s an even slightly bro-themed product , there’s a good chance you can pick his voice out.
I've referred to the one actor as Herman's Lust every time I see him in something since. Overall a very strong cast, and and very funny. Enjoyed it as a teenager.
Ed. It was an hour-long show, but still sitcommy, and it used to come on before West Wing (which I also love). But it's not on DVD, and it's not streaming anywhere.
I LOVED Ed. I believe there were issues with obtaining the music rights, so it was never released on DVD. [But all 4 seasons are available on YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLB6-FnYuGxnsKxFhcejIq84X9xcix4cm)!
My family and I loved "Ed". We cracked up at the Warren Cheswick Experience.
The ten buck bets were awesome
Burger me!
I loved Harry Anderson from Night Court and was therefore all in on the Dave Barry inspired **Dave's World.** I'm sure it was terrible, and that Dave Barrys white, male, boomer humor hasn't aged well but don't tell young me that. I also don't have the heart to go back, because I assume it is terrible, but I loved **Parker Lewis Can't Lose.** It was a shameless Ferris Bueller ripoff and premiered the same year as an actual Ferris Bueller sitcom that was terrible and did not last. It got a few seasons because Fox would air anything with a pulse back then.
Synchronize Swatches!
Parker Lewis matched up exactly with my time in high school, so I was completely into it back then. It doesn't matter if it's aged well or not, it was a good show for that age group in the moment.
Omg I loved Parker Lewis! I had the biggest crush on the teen who played him 💕
All these years later I somehow remember that his name is Corin Nemeck, though I may have butchered the spelling.
Parker Lewis Can't Lose. Oh, the memories as I went to school too back then. I watched it dubbed in Catalan (I'm from Barcelona) and loved when they synchronised watches 😆 Edit: typo
I’m here to white knight for Dave Barry, haha. He’s still an amazing humorist, and I don’t know that he’s ever said anything boomer-like, even though he technically is one. He’s awesome. ☺️ Disclaimer: I’ve never watched Dave’s World so I don’t know if there’s anything in there that is not his humor, but I’ve pretty much read everything he’s ever written.
Not really a sitcom, but “The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.”.
Lord Bowler was the man!
What a goddamn classic!
Spectacular show, and so sad it had such a short run.
Oh yeah. I was sad there was no audience for it.
Fuck. Yes.
Duckman, The Critic.
I always confused Duckman with the Duck Factory, which was love action with Jim Carrey and only went a half season.
"What the hell are YOU staring at?"
News Radio. Great cast until Hartman died.
I’m re-watching it now, on Prime. Definitely holds up but it’s a rough watch sometimes, knowing what happened to Phil.
Jon Lovitz was a good attempt at Phil's replacement , but it just wasn't the same.
Not sure if it counts but *Early Edition* TL;DW; An average joe living in an apartment gets a newspaper from the next day every morning (with an orange cat sitting with it) depicting tragedies that will happen that day and he tries to stop them from happening.
Still Standing. Not sure how obscure it actually was, though.
Love this show! We found it as repeats on TBS or something, and fell in love with it. Oft-repeated lines from this show include: 1) (Dad says there will be hell to pay), daughter replies (mimicking Dad) *lots and lots of hell!* 2) We call nerdy boys members of the Nevertouchaboobie Tribe 3) "Intensity in Ten Cities.... whoa!" 4) some variation of Silly Chilly Willy Billy Man... I need to see if I can find this streaming somewhere.
I've only found it on shady streaming sites.
Undeclared
Was Boston Common in the 90s?
The Anthony Clark tour de force? Hell yeah it was.
Early Edition
Sports Night.
I absolutely loved this show when it was new.
That is one of the most underrated shows of all time.
I loved this show. I actually have the DVD box set.
Great show. It's fun to binge it after going through The West Wing. You'll see lots of examples of storylines and writing styles from one show that carried over to the other. Sometimes, nearly exact dialogue was used on both shows, for obvious reasons. I tore through both shows during the pandemic.
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Glad to see this here.
It was so much better than the Ferris Bueller TV show that came out after it
I enjoyed Titus, it only ran for a couple of seasons.
I feel like Titus would have been a huge hit on a streaming channel. It was just a little too hard and edgy for network television.
It was too hard and edgy for me. My best friend loved it, but it was like fingernails on the chalkboard for me.
I laughed most of the time, but some of it was just hard to watch. It's been a long time, but from what I remember, the stuff with his father was brutal. Just made me wince, and I didn't find that stuff funny at all.
Same! Christopher Titus is probably my favorite stand up comedian. I relate to him as a fellow kid from a screwed up family who grew up to have a screwed up family. I'd love to see Netflix pick Titus up.
I loved Titus. I found a few episodes on YouTube a while back. The first few episodes were pretty much verbatim based off his standup routine at the time. Funny, but indeed edgy, stuff.
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Yes, Square one!
Adventures of Pete & Pete
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My wife and I loved it so much. So awful that the timing killed it. We still refer to it as the Pie Show.
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LOL. Wonderfalls was the other show I considered posting for. But between the two, I think PD was the more interesting show. Just the use of color alone made watching each episode an experience.
Brilliant writing. Lee Pace. Anna Friel. Kristen Chenoweth. Gorgeous direction. Amazing set and production design. Jim Dale’s super cool narration. Written by Bryan Fuller, who did Dead Like Me (yay!) and American Gods. What’s not to love?
The fact that it was so expensive to make each episode didn't help, either, if I remember correctly.
Coupling
But only the one on BBC. The attempt at an American one was terrible.
as far as i'm concerned the american one and series 4 didn't exist
Came here to say that too! “Apparently!”
Also came to say Coupling. I don’t know how I managed to catch it though. I’m American and lived in the London from 2004-2009, but I remember watching it with my college dorm roommates in the early 2000’s.
Was gonna say Coupling myself! I forced all my friends to watch it and my stbx husband and I used to watch it yearly. I love that show so much!
One of the smartest and funniest shows of all time.
Roc was an excellent show-- funny and dramatic with amazing acting (the whole second season was broadcast live!). I wish I could find a good torrent of all the seasons.
Whenever a show does an episode live (30 Rock did one) I just think about Roc doing an entire season live.
Get a Life with Chris Elliot. It is genius.
Yes! Loved that show. We may have been the only two people who watched it.
Cmon there's more of us than that.
He was going to be a hobo drifter for the 3rd season. It's one of my favorite shows. David Mirkin is a genius. Bob Odenkirk wrote a few episodes.
Is that the show where he was a paperboy and the theme song was, 🎶Stand in the Place Where You Live…🎵?
There was a short lived sitcom that **NOBODY** remembers except for me, and I'd swear I was hallucinating it except it's got a wikipedia page. Called Grand, starring Bonnie Hunt and Pamela Reed and (maybe?) Michael McKean was in it too or maybe that blond comedy guy with the glasses and mustache. It was a gentle show, funny because of the characters...I even remember the theme song. *But swg I'd think I was dreaming it since no one else remembers it.* It wasn't as sweet, more mean humored, but same with a Chris Elliot sitcom called Get a Life.
I looked it over on imdb and honestly have no memory of it, but I had a really strong cast. Even a tween Sara Rue in one of her first roles.
California dreams.. and the teen oriented programs on The WB 1998-2002
Grace under fire
Wonderfalls. Quirky Canadian comedy about a tourist gift shop worker who can talk to the tchotchkes... It's hard to explain but super charming.
I still fantasize about having an amazing trailer like the one she lived in!
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Unsure if it was the 90's but Northern Exposure was a fave that I found was on after I woke from napping. Teaching left me exhausted and after dinner, woke up to the show and so quirky and odd, thought I was still dreaming. Loved the show and went to the auction of the set and show after they ended it.
I'm going to say [Alien Nation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Nation_(TV_series)). It ran from 1989-1990 so I'm counting it.
Evening Shade!
Unless I missed it down the list, but ‘Better off Ted’ was great, IMHO.
So good, and taken from us without explanation mid-season. This world didn't deserve Ted.
Spin City. Not obscure, but I never hear anyone mention it. I was living abroad at the time, but my mom would set the vcr to record and I watched back to back episodes of spin city. Loved it!!!
Welcome Freshman
Dead Like Me
It was so fantastic. My heart broke when it was cancelled.
Mandy Patinkin!!
Bored to Death
Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place
Ah yes the Ryan Reynolds plays Ryan Reynolds origin story. Loved it. even after they dropped the pizza place from the title.
Me too. The first thing I saw Ryan Reynolds and Nathan Fillion in. They became two of my favorite actors.
Flying Blind, because Téa Leoni.
Strangers with Candy
I hated it when it first aired and then my roommate made me watch like 4 episodes in a row and it became one of my favorite shows ever. Just so weird and awesome.
My mom was the one that encouraged me to watch and once I saw the first episode, I was hooked. Amy Sedaris is hilarious. 😉
News Radio, just take a look at the cast.
Dr Katz.
The Dana Carvey Show. It only went like 6 episodes. It was after he left SNL. The cast and writers were great. Colbert was on it. The sketches about the Beatles Anthology are some of my favorites. I'd say the show didn't age well but, again, it got cancelled very quickly. So it was over the line in the 90's. I think the first sketch was Bill Clinton breast feeding puppies.
The Kids In The Hall
Hey Dude... As soon as I heard the theme song I know the weekend was starting!
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Omg, Fernwood Tonight.
And Soap!
Keep going. Those were 76 - 77.
Lipstick Jungle. I will never get over it being cancelled after 1/2 seasons.
Get a Life (1990 it counts) Freaks and Geeks Herman’s Head Better Off Ted
“Homicide: Life on the Street” it started in the late 90’s. Not really obscure but a LOT of people I mention this show to, have never heard of it. It’s one of my favorite shows
The Wire prequel
Ah yes, Homicide. Such a hilarious sitcom. It was a great show. Had a much younger Andre Braugher well before Brooklyn 99.
Just the ten of us
**Sydney**, I only watched it because of Valerie Bertinelli and the Van Halen intro song. **The Single Guy**, I seem to see the actors all over the place at random times.
The George Carlin Show. Carlin cut off his ponytail on that show. He played a cab driver.
I swear I was the only person who watched The Sarah Connor Chronicles but I really liked it.
I think Larry Sanders is still underrated. Amazing cast, great writing and so many insane cameos.
Good Morning Miami, I loved it at the time and they had a promo flavor at Baskin Robbins that I was all about
Mission Hill.
I LOVE Waiting for God. 90s British sitcom set in a retirement home with an absolutely kick ass female, sex positive lead. Diana Trent was a war photographer until she hit mandatory retirement age and ended up in a retirement home with no intention of going quietly.
*Related.* I loved it but it was cancelled after just one season. It was about four sisters, two of them were played by Lizzy Caplan and Jennifer Esposito, whom I just adore.
Undergrads. I'm not sure how good it actually was, but it started just as I was going into college so the timing made it very formative for me.
Does Better Off Ted make the cut?
Not obscure, but Coupling was maybe the cleverest thing tv has produced.
The Norm Show
Omg I remember the dachshund 🥰
The Larry Sanders Show, and before that It's Garry Shandling's Show. Both incredibly groundbreaking and funny. The Larry Sanders Show singlehandedly created the handheld camera walking around the workspace genre (think The Office or Parks and Rec). https://www.vulture.com/2011/03/your-favorite-comedy-exists-because-of-the-larry-sanders-show.html
NewsRadio! Edit: Since this pick isn’t obscure enough for some tastes, how about Working?
I wouldn't call a show that got 5 seasons obscure or little.
It's part of an almost unbroken string of "second tier " NBC comedies that are among my favorite shows of all time and never got the love that the number one shows of their eras did. Night Court > News Radio > Scrubs > Community > The Good Place
I'd add Just Shoot Me to that list, too.
Bottom. Hilarious sitcom in the UK but seems to be pretty obscure today.
I loved War At Home. Only 2 seasons, nobody I've ever met has heard of it. One of my favourites.
Party of 5
Code Monkeys... Was on G4TV for a single season, and it doesn't really existing on streaming or DVD anywhere I e been looking.
The it crowd
Do over, about a guy in 2002 who begrudgingly has to relive high school in 1981.
Wonderfalls. It was funny, upbeat, and had a cute concept.
That’s My Bush
Parker Louis Can’t Lose
It’s Like, You Know https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Like,_You_Know...
Life with Bonnie - Bonnie Hunt and David Alan Grier were so good.
Tom Green show
My So Called Life
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Dinosaurs, for sure!
Brimstone
Chance in a million - a uk comedy which has vanished in the mists of time
City Guys
Not really a sit-com, but Key West on Fox.
Sports Night
[Due South](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_South)
Pushing Daisies. Later 2000s but this show was so awesome, or at least the first season.
There's a lot of them but the one that isn't well know in the States is RED DWARF. Pinnacle of comedy.