/late/ - Late Nights

>>2694 (OP) 
regular show. it might not be /late/ material but the first 4 seasons are gold

The Simpsons since 20 years.
X-files. I always come back to this show. I love the characters, the stories, the real and it's comfy as it reminds me my childhood in a certain way.

For me it's Fraiser, the Nanny, King of the Hill, the first 10 seasons of the Simpsons, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Law and Order. I may also recommend Bob's Burgers, and if you like Fraiser, you might enjoy Cheers, and if you enjoy Cheers you might like Taxi. You could also try Seinfeld or the Golden Girls.
I used to get a channel called FTV, I think, and their /late/ night line-up was Maude -> Barnie Miller -> One Day At A Time (not to be confused with the remake) -> Designing Women (you've now stayed up too late)
I also find Gimme A Break, Laverne and Shirley, Magnum P.I., Father Brown, Columbo, Matlock, Crossing Jordan, Hart to Hart, Rizzoli and Isles, Midsommer Murders, Las Vegas, and Dynasty to all be pretty comfy.
I've only watched a couple episodes, but Midnight Diner seems good in this way, if you don't mind subtitles.
My favorite show is Lodge 49, whichbis good for a rewatch because it's so layered with meaning and symbolism.

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>>2694 (OP) 
I've seen every episode of the original Beavis and Butt-head series (as well as the 2011 show) at least twice. It's my favorite show, although it didn't start getting good until a few seasons in. I always find it amusing, even more than shows which seem like they had more work put into the writing.

The old Simpsons seasons are also something I have as an option (although there were so many good ones even when the show was good that I haven't seen most of them more than once), and there are still shows I really like that I haven't seen all the episodes of. There are others like that too. I'm more of a movie guy than a TV guy, so I don't really watch all that many shows. It would feel like too much of a time investment for me.
>>2697
>I used to get a channel called FTV, I think, and their /late/ night line-up was Maude -> Barnie Miller -> One Day At A Time (not to be confused with the remake) -> Designing Women (you've now stayed up too late) I also find Gimme A Break, Laverne and Shirley, Magnum P.I., Father Brown, Columbo, Matlock, Crossing Jordan, Hart to Hart, Rizzoli and Isles, Midsommer Murders, Las Vegas, and Dynasty to all be pretty comfy.
There's something comforting to me about the kinds of old shows TV Land was created to broadcast. Green Acres is my favorite as far as sitcoms go, and I'd like to watch the entire thing someday. There's very little TV from the past 20 years that I'm willing to watch at all.

Used to love 90s Star Trek and watch an episode occasionally, but it's a bit too heavy to rotate though as you can with many others already named which I also do, it's more of a full time commitment. If you view it through the lense of current year, you'll also notice how hammy Star Trek is, how naive. Sometimes it is comforting, sometimes it is upsetting. I guess our timeline is very cynical.

I also have Becker in my rotation, IT Crowd and Father Ted. These are rather short though. Then the occasional McGyver and Monk but these I can only take in small doses. Another always-in classic is MASH. I don't think there's ever been anything comparable since. Also probably one of the few shows that doesn't really have a weak season and just gets better towards the end. The old Addams Family is also something I like watching occasionally. I'm not gonna lie, it's very dated and probably insufferable for some. It already was when I was a kid. I liked to watch old TV shows as kid so it has a special place in my heart.

There's few modern show I like and one is "What we do in the Shadows", and that's mostly just because I love Vampire/Ghost/supernatural-based media like this and it gets away with more than other stuff would. In the same vein: Ghosts (English one).

I've been rewatching Gargoyles and X-Men lately.  It's fun to return to things you saw as a kid, knowing something of the world and of the minds of the people who wrote these things.  The jaw-droppingly inchoate morality, the obligatory reiterations of then-progressive political dogma.  A generation consumed this nonsense and let it inform their assumptions about life.

Shit's wild.  I mostly just enjoy that everyone is functionally nude, though.  I'd include pics of Rogue and Demona in particular, but... effort.

>Frasierposting
Man, that and Star Trek: Voyager hit me with some intense nostalgia for 2001.  Hard to believe these shows ended 20+ years ago.

I saw some extracts of that nu-Frasier, and holy shit, David Hyde Pierce was right to decline.

>>2733
>nu-Frasier

I was surprised that Kelsey Grammer managed to not only get the show off the ground, but to also somehow managed to get a second season, esp. considering how fast everything gets canceled nowadays and what a bonafide shitlord he is (yep, supports Trump and all. Never would've guessed considering the character he played for almost 40 years now either, but I guess that's why they call it acting). He must have a lot of sway for that, considering what Hollywood is. From all I read about Grammer the person, he sounds kinda insufferable tbh.

But yes, it's terrible. Original Frasier was carried by it being the 90s and the cast also carried the show a lot and the new cast isn't up to that level. I think it being called "Frasier" went a little to his head. It was still nice to see an old-school, classic style sitcom. It's just not very good. He should've let it rest.

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>>2694 (OP) 
I'm somehow disappointed that I can't think of much of an answer to this.  So much of the stuff I watched in the '90s I regret, because it's trash in the same ways that modern media is trash, just to a lesser degree.

Some years ago I saw clips of Seinfeld with the laugh track removed and realized what a nihilistic horror show it is.   I could never see it the same way, now.

Laugh tracks in general are repugnant, and seeing a show that uses one makes me feel like I'm looking at an artefact from a primitive, long-dead civilization.  I imagine David Attenborough describing the habits of the featherless bipeds who would "gather to gaze into the idiot-box, and delight in it's noxious effluvia..."

I found Cowboy Bebop rewatchable, if you count anime as "TV."  I picked it up again recently, but watched it so many times in the aughts that I still can't bring myself to rewatch it— even though I want to revisit it after such a long time.  I'm not sure what I would think of The Simpsons.  It's been 15 years since I watched any, but I can probably still recite a lot of those early season lines from memory.

Futurama and '90s Trek seem to be about the only things I could rewatch without it being an anthropological exercise.

>>2751
That is kinda funny, come to think of it.  You can imagine reasons for it: that the producers recognize the need to throw certain demographics a bone now and then, or they'll unplug completely.  Roseanne Barr and Tim Allen seem to perform the same function.

>Original Frasier was carried by it being the 90s and the cast also carried the show a lot and the new cast isn't up to that level.
I get the impression that physical comedy in particular is beyond the grasp of the nu-writers.  But mainly that the nu-characters come pre-Flanderized.  Niles' kid is functionally retarded off the bat, etc.

>>2752
>nu-characters

It's because they can't write certain characters anymore. You could really write a book on the various reasons why they can't but let me give you one example: Take Martin, he was your average entitled old guy. There were all kinds of hints that he was not the cleanest cop ever and one joke that stuck with me from Frasier was when he once said "Well in my time sex was something private between you and the person you're doing it to" the joke here of course being the views on sexuality and equality in Martins time. Yet he still was a likeable, ultimately good person who cared about his sons greatly. He felt real. They can't write such characters anymore because of politics, because of the intense scrutiny everything is under and because living in their nepo bubbles, they also lack the life experiences necessary to know such people exist. The characters feel flanderized because they were invented in a vacuum and carefully manufactured to rigorous specification. That's why they don't ever feel real anymore.

Take Freddy in the new show - he's supposed to be the Martin but he falls flat because he was written not from experience of what a Martin is, but how a writer (who's probably a lot like Frasier) imagines a Martin to be, without all the problematic parts, because they are a big no no. Completely drains the life of the character.

The Mentalist. Because it helped me when I was at my lowest. This show literally changed my life, but only after I watched it over and over and over and started paying attention to details.

>>2694 (OP) 
Been re-watching a few shows from the 70s, some adult swim shows, and some anime that I watch every now and then. Occasionally, I'll even watch something like Jericho, or Z-Nation.

True Detective S1, Rome and Fargo S2

>>2694 (OP) 
>house first 4 seasons are really good

Star Trek: Enterprise. I was not a fan at the time but came to appreciate the smaller sets and slower pace compared to the high action Star Trek movies and TV from the last few years. 
Also Midnight Diner - pulled that tip from here (thanks guys!) and it will be in my regular rotation. I like slice of life stuff but I'm aged out of anime so this filled the void.

>>2694 (OP) 
Mystery Science Theater 3000 and The Joy of Painting. I can watch them free on yt and is just about the only western entertainment I can stomach nowadays aside from some edutainment videos also on yt, if that counts. Maybe Star Trek, too, if I had access to it. I do watch some anime, I suppose that's technically tv.

>>2752
I share the same sentiment, and I came to the same conclusion about Seinfeld a few years ago. I used to love sitcoms and tv in general. I think seeing a clip of The Big Bang Theory without the laugh track over a decade ago is the thing that set me on the path to becoming the man I am today. The laugh track is essentially telling the audience what they should find funny. The average normalfag just goes along with the jokes and laughs because they hear another crowd of people also laughing, regardless of whether they get the joke or if they morally approve of the content; certain people can get some really nasty shit past them by abusing these conformist functions. Some time later, I began to see that people were acting like they were in tv shows, and that I had been letting these shows influence my own behavior and self-image and worldview, too. The thought dawned on me that these sitcoms, and other shows as well, were probably brainwashing me, and slowly I began to hate television.

Mythbusters, Come Dine With Me and the first 4 seasons of Law & Order, are shows I'll always watch whenever they come up on TV

>>2798
>Mythbusters
I'm thinking about watching again and show it to my gf.

M*A*S*H and Hogan's Heros are always a decent watch

>>2797
>The thought dawned on me that these sitcoms, and other shows as well, were probably brainwashing me, and slowly I began to hate television.
POTD

Wonderfully baste. Having a TV in your house is like having a jew in your living room.

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>>2753
Too true.
>>2797
Many such cases.  The world is full of people act like they just have a laugh track running in their heads every time they say something shitty to an actual person.  Has been for decades, really.
>>2752 (me)
>Futurama and '90s Trek seem to be about the only things I could rewatch without it being an anthropological exercise.
Degrassi High is an excellent anthropological exercise.  Propaganda so dated and uncanny that it reads as a parody of itself.

Also, a non-TV piece of media: CannibalK9's Let's Play of "The Void."  I still watch it every other year and reflect on life. https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PLB8F47C6867017A55

Batman: The Animated Series is just plain good, as everyone on the internet is apt to repeat.

Season 1 of the '87 TMNT was also better than I expected, and something I want to revisit again sometime.  After season 1, not so much.

Judge Judy episodes 
Maybe some Jewish comedy from Larry David
And God, I just realized I named 2 Jews


But really though, nothing. I don't have a cable service. I only use YouTube nowadays

the cook and the chef is one of my favourite aussie shows, i've made a number of recipies on the show and they're all exquisite, if you like cooking shows you'll love this programm

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>>2752
People need to start making sigma male AMVs of Niles like they do of Patrick Bateman and Travis Brickle.
>Pic related with Little Dark Age playing

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>>2694 (OP) 
Mystery Science Theater 3000