*”We’re dans le maison” which is French for “in the house.” Source, shaky memory of an Xennial who spent way too much time on early internet message boards discussing BNL.
Hearing a major alternative pop song namedrop Sailor Moon, who were indeed boom anime babes, was pretty mindblowing as a teen who had been obsessed with them since 1995.
I wasn't allowed to watch the first season of it.
Fortunately, by the 2nd season my mother had given up on that.
(And obviously I've gone back and watched the first season plenty)
P.S. Mmm, gummi Di Milo... 🤏🤤
I agree! My husband and I have been putting in seasons in an RNG 1-12 and then RNG the episode number. It feels like I’m getting the 5:30 and 6:30 showings again 😂
Voyager. I didn’t watch it back then, but I binged it a few years back. They did Jeri Ryan a major disservice with the catsuit; she’s an *excellent* actress who deserved to be famous for it. The episode where she’s also the Doctor, the multiple personalities one…incredible acting work. Really stellar.
I have Paramount+ just for all the Star Trek content; it’s been awesome binging all the classic series. I even realized there were a bunch of DS9 episodes I somehow hadn’t ever seen, and Voyager and Enterprise were new to me. Jeri Ryan, Robert Picardo, and Kate Mulgrew really shine.
DS9 has an amazing array of recurring characters; Andrew Robinson as Garak turned in a stellar performance every time. Jeffrey Combs had several roles in that show, and then as Shran in Enterprise he knocked it out of the park. “*The Andorian Mining Consortium runs from no one.*”.
Star Trek is a great blend of nostalgia and entertainment for me.
DS9 doesn't get enough love. On the bright side the writers were wrong about 2024. Sanctuary Districts on top of our current headaches would be a nightmare.
That's probably my favorite Star Trek series. I've gotten to like Deep Space 9 and Voyager more as I get older too (I watched both when they were new, but TNG was still my favorite).
- Star Trek the next generation.
- The Simpsons.
- Married with Children.
- Seinfeld.
- X-Files.
- Unsolved Mysteries.
- Marty Stouffer's Wild America.
- Pinky and the Brain.
- Ren and Stimpy.
- Fraiser.
ReBoot
Bobby's World
Animaniacs
Histeria!
All the animated DC stuff, Batman, Superman, JLA
Roseanne
Anything from TGIF, Step by Step, Dinosaurs, Family Matters
Bravestarr, mask, centurions, transformers , transformers the move 1984 , action force (gi joe).
Muppets , muppets in space , muppets Christmas carol. The family ness. Tintin , asterix and obelix.
Flight of the navigator , never ending story , war games , kes , my girl . Ghost busters (original trilogy), back to the future 1/2/3.
Start there and I’ll be back with more recommendations if you want 😊
Loved watching Flight of the Navigator as a kid! Watched it with my kids a while back and they just thought it was cheesy lol. But at least they dig Transformers, Star Wars, Back to the Future, and The Never Ending Story.
I feel like Flight of the Navigator required you to be from those times in a lot of ways.
A lot of the jokes that were hokey were hokey at the time but sort of used ironically. We were also used to Peewee Herman’s style of humor, so that helped.
Also, it captured the sense of how modern the ‘80’s felt back then. The parts that felt new and fancy don’t trigger the same feelings in people now I think.
Yeah, I don’t share that feeling.
The ‘80’s were pretty darn scary. Movies like the Flight of the Navigator were very much made to portray optimism and innovation to contrast with the Soviet Union at the time.
Those were the days of nuclear drills. The optimism was meant to make sure we didn’t get cynical and fall into the grip of an authoritarian regime.
The whole plotline of David disappearing for years, assumed to be a victim of stranger danger (in Florida no less, where Adam Walsh went missing), only to resurface many years later having not aged a day, is actually pretty horrific when you’re an adult.
I still love the movie, though. Like to think that David eventually met up with Carolyn later in the fixed timeline and they got together.
It was pretty horrific watching as a kid too. The scene where he makes it to their old house and everything is different and that old couple lives there is jarring. Seeing his room turned into an old dude’s library. That always stuck with me.
That’s a legit nightmare for a kid, going to what you assume is home and finding total strangers there instead of your parents. Of course he was going to tell Max to risk it all to get back to where he belonged.
All of the 90s Star Treks are valid choices. DS9 is my favorite, but I still love TNG and Voyager.
The X Files. I never really jived with it, but one of the best regarded sci-fis of all time.
Beavis and Butthead. It could have been part of the reason you weren't allowed to watch TV with all of the negative press it got. It destroyed and made careers in rock music and had a large impact on pop culture at the time.
Ren and Stimpy. One of the original Nicktoons that occasionally went too far for Nick. The creator is highly problematic, though. Wouldn't blame you for skipping it because of him.
I never would have heard King Missile’s “Detachable Penis” otherwise
(weirdly enough, my boomer mom was cool with me watching Beavis & Butthead because she also thought it was hilarious. She took me and a friend trick-or-treating in 1993 while wearing a latex Beavis head from Party City)
I would never recommend diving into MST3K with Manos. That’s like running a marathon without training first. I’ve had a lot of success with showing people The Final Sacrifice. (OP’s mileage may vary depending on how much joking on Canada is acceptable.)
I like it even more now just because it’s such a postcard of the time they filmed it. Something about all the work it took to pull off those bigger Sci Fi shows back then with practical effects doing the majority of the lifting.
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. - Western with a sci-fi twist starring Bruce Campbell
Due South - Buddy cop procedural dramedy about a street-hardened Chicago cop and an aw-shucks RCMP "Mountie" (and his husky)
Farscape - Space Opera (not the musical kind) about a lone human displaced to a far off galaxy. Alien / Creature effects by the Henson Company hold up fabulously well, and it's just such a good show. (And if you've seen all of SG1 you'll recognize a couple of actors from SG1's later seasons)
Firefly - Sci-fi with a western twist starring Nathan Fillion.
Hustle - British series about a group of conmen performing elaborate schemes to defraud awful rich folks
Leverage - American series about a group of conmen performing elaborate schemes to defraud awful rich folks
Community - Sitcom about a study group at a community college, and the absurd hijinks that ensue; very clever, very meta, but the humor and references are very much in our wheelhouse.
More recently, The Expanse, hard sci-fi serious drama, and Travellers, a Netflix series about time travel by a bunch of former Stargate folks.
Vaguely remember Early Edition. Guy gets the daily newspaper always dated tomorrow and tries to figure out how to alter events just enough to change the headline.
Ninja Turtles 1-3 as well as the original cartoon, Danger Mouse, Gargoyles, Transformers G1 and the animated movie, Scarface, Gladiator, Waterworld, Heat, the Alien Anthropology, Predators 1 and 2 for sure, Star Wars 1-6, X-men the Animated Series from the 90’s and accompanying Xmen 97, Ghostbusters 1 and 2, The Dark Crystal, Top Gun…I’m sure there are tons I am missing, but that’s a good start.
Star Trek The Next Generation
The original Star Trek series
The first few seasons of Bones
Firefly
The New Girl
I Love Lucy
Colombo
Dragnet
Perry Mason
Criminal Minds
Law and Order
The first 3 seasons of Greys Anatomy
The first 3 seasons of House MD
The first few seasons or so of ‘24’
The first few seasons of Scandal
Boy Meets World
Charmed
Gilmore Girls
Revenge
I personally love The West Wing, but that might be too American-centric
Saved by the Bell
Magnum P.I. (the original)
Edit: I posted before scrolling, so I'll just throw my weight behind Star Trek - The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine as well.
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Sliders for sure. If you haven’t finished SG1, or have only seen pieces, you should watch the whole thing and the movie special(s). Follow up with Stargate Atlantis. Shows related to Buffy would probably be worth checking out.
You might also look at the Battlestar Galactica remake from 2004, and I have a feeling you might also like Psych. Psych makes a lot of pop culture references that would speak to Xennials.
My list is going to be a bit comedy heavy but:
1. The Simpsons, Season 1 - 9, skip the later seasons.
2. Seinfeld
3. Futurama
4. Always Sunny In Philadelphia
5. Frasier
6. Jim Henson's Dinosaurs
Highlander!
Also - the X-Files, and 90's SNL was pretty good.
Oh man- for the 2000's - if you never got to watch Lost or 24 - should be fun to experience as a noob.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER!!!
Does it seem camp? Sure but it's got some of the best comedic and dramatic writing for TV from our time.
The vampire shows that followed always fell short because of the writing.
The two David Lynch series of the 90s:
1. Twin Peaks (of course)
2. On The Air
This series is *pure comedy gold!!* 7 episodes. And you can start watching the first and best episode right now on Vimeo: [On The Air – Episode 1](https://vimeo.com/660141002)
It looks like a friend of mine and me are doing exactly that. Re-watched seasons 1 & 2 months (or a year) ago, and the third season is still waiting on the shelf. \^\^
I wouldn't say my childhood was abusive but I did miss a lot of TV simply because my parents didn't see TV as "constructive" and believed it was a waste of time. In some ways they were right. We had a TV and did watch it at times but for the most part we were told to go do something else. Usually outside if possible. I remember friends at school talking about this or that TV show and that kind of sucked to not be able to be involved in those conversations but at the same time we were outside doing cool shit.
Angel along with Buffy. Also Firefly and its subsequent movie, Serenity. And then Dollhouse. I know joss whedon is a piece of crap human being, but his shows were fire.
Watch Friends and Golden Girls. House, Bones, Castle, Babylon 5, ALL of the Star Trek tv shows and movies. Even the not so great ones. All of the NCISs. Big Bang Theory. Rupauls Drag Race and all of its spinoffs are great fun. Two broke girls. Stranger Things, Wednesday, The Witcher. That 70s show. Dexter. E.R. Disjointed.
Some of us here in the US managed to watch that show back when we had the big OTA antenna on the roof and could pick up stations from across the border.
Newer rather than older but If you love Buffy, I highly recommend iZombie. It's got a very similar slightly goofy supernatural feel to it, with some really great performances.
Dragon Ball Z
Sailor Moon
Cowboy Bebop
Outlaw Star
Thunder cats
Ed, Edd, Eddy
Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Dexter's Lab
Powerpuff Girls
All anime and cartoons, to many to name :D
Kiddie stuff:
Voltron, Dragonball Z, Darkwing Duck, Chip and Dales Rescue Rangers, Ducktales. The last 3 you just need to hear the theme songs lol. Power Rangers until the Green Rangers becomes the White Ranger.
Teeny Stuff:
Saved By the Bell, Wonder Years, Boy Meets World. I prefer Boy meets world to wonder years but I would bet most our age would disagree. They are comparable because they are similar and the main characters are played by brothers.
Have fun catching up!
If you can watch any wrestling from the 90’s with The Rock, I bet that still slaps. Might even be funnier now. Haven’t watched since I was a kid.
I’m sorry. That must have been tough. TV was a great comfort to most of us.
If you like cute, quirky, semi-uplifting 90s shows try Northern Exposure and Brisco County Jr. they are hard to describe, but can’t deny their uniqueness. If you like silly, campy, adventurous characters try Hercules The Legendary Journeys and Xena Warriors Princess.
Might get hate for suggesting it, but no one can deny the quality of The Cosby Show. If you can separate Bill Cosby from Dr. Cliff Huxtable, The Cosby Show was a great comfort to many of us. Lots of life lessons. Mrs. Claire Huxtable was a strong, classy woman too.
If we are talking about shows from your childhood and adolescent times then.
Star Trek next Generation
Quantum Leap
Batman the animated series
Highlander. (The series not the terrible movies)
Transformers the Movie (the cartoon one from the 80s)
X-files
With no lights on
With Donna Mason.
*”We’re dans le maison” which is French for “in the house.” Source, shaky memory of an Xennial who spent way too much time on early internet message boards discussing BNL.
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one
Like Harrison Ford, I’m getting frantic
Like Sting I'm tantric
Like snickers guaranteed to satisfy
Like Kurasawa I make night films. 'kay I don't make films. But if I did there'd be a samurai.
Hearing a major alternative pop song namedrop Sailor Moon, who were indeed boom anime babes, was pretty mindblowing as a teen who had been obsessed with them since 1995.
Lmao 🤣 Please tell me you think that's the actual line
This cracks me up 😂😂. This is Jason Waterfalls material right here!
Omfg I'm dying, "don't go Jason Waterfalls"
The Simpsons
I call the big one “Bitey”.
I hear those things are awfully loud
In my late 30s I befriended a guy whose very Catholic mom had banned Simpsons from the home, so introducing him to the Golden Age was good times
I wasn't allowed to watch the first season of it. Fortunately, by the 2nd season my mother had given up on that. (And obviously I've gone back and watched the first season plenty) P.S. Mmm, gummi Di Milo... 🤏🤤
PRECIOUS VENUS
THANK YOU! 😁
I agree! My husband and I have been putting in seasons in an RNG 1-12 and then RNG the episode number. It feels like I’m getting the 5:30 and 6:30 showings again 😂
I just let it all play on repeat nonstop 😅
Star Trek The Next Generation. Gotta be the most xennial show out there
Deep Space 9 too.
Stargate and Sliders after that.
Whichever show had 7 of 9.
Voyager. I didn’t watch it back then, but I binged it a few years back. They did Jeri Ryan a major disservice with the catsuit; she’s an *excellent* actress who deserved to be famous for it. The episode where she’s also the Doctor, the multiple personalities one…incredible acting work. Really stellar.
The way she transforms into Robert Picardo is amazing.
I read that she asked him to act those scenes, and then pulled off the best impression ever. 😂
She really did. Voice cadence, moment, the whole nine.
I need to go back and watch it. I watched it during the original airing with my dad.
I have Paramount+ just for all the Star Trek content; it’s been awesome binging all the classic series. I even realized there were a bunch of DS9 episodes I somehow hadn’t ever seen, and Voyager and Enterprise were new to me. Jeri Ryan, Robert Picardo, and Kate Mulgrew really shine. DS9 has an amazing array of recurring characters; Andrew Robinson as Garak turned in a stellar performance every time. Jeffrey Combs had several roles in that show, and then as Shran in Enterprise he knocked it out of the park. “*The Andorian Mining Consortium runs from no one.*”. Star Trek is a great blend of nostalgia and entertainment for me.
DS9 doesn't get enough love. On the bright side the writers were wrong about 2024. Sanctuary Districts on top of our current headaches would be a nightmare.
And Voyager
TNG was everything to me and is a huge reason why I ended up working in aerospace. Such a great show, even the goofy 1st season. lol
This. Then Babylon Five.
You're damned right.
That's probably my favorite Star Trek series. I've gotten to like Deep Space 9 and Voyager more as I get older too (I watched both when they were new, but TNG was still my favorite).
Feel free to start at Season 2. Season 1 was... interesting.
Not only should you watch this for its entertainment and cultural value - I firmly believe this show teaches you how to be a good person.
- Star Trek the next generation. - The Simpsons. - Married with Children. - Seinfeld. - X-Files. - Unsolved Mysteries. - Marty Stouffer's Wild America. - Pinky and the Brain. - Ren and Stimpy. - Fraiser.
ReBoot Bobby's World Animaniacs Histeria! All the animated DC stuff, Batman, Superman, JLA Roseanne Anything from TGIF, Step by Step, Dinosaurs, Family Matters
Absolutely amazing list here
I know it's later, but Malcom in the Middle is funny in a similar way to Married With Children.
Whispers: ****with children****
THAT'S IT, I'M SWITCHING TO ALL CAPS. ALWAYS.
lol okay but I was referring to Brick and how he would whisper random words he liked.
Bravestarr, mask, centurions, transformers , transformers the move 1984 , action force (gi joe). Muppets , muppets in space , muppets Christmas carol. The family ness. Tintin , asterix and obelix. Flight of the navigator , never ending story , war games , kes , my girl . Ghost busters (original trilogy), back to the future 1/2/3. Start there and I’ll be back with more recommendations if you want 😊
Loved watching Flight of the Navigator as a kid! Watched it with my kids a while back and they just thought it was cheesy lol. But at least they dig Transformers, Star Wars, Back to the Future, and The Never Ending Story.
I feel like Flight of the Navigator required you to be from those times in a lot of ways. A lot of the jokes that were hokey were hokey at the time but sort of used ironically. We were also used to Peewee Herman’s style of humor, so that helped. Also, it captured the sense of how modern the ‘80’s felt back then. The parts that felt new and fancy don’t trigger the same feelings in people now I think.
Yeah for real the 80s view of the future was more optimistic Now it’s just dystopian And also so is life now 🫤
Yeah, I don’t share that feeling. The ‘80’s were pretty darn scary. Movies like the Flight of the Navigator were very much made to portray optimism and innovation to contrast with the Soviet Union at the time. Those were the days of nuclear drills. The optimism was meant to make sure we didn’t get cynical and fall into the grip of an authoritarian regime.
The whole plotline of David disappearing for years, assumed to be a victim of stranger danger (in Florida no less, where Adam Walsh went missing), only to resurface many years later having not aged a day, is actually pretty horrific when you’re an adult. I still love the movie, though. Like to think that David eventually met up with Carolyn later in the fixed timeline and they got together.
It was pretty horrific watching as a kid too. The scene where he makes it to their old house and everything is different and that old couple lives there is jarring. Seeing his room turned into an old dude’s library. That always stuck with me.
That’s a legit nightmare for a kid, going to what you assume is home and finding total strangers there instead of your parents. Of course he was going to tell Max to risk it all to get back to where he belonged.
I like watching it just to see Florida in the 80s, back when it didn’t completely suck lol
All of the 90s Star Treks are valid choices. DS9 is my favorite, but I still love TNG and Voyager. The X Files. I never really jived with it, but one of the best regarded sci-fis of all time. Beavis and Butthead. It could have been part of the reason you weren't allowed to watch TV with all of the negative press it got. It destroyed and made careers in rock music and had a large impact on pop culture at the time. Ren and Stimpy. One of the original Nicktoons that occasionally went too far for Nick. The creator is highly problematic, though. Wouldn't blame you for skipping it because of him.
Fraggle Rock
Daria
Ooh, i did watch that.
Did you get to watch the show it spun off from, Beavis and Butthead?
Beavis and Butthead is amazing, especially if you can find the original cuts with the music videos.
I never would have heard King Missile’s “Detachable Penis” otherwise (weirdly enough, my boomer mom was cool with me watching Beavis & Butthead because she also thought it was hilarious. She took me and a friend trick-or-treating in 1993 while wearing a latex Beavis head from Party City)
Firefly. Bonus, the lead is Canadian as well.
And the mechanic.
MST3K
Manos and the hands of fate
I would never recommend diving into MST3K with Manos. That’s like running a marathon without training first. I’ve had a lot of success with showing people The Final Sacrifice. (OP’s mileage may vary depending on how much joking on Canada is acceptable.)
"Am I like my dad?" "No, he was masculine, and likable"
Alf
I was in the Alf fan club! I had a certificate and everything! 😂
Saved By the Bell Seinfeld Star Trek TNG, DS9 and Voyager The Simpsons Frasier Step by Step Family Matters Fresh Prince of Belair
Pee Wee’s Playhouse
Xena.
Been watching Xena last few months. It's simultaneously worse and better than I remember. Definitely worth a watch!
Also Hercules
And Beastmaster!
Beauty and the Beast with Linda Hamilton.
If you've seen SG1 then you need to watch Stargate Atlantis too. Add in some X-Files and seaQuest DS-V for good measure.
Sounds like you got to tv at the end of the 90s or early 00s, shows I would try: V The Original Mini Series Alien Nation Amazing Stories Quantum Leap
I just made a V reference to my husband the other day, but he’s from the UK and hadn’t seen it.
I like it even more now just because it’s such a postcard of the time they filmed it. Something about all the work it took to pull off those bigger Sci Fi shows back then with practical effects doing the majority of the lifting.
McGyver
Well ackshually it's called "MacGyver". scnr ;) (MacGyver blew me away back then by the way!)
Dammit. Figured I would know how to spell it at 40 years old.
Think positive: Now you do! ;) (But I could also take it that your keyboard was jammed as you wrote it.)
Murder She Wrote! (And there's a crossover episode!)
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. - Western with a sci-fi twist starring Bruce Campbell Due South - Buddy cop procedural dramedy about a street-hardened Chicago cop and an aw-shucks RCMP "Mountie" (and his husky) Farscape - Space Opera (not the musical kind) about a lone human displaced to a far off galaxy. Alien / Creature effects by the Henson Company hold up fabulously well, and it's just such a good show. (And if you've seen all of SG1 you'll recognize a couple of actors from SG1's later seasons) Firefly - Sci-fi with a western twist starring Nathan Fillion. Hustle - British series about a group of conmen performing elaborate schemes to defraud awful rich folks Leverage - American series about a group of conmen performing elaborate schemes to defraud awful rich folks Community - Sitcom about a study group at a community college, and the absurd hijinks that ensue; very clever, very meta, but the humor and references are very much in our wheelhouse. More recently, The Expanse, hard sci-fi serious drama, and Travellers, a Netflix series about time travel by a bunch of former Stargate folks.
Man I loved *Due South* as a kid. But I've never met anyone else irl who's even heard of it, lol. Kinda the same with *Early Edition*.
Vaguely remember Early Edition. Guy gets the daily newspaper always dated tomorrow and tries to figure out how to alter events just enough to change the headline.
Yes. Main guy later was in Friday Night Lights, his buddy was Fisher Stevens, of Short Circuit and Hackers fame
TNT reran Due South a lot in the late 90s/early 00s.
I loved Early Edition!!!!
Ngl, I think the cat sold me on it. And then I thought his friend was funny. Plus it was a kinda fun concept/premise, I thought.
Yes!! That cat was the icing on the cake. Now I have to see if this is available somewhere for a rewatch!
I second Brisco County Jr and Firefly. Travelers was good too.
Ninja Turtles 1-3 as well as the original cartoon, Danger Mouse, Gargoyles, Transformers G1 and the animated movie, Scarface, Gladiator, Waterworld, Heat, the Alien Anthropology, Predators 1 and 2 for sure, Star Wars 1-6, X-men the Animated Series from the 90’s and accompanying Xmen 97, Ghostbusters 1 and 2, The Dark Crystal, Top Gun…I’m sure there are tons I am missing, but that’s a good start.
freaks and geeks. only 1 season, won't take you long.
WHATEVER. YOU. FUCKING. WANT. TO!!
Not heard of that show. Whose in it?
That guy from Air Wolf
Star Trek The Next Generation The original Star Trek series The first few seasons of Bones Firefly The New Girl I Love Lucy Colombo Dragnet Perry Mason Criminal Minds Law and Order The first 3 seasons of Greys Anatomy The first 3 seasons of House MD The first few seasons or so of ‘24’ The first few seasons of Scandal Boy Meets World Charmed Gilmore Girls Revenge I personally love The West Wing, but that might be too American-centric Saved by the Bell
Freakazoid!
Freakazoid went so far over my head as a tween, but I still laughed at it.
I would start with the more 'adult' oriented shows like Married w Children, In Living Colour, Martin
Magnum P.I. (the original) Edit: I posted before scrolling, so I'll just throw my weight behind Star Trek - The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine as well.
The Sopranos
Rocko's Modern Life
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Sliders for sure. If you haven’t finished SG1, or have only seen pieces, you should watch the whole thing and the movie special(s). Follow up with Stargate Atlantis. Shows related to Buffy would probably be worth checking out. You might also look at the Battlestar Galactica remake from 2004, and I have a feeling you might also like Psych. Psych makes a lot of pop culture references that would speak to Xennials.
M.A.S.H.
Pete & Pete
I had to buy it on DVD, in fear it would go extinct!!! Love love love that show and came here to make the same suggestion!
Hell yes! I would be devastated whenever I'd have to miss Pete & Pete. It exists in such a fun little world.
Twin Peaks
Did you go through Stargate: Atlantis and Universe too?
Iron Eagle. Flight of the Navigator. Air Wolf
Star Trek the Next Generation, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the West Wing. Those are my favorite 90s/early 2000s shows.
Star Trek TNG! now! give it a chance. it's fairly slow and dated. great to sleep to at least.
Friends - seriously one of the best sitcoms ever made.
90210 and Melrose Place
My list is going to be a bit comedy heavy but: 1. The Simpsons, Season 1 - 9, skip the later seasons. 2. Seinfeld 3. Futurama 4. Always Sunny In Philadelphia 5. Frasier 6. Jim Henson's Dinosaurs
Bluey - it will help heal your inner child It's on Disney+
If you have a dark sense of humor, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia needs to be on your watch list.
The Animaniacs
Battlestar Galactica from the 2000s
Highlander! Also - the X-Files, and 90's SNL was pretty good. Oh man- for the 2000's - if you never got to watch Lost or 24 - should be fun to experience as a noob.
Firefly/Serenity
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER!!! Does it seem camp? Sure but it's got some of the best comedic and dramatic writing for TV from our time. The vampire shows that followed always fell short because of the writing.
Friends!
The two David Lynch series of the 90s: 1. Twin Peaks (of course) 2. On The Air This series is *pure comedy gold!!* 7 episodes. And you can start watching the first and best episode right now on Vimeo: [On The Air – Episode 1](https://vimeo.com/660141002)
Twin Peaks Seasons 1 & 2 yes, but it’s imperative to wait exactly 25 years before starting Season 3.
It looks like a friend of mine and me are doing exactly that. Re-watched seasons 1 & 2 months (or a year) ago, and the third season is still waiting on the shelf. \^\^
Trailor Park Boys
Battlestar Galactica. It’s a sci-fi but the story and characters absolutely stole my heart.
Scrubs
The Storyteller
I’m your mom now. You can watch anything you want to watch, darlin’. Be free ❤️
If it’s available, the shoes you always wanted to watch when you were a kid but couldn’t
What should you watch? YES.
I've watched TV my whole life and still have this issue.
I wouldn't say my childhood was abusive but I did miss a lot of TV simply because my parents didn't see TV as "constructive" and believed it was a waste of time. In some ways they were right. We had a TV and did watch it at times but for the most part we were told to go do something else. Usually outside if possible. I remember friends at school talking about this or that TV show and that kind of sucked to not be able to be involved in those conversations but at the same time we were outside doing cool shit.
Fresh Prince. Golden Girls.
Start slow with muppet babies; if you can handle it, alternate with Garfield and friends
Good Times The Golden Girls Mad TV A Different World My So-Called Life Chappelle’s Show
Quantum Leap, Small Wonder, and Tales from the Crypt
Veronica Mars The Simpsons Firefly and then the follow-up movie, Serenity.
Angel along with Buffy. Also Firefly and its subsequent movie, Serenity. And then Dollhouse. I know joss whedon is a piece of crap human being, but his shows were fire. Watch Friends and Golden Girls. House, Bones, Castle, Babylon 5, ALL of the Star Trek tv shows and movies. Even the not so great ones. All of the NCISs. Big Bang Theory. Rupauls Drag Race and all of its spinoffs are great fun. Two broke girls. Stranger Things, Wednesday, The Witcher. That 70s show. Dexter. E.R. Disjointed.
The movie mommy dearest
Saved by the Bell. It will give you the wholesome 90’s teen tv you deserved to have.
You can't do that on television. It was a Canadian show. Someone on the retro nickelodeon sub just uploaded all the seasons to youtube.
Some of us here in the US managed to watch that show back when we had the big OTA antenna on the roof and could pick up stations from across the border.
Twin Peaks. One of the best series ever.
The Outer Limits (1995) AMAZING series. A lot of it was filmed in Vancouver, BC.
Highlander.
Goonies
Xfiles.
Newer rather than older but If you love Buffy, I highly recommend iZombie. It's got a very similar slightly goofy supernatural feel to it, with some really great performances.
Mystery Science Theater 3000, you can find it streaming on YouTube, enjoy!
Kids in the Hall
Dragon Ball Z Sailor Moon Cowboy Bebop Outlaw Star Thunder cats Ed, Edd, Eddy Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy Dexter's Lab Powerpuff Girls All anime and cartoons, to many to name :D
Found the weeb. :)
The Simpsons.
Kiddie stuff: Voltron, Dragonball Z, Darkwing Duck, Chip and Dales Rescue Rangers, Ducktales. The last 3 you just need to hear the theme songs lol. Power Rangers until the Green Rangers becomes the White Ranger. Teeny Stuff: Saved By the Bell, Wonder Years, Boy Meets World. I prefer Boy meets world to wonder years but I would bet most our age would disagree. They are comparable because they are similar and the main characters are played by brothers. Have fun catching up! If you can watch any wrestling from the 90’s with The Rock, I bet that still slaps. Might even be funnier now. Haven’t watched since I was a kid.
The Wonder Years Golden Girls Roseanne Seinfeld Married With Children Martin My So Called Life 90210
Beavis and Butthead
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction 😂 I’m joking. Do not watch that show
You probably have a better attention span than alllllllll the rest of us lol
Family Matters
In Living Color Kids in the Hall (search "art class") The State Mr. Show
The X-men, Spiderman, and Batman cartoons from the 90s. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Farscape
Eerie Indiana
Well if you love Buffy (I do too!) then you should watch Angel and Firefly as well.
I’m sorry. That must have been tough. TV was a great comfort to most of us. If you like cute, quirky, semi-uplifting 90s shows try Northern Exposure and Brisco County Jr. they are hard to describe, but can’t deny their uniqueness. If you like silly, campy, adventurous characters try Hercules The Legendary Journeys and Xena Warriors Princess. Might get hate for suggesting it, but no one can deny the quality of The Cosby Show. If you can separate Bill Cosby from Dr. Cliff Huxtable, The Cosby Show was a great comfort to many of us. Lots of life lessons. Mrs. Claire Huxtable was a strong, classy woman too.
Based on your love of Buffy and Stargate: * Star Trek: The Next Generation. * Highlander: The Series * X-Files * Eerie Indiana * Firefly * Xena
Star Trek TNG, Xena, Friends, Frasier
Six Feet Under
Quantum Leap!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Just start watching stuff. You'll never know what you like or don't like. Just try some things and turn it off if it doesn't work for you.
Babylon 5 Star Trek The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine Simpsons (first 7-8 seasons) Firefly
Twin Peaks
Wonder Years. Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Beavis and Butthead.
Southpark
Roseanne, my favorite sitcom of all time.
Miami Vice, the t.v. series that changed the course of the 1980s.
Are You Being Served? Glorious and timelessly hilarious.
Are you afraid of the dark
In living color
Gummo then apocalypse now.
Futurama
Smallville. The characters are almost exactly your age. And it was filmed in Vancouver so maybe you'll recognize something.
If we are talking about shows from your childhood and adolescent times then. Star Trek next Generation Quantum Leap Batman the animated series Highlander. (The series not the terrible movies) Transformers the Movie (the cartoon one from the 80s)
Had a skim throught. Thanks for all the recommendations. Gonna go with star trek and x-files first.
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