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9[[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds Although lots of people will swear that some of these are the greatest things ever transmitted]], with so many slots to fill, some shows end up sounding really weird.
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14* ''[[spoiler:Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy]]'': A series of cassette tapes is found. [[DisasterDominoes Everyone's lives get miserable as a result]].
15* ''[[spoiler:The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage]]'': The ghost of a pirate must help the same number of people that he killed in order to "move on", but some type of guardian ghosts prevent him from leaving the island he died on. So he gets the island's new owner to help the people. Actually not ''that'' much better than it sounds.
16* ''[[spoiler:Series/OneThousandWaysToDie]]'': Lots of everyday people get killed in different gruesome ways.
17* [[spoiler:[[Advertising/NineteenEightyFour "1984" Apple commercial]]]]: Some girl throws a sledgehammer at MS-DOS, much to the surprise of a bunch of skinheads.
18* ''[[spoiler:Series/TwentyFour]]'': A [[{{Determinator}} very determined]] government agent has a really bad day.
19* ''[[spoiler:Series/ThirtyRock]]'': A woman who is MarriedToTheJob is forced to add a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} to the cast of her sketch comedy show due to ExecutiveMeddling.
20** The main character is a "socially retarded" nerd who loves ''Franchise/StarWars'' and can't get a date. Her best friend is a minor celebrity who beds numerous members of the opposite sex and has an ongoing rivalry with a strange black guy. Their boss is CrazyIsCool incarnate.
21* ''[[spoiler:Series/TheFortyFourHundred]]'': A bunch of people abducted from random points in time come back all at once in modern day Seattle... WITH SUPER POWERS. And one of them's Jesus.
22* ''[[spoiler:Series/AceLightning]]'': A show in which a superhero from a videogame comes to life as a result of a well timed [[LightningCanDoAnything bolt of lightning]]. Thirteen year old is elected as his sidekick. Chaos, an all but absent functional social life and eventual unraveling conspiracy and author avatarisation ensues. Obvious Aesop every single episode. Also fits in WesternAnimation due to being multimedia-created.
23* ''[[spoiler: Series/AdamRuinsEverything]]'': Hipster points out in great, painstaking detail why life sucks.
24* ''[[spoiler:Series/TheAddamsFamily]]'': An independently wealthy family of semi-recluses must cope with their very weird neighbours.
25** ''[[spoiler:Series/{{Wednesday}}]]'': Their oldest daughter enrolls in the father's school, discovers the faculty has some long-standing issues.
26* [[spoiler:''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'']]: Brothers with the same name team up with a self-deluded superman to survive weirdness in their home town. Told in monologue.
27* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson'']]: Classic British detective stories are reimagined for the sensibilities of Soviet Russia, which in practice seems to mean less cocaine and ''even more'' homoerotic subtext.
28* [[spoiler:''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperboy'']]: The adventures of the world's most famous superhero as an adolescent, often fighting younger versions of his future foes. Or ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' with the star as an openly active superhero.
29* [[spoiler:''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'']]: A man from another planet uses his vast powers to fight a seemingly never-ending series of non-powered mobsters.
30* [[spoiler: ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'']]: Wisecracking guy that died comes back to life to recruit a RagtagBunchOfMisfits to help his government agency. Together, they fight crime, superpowered people and have {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST with each other.
31** [[spoiler: ''Series/AgentCarter'']]: The formation of said agency is told through a wisecracking gal [[DeskJockey whom no one respects]], forcing her to do things by herself with the help of a stuffy English butler.
32* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Airwolf}}'']]: A man refuses to return a helicopter he was ordered to retrieve..
33* [[spoiler:''Series/{{ALF}}'']]: An intergalactic furball, played by a puppet, takes refuge in a [=SoCal=] family home and wants to dine on their pet.
34* ''[[spoiler:Series/{{Alias}}]]'': A supermodel genius with abandonment issues teams up with the group she thought she was working for to bring down the team pretending to be the other team. Then she goes back to working for the team she didn't know she was really working for when the real team hires the fake team to be on their team. Also, there's magic water.
35* [[spoiler:''Series/AllInTheFamily'']]: An ignorant, self-destructing bigot and his occasionally self-righteous child and her husband squabble about the issues of the day.
36* [[spoiler:''Series/AllThat'']]: Recurring characters include a guy who's lactose intolerant, a kid who beats up a puppet, and a girl who is supposed to answer questions but just yells at people.
37* [[spoiler:''Series/AlleinGegenDieZeit'']]: Terrorists searching for a hiding scientist break into a middle school. The detention class tries to stop them á la ''Series/TwentyFour''.
38* [[spoiler:''Series/AlloAllo'']]: A series set in occupied France in WWII, whose protagonist is a middle-aged, adulterous Nazi collaborator. It's a comedy.
39* [[spoiler:''Series/AllyMcBeal'']]: An exceptionally thin lawyer, who suffers from delusions of a dancing cartoon baby, works at a firm with her ex-boyfriend and his wife, a loveable misogynist, and a man who uses a remote control to flush toilets.
40* [[spoiler: ''Series/AlmostLive'']]: An extremely low-budget provincial sketch-comedy show where rain, coffee, grunge music, and college were used as punchlines.
41* [[spoiler: ''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos'']]: Americans submit videos of themselves [[GroinAttack getting hit in the groin]] for a chance to win $100,000. The host makes [[{{MST}} snarky commentary]] over said videos.
42* [[spoiler:''Series/AmericasGotTalent'']]: People across America will do ''anything'' for a shot at fame and fortune.
43* [[spoiler:''Series/AmericanGladiators'']]: Physical competition against spandex-clad bodybuilders. Modeled off ancient Roman bloodsport.
44* [[spoiler: ''Series/AmericanGothic1995'']]: A law-enforcement official tries to gain custody of his son.
45* [[spoiler: ''Series/AmericanGothic2016'']]: A rich Boston family reunites just in time for them all to be implicated in a decades-old killing spree. Completely unrelated to another series with the same name.
46* [[spoiler: ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'']]: A woman is institutionalized because of her homosexuality, and a man is institutionalized for murdering his wife (a false accusation). Both are tortured by the mental hospital's staff.
47* [[spoiler: ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'']]: Due to full disclosure laws, a real estate agent is forced to admit that the house she is selling was the scene of a gruesome murder. As per usual, the buyers move in anyway, and surprise, surprise, the place is haunted.
48* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheAmericans'']]: ''Film/{{Salt}}'': the prequel series.
49* [[spoiler: ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'']]: Twelve disparate young women allow fashion industry snobs and has-beens to play on their insecurities. Every season, er, ''[[InsistentTerminology cycle]]'', there must always be [[TheDitz a dumb one]], an AlphaBitch, a SassyBlackWoman and one with a [[DarkAndTroubledPast troubled upbringing...]] that the show exploits for all it's worth.
50** [[spoiler: ''The Tyra Banks Show'']]: Supermodel[=/=]Narcissist[=/=]White eyeliner aficionado does an [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah Winfrey]] impression to appeal to gullible teenaged girls and college students.
51* ''[[spoiler:Series/AndiMack]]'': A diverse group of teens deal with a variety of issues including family secrets, coming out, relationship problems, and mental health in this tween dramedy. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids This is a Disney Channel show by the way.]]
52* ''[[spoiler:Series/TheAndyGriffithShow]]'': Small-town sheriff holds absolute power over town. Often considered one of the most feel-good sitcoms of the era.
53* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Angel}}'']]: A broody vampire with a soul, a former RichBitch, an UpperclassTwit, a formerly enslaved scientist, a green demon who reads people's futures when they sing Karaoke and a gang leader live in a hotel, then run a law firm.
54** Alternatively, a mass murderer claims to have reformed, but occasionally relapses. Also, all your favorite characters die.
55* [[spoiler: ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'']]: Unsupervised kids tell horror stories.
56** Alternatively: ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' for kids.
57* [[spoiler:''Series/ArkII'']]: What ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' could be where the denizens of one Vault left their shelter to do something to help their world AfterTheEnd.
58* [[spoiler:''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'']]: A widowed man tries to redeem a corrupt organization, but his father won't have it; meanwhile, his brother is breaking his heart and his sister is having marital problems. It's a comedy, with a heaping helping of LargeHam.
59* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Arrow}}'']]: A man keeps up his archery skills after coming home from an extended vacation.
60* ''[[spoiler: Series/TheATeam]]'': Four shell-shocked Vietnam veterans with varying levels of mental problems become criminals for hire. They get paid to help small businesses by harassing their competitors, cause massive property damage and even do illegal mercenary work.
61** The Army runs around Los Angeles looking for four fugitives who endanger the lives of everyone with their horrible shooting and reckless driving.
62** Army veterans who [[ATeamFiring can't shoot straight]] try to solve people's problems with cunning and violence.
63* ''[[spoiler: Series/AufWiedersehenPet]]'': A mismatched gang of British builders, mostly from [[OopNorth the North of England]], bicker and get into scrapes on various international building sites.
64* [[spoiler:''Series/BabylonBerlin'']]: He's a [[FunctionalAddict morphine-addicted]], [[ShellshockedVeteran shell-shocked]] [[ByTheBookCop vice squad cop]] with family issues. She's a [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold hooker]]-cum-LowerClassLout-cum-[[SassySecretary secretary]] with even more family issues. Together, they fight [[DirtyCommunists Communists]]! And [[GoodRepublicEvilEmpire Monarchists]]! And [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]]! And [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking porn]]! Not nearly as [[{{Narm}} moralistic]] as it sounds.
65* [[spoiler:''Series/BabylonFive'']]: A war-hero, a cynical Russian bisexual, a recovering alcoholic police chief and a bunch of other people start a fight with [[GodIsEvil God and]] [[EldritchAbomination The Devil,]] win, destroy the world government and take over the entire galaxy. None of that was hard. Meanwhile, the expies of [[PuttingOnTheReich Hitler]] and the new Moses get married.
66** Or: ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' [[RecycledInSpace In Space!]]
67*** Or ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' RecycledInSpace and ''Literature/IstanbulIntrigues'' RecycledInSpace meet ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' RecycledInSpace.
68** A bunch of politicians meet on a space station to make schemes against each other. Then they team up to make schemes against giant space spiders covered in motor oil. They are very heroic.
69** A lizard man, a drunken Italian, and Joan of Arc plot against each other in front of two militaristic {{Ultimate Authority Mayor}}s, the first of which is really Moses and the second of which is named after a famous CavalryOfficer. Then they all beat up space spider-demons, and then Joan of Arc and the second UltimateAuthorityMayor TakeOverTheWorld so that the two of them can get married.
70*** After this, Joan of Arc's valet feels left out, the drunken Italian's valet is pleased to see Judas' head cut off, and the lizard man and the Italian become friends and then strangle each other. The UltimateAuthorityMayor then goes to heaven to talk with the space spider demons he used to fight while Joan of Arc just grows old.
71* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Baggage}}'']]: A man/woman looking for love makes snap judgments about three potential suitors of the opposite sex based on their personal confessions. Later on, only one of the three suitors gets the chance to make a snap judgment on the original person's biggest personal confession. Punny reactions based on these revelations are inevitably [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow made by the host]].
72* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Balamory}}'']]: The adventures of people who live in a Scottish island town.
73** For the spin-off [[spoiler:''Series/MeToo'']]: Replace "island town" with "big city."
74* [[spoiler:''Series/BallsOfSteel'']]: A cast of professional comedians take on characters in order to go out and [[CandidCameraPrank prank people with a hidden camera recording them]].
75* ''[[spoiler: Series/BandOfBrothers]]'': What if ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' was 7 hours long. And more people died. And it actually happened in real life.
76* ''[[spoiler: Series/BatesMotel]]'': Mother and son run a small business together, and love each other very very [[IncestSubtext very]] much.
77* ''[[spoiler: Series/Batman1966]]'': Obviously insane rich white guy with a compulsion to label everything lives with a younger guy. They both put on tights and go out looking for other men in tights so they can rough them up.
78* ''[[spoiler: Series/BattleBots]]'': Remote controlled machines dubbed "robots" DuelToTheDeath in an arena for three minutes for the chance to win the [[DoubleEntendre Giant Nut]].
79* [[spoiler:''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'']]: A group of BigDamnHeroes re-enact westerns IN SPACE while fighting robots with no sense of tactics or stealth.
80* [[spoiler:''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'']]: A group of dysfunctional people are chased by their pissed-off children. InSpace!
81** Monotheists attempt to end paganism.
82* [[spoiler:''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'']]: A giant, talking bear invites viewers into his house and instills life lessons into the young animals who live with him.
83* [[spoiler:''Series/BeatTheClock'']]: Ordinary people do silly, timed stunts on national television. For money.
84* [[spoiler:''Series/BeautifulPeople'']]: Two young teenage boys get up to lots of gay hijinks. Often in public.
85* [[spoiler:''Series/BeingErica'']]: A woman meets a time-travelling therapist who helps her with her regrets.
86* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'']]: A recovering addict, a neurotic in denial, and a woman with serious confidence issues share a house in Bristol.
87** The original trailer simply said "A vampire, werewolf and a ghost all share a flat in Bristol".
88* [[spoiler:''series/Benidorm'']]: Mostly poor British people get a chance to visit another country and waste almost the entire time shut away in one commercial building complex lying motionless, destroying their skin, ingesting various poisons insulting or arguing with each other. We laugh at them.
89* [[spoiler:''Ben Casey'']]: An angry, hairy doctor tells people he’s better than them. His elderly mentor also has a hair problem.
90* [[spoiler:''Series/TheBenStillerShow'']]: A sketch comedy series, created for Creator/{{MTV}}, adapted for Creator/{{FOX}}.
91* [[spoiler:''Series/BestFriendsWhenever'']]: Teenage girls travel through time by touching each other.
92* [[spoiler:''Series/BetterCallSaul'']]: A manager of a Cinnabon in Omaha looks back on [[AmoralAttorney his life]].
93** Alternatively, after defecating through a sunroof ([[NoodleIncident don't ask]]), a former con-man attempts to impress his brother and his girlfriend by becoming a lawyer. It really, ''really'' doesn't work out.
94*** Said sunroof-defecation leads to a series of events where, amongst other things, the brother [[spoiler:commits suicide in a house fire]], the girlfriend [[UncertainDoom may or may not be alive]], two planes crash and kill 167 people, a drug kingpin operates the largest meth empire in America, three drug cartels get dismantled, a man gets enslaved and is forced to run away to Alaska, and several hundreds of people get murdered.
95* [[spoiler:''Series/BetterThings'']]: A single mother spoils her over-entitled children.
96* [[spoiler:''Series/BetweenTheLions'']]: A family of lions runs a library and teaches reading skills.
97* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Bewitched}}'']]: A girl wreaks havoc by twitching her nose and fights with her mother about who she married.
98* [[spoiler:''[[Series/{{Beetleborgs}} Big Bad Beetleborgs]]'']]: Young comic fans become bug-themed superheroes thanks to a ghost that looks like a cross between Elvis Presley and Jay Leno.
99* [[spoiler:''Series/BeyondScaredStraight'']]: Murderers and drug dealers scream profanities at children for an hour.
100* [[spoiler:''Series/TheBigBangTheory'']]: Underappreciated Asexual Genius is mocked for his social difficulties despite large circle of close friends including hot neighbour.
101** It's like ''Series/RedDwarf'' only ''not'' In Space! And Cat, Kryten and Lister are replaced with toned down versions of Rimmer.
102** Two nerds who live across the hall from a hottie. One of them steals her mail just to get a chance to talk to her, the other gives her advice.
103** Nobody likes the awesomest guy on TV.
104* [[spoiler:''Series/BigBrother'']]: People are locked in a house for three months and forced to obey the whims of a hidden task-master to beg for food. Swearing and fights ensue.
105* [[spoiler:''Series/BigTimeRush'']]: Four hockey players from Minnesota are gathered and brought to Los Angeles to make music and become a boy band.
106* [[spoiler:''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'']]: [[PerkyGoth A hyperactive geek-goth]], a hairy American football player, and a tomboy go on adventures together.
107* [[spoiler:''Series/TheBill'']]: Police work in East London. Where the cops die a lot.
108* [[spoiler:''Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy'']]: Man lectures children about science.
109* ''[[spoiler:Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie]]'': Sketch show where almost all roles are played by two really tall, upper-class men from Oxbridge.
110* [[spoiler:''Series/BlackBooks'']]: The weird life and homoerotic misadventures of a sadistic drunk who owns a bookshop, his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} assistant / punching bag and their best (and only) friend.
111* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'']]: A historical SitCom, in which every generation of a charismatic but extremely unlucky man's family both looks the same and possesses the same name, as does almost everyone else he encounters. Each man is unfortunate enough to be surrounded by half-wits, incompetents and lunatics, and is waited upon by a servant whose standards of personal hygiene are barely human at best.
112* [[spoiler: ''Series/BlackMirror'']]: Cynical Brits tell various stories about how technology can get us screwed.
113** Aptly described by a reviewer as: "What if phones, but too much?"
114* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Blackpool}}'']]: Murder investigation is frequently interrupted by song-and-dance numbers using well-known pop songs.
115* [[spoiler:''Series/BlakesSeven'']]: A bunch of people get together on a spaceship to battle a sadistic glam goddess and her massive personal army.
116* ''[[spoiler: Series/BloodOverWater]]'' (no relation to a book by the same name): Murderous thugs can't figure out which twin brother they're supposed to kill. A friend of both brothers can't decide whether or not he prefers them to a fat paycheck.
117* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'']]: Blonde woman sleeps her way to the top of the fashion world. Some of her most famous conquests include a married man and both of his sons, [[TangledFamilyTree having children along the way with two of them.]]
118* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Bones}}'']]: A gorgeous but socially clueless genius anthropologist solves murders involving really icky decomposition with a street-smart and equally gorgeous wisecracking FBI agent. {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST ensues. They are helped by a socially retarded supergenius, a conspiracy-theorist slime expert, and a good-hearted, free-spirited artist.
119** A crime drama which is mainly just close-ups of rotting bodies falling apart and scientists saying lengthy pieces of techno-babble. This may, if you are ''very'' lucky, be followed by just a few minutes of actual action with their BookDumb Law Enforcement Liason.
120* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Boohbah}}'']]: A bunch of multicolored creatures do strange dances. Each episode contains a segment where a man [[NarratingTheObvious gives unnecessary narration]] for normal people doing ordinary things.
121* [[spoiler:''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'']]: A mercenary crawls out of a hole and retires to a peaceful life in the desert. The story gets much more interesting when he is upstaged by the tangentially related adventures of a single father.
122* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Bottom}}'']]: Two brainless alcoholic perverts beat each other up.
123* [[spoiler:''Series/TheBoys2019'']]: After the death of his girlfriend, a young man is coerced into joining a group of mentally deranged people who use shady methods to fight against even more mentally deranged superhero expies, and ends up dating the only non-mentally deranged superhero.
124* [[spoiler:''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'']]: Immature kid grows up into a neurotic dork and marries the girl he used to torment, has the same teacher for every grade.
125* [[spoiler:''Series/TheBradyBunch'']]: A widow and a widower get married and bring their children from previous marriages to live together in a really big house the man designed himself. (Which nonetheless has only one bathroom.)
126* [[spoiler:''Series/BrainiacScienceAbuse'']]: An educational programme that does a lot of specials about caravans.
127* [[spoiler:''Series/BreakingBad'']]: [[BadassBookworm Quiet family man]] takes up a [[DrugsAreBad second job]] to pay his medical bills.
128** High school chemistry teacher shows how badass he is by claiming he would knock on a door.
129* [[spoiler:''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'']]: [[Series/RedDwarf Arnold Rimmer]] runs a leisure centre. Chaos ensues.
130* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Broadchurch}}'']]: A grumpy Scottish detective with zero social skills teams up with a local detective to solve a murder case in a seaside town where a bunch of ''Series/DoctorWho'' characters (including the two detectives) live in for some reason.
131* [[spoiler:''Series/BrooklynNineNine'']]: Seven possibly mentally endangered cops save New York from crime - mostly drugs. Starring a sexy black man as a side villain.
132* [[spoiler:''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'']]: All-American guy takes a 500-year-plus nap, wakes up, and promptly sets about saving the Earth from fascistic regimes with help from a talking clock, a robot with a weird VerbalTic, and a Colonel FanService. (Depending on whom you ask, it might be just as bad as it sounds. In its defense, it was popular when it first came out.)
133* [[spoiler:''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'']]: A cheerleader, a nerd, a slacker, and the school librarian fight the horrors of American High School while their lives turn into a soap opera. Beloved people die with depressing regularity.
134* [[spoiler:''Series/BullseyeUK'']]: People throw things. If they do it well, they might win a vehicle they can't possibly use.
135* [[spoiler: ''Series/BurnNotice'']]: A spy loses his job and tries to find out why while [[WeHelpTheHelpless helping the helpless]].
136** or three spies make clever plans while gorgeous women in bikinis walk around. One of the spies gives lectures.
137* [[spoiler: ''Series/CaliforniaDreams'']]: A re-imagining of [[Series/SavedByTheBell The Zack Attack]] but with better music, more drama and somewhat more likable people. One of the most noticeable differences is while its original vision had high school students who also had a band, here it's members of a band who also attend high school.
138* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Cannon}}'']]: Crimes are solved and conspiracies are broken up ... by an obese insurance investigator.
139* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheCape'']]: A cop gets fired for being too honest by a guy with the creepiest contact lenses ever. He resorts to a comic book character's wardrobe for vengeance, and is aided by a gang of carnies and a sneaky hacker who he has much sexual tension with.
140* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Caprica}}'']]: A teenage girl is killed in a terrorist attack organized by her friends. A copy of her soul ends up in the body of a robot killing machine that will one day destroy human civilization. It's a family drama.
141* [[spoiler: ''Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons'']]: A group of colour-coded soldiers with very odd accents try to stop a bunch of glowing green lights from destroying all life on Earth.
142* [[spoiler:''Series/CashCab'']]: In UsefulNotes/{{New York|City}} [-- (and UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}!) --], taxi pays YOU!!
143* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'']]: Mystery author stalks hot detective, hitting on her and making cruel jokes about murder scenes. Then he writes about it and gets ''even more'' rich and famous. She loves him for it.
144* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Catchphrase}}'']]: Robot with a neckerchief plays charades. People get paid for solving his clues.
145* [[spoiler:''Celebracadabra'']]: Pseudo-celebrities try to perform magic tricks. Seriously.
146* [[spoiler:''Series/TheChampions1968'']]: Three people survive a plane crash and learn new skills, which they put to very good use.
147* [[spoiler:''Series/Charmed1998'']]: Ordinary people are given magical powers, forbidden from [[PersonalGainHurts using them for anything]] but fighting deadly monsters for no pay, while getting punished for violating arbitrary rules and suffering from [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife romantic problems]] and being expected to uphold the {{masquerade}} at the same time. This is considered a good system, and disobeying it is always evil.
148** [[spoiler: ''Charmed'' Season 1]]: Women get magical powers and use them to kill people, while trying to avoid letting their cop friend know about it. Many cops are killed by collateral damage. God sends the ghost of a medic killed in World War 2 disguised as a handyman to help them cover up.
149** [[spoiler: ''Charmed'' Season 2]]: Three women learn three separate times that they should let their sister die if it came to it. Meanwhile, one of them is caught in a LoveTriangle between her neighbor and the ghostly handyman.
150** [[spoiler: ''Charmed'' Season 3]]: AmoralAttorney seeks redemption after having sex with a college student, [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor gets it, is turned evil again by magic against his will, then turned good again by more magic.]] Meanwhile, the most heroic and active woman with powers is killed by wind because of off-screen drama.
151** [[spoiler: ''Charmed'' Season 4]]: Two women go looking for a new sister to replace the one who died, just in time to battle the demonic ruler of the underworld. Meanwhile, the attorney becomes fully good by giving up his powers, is turned evil by magic again against his will, tries to turn good again with more magic, and is prevented from doing so by his wife, who willingly turned evil. She turns good again and kills him for being turned evil, refuses to bring him back to life, and leaves him in demonic hell.
152** [[spoiler: ''Charmed'' Season 5]]: Three women encounter nymphs, mermaids, fairy tale creatures, and the Sword in the Stone before battling Greek Gods with the help of a deceptive time traveler. The ghostly handyman becomes an angel king, but is imprisoned by the time traveler. The attorney comes back to life on his own, turns good again, is turned evil again against his will by magic, snaps out of it, is driven mad by magic against his will, tries and fails to commit suicide, turns evil again, and accidentally commits suicide successfully by traveling to an alternate reality.
153** [[spoiler: ''Charmed'' Season 6]]: Ghostly handyman turned angel king attempts to expose the deceptive time traveler as the BigBad, but then realizes that his beloved mentor is the ''real'' BigBad, and kills him. Romantic drama, a WizardingSchool, attempted baby-murder, demonic reality TV, and a KidFromTheFuture are all involved.
154** [[spoiler: ''Charmed'' Season 7]]: Tired of the rules of their bosses, three women and their ghostly handyman attempt to aid a revolution aiming to create Utopia, but betray their allies at the last second for being too draconian. The ghostly handyman becomes human following a career crisis and MemoryGambit, and everyone is assisted by a terminally ill demon who dresses as Robin Hood, which was all planned by the ghost of the attorney.
155** [[spoiler: ''Charmed'' Season 8]]: Three women attempt a massive identity scam on the entire world while training a RealityWarper to do their job for them. The Reality Warper's sister becomes a problem because of the ghosts of three sore losers from back in the third season.
156* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{The Chase|GameShow}}'']]: A gigantic maths teacher, a studious barrister, an icy ex-journalist and a sarcastic doctor in a tasteless suit hunt people down by knowing more trivia than the contestants. It's teatime entertainment, with lots of jokes about knickers.
157* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Cheers}}'']]: A group of people meet at a bar every night. Some of them consider leaving but they usually realise that they have no life and come crawling back.
158* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'']]: Ever wanted a dramatic crash course on the functioning of nuclear reactors?
159* [[spoiler:''Series/ChouseishinSeries'']]: [[{{Sentai}} Knockoff Power Rangers]] fight [[NotZilla knockoff Godzilla monsters]].
160** [[spoiler: ''Series/ChouseishinGransazer'']]: 12 people discover their Zodiac signs, get giant animals as a bonus, and wind up fighting aliens.
161** [[spoiler:''Series/GenseishinJustirisers'']]: [[RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude Teenagers with attitude]] are chosen to battle a hermit sealed inside a mountain.
162** [[spoiler:''Series/ChouseiKantaiSazerX'']]: Young adult grapples with [[WellDoneSonGuy conflicting feelings]] towards his grandfather... while at the same time getting caught up in a war between two groups of time-traveling aliens.
163* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Chuck}}'']]: A nerd gets kidnapped and forced to fight crime by a hot blonde CIA agent who wants him and a hot but grumpy male NSA agent who hates him.
164* [[spoiler: ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'']]: A teenage girl [[NoFourthWall talks to a camera for 20 minutes]].
165* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheCloser'']]: SouthernBelle who is also a CIA-trained interrogator and her quirky side-kicks fight crime.
166* [[spoiler:''Series/CobraKai'']]: Washed-up asshole resurrects a ThugDojo from the 80s. We're supposed to root for him.
167* ''[[spoiler:Series/TheColbertReport]]'': Exaggerated right-wing pundit reinterprets the English language, itemises things that are dead to him and attempts to alert America to the increasing threat posed by bears.
168* [[spoiler:''Series/ColdCase'']]: Detectives solve crimes through ''lots'' of {{Flashback}}s.
169** Alternately, A PoliceProcedural takes place in [[UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} an urban city that isn't New York or Chicago]] that is complete with [[NothingButHits era-appropriate music]], [[ArtisticLicenseLaw cops that occasionally have shaky grasps of the law]], hallucinations and ''lots'' of [=LGBT=] friendliness...often at the expense of blatant bigotry (especially towards Blacks) and/or misogyny.
170* [[spoiler:''Series/TheCollector'']]: About a catholic priest who becomes the devil's repo man. A new Aesop WILL be hammered home every episode.
171* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Columbo}}'']]: Bloke who dresses like a hobo and drives a banger follows rich celebrities, generally annoying them so much that they confess to crimes just to get rid of him.
172* [[spoiler: ''Creator/ComedyCentral Roast'']]: A group of people hurl insults and tear down a mutual friend. HilarityEnsues.
173* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Community}}'']]: Sitcom about a group of dysfunctional college students (most of whom are in their 30s) with nothing in common but their Spanish study group, in which they never study Spanish.
174** Alternatively, the lives of seven friends who attend the weirdest college ever.
175* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Continuum}}'']]: A group of democratic-republican revolutionaries attempt to overthrow a corporate-fascist dictatorship by travelling back in time from their dystopian future to the present to prevent the dictatorship from ever forming in the first place. They are pursued by a cyborg agent of the dictatorship equipped with futuristic weapons and tools who is attempting to stop them from changing the future. The cyborg, who regularly uses torture in interrogations, supports the dictatorship despite being fully aware that the dictatorship deliberately starves segments of the population as a tool of control and teams up with the younger version of one of the future leaders of the dictatorship. The cyborg fascist is the good guy, and the freedom fighters are the villains.
176* [[spoiler: ''Series/CornerGas'']]: Quirky yet lovable people in rural Saskatchewan. One of them runs a gas station!
177* [[spoiler: ''Series/CoronationStreet'']]: Working-class people live in a working-class place. Drama and various hijinks ensue.
178** [[spoiler: ''Series/EastEnders'']]: Working-class people live in a working-class place. [[CrapsackWorld And it is]] ''[[CrapsackWorld bloody]]'' [[CrapsackWorld depressing.]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis All. of. the. time.]]'' Drama and various hijinks ensue.
179* [[spoiler:''Series/TheCosbyShow'']]: A doctor and a lawyer raise their children. Then they raise other people's children.
180* [[spoiler:''Series/Counterpart2018'']]: A lowly bureaucrat discovers that his AlternateUniverse doppelganger is a spy.
181* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Cracker}}'']]: [[Franchise/HarryPotter Hagrid]] plays a Scottish [[Series/TheMentalist Patrick Jane]].
182* [[spoiler: ''Series/CrashAndBernstein'']]: A young boy gets purple felt for his birthday and calls it his best friend.
183* [[spoiler: ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'']]: A high-flying lawyer leaves her job to stalk a guy she dated in high school across the country after realising she needs him to make her happy, while singing songs to herself about loneliness and feminine hygiene. It's a feminist show. Oh, and it's on The CW.
184* [[spoiler: ''Series/CriminalMinds'']]: A group of FBI agents, including a socially awkward young genius with a schizophrenic mother, a really serious guy with family issues, and a former cop who likes to kick down doors, fly to different parts of the country in order to pretend that they are crazy people.
185* [[spoiler: ''Series/CrossingJordan'']]: A Boston medical examiner with a big mouth and a big heart solves crimes with the help of her neurotic boss, a bubbly grief counselor, an Indian entomologist, an ambiguously bisexual British man, her ex-cop father, and an attractive policeman with whom she shares a lot of {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST.
186* [[spoiler:''Series/TheCrystalMaze'']]: Game show where contestants make fools out of themselves to earn cubic zirconia in order to collect pieces of colored foil for adventuring days out.
187* [[spoiler: ''CSIVerse'']]:
188** [[spoiler:''Series/{{CSI}}'']]: An entomologist, a former stripper, a gambling addict, and a group of nerds and geeks perform obscure activities in a lab to musical accompaniment. They fight crime... somehow.
189** [[spoiler:''Series/CSIMiami'']]: Suave supercop visits crime scenes, makes wisecracks about innocent victims and plays with his sunglasses in a series of 5-minute shorts.
190** [[spoiler:''Series/{{CSI NY}}'']]: A former Marine and 9/11 widower, a wisecracking cop, a Greek-American with a stalker problem and some other geeks and nerds solve crimes in [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity The Big Apple]]...somehow.
191* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheCube'']]: A daytime TV host who used to be in a double act with a gopher presides over the public's failure to outwit a talking geometric solid.
192* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Cupid}}'']]: A matchmaker has to set up a certain number of couples before he can go home.
193* [[spoiler: ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'']]: Wealthy but socially inept and neurotic perpetual victim of circumstance offends and antagonizes everyone he comes into contact with.
194* [[spoiler:''Series/CuteyHoneyTheLive'']]: An InnocentFanserviceGirl and a bunch of homeless dudes fight crime
195* [[spoiler:''Series/CutthroatKitchen'']]: Four competing chefs get their prize money upfront, but spend it to buy crazy props, steal ingredients, and create unwanted diversions against each other.
196* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Cybergirl}}'']]: Before being the host of a certain Saturday morning block on [[Creator/{{YTV}} a Canadian network]], she was the star of one of its little-known {{Tween Drama}}s as a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue cyborg]] from outer space on the run from its creators, taking refuge on Earth, where she befriends a family on the road and ends up a public hero.
197* [[spoiler:''Series/DadsArmy'']]: A group of bungling old men and a mummy's boy prepare to fight the Nazis that will probably never arrive.
198** World War II has never been so funny.
199* [[spoiler:''Series/TheDailyShow'']]: New York comedian makes commentary on current events by playing clips, making a funny face, and occasionally launching a PrecisionFStrike.
200* ''[[spoiler: Series/{{Dallas}}]]'': Three millionaire businessmen live in one house because they apparently can't afford more than one dwelling between them. One of them gets shot.
201* ''[[spoiler:Series/DantesCove]]'': Set around a resort town populated by a number of users of a magic enhanced by {{Fantastic Drug}}s, and an unusually high percentage of homosexual residents who enjoy [[AllGaysArePromiscuous little more than]] [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex having as much sex as possible]]. No one can act, the writing is stilted, and everyone is gorgeous and naked.
202* ''[[spoiler: Series/DaVincisInquest]]'': A coroner from Vancouver walks around a lot, talks with people on the street, and acts sarcastic towards the local law enforcement. He also wants to legalize drugs and prostitution. Which he does...''after he becomes the Mayor of Vancouver''. Based on a true story.
203* ''[[spoiler: Series/Daredevil2015]]'': A blind Catholic lawyer and a possibly-autistic urban planning enthusiast battle over gentrification.
204** ''[[spoiler: Series/Daredevil2015 Season 2]]'': A man with a serious addiction to shooting people draws the ire of a corrupt DA, meanwhile the blind Catholic lawyer's ex-girlfriend moves back into town.
205** ''[[spoiler: Series/TheDefenders2017]]'': The lawyer's ex returns again, forcing him to ask the help of a drunk, a convict and a hippie millionaire.
206* ''[[spoiler: Series/Dark2017]]'': ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' as rewritten by Creator/StephenKing and then made into a TV show by German philosophy students who really loved the timey-wimey aspects of modern ''Series/DoctorWho''.
207* [[spoiler: ''Series/DarkOracle'']]: Two teenagers find a comic-book that lets them predict the future. Weirdness and {{Angst}} ensue.
208* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Dateline}}'s To Catch a Predator'']]: A handsome, snobbish and quasi-nerdy journalist embarrasses perverts via entrapment and scolding them like a disappointed father.
209* [[spoiler:''Creator/DaveAllen at Large'']]: Chain-smoking Irishman sits on a chair and talks about life, death, drinking, religion, and the English.
210* [[spoiler:''Series/DawsonsCreek'']]: Teenagers in Massachusetts use big words.
211** Alternatively, [[Series/MadTV "Pretty White Kids With Problems".]]
212* [[spoiler:''Series/DeadLikeMe'']]: An apathetic virgin gets press-ganged into a dead-end job and hanging out in a diner with her dysfunctional co-workers.
213* [[spoiler:''Series/DeadliestCatch'']]: Guys go out, year after year, to subject themselves to constant torture at the hands of Nature, [[MoneyDearBoy all for the sake of money]].
214* [[spoiler:''Series/DeadliestWarrior'']]: Two groups of guys hit jelly babies with stuff, all the while arguing about which is better at hitting stuff until a fight breaks out.
215* [[spoiler:''Series/DeadToMe'']]: A woman with serious anger issues befriends another woman at a grief retreat. Unbeknonwnst to her, her new friend murdered her husband in a car crash. We're supposed to like these two people.
216** Alternatively, a woman and her friend are pursued by the friend's ex-fiance and the woman murders said ex-fiance. We're still supposed to like her.
217* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Deadwood}}'']]: Complex compound sentences, none shorter than twenty words or containing fewer than three clauses or [[ClusterFBomb two profanities]], delivered while standing in either dust or mud.
218** Alternatively: A dramatized series of ongoing philosophical debates about the relative merits and drawbacks of centralized democratic government and anarchocapitalist libertarianism.
219* [[spoiler:''Series/DealOrNoDeal'']]: Watch with anticipation as people discover what is inside a suitcase.
220* [[spoiler: ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'']]: Teenagers act and behave like adults while going through the [[VerySpecialEpisode normal growing pains]] in a setting [[NoBudget one step above your average public access television program.]]
221** [[spoiler: ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'']]: A continuation of the above series starring the self-righteous GranolaGirl progeny of one of the show's peripheral characters and both of their groups of friends, enemies and others. [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff It ends up appealing more to a whole different nation than its own]] and [[Series/BeverlyHills90210 like its predecessor did years earlier]] inspires a SequelSeries to that show with a similar plotline.
222* [[spoiler: ''Series/DempseyAndMakepeace'']]: Guy takes his job too seriously, gets transferred overseas, and is stuck working alongside an aristocratic blonde.
223* [[spoiler: ''Series/DenkouChoujinGridman'']]: A group of kids use ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' technologies to get rid of computer viruses.
224** [[spoiler:''Series/SuperhumanSamuraiSyberSquad'']]: Same as above but the bad guy is Creator/TimCurry.
225* [[spoiler: ''Series/DepartmentS'']]: A foppish spy novelist, a quick-tempered American, and a computer whiz are brought together to solve weird cases that Scotland Yard and Interpol won't touch.
226* [[spoiler: {{Series/DesChiffresEtDesLettres}}]]: [[LongRunner Long-running]] game show from France that asks the questions, "can you combine these 6 numbers to achieve a target sum?", followed by "how long a word can you make from 9 random letters?"
227** [[spoiler: ''Series/Countdown'']] UK remake of the above show.
228* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Dexter}}'']]: The main character is charming, personable, and homicidal. He's a cop by day and a killer by night...
229* [[spoiler: ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'']]: A lawyer and a hippie get married on a whim. Their parents don't approve.
230* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'']]: A family of pre-historic animals grows accustomed to modern-style civilization.
231* [[spoiler: ''Series/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency'']]: The adventures of a detective who is too inept to look for clues, and instead just meanders around until things happen.
232* [[spoiler: ''Series/DirtyJobs'']]: RealityShow involving [[ClassicallyTrainedExtra a former opera singer]] who [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity can't keep a job for more than a day at a time]].
233* [[spoiler: ''Series/DirtySexyMoney'']]: A lawyer investigates the suspicious circumstances of his father's death while taking over his duty as personal lawyer to the richest family in New York City.
234** When Telemundo meets Dallas.
235* [[spoiler:''Series/DoctorWho'']]: A senior citizen spends several lifetimes convincing hot young things to join them inside a box. They are routinely harassed by tin men, Nazi saltshakers and their old college buddies.
236** Alternatively, a time traveller fights aliens, makes new friends and changes their face periodically.
237** Still alternatively: A time-traveling scientist with no fashion sense attempts to have a jog around every rock quarry in the universe, only to find that they are frequently infested with monsters.
238** Alternatively-alternatively and even more alternatively: Producers find canonical excuse to keep a popular character and just replace all the actors.
239** Alternatively to all of the above: A homeless vagrant travels around in a box and claims to have a degree in medicine.
240*** [[spoiler:The First Doctor (1963-66)]]: A grumpy old man goes on educational adventures through space and time, with the first lesson being to not be an asshole. He is accompanied by his granddaughter, two of her teachers, Cressida, a downed pilot, a temple acolyte, a security agent from an interstellar empire (revealed 27 seasons later to have been built on slave labor), a teenager, a sailor, and a MadScientist's secretary.
241*** [[spoiler:The Second Doctor (1966-69)]]: The old man becomes a younger hobo who travels with the sailor, the secretary, a [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything piper who forgot his pipes]], a Victorian orphan, and a genius. Sadly, [[MissingEpisode the records of their adventures are gutted]].
242*** [[spoiler:The Third Doctor (1970-74)]]: A TechnicalPacifist scientist works for a military force and fights an old college buddy. He gets help from a couple of civilians, one of whom marries an activist who may or may not be extreme. Then he gets help from a reporter.
243*** [[spoiler:The Fourth Doctor (1974-81)]]: The scientist turns {{cloudcuckoolander}} and flies away, much to his CO's annoyance, travelling with the reporter, a physician in the military force, a JunglePrincess, a robot dog, a young lady who appears to throw centuries of her life away on a whim, a troubled genius who just lost his brother, a recently-orphaned princess who loses her civilization, and an opinionated flight attendant.
244*** [[spoiler:The Fifth Doctor (1982-84)]]: A cricketer fails to save the day a lot, while in the company of the genius, the ex-princess, the flight attendant, a youth who tried to kill him, a robot who doesn't appear much, and a botany student.
245*** [[spoiler:The Sixth Doctor (1984-86)]]: Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat does time and space, only with less dancing and more {{fanservice}}. The botany student (now a vegetarian) either dies or marries a barbarian king and Mr. Dreamcoat escapes execution only because the powers that be owe him a favor. Then he travels with a [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]] who desperately needs to [[TookALevelInBadass Take A Level In Badass]].
246*** [[spoiler:The Seventh Doctor (1987-89)]]: TheChessmaster throws the [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge dropped on the above person]] off and raises a troubled teenager when the [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]] goes off with a scoundrel.
247*** [[spoiler:The Eighth Doctor (1996 TV movie)]]: A {{cloudcuckoolander}} dabbles in xenophilia, [[LargeHam meets with his old college buddy]], then disappears into [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho a realm where he can only be heard, but not seen]] for 17 years.
248*** [[spoiler: The War Doctor (2013)]]: The {{cloudcuckoolander}} drinks a magic potion and turns into [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Winston Smith]] to fight a war. After many years in combat, he ends up in a rickety hut arguing with a box.
249*** [[spoiler:The Ninth Doctor (2005)]]: An angry, bitter man destroys a girl's place of employment and then befriends her. They pick up another companion and then send him away for making trouble, and later pick up a man whose addiction is PlayedForLaughs.
250*** [[spoiler:The Tenth Doctor (2005-10)]]: The personification of BewareTheNiceOnes travels with a girl from a council estate, her ex-boyfriend, a medical student, and a temp, until he has to [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedAmnesia neuralyze the temp]]]]. He travels alone from then on. Also, his old college buddy returns as part of his MythArc.
251*** [[spoiler:The Eleventh Doctor (2010-2013)]]: An angry absent-minded professor who may be CrazyIsCool incarnate tries to stay out of trouble badly and fails to keep a hat. He spends a lot of time with [[spoiler: his family]] until they [[spoiler: die]]. After this, he pouts for a while until he meets a new friend who keeps reincarnating in his life and tries to figure out how that works.
252*** [[spoiler: The Twelfth Doctor (2013-2017)]]: Grumpy Scotsman rebels against all authority and saves the day while being incredibly rude to everybody. He debates his morals frequently, and eventually mellows out with the help of a guitar and sunglasses. His best friend repeatedly lies to her boyfriend, and then eventually just becomes the Scotsman. After she [[spoiler:dies/leaves]], he's assisted by a bald alien in a duffle coat and a university cafeteria worker. His old college buddy [[GenderBender who has had a facelift]] returns again as part of his MythArc.
253*** [[spoiler: The Thirteenth Doctor (2017-2022)]]: Energetic blonde [[GenderBender woman]] travels with an old man, his step-grandson, and a young cop who has a crush on her, becoming much less bubbly and more secretive as time goes on. Her college buddy returns with [[GenderBender another facelift]] just to tell her that her past was a lie, which she struggles to deal with, not helped by her lost past deciding to stage a comeback. After the old man and his step-grandson leave, she and the cop (who's now left her job) adopt a himbo, who teaches the cop how to admit her feelings to the blonde.
254*** [[spoiler:The Fugitive Doctor (2020-2022)]]: Black ops agent tries to find a way to leave her employers.
255*** [[spoiler: The Fourteenth Doctor (2023)]]: Emotional Guy gets an old face back, reunites with his best friend, fights a being of unimaginable power, and retires. All within three hours.
256*** [[spoiler: River Song arc]]: Boy meets girl. Girl knows boy. Girl dies. Boy meets girl’s mum. Mum meets girl. Mum and Dad get married and create girl. Girl gets kidnapped. Girl is actually parents' friend. Girl meets boy for the first time. Girl kills boy. Girl revives boy. Girl gets kidnapped again. Girl pretends to kill boy. Girl gets married to boy. Girl comes back as a ghost. Boy takes girl to dinner. Boy leaves girl. [[HowWeGotHere Boy meets girl]].
257*** [[spoiler: Saxon arc]]: Politician lies about his credentials, makes it to Number Ten, gets found out, falls from grace, gets shot by his wife, and ends up homeless. It's a sci-fi.
258*** [[spoiler:''Day Of The Doctor'']]: A bunch of doctors get together to fix [[MyGreatestFailure one doctor's greatest failure]]. Some guy from the future [[EarlyBirdCameo shows up to tease people]]. A guy from the past's face also shows up to fans' delight.
259*** [[spoiler: The Timeless Child arc]]: Scientist adopts an abandoned child and subsequently becomes an AbusiveParent while making themselves and their home look better.
260** [[spoiler:''K-9 and Company'']]: An ex-time-traveller turned journalist and an anachronistic robot dog face down religious fanatics.
261** [[spoiler:''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'']]: An investigative journalist turned time-traveller turned investigative journalist uses tricks learned from a former road trip buddy in her efforts to save the world. She enlists [[YouMeddlingKids local teens]] to help her, without the consent or knowledge of their parents. Oh, and it is revealed in one episode that Cambridge has a genuine knight from the Crusades in its science department.
262** [[spoiler:''Series/{{Torchwood}}'']]: A pack of inept sex-crazed maniacs attempt to fight aliens in Cardiff, fail repeatedly, and die often.
263*** [[spoiler:''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth'']]: An alien took children as drugs in the 1960s, and now it demands more. The team dissolves.
264*** [[spoiler: ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'']]: Death is no longer there to cause pain and grief, and whatever sex-crazed maniacs are still around treat this like a bad thing.
265** [[spoiler:''Series/{{K9}}'']]: A crazy scientist, a teenage rebel, a petty thief, and an upper class girl team up with a robot dog to fight other robots.
266* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'']]: A semi-deranged FBI agent investigates a detective agency/bodyguard service/high-class brothel run by a [[TheChessmaster manipulative]] British businesswoman, a nerdy scientist, and an ex-cop. Moral ambiguity ensues.
267* ''[[spoiler:Series/DontTrustTheBInApartment23]]'': Woman experiences life in the big city through a very unpleasant roommate and weird neighbors that include a washed up TV star.
268* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Double Dare|1986}}'']]: Two teams are CoveredInGunge for fun and profit. Hosted by an obsessive-compulsive neat freak.
269* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Dragnet}}'']]: A ByTheBookCop chronicles some of his more memorable cases. [[BasedOnATrueStory Based on Hundreds of True Stories]].
270** ''[[spoiler:Series/Adam12]]'': The same as above, in a patrol car.
271* [[spoiler:''Series/DrakeAndJosh'']]: Two stepbrothers costantly get pranked by their little sister.
272* [[spoiler:''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'']]: The adventures of an alcoholic fat guy with glasses.
273* [[spoiler:''Series/DueSouth'']]: A Mountie and his pet wolf are kicked out of Canada for being ''too'' polite. They decide to clean up the streets of America...politely.
274* [[spoiler:''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'']]: A family fights the government in a town that won't let the Confederate States die.
275* [[spoiler:''Series/EarlyEdition'']]: A newly-divorced man in Chicago gets tomorrow's newspaper delivered a day early by an orange tabby cat.
276* [[spoiler:''Series/EastEnders'']]: The miserable lives of a collection of [[DysfunctionJunction dysfunctional families]] in London.
277* [[spoiler:''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'']]: A newspaper columnist hosts an hour of virtually every field of entertainment on Sunday nights for twenty-three years. One musical act draws so big an audience that they set a new record for TV viewing percentage.
278* [[spoiler:''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'']]: A starving orphan lives inside a barrel in a slum and is regularly ostracized. It's a comedy.
279* [[spoiler:''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'']]: A cast that includes Creator/MorganFreeman, Creator/RitaMoreno, Creator/BillCosby, and a man who voiced an X-rated cartoon character teaches reading through psychedelic sketch comedy.
280* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Elementary}}'']]: A woman becomes a companion for a recovering junkie CloudCuckooLander from England who works with the NYPD. They fight crime.
281** Alternatively: Creator/LucyLiu babysits a twitchy recovering addict BunnyEarsLawyer. They fight crime and have mostly-platonic femdom subtext.
282** Alternatively: ''Series/{{CSI}}'' starring Franchise/SherlockHolmes and Creator/LucyLiu.
283* [[spoiler:''Series/EliStone'']]: A lawyer's tumor makes him see original show tunes.
284* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Entourage}}'']]: A hot actor, his {{Heterosexual Life Partner|s}}, his washed out brother, and their chubby friend, along with the actor's snarky agent and the agent's flamboyantly gay secretary have misadventures in Hollywood.
285* ''[[spoiler: Series/TheEqualizer]]'': A [[CoolOldGuy retired member]] of a vaguely defined government organization decides to protect the defenseless people of New York from organized crime. He does it pretty well.
286* ''[[spoiler: The Creator/ErnieKovacs Show]]'': An eccentric uses the new medium of television as his own personal plaything.
287* ''[[spoiler: Series/TheExpanse]]'': A grizzled cop, a freighter crew, and a politician get involved in sprawling interplanetary conspiracy.
288** Described by one review as ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/GameOfThrones''.
289* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Eureka}}'']]: A law enforcement official moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest. HollywoodScience ensues.
290* ''[[spoiler: Series/EurovisionSongContest]]'': Campy weirdos compete for national glory.
291* ''[[spoiler: Series/ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo]]'': ''Series/{{Monk}}'', but [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN KOREA!]]
292* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheFactsOfLife'']]: Wise and bubbly redheaded woman babysits and solves the problems of four teenage girls in Westchester County, New York.
293* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'']]: Two war buddies deal with their friend's legacy, including arguing with the government-sanctioned new guy, while a teenager rages against The Man. A villain of a previous movie wins people over by dancing.
294* [[spoiler: ''Series/FamilyFeud'']]: Two families compete to predict the outcomes of surveys.
295* [[spoiler: ''Series/FamilyMatters'']]: A cop has issues with his neighbor.
296* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Farscape}}'']]: A scientist and a Nazi commando help criminals escape on a living spaceship with a giant spacecrab pilot, then run and hide from the authorities- who are represented by a madman with NoIndoorVoice, a weirdly assertive gimp with an interest in theoretical physics, and a date rapist who sweats love potion from her cleavage.
297** Alternatively: An unfortunate astronaut gets sucked into a wormhole where he is tortured by aliens and slowly loses his mind.
298** Quoth Creator/WarrenEllis: "[[spoiler:Farscape]] is one American's descent into Australia's S&M scene."
299* [[spoiler:''Series/FatherTed'']]: An embezzler, a simpleton and an alcoholic all live under one roof with their insane housekeeper, and they all live in fear of their boss's psychopathic rages.
300* [[spoiler:''Series/FawltyTowers'']]: An angry British hotelier hates his guests, lies to his wife, and physically assaults the hotel waiter. The underpaid maid is the only competent person. It's a comedy.
301* [[spoiler:''Series/FindersKeepers'']]: Game show where trashing a house is profitable.
302* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Firefly}}'']]: A pair of bitter war veterans, a sexual ambassador for hire, a [[SociopathicHero mercenary with a cunning hat]], [[WrenchWench a hot mechanic]], a childish pilot, a preacher with a MysteriousPast, a medical genius and the [[{{Moe}} cutest little]] [[AxCrazy psychotic]] [[WaifFu killing machine]] ever all get together on a ship. They do crime!
303** {{Dramed|y}}ic {{Chin|aTakesOverTheWorld}}ese [[TheWestern Western]] [[TheCaper Heist]] {{War Movie|s}} [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]
304* [[spoiler: ''Series/FirstWave'']]: A former criminal on the run from the law for murdering his wife (which he didn't) teams up with a paranoid hacker/online newspaper editor who lives in a trailer, and later also some chick with a private army. They fight aliens! Using ancient prophecies!
305* [[spoiler:''Series/TheFlash2014]]'': A comatose police forensic investigator becomes a vigilante, with the help of a group of scientist enablers.
306* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Fleabag}}'']]: A hapless, camera-mugging Londoner sleeps with a lot of people and owns a guinea pig café.
307* [[spoiler:''Series/TheFollowing'']]: A college professor ends up in jail following a midlife crisis, and starts a blog which then gets fans. His fans proceed to murder dozens of people across the United States as part of the professor's plan to get revenge on the unemployed alcoholic his wife had an affair with.
308* [[spoiler: ''Series/ForeverKnight'']]: [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Vampire with a conscience]] works as a night cop, dates a mortician, and goes through a series of partners and captains. Also, he [[IHateYouVampireDad kills his vampire sire]], [[OnlyMostlyDead who goes on]] to host a late-night radio show of some sort. This all takes place in UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}.
309* [[spoiler: Forged in Fire]]: Yep, blacksmithing is now a reality competition.
310* [[spoiler:''Series/TheFosters'']]: She's a cop keeping the peace on the streets of San Diego. She's a school principal keeping the peace in the halls. They adopt and foster emotionally-scarred teenagers.
311* [[spoiler:''Series/FoylesWar'']]: A detective is very good at solving murders, but keeps having to let the killers go free so that they can help kill lots of Germans. His assistant only has one leg.
312* [[spoiler:''Series/FraggleRock'']]: Furry, colorful vermin infest a mad inventor’s walls and floorboards, steal fresh produce from delusional ogres, and learn about the human world via a self-appointed ambassador.
313* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Frasier}}'']]: A psychiatrist gets a new job. His brother, who drops by often, gets a crush on a nurse despite already being married. Craziness ensues.
314* [[spoiler:''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'']]: Teenage girl spends time learning that an old army jacket and playing hookey is more important to her than academia and general adoration. Her younger brother spends the same time contemplating how it's possible to be adored at ''all''.
315* [[spoiler:''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'']]: A street-smart teen moves in with his rich relatives.
316** Alternatively: A boy's life playing outdoor sports is inverted by a group of miscreants, prompting his mother to send him away. His transport is quite unusual, but he disregards it.
317* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Friends}}'']]: Three incredibly hot guys and three incredibly hot girls live together [[LoveDodecahedron in varying combinations]] at varying times while doing crazy stuff and drinking lots of coffee.
318** Or, a ControlFreak, DeadpanSnarker, [[EndearinglyDorky Endearing Dork]], LovableAlphaBitch, CloudCuckooLander and TheCasanova try to figure life out by never going to work, [[LimitedSocialCircle never interacting with anyone else]] and drinking lots of coffee.
319* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Fringe}}'']]: A DHS agent, a terminally unemployed man and his mentally ill father solve mysteries with mad science and recreational drugs.
320* [[spoiler: ''Series/FullHouse'']]: Widower asks a punk and a manchild to help raise his three terminally cute little girls.
321* ''[[spoiler:Series/GameOfThrones]]'': [[{{Dissimile}} Like]] ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', [[{{Dissimile}} only there are few monsters,]] [[CrapsackWorld all the players are jerks,]] [[KillerGameMaster and the GM is a colossal dillhole.]]
322** Alternatively: [[FourLinesAllWaiting Way too many people for me to remember]] fight over who gets to sit on the world's most uncomfortable chair while nobody seems to consider the encroaching horde of unstoppable ice zombies important.
323** [[spoiler: Season One]]: A drunk guy asks his friend to do his job for him. Then he gets killed by a pig, a jerk ends up in charge, the drunk guy's friend gets beheaded, and everyone starts grabbing expensive headgear and trying to tell everyone else to kneel. Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, a girl sets things on fire.
324** [[spoiler: Season Two]]: Five guys with expensive headgear wave swords at each other. Very young girls make inappropriate friendships with older men. A bunch of guys in black take a road trip to someplace cold. Across the ocean, countless people die over a young girl's pets.
325** [[spoiler: Season Three]]: Like the above, plus a wedding that many find too aggressive.
326** [[spoiler: Season Four]]: Jerk is murdered, leading him to be replaced by a teenager, and the leading suspect to flee the law while killing his loved ones. Three siblings discover how seemingly the world is out to get them. Across the ocean, the young girl makes plenty of people change their jobs.
327** [[spoiler: Season Five]]: A mum gets tangled up with a persistent cult, an orphan girl gets tangled up with another persistent cult, and a father lands himself, his family and his career in hot water for putting too much trust in a different, but equally persistent cult. Somewhere else, two families try to reenact Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet and get all the characters wrong.
328** [[spoiler:Season Six]]: A soldier undergoes major surgery and tries to evict a renowned dog breeder from his home. An alcoholic makes a terrible trade agreement while his boss is out of town to make fiery speeches. A mum finally gets the promotion she's waiting years for after devising an unusual method of cleaning up the streets. Two siblings get their promotions screwed over by their BlackSheep uncle.
329** [[spoiler:Season Seven]]: The soldier tries to convince the girl and the mum that some aggressive squatters want to move into their homes. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero This ends up giving the invaders a powerful weapon.]]
330** [[spoiler:Season Eight]]: The soldier and the girl team up against the squatters and the mum. Then the girl [[FallenHero goes crazy]], to much fan outcry.
331* [[spoiler:''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'']]:
332** [[spoiler:Season 1]]: Building a stepfamily isn't always a good idea.
333* [[spoiler:''Series/TheGames'']]: Four people with a love/hate relationship are single-handedly responsible for putting on the Sydney Olympic Games and get into every problem imaginable.
334* [[spoiler:''Series/GameShakers'']]: A bunch of kids make cheap mobile games because Creator/KelMitchell is a fan.
335* [[spoiler:''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'']]: A talentless horror writer with a [[SmallNameBigEgo huge ego]] presents (with added cast interviews) an awful television show from TheEighties that he wrote, directed, and starred in, claiming that it is a masterpiece.
336* [[spoiler:''Series/GetALife'']]: A perpetually doomed 30-year-old {{Manchild}} tries to grow up. [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Due to his views on life]] [[WorldOfJerkass and the people around him,]] he routinely fails to do so.
337* [[spoiler:''Series/GetSmart'']]: An inept spy fights crime with his girlfriend to save the world from an age-progressed Hitler and his henchman.
338* [[spoiler:''Series/GhostsUK'']]: A woman and her Main/{{Manchild}} husband inherit a house from a very, very distant relative. The woman is almost killed by a nasal politician, which allows her to see him. She spends the rest of the first season being tormented by the politician, a failed poet who’s infatuated with her, a homophobic old lady, an army guy who’s mad that his crush got to go to war and he didn’t, a man whose wife didn’t like him because he was too much of a ControlFreak, an idiot caveman, an illiterate woman, a LiteralMinded Georgian and a head. They stop annoying her and decide to be her friend. All but the first two are dead.
339* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Ghostwriter}}'']]: Kids solve mysteries with the aid of someone who never shows his face.
340** Alternatively: The ghost of a runaway slave solves mysteries with a group of New York City area preteens with vaguely Canadian accents.
341* [[spoiler:''Series/GilligansIsland'']]: Seven people spend years on a deserted island driving each other up the wall and concocting {{Zany Scheme}}s to get off, almost all of which are foiled by [[TheLoad their stupidest member]].
342* [[spoiler:''Series/GilmoreGirls'']]: A mother and daughter with an extremely codependant relationship live in a small town full of weirdoes, drink coffee, and speak very very quickly.
343* [[spoiler:Girls]]: A group of young sociopaths live in New York. Most of them are female.
344* ''[[spoiler:Series/{{Glee}}]]'': A soap opera wrapped in ''Film/HighSchoolMusical''.
345** Alternately, ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' with Issues.
346** Alternately, teenagers work though their angst with group karaoke.
347* [[spoiler:''Series/TheGoodies'']]: Three Englishmen set up a "We Do Anything" agency. HilarityEnsues.
348** Alternatively, Creator/MontyPython meets Film/TheThreeStooges, with the same results.
349* [[spoiler:''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'']]: Every episode is life advice for the baby protagonist.
350* [[spoiler:''Series/TheGoodPlace'']]: A rude woman moves to a new neighborhood where everyone is nicer than her, and she has to pretend to be nice in order to avoid being sent to a considerably worse neighborhood.
351** Alternatively, Everyone who has died in the past few centuries has gone to Hell, where they are horribly tortured. Except for four people who are put in an experiment where they are tricked in to psychologically torturing each other for all eternity. It's a comedy.
352** Alternatively, Ethical Philosophy Class: The {{Sitcom}}.
353** Alternatively, a rude woman dies, ends up in 'Heaven', and quickly learns that [[HellOfAHeaven it's not all what it's cracked up to be.]]
354* ''[[spoiler: Series/TheGoldenGirls]]'': [[InsufferableGenius A snarky know-it-all]], a Scandinavian DumbBlonde, [[ReallyGetsAround a well-to-do slut]] and a [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior cranky old woman]] live in America's Wang.
355* ''[[spoiler: Series/GoodEats]]'': A nerdy kitchen whiz enlists the help of everyone from dead politicians to obscure relatives to teach the viewing audience how to cook. He has a crush on a fairy in his refrigerator.
356** Alternately, ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' has a cooking show.
357* [[spoiler:''Series/Goosebumps1995'']]: ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' for kids.
358* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Gotham}}]]'' A frustrated honest cop in a crimeridden city fights a losing battle to clean it up even while its gets more bizarre by the day. Meanwhile that detective will somehow rise in the ranks until he gets help from a mentally traumatized child who will grow up terrorize the city's criminal underworld with [[Franchise/{{Batman}} his way]].
359* [[spoiler:''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff'']]: A reality show where everybody's nice, starring two female comedians, a sweet grandmotherly lady and a Creator/GeorgeClooney lookalike who is obsessed with bottoms. And lots of sugar. And sheep.
360* [[spoiler:''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero'']]: A [[TheFool lovable doofus]] with ridiculous EightiesHair fights crime with alien technology he barely knows how to use.
361* [[spoiler:''Series/GreenAcres'']]: A strange city slicker couple runs a dilapidated farm in a bizarre farm community where the most admired resident is a super capable pig.
362* [[spoiler:''Series/GreenWing'']]: A hospital show in which no patients are ever seen. There's no time - the doctors and management are too busy with funny and surreal hijinks.
363* [[spoiler:''Series/GreysAnatomy'']]: A hospital show where everyone is part of a giant LoveDodecahedron, which patients are occasionally dragged into. No one ever seems happy, even when they specifically state that they are happy, because of the MasochismTango of always wanting their relationship status to be the opposite of whatever it currently is.
364** [[spoiler:''Series/PrivatePractice'']]: {{Spinoff}} featuring the EnsembleDarkHorse of the previous show. The writers initially attempted to make it even ''less'' about the surgeries than its predecessor, but this plan was scrapped in order to save the show.
365* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Grimm}}'']]: Homicide detective beats up fairy tales during his off-duty hours, frequently assisted by [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent not-quite-werewolf]] clockmaker.
366** [[FairyTale "Fairy tales]], [[DarkerAndEdgier but]] [[HotterAndSexier for adults"]] [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] conspiracy theories "fairy-tales-for-adults"]].
367* [[spoiler:''Series/HannahMontana'']]: A girl who is only famous when she wears a blonde wig overacts, a lot.
368* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Hannibal}}'']]: Morality is a gray zone. We know this because the characters live in a world where bad guys mutilate corpses and the good guys adopt fluffy stray dogs.
369* [[spoiler:''Series/HappyDays'']]: A family deals with their three kids, [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome one of whom disappears and is never heard of again]], and a biker who moves in with them.
370* [[spoiler:''Hard Quiz'']]: A variant of Mastermind with a snarky host.
371* [[spoiler:''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'']]: A show which can't hold down a host for more than one episode, is outdated within a week of broadcast, and whose only regular cast members are an eccentric comedian and a magazine editor. ''Allegedly''.
372* [[spoiler: ''Series/Hawkeye2021'']]: Family man is forced to extend his holiday trip because a girl (who absolutely adores him) discovered some old clothes of his.
373** Alternatively: ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse with a female archer.
374* [[spoiler: ''Film/{{Hawking}}'']]: A nerdy university student attempts to get his degree before he dies of an incurable neurological illness. (Spoiler: he succeeds.) BasedOnATrueStory.
375* [[spoiler:''Series/HawaiiFive0'']]: Standard cop show, just with [[SceneryPorn prettier scenery than most]]. Remade so you can recognize more of the actors.
376* [[spoiler:''Series/HellsKitchen'']]: A British chef swears and yells a lot at people.
377** [[spoiler:''Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares'']]: Said British chef goes out of his way to save near bankrupt restaurants while insulting the people working there, and their cooking.
378* [[spoiler:''Series/HermansHead'']]: New York-based magazine editor leads a boring life, but his psyche is always working overtime.
379* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Heroes}}'']]: A whole bunch of people with superpowers try to pretend that they've never heard of superheroes or supervillains while they play recreational sports with the IdiotBall.
380* [[spoiler: ''Series/HenryDanger'']]: A ManChild hires a teenage boy to be his sidekick.
381* [[spoiler: ''Series/HeyDude'']]: Teenagers get paid to wreak havoc on an Arizona ranch in the early '90s.
382* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Highlander}}'']]: The enduring battles between people who emanate lightning after getting their heads cut off. In the end, there can be only one, except that more appear every year.
383* [[spoiler: ''Series/HighwayToHeaven]]'': A hobo and an ex-cop with anger issues tell people how to live their lives in Southern California. Miracles happen.
384* [[spoiler: ''Series/HitAndMiss'']]: A woman tries to balance her [[ProfessionalKiller unorthodox job]], her new family, and her love life.
385* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981'']]: The Earth blows up. HilarityEnsues.
386* [[spoiler: ''Series/HogansHeroes'']]: A comedy set in Nazi Germany, wherein a cocky allied commander and his multicultural comrades subvert the Third Reich from within a prison camp with a no-escape record.
387** Oh, and most of the Nazis are played by Jews who survived Nazi oppression. And German viewers love it.
388* [[spoiler:''[[Series/TheHollywoodSquares Hollywood Squares]]'']]: Tic-tac-toe featuring risqué remarks to simple trivia questions.
389* [[spoiler:''Series/HolmesOnHomes'']]: Burly man invades homes, rails against stupidity.
390* [[spoiler:''Series/HomeImprovement'']]: A home improvement show host tries to add more power to everything. When that fails, he consults his odd neighbor.
391** A man is extremely passionate and knowledgeable about his profession, but ironically, when he tries to apply it to his life, it always blows up in his face. He hosts an informational show with a far more sensible assistant/friend whose personal life he is always making jabs at, and lives with a sarcastic and sharp-tongued companion with a set of personal tastes as different from those of the main character as possible. When faced with problems, the main character consults a highly knowledgeable but eccentric adviser whose most notable peculiarity is the fact that an essential aspect of the character is always kept off-screen. Wait, hang on...are we talking about [[spoiler: ''Series/HomeImprovement'']] or [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Frasier}}'']]??
392* ''[[spoiler:Series/{{Homeland}}]]'': A beloved war hero's efforts to get justice for a group of murdered children are repeatedly thwarted by a psychotic stalker who is carrying on an affair with a married man. The stalker is the hero.
393* [[spoiler: ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'']]: A [[Film/JamesBond Bond villain]] guides a stand-up comic, a very tall man, a FieryRedhead and a few Shakespearean actors and trade snarks with each other while solving murders in the South. It may or may not have served as a predecessor to ''Series/TheWire''.
394* [[spoiler:''Series/{{House}}'']]: Crippled Doctor can't decide if he's Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/SherlockHolmes, or [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Nietzsche]]; solves medical mysteries to keep the crushing ennui at bay only to find that VictoryIsBoring, so he takes drugs instead.
395* [[spoiler:''House Hunters'']]: Couples go comparison-shopping.
396* [[spoiler:''Series/HowIMetYourMother'']]: A man tells his bored teenaged children stories about his sex life when he was younger.
397** Or: A man tells his children the story of how he met a bunch of women who AREN'T their mother with the help of Series/DoogieHowserMD
398** Or: A woman, her two ex-boyfriends, and their married friends stay up late drinking at their favourite bar every night for several years, until someone gets pregnant.
399** [[spoiler:''Series/TheWonderYears'']]: A man tells his bored child(ren) stories about himself when he was younger. Evidently there's nothing good on TV in the present.
400* [[spoiler:''Series/HumanTarget'']]: A killer steals the identity of the Six Million Dollar Man and is helped by a former high school principal and Rorschach (or possibly Freddy Krueger). Their enemy is Judge Dredd's clone.
401* [[spoiler: ''Series/HumanTrafficking'']]: The graphic downside of international tourism. Features an Oscar winner, a Golden Globe winner and a man who once [[Film/TheFullMonty got naked with his friends.]]
402* [[spoiler:''Human Wrecking Balls'']]: A pair of brothers break stuff.
403* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Hustle}}'']]: Rich, dishonest people are robbed in highly creative ways. We are supposed to believe that the thieves are the good guys.
404** [[spoiler:''The Real Hustle'']]: Ordinary people are robbed, and then the money is given back.
405* [[spoiler: ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'']]: After getting stranded on [[Series/OceanGirl Neri's home island]], three teenage girls are transformed into descendants of [[Franchise/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]] after coming into a contact with a [[GreenRocks strange pool]] -- and during a full moon to boot. First found recognition in the U.S. via an infamous SameLanguageDub on [[Creator/{{PBS}} public television]], then its original form airing on [[Creator/CartoonNetwork a certain channel]] [[NetworkDecay that was trying to be]] [[Creator/CNReal more inclusive to live-action]].
406** [[spoiler:''Series/MakoMermaidsAnH2OAdventure'']]: Turns out magical creatures lived around and worshipped that pool the whole time, and [[ContinuityDrift somehow they never crossed paths with the above show's protagonists]]. Those magical creatures try to remove the powers of another magical creature like themselves because they think he's a human. Then they try to kill another magical creature like themselves because they think she's a dragon.
407* [[spoiler:''Series/IClaudius'']]: A man who was born into the world's most powerful family spends the entire series whining about his relatives.
408* [[spoiler:''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'']]: A [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold blonde]] MagicalGirl who is a GenieInABottle annoys an astronaut for five years by calling him "Master" in order to have HappinessInSlavery and sparks controversy for exposing her navel. She also loves folding her hands and nodding her head, usually when she knows or thinks that something is about to go wrong. Alternatively, a man finds his life centering more and more around the contents of a bottle, and it's a dream of [[Series/TheBobNewhartShow Howard Borden]] .
409* [[spoiler:''Series/ILoveLucy'']]: A spaced-out, red-haired housewife tries to get on her husband's variety show and whines about it when she can't.
410* [[spoiler:''I'd Do Anything'']]: Women compete for the right to wear a corset in front of thousands of people and die horribly at the hands of [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Owen Harper]], while children compete to play a miserable orphan.
411* [[spoiler:''Series/ICarly'']]: A spoiled teen girl, her psychotic best friend, and the nerd next door host a webshow.
412* [[spoiler:''Series/IceRoadTruckers'']]: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Guys drive on]] [[Series/BreakingBad ice]]."
413* [[spoiler: ''Series/InLivingColor'']]: Predominantly Black series that constantly upset the censors and executives. Memorable characters include an AngryBlackManStereotype, a guy who played with fire, and two CampGay guys.
414* [[spoiler:''Series/ImInTheBand'']]: Washed-up '80s celebrities move into a teenage boy's house.
415* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Inazuman}}'']]: Mothman fights blue Franchise/{{Shrek}} and his army of SS soldiers.
416* [[spoiler:''Series/InTheNightGarden'']]: A bunch of people live in a forest with a pair of semi-sentient vehicles.
417* [[spoiler:''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977]]'': A scientist with really serious anger management issues is a presumed dead fugitive.
418* [[spoiler:''Insomniac'']]: Bald drunk tours the U.S. to prove that the freaks really ''do'' come out at night.
419* [[spoiler:''[[Series/InspectorLynley The Inspector Lynley Mysteries]]'']]: A Lord with a dysfunctional personal life and a cranky, foul-mouthed junk food addict fight crime while clashing over class issues, elitism, and everything else. Somehow, they wind up [[UndyingLoyalty best friends]] and [[UnresolvedSexualTension possibly fall in love]].
420* [[spoiler:''Series/InspectorMorse'']]: He's an aging alcoholic frustrated academic singleton. He's a much younger family man from the North. Together, they fight crime.
421* [[spoiler: ''Series/InspectorRex'']]: A cop show where the lead character isn't human.
422* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Interceptor}}'']]: Hide-and-seek against a helicopter containing a mad Scotsman. Don't worry, though, you have a former tennis player to help.
423** Alternatively: On one team -- a sci-fi bounty hunter with a laser cannon, a quick-witted aerial ace, and their fleet of really cool black vehicles. On the other -- two hitch-hikers who are usually yuppies. You're supposed to root for the latter.
424* [[spoiler:''Series/IronChef'']]: Two people play a game to see who can cook the best food in one hour. They are judged by a panel of D-list celebrities. [[{{Spoiler}} Home team wins]].
425* [[spoiler:''Series/IronFist2017'']]: After returning home, hippie who likes punching people falls for teacher and discovers his new job has unethical business practices.
426* [[spoiler:''Series/Ironside1967'']]: Man fights crime without ever leaving his chair.
427* [[spoiler:''Series/TheITCrowd'']]: A nerd with no social skills, an Irish drunkard, a goth who lives in a closet and a woman with no knowledge of computers work with computers in a basement.
428* [[spoiler:''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'']]: Fraternal twins, their dad and two friends run a bar and scheme to get money and/or sex. Everybody turns against everybody else. Antagonists are a nameless waitress and a homeless former priest.
429** Alternatively, a show with absolutely [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist unlikeable sociopaths for the main characters]] who all undergo {{flanderization}} and an entire episode dedicated to a mystery involving [[ToiletHumour faecal matter]]. ''And'' the occasional {{blackface}}.
430** Or, five alcoholics make an already crappy world an even worse place.
431* [[spoiler:''Series/IZombie'']]: A zombie eats the brains of innocent people. Her former fiance from before she became a zombie gets out of a mental hospital and goes on a killing spree. They are the good guys.
432* [[spoiler:''Series/{{JAG}}'']]: A tall dark and handsome former Naval Aviator turned lawyer together with an equally beautiful female jarhead partner; supported by an ensemble cast led by a bald former Navy SEAL; investigates, prosecutes, and defends service members in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
433** [[spoiler:''Series/{{NCIS}}'']]: A retired Marine with a redhead fetish, a lecherous playboy, a malapropping Israeli assassin, a murder mystery writer / computer nerd and online gamer, an old British doctor and a PerkyGoth with a caffeine habit work for the US Navy. They fight crime!
434*** [[spoiler:''Series/NCISLosAngeles'']]: Robin (of ''[[Film/BatmanAndRobin Batman and...]]''), LL Cool J, and a short white woman famous for playing a Chinese man work out of a resort that's supposed to be a secret base in the middle of Los Angeles. They also fight crime!
435* [[spoiler:''Series/JaneTheVirgin'']]: Virgin girl gets pregnant, and enters a love triangle with the father of her baby (who is also her boss) and her fiance. Everything gets much, much more complicated from there, so don't even bother trying to explain the basic plot beyond this.
436* [[spoiler:''Series/JeevesAndWooster'']]: Gay Victorian couple pose as upper class idiot and his more intelligent butler.
437* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Jekyll}}'']]: A Victorian horror novel re-imagined as a modern sci-fi conspiracy with the star ActingForTwo but providing [[LargeHam enough ham for eight]].
438* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'']]: A game show which is hard to win even though they give you all the answers.
439** Get a stupid answer, ask a stupid question.
440* [[spoiler:''Series/JessicaJones2015'']]: A not terribly good PI gets stalked by a man with a strange way of making friends.
441** [[spoiler:''Series/JessicaJones2015 Season 2'']]: The PI discovers both her biological and adoptive families are screwed up.
442* [[spoiler:''Series/JoanOfArcadia'']]: A girl talks to {{God}}.
443* [[spoiler:''Series/TheJoeSchmoShow'']]: A RealityShow where [[TrumanShowPlot the only "real" thing about it is one unwitting contestant]].
444* [[spoiler:''Series/TheJokersWild'']]: A game show where players spin a slot machine to determine their categories. {{Satan}} and Creator/HeathLedger guest star.
445* [[spoiler:''Series/JonathanCreek'']]: A nerdy magician and a hot but dysfunctional journalist with a crush on him solve mysteries. Then the journalist suddenly turns blonde and skinny, but no one mentions it.
446* [[spoiler:''Series/TheJoyOfPainting'']]: an ex-Master Sergeant paints nothing but nature scenes.
447* [[spoiler: ''Series/JudgeJudy'']]: Every day, horrible rotten people come up to an old lady and tell her about all the horrible rotten things they've done. It's a miracle she hasn't lost all faith in humanity.
448* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Justified}}'']]: Cowboy lawman spouts wisecracks and shoots hillbillies in [[CrapsackWorld crapsack]] rural community. Wisecracks some more with his ex-neo-Nazi, ex-preacher crimelord best friend who blows things up.
449** Season Two: Cowboy lawman goes up against large woman who punishes those she loves with contaminated moonshine and ballpeen hammers.
450** Season Three: Cowboy lawman goes up again a guy who dismembers dead animals, a drug-addicted albino deer, a skinny cripple with an 80s mohawk, and a redneck with four kidneys. Features barbecue pork and bondage.
451* [[spoiler:''Franchise/KamenRider'']]: Long-running franchise about bugmen riding bikes.
452** [[spoiler: ''Series/KamenRiderV3'']]: College student becomes bugman to fight animals mashed with objects.
453** [[spoiler: ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon'']]: Guy from South America befriends children while encountering animal men.
454** [[spoiler: ''Series/KamenRiderSuper1'']]: Astronaut learns Shaolin style.
455** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderBlackRX'']]: Gold-masked Destro throws man into sun, but [[CameBackStrong it backfires]].
456** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderAgito'']]: Amnesiac experiences the joys of housework, cooking, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and defeating agents of god]].
457** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'']]: Guys fight over cards.
458*** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'']]: Guys fight over cards IN AMERICA.
459** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRider555'']]: Three friends who run a dry cleaning business deal with their annoying neighbors and a MegaCorp led by transhumanists bent on annihilating the human race.
460** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderBlade'']]: 4 dudes collect cards.
461** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderHibiki'']]: Demons play music to other demons.
462** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'']]: Man fights worms.
463** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderDenO'']]: A [[TheChewToy luckless klutz]] [[TimeyWimeyBall saves history]] by [[SharingABody getting possessed by]] [[FourTemperamentEnsemble one of four demons]].
464** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderKiva'']]: A vampire boy has to break a lot of glass.
465** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderDecade'']]: Struggling photographer [[RunningGag also]] uses cards.
466** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderDouble'']]: Lovable poseur and amnesiac know-it-all use USB Drives to [[SharingABody share a body]].
467** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderOOO'']]: Homeless man is made to fight for spare change.
468** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderFourze'']]: OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent makes loads of friends through their shared love of outer space.
469** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderWizard'']]: Magician battles monsters by helping people with their personal problems.
470** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderGaim'']]: First arc: Dance teams are serious business. Second arc onwards: Fruit is serious business.
471** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderDrive'']]: Police detective gets a new belt and CoolCar.
472** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderGhost'']]: Guy gains superpowers by dying.
473** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderExAid'']]: Medical intern discovers that video games are serious business.
474** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderAmazons'']]: Green tries to save his species, while Red eats raw eggs.
475** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderBuild'']]: Gay rabbit boy and dumb athlete get drafted into the military, made to fight LoonyFan of idol singers.
476** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderZiO'']]: Kid collects watches in the hopes it will make him a better person.
477** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'']]: Failed comedian inherits tech enterprise and beats up robot cultists.
478** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderSaber'']]: A novelist joins a crew of badass swordsmen who fight monsters with the power of ''BOOKS''.
479** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderRevice'']]: Three siblings take grappling with inner demons to new and much more literal levels while fighting a mariachi trio who deal demonic stamps.
480** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderOutsiders'']]: A gathering of returning bad guys in the franchise to form a resistance against [[TheComputerIsYourFriend an artificial intelligence]] with [[DarkMessiah a messiah complex]] that seeks to establish new world order.
481** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderGeats'']]: People play a game where they dress up as animals and fight plant men. And one of them is on a ''massive'' winning streak.
482* [[spoiler:''Series/KCUndercover'']]: It's ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''...only she's black.
483* [[spoiler:''Series/KickinIt'']]: Kids try to keep an overweight former action movie star's karate dojo from going out of business.
484* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Kings}}'']]: A FarmBoy saves the prince's life and everything goes to hell. Also known as: Ian [=McShane=] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork gets dicked over by NBC]].
485* [[spoiler: ''Series/KirbyBuckets'']]: A teenage boy becomes a local celebrity by drawing cartoons to bully his older sister.
486** [[spoiler: ''Kirby Buckets: Warped'']]: The boy manages to break the space-time continuum by playing with a metal sphere.
487* [[spoiler: ''Series/KnightRider'']] A man and his talking computer-controlled car wander the country, fighting crime.
488* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Knightmare}}'']]: A DungeonMaster sends children into his dungeon to deal with problems he doesn't want to take care of himself. [[SurpriseDifficulty They almost always fail.]]
489** Alternatively: Kids play a video game which has no controls, no continues, and a habit of freezing mid-level.
490* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Kojak}}'']]: Bald Greek guy sucks on lollipops while doing his job.
491* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Krypton}}'']]: A show about Franchise/{{Superman}} but without Superman, and the only superhero around wants to help the BigBad to kill a lot of people.
492* [[spoiler:''Series/KyleXY'']]: A loving family raises a teenage savant who was literally born yesterday.
493* [[spoiler:''Series/KtaiInvestigator7'']]: [[WunzaPlot one's an]] OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent. [[WunzaPlot One's a]] [[TransformingMecha transforming cell-phone robot]]. They fight cyber crime!
494* [[spoiler:''Series/LabRats'']]: A teenager convinces his scientist dad to let him bring three top-secret bio-weapons to school.
495** [[spoiler:''Lab Rats: Bionic Island'']]: The scientist opens a school to assist in the development of more bio-weapons.
496** [[spoiler:''Series/LabRatsEliteForce'']]: Two of the bio-weapons join forces with [[Series/MightyMed amateur doctors and their alien friend]].
497* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Land of the Lost|1974}}'']]: A family gets lost in an acid trip. Maybe.
498** [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Land of the Lost|1991}} (1991)'']]: Remake where a family gets lost during vacation.
499* [[spoiler: ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine'']]: Inexplicably long-running series about three old [[OopNorth northerners]]. One is gynophobic, one is a short, scruffy liberal, and the other is one of [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute various]] tall, pompous conservatives. They wander around Yorkshire, argue about politics and crash things. All the female characters are prudes. It's a comedy.
500* [[spoiler:''Series/TheLastManOnEarth'']]: Survivors of a pandemic bicker a lot as they scramble to rebuild society, only to end up predicting an [[UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic actual pandemic]].
501* [[spoiler:''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'']]: A British guy sits at a desk and goes on long monologues about topics such as mislabeling of vitamin supplements, pharmaceutical marketing and infrastructure funding. He tries to alleviate the heaviness of some topics with photoshopped pictures and mascots in ridiculous costumes.
502* [[spoiler:''The Late Show'']]: Host interviews people and makes a top 10 list.
503* [[spoiler:''Series/TheLateLateShow'']]: Host reads mail and interviews guests with help from a robot, a horse, and puppets.
504* [[spoiler:''Series/LawAndOrder'']]: Police officers investigate crimes. Lawyers argue about them in court.
505*** Or, crime-solving duo helps grandfatherly mentor teach cynicism to a series of supermodels.
506** [[spoiler:''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'']]: A recovering alcoholic tries to keep a CowboyCop, a closet lesbian, a gangsta rapper, and JustForFun/JohnMunch from [[ItsPersonal taking their frustrations out]] on rapists and child molesters.
507** [[spoiler: later part of season 15]]: The same closeted lesbian sans likeability, an unlikeable gambling addict, and the same CowboyCop [[RecycledInSpace BUT LATINO!]] try not to take their frustrations out on rapists and child molesters. A [[OnlySaneMan snarky caffeine-addicted ADA]] tries to keep them in line.
508** [[spoiler: ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'']]: A strange detective with an unconventional approach and [[DeadpanSnarker a diminutive snarker]] (both of whom were once [[Film/TheCell psychotic]] [[Series/{{Oz}} killers]]) head to the other side of the law to team up with two other classically trained actors and investigate really nasty people and [[MindScrew manipulate]] them into confessing. They are later assisted by [[Series/SexAndTheCity Mr. Big]] and [[Film/TheFly1986 Brundlefly.]]
509** [[spoiler:''Series/LawAndOrderUK'']]: Police officers investigate crimes. Lawyers argue about them in court. With wigs. And no guns.
510* [[spoiler:''Series/LazyTown'']]: Ugly man is repeatedly woken up by a pink-haired girl and an [[AmbiguouslyHuman ambiguously elvish]] sports maniac forcing a hopeless mayor, a boring secretory, an idiot with a SweetTooth, a BlackAndNerdy guy, ThePrankster, and a kleptomaniac hoarder to be active.
511* ''[[spoiler:Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen]]'': A SitCom / SketchComedy set in a TownWithADarkSecret, whose best-loved characters are a pair of [[BrotherSisterIncest incestuous]] SmallTownTyrant {{Serial Killer}}s and a polygamist MonsterClown who runs a CircusOfFear and [[AccidentalMisnaming calls everybody "Dave"]].
512** ''[[spoiler: Series/{{Psychoville}}]]'': A mysterious figure attempts to blackmail a group of disabled people and medical personnel.
513* ''[[spoiler:Series/LeaveItToBeaver]]'': Classic KidCom starring goofy little brother and, to a degree, his level-headed, athletic older brother. Older brother's friend ends up stealing the show whenever he appears.
514* [[spoiler:''Series/TheLeftovers'']]: Several different religious leaders, lay people, and bureaucrats have an argument over the significance of an interrupted download.
515 ** [[spoiler:Season 1]]: Handsome small town cop is reluctantly drawn into the argument and enters intimate relationships with two different women: a bureaucrat and a religious leader. It’s not clear if the interrupted download ever had any religious significance.
516 ** [[spoiler:Season 2]]: Handsome small town cop tries to escape the aforementioned conflict by moving to Texas. He dies a couple of times. It’s not clear if the interrupted download ever had any religious significance.
517 ** [[spoiler:Season 3]]: Handsome small town cop tries to escape the conflict by traveling to Australia. He dies several times. It’s still not clear if the interrupted download ever had any religious significance.
518* [[spoiler:''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'']]: A young woodsman embarks on a mystical quest with an elderly wizard, a [[LadyofWar beautiful woman]] who mind-rapes people with her eyes, and a reformed dominatrix. Along the way they collect magical objects, rescue villagers, and try not to doom the world by having sex.
519* [[spoiler:''Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'']]: Game show where AllMythsAreTrue and kids compete for the right to rob tombs, meet a talking stone head, and fail to put together a monkey statue.
520* [[spoiler:''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'']]: A RagtagBunchOfMisfits are brought together by a time-traveling Englishman to protect history. They usually screw it up worse than it was before they manage to fix it.
521* [[spoiler:''Series/LetsMakeADeal'']]: Costumed audience members exchange cash and merchandise for exotic vacations and luxurious cars, as well as smelly farm animals, massive quantities of produce, and oversized TV show props.
522* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Leverage}}'']]: A FiveManBand of criminals. They fight crime.
523** Basically an updated version of those four ex-military fellows in the van above.
524* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheLibrarians2014'']]: Former NATO counter-terrorism agent becomes a bodyguard for three geniuses who work for a secret organisation that safe guards magic after a librarian's Library goes missing.
525* [[spoiler:''Series/LieToMe'']]: An obnoxious Brit and a quirky team accuse people of lying and are usually right.
526* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'']]: A policeman gets run over and wakes up in 1973. [[HeterosexualLifePartners His boss]] is a misogynistic, racist homophobe, he himself is and is not hallucinating everything, and he's being stalked.
527** [[spoiler:''Series/AshesToAshes2008'']]: Alex Drake gets seriously injured and wakes up in 1981. Somehow, she's ended up in Sam Tyler's world, working for his boss, and it's anyone's guess whether or not Alex is hallucinating the whole thing.
528*** Or: A police detective gets stalked by a freaky clown who probably doesn't exist in 1981.
529** [[spoiler:''Series/{{Brimstone}}'']]: Police detective gets seriously injured, travels forward in time to 1998, and meets the devil.
530* [[spoiler:''Series/LivingSingle'']]: A well-known rapper-turned-magazine editor living in New York has the world and her eccentric/arrogant friends bend to her every whim, regardless of how insensitive she may come off across at times.
531* [[spoiler:''Series/LizzieMcGuire'']]: A cartoon character snarks about the daily mundane life of her live-action counterpart.
532* [[spoiler:''Series/Loki2021'']]: The most untrustworthy person in the universe tries to save his life by getting a job in a VastBureaucracy, and falls in love with himself.
533* [[spoiler:''Series/TheLoneRanger'']]: A cowboy and an Indian fight crime. Together.
534* [[spoiler:''Long Ago and Far Away'']]: [[Creator/JamesEarlJones Darth Vader]] hosts children's stories from around the world.
535* [[spoiler:''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'']]: Local Elf Karen insults everyone and forces the workers to follow her orders just to prove that she is right to the the managers. Underage girl hides her relationship with an old man from her parents.
536** In a story about great battles between the armies of good and evil, everything goes wrong because they lose track of one elderly cultist at the worst moment.
537* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Lost}}'']]: People stuck in a place where weird things happen and no one has any idea what's happening. Also features a soap opera set in East Asia.
538** Alternately: People learn about boar hunting and killing each other brutally.
539** Or: An angry MommasBoy wants to pull the plug out of a drain. His brother recruits a diverse group of people to try and stop him. They all end up dying.
540* ''[[spoiler:Series/LostinSpace]]'': Hopelessly lost preteen boy hangs out with a robot and a MilesGloriosus villain.
541* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheLostRoom'']]: A plucky single dad finds the magic key to a NegativeSpaceWedgie and meets a cast of colorful characters on a quest to find his daughter.
542** Or: Shady people fight over a key to a non-existent room in a long-abandoned hotel.
543* [[spoiler:''Series/LukeCage2016'']]: The owner of the local club and his cousin discover it is a bad idea to make the local bartender angry.
544** [[spoiler: ''Luke Cage (2016)'' Season 2]]: Local bartender-turned-barber gets dragged into an argument between the club owner's cousin and a very angry Jamaican while dealing with his own anger issues.
545* [[spoiler:''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'']]: A spy who can't fire a gun helps people by using everyday items in unconventional ways.
546* [[spoiler:''Series/MadMen'']]: The man in the grey flannel suit commits identity theft, votes for Nixon, and provides an object lesson in why the women's movement was a Good Thing.
547** Alternately: A bunch of sexist, racist, homophobic [[{{Pun}} dicks]] get drunk, smoke and screw hot chicks a lot en route to huge paychecks.
548* [[spoiler:''Series/MaddigansQuest'']]: Two boys and a baby run away and join a circus in order to fight a cockroach that doesn't exist yet.
549** Alternately: [[{{Anvilicious}} Renewable energy good, radiation bad.]]
550* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheMagicians'']]: A college student finds out his favorite book series is real, and now he and his friends have to stop the characters from destroying the world. But after he sings [[Music/TaylorSwift Taylor Swift]] in a mental hospital.
551* [[spoiler:''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'']]: TeenGenius narrates the life of his severely screwed-up family through his own eyes.
552* [[spoiler:''Series/MamasFamily'']]: [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior A crotchety old Midwestern woman]] raises her eccentric, slow-witted, feuding and ungrateful children, grandchildren and [[ObnoxiousInLaws in-laws]]. It's notable for the old woman of a VagueAge being portrayed by an actress who ranges from being years to even ''decades'' younger than her on-screen children.
553* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheMandalorian'']]: Struggling single man unexpectedly becomes a struggling single parent after he fails to do his job properly.
554** Or, as the funny page put it, Stoic bounty hunter turned disgruntled babysitter ends up on one of his most annoying escort missions yet.
555** ''Franchise/JohnWick'' plus a baby, and {{IN SPACE}}.
556* [[spoiler: ''Series/ManVsBee'']]: Possibly the most Creator/RowanAtkinson thing to ever exist.
557* [[spoiler: ''Series/ManVsWild'']]: A man goes hiking around the world.
558** Also he [[spoiler:drinks his own piss.]]
559* [[spoiler:''Series/MarriedWithChildren'']]: LoserProtagonist [[TheChewToy lives through hell on earth]] with his lazy red-headed wife, two bumbling kids, and a pair of annoying neighbors.
560** [[spoiler:''Series/UnhappilyEverAfter'']]: LoserProtagonist [[TheChewToy lives through hell on earth]] with his lazy blonde wife, one bumbling kid, one hottie genius kid and masochistic plush toy.
561* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Martin}}'']]: A black radio DJ pisses people off.
562* [[spoiler:''Series/TheMarvelousMrsMaisel]]'': Woman decides to attempt a new career after a drunk tirade against getting dumped.
563* [[spoiler:''Series/{{MASH}}'']]: A bunch of Americans living abroad in the 1950s talk and act like it's the 1970s, and crack a lot of jokes about death.
564* [[spoiler:''Series/TheMaskedSinger'']]: Celebrities wear fursuits and adopt fursonas.
565* [[spoiler:''Series/TheMclaughlinGroup'']]: People discussing politics '''loudly''' under the watch of an ex-Jesuit with a penchant for SesquipedalianLoquaciousness.
566* [[spoiler:''Series/TheMentalist'']]: a JerkAss ex-conman pisses people off while his short BrainyBrunette reprimands him. Plus, a stoic Asian, bumbling [[TheBigGuy big guy]], and FieryRedhead.
567* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'']]: A bumbling manservant uses non-specified superpowers to protect [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold his unwitting and unappreciative master]] while taking advice on their relationship from a dragon who basically speaks in subtext (and ships them). Corny CGI ensues.
568* [[spoiler:''Series/MervGriffinsCrosswords'']]: Classic pencil puzzler turned into a game show. Poor formatting turns this into the game show version of the MacguffinDeliveryService.
569* [[spoiler:''Series/MetalHeroes'']]: Semi-long running Japanese franchise about lawmen who wear shiny outfits.
570** [[spoiler:''Series/JikuuSenshiSpielban'']]: Man and his female partner (who can defeat people by sitting on them) fight villains trying to steal water.
571** [[spoiler:''Series/SekaiNinjaSenJiraiya'']]: Crooks try to steal a clay board from a family struggling to make ends meet.
572** [[spoiler:''Series/KidouKeijiJiban'']]: Cop undergoes major reassignment, finds out his new boss is a little girl.
573** [[spoiler:''Series/TokkeiWinspector'']]: {{Rescue}} but with a {{Sentai}} team.
574** [[spoiler:''Series/JuukouBFighter'']]: Three people befriend beetles and gain superpowers, team up with a private academy to fight guy trying to destroy Earth by making a big hole.
575* [[spoiler:''Series/MiamiVice'']]: An hour long music video compilation about a set of [[CowboyCop cowboy cops]] who out-cool all the bad guys.
576* [[spoiler: ''Series/MidsomerMurders'']]: Local detective lives in a county where everyone is a murderer. His wife complains he's a workaholic.
577* [[spoiler:''Series/TheMightyBoosh'']]: A glamrocking pretty boy and a [[RunningGag middle-aged]] virgin with a jazz fetish go on ridiculous, surreal adventures with an alien stoner and a talking gorilla who's supposed to be dead.
578* [[spoiler:''Series/MightyMed'']]: The health and safety of Philadelphia's most valuable residents is in the hands of high schoolers.
579* [[spoiler:''Series/TheMiddleman'']]: A young painter living with her ditzy blonde roommate is hired by a quirky superhero with a grumpy robot secretary. Memorable opponents include a super-smart gorilla, a mud monster, and a boy band.
580* [[spoiler:''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'']]: A CountryMouse befriends a pirated-DVD seller on his first day in the city. Meanwhile, a struggling actor is mouthed off by his boss.
581* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Misfits}}'']]: Five juvenile delinquents--consisting of a nerdy arsonist, a shamed athlete, a snarky jerkass, a violent chav, and a sex-mad drunk-driver--get caught in a freak storm while on community service, and get magically lumbered with some of the most debilitating and ridiculous superpowers EVER.
582* [[spoiler:''Series/MissionImpossible'']]: A {{Five|ManBand}} [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guy]] [[FiveManBand Band]] takes on MagnificentBastard after MagnificentBastard and wins.
583* [[spoiler:''Series/MisterEd'']]: A horse talks to an architect and says nothing to anyone else.
584* [[spoiler:''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'']]: A Presbyterian minister shows children how various things are made, sings to them, and then tells serial stories set in a kingdom in his wall.
585* [[spoiler:''Series/ModernFamily]]'': An extended family allows an unseen mockumentary crew to record every detail in their lives.
586* [[spoiler:''Series/MockTheWeek'']]: Seven people talk about how terrible Britain and the world is using BlackComedy.
587* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Monk}}'']]: A man with [=OCD=] annoys everyone around him in the process of solving murders.
588* [[spoiler:''Series/TheMonkees'']]: Four teenagers sing songs, [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]] and go on zany adventures.
589* [[spoiler:''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'']]: Five educated British men make complete fools of themselves on national television until they run out of ideas, at which point their American colleague cuts bits of famous paintings out and moves them in front of the camera.
590** Alternatively: A history of Irish agriculture.
591* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}'']]:
592** In a series that partly aired during Passover, a Jewish man serves an Egyptian god.
593** Alternatively: a man argues with himself about whether he should be a British museum tour guide or an American hitmen.
594* [[spoiler:''Series/MorkAndMindy'']]: {{Cloudcuckoolander}} from space and sweet innocent young woman live together in Boulder, Colorado and seem to swing back and forth between JustFriends and a real romantic relationship for three years until they get married and give birth to Jonathan Winters.
595* [[spoiler:''Series/TheMortonDowneyJrShow'']]: A man brings various guests onto his show to argue with them. In some cases the arguing will escalate into outright violence. Known for launching the "trash talk" genre of shows.
596* [[spoiler:''Series/MrBean'']]: A manchild is overwhelmed by the most basic tasks. Most of the time something goes wrong, and for some reason, instead of asking someone for help, he tries to fix everything himself, but just ends up [[FromBadToWorse making it worse]].
597* [[spoiler:''Series/MrBelvedere'']]: An English butler lives in the Pittsburgh suburbs and writes in his diary about the mundane goings-on of his host family.
598* [[spoiler:''Series/MrBrain'']]: A Ginza host with impossibly good hair is crushed under a building, has his brain rebuilt, and gathers a ragtag band of misfits to solve crimes by eating bananas and playing children's games.
599* [[spoiler:''Series/MrRobot'']]: A misanthrope does hard drugs while ranting about how much he hates corporate America.
600* [[spoiler:''Series/MrYoung'']]: A kid is hired as a high school teacher.
601* [[spoiler:''Series/TheMunsters'']]: A caring, considerate family do their best to improve their community but are shunned and discriminated against by the rest of civilization.
602* [[spoiler:''Series/TheMuppetShow'']]: A variety show--starring assorted singing and dancing animals, not to mention talking food--where nearly all of the acts end in total disaster. Comes complete with its own [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] riffers. Oh, and Creator/MarkHamill is the son of Padmé's sister.
603* ''[[spoiler:Series/MurderSheWrote]]'' An elderly female author moonlights as a homicide investigator in her idyllic hometown and on the road. The author is a lovely woman, but an astonishing number of her friends, relatives, and neighbors die every year, such that her hometown has a murder rate 3 times that of Detroit in 1974. Murders are solved through keen observation skills, clever verbal traps, and convenient confessions.
604** Alternatively, an elderly woman is friends with a shocking number of people in her small town, which has a reputation of being idyllic despite its sky-high murder rate. She often assists in the apprehension of the murderers, and is miraculously never harmed despite her age and the fact that many of them have weapons.
605* [[spoiler:''Series/MurphyBrown'']]: Recovering alcoholic can't keep a secretary, but ''can'' keep a painter. HilarityEnsues.
606* [[spoiler:''Series/MutantX'']]: Geneticist composes team of human guinea pigs to fight against a CorruptCorporateExecutive with plastic skin. Not related to the ComicBook/XMen.
607* [[spoiler:''Series/MyNameIsEarl'']]: A white-trash crook is hit by a car after winning the lottery, then his trashier (but hot) wife leaves him for the black man who fathered his ChocolateBaby. He learns about the concept of Karma from a talk show and it scares him into writing a list of everything bad he's ever done and setting out to make up for every item so that this "Karma" thing won't kill him.
608* [[spoiler:''Series/MySoCalledLife'']]: A show about the problems of white, middle-class teenagers in the '90s. Is retroactively praised by people who ''weren't'' white, middle-class teenagers in the '90s.
609* [[spoiler:''Mystery Diagnosis'']]: People are sick. Their doctors don't know why, until they do.
610* [[spoiler:''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'']]: A man is stuck in a satellite orbiting earth with some robots he made out of spare parts, and they are forced to watch bad old movies while mocking them. Join the fun!
611** Alternatively: A man, hated by the people he serves, is jettisoned into a spaceship. Each day, he is forced to watch torturous films that make the ones shown in ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' look mild. In a losing battle against loneliness, he builds several machines from various parts of the ship, who treat him worse than his employers. [[BlatantLies A truly sad story.]]
612** Alternatively: A scientist gives poor movie recommendations to three men with nothing better to do, but they still take constant breaks to play pretend.
613** Alternatively: Some people won't shut up about awful movies.
614* [[spoiler:''Series/TheMysticKnightsOfTirNaNog'']]: Franchise/PowerRangers in ancient Ireland.
615* [[spoiler:''Series/MythBusters'']]: Two overgrown geeks and their three younger sidekicks try to prove whether urban legends are true or not by playing with an overly abused crash test dummy and [[StuffBlowingUp blowing stuff up]].
616** Or: Four guys and a girl [[StuffBlowingUp blow stuff up]] -- [[ForScience all in the name of science]].
617* [[spoiler:''Series/MyTwoDads'']]: A preteen girl deals with grief and an identity crisis while living in your average episode of ''Series/{{Maury}}'' due to a dead woman who forced two incompetent ex-boyfriends to raise her and live together but ''aren't'' gay.
618* [[spoiler:''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'']]: SliceOfLife anime, [[{{Animesque}} only it's live-action]]. Set in American JuniorHigh with NoFourthWall.
619* [[spoiler:''Series/NewTricks'']]: A widower, a compulsive gambler, and a neurotic with OCD join forces with a dog-murderer to solve mysteries.
620* [[spoiler:''Series/NickArcade'']]: A game show where kids play video games and answer trivia questions in order to win a chance at jumping around in front of a green-screen.
621* [[spoiler:''Series/NightCourt'']]: A [[BunnyEarsLawyer barely qualified judge]] rules on a series of petty crimes, while [[HandsomeLech the prosecutor]] makes inappropriate remarks about the duty counsel, and one of the bailiffs is [[OneHeadTaller really tall.]]
622* [[spoiler:''Series/NinjaWarrior'']]: 100 people fail to pass several obstacles and a rope ladder twice a year.
623* [[spoiler:''Series/NoOrdinaryFamily'']]: ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' [[RecycledInSpace In Live Action!!!]]
624* [[spoiler:''Series/NorthernExposure'']]: A New York doctor goes to [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Springfield]], Alaska. He tries to leave. Hilarity ensues. [[SciFiGhetto Don't call it fantasy.]]
625* [[spoiler:''Series/NowhereMan'']]: A photographer gets very convincingly [[UnPerson erased]]. Over his course of WalkingTheEarth trying to unravel the conspiracy and get his family back, he becomes less and less convinced he was ever real.
626* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Numb3rs}}'']] : A nice Jewish math genius writes on a chalkboard and finds criminals. The first criminal they find is always dead. The second is arrested.
627* [[spoiler:''Series/ObiWanKenobi'']]: Amber Alert forces old man out of retirement.
628* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{The Odd Couple|1970}}]]'': A priggish intellectually pretentious NeatFreak and a down to earth, if short tempered, slob try to live together as roommates and friends.
629* [[spoiler: ''Series/OddGirlOut'']]: A quasi-Hispanic girl is continuously bullied by her two best friends, a ManipulativeBitch and a {{Sociopath}}.
630* [[spoiler:''Series/TheOfficeUK'']]: The boring lives of a group of people who work in a paper merchant's in Slough.
631** ''[[spoiler: Series/TheOfficeUS]]'': the surprisingly interesting lives of a dysfunctional group of people who work at a paper company in Scranton, PA.
632* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Occupied}}'']]: TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain the Russians]] plot to steal all of Norway's oil and [[AndThatsTerrible book all the good tables in their restaurants]]. To add insult to injury, they then [[LeaveYourQuestTest try and steal away the bodyguard]] of the [[RulerProtagonist Norwegian prime minister]] as well. Meanwhile, an IntrepidReporter gets in trouble for writing headlines that are ''[[WorstNewsJudgementEver too]]'' juicy. Meanwhile, a couple of guys in [[TheHilarityOfHats very silly hats]] decide to re-enact ''Film/RedDawn1984''. Europe and America watch the whole thing from afar and PassThePopcorn. It's a serious ConspiracyThriller.
633* [[spoiler: ''Series/OceanGirl'']]: A lonely islander with only a whale for a friend comes into contact with two boys, their mother, and their underwater society.
634* [[spoiler: ''Series/OnceUponATime'']]: After getting into a fight with her son's custodial parent, a successful woman moves back in with her single mother, who is trying to get back together with her father.
635** Meanwhile, the son tries to prove that everyone in town is really from Disney's fantasy menagerie.
636** [[spoiler: ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland]]'': Two lovers navigate an acid trip while fleeing Disney villains.
637* [[spoiler: ''Series/OneTreeHill'']]: Two poor outcasts bond with rich popular kids over a basketball. Also, they all have several run-ins with and obsess over the opinion of a JadedWashout with an emo haircut who is basically a cross between [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar]] and [[Film/{{Enough}} Mitch Hiller]].
638* [[spoiler: ''Series/OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding'']]: Two old men and a woman discover a body, and decide that the most logical thing to do would be to start a podcast.
639* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheOrder'']]: Modern American teenagers join secret societies. They are scarily good at it.
640* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheOrville'']]: The [[Creator/SethMacFarlane mind behind]] WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy and [[SelfPlagiarism similar shows]] stars in his own sendup of Franchise/StarTrek.
641* [[spoiler:''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' ("[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E5DemonWithAGlassHand Demon with a Glass Hand]]")]] (Single episode of anthology series): An emotionless man with amnesia does everything his hand tells him, including walking into a hail of bullets. (He gets better.)
642* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Oz}}'']]: An in-depth look into U.S. federal prisons which entails that it's really [[{{Gorn}} gruesome,]] [[MaleFrontalNudity really into nudity]] and ''[[DownerEnding really]]'' [[AnyoneCanDie unfair.]]
643* [[spoiler:''Series/ParkerLewisCantLose'']]: A popular and handsome HighSchoolHustler schemes and manipulates others while still remaining a LovableRogue. No, it's not [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff that one.]] Or [[Series/SavedByTheBell that other one.]] And it also always ends [[EveryEpisodeEnding with someone getting stuffed into a locker.]]
644** [[spoiler:''Ferris Bueller'']]: A similar series about another HighSchoolHustler tries to be its own thing while [[ArmedWithCanon disrespecting the]] [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff source material]] [[ArmedWithCanon in the first episode.]] [[ShortRunner It fails miserably.]]
645* [[spoiler:''Series/ParksAndRecreation'']]: A city government employee attempts to turn a hole in the ground into a community park, accompanied by her ObstructiveBureaucrat boss and similarly apathetic staff of subordinates.
646** Alternatively, started off as a [[SpinOff clone]] of ''Series/TheOfficeUS''. Had one character [[StalkerWithACrush completely dedicated to his ex-girlfriend]], [[CharacterDevelopment only to completely scrap his previous characterization]], instead making him into a total {{idiot| hero}}. [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap Expecting us to completely forget his previous characterization in favor of this new one]].
647** Or, a woman doesn't understand why her friends don't love their unremarkable FlyoverCountry hometown as much as she does.
648* [[spoiler:''Series/ThePattyDukeShow'']]: A socially awkward, cultured Scottish teenager moves in with her uncle, a newspaper editor in New York City, and bonds with her extroverted, boy-crazy identical cousin. HilarityEnsues.
649* [[spoiler:''Series/PawnStars'']]: ''Antiques Roadshow'' as hosted by the guys from ''Orange County Choppers''.
650** Or: A weird and wonderful mixture of ''{{Series/Antiques Roadshow}}'' and ''{{Series/Sanford and Son}}''.
651* [[spoiler: ''Series/Peacemaker2022'']]: After barely surviving his previous mission, a disgraced superhero has to deal with his former demons including his racist, homophobic father and deal with an alien invasion.
652* [[spoiler:''Series/PennAndTellerBullshit'']]: Everything you know about life is wrong, and these two guys are going to tell you why. Bombastically.
653* [[spoiler:''Series/PennAndTellerFoolUs'']]: Two magicians give you a chance to perform stage magic for them and an audience, then tell you using coded phrases if they know how you pulled it off.
654* [[spoiler:''Series/PennyDreadful'']]: A Victorian adventurer, his possessed lady friend, and a Wild West performer search for the adventurer's kidnapped daughter. Meanwhile, their AmbiguouslyGay MadScientist associate is confronted by his abandoned first born.
655* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Pennyworth}}'']]: Future butler must deal with several annoyances, including a CivilWar, a PsychoLesbian and HollywoodSatanism.
656* [[spoiler:''Series/PeepShow'']]: The humiliations and inner thoughts of an OddCouple with no social skills whatsoever.
657* [[spoiler:''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'']]: A man plays pretend with living furniture. A cowboy, a hot girl, a king, a mail lady, and a man wearing nothing but swimming trunks occasionally wander in.
658** Or: A chronic masturbator hangs out with talking furniture, a hot girl, and a black cowboy.
659* [[spoiler:''Series/PerfectStrangers'']]: An innocent foreign shepherd and his neurotic distant cousin try to make it through life in Chicago without injuring themselves.
660* ''[[spoiler:Franchise/PerryMason]]'': Someone gets murdered, man is really good at his job, man goes to lunch with his two friends/coworkers. Repeat for nine seasons.
661** [[spoiler:''Series/PerryMason2020'']]: Man, who is now far more angsty and slightly less good at his job, investigates a child murder while dealing with the corruption of 1930s Los Angeles. Everything and (mostly) everyone is fucked-up and/or broken in one way or another.
662* [[spoiler:''Series/PersonOfInterest'']]: A computer programmer and an ex-Special Forces operative violate everybody's civil liberties in order to save them.
663** Or: a gang of friends and their dog hang out in a library, solving mysteries.
664* [[spoiler:''Series/PeterGunn'']]: Guy hangs out at jazz club, gets into trouble, and annoys his FriendOnTheForce.
665* [[spoiler:''Series/PhoenixNights'']]: A DeadpanSnarker cripple from OopNorth decides to re-open a club, only to get it burned down again next series. He then repeats the process again next series, only without the burning. Despite this, people still want a Series 3.
666* [[spoiler:''Series/PicketFences'']]: A small-town family and their acquaintances deal with [[DenserAndWackier increasingly offbeat visitors and criminals]], all while maintaining a strong sense of values.
667* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Pizza}}'']]: Italian-Australian pizza delivery guys regularly find themselves dealing with the sorts of subjects and people Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya would be happy to meet.
668* [[spoiler: ''Series/PleaseLikeMe'']]: After being rejected by women, a guy comes out as gay, and then gets rejected by men while getting caught up in his divorced parents' drama.
669* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Pointless}}'']]: One half of a comedy duo encourages people to think of unpopular things, assisted by a guy whose computer doesn't work.
670* [[spoiler: ''Poirot'']]: Series about a pudgy, vain immigrant who refers to himself in the third person and has an imperfect command of English. He is a clotheshorse, and is so fastidious that he once puts a handkerchief on a park bench before sitting on it. He frequently boasts about a certain part of his anatomy. His frequent sidekicks includes a bland retired officer, who says "I say!" and "Good Lord!" at every opportunity, and a secretary obsessed with filing. They Fight Crime. The series occasionally adds sexuality and angst that weren't in the original stories.
671* [[spoiler: ''Series/PoliceSquad'']]: a super silly CopShow spoof that was cancelled because the TV Network head said that the people had to watch it to appreciate it, and the producers were glad he felt that way.
672* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Popular}}'']]: Unattractive and wealthy blondes bully and belittle good-looking and socially awkward brunettes in the most unrealistic high school ever. [[GrowingTheBeard The increasing amount of drama gave way for more development and interest in all of their lives,]] but it all [[CutShort ends abruptly due to a unresolved]] [[AssPull --and out of nowhere--]] [[CarFu hit-and-run.]]
673* [[spoiler:''Franchise/PowerRangers'']]: An American TV show with fight scenes made up of recycled footage from a Japanese show that somehow managed to be popular enough that most people have heard of it.
674** [[spoiler:''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'']]: Teenagers become dinosaur-themed superheroes, then mythical-beast-based superheroes, then ninja superheroes, all while keeping the same costumes, even though all but one of the original members are replaced along the way.
675*** [[spoiler:''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers (2010 airing)'']]: A Mook gets overwhelmed by {{Written Sound Effect}}s
676** [[spoiler:''[[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Mighty Morphin' Alien Rangers]]'']]: Above mentioned teenagers become kids, superheroes from an aquatic planet fight like ninjas.
677** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersZeo'']]: Teenagers fight evil robot overlords with the power of geometric shapes.
678*** Alternatively: Previously-mentioned teenagers trade in ancient dinosaur powers for Lucky Charms shapes to fight evil conquering robots.
679** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'']]: Four teenagers and a kid fight evil pirates with {{cool car}}s.
680** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'']]: Above mentioned teenagers go into space.
681*** Alternatively: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
682** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'']]: A RagtagBunchOfMisfits protect a mobile space station from bugs and space pirates.
683** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'']]: Highly trained professionals fight demons that are weak against water in a coastal city.
684** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'']]: Time police go back in time to stop wanted criminals from causing mass destruction.
685** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'']]: Pollution causes ancient monsters to awaken and another RagtagBunchOfMisfits fights them with animals.
686*** [[spoiler:"Forever Red"]] Previous red-colored superheroes team up to fight evil robot overlords.
687** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'']]: A ninja master gets turned into a guinea pig and teaches teenagers how to become ninjas.
688** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'']]: One of the original teenagers with attitude teaches paleontology to another group of teenagers that fight bad guys with dinosaurs.
689** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersSPD'']] In the distant future, three space police cadets and two Robin Hoods become superheroes
690** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'']]: Superheroes with capes fight an EldritchAbomination using magic
691** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'']]: Four trained professionals, a mercury alien and some guy [[spoiler:actually an android]] travel around the world to find artifacts.
692** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'']]: Cat-themed martial artists become superheroes and run a pizza parlor
693** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersRPM'']]: Seven people led by a teenage scientist try to turn off a computer.
694** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'']]: Teenage Samurai stop evil monsters from trying to overflow a river.
695** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'']]: Tiki head and WesternAnimation/WallE RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude to fight invaders. Main hero dreams of a CrisisCrossover.
696*** Alternatively: Teenagers and Franchise/RoboCop's environmentally-friendly cousin use trading cards to fight insects, robots, and toxic creatures.
697** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'']]: People use the power of dead animals to fight the cast of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
698*** Alternatively: Mentor causes mass-extinction of dinosaurs to protect 10 pieces of jewelry.
699** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'']]: A power company has to ward off threats from a thief who doesn't even live in the same universe.
700** [[spoiler:''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'']]: People use the power of dead animals to fight chess pieces and blob-like batteries.
701* [[spoiler:''Series/PressYourLuck'']]: Contestants answer low-IQ questions in order to press a button to win money. Small red imps attempt to steal said money with various implements. One guy outwitted these gremlins with a GameBreaker, but [[DownerEnding his own character flaws gave them the last laugh in]] RealLife.
702* [[spoiler:''Series/ThePretender'']]: A kidnap victim with a mean streak habitually lies about who he is to solve mysteries.
703* [[spoiler:''Series/PrehistoricPark'']]: A man creates a park full of prehistoric life by going back in time and saving them fro extinction.
704* [[spoiler:''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'']]: Four teenaged girls who have almost nothing in common receive text messages from the same anonymous sender. This is part of a convoluted and intricate conspiracy.
705* [[spoiler:''Series/ThePriceIsRight'']]: Randomly selected contestants win cash and prized based on their knowledge of common supermarket items.
706* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Primeval}}'']]: College teacher is a dick to a bunch of amateurs who follow him unquestioningly. They cover up cryptid sightings and try to arrest the teacher's estranged spouse.
707** Or: A divorce gone wrong results in giant reptiles running around London. Snarky government official tolerates a nutcase scientist, big game hunter, techno geek and the only successful member of S Club 7 as they appear to do a better job than the special forces. Later a PR woman with multiple personality disorder, a sexy Egyptologist and Tom from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels attempt to kill giant super evolved bats.
708** Also: A whole bunch of random people chase dinosaurs that escaped from big, shiny balls of broken glass while trying to stop the main characters crazy wife who wants to commit suicide by [[spoiler:erasing the human race]].
709** Alternatively: History comes to life. Then eats you.
710* [[spoiler:''Series/PrisonBreak'']]: A man deliberately gets himself thrown in prison -- after having his escape plan tattooed over his entire body.
711* [[spoiler:''Series/ThePrisoner1967'']]: Man retires from his stressful job to an exclusive and seemingly idyllic resort, but spends all his time bitching about it and refuses to join in the fun and games like everyone else.
712** [[spoiler:''Series/ThePrisoner2009'']]: [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]] {{Mind Screw}}s [[Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist Jesus]].
713*** Alternatively: Magneto is mayor of Agent Peggy Carter’s hometown. He can only retire by manipulating Jesus into taking over.
714* [[spoiler:''Series/PrisonersOfGravity'']]: A man is stuck in a satellite orbiting Earth with a superintelligent computer and spends his time interviewing famous scifi and fantasy authors, which he broadcasts to the world by constantly interrupting a nature program.
715* [[spoiler:''Series/ProWresNoHoshiAzteckaiser'']]: Wrestler becomes a {{Toku}} HenshinHero to save the sport of wrestling from a league of renegade wrestlers.
716* [[spoiler: ''Series/ProdigalSon'']]: Mentally unstable guy really doesn't want to turn out like his dad. To prove it, he gets a job that is the opposite of what his dad does.
717* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Profit}}'']]: Theatre/RichardIII goes [[TheNineties '90s]], has sex with his stepmom, and plays computer games naked.
718* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Psych}}'']]: An immature slacker convinces the police that he has ESP. He and his reluctant best friend solve murders and sing a series of 80s references as they do it.
719** Alternately: An obnoxious ManChild lies about his abilities to be a police consultant.
720* [[spoiler:''Series/ThePunisher2017'']]: ShellShockedVeteran solves his problems through violence.
721* [[spoiler:''Series/PushingDaisies'']]: A baker/necromancer brings his murdered girlfriend back to life; together with an undead dog, a cynical private eye, and a singing waitress, they solve gruesome yet hilarious murders. One-eyed synchronized-swimming aunts, homeopathic mood enhancers, disappeared dads, and a restaurant called the Pie Hole are involved.
722* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Pyramid}}'']]: Word association game played with a loud clock ticking in the background.
723* [[spoiler:''Series/{{QI}}'']]: Jeeves grills British comedians on obscure trivia. Negative scores are often allotted.
724** Four British comedians are asked apparently simple questions, then mocked if they give the obvious answer.
725** A British quiz game where all scores are arbitrary.
726** A PanelShow where giving the correct answer is frequently not as preferable as telling anecdotes or sharing tangentially-related knowledge.
727* [[spoiler:''Series/QuantumLeap'']]: A semi-amnesiac scientist travels through time with his horny, invisible friend, who carries a computer disguised as a tetris cube (sometimes a calculator).
728* [[spoiler:''Series/TheQueensGambit'']]: Loner decides to let board games and pills take over her life.
729* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Queer as Folk|UK}}'']]: [[CastFullOfGay Everyone is gay.]] Sex is abundant.
730* [[spoiler:''Series/RandallAndHopkirkDeceased'']]: Two men continue their business partnership, even though one of them is dead.
731* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Raven}}'']]: A guy who can turn into a bird guides kids on a quest to become the best warrior.
732* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Rawhide}}'']]: A bunch of guys take cattle out west and back in the years following the Civil War.
733* [[spoiler:''Series/ReadingRainbow'']]: Celebrities read children's books accompanied by stilted animation. Hosted by [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Geordie LaForge]].
734* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Reaper}}'']]: A directionless twentysomething takes on a second job to pay off a debt his parents incurred. His friends help.
735** The job being a hunter of escaped souls from hell.
736* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Reba}}'']]: FieryRedhead is SurroundedByIdiots and [[DeadpanSnarker snarks about it]].
737* [[spoiler:''Series/RedDwarf'']]: The last human in existence drifts through space in a vast abandoned ship. It's a comedy.
738** Alternatively, angry man dies and complains about it.
739** Alternatively, a young man with everything planned out is doomed to a miserable, lonely existence by his unlikeable superior. The superior is repeatedly shown that everything is his fault and that he could have been so much more, and each episode ends with a list of the other man's broken dreams and things he wanted from life, but is now half-resigned to never having. Because it's ''funneh''.
740* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Reno 911}}'']]: A group of highly incompetent police officers are taped by a documentary crew.
741* [[spoiler: ''Series/ResidentAlien'']]: An odd man breaks down in a small town full of weird residents, but he is weirder. In fact, he is so weird, people have been hired to follow him. Unfortunately, he has to choose between his old job and his new friends. Along the way, he solves and commits murder, while terrifying a little kid.
742* [[spoiler:''[[Series/RetroGameMaster Retro Game Master/GameCenter CX]]'']]: A Japanese guy tries to play through old video games. The show also breaks to show him visiting arcades or interviewing video game developers.
743* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Revenge}}'']]: A psychopathic young woman infiltrates a snobbish society of backbiting socialites to execute an absurdly complicated retribution plot for a legal scandal that occurred fifteen years earlier. Meanwhile, she is aided by a bisexual antisocial billionaire and courted by several clueless young men who have absolutely no idea what she's really up to. Drama ensues.
744* ''[[spoiler: Series/{{Riverdale}}]]'': [[Series/TwoAndAHalfMen Jake Harper]] has been left behind by his family due to being MistakenForMurderer and forced to share an apartment room with [[Film/PowerRangers2017 Zach]], while his love relationship with [[Series/FallingSkies Lexi Mason]] is starting to fall apart due to the infamous "lipstick incident." As his senior year of high school begins, newcomer [[Series/{{Victorious}} Tori Vega]] becomes attracted to him almost immediately, while fellow students [[Series/AustinAndAlly Dez]], [[Series/HowToRock Kacey]], and [[Series/EverybodyHatesChris Chris]] question Jake's innocence and who the real murderer is. [[spoiler: As it turns out, the victim's sister, a doppelganger of [[Series/{{Jessie}} Jessie Prescott]], is still alive after all.]]
745** ''Series/TwinPeaks'' meets ''Series/MySoCalledLife''.
746** This ain't [[OlderThanTelevision your granddad's]] or even [[LongRunners your dad's]] [[ComicBook/ArchieComics iconic American situational comic.]]
747* ''[[spoiler: Series/RiverMonsters]]'': A man goes fishing.
748* [[spoiler:''Series/RobotWars'']]: A game show where many contestants are rendered unable to perform motor functions.
749* [[spoiler:''Series/TheRockfordFiles'']]: ''Series/{{Maverick}}'' meets ''Series/PeterGunn''.
750* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Rome}}'']]: A drama about life in Italy, as seen through the eyes of two soldiers.
751* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Roswell}}'']]: ''Dawson's Creek'' with Aliens who are trying to stay hidden. While trying to keep the secret that they aren't human, they tell everyone they meet that they are aliens.
752* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Roundhouse}}'']]: A DomCom trapped inside ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', all with NoBudget.
753* [[spoiler:''Series/RussianDoll'']]: A narcissistic drug addict revisits her [[FreudianExcuse terrible childhood]] while in purgatory.
754* [[spoiler:''Series/RutlandWeekendTelevision'']]: A near-no budget show about a near-no budget TV station.
755* [[spoiler: ''Series/SaluteYourShorts'']]: Kids go to summer camp and harass their counselor.
756* ''[[spoiler:Series/TheSandman2022]]'': A goth spends a while in a glass ball. After getting out he plays my-thing-can-beat-up-your-thing with Satan, stops an old guy from making people honest, crashes a convention, and attempts to kill his relative.
757* [[spoiler: ''Series/SantaClaritaDiet'']]: The life of a married couple is changed forever when the wife tries out a new diet.
758* [[spoiler:''Series/SapphireAndSteel'']]: Two socially-inept gods investigate ghosts and other paranormal phenomena, defeat eldritch horrors mostly by glaring at them, and have ridiculous amounts of {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST despite allegedly existing only to do their job.
759* [[spoiler: ''Series/SavedByTheBell'']]: A blond and superficial HighSchoolHustler uses his good looks and powers of manipulation to get his way by having his friends do his bidding.
760** Alternatively, a live-action version of [[ComicBook/ArchieComics The Archies.]]
761* [[spoiler: ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'']]: Many educated men and women of all races, usually American, imitate the five British men discussed above but usually have their own writers and no moving paintings.
762* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Scrubs}}'']]: Two dorky white people strive to impress their black and ''Dominican'' best friends and shed their dependence on the WellDoneSonGuy. Oh, and they save people's lives daily, but that doesn't seem enough to raise their self-esteem.
763** Or: A dorky white guy with an overactive imagination's adventures in a hospital full of doctors who must've bribed their way through med school.
764* [[spoiler:''Series/{{SCTV}}'']]: A local television station, run by an conniving owner who fakes being wheelchair-bound, forgoes airing cheap reruns to air incompetent original programming. The most popular material is a pure filler piece starting two beer swilling idiots.
765* [[spoiler:''Search'']]: Three guys are constantly being watched while they're working, and they're aware of it.
766* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'']]: Four self-interested adults talk. About nothing.
767* [[spoiler:''Series/Sense8'']]: Eight people spontaneously become a HiveMind, have telepathic sex together, and try to solve each other's problems.
768* [[spoiler:''Series/SesameStreet'']]: A community filled with monsters and humans teach viewers about the alphabet, numbers and other valuable lessons.
769* [[spoiler:''Series/ShamelessUK'']]: AlcoholicParent, the series.
770** [[spoiler:''Series/ShamelessUS'']]: AlcoholicParent, the series [[CulturalTranslation remade for American audiences]].
771* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Sherlock}}'']]: A sociopathic manchild teams up with a traumatised Army doctor. They fight crime.
772** Or, yet another [[spoiler:Franchise/SherlockHolmes]] adaptation.
773** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/SherlockS01E01AStudyInPink A Study in Pink]]"]]: a relatively normal guy going through a rough patch in his life meets a quirky, free-spirited stranger with no regard for social conventions, who brings adventure into his depressing existence.
774* [[spoiler:''Series/TheShield'']]: Crime fighting show notable for asking such difficult questions as 'Is the PornStache the best way to get girls?'.
775* [[spoiler:''Series/ShiningTimeStation'']]: Three kids play around inside a railway station, with blatant ProductPlacement for another show.
776** The spin-off [[spoiler:''Series/TheNoddyShop'']] is pretty much the same thing, but replace "railway station" with "antique toy store".
777* [[spoiler: ''Series/SilkStalkings'']]: The original version of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', only set in Palm Beach, Florida.
778* [[spoiler:''Series/TheSingingDetective'']]: Murder investigation is frequently interrupted by song-and-dance numbers using well known forties songs and shots of some bloke with a skin problem {{wangst}}ing.
779* [[spoiler:''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'']]: Five adventurers and an ActionGirl find themselves stuck on an inaccessible and inescapable island, yet a parade of guest stars can come and go as they please.
780* [[spoiler:''Series/SixFeetUnder'']]: The patriarch of a family of morticians dies unexpectedly, but continues to appear regularly on the show. A FamilyDrama.
781** Alternatively: The sex lives of a group of middle-aged, emotionally stunted funeral directors
782* [[spoiler:''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'']]: The adventures of a crippled former astronaut/test pilot with the world's most expensive, powerful and lifelike prosthetics.
783** [[spoiler:''Series/TheBionicWoman'']]: The distaff version made possible by one of the medium's most notorious DeathIsCheap examples.
784* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Skins}}'']]: Undermotivated British teenagers do drugs and run up their cell phone bills.
785* [[spoiler:''Series/SlingsAndArrows'']]: A struggling Shakespearean theatre company is reinvigorated with the help of a director who suffered a nervous breakdown, and the bisexual ghost only he can see.
786* [[spoiler:''Series/SmallWonder'']]: A man builds a lifelike android and tells everyone it's his daughter.
787* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Smallville}}'']]: Young man [[LimitedWardrobe who never changes his clothes]] keeps refusing to fulfill his blatantly obvious destiny.
788** Well meaning college dropout incapable of maintaining meaningful relationships stumbles through life and increasingly submits to his father's attempts to control his life as the series progresses.
789** Franchise/{{Superman}} meets ''Series/DawsonsCreek''.
790** Protagonist indirectly causes conflict by withholding the truth from others.
791** GreenRocks [[RocksFallEveryoneDies Fall, Everyone Dies]]: The Series.
792* ''[[spoiler: Series/SnuffBox]]'': The adventures of a womanizing British hangman with a voice that makes you shout "[[Memes/{{Advertising}} Come on, world, I'll have you for breakfast!]]" and his time-travelling American assistant who has an absolutely deadpan voice. Both are insane.
793* [[spoiler:''Series/TheSopranos'']]: A suspiciously wealthy waste management executive has panic attacks, recurring dreams, extramarital affairs, and occasional bouts of violence.
794* [[spoiler:''Series/SouthOfNowhere'']]: A family with a strained relationship move to LA, which causes a rift between mother and daughter.
795* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Spaced}}'']]: Two lazy, unmotivated slackers trick their drunken landlady into letting them rent a flat by pretending to be a couple, and spend their time bumming around aimlessly with their weird friends.
796* [[spoiler:''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'']]: Gladiators get restless. Their bosses get restless. Everyone gets laid.
797* [[spoiler: ''[[Series/SpiderManJapan Spider-Man]]'']]: Popular comic book hero [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN JAPAN!]] He also has a [[HumongousMecha Giant Robot]].
798* [[spoiler:''Series/SpinCity'']]: A RagtagBunchOfMisfits do their darndest to make the incompetent mayor of New York City look good.
799* [[spoiler:''Series/SplitSecond1972'']]: Game show in which three contestants earn as high a score as possible in the first two rounds, but the first player to go back down to zero in the third round is declared the champion.
800** Or a ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' mimic with questions that all three players can answer -- even if the first player gives a correct response.
801* [[spoiler:''Sportscenter'']]: People spout lame catchphrases while reporting sports scores.
802* [[spoiler:''Series/SportsNight'']]: People talk about sports and fail at their personal lives.
803* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Square One|TV}}'']]: A Pac-Man [[CaptainErsatz ripoff]], various music stars, a pair of police detectives, and assorted other people teach children mathematics.
804** [[spoiler:''Series/{{NUMB3RS}}'']]: A ripoff of those "math detective" segments.
805* [[spoiler:''Series/SquidGame'']]: 456 people play Korean children's games for money.
806** Alternatively, family-unfriendly ''VideoGame/FallGuys''.
807* [[spoiler:''Series/StargateSG1'']]: A wisecracking colonel, an archaeologist who just won't die, a pretty blonde astrophysicist, and an alien revolutionary step through a big gray ring to fight snakes with glowing eyes and mechanical insects. Later, the colonel is promoted, so a new proverb-quoting colonel and an eccentric, flirty thief join up, this time to fight glowing energy beings who like to play god.
808** Alternatively, a retired Air Force officer, who was previously sent on a suicide mission that he volunteered for due to his son's death, but who has now coped with his grief by adopting an entirely new personality, is called back into the service to lead an undermanned survey team who suck at their actual mission. Eventually, they break every regulation known to the Air Force, desecrate every religion in the world except for Buddhism, and one of them eventually causes the biggest manmade explosion in history. They're considered the greatest heroes on Earth.
809** [[spoiler:''Series/StargateAtlantis'']]: Interplanetary explorers get stranded in a flying city in another galaxy and must fight off [[RecycledInSpace space]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] that feed on human life force.
810** [[spoiler: ''Series/StargateUniverse'']]: DarkerAndEdgier RagtagBunchOfMisfits get stranded on a runaway ship on the other side of the universe.
811* [[spoiler:''Franchise/StarTrek'']]: Three men and four hundred extras travel through space in their futuristic living room/model UN club, going where no man has gone before.
812** A space ship runs around the galaxy telling everyone to behave lest their planet be blown up. This is the ideal form of society.
813** ''[[spoiler: Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries]]'': A GrumpyOldMan, a StrawVulcan, and a ChivalrousPervert with a toupée save the galaxy.
814*** The StrawVulcan succumbs to a powerful mating urge and almost kills the ship's captain. (An actual ''TV Guide'' synopsis of the episode "[[spoiler:[[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Amok Time]]]]")
815*** A sex addict plays ComicStrip/MaryWorth to the galaxy.
816*** A ship from an organization that is absolutely, positively, you better believe it, ''not'' a military organization goes about obeying a strict hierarchy of ranks, carrying spectacular amounts of firepower, involving itself in imperialistic power politics and killing or threatening to kill large numbers of intelligent life. This ship has a captain who cannot stay away from alien women, an exec with absurd mathematical prowess, a curmudgeonly doctor, and an engineer who always complains that the ship cannot stand any more. There are also numerous people dressed in red shirts to indicate that they are chosen for human sacrifice to the religion of plot necessity.
817*** Alternatively: A crew of [[RenaissanceMen obscenely over talented people]] is ordered to get as far away from civilization as possible for five years. It quickly becomes clear that this was not a punishment, but someone upstairs being smart enough to realize the ship is a DoomMagnet.
818** ''[[spoiler: Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration]]'': An enlightened old man, a young up-and-coming commander who refuses all promotions, an attractive female doctor (except for that year with the shrewish female doctor), and an android go where no one has gone before. They usually would rather not. Oh, and the most iconic adversary introduced in this one seems to have been lifted out of ''Series/DoctorWho''.
819*** The enlightened old man is stuck with a foreign counterpart who won't stop making pop culture references. His friends try desperately to rescue him. [[spoiler:("[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E2Darmok Darmok]]")]]
820** ''[[spoiler: Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine]]'': A commander who never quite got over the death of his wife in the worst military loss his government ever had, a beautiful young woman with dark spots whom he keeps calling "old man," a hot-headed genius engineer, and an ambitious doctor straight out of medical school go where extremely ugly aliens have gone before and stay there. They meet a former freedom fighter (who has to get over some severe FantasticRacism, albeit with a FreudianExcuse) and a security officer who sleeps in a bucket. When the young woman with spots is murdered by a possessed villain, she is replaced by a shrink.
821*** ''Series/BabylonFive'' minus the ''Babylon 5''.
822** ''[[spoiler: Series/StarTrekVoyager]]'': Two starships go where no one has gone before. The captain of one ship drafts everybody from the other into her organization (since they lost their ship), as well as a local and a mercenary, and then spends the series trying to go back without violating her peculiar moral code, [[DependingOnTheWriter whatever that may be]]. They all are forced to use a sophisticated computer program for medical treatment. About halfway through the series run, they pick up and draft a cyborg EmotionlessGirl who is BeautifulAllAlong.
823*** Or.... literally going where no one has gone before. Anybody have a map?
824** [[spoiler: ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'']]: An Iowa farm boy who's dreamt of space travel all his life, his Southern-accented chief engineer/best friend, an uptight British munitions officer, a black helmsman, a gorgeous Japanese linguist ([[FakeNationality played by a Korean]]), a gregarious alien doctor who commits murder on at least two occasions, and a stoic-yet-beautiful alien commander travel space at the beginning of humanity's efforts. They meet nasty aliens and get caught up in a lot of headache-inducing time stuff.
825*** Or... how Mankind got it done before the aliens started pitching in.
826** [[spoiler: ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' Season 1]]: Adopted daughter causes an intergalactic incident, joins a top secret spaceship in order to realize she made a huge error and make everyone realize DarkerAndEdgier doesn't work.
827*** [[spoiler: ''Star Trek: Discovery'' Season 2]]: Adopted daughter teams up with CoolOldGuy to find her brother and figure out all these red spots in space are.
828*** [[spoiler: ''Star Trek: Discovery'' Season 3]]: Adopted daughter and top secret spaceship travel to the future to solve a gas shortage.
829** [[spoiler: ''Series/StarTrekPicard'']]: The enlightened old man, now older and disgruntled, and his dog team up with a RagtagBandOfMisfits and the former EmotionlessGirl to give robots civil rights.
830** [[spoiler: ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'']]: We finally see what happens when the CoolOldGuy commanded the ship, before he's put in the chair.
831* [[spoiler: ''Series/StillGame'']]: People going through old age in poverty in a Glasgow estate that no one cares about are mean to each other.
832* [[spoiler: ''Series/StormChasers'']]: An IMAX filmmaker, a videographer, and an electrical engineer. They chase storms.
833** Alternatively: A bunch of people who [[HappyRain are only happy when it rains]].
834* [[spoiler:''Series/StrangerThings'']]: Small Indiana city sees its routine broken by two weird visitors.
835** Takes place in a terrifying world where a given name starting with “B” guarantees you a violent death.
836** 'It's 11:00: do you know where your children are?'
837* [[spoiler:''Series/StrangersWithCandy'']]: A middle-aged junkie prostitute attends a high school where all the other students are of normal age and the principal is an insane narcissist. The teachers hate the students and angst about everything. Important lessons are introduced but [[IgnoredEpiphany nobody learns them]]. Homes are broken, lives are ruined, and every episode ends in a dance sequence.
838* [[spoiler:''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'']]: Two kids live in a hotel. HilarityEnsues.
839** [[spoiler:''The Suite Life on Deck'']]: The same kids move to a cruise liner for their studies.
840* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheSunsetLimited]]'': [[MinimalistCast Two old men]] [[SpeechCentricWork talk]] [[RealTime for 90 minutes]] about suicide.
841* [[spoiler:''Series/Supergirl2015'']]: A woman who idolizes her cousin decides to broaden her career path by following in his footsteps and ends up dealing with a ton of crap he failed to warn her about.
842* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Supernatural}}'']]: Two hot, dysfunctional brothers drive around the country fighting monsters, later accompanied by a hot angel, with a revolving door of hot recurring stars/guest stars. They fight monsters.
843** A pair of smokin' brothers hate themselves and love each other so much that they ruin the apocalypse and somehow piss off both Heaven ''and'' Hell.
844** Two ridiculously attractive brothers travel around the US having the most miserable lives known to mankind.
845** Or, A show about two mentally-challenged underwear-model brothers trying to impress God.
846** Alternatively, two criminals travel around the country committing credit card fraud, impersonating police or other law enforcement officials, running various con games, and also carrying out many killings. They are the heroes.
847* [[spoiler:''Franchise/SuperSentai'']]: Long-running Japanese franchise about people who wear different-colored clothes. Was adapted into an entirely different premise for American audiences.
848** [[spoiler:''Series/HimitsuSentaiGorenger'']]: The United Nations creates a special task force to deal with people who wear colorful masks.
849** [[spoiler:''Series/JAKQDengekitai'']]: Four cyborgs play a game of cards against a crime lord with a really bad haircut and a [[AIIsACrapshoot crappy A.I.]].
850** [[spoiler:''Series/BattleFeverJ'']]: Japan, France, the Soviet Union and Kenya all have their own versions of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, and America is a woman.
851** [[spoiler:''Series/DenziSentaiDenziman'']]: A RagtagBunchOfMisfits are recruited by a dog to fight aliens.
852** [[spoiler:''Series/DaiSentaiGoggleFive'']]: Evil scientists try to take over the world, so a team of gymnastics experts are called in to stop them.
853** [[spoiler:''Series/ChoudenshiBioman'']]: Five people are recruited by a robot to fight evil cyborgs, because a bigger robot have sneezed on their ancestors 500 years ago.
854** [[spoiler:''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman'']]: Man falls in love with the wrong woman, earns the enmity of her older brother and an entire subterranean empire as a result.
855** [[spoiler:''Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'']]: College students betray their friends to go live with an older man on a space station.
856*** Alternatively: School rivalry goes out of control.
857** [[spoiler:''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'']]: Teachers fight aliens. Their worst enemy is a handsome singer who can charm anyone in radius.
858** [[spoiler:''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'']]: A red hawk and a black condor get in a love feud over a white swan.
859** [[spoiler:''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'']]: A grieving mother declares war on prehistoric animals.
860** [[spoiler:''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'']]: Martial artists fight kitchen appliances and other household objects.
861** [[spoiler:''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger'']]: A robot and a pink haired girl break a whale out of prison, this leads to everyone going back in time.
862** [[spoiler:''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'']]: Quirky, idiot ninjas wind up as the only ones who can fight against quirky, idiot space ninjas.
863** [[spoiler:''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'']]: A RagtagBunchOfMisfits are recruited by a dog to fight aliens. Again.
864** [[spoiler:''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'']]: Man who lives in the wild learns martial arts from talking animals.
865** [[spoiler:''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'']]: Angels battle bugs, monsters and robots with trading cards.
866** [[spoiler:''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'']]: Pirate captain with a key collection gets pissed after his lunch is interrupted.
867*** Alternatively, HumanAlien space pirates learn to be better people from other former heroes who came before them.
868** [[spoiler:''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'']]: Traveling vagrant befriends dinosaurs and battles an evil cult while dancing like a badass.
869* [[spoiler:''Series/SuperStore'']]: Disgruntled retail employees neglect their job to get up to some wacky antics.
870* [[spoiler:''{{Series/Survivor}}'']]: A bunch of people that have no business living with one another are thrown into the middle of nowhere and have to live with one another.
871* [[spoiler:''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'']]: PungeonMaster corpse tells stories of {{Asshole Victim}}s getting their just desserts.
872* [[spoiler:''{{Series/Taskmaster}}'']]: Man tortures five comedians with inane and pointless challenges, seemingly all in service of getting his humiliation kink broadcast on national television.
873* [[spoiler:''Series/TattooedTeenageAlienFightersFromBeverlyHills'']]: Teenagers battle evil with the power of the Zodiac. Has nothing to do with ''Manga/SaintSeiya''.
874** Alternatively: a poor man's ''Power Rangers''.
875* [[spoiler:''Series/TeenWolf'']]: Teenage boy becomes werewolf, gets better at lacrosse. Everything else gets worse.
876** Remake of a 25 year old teen movie, InNameOnly, airs on MTV.
877** A high school outcast and his best friend wish their lives were more exciting. Then they wish their lives were less exciting.
878** A cast of [[DawsonCasting 25-year-old-high-school]] lacrosse players [[FanService take off their shirts.]]
879** Teenage boy struggles with the problems of puberty including body changes, mental control and mean guys trying to beat him up.
880** Two best friends struggle to balance high school and their extra-circular activities.
881* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'']]: A group of brightly-colored humanoids live in a hi-tech dome.
882* [[spoiler:''Series/The10thKingdom'']]: A waitress, a janitor, a golden retriever, and an obsessed ex-con chase a mirror, while pursued by three idiots who love the Bee Gees. Meanwhile, the BigBad teaches a dog how to be a man and spends the rest of her time talking to mirrors (or [[Series/MarriedWithChildren Al Bundy]]).
883* [[spoiler: ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'']]: The savior of mankind goes through high school. Meanwhile, his mentally unstable mother and time-travelling uncle fight robots and criminals, a disguised robot looks for them, and [[Webcomic/{{xkcd}} River Tam beats up everyone]].
884* [[spoiler:''Series/TerraNova'']]: The cop from the American ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2008}}'' and the [[JerkAss asshole]] [[ColonelBadass colonel]] from ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' travel back in time 85 million years and form [[HeterosexualLifePartners history's earliest recorded bromance]]. They fight dinosaurs (and an [[AngryBlackManStereotype Angry Black Woman]]).
885* [[spoiler:''Series/TetanggaMasaGitu'']]: Bickering couple bicker with each other and disturb their newlywed neighbors. Alternatively, SickeninglySweethearts couple make their neighbors argue about such romanticness.
886* [[spoiler:''Series/ThankGodYoureHere'']]: Comedians walk through a door, not knowing what's on the other side.
887* [[spoiler:''Series/That70sShow'']]: Main character is nerd with a crush on tomboy. Setting is a dull city filled with rednecks. Main characters do lots of drugs.
888** Or: A group of teenagers live through the 1970s. When 1980 comes they can't remember the 70s.
889* [[spoiler:''Series/ThatsSoRaven'']]: A psychic teenager goes to a school for normal people. HilarityEnsues.
890** [[spoiler:''Series/CoryInTheHouse'']]: The psychic teen's brother moves to a presidential suite, but doesn't become president.
891** [[spoiler:''Series/RavensHome'']]: The psychic and her best friend move in together to raise their kids, and they're [[HeterosexualLifePartners totally not lesbians.]]
892* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheThickOfIt'']]: A minor British governmental ministry attempts to deal with public image crises while trying to avoid getting sworn at.
893** Alternately: The British pendant of ''Series/TheWestWing'', except everyone is either a pathetic coward, a shouty dick, or both.
894* [[spoiler:''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun]]'': A military officer working for a foreign dictator hides in a small American town under a false identity with three subordinates posing as his relatives. He regularly has sex with a local woman who doesn't know his true identity. HilarityEnsues.
895* [[spoiler:''Series/ThisIsWonderland'']]: A woman named Alice chases a shy man with no pants, encounters drug addicts, gets a haircut from her AmbiguouslyGay opponent, argues with a StepfordSmiler who wants to be royalty, and sits through various bizarre trials conducted by a wannabe clown with an explosive brain.
896* [[spoiler:''Film/TheThreeStooges'']]: A trio of "brothers" take odd jobs, but mostly spend half the time arguing and beating each other up.
897* [[spoiler: ''Series/ThreesCompany'']]: A guy pretends to be gay so that he can live with two women to whom he is not romantically linked.
898* [[spoiler: ''Series/TheThundermans'']]: Twin siblings get into constant feuds by freezing and burning each other.
899* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Thunderstone}}'']]: When a teenager from AfterTheEnd messes with virtual reality technology, he finds himself lost in the far past, where animals still thrive long before his time, but is also very treacherous to boot.
900* [[spoiler:''Series/TimeTeam'']]: Archaeology in an episodic format.
901* [[spoiler: ''Series/TimeWarp'']]: People watch things in slow motion.
902* [[spoiler:''Series/TippingPoint|GameShow:'']]: People answer trivia questions in order to play a MedalGame for money and prizes.
903* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'']]: The [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} world's greatest detective]]'s [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} former sidekick-turned-struggling actor]] must [[TenMinuteRetirement redon his old cape]] and team up with [[ComicBook/{{Raven}} an ordinary Aussie girl]] [[TouchedByVorlons revived and adopted by a demon lord]] after she and her family perished in a plane crash at sea, [[ComicBook/BeastBoy a young aspiring zoologist]] with [[{{Shapeshifting}} the ability to become any animal at will]], and [[ComicBook/{{Starfire}} a former hotshot Air Force rookie pilot]] once taken from Earth by a malevolent alien race after being [[FreakLabAccident infused with strange powers]]--to defend UsefulNotes/LosAngeles from the various threats of his troubled past.
904* [[spoiler: ''Series/TopGearUK'']]: Three middle-aged men arse about with [[CoolCar cars]] and a whole bunch of the BBC's money.
905** Or: A large, blustery man, a secret American who whitens his teeth, a man unable to drive fast, and a man(?) in a racing suit muck about with cars in an airplane hangar.
906** [[spoiler:''Top Gear: The Great Adventures'']]: Same middle aged men race across countries across the world, getting injured, getting drunk, freezing their arses off, having stones thrown at them by hicks and making friends with {{Companion Cube}}s along the way.
907*** Three presenters are repeatedly humiliated and, occasionally, blatantly tortured by their producers in a series of challenges. They find it funny, so you find it funny too.
908* [[spoiler: ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'']] A [[{{Scotireland}} Scotirish woman,]] a veteran singer and a reluctant SerialKiller wander the Earth observing tragedies. It's similar to the show about the hobo and the cop previously mentioned, but instead of [[HelpingWouldBeKillstealing usually preventing bad things from happening,]] they inform those they encounter that it was [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane ultimately for the greater good while also diplomatically telling them to get over it.]]
909* [[spoiler: ''Series/TowerPrep'' and ''Series/UnnaturalHistory'']] Live-action shows on Cartoon Network.
910* [[spoiler: ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'']] Wildly inaccurate "documentary" about poverty, crime and substance abuse in rural Canada.
911** Or: People with awful lives stuck in the middle of nowhere in Canada consistently fail to break out of the cycle of poverty. Most of the characters are addicted to harmful substances and evidence of brain damage is, sadly, everywhere. With no education no one seems to have any options other than a life of crime and they all end up in and out of prison. It's supposed to be a "documentary" but I'm pretty sure it's scripted just to get laughs at the expense of these poor people.
912* [[spoiler:''Series/TrueBlood'']]: Several minorities suffering from segregation and discrimination in a middle American town fight over a girl.
913** Or: Bodily Fluids discovered to be a Healing Potion and Stat Booster.
914* [[spoiler:''Series/TrueJacksonVP'']]: A 15-year-old girl becomes vice president of a youth apparel line.
915* [[spoiler:''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'']]: The universe is really, ''really'' weird.
916** [[spoiler: "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough At Last]]"]]: A man proves that one should prepare for the end of the world by getting contact lenses.
917** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E22TheMonstersAreDueOnMapleStreet The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street]]"]]: Humans are both Othello and Desdemona. Aliens are Iago.
918** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E28ANicePlaceToVisit A Nice Place to Visit]]"]]: A small time crook goes to heaven, or does he?
919** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E29NightmareAsAChild Nightmare as a Child]]"]]: A schoolteacher gets a blast from the past.
920** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E3NervousManInAFourDollarRoom Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room]]"]]: A frightened man who think's he's facing MortonsFork talks to himself.
921** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E13BackThere Back There]]"]]: A well-to-do theoretician tries in vain to stop a murder.
922** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E14TheWholeTruth The Whole Truth]]"]]: A crooked car salesman gets rid of a magic car by saving the free world.
923** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E29TheObsoleteMan The Obsolete Man]]"]]: In a dystopian future, a doomed man gets his chief persecutor in trouble.
924** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E8ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]"]]: [[Series/LostInSpace Will Robinson]] is freaky.
925** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E9DeathsHeadRevisited Deaths-Head Revisited]]"]]: A sadistic Nazi refuses his last chance to repent.
926** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E11StillValley Still Valley]]"]]: A pro-slavery warlock accidentally selects the cause's TokenGoodTeammate.
927** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E13OnceUponATime Once Upon a Time]]"]]: A grumpy janitor steals a TimeMachine. HilarityEnsues, and the fourth wall is painted.
928** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E20ShowdownWithRanceMcGrew Showdown With Rance McGrew]]"]]: Wild West outlaws put a TV producer through an FanFic/OfficialFanfictionUniversity.
929** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E24ToServeMan To Serve Man]]"]]: The Wolf and the Goat with an alien invasion.
930** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E6LivingDoll Living Doll]]"]]: A BlandNameProduct version of Chatty Cathy drives a man to his death.
931** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E29TheJeopardyRoom The Jeopardy Room]]"]]: In a sudden genre change, a defector has to think his way out of a trap.
932* [[spoiler:''Series/TwinPeaks'']]: Quirky agent with a sweet tooth visits town to solve murder mystery. Strange people from his dreams help him.
933** Or: An FBI agent tries to solve a murder with the help of a midget, a giant, and a dead girl from his dreams. Spoiler: [[spoiler:''Satan'']] did it.
934* [[spoiler:''Series/UglyBetty'']]: An iconoclastic woman works in an industry she hates so she can preach about it. Her father is a murderer, her best friend at work is an alcoholic, and her nephew is friendly with a minion of the BigBad.
935* [[spoiler:''Franchise/UltraSeries'']]: Giant men fight [[PeopleInRubberSuits People In]] [[PeopleInRubberSuits Rubber Suits]] for [[LongRunners nearly 50 years and still counting]].
936** [[spoiler:''Series/UltraQ'']]: Japanese people meet weirdness in the form of [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever 50-foot whatevers]]. [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Doesn't have giant men.]]
937** [[spoiler:''Series/{{Ultraman}}'']]: A highly trained paramilitary team needs the help of a giant man to defeat rejects from the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' series.
938** [[spoiler:''Series/UltraSeven'']]: Same as above, but the rejects are from ''Series/DoctorWho''.
939** [[spoiler:''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'']]: The first giant man comes back to do the exact same thing again...except he isn't the first giant man.
940** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanAce'']]: A guy and a girl become one giant man to fight rejects from ''Franchise/PowerRangers''.
941** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanTaro'']]: A giant man fights [[OverlyLongGag rejects from]] Japanese fairy tales.
942** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanLeo'']]: A gym coach gets put through TrainingFromHell by a handicapped man for failing to kill the MonsterOfTheWeek.
943** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanEighty'']]: A teacher fights giant monsters formed from youth angst. He later teams up with his "maybe girlfriend" from space.
944** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanTowardsTheFuture'']]: A giant man fights a virus possessing various Australian wildlife.
945** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanTheUltimateHero'']]: The first "giant man" show, but it's in the US and the fight scenes are [[FightSceneFailure laughably bad]].
946** [[spoiler:''Film/UltramanZearth'']]: A germaphobic gas station janitor gets bullied by a shady customer who needs gold to live. Later on, the shady customer's sexy biker wife exploits the janitor's phobias to promote her flying karate dojo.
947** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanTiga'']]: A [[Music/{{V6}} J-Pop idol]] merges with a really big statue to fight giant monsters and Cthulhu's son.
948** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanDyna'']]: A PluckyComicRelief fights giant monsters while trying to find out what happened to his father.
949** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanGaia'']]: A genius becomes a giant red man to fight aliens trying to cause the apocalypse. He also meets a giant blue man who wants to kill everyone.
950** [[spoiler:''Advertising/UltramanNice'']]: An asymmetrical giant man promotes the J-Pop idol's merch and fights aliens who want to steal their merch.
951** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanCosmos'']]: A giant man fights TheCorruption by using ThePowerOfLove.
952** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanNexus'']]: A rescue worker fights hungry aliens and is helped out by a giant man.
953** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanMax'']]: The previous series gets ScrewedByTheNetwork, so the creators do the formula of the first "giant man" show.
954** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanMebius'']]: An alien, a paramilitary veteran, a motorcyclist, a soccer player, a preschool teacher, and a medical student battle giant monsters and an EvilOverlord by using ThePowerOfFriendship. ContinuityPorn ensues.
955** [[spoiler:''Series/UltraGalaxyMegaMonsterBattle'']]: A amnesiac man and his giant dinosaur befriend a space delivery crew and fight everyone they meet.
956** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanGinga'']]: Young man reunites with his friends at their old school. They learn to follow their dreams by using toys to transform into giant monsters and superheroes and fight people doing the same thing. Later, the young man teams up with a foreigner to fight an alien, a RobotGirl, a parrot-headed man, and their collection of monster toys.
957** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanX'']]: An orphan discovers talking data in his communicator. He uses its powers to turn {{kaiju}} into toys so he can create a world where monsters and humans can live peacefully.
958** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanOrb'']]: A trio of geeks investigate weirdness caused by giant monsters and encounter a vagabond who uses cards to fight the monsters.
959** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanGeed'']]: A fanboy uses tiny capsules to battle giant monsters and his father's biographer. His friends are an alien, a ronin, a computer, a salaryman with a split personality, and a secret agent with a crush on him.
960** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanRB'']]: Two brothers turn into giant men to stop an entrepreneur from trying to be a superhero by fighting giant monsters.
961** [[spoiler:''Series/UltraGalaxyFightNewGenerationHeroes'']]: Eight of the giant men team up to file a copyright claim on impostors using their likenesses. Notable for featuring the debut of the first Malaysian giant man.
962** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanTaiga'']]: Three giant men possess a security guard and fight one of the giant men's father's former friend with a bondage kink.
963** [[spoiler:''Series/UltraGalaxyFightTheAbsoluteConspiracy'']]: The giant men face an immigration problem when a rival race of giant men attempt to immigrate by altering history.
964** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanZ'']]: An orphaned giant man merges with a karate-obsessed HumongousMecha pilot and use poker chips and an intergalactic criminal's severed head to fight a parasite obsessed with stitching giant monsters together.
965** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'']]: A plant biologist merges with a familiar-looking big statue on Mars and tries to make everyone smile, including his psycho ex-girlfriend and her two lackeys.
966** [[spoiler:''Series/UltramanDecker'']]: A rice grain worker fights literal [[Film/{{Spaceballs}} space balls]] to end lockdown, but accidentally gets involved in time travel shenanigans.
967* [[spoiler:''Series/Ultraviolet1998'']]: A former policeman, a doctor, a Gulf War veteran, and Catholic priest team up to fight vampires, while mulling over the ethics thereof.
968* [[spoiler:''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'']]: A NEET, a police academy dropout, an abusive mother, a drug addict, an angsty teenager, a dead guy, and a depressed music teacher yell at each other instead of preventing the end of the world.
969** A group of super-empowered children are taken to a specialist training centre and subjected to a stiff training regimen to make them grow up into crimefighters. A SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome follows, hard.
970* [[spoiler:''Series/UnbeatableBanzuke'']]: A [[HarderThanHard nigh-impossible]] GameShow from Japan whose challenges involve the use of pogo sticks, unicycles, stilts, giant seesaws, remote-controlled helicopters, and cat-shaped wheelbarrows. The grand prize is [[UndesirablePrize "honor"]].
971* [[spoiler:''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'']]: A woman tries to hide her dark, abuse-filled past from her friends and employer, but finds that it keeps coming back to haunt her. It's a light-hearted comedy!
972* [[spoiler:''Series/{{V 2009}}'']]: The government opens up relations with a foreign power, and our heroes respond by blowing up buildings. Also, there's a kid who wants to bang a lizard.
973* [[spoiler:''Series/VanHelsing2016'']]: Woman with unique blood condition fights vampires in a post-apocalyptic world.
974* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Veep}}'']]: Inept politician and her even more inept employees navigate DC politics.
975* [[spoiler:''Series/VeronicaMars'']]: A blonde high-school age female solves a crime every episode with the help of her African-American male friend, trusty dog, and protective father while she struggles to fit into the high school social scene. (Hint: it's not Nancy Drew.)
976* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Victorious}}'']]: A teenage girl attends a performing arts high school where she gets to sing and perform in plays, while getting into wacky situations.
977* [[spoiler:''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'']]: An ex-cop, a pizza delivery boy and a redneck team up with an untrustworthy ex-cop, an old man with a shotgun and a black guy to protect themselves against shambling people who like to bite things.
978* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Wallander}}'']]: Cop solves crimes by frowning and crying a lot.
979* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{WandaVision}}'']]: European woman reenacts famous TV shows with her robot boyfriend. The army doesn't like that, but certain fans do!
980** Alternatively: A sorceress creates an artificial sitcom reality to avoid accepting the death of her robot boyfriend while a government organization comes to give her a reality check.
981* [[spoiler: ''Series/Warehouse13]]'': A group of hoarders travel the world looking for unique knick-knacks.
982* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Weeds}}'']]: A soccer mom's husband dies of a sudden heart attack. She decides to pursue alternate career options to keep the family afloat with the help of her eccentric chef brother-in-law, a sassy black woman, an obnoxious blonde with cancer, and her two sons, one of whom is a psychopath and the other of which is boinking a deaf chick.
983* [[spoiler:''Series/TheWestWing'']]: The adventures of a politician and his staff.
984** Alternatively: Trivia enthusiast attempts to solve world's problems with help of young idealists. This involves a lot of lengthy conversations conducted whilst walking up and down corridors.
985* [[spoiler:''Series/WheelOfFortune'']]: Contestants play Hangman with a big wheel to win money. Hangman's failure condition has been removed. LovelyAssistant aids in making letters magically appear.
986* [[spoiler:''Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'']]: Three prepubescent kids hunt down a world-renowned thief and her gang of cartoonish {{Mooks}} all over the world.
987** [[spoiler:''Series/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego'']]: Pretty much the same premise as above, only this time they hunt down the world-renowned thief all across the space time continuum. Oh, and her {{Mooks}} aren't as cartoonish this time around.
988* [[spoiler:''Series/TheWhiteQueen'']]: A family of witches use magic to take over their country and crush their political opponents. BasedOnATrueStory ([[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Very loosely]]).
989* [[spoiler:''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'']]: Contestants earn a gradually increasing amount of money by answering the exact same question up to fifteen times.
990* [[spoiler:''Series/WhoWantsToBeASuperhero'']]: {{Cosplay}}ers compete in a pseudo-reality show to win the prize of becoming a fictional character who briefly appears in a cheesy MadeForTVMovie.
991* [[spoiler:''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'']]: Four comedians try to impress a judge with a [[DropTheCow buzzer]] by making stuff up as they go along.
992** US Version: Cast from an actor's self-titled sitcom act out HoYay-drenched audience suggestions through improv.
993** The only show where the scores are made up and the points don't matter.
994** 2013 version: Two bald guys, a tall guy and a rotating set of friends impress a woman and weird out celebrity guests through improv. HoYay, Innuendo and HilarityEnsues.
995** [[spoiler: ''Series/DrewCareysImprovaganza'']]: Six comedians go to Vegas and make up raunchy stuff up on the top of their heads.
996* [[spoiler: ''Series/WickedScience'']]: Two high school rivals get into a FreakLabAccident that transforms them into... well, [[SuperIntelligence geniuses]]. HilarityEnsues as they fight over who's the best at chemistry.
997* [[spoiler:''Series/TheWildWildWest'']]: Two 19th century government employees are good at dealing with bizarre occurrences that come with their jobs. A very charming dwarf periodically stops by to make their lives more difficult.
998* [[spoiler:''Series/WinBenSteinsMoney'']]: Snooty emcee gambles his paycheck against the intellects of three everyday citizens, then competes against these citizens to prevent himself from going home penniless. Homoerotic humor ensues.
999* [[spoiler:''{{Series/Wipeout|2008}}'']]: A game show in which the dregs of humanity are pushed onto an assault course/obstacle course/the inflatable seven circles of hell and attempt to get to the other end in the quickest time. Most are hindered by [[spoiler:''four large bouncy balls'']] that they must traverse and will eventually give them crippling back problems later in life. Anyone who is good is mocked. Anyone who is bad is mocked. Anyone who is fat will be fixated on as they are made to writhe cruelly in the mud. The entire event is presided over by an entirely unsympathetic plastic woman.
1000** [[spoiler:''Total Wipeout'']]: Similar concept, but the people are from a different country. A short guy who likes cars narrates.
1001* [[spoiler:''Series/TheWire'']] A show where some of the "heroes" include a drunk Irish cop, a drug addict with a penchant for putting red hats on people, a reformed felon, and a gay stickup artist. The antagonists include a man who goes to community college and works at a copy centre, a young adult who hangs out at a wheel rim shop, a boss that doesn't have a valid driver's license, and an enforcer with a love for tropical fish.
1002** A cop show, but instead of solving one case per episode, they take an entire season just to resolve one. Your favorite plot may get minutes of screen development in any given hour long episode. Despite the glacial pacing, the show includes long rambling discussions in bars and devotes staggering amounts of time documenting petty office politics. Pretty much everyone is a bastard. It somehow managed five seasons despite tanking in the ratings throughout.
1003* [[spoiler:''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'']]: An antisocial girl torments her family, who can't stand her. She and her brothers will fight to obtain the ability to do magic tricks.
1004* [[spoiler:''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'']]: A look at the lives of Ohio disc jockeys during the late 70s.
1005* [[spoiler:''Series/WolfLikeMe'']]: [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Olaf]] finds himself dating a philosophical woman and finds out at the worst time that she's a closeted furry.
1006* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Wonderfalls}}'']]: A 20something woman hears voices and goes to the bar a lot.
1007** A philosophy major talks to inanimate objects. They talk back.
1008* [[spoiler:''Write On'']]: The misadventures of a newspaper staffed with one editor, one secretary and one daydreaming reporter who apparently got hired despite not knowing how to write well.
1009* [[spoiler:''Series/WynonnaEarp'']]: The modern day descendant of a famous cowboy shoots a lot of people for the government while getting drunk very often. Meanwhile, her sister has a protracted coming-out story.
1010* [[spoiler:''Series/TheXFiles'']]: A paranoid nerd and an attractive doctor ([[WillTheyOrWontThey who may or may not be sleeping with each other]]) spend a lot of time trudging through forests and other out-of-the-way places in search of the truth whilst an elderly government employee smokes a lot.
1011** Alternate: A man and woman who get fired and/or demoted frequently argue about who's right (usually the man) while their boss looks uncomfortable, their nemesis smokes, their family and friends get killed off, and they try to deny - unsuccessfully - that they are sleeping together.
1012* [[spoiler:''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess]]'': Ancient Greek women beat people up and engage in [[LesYay lesbian subtext]].
1013** Alternatively, schizophrenic women from the nineties believe they're Greek women, beat people up, and engage in [[LesYay lesbian subtext]].
1014* [[spoiler: ''Series/YesMinister'']]: Loquacious snob works his hardest to ensure that a man never accomplishes anything of merit.
1015** Alternatively: Three elderly British dudes discuss politics as they try to out-sleaze each other.
1016** Alternatively: If ''[[Series/HouseOfCardsUK House]]'' ''[[Series/HouseOfCardsUS of Cards]]'' was a comedy.
1017* [[spoiler:''Series/YoGabbaGabba'']]: A trippy show that had Music/MyChemicalRomance guest star in its Christmas special.
1018* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Yonderland}}'']]: Live action British isekai.
1019** Alternatively: Some British woman is forced by a puppet and his talking stick to go into a room with twelve people, of which only seven are ever seen and one is a gag character who dies on screen. Among them are a guy who can’t pronounce her name, an alcoholic, a hippie, a transgender woman, an old guy with an impractical haircut and a blob. RunningGags ensue.
1020* [[spoiler:''Series/You2018'']]: Exploits of a misogynistic SerialKiller who [[KarmaHoudini always gets away with his crimes.]]
1021* [[spoiler:''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'']]: Canadian kids discuss issues that people their age face, engage in [[JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites skits where everything is backwards]], and get CoveredInGunge.
1022* [[spoiler:''You've Been Framed'']]: A doctor presents footage of dozens of people and animals having humiliating accidents. You're supposed to laugh at it.
1023* [[spoiler:''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'']]: A young boy from New Jersey meets [[InthePastEveryoneWillBeFamous practically everyone who was famous during the 20th Century.]] Several years later, he serves in war, attends school, and meets more famous people. The whole thing [[ReCut may or may not]] be an old man (and [[Creator/HarrisonFord Han Solo,]] on one occasion) recounting his life.
1024* [[spoiler:''Series/TheYoungOnes'']]: Four students who hate each other live together.
1025* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Zoom}}'']]: Seven real kids do activities sent in by viewers.

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