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  • Andi Mack. This makes it an exception among modern Live Action Kid Coms.
  • The Andy Griffith Show. Life in Mayberry.
  • Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer dealt with the Scoobies' day-to-day foray into grown up life.
  • Season one of Community had alot of this.
  • The Wonder Years (A slice of 1960's life)
  • Friends, a Slice of Life in New York, as lived by a group of friends who became as tight as a family. The first couple of seasons were closer to this, before it became Denser and Wackier in the third season. By the fifth, it had evolved into a more straightforward sitcom.
  • Kamen Rider Hibiki is a tokusatsu superhero show with elements of Slice of Life. The heroes fight monsters, but they and their allies also go about their daily lives. Any drama (to the extent that it is present at all) is very ordinary and everyday-like, in contrast to the more fantastic and more contrived drama seen in many tokusatsu shows.
  • The British version of The Office fits this model, being the mockumentary of an unexceptional office in a dreary little suburb. The American version continues with the basic premise but increasingly inserts more outlandish sitcom situations.
  • Freaks and Geeks. Only Lindsay has a really pronounced character arc by the time the series ends.
  • Fresh Off the Boat is basically about the daily lives of an Asian-American family who just moved to Orlando from Washington, D.C. in the mid-90's.
  • Seinfeld, the Trope Maker for SitComs, is nicknamed the "Show About Nothing" for this reason, as it focused on the minute and mundane aspects of the protagonists' daily lives rather than overarching themes or plots.
  • The Dick Van Dyke Show is the trope maker for the Dom Com. All previous ones were of the I Love Lucy variety where the comedy revolves around an out of the ordinary circumstance, event, or scheme.
  • How I Met Your Mother. Frequently an episode will be centered entirely around a conversation sprinkled with flashbacks to random events in the character's lives.
  • Bear in the Big Blue House
  • Outnumbered.
  • My Place is this for children's Historical Fiction. The series as a whole stretches from 2008 to past 1788. Some episodes are about big, life changing events, but many are basically about kids getting up to all sorts of fairly harmless shenanigans, and all focus on the kids' daily lives.
  • Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide deals with common problems faced by teens in middle school. Jealousy, tests, parties, etc.
  • Sesame Street.
  • The Big Bang Theory is really about the minor adventures of how socially awkward geniuses go about in activities they are unfamiliar with. Especially in earlier seasons, you see them playing games or hobbies with no other plot than just to see them having fun (the World of Warcraft episode opener being a standout).
  • That '70s Show.
  • The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss became this once it was retooled after the first season in an attempt to compete with Bear in the Big Blue House.
  • Happy Days.
  • My So-Called Life.
  • The Norwegian julekalender Jul i Skomakergata, which is about an old shoemaker who is visited by friends and townspeople that need their shoes repaired before Christmas.
  • Samson En Gert
  • Kabouter Plop
  • Verano Azul is basically a Coming of Age Story set in a bunch of kids' summer vacation in Spain's Costa del Sol (Sun Coast)
  • Despite the fantastic sci-fi elements of Tales from the Loop (giant robots, people switching bodies, someone transporting to a parallel universe), the show's nature is strongly grounded in slice-of-life stories. Characters are shown having dinner with each other and attending school, and there are lingering shots of characters doing things like taking out the trash, cleaning a toilet, or fixing a fusebox.
  • Kodoku no Gurume follows the everyday life of an ordinary Japanese importer, whose greatest obstacle is finding a good place to eat after work.
  • The Unicorn centers on the life of a widowed father, who decides to try his best to find love again after his wife passed away with support from his family and friends.
  • Chef wa Meitantei centers on a French restaurant in Shibuya Ward where the chef/staff cooks French food, but also guides and helps their guests in their various problems by Sherlock Scan.
  • Midnight Diner centers on a chef who cooks Japanese food from Shinjuku in an alley in a restaurant called Meshi-ya, where he listens to the problems of his customers.
  • Lovely Little Farm centers on two sisters in the English countryside taking care of the farm animals (including a few that are able to talk) at their family owned farm, alongside coping with a new baby brother in the family.
  • Hancock's Half Hour started as a narrative-driven sitcom based around Zany Schemes with surreal touches, but became more and more grounded and mundane as it progressed, shifting to observational humour drawn from everyday situations in the life of Tony Hancock. The final series had a Bottle Episode with Tony just in his flat having an ordinary evening. This is an unusual inversion of the common Denser and Wackier path taken by many later sitcoms.
  • Adam-12 is a genre hybrid: A slice-of-life Police Procedural, portraying the everyday work of patrol officers without the conventions of either the Cop Show or the mystery-focused procedural.

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