Tell me about your favorite obscure show - which you never, ever see anyone talk about.

The increasingly poor decisions of Todd Margaret.

Greg the Bunny - just an odd collection of ideas that really worked for me. “Greg the Bunny was a short-lived 2002 Fox sitcom that spoofed children's shows, featuring puppets and humans working on a fictional kids' program called Sweetknuckle Junction. The show treated puppets as a real minority group, "fabricated Americans," and followed the behind-the-scenes antics of the show's production.”

Danger 5 for me. If you've ever seen the Sensible Chuckle gif, that's the show it is from. I don't know anyone else who has seen it in my real life.

Eerie, Indiana …. I miss it so

Get a Life!

Murder in Small Town X (2001) It was during the peak beginning of reality TV in the 2000s, where contestants played the detectives and went to a small town in Maine to investigate a murder. Everyone in the town was played by actors and each week two detectives would be sent to find the killer in special areas, one area was a clue that would help eliminate suspects, the other, 'was killed' by the murderer and off the show. It was so creepy, and watching the old tapes back on YouTube it was definitely product of its time, as reality TV was very new. But holy hell what a concept. There would be groups dudes in nice suits sweeping the streets with old brooms around town not saying a word, and watching the contestants and it was soooooo creepy. 13 yr old me was hooked. It was cancelled after the first season as the w***** was later killed in the 9/11 attacks, he was NYC firefighter. The real town it was filmed in made a statue to memorialize him.

Sifl & Olly!

Tru Calling is probably one of the best shows that could’ve been even better. It got unceremoniously cancelled in the early part of filming season 2. People really could’ve loved this show.

Insomniac with Dave Attell Maybe not super obscure, but only ran three seasons in the early 00s on Comedy Central. Dave, a stand-up comic, would travel to a city and explore its night-life, usually the less touristy sides, speaking with real-world people, often getting a behind-the-scenes look into professions that work 2nd and 3rd shifts. Each episode would end in the morning with Dave reminiscing about the previous night's antics. Also, one of the best theme songs ever. Las Vegas and New Orleans episodes are standouts. Edit: TIL there's a fourth season! I don't think I have ever seen this season. D/L'ing now!

Important Things with Demetri Martin

There are a couple shows that come to mind that might fit. Kung Fu the legend continues - continuation of kung fu it was a cop procedural. David Carradine could hardly move but he was always kicking everyone's but. Time Trax - another cop show. Guy from the future goes back in time to send back criminals who escaped from the past. Reaper - son of the devil captures escaped demons.

The Black Donnelly's Not the greatest TV show ever, but I absolutely enjoyed it. IIRC, it was canceled after only 5 or 6 episodes into its first and only season. I pull the DVD out every once in a while and rewatch it.

The Weekenders

Brisco County Jr

C**** Seats with the Sklar Brothers on ESPN Classic. It was basically MST3K but for obscure, vintage sports like professional arm wrestling or regional spelling bees. It was the perfect late night show to stumble upon, and I dont think I have ever seen it on a streaming service or even mentioned in these types of threads. It honestly felt like a fever dream because of how weird some of those old broadcast clips were

Dead Like Me. A funny ass show I watched 20 years ago about formerly dead people now working as grim reapers out of a german Wafflehouse.

Travelers. Not exactly an old show, but a random find for me. None of my friends watched it and I never see people talking about it.  Classic modern Sci Fi pulp tv. 

Jon Benjamin Has A Van

It’s not that obscure but Rectify is criminally underseen.

A touch of cloth

Nowhere Man, back on UPN starring Bruce Greenwood. I feel like it was ahead of its time.

Bored to Death Jason Schwartzman gets high and poses as a PI in New York. Also Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis get high too. It's great.

Frisky dingo. Ran on adult swim, had a lot of reoccurring jokes and long setups, a lot of weird characters.. then it was cancelled after a short lived spin off, then the creators made Archer. One of the best Adult Swim shows had to die for Archer to exist. It’s kind of like Arrested Development crossed with Archer.

Aaaaah it’s the mr hell show Quads That’s my bush Code Monkeys

Popular. A teen dramedy created by Ryan Murphy.

The Life and Times of Tim On HBO, hilarious animated show with an incredibly long list of guest voices.

I wish more people watched Ashe versus the evil dead

Wilfred seems to have disappeared, or atleast I never hear it mentioned. Elijah Wood stars as a depressed man who fails to kill himself, and starts to see his neighbors dog as a man dressed in a suit. Fun little show.

Selfie starring Karen Gillan and John Cho as a retelling of My Fair Lady. By the same creator of Suburgatory.

MXC most extreme challenge

"Kyle XY" about a kid without belly button that randomly just appears in a small town seemingly like an orphan from the woods. turns out theres more mystery to it DUNDUNDUUUUUN

Wonderfalls. I've brought it up on occasion and people know it, but it's lost to the zeitgeist, despite Bryan Fuller and especially Lee Pace's subsequent successes. To me it is equal to Firefly in missed opportunities for Fox in the 2000s.

Red Green.

Stella

Joan of Arcadia is a hidden gem of the early 2000's. I still consider it to be so ahead of its time.

Not sure if this counts. Wonder Showzen. A satirical "kids" show that is absolutely not for kids. Aired on MTV2. Some of the funniest shit in media around that time. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder\_Showzen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Showzen) It went lowkey viral at the time, but that time was 20 years ago now. Somehow, it's available on Paramount Plus now. It's also available online with some searches.

The Great Space Coaster

Toast of London. The only people I've ever met who've seen it are English.

Continuum - Canadian series from the mid 2010s about time travel, terrorists, cops and corporations. I've always thought the cast was great (especially co-leads Rachel Nichols, Eric Knudsen and most of their antagonists), and that's before you even get to the Cigarette Smoking Man in a minor but long-running and intriguing role.

I never see anyone talking about Lexx. Teenage me loved that show.

Legion on FX. I have never met anyone who has seen it, but man was it a great show. It's a Marvel series set in the X-Men universe, which is why I'm surprised it's not more popular than it is. There are only 3 seasons, and it wraps everything up nicely in the end. The 3rd season feels like it derails a little bit, but by the end I didn't mind and ended up loving it. It's on Hulu and worth a watch.

The W***** starring Rob Corddry from 2007. Short-lived but it made me happy. I watch it on YT sometimes. Just me?

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist

Sports Show with Norm MacDonald. Fell between his reveered SNL run & his beloved podcast so it's almost never mentioned, plus sports jokes are a bit more niche than his stand up was. But it was probably the last time HIS voice was given a proper platform on television.

The Onion Sportsdome. Low Winter Sun.

Revolution. It was a post apocalyptic show in which all electronic things suddenly stopped working, even things with batteries like flashlights. It was really good imo. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution\_(TV\_series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_(TV_series))

There used to be this show in the mid-2000s called "I'm with Busey" on comedy central where the host just kind of hung out with Gary Busey and had weird, awkward adventures. Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only person who watched it

Strangers with candy

Kings

Patriot, although the success of DTF St Louis has increased love for the show (same showrunner)

I was just thinking about this today! The show was called Seven Days and it was a time travel/fix the past type show but they could only go back exactly 7 days. The formula was something bad happens then there's this cool dynamic where they need to take time to investigate before sending the person back to fix it, but not too much time because they only have seven days from when it happened to go back and fix it. And they need time once they get there to do it. It was like Mission Impossible crossed with Quantum Leap.

Dark Skies Warehouse 13

Awake Jason Isaacs plays a man who gets in a car crash with his wife and son in the car. He splits into living in two different realities: one where his wife died but son survived and one where his son died but wife survived. Also, he’s a cop and he proceeds to solve cases using information from the opposite reality. Very interesting twist on the police procedural. You spend the show trying to figure out which reality is the real one and which is just a dream. Unfortunately, it was cancelled after only one season. Even so, the one season it got is pretty good, and I was happy with the ending it got. I recommend watching it.

Dirk Gently's Holistic detective agency

Ugly Americans should have taken off more than it did, it's fantastic and always worth a re-watch because of all the background gags. It's like to horror what Futurama is to scifi.

The Jackie Chan Adventures

Police Squad

Human Giant. Sketch show before Aziz/Paul Scheer/Rob Huebel were really big. You can barely find episodes or clips of it anywhere anymore. My friend and I could quote literally every sketch of every episode. So it feels like it was a vital and popular comedy of my late teens. But f****** nobody has ever heard of it. "Corn maze" and "Kiditentiary/Kidcentration camp", the doritos commercial that nobody believed Paul about so he went back in time and was raped to death by dinosaurs, kids purposefully breaking their legs to get free tickets to ghostface killa concerts. "Old fashioned fun" It's like it all never even existed.

terriers.

Undeclared, made by Judd Apatow. Has Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen, and Charlie Hunnam. Only had one season and I think the only place to watch it is YouTube

Better Off Ted

Doctor, Doctor Grapevine (the original series) South Side Dinner for Five Traffic Light LA to Vegas American Auto

\- The Tomorrow People (people who are a step evolved and can teleport/telekinesis/being hunted for their powers) \- Stitchers (people who can mind-meld with the dead) \- Forever (doctor who is immortal and becomes a medical examiner) \- Finding Carter (girl who got kidnapped at birth) No one knows any of these shows but I remember being locked in every week for these shows! Shame they were all cancelled...

Utopia (the UK version). Unfortunately the original version they have on Amazon in the us is pretty heavily edited so other than dvd I’m not sure the best way to watch it

Ugly Americans It was great and so f****** weird. It's an animated series (only lasted two seasons) about a version of Manhattan in which magic, demons, zombies, werewolves, aliens -- really, most things you can imagine -- all lived together. The show followed a human man living with a zombie roommate while working as a social worker helping non-humans in a variety of ways. He's dating a succubus coworker who also happens to be the daughter of Satan. It's friggin great.

Mrs. Davis. Betty Gilpin plays a nun who’s on a quest to destroy an evil AI. It’s funny and dramatic and action-packed and weird and crazy. I loved it.

Being Erica.

Day Break. Taye Diggs was the star. About a detective stuck in a time loop where he keeps waking up on the same day. The mystery was amazing. Only one season long but I highly recommend it. The whole thing is on Youtube.

Raising Hope. It’s the perfect balance of raunch and feel-good. Perfect casting.

Detectorists is my bucolic cozy binge go to

This isn't obscure in Britain I think, but as a Canadian I have never met another person in real life who knows the show 'The Thick of It' Which is a fantastic show.

Eagle heart

The River more or less a found footage version of Lost back when Paranormal Activity was huge. Was pretty fun and a shame it only lasted one season 

Kings (the one with Ian McShane)

Carnivale

Delocated was hilarious.

Andy Richter Controls the Universe

Counterpart is one of my all time favorite shows and nobody has ever heard about it. It's an amazing espionage thriller starring JK Simmons built on a really cool premise of parallel universes which were identical at the point of duplication during the cold war, but now 30 years later have butterfly-effected apart and are in a cold war of sorts with each other. The idea of most of the main cast playing two characters who were the same person 30 years ago but have drifted apart creates the opportunities for some really high skill ceilings in acting talent and man did they deliver. Simmons in particular puts up such an amazing performance I can't believe this show didn't get any recognition. I gush about this show to everyone I know and everyone who has gone on to watch it has come back to me raving about how good it was. It was unfortunately cancelled after season 2, but they had enough notice they were able to write a nice little wrap up so it's a great series to binge with only 20 episodes total.

Better Off Ted. Watch it every few years and it still cracks me up.

I loved about a boy, but it disappeared from all streaming sites shortly after cancellation.

There was an American show that was on South African television called “dear John.” It was about a guy who had been left by his lady, via a dear John letter and the theme song is burned into my mind.” I think I was like 10-13 years old and because it was the only tv we had back in the early 90’s I watched it….. I have never looked it up or heard of it again

Kolchak the night stalker. It was weird, funny, and a 70's monster of the week show and on way before I was born and I don't know why I love it so much

Scavenger's Reign! Beautiful, intense, sci-fi. The first episode hooked me and it gets better and heavier and more beautiful with each episode.

Future Man

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Show me a hero on hbo

Here are a few: * The Ben Stiller Show. sketch comedy with Ben Stiller, Bob Odenkirk, Janeane Garofalo, Andy D*** * Now and Again. It's kind of a Robocop/Six Million Dollar man tv series where an insurance salesman dies and gets his brain put into a super body and then forcibly made into a secret agent asset. * Miracles. starring Skeet Ulrich and Angus Macfayden. Kind of a catholic XFiles about oncoming apocalypse. * Jim Henson's The Storyteller. Famous myths told via muppetry. * Larry Sanders Show. sitcom around a fictional late show host played by Garry Shandling. costarring Rip Torn, Jeffrey Tambor, Janeane Garofalo, Jeremy Piven, and a ton of guest stars. * A Town Called Panic. Robot Chicken-style stop motion french show with bizarre/amazing humor. * We Are Lady Parts. comedy about british muslim women starting up a punk band. * It's Your Move. starring jason bateman, david garrison, and caren kaye. creators of Married With Children did this show just prior to MWC. it's like spy-v-spy, where bateman is a teen conman type and garrison is an adult match for him; they have to match wits bc garrison moved in next door and is now dating bateman's mother. * What's Alan Watching. starring Corin Nemec (before Parker Lewis Can't Lose) and exec-produced by Eddie Murphy. A bizarre sketch comedy-type show about a kid who is obsessed with tv and finds himself sucked in and living parts of the tv shows he's watching and imaginig his own life as a tv show. IIRC, only the pilot aired and never got picked up, but there are some hilarious bits in it, notably a scene where 2 black guys are standing on a street corner shouting "FREE JAMES BROWN!" and doing a dance vigil to attract attention. * Vanishing Son. starring Russel Wong as a man searching for his missing brother. has the Fugitive/Kung Fu vibe to it. * Kitchen Confidential the sitcom starring Bradley Cooper, John Cho, Nicholas Brendon, John Francis Daley, James King, Erin Hayes. Restaurant single cam sitcom that was uneven but starting to find itself just as it got canceled. Not super funny, but the chemistry and energy of the cast is great.

Polar Bear town on the Indigenous TV network

Downward dog. It got one summer showing on ABC. It was a sitcom where the main character was a dog. He thought he had magical powers because he could open the doggie door. Was envious his person got to spend all day long riding around in a car

Hindsight It follows Becca, who is on the eve of her second marriage when she gets sent 20 years into the past just before her first marriage. You stay in the 90s with younger Becca as she navigates the pratfalls (aka her own questionable decisions) that once led to the dissolution of her first marriage as well as the dissolution of her friendship with Lolly, her best friend. All amidst the backdrop of a killer 90s-era soundtrack. It was picked up for a second season but got cancelled before they could film it, due to a regime change at VH1. Someday I will rewatch this show, and I will be so angry we never got a second season all over again.

Kenny vs spenny and legit. No one ever mentions those. Only met one person in real life that’s seen Kenny vs spenny