What Is Your Favorite "Comfort Food" TV Show? (1 Viewer)

[Professor Echo]

You know, the show you return to again and again, like macaroni and cheese or peanut butter and jelly, something that makes you feel warm and comfy and...home.

 

[Gary16]

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

 

[Roy Wall]

Star Trek TOS

 

[benbess]

Star Trek, all variations. That gives me c. 700 episodes of comfort food!

 

[smithbrad]

The Andy Griffith Show

 

[Craig Beam]

Star Trek (TOS and TNG); less often, Voyager and Enterprise (not DS9, since I'm planning to tackle the entire series one of these days). Thanks to Netflix, I can call up any episode in a matter of seconds.

And if I'm channel surfing, and Friends is on... yeah, I stop and watch it. I do love me some Chandler Bing (Chanandler Bong?).

 

[BobO'Link]

The Adventures of Superman

followed very closely by:

Star Trek: TOS

I'll watch either at the drop of a hat. If you even start to say the name of the program I'll have it out and in the player before you finish.

 

[Gary OS]

LOL. My two top ones have already been mentioned: Ozzie & Harriet and TAGS. Those two shows really are ones I can watch again and again. They have the ability to really put me in a good mood no matter what. So as to add another that's yet to be mentioned, I'd say my third pick would be Leave it to Beaver. Not quite at the level of the first two, but very good at getting the job done (comfort and enjoyment).


Gary "great topic, Glen" O.

 

[schan1269]

Taxi Cab Confessions

 

[John Maher_289910]

Both THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET and HIGHWAY PATROL. I can almost smell my mother's cooking when I watch them.

 

[Gary16]

LOL. My two top ones have already been mentioned: Ozzie & Harriet and TAGS. Those two shows really are ones I can watch again and again. They have the ability to really put me in a good mood no matter what. So as to add another that's yet to be mentioned, I'd say my third pick would be Leave it to Beaver. Not quite at the level of the first two, but very good at getting the job done (comfort and enjoyment). Gary "great topic, Glen" O.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[davidmatychuk]

There are so many, but I'll go with two: "Twin Peaks" and "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.". And I love "Thriller", too, but not even "Hannibal" in 2014 can match that level of network show creepiness, so I'd call it my "Discomfort Food" choice.

 

[Steve_Pannell]

Last of the Summer Wine

Can't explain why, but I fell in love with it.

 

[Jeff Willis]

Glen

I have 2 answers to this one.

Bionic Woman S1 For "rewatchability" factor. I lost count how many times I've seen this season's episodes.


It's hard to pick only one:

LITB For overall series choice. I'd pick TAGS except I'm only interested in S1-5.



If I was picking by category:

Western: Big Valley

Action: Combat!

Family: Lassie

SciFi: Time Tunnel I have to pick a Holy Grail. If not, I'd have picked what's a surprise to me since the other 2 shows are later-era shows:

Earth 2
Firefly I'm still surprised at how this one's a re-watch series. My nephew gets the credit for this one.


Police/Law: Sue Thomas, F.B.EYE This one is one of the best shows I've seen. I'd never heard of it until Gary convinced me to try it out

Good luck Sun night Glen

 

[Steve...O]

Great topic.

It depends on my mood. For comedies, either Frasier or Hot in Cleveland (the TV Land series) will work for color series. B&W would be Andy Griffith or Dick Van Dyke. For drama, Perry Mason fits the bill.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Both the original "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" remain shows I can pretty much watch anytime, anywhere, no matter if it's the best or the worst episode.

I can also do "The Twilight Zone" and "The Honeymooners" just about anytime.

In terms of more "junk food" than "comfort food", I'd put "Married With Children" near or at the top of that list. I'm pretty much over the whole sitcom format and the canned laugh tracks, but that show still does it for me.

It's kinda weirdly amazing to me that I can watch an episode of "Honeymooners" or "I Love Lucy" or "Married With Children" and the laugh track doesn't bother me, but if I'm channel surfing and I catch a moment of a new sitcom and I hear it, I reflexively reach for the remote. I don't know why it works for me on vintage material but not on new stuff.

 

[Ron1973]

The Beverly Hillbillies hands down. I know already what's going to happen and I've watched every episode multiple times over but it's still the "go to" show for me. Hogan's Heroes is quickly becoming that as well since I've started delving into my DVD collection. I need to pick up S3 as I just finished S2.

 

[smithbrad]

LITB For overall series choice. I'd pick TAGS except I'm only interested in S1-5.

It's hard to pick only one:

TAGS only has 5 seasons as far as I'm concerned.

I'm wataching LITB right now with my two daughters. Prior to this I had only seen a handful or so of episodes in my youth. We are on the last half of season 4 right now. Typically with a show like this I would tend to prefer the early seasons more when the kids are youngest. However, with LITB I'm starting to think it gets even better as the seasons progress. I think i will add LITB as my honorary mention in this category.

 

[JoeDoakes]

The Beverly Hillbillies hands down. I know already what's going to happen and I've watched every episode multiple times over but it's still the "go to" show for me. Hogan's Heroes is quickly becoming that as well since I've started delving into my DVD collection. I need to pick up S3 as I just finished S2.

You and me both are ready to play bouncy ball with this show anytime.

 

[Gary OS]

TAGS only has 5 seasons as far as I'm concerned.

I'm wataching LITB right now with my two daughters. Prior to this I had only seen a handful or so of episodes in my youth. We are on the last half of season 4 right now. Typically with a show like this I would tend to prefer the early seasons more when the kids are youngest. However, with LITB I'm starting to think it gets even better as the seasons progress. I think i will add LITB as my honorary mention in this category.

Welcome to the club, my friend. Jeff and I feel the same way about LITB. The later seasons are definitely the best for us. What I really enjoy with the 60's portion of the show is the Eddie/Lumpy combo. When you add those two into the mix I find the show jumps up a notch in terms of enjoyment for me. This is most on display in S5 and S6, so get ready for some great stuff as you move forward.


Gary "I'm normally an early seasons guy too, but not with this show" O.

P.S. I agree with you about TAGS as well.