Show: “Scrubs”. Mostly real, authentic, relatable characters with qualities and flaws.
Good writing and rarely a dud throughout the seasons. And not a sitcom so a serious or even sad moment sprinkled in here and there.
Honorary mention: Parks & RecreationMovie: “Dune: Part I and II”. Mostly because I’ve seen them so often by now, it’s not surprising at all, but I like them for many reasons besides the whole story aspect.
I like watching Cloud Atlas when I’m having a bad day.
Futurama (I can’t skip Jurassic Bark either), Community, Ted Lasso, First Harry Potter film, and both iterations of the show Ghosts.
MythBusters
Star Trek. Tech/Exploration Utopia without corporate dominance, what’s not to love?
Drink Sluggo ColaTM!
Come to Quark’s, Quark’s is fun, come right now, don’t walk. Run!
Lord of the Rings
Schitts Creek. Every character is interesting, the stories are fun. There doesn’t feel like there is any doom and gloom in the show. It’s so heartwarming and funny.
Psych.
You heard about Pluto? That’s messed up right?
The Good Place
300, Mad max fury road, Fight club or anything from Warhammer 40k.
Though not for the deeper and hidden meanings in those, theres enough of trying to figure that out in day to day life.
Most of those just look awesome on simple surface level.
MAS*H.
It’s a dark show at times and some of it hasn’t aged super well, but I have nothing but fond memories of watching it with family. I also watch it on my own a lot. I love it so much that I named my dogs after characters. My beagle, who passed recently, was named Radar. My mini goldendoodle is named Rosie.
The version without the laugh track is a whole different show and how it was meant to be viewed, a real masterpiece.
I’ve seen it so many times that I don’t even register the laugh track. Or maybe I’ve seen it without as well? I’ve watched it on cable, on streaming, and had a pirated version of it all on discs for a while.
Even with the laugh track, it’s an amazing show with an overall message that still holds up today. The mix of grittiness and darkness is complimented perfectly with the comedic aspect. It comes across as so purely human. Like, idk how any show can depict the resilience of people and the bonds we can have with each other better than MASH did.
Star Trek: Voyager. When the theme song plays, I can feel my blood pressure drop lol
For a long time it was “big bang theory” until I ran out of episodes. Its just a fun, dumb, and chill show where you don’t have to think too much. You dont need to be super nerdy to understand or enjoy it.
Other awesome series or TV shows id consider comfort are “Foundation”, “Clarksons farm”, “Fututama”, “For all mankind”, for no other reason than I just really enjoy those shows.
Movies would be something like “Interstellar”, “topgear specials”, “the grand tour specials”, “starwars”
Frasier
Not a comedy guy, per se. But some of them are just really good. Like The Office and Parks and Rec. Recently, Ted Lasso. Just good fun shows.
For anime, I can always watch Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (Erased outside Japan, though it’s a dumb name — the actual name translates to “The Town Without Me” and that’s way cooler, and more accurate — fans of the Japanese title just call it Boku Machi though, for short). It’s not exactly a comforting show though, it deals with some triggering issues. It’s just good stuff. Grown man in a little boy’s body, he’s been forced back in time to solve the murder of a classmate, when he was a kid (the first time) everyone just ignored her, and he was super popular… so the second time around, he decides he and his friends are going to adopt her as one of their own. So it does have a wholesome element. Like when they find an abandoned bus and make a little shelter for her (because her home life is rough) to stay in. Or when he takes her to the museum, or that one tree, or the breakfast scene.
Some people say one of the long ones because they have no need to finish it, they can just jump right in whenever. I don’t watch “the big three” (One Piece, Bleach, and Naruto), but, I guess, My Hero Academia or Fullmetal Alchemist (either version). Both are sufficiently long enough, I could just jump in anywhere and enjoy it.
