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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I love TNG, but for whatever reason I prefer DS9. I still remember watching the first episode and thinking that being a Star Trek show set on a space station was a bad idea. I think maybe being proven so wrong about that plays some role in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I could never get into DS9 because I am a huge Babylon 5 fan. What Paramount did with DS9 was low.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

DS9 was my gateway to Babylon 5!

[–] keepee 21 points 3 months ago

90s Simpsons were the best.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

X-Files was a blast live... Not sure if it holds up to reality these days

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I had never watched it, but I'm on season 5 right now and I've had a ton of fun watching it! Of course I'm from the 90s so having beepers and no wikipedia are familiar to me, I'd be curious how it comes off to people who have always had the internet.

[–] amlor 14 points 3 months ago
[–] laszlopanaflex 13 points 3 months ago

Twin Peaks!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

At the time, it was probably Ren & Stimpy or Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Both were unapologetically weird.

In retrospect, probably Reno 911! Not only was it loaded with funny scenarios and running gags and tons of guest comics, but the physical comedy was really good. They were always tackling somebody or running over Junior with a Hummer or somesuch, and it was usually the main actors doing the stunts.

Honorable mention to Strangers with Candy. It took the Seinfeld formula of a sitcom full of disagreeable people and amped the contempt to 11.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Futurama and That 70's Show.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That 70s show was a staple! Looking back it was one of very few sitcoms that were meant for teens in that era

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It also helped that crazy Jackie and big Donna were hot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

jeez I sorta forgot to think about futurama. that sorta blows everything out of the water I was thinking of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

1999, so it just squeaked in.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Well, gotta be Buffy. It was at the tail end of the nineties and lasted into the naughties, but it counts imo.

It was just such a fun show for the era, and they managed to not only keep a consistent vibe, but turned out plenty of really intense shows despite the overall vibe being humor/action based

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Red Dwarf! Smoke me a kipper I'll be back for breakfast

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Forgot about this one!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That's late 80's, gramps!

But if it's allowed, it gets my vote too!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

What a guy!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gargoyles. It aimed incredibly high for its target audience.

If you had released it with a Japanese voice track and baked in low-quality subs as $30-for-two-episodes VHS tapes to a 'grown up animation enthusiasts' audience, it would probably have outsold freaking Naruto.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It basically had half the cast of TNG. Plus Keith David.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Batman: The Animated Series

[–] MimicJar 6 points 3 months ago

Sliders!

My favorite forgotten 90s show.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

matt frewer (max headroom!) in doctor, doctor

only a few seasons, they never really gave the show time to find its footings but frewer is fucking hilarious and i lament he has not done more comedy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

YuYu Hakusho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Dragon Ball Z

[–] coriza 1 points 3 months ago

I loved Doug and Tintin and they aired back-to-back at dawn in my country.

[–] masterbaexunn 1 points 3 months ago