Star Trek: Voyager. I was raised on that shit. Not objectively the "best" Star Trek. (Far from the worst, though.) But it's the one that's most nostalgic and, indeed, "cozy" for me.
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I will watch a Joy of Painting episode anytime I come across one on PBS (they stream on YouTube but itβs more fun to find it βin the wildβ)
Black Books.
For me, itβs delicious in dungeon. Iβm vegetarian and generally very weirded out by the cultish behaviours people have around meat, so a show about people killing and eating monsters should definitely not be as enjoyable to me as it is, but here we are. Very fun and cute show tho so Iβm not complaining
I am very curious what "cultish behaviors" you've observed surrounding meat. Not discrediting your experience at all, just a curiosity! I'm sure you've had to explain it many times before, so please feel free to ignore my request. π Just someone looking to broaden their horizons and understand.
Probably the most relatable one around here is the way people on reddit used to talk about bacon - in like 2010s reddit it was almost mythologized, which was weird to me even back then when I still ate and enjoyed bacon. Thereβs a bunch of other small examples like that Iβve run into pretty regularly that are each innocent on their own but taken all together are justβ¦ odd. βCultishβ was probably too strong of a word but I couldnβt think of a better alternative (then or now) for the way some people treat meat so differently than any other type of food, including ones you might expect to be more exciting like deserts or something.
Iβm not one to try to tell people their opinions on subjective stuff are wrong and thatβs not what Iβm trying to say here, but I just do really think thereβs more to the way some people treat meat than just it being a type of food they enjoy. Hopefully that makes some kind of sense lol
I honestly think the bacon thing was an advertising push; one that gained its own momentum. If I remember something interesting, it's that the original bacon advertising campaign over a hundred years ago was one of the most successful advertising campaigns in its long term effects on the 'culture' of american breakfast. Then there was another push with it to become a 'premium' addon in culinary circles in the 90s-00s.
There is definitely something odd about meat in people's minds, though, you're right. I've never heard of anyone, even italian chefs, caring about whether a pasta must be cooked al dente to be done right, but every idiot and their cousin will tell you they know exactly how a steak must be cooked, and everyone else is wrong, and not only wrong but a terrible savage for thinking differently.
I was born in the late 80s, grew up in the 90s and 2000s, and it's both fascinating and terrifying to me how much of what I thought was just "standard" stuff was influenced by marketing 50-100 years before I was even born. Santa Clause as a jolly old man with rosy cheeks and a snow white beard wasn't a big thing until Coca-Cola made it part of their advertising in the 30s. The bacon with breakfast thing was the result of a food packaging company in the 1920s hiring a man named Edward Bernays to help them sell more bacon. Bernays was allegedly so good at marketing/manipulation that people like Hitler and Goebbels kept copies of his books. Orange juice became a thing because orange producers in Florida in the early 1900s made too many oranges for the market (in an attempt to beat out California as the country's orange production state), and juicing them was considered a better alternative to reducing production.
I try not to think about it too much if it's something that isn't something that I need to interact with, like orange juice or bacon, both of which I avoid, because, yeah, it is terrifying. Advertisements are real life attempts to shape the behavior of the world.
Listerine was a cleaning product until they decided to boost sales by positioning it as a mouthwash.
First, they had to convince everyone that they needed mouthwash, so they invented HALITOSIS (bad breath), and then offered Listerine as the solution.
Lysol tried a similar pivot, except they tried to market their cleaning product as post-sex birth control douche. Listerine's pivot caught on, Lysol's didn't.
Halitosis was already the medical term for bad breath, with evidence of its use in England. All that word did was give an American businessman/marketer a polite euphemism to talk about something that was considered taboo at the time (body odors were associated with poor hygiene and lower status people). It does seem like they pushed hard with marketing to make it into a more widespread "problem" though.
do... do you think bad breath is made up???
No, I meant that they created a demand by marketing up Halitosis like it's a major problem.
That's nothing new, they still do it constantly. Those women's deodorant commercials make women feel like they are carrying a cloud of funk around with them wherever they go, and they have to smear this deodorant over every inch of their bodies or they'll offend every nasal passage in the county.
Before you can offer a solution, you need to make them feel like they have a terrible problem that needs to be fixed immediately, at any cost. Even if you have to make it up.
You commenting with interesting bacon trivia is nominative determinism at its finest lmao
Steak is a really good example of what Iβm talking about, thanks for adding this
Lol, I picked the name because of its effect on my life. I had a family member who would only eat their bacon if it was nearly burned, and so I have very strong memories of the horrible nature of bacon as a kid.
Ohh, I see. That weird thing where people make one really specific, otherwise small thing an absurdly huge part of their personality.
I've seen it with tea, coffee, chocolate, meat (specifically bacon and steak), and a million other things food-related and otherwise. I follow what you're talking about now, and yeah it's weird. I enjoy meat quite a lot, and I do have some kinds of meat I do like cooked a (general) particular way. I'm not going to go around preaching to God and everyone about it, though, and I wouldn't consider "meat' a part of my personality, lol. When people take one small, specific thing and make it their entire personalities it does get... Strange.
Tell someone you don't eat or like meat and they will tell you why you're wrong and what meat is best cooked how.
Whenever I'm sick I will always just put on The Venture Bros. while I recover. The show spanned so many years, makes me feel better watching the show evolve and remembering what point in my life I was in when various episodes aired.
Monk. Most episodes follow the same formula, but it's always a lot of fun and when they do deviate a bit, it's so good!
Burn Notice. I dont know what it is but it's like watching a version of "How It's Made" from a fictional universe. All of the voiceovers about spycraft are bullshit but my brain just buys it for whatever reason.
Also, can't belive I forgot this, but "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".
Sunnys got me thru incredibly dark times
The intro to Burn Notice will play in my head whenever I see someone wearing sunglasses. Super cosy for sure, such a great cast.
Have you seen Archer? It's an animated comedy but it hits some of the same vibes, at least for the first 3-4 seasons. Things get... weird after that.
- Keeping Up Appearances
- Agatha Christie's Poirot (with David Suchet)
- A&E's Nero Wolfe
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Stargate SG-1
Which star trek is the best intro to someone young but totally new to the show/series itself? The original w/Shatner? I only know him from Family Guys various gag and cursing Kahn from Fiddler on the Roof
My friend is super into star trek and convinced me to watch some with him. I'd say go look up a 'top 5' of the OG star trek, watch those, then do what the others have suggested.
Probably a toss up between The Next Generation (TNG) and Deep Space 9 (DS9). Do note that Star Trek series normally need about a season to find their footing. Season 1 of TNG was mid-tier but it still is a source of plenty of memes.
I think TNG is likely the better starting point. The original series (TOS) is painfully old fashioned, which could ve a good thing or bad depending on your tastes.
TNG is also painfully old fashioned. Especially the fist two seasons are β¦ hard to watch sometimes.
Honestly: I would start with VOY. Itβs easy to watch, has a certain amount of action, and doesnβt lose it too much with society and politics.
Psych is always my go to cozy show.
There really is something to the humble procedural drama
I also really like Monk and Elsbeth. I like my procedural dramas as long as they have a wacky Sherlock type, I suppose.
I should really read Sherlock haha.
If you like psych like I did then High Potential on Hulu is really good and I love the main actress and her energy
Tried Elementary?
Do they ever not?
have a wacky Sherlock Type
I've heard it both ways.
Hey, you hear about Pluto?
Bluey. I'm an adult and don't have children. It's my guilty pleasure.
You might enjoy Hilda if you like Bluey. Those are my two comfort shows.
Bluey is fantastic. My partner is from australia, and every time we are waiting in a pediatrician's waiting room, we love it when it's on the telly. He says he could start a side business smuggling bluey items from oz to here.
Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister for me. Despite all the scheming the humour is so good-natured throughout.
Star Trek The Next Generation
Modern Family
Dexter
Ghosts (Both versions)
LOST (right up until just before the end)
BoJack Horseman is very oddly cozy for me. It shouldn't be. There's a lot of angst in there, but it's comfort.
my ex loved that show. i thought it was funny but meh.
turns out she had major lying/alcohol/money issues. go figure. and i was too stupid to realize it until we were about to move in together. her love of the show was her love of her fucked up treatment of me.
The underwater episode is great though, tbf
It used to be That 70s Show, but too many of the cast is too weird/creepy now
Probably not weird but an episode or two of MAS*H will always make me feel better
From, horror show From, it's so nice to binge watch it. It's not like true horror but it is like mix of horror, mistery and fantasy and it is so funny to binge watch it and think about all sorts of theorise as to why that place even exist.
Law & Order: SVU
Same tho regular L&O is fine
Feel free to not answer but do you think Law and Orde SVU appeals more to women audience? As a guy i never particularly liked SVU altho i liked Olivia Benson. Very human cop
It's possible, especially since SVU typically had independent female ADAs and mainline L&O's Jack McCoy could occasionally be abrasive or dismissive towards his female assistant ADAs.
But on the other hand, mainline has Jesse L. Martin and his pretty, soulful eyes.
I find the Simpsons to be kind of a cozy show. Also Friends, how I met your mother. I find animation to be pretty cozy.
If I had to pick just one it would be Red Dwarf. I watched it so many times I can't even count it.
There are also some series that aired at the time I was returning from school I'd happily watch if they were on right now. Even though I'm not that interested to search for them though. Shows like Renegade, Walker Texas Ranger, Baywatch or whatever that Star Trek with captain Picard was. This is hugely influenced by time and place as our eastern block country just opened to western shows and movies and everything looked so flashy and bombastic. And everything was flashy and bombastic compared to bland and gray local production at the time.
So many I guess.
- classic 80s/90s sitcoms (Cheers, Friends, Family Matters, the Nanny, etc)
- classic Simpsons
- 90s/00s PBS kids shows (Wishbone, Reading Rainbow, Clifford, etc)
- Bluey
- British shows (Keeping Up Appearances)
The Great Big North
Scrubs, it's my comfort show when feeling down.
Except the Ben saga and the whole Dr Cox breaks down bit.
They are absolutely not for when youre feeling down.
Come here brown bear!
The Andy Griffith Show, but I don't know about the adjective "weirdly." The show is supposed to be cozy and comfortable, and it succeeds better than any other show I know. Hilarious, too. Barney Fife is the funniest character in the history of TV. I even named my Lemmy handle after him.
Perhaps a better choice would be one of my favorite Star Trek series - Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, or Voyager. I record them on TIVO, so I have a huge bank to choose from. I often watch an episode as the last thing before going to bed.
The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
OG SatAM Sonic the Hedgehog, the dark one where his family and friends have been roboticized.
Sat doen and watched a bunch of the new Quantum Leap the other day while feeling lonely, and that felt pretty good.
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