The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
Kids’ WB put Granny in charge of a detective agency, gave her a suitcase, a mustache, and a cat with a lisp problem, and got five seasons of travel mystery wearing Looney Tunes skin. Each episode runs the same loop:…
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Histeria!
Kids’ WB put a history sketch show in Animaniacs’ old Sunday slot and dared elementary schools to keep up. Histeria! is Tom Ruegger’s love letter to the forgotten footnotes of the past: Paul Revere’s ride told as a radio broadcast,…
Pinky and the Brain
Animaniacs spawned the best spinoff in animation history, and it is still a talking lab mouse sitcom that never once explains itself. Pinky and the Brain follows two mice from Acme Labs, one a hyperactive cockney goofball and the other…
Beat the Reaper
Apple took a gamble on a medical dramedy about a hospital intern who might be a mob hitman, and the bet is stacked with names worth watching. Will Poulter stars as Dr. Peter Brown, an intern at Boston’s worst hospital…
A Man on the Inside
The best comedy on Netflix is about a retiree reading a newspaper want ad, and it should not work nearly as well as it does. Ted Danson plays Charles Nieuwendyk, an emeritus engineering professor who answers an ad for an…