Best tv shows like Oh, Grow Up
Last updated March 2024
Looking for tv shows like Oh, Grow Up? Leverage your knowledge to navigate others toward movies and tv shows you've watched before that they might like too. Help broaden the circle of people recommending videos to each other. We value your engagement!
Plot Summary:
Oh, Grow Up is a sitcom that aired on ABC from September to December 1999. Created by Alan Ball, who would later go on to win an Academy Award for writing American Beauty and also create the hit HBO series Six Feet Under, the show was based on his 1991 one-act stage play Bachelor Holiday, written before he found success as a television writer. Thirteen episodes in full were produced, but the series was cancelled after only eleven of them had aired.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Best tv shows and movies like Oh, Grow Up (1999):
Similar in 88%
The Adventures of Lano and Woodley (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Adventures of Lano and Woodley is an Australian comedy television show starring the comedic duo of Lano and Woodley, consisting of two series which aired on ABC TV from 1997 to 1999. The first series was distributed on VHS and in 2004 The Complete Adventures of Lano and Woodley was released as a 2-disc DVD rather than each series being released separately.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 810
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, cult classic
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 78%
L’Coloc (2021)
Plot Summary:
"L’Coloc" is a comic series that you follow throughout the month of Ramadan on 2M TV, which tells the diaries of two students who live far from their families and will bring together comedians Haytham Miftah as Moncef and Oussama Ramzi as Hamza.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Comedy
Country: Morocco
Duration: 5 min
Plot tags: sitcom
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 89%
Roommates (2016)
Plot Summary:
Five guys sharing a house in Los Angeles, find themselves involved in many hilarious situations.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom
Similar in 77%
The Disappointments (2020)
Plot Summary:
In this darkly comic series, three gay friends in their late 50s are forced to face the fact that their lives have fallen far short of what they imagined for themselves when they were in their 20s. Dreams of wealth, career success, and lasting love have faded, replaced by a growing sense of the clock ticking and an urgent need to turn their disappointing lives around - before they are literally out of time.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 86%
The Unacceptables (1991)
Plot Summary:
Oi Aparadektoi is a comedy television series broadcast by Mega Channel during 1990-1992. The series is considered one of the most successful on Greek television, representative of the daily life of Athenians in the early '90s.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: neurotic, sitcom
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 89%
Out All Night (1992)
Plot Summary:
Out All Night is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 19, 1992 to July 9, 1993 for one season. The series stars Patti LaBelle, and was created by Andy Borowitz, Susan Borowitz, and Rob Edwards.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 76%
Love, Sidney (1981)
Plot Summary:
Love, Sidney is an American situation comedy which ran on NBC from October 28, 1981 until June 6, 1983. The series was based on a short story written by Marilyn Cantor Baker, which was subsequently adapted into a TV movie entitled Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend, which NBC aired on October 5, 1981, a few weeks before the series premiered. The premise involved a gay man and his relationship with a single mother and her five year-old daughter whom he invites to live with him. Tony Randall stars as Sidney Shorr, with Swoosie Kurtz as Laurie Morgan and Kaleena Kiff as her daughter Patti. The series was produced by Warner Bros. Television. Love, Sidney was the first program on American television to feature a gay character as the central lead, although for the series, Sidney's homosexuality was almost entirely downplayed from its subtle yet unmistakable presence in the two-hour pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: retro, sitcom, queer cinema
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 75%
Agony (1979)
Plot Summary:
Agony is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1979 to 1981. It starred Maureen Lipman as a successful agony aunt but whose own personal life and marriage is a disaster. It was written by Len Richmond, Anna Raeburn, Stan Hey and Andrew Nickolds. It was made for the ITV network by LWT. Although a comedy, Agony sometimes dealt with issues that were seen as taboo at the time such as drug use, racism, abortion, interracial relationships, and swinging, and was the first British sitcom to portray a gay couple as non-camp, witty, intelligent and happy people. It also openly mocked the government, the ruling classes, and religion, and occasionally contained dark and dramatic storylines.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, dark comedy, melancholic
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 86%
Indoor Boys (2017)
Plot Summary:
A new comedy series about two gay guys who don't leave the apartment, INDOOR BOYS follows Nate and Luke as they navigate their no-boundaries friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 82%
Brothers (1984)
Plot Summary:
Two conservative men support their younger brother when he comes out as gay, and help him navigate being openly homosexual in 1980s Philadelphia.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 86%
Josh (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sitcom about flatmates Josh, Kate and Owen, and their annoying landlord Geoff.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 78%
It's Your Move (1984)
Plot Summary:
It's Your Move is an American sitcom starring Jason Bateman, Tricia Cast, Caren Kaye, Ernie Sabella, David Garrison, and Garrett Morris. The show originally aired on NBC from 1984 to 1985.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, teen comedy
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 83%
Luis (2003)
Plot Summary:
Luis is an American sitcom starring Luis Guzmán that aired on Fox from September to October 2003. Scheduled in the Friday night death slot, the series received low ratings and was canceled after five episodes. The series was the first show of the 2003-2004 season to be canceled.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 78%
Old Dogs & New Tricks (2011)
Plot Summary:
Does (sex) life end for gay men as they face 50? Watch Nathan, Brad, Muscles & Ross stumble through middle-age in an alternate universe called West Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 81%
Veronica's Closet (1997)
Plot Summary:
Veronica 'Ronnie' Chase is the 'Queen of Romance.' Founder of a successful lingerie empire, and best-selling author of self-help romance books, Ronnie has it all ... money, success, sex appeal and a philandering husband. How she will find true happiness without jeopardizing her business will be her biggest challenge yet.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 85%
Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999)
Plot Summary:
Linda La Hughes (Kathy Burke) shares a flat with Tom Farrell (James Dreyfus). Linda is overweight, loudmouthed and not particularly attractive. She thinks she's gorgeous and irrestible, however. She's also sex mad and obsessed with men. Tom is an aspiring actor. He's got an agent, but finds it difficult to get parts. He doesn't like Linda much, in spite of (or perhaps because of) the fact that they share a flat. She isn't completely comfortable with his homosexuality, perhaps because she finds it difficult to live with a man who doesn't find her sexually attractive.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 34 min
Plot tags: sitcom, double entendre, surreal, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, neo screwball comedy, campy
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 83%
Normal, Ohio (2000)
Plot Summary:
Normal, Ohio is an American television sitcom, which aired on the Fox Network in 2000. The show stars John Goodman as William "Butch" Gamble, a gay man returning to his Midwestern home town. The cast also includes Joely Fisher, Anita Gillette, Orson Bean, Mo Gaffney and Charles Rocket.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, sitcom
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 83%
Some of My Best Friends (2001)
Plot Summary:
Some of My Best Friends is an American sitcom shown on CBS from February 28 until April 11, 2001. The series was inspired by the film Kiss Me, Guido.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 83%
From Here on OUT (2014)
Plot Summary:
A gay writer makes a low budget gay spy movie, with lots of laughs along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, erotic
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 81%
Crashing (2016)
Plot Summary:
A comedy drama that crashes straight into the lives and loves of six twenty-something adults living together as Property Guardians in a disused hospital.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, ironic, funny, sweet, light, sitcom, weird, queer cinema, whimsical
Similar in 86%
Threesome (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alice lives with her boyfriend Mitch and their gay best friend Richie. Together they form three points of an unlikely triangle, living, laughing and larging it together. After one particularly big night out, they end up having an unplanned threesome which results in an even more unplanned pregnancy. They decide it’s time to ditch the party lifestyle and have the baby. As a threesome.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, captivating, light, feel good, hilarious, realistic, not serious, queer cinema
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 77%
The Other Two (2019)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring actor and his sister Brooke, a former professional dancer, try to find their place in the world while wrestling with their feelings about their 13-year-old brother Chase's sudden rise to internet fame.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, sitcom, light, sincere, sweet, queer cinema, situational comedy
Similar in 85%
Man Up! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three modern men try to get in touch with their inner tough guys and redefine what it means to be a 'real man.'.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, funny, sweet
Similar in 90%
Three's Company (1976)
Plot Summary:
Three's Company is an American sitcom that aired from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984, on ABC. It is based on the British sitcom, Man About the House. The story revolves around three single roommates: Janet Wood, Chrissy Snow and Jack Tripper who all platonically share Apartment 201 in a Santa Monica, California apartment building owned by Mr. and Mrs. Roper. Later, following Suzanne Somers's departure, Jenilee Harrison joined the cast as Cindy Snow, who was later replaced by Priscilla Barnes as Terri Alden. After the Ropers were spun-off into their own sitcom, Don Knotts joined the cast as the roommates' new landlord Ralph Furley, brother of the new building owner, Bart Furley. The show, a comedy of errors, chronicles the escapades and hijinks of the trio's constant misunderstandings, social lives, and struggle to keep up with the rent.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, retro, sentimental, feel good, realistic, not serious, telenovela, mad
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 86%
Homo Promo (1991)
Plot Summary:
How did Hollywood pitch movies about gays and lesbians between 1956 and 1977? Here are theatrical trailers for 27 mainstream and art-house films, presented chronologically from "Tea and Sympathy" to "Outrageous!" More than half are films released between 1968 and 1972. Half are dramas and half are comedies, with farce dominating the films released after 1971. At least three advertise X-rated films: "The Killing of Sister George," "Midnight Cowboy," and Visconti's "The Damned." There's no voice-over commentary for this compilation, but it does include advertisements for snacks and one warning against public displays of affection aimed at "her" to control "him.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: independent film
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 81%
Bad Judge (2014)
Plot Summary:
The series chronicles the personal life (and the wild lifestyle) of Rebecca Wright, a tough-as-nails judge serving on the Los Angeles County Circuit Court, whose time off the bench is spent partying and displaying a reckless behavior. Her reputation is about to be tamed—and judged—by Robby Shoemaker, a eight-year-old boy whose parents Rebecca put behind bars. He might be the one that can turn Rebecca's life around.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, light
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 83%
Malcolm & Eddie (1996)
Plot Summary:
Malcolm & Eddie is an American television sitcom that premiered August 26, 1996 on the UPN Network, and ran for four seasons, airing its final episode on May 22, 2000. This series starred Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Eddie Griffin in the lead roles. The program was produced by TriStar Television in its first three seasons and by Columbia TriStar Television in its final season.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 81%
Traffic Light (2011)
Plot Summary:
Traffic Light is an American comedy television series that ran on Fox from February 8, 2011 to May 31, 2011. It is based on the Israeli TV show Ramzor, and was adapted to an American audience by Bob Fisher. The series aired Tuesdays at 9:30 pm following Raising Hope as a midseason replacement for Running Wilde. Fox announced its cancellation on May 10, 2011.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, entertaining, feel good, sweet, realistic
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 76%
The Exes (2011)
Plot Summary:
A sitcom about three divorced men sharing an apartment across the hall from their female divorce attorney, who is also their landlord.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good, hilarious
Similar in 82%
Hunting Season (2012)
Plot Summary:
Hunting Season is an American LGBT-themed comedy-drama web series created by Jon Marcus. Following the romantic and sexual exploits of Alex (Ben Baur) and his small group of friends in New York City, the story was inspired by and largely based on the 2005–08 blog The Great Cock Hunt and the 2008 novel of the same name published by Kensington Books.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, entertaining, contemplative, erotic, sex comedy, queer cinema