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Gravity Falls (2012)
Plot Summary:
Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon
Duration: 23 min
IMDB Rating: 8.9/10
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Plot tags: supernatural, friendship, small town, youth, twins, mysterious place, magical, imaginary, monster, good versus evil, summer vacation, summer, family relations, child protagonist, siblings relations, small town life, alternate dimension, creature, diary, children, relatives, escapades, telekinesis, brother sister relationship, fandom
The Eric Andre Show (2012)
Plot Summary:
A comedic talk show from an alternate reality featuring unstable hosts, a variety of celebrities—both real and fake—and unusual studio action
Duration: 11 min
IMDB Rating: 8.6/10
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Plot tags: stream of consciousness, talk show, comedian, hidden camera, celebrity impersonation, practical joke, disorder, sketch, black cast, lsd, nerd, nihilism, trippy, satire, absurd humor, guest, surrealism, celebrity guests, tv interview, making of, live action, studio, reenactment, stand up, celebrity guest
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012)
Plot Summary:
Beginning its tale in 19th century England, young aristocrat Jonathan Joestar finds himself locked in bitter rivalry with Dio Brando, a low-born boy who Jonathan’s father took under his wing after the death of Dio’s father. Discontent with his station in life, Dio’s fathomless drive to reign over all eventually leads him to seek the supernatural powers of an ancient Aztec stone mask in the Joestars' possession – an artifact that will forever change the destiny of Dio and Jonathan for generations to come. Fifty years later, in 1938 New York City, Jonathan’s grandson Joseph Joestar must take up his grandfather’s mission and master the abilities necessary to destroy the stone mask and its immensely powerful creators, the Pillar men, who threaten humanity's very existence
Duration: 24 min
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Plot tags: boy, friendship between men, fight, gang, murder, martial arts, vampire, violence, rivalry, save the day, artifact, superpower, death of father, death of protagonist, ghost, supernatural horror, meme, master villain, superhero, gore, adoption, supernatural power, teenage love, killer child, female nudity
Veep (2012)
Plot Summary:
A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about
Duration: 28 min
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Plot tags: politics, american politics, vice president, political satire, female protagonist, ambitious woman, mother daughter relationship, white house, politician, usa politics, u.s. president, president, political scandal, presidential election, incompetence, plot twist, boss, reporter, assistant, satire, senator, ambitious, government official, boss and employee, workplace situations
The Legend of Korra (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Legend of Korra is an American animated television series that premiered on the Nickelodeon television network in 2012. It was created by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino as a sequel to their series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which aired on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008. Several people involved with creating Avatar, including designer Joaquim Dos Santos and composers Jeremy Zuckerman and Benjamin Wynn, returned to work on The Legend of Korra. The series is set in a fictional universe where some people can manipulate, or "bend", the elements of water, earth, fire, or air. Only one person, the "Avatar", can bend all four elements, and is responsible for maintaining balance in the world. The series follows Avatar Korra, the successor of Aang from the previous series, as she faces political and spiritual unrest in a modernizing world. The series, whose style is strongly influenced by Japanese animation, has been a critical and commercial success. It obtained the highest audience total for an animated series in the United States in 2012. The series was praised by reviewers for its high production values and for addressing difficult sociopolitical issues such as social unrest and terrorism. It was initially conceived as a miniseries of 12 episodes, but it is now set to run for 52 episodes separated into four seasons, each of which tells a separate story
Duration: 23 min
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: training, supernatural ability, martial arts, danger, youth, friendship, peril, magical, good versus evil, rivalry, female warrior, teenage girl, chosen one, young heroes, journey, rebellion, master warrior, female protagonist, heroes, imaginary kingdom, imaginary, tough girl, coming of age, superheroine, love triangle
Key & Peele (2012)
Plot Summary:
Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television show. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both former cast members of MADtv. Each episode of the show consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors, introduced by Key and Peele in front of a live studio audience
Duration: 30 min
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Plot tags: comedian, translator, sketch, african american, black american, sketch show, partner, artists and showbiz, friends, profanity, society, social problems, blacks and whites, racial slur, black, comedy duo, stoner, talk show, stand up comedy, joke, satire, pop culture, storytelling, black history, black sitcom
Toast of London (2012)
Plot Summary:
Toast of London is a British comedy series following Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past who spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it
Duration: 30 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Plot tags: actor, unrequited love, agent, celebrity, rivalry, talent agent, ambition, prostitute, bachelor, humour, satire, sex scene, performer, landlord, cuckold, weirdo, recording studio, entertainment industry, female nudity, surrealism, rivals, female full frontal nudity, british humour, rival, cult
Kuroko's Basketball (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the story, Kagami Taiga has just enrolled into Seirin High School when he meets Kuroko Tetsuya of the school's basketball team. Kuroko happens to be the shadowy sixth member of the legendary Generation of Miracles basketball team. Together, Kagami and Kuroko aim to take their team to the inter-high school championship - against Kuroko's former teammates
Duration: 24 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Plot tags: basketball, youth, contests and competitions, friendship, teenager, rivalry, hopes, ambition, lifestyle, sport competition, champion, adaptation, bromance, dishonesty, flashback, show, teenagers, adventure
Derek (2012)
Plot Summary:
Derek is a loyal nursing home caretaker who sees only the good in his quirky co-workers as they struggle against prejudice and shrinking budgets to care for their elderly residents
Duration: 23 min
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Plot tags: retirement home, elderly, satire, socially awkward, workplace, male female relationship, social problems, coworker, social satire, coworker relationship, social issues, workplace situations, friendship, humour, comedian, mental health, sketch, sketch show, alcoholic, old man, kindness, old age, father son relationship, volunteer, interview
Rita (2012)
Plot Summary:
Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, private school teacher Rita fares less well with adults
Duration: 40 min
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Plot tags: school teacher, female protagonist, teacher student relationship, teacher, female teacher, selfish woman, nordic, casual sex, male female relationship, workplace situations, gay teenager, seduction, female friendship, homosexual, director, nerd, mother son relationship, brother sister relationship, drunkenness, social problems, coworker, employer employee relationship, gross out humor, coworker relationship, foul language
Lilyhammer (2012)
Plot Summary:
Frank Tagliano (Steven Van Zandt), is a former member of the New York mob. After testifying in a trial in the United States, Tagliano is relocated to Lillehammer in Norway through the FBI's witness protection program. Frank Tagliano was intrigued by Lillehammer when he saw television images of the Winter Olympics in 1994, and therefore chooses to start his new life there. The transition from being a feared and respected gangster in New York, to become an unemployed immigrant in Norway, is not simple. Frank discovers that to get up and in the Norwegian rural society, he must resort to the old, ruthless methods. The spelling of the series title alludes to Tagliano's dog Lily, and the way that Frank and some other anglophones pronounce the town's name
Duration: 45 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway, USA
Plot tags: mafia, culture clash, dark humor, blackmail, lifestyle change, starting over, middle aged, business venture, businessman, small town life, fish out of water, gangster, shooting, snitch, criminal heroes, fbi, misfit, prejudice, social relations, immigrant, nordic, witness protection, nypd, judiciary, lawyer
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
Plot Summary:
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Duration: 24 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: good versus evil, heroes, martial arts, superhero, mutant animal, ninja, mutant, sewer, enemy, mentor, master villain, teenager, turtle, nunchaku, buddies, genetically altered, ninja turtle, rat, comic book, talking animal, childhood, friends, imaginary, partner, escapades
A Young Doctor's Notebook (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated and impoverished country side as the village's only doctor. As he learns to adapt to his new lifestyle, he develops a morphine addiction to stay his sanity while realizing what being a doctor in the real world means
Duration: 23 min
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK
Plot tags: doctors and patients, dark humor, hospital, doctor, medical, self destructing, drug addict, morphine, diary, surgery, society, doubts and hesitations, health situation, traditional versus modern, medicine, social relations, nurse, addiction, winter, drug addiction, historical event, satire, storytelling, workplace, cognitive science
The Finder (2012)
Plot Summary:
Walter Sherman, an Iraq War veteran, has the extraordinary ability to help people find the unfindable
Duration: 44 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: investigation, team, hotshot, weirdo, talented, teamwork, riddles and clues, partners against crime, peril, escapades, lawyer, coworker, evidence, expert, ex military, ex soldier, war veteran, chases and races, veteran, suspicion, partner, iraq veteran, brain injury, police, psychic
High School DxD (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Issei Hyōdō, a dim-witted, lecherous second-year high school student who is killed by a girl on his first date ever. Issei is reincarnated as a devil, and from that day forward, he serves as an underling of Riasu, a high-level devil who is also the prettiest girl on Issei's campus
Duration: 23 min
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Plot tags: high school, erotica, harem, demon, supernatural, school, angel, magic, curses spells and rituals, pervert, danger, god, war, dragon, satan, female nudity, japanese girl, nun, battles, showdown, relationships, romantic relationship, love and romance, schoolgirl, female demon
The Mindy Project (2012)
Plot Summary:
Obstetrician/gynecologist Mindy Lahiri tries to balance her personal and professional life, surrounded by quirky co-workers in a small medical practice in New York City
Duration: 30 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Plot tags: workplace romance, stupidity, workplace situations, couples, supportive friend, career, singleness, looking for love, thirtysomething life, workplace, hospital, love and romance, dating, socially awkward, workplace humor, lifestyle, flirting, doctor, women, strong female lead, urban, medicine, medical, interracial love, girl
Go On (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ryan King, a recent widower and sports talk radio host ready to get back to work after the loss of his wife. Ryan's alpha-male boss, Stephen, has a different plan in store for Ryan, making him attend grief counseling before returning to the air. A reluctant Ryan finds himself in a support group for "life change," where he meets an oddball cast of characters, all with their own backstories filled with varying degrees of loss
Duration: 22 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Plot tags: group therapy, support group, grief, coping, loss, therapy, patient, solace, therapist, life turned upside down, uptight character, lesbian, relationships, radio, friendship between men, colleague, death, radio announcer, divorce, doctor, anger, overcoming, media, human relationship, weirdo
Bad Education (2012)
Plot Summary:
Young teacher Alfie Wickers is "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" – at Abbey Grove School, in Watford Hertfordshire
Duration: 30 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Plot tags: workplace, teachers and students, school, teacher, youth, classmate, social relations, workplace situations, undisciplined, young at heart, goodhearted, teenager, lgbt, humour, resistance, education, high school, high school teacher, student, studying, flirting, boss, humiliation, staff, immature
House of Lies (2012)
Plot Summary:
Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, and bedrooms of the power elite, corruption is business as usual and everyone's out for themselves first. Nothing is sacred in this scathing, irreverent satire of corporate America today
Duration: 28 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Plot tags: greed, satire, fraud, single parent, workplace situations, power relations, african american, father son relationship, parents and children, profanity, flirting, boss, middle aged, ambitious, slick, corporate world, dishonesty, blind ambition, hotshot, workplace problem, success, dark humor, career, deal, ambition
Girls (2012)
Plot Summary:
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna
Duration: 28 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Plot tags: ambitious, city life, roommate, sex, female friendship, woman urinating, young adult, nudity, sexuality, everyday life, lifestyle, strong sexual content, urban, humiliation, love and romance, women, friendship, aspiring writer, best friend, wannabe, adolescence vs adulthood, friends, slacker, financial problem, self esteem
Baby Daddy (2012)
Plot Summary:
Baby Daddy follows Ben, a young man in his early 20s living the life of a bachelor in New York City with his buddy, Tucker, and his brother, Danny. Their lives are turned upside down when they come home one day to find a baby girl left on the doorstep by an ex-girlfriend of Ben's. After much deliberation, Ben decides to raise the baby with the help of his friends and his protective and sometimes over-bearing mother, Bonnie, and his close female friend, Riley
Duration: 22 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: babies and infants, roommate, baby, parents and children, responsibility, hockey player, single father, dating, best friends in love, family relations, father daughter relationship, male objectification, crush, youth, single parent, friendship, girlfriend, best friend, hockey, group of friends, male protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, kids and family, father and daughter
Brickleberry (2012)
Plot Summary:
Brickleberry National Park is facing closure, but not if the park’s dysfunctional park rangers can help it! “Brickleberry,” an animated half-hour series, follows the crazy bunch of park rangers as they do their worst to keep the park running. Steve (David Herman) has been “Ranger of the Month” every month for years, so he feels threatened when Ethel (Natasha Leggero) is transferred from Yellowstone National Park to help whip the park into shape. Connie (Roger Black) and Denzel (Jerry Minor) are two unique rangers that each bring special skills (or in Denzel’s case, lack of skills) to the job, and Woody (Tom Kenny) is the hapless Head Ranger who puts nothing above his beloved park, except his adopted bear cub, Malloy (Daniel Tosh), who he’s taken in and spoils to death
Duration: 22 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Plot tags: park ranger, workplace situations, dark humor, friendship, sexual tension, satire, workplace, animal life, national park, disorder, lesbian, escapades, human animal relationship, supportive coworker, woods, talking animal, self involved, mature, hapless, love, comedian, forest ranger, silly humor, dog, pedophile
Jane by Design (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jane by Design is an American comedy-drama television series on ABC Family. The series followed the life of Jane Quimby, a teenager who had to be mistaken for an adult to finally get her fashion dream job and work with a world-famous designer, Gray Chandler Murray. She has to juggle between two secret lives: one in high school, and one in high fashion. The network green-lighted the series in April 2011. The series premiered on January 3, 2012, following Switched at Birth. On February 29, 2012, the series was given an 8-episode back order. It premiered in the summer on June 5, 2012 and ended on July 31, 2012. On August 17, 2012, ABC Family announced that the show was canceled
Duration: 44 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Plot tags: fashion, designer, teenage life, workplace, double life, coworker, teenage girl, lifestyle, popularity, female protagonist, working woman, youth, workplace problem, teenager, design, lie, disorder, student, dishonesty, women, con artists, high school, high school life, education, sewing
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a naive Midwestern girl's big city dreams are dashed her first week in New York, she finds herself living with her worst nightmare in this hilarious, contemporary comedy about a female odd couple who are surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters
Duration: 22 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Plot tags: roommate, lifestyle change, lifestyle, sexual humor, city life, odd couple, friends, everyday life, troublemaker, big city, friendship, urban, engaged, naivete, party, women, psychopath, sisterhood, girl power, solidarity, young heroes, badass, flirting, strong female presence, actor
Cuckoo (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year
Duration: 30 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Plot tags: slacker, meet the parents, hippie, family relations, culture clash, family disapproval, misfit, parents and children, couples, newlyweds, disorder, couple relations, son in law, satire, silly humor, in-laws, lawyer, pregnancy, pregnant woman, cleaning lady, male objectification, metaphor, hapless, british humour, goofball
Ultimate Spider-Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
While being trained by S.H.I.E.L.D., Spider-Man battles evil with a new team of teen colleagues
Duration: 23 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: superhero, youth, chases and races, fighting crime, peter parker character, superhero team, s.h.i.e.l.d., heroes, daring rescue, battles, escapades, imaginary, hidden identity, secret identity, spider man, teenager, training, high school, batman, multiverse, comic hero, super villain, rivalry, law enforcement, teenage life
The New Normal (2012)
Plot Summary:
The New Normal was an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 10, 2012, to April 2, 2013. The series was created and principally written by Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler. The storyline follows a wealthy homosexual couple, Bryan and David, who are living in Los Angeles. Deciding to have a child, they choose a surrogate mother, Goldie Clemmons, who moves in to their home with her nine-year-old daughter Shania
Duration: 30 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: gay parent, gender, gay, gays and lesbians, pregnancy, surrogate mother, eccentric family, desperation, couple relations, gay couple, wanting a baby, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtqi, pop culture, gay interest, drag queen, family relations, gay relationship, gay subtext, homosexual, waiter, couples, silly humor, grandparent and grandchild
Anger Management (2012)
Plot Summary:
Charlie is a non-traditional therapist specializing in anger management. He has a successful private practice and he performs pro bono counseling for an inmate group at a state prison. Prior to his career as a therapist, he was a major league baseball player whose career was put on the shelf for good by his own struggle with anger issues
Duration: 22 min
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: therapist, support group, anger management, sexual humor, psychology, anger, rage, psychiatrist, doctors and patients, disorder, silly humor, frustration, irony, convict, treatment, patient, uptight character, psychologist, father daughter relationship, female psychologist, self control, ex husband ex wife relationship, therapy, friendship, mother daughter relationship