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Plot Summary:
HaPijamot is a sitcom on Israeli television about a struggling band determined to make it in the real world. The show runs on Arutz HaYeladim and Channel 2.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Israel
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: parody, sitcom, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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up4noise (2020)
Plot Summary:
The four friends, Leo, Iggy, Sam and Alex, transform overnight into a successful boy band. But what happens to their friendship when they get their dreams fulfilled and celebrity puts their relationships to the test?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Family, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Prince of Peoria (2018)
Plot Summary:
A prankster prince who wants to experience life as an ordinary teen leaves his kingdom to live incognito with a single mom and her studious son.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, children's program, buddy comedy
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John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch (2019)
Plot Summary:
John Mulaney and his kid pals tackle existential topics for all ages with catchy songs, comedy sketches and special guests in a nostalgic variety special.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, funny, sitcom, cult classic, weird
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Imagination Movers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Imagination Movers is a Live-action Pre-school television series that premiered on September 6, 2008 on Disney Channel. The program was originally part of the Playhouse Disney daily block intended for preschoolers. On February 14, 2011, it was moved to the Disney Junior block, serving as Playhouse Disney's replacement. The Imagination Movers TV series is based on the format and music of the New Orleans based music group Imagination Movers who both act and are co-executive-producers of the show. On May 30, 2011, it was announced that the series will end after the remaining episodes of the third season have aired, though the band itself will continue and is open to doing other projects. On November 28, 2011 the Movers ran an announcement on official Facebook page implying that they have been given the green light to air more new episodes of the show in 2012.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic, nostalgic
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My own kidnapping - Chi m'ha visto (2017)
Plot Summary:
A guitarist who played for the greatest italian artists but without fame, decides to disappear to become famous.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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So Random! (2011)
Plot Summary:
So Random! is an American Disney Channel musical sketch comedy series that premiered on June 5, 2011. It was announced as an independent series after Demi Lovato left the parent series, Sonny with a Chance. The series features the actors who acted in Sonny with a Chance, besides Lovato: Tiffany Thornton, Sterling Knight, Brandon Mychal Smith, Doug Brochu, and Allisyn Ashley Arm along with other featured actors who recur in the series. The series premiere was watched by 4.1 million viewers. On May 2, 2012, Tiffany Thornton indicated that the series had not been renewed for a second season.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sitcom, parody, not serious
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Side Hustle (2020)
Plot Summary:
The show is centered on 2 best friends Lex and Presley who have create a business after destroying their neighbors car and their friends are in a sticky situation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, sitcom
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Our dear neighbors (2012)
Plot Summary:
Large family or recomposed, teenagers tortured by their hormones, mothers overwhelmed family, students and party rascals, pretty sexy neighbor, retired always on the lookout for a gossip ... Life and relations - sometimes friendly, sometimes tense , but always funny of a band of neighbors who cross every day, like millions of French ... In front of the landing, in the elevator, while leaving the garbage cans or leaving to work.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 5 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, realistic, not serious
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Side by Side (2013)
Plot Summary:
Norwegian sitcom about life on an idyllic street in Granli Norway, where the fences are low and neighborly relations close. Here we meet the residents who struggle with life's challenges big and small, trials all of us can relate to.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Norway
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Big Deal (2004)
Plot Summary:
It all started with a missile… The dramatic series follows the life of Junior High students who take part in “young initiators” project at school, in which they must come up with an interesting, innovative and practical invention. They must also play according to the adults world- plan the invention, recruit the funding for its development’ market and sell it. The winner team will take part in the world wide competition to be held in the Netherlands.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Israel
Duration: 32 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, educational, satirical, semi serious
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The Naked Brothers Band (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Naked Brothers Band is an American musical comedy series created by Polly Draper. The show depicts the daily lives of Draper's sons, who lead a fictional world-renowned rock band from New York City. As a mockumentary, the storyline is a hyperbole of their real lives, and the fictional presence of a camera is often acknowledged. Lead vocals and instrumentation are provided by the siblings; they wrote the lyrics themselves. The show stars Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff, who encounter conflicts with each other that are later omitted. Nat's fictional female admirer and real life preschool friends—including the guitarist who had no prior acquaintance with the family—feature as the band members, with the siblings' genuine father and Draper's husband as their accordion-playing dad and Draper's niece as the group's babysitter. The series is a spin-off of Draper's 2005 film of the same name that was picked up by Nickelodeon, premiering in January 2007. Draper, star of Thirtysomething and her writings The Tic Code and Getting Into Heaven, is the executive producer of the series, and often writer and director. Albie Hecht, affiliated with Nickelodeon and founder of Spike TV, is the executive producer, under his Worldwide Biggies tag. Draper's husband Michael Wolff, of The Arsenio Hall Show fame, serves as the music supervisor and co-executive producer with Draper's brother Tim as the consulting producer.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, tense, mockumentary, captivating
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Nativity Rocks! (2018)
Plot Summary:
The staff and students at St. Bernadette's Primary School audition for a coveted place in a spectacular rock musical competition.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Porn and Ice Cream (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two socially-awkward thirty-somethings and a young con woman start a rock band that takes the Buenos Aires music scene by storm.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Argentina
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sitcom, semi serious
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My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star (2002)
Plot Summary:
My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star is an American comedy television series starring Oliver Hudson. The series premiered March 14, 2002 on The WB Television Network. It is based on the UK series The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Alex & Co. (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends studying in secondary school find their love for music after stumbling upon a banned room in their school.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Neighbours (2006)
Plot Summary:
While married couples live side by side, but temperament, opinions and ways of life are quite different. They experience humorous situations based on misunderstandings and coincidences that life brings.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Weekend Family (2022)
Plot Summary:
Chronicles the life of a new stepfamily that meets up every weekend. But when the father gets into a relationship with a new partner, the weekends take on a whole different turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sitcom, semi serious
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Just William (2010)
Plot Summary:
Just William is a television serial first broadcast on BBC One in December 2010. The serial is based on the Just William series of books by Richmal Crompton. This latest adaptation is written by Simon Nye. It is the first adaption of the books since a children's television series in the 1990s. The series stars Daniel Roche as the title character, eponymous character William Brown. With Rebecca Front and Daniel Ryan as William's parents. Caroline Quentin and Warren Clarke appear as the parents of Violet Elizabeth Bott, neighbours of the Brown family. It is directed by Paul Seed and produced by John Chapman. Martin Jarvis, who voices the radio and audio CD adaptions of Just William, acts as the narrator. Various sources suggest that the series will not be returning.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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The Electric Company (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Electric Company is an American television series for young children aged 4–8 on PBS, derived from the 1971 series. The series premiered as a four-episode mini-marathon on PBS on January 19, 2009, then became a weekly series with an episode shown each Friday. On September 7, 2009, it became a daily series. Like the original, this version is produced by Sesame Workshop. The series is sometimes referred to as The New Electric Company to distinguish it from the 1970s series. It airs on PBS Kids Go!.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, educational
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Some Assembly Required (2014)
Plot Summary:
When fourteen-year-old Jarvis Raines gets a chemistry set from his Aunt Marlene for Christmas, he assumes it's just another boring gift. Boy is he wrong! The contents create a chemical reaction that destroys his houseso much for a Merry Christmas! After getting not even an apology from the manufacturer, Knickknack Toys, Jarvis takes them to court, wins, and ends up owning the company!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, fun
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Fragile Sex (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Edu, Fred and Beto are four friends who live torn between the role of man in society and the need to be more sensitive. They try to understand the female head and put themselves in the place of the opposite sex. They appear to be very safe, but feel totally lost around safe, independent women.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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We're Millennials. Got a problem? (2016)
Plot Summary:
Drama series depicts the lives of three men born in 1987 and oppose irrational things of the world through work, love, and friendship. The men are from the "yutori generation", when the Japanese government reformed the education system, emphasizing a pressure-free environment referred to as yutori education.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sitcom, semi serious
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My Own Swordsman (2006)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about some friends and their stories in Qixia Town.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sitcom
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Liza on Demand (2018)
Plot Summary:
LIZA ON DEMAND is a half-hour, single camera comedy that follows the chaotic misadventures of Liza, a young woman in Los Angeles who is trying to make a career out of juggling various gig economy jobs — for lack of a better idea of what to do with her life. Meanwhile, Liza's best friends and roommates Oliver and Harlow try their best to both support and sometimes distract her.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, queer cinema
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Mani (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sky's parents hire an unconventional nanny named Mani to look after her. They form an unlikely bond as Mani helps Sky and her friends learn life lessons from the art of roasting to how to nail the perfect dude handshake.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Detroiters (2017)
Plot Summary:
Best friends and fledgling ad men Sam and Tim may not have the money, connections or talent that the big guys do, but they have ambition out the wazoo. Together, they’re out to build a local advertising empire and restore their home city of Detroit to its former glory in this new show from executive producers Lorne Michaels and Jason Sudeikis.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, sitcom, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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South Side (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two recent community-college graduates get stuck working at Rent-T-Own in the Chicago neighborhood of Englewood and work to achieve their entrepreneurial dreams.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sitcom, black comedy, dark comedy
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Grand Crew (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of young L.A. professionals navigate the ups and downs of life and love. When they’re ready to unpack it all, they meet at their favorite local bar for a “wine down.”.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Grown Folks (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two blue-collar couples share a duplex while navigating life, marriage and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sitcom, semi serious
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Grownups (2006)
Plot Summary:
Grownups is a BBC Three sitcom written by Susan Nickson, who also created hit BBC Three sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. It follows the trials and tribulations of a group of twentysomething friends in Manchester, facing the decision to either settle down or carrying on partying. The first episode aired on 7 May 2006 on BBC Three and appeared at number eight on the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board top ten of most watched BBC Three programmes for that week. The show made only one more entry on the chart for the rest of the first series, when it reached number nine, some two weeks later. A second series was produced, with studio recordings taking place between May and July 2007. The first two episodes aired back-to-back on BBC Three on Sunday 5 August. Unlike the first series, the second series displayed more adult humour, including more intense sexual references. The first episode of the second series appeared at number eight in the BARB weekly top ten for BBC Three, with the second episode which aired immediately afterward, at number nine. A third series was commissioned by the BBC and tickets to see live filming went on sale on the official BBC Tickets website in September 2008. The first episode of the third series aired 13 January 2009.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious