Weirdest Sitcoms
Which of these situation comedies has the trippiest premise?
Let's trip the silly, light fantastic to the canned laughter of these Lynchian-adjacent sitcoms over here..
*No reality television series or parody/sketch series. Weird does not necessarily equal bad. Though, they do tend to often overlap.
Let's trip the silly, light fantastic to the canned laughter of these Lynchian-adjacent sitcoms over here..
*No reality television series or parody/sketch series. Weird does not necessarily equal bad. Though, they do tend to often overlap.
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- 2010–201427 epsTV-PG7.4 (506)TV SeriesStarsHisako KanemotoMiki ÔtaniRie TanakaFurious about ocean pollution, Squid Girl launches a one-squid land invasion to subjugate all humanity.
- StarsSôma SaitôShizuka ItouYûko SanpeiThe day-to-day happenings that take place at a bookstore where the love of manga is abundant.
- StarsMai NakaharaKishô TaniyamaMatt CaplanA boy wakes up one day to find that his hand has been replaced by a miniature version of a girl who has a crush on him.
- CreatorAllan BurnsChris HaywardStarsJerry Van DykeMaggie PierceAnn SothernThe story of the relationship between a man and his mother, the latter having been reincarnated as a 1928 Porter automobile.
- DirectorBen StillerStarsJack BlackOwen WilsonRon SilverAstronaut on the run with special powers and his talking motorcycle must deal with a malevolent artificial life form that's possessing people and turning them into dust, as well as NASA's hitman and real life actor Ron Silver.The pilot was the only episode produced.
- StarsColleen ClinkenbeardBrina PalenciaKana HanazawaA goddess of misfortune comes to Earth to deal with the obnoxious but lucky girl whose good fortune is causing the world to fall out of balance.
- StarsTakehito KoyasuTomokazu SugitaShinnosuke TachibanaThe statues of Medici, Mars, Hermes and St. Giorgio are trying to become professional idols. Are they going to make it to the top or will they fail?
- StarsTakahiro SakuraiBen PronskyTakuma SuzukiA satire comedy of a misfit high school with punks, robots, gorillas and much more.
- CreatorMatt MaiellaroDave WillisStarsDave WillisCarey MeansDana SnyderThe misadventures of a milkshake, an order of fries, a meatball, and their retired next door neighbor in the suburbs of New Jersey.
- CreatorStan DanielsDavid LloydEd. WeinbergerStarsLeonard FreyTim DuniganTerri GarberAn orangutan accidentally raised to genius human-level intelligence secretly works in Washington, D.C. as a political advisor.
- CreatorBernard SladeHarry AckermanMax WylieStarsSally FieldMarge RedmondMadeleine SherwoodThe misadventures of a nun who can fly and her convent and neighbours.
- StarsJulian BarrattNoel FieldingMichael FieldingSurreal British comedy in which Vince Noir and Howard Moon have adventures filled with oddball characters while working as Zoo Keepers, before pursuing a musical career and running a second-hand shop.
- CreatorJustin HalpernDavid KohanMax MutchnickStarsWilliam ShatnerJonathan SadowskiNicole SullivanA middle-aged son moves in with his old-fashioned dad.
- CreatorBarry FanaroMort NathanStarsChi McBrideMax BakerDann FlorekThe misadventures of Abraham Lincoln, his loony associates, and the only sane man among them, the President's Black butler Desmond Pfeiffer.
- CreatorJoe LawsonJosh GordonWill SpeckStarsBill EnglishNick KrollKaitlin DoubledayA trio of Neanderthals struggles to live in modern-day America.
- CreatorPatrick WalshStarsJay R. FergusonLindsey KraftDavid KrumholtzAn adaptation of the non-fiction book by A.J. Jacobs in which a man tries to live in accordance with the Bible's teachings as closely as possible.
- CreatorHoward LeedsStarsRichard ChristieMarla PenningtonJerry SupiranThe zany adventures of a suburban family, their next-door neighbors, and an innovative robot designed to look like a human child.
- CreatorSteven BochcoWilliam M. FinkelsteinStarsAnne BobbyBarbara BossonDavid GianopoulosThe musical adventures of a police force.
- CreatorSimon RichStarsDaniel RadcliffeGeraldine ViswanathanKaran SoniAn anthology series in which a colorful blend of outcasts and iconoclasts confront universal issues across various time periods: love, faith, societal norms, and venturing into the unknown.
- CreatorVictor FrescoStarsDrew BarrymoreTimothy OlyphantLiv HewsonSheila and Joel are married real estate agents who live and work in Santa Clarita, California. When Sheila dies, their lives take a dark turn.
- CreatorJennie Snyder UrmanStarsGina RodriguezAndrea NavedoYael GrobglasA young, devout Catholic woman discovers that she was accidentally artificially inseminated.
- CreatorRobert CarlockTina FeyStarsEllie KemperJane KrakowskiTituss BurgessA woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and starts life over again in New York City.
- CreatorGarry MarshallThomas L. MillerStarsTed BessellAnita GilletteScott C. KoldenDentist Mike Reynolds is living a good life with his wife Liz and his two children. When Scott and Kitty find a chimp, he reluctantly agrees to keep it but finds his life turned upside down when the ape Buttons causes chaos on a regular basis.
- CreatorEhrich Van LoweStarsFlex AlexanderDarryl M. BellRhona BennettStraight-laced Morris Clay and fun-loving Tyberius Walker are two Han Solo wannabes who fly around the galaxy in the Space Hoopty, a used starship that looks like a winged car and comes with a smart-mouthed computer called Loquatia, who has the hots for Morris. Ty and Morris go on wild adventures while taking abuse from Ty's brother-in-law Vashti and get shown up by gorgeous bounty hunter Amma most of the time.
- CreatorLee HewittJack SherStarsJohn SchuckRichard B. ShullBruce KirbyThe cases of a hard luck police detective and his android partner.
- StarsBen BoardmanNeil McCaulDenica FairmanIn Berlin, 1938, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun have a love-hate relationship with their Jewish neighbours in this bizarre spoof of 'fifties American sitcoms.
- CreatorDave WillisJim FortierMatt MaiellaroStarsBobby EllerbeeDana SnyderDaniel McDevittFollows the adventures of the Cuylers, an impoverished and dysfunctional family of anthropomorphic, air-breathing, redneck squids who live in a rural Appalachian community in the state of Georgia.
- CreatorChris ThompsonRobert L. BoyettThomas L. MillerStarsTom HanksPeter ScolariDonna DixonTwo young single ad men must disguise themselves as women to live in the one apartment they can afford.As suggested by Mark Glass.
- CreatorWalter R. BrooksSonia ChernusWalter BrooksStarsAllan LaneAlan YoungConnie HinesThe misadventures of a wisecracking talking horse and his human owner.As suggested by Dan Dassow.
- CreatorBill KelsayAl MartinStarsJulie NewmarRobert CummingsJack MullaneyA psychiatrist is given care of Rhoda Miller "real name 'AF 709'", a lifelike sophisticated but naïve android that eventually learns how human society works and begins showing "or at least emulating" rudimentary emotions.As suggested by Dan Dassow.
- CreatorJoe GlaubergGarry MarshallDale McRavenStarsRobin WilliamsPam DawberRalph JamesA wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents and the life of the human woman he boards with is never the same.As suggested by Dan Dassow.
- CreatorBonnie TurnerTerry TurnerStarsJohn LithgowJane CurtinKristen JohnstonA group of aliens is sent to Earth, disguised as a human family, to experience and report life on the third planet from the sun.As suggested by Dan Dassow.
- CreatorJohn L. GreeneStarsRay WalstonBill BixbyPamela BrittonAn exoanthropologist from the planet Mars, stranded on Earth, is rescued by Tim O'Hara, a newspaper reporter who introduces the Martian to his friends and the authorities as his uncle Martin.Suggested by Mark Glass.
- CreatorSpencer ChinoySteven LevitanDan MilanoStarsEugene LevySeth GreenBob GuntonGreg the Bunny is one of the 3.2 million fabricated Americans living in the United States. Wanting a job that doesn't involve working only on Easter, he finds a job on a kid's show.Suggested by riverotter.