Napoleon Dynamite

Series Similar to Napoleon Dynamite

If you enjoyed Napoleon Dynamite, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. The Looney Tunes Show

   2011 · Comedy, Adventure · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   An updated iteration of the Looney Tunes characters focusing on their satirical misadventures living in suburbia.

2. Corner Gas Animated

   2018 · Comedy, Adventure · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Reboot of the iconic Canadian series sees the return of all the beloved characters of Dog River, Saskatchewan, as they partake in new adventures in an expanded animated universe.

3. King of the Hill

   1997 · Comedy · returning95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   King of the Hill follows the life of Hank Hill, his wife Peggy, their 13-year-old son Bobby, their 18-year-old niece Luanne, her husband Lucky, their newborn baby girl Gracie and his beer guzzling neighborhood buddies, Dale, Bill and Boomhauer.

4. The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show

   1983 · Comedy, Family · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show is an animated television series featuring characters and storylines from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts. It aired Saturday mornings on the CBS network from 1983 to 1986. It re-aired on The Disney Channel, Cartoon Network on June 3, 2002 before Hamtaro premeried until May 30, 2005, Nickelodeon and Nicktoons Network (under the title You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown) in the 1990s. In Canada, it aired on CBS Canada and re-aired on YTV in 2001-2007. It re-aired with the Charlie Brown specials on the UK channel Boomerang in 2002.

5. Black Dynamite

   2012 · Comedy, Action · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Dynamite is a 1970s renaissance man with a kung-fu grip. A lover and a fighter who is not afraid to leap before he looks. His sidekick extraordinaire is Bullhorn, the brains and cunning that complements Black Dynamite's hard-hittin', bone-crushin' style. Providing comic relief on the mean streets is Cream Corn and classing up the place is the gorgeous Honey Bee.

6. What's with Andy?

   2001 · Comedy, Family · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   The protagonist of the series is Andy Larkin, a mischievous teen and the self-proclaimed "world's greatest prankster". The show follows him as he tries to perform incredibly well-thought-out and elaborate practical jokes, or pranks, on people. He lives in the fictional town of East Gackle. He constantly breaks the fourth wall when the screen freezes. Andy's best friend, Danny Pickett, helps him out with almost every prank. His enemies include his older sister, Jen Larkin, and the bullies Peter Lik and Andrew Leech. Andy has a crush on a girl named Lori Mackney and usually tries to impress her. The show is based on Andy Griffiths' children's series of Just... books (which were illustrated by Terry Denton), although many episodes are not directly based on the books. Changes from the books to the TV series include Andy's last name, which was originally that of his creator, and other minor name changes, such as Lori's name being Lisa in the books.

7. Enlisted

   2014 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on FOX.

   A military-set family comedy, Enlisted centers on three brothers on a small Florida Army post and the group of misfits who surround them. Charming, funny and a natural-born leader Staff Sergeant Pete Hill was on a path for a huge military career until one mistake overseas got him booted stateside to Fort McGee, the post where his two younger brothers - Corporal Derrick Hill and Private Randy Hill are stationed.

8. Sit Down, Shut Up

   2009 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on FOX.

   Sit Down, Shut Up focuses on the dysfunctional faculty and staff at a high school in a small Florida fishing town as they strive to do anything... but teach. Based on the hit live-action Australian series with animation set against a live-action backdrop, the series lampoons modern society while exposing the dreams, flaws and struggling humanity of our first and most formative authority figures: teachers.

9. Doodlebugs

   2017 · Comedy · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Doodlebugs is a series in which clip show meets sketch show and draws a funny face on it.Doodlebugs gives a voice to all that stuff in the world that doesn't have a voice - because it can't actually talk. Washing machines, wheelie bins, mobility scooters and suitcases at long last get a chance to air their views and opinions through voices from the comedy world.

10. Fugget About It

    2012 · Comedy · ended94% match

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem.

    Fugget About It is a new prime-time animated sitcom about the misadventures of former New York mob boss Jimmy Falcone and his family.