The Tick

Series Similar to The Tick

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

1. The War at Home

   2005 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

   When Dave and Vicky were growing up, their parents had it easy. Back then, there were no "time-outs," no one had any "boundaries" and their parents had no idea what their kids were really up to. Now Dave and Vicky have teenagers of their own, and anything their kids might even think about doing, Dave and Vicky have already done at least twice. But knowledge isn't power; it's a giant pain as every day is a battle to keep their kids in line. Fifteen-year-old Larry isn't exactly a frequent diner at the 'cool kids' table in the cafeteria, while 16-year-old Hillary is a know-it-all and is just emerging onto the dating scene. Meanwhile, thirteen-year-old Mike is all hormones and video games. Dave and Vicky figure if they can send these three off to college without a police record or kids of their own, they've done their job. This witty, irreverent show goes inside the heads of a modern family through the use of a confessional space where the characters reveal everything they could never actually say to one another.

2. Doctor Who: Space and Time

   2011 · Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   The Doctor, Amy, and Rory get stuck in a time paradox within the T.A.R.D.I.S.

3. Nathan Barley

   2005 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

   Nathan Barley is 26. He is a webmaster, guerrilla filmmaker, screenwriter, DJ and in his own words, a "self-facilitating media node". He is convinced he is the epitome of urban cool and therefore secretly terrified he might not be, which is why he reads Sugar Ape Magazine - his bible of cool. Dan Ashcroft writes searing columns for Sugar Ape. He's considered astonishingly cool, but only by those he despises. He is surrounded by idiots and practically worshipped by Nathan (whom he considers to be their king). He is 34. Why has he failed to move on? Claire Ashcroft, 27, is Dan's sister. Like Dan she despises "cool". Unlike Nathan she despises novelty, trash, irony and gadgets. She is furious that no one will fund her hard-hitting documentary about a choir of reformed junkies.

4. dinnerladies

   1998 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

   dinnerladies is a British sitcom which aired on BBC 1 from 1998-2000. It was created, written and co-produced by Victoria Wood.The series is set entirely in the canteen of HWD Components, a fictional factory in Manchester and featured the caterers and regular customers as the main characters.

5. Video Game High School

   2012 · Comedy, Action, Science-Fiction · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   Video Game High School (VGHS) is an action/comedy web series about best friends, first loves, and landing that perfect head shot.The series is set in the near future where video gaming elevates its best players to stardom by its position as the world's most popular competitive sport. VGHS is an elite and prestigious facility that teaches a curriculum of video games of all genres.A classic high school dramedy, mixed with kick ass action and more than a little love of video games.

6. Enlisted

   2014 · Comedy · ended96% 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.

7. Wayne

   2019 · Comedy, Action · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Action profile, highly rated (8).

   Wayne can't help himself from righting the world's wrongs. Now, against all odds, he and his one-of-a-kind girlfriend Del are on a road trip from Brockton, Mass to Ocala, Florida to reclaim what's rightfully his: a majestic old car that was stolen from his sick father. With trouble behind them and danger ahead, Wayne and Del are bound to find themselves with their backs against the wall. But that's okay. They've been there before.

8. That '70s Show

   1998 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), also on FOX.

   Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out in Eric's basement, life in the ‘70s isn't always so groovy. But between trying to figure out the meaning of life, avoiding their parents, and dealing with out-of-control hormones, they've learned one thing for sure: they'll always get by with a little help from their friends.

9. Black Books

   2000 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Black Books is a second-hand bookshop in London run by an Irishman named Bernard Black. He is probably the planet's worst-suited person to run such an establishment: he makes no effort to sell, closes at strange hours on a whim, is in a perpetual alcoholic stupor, abhors his customers (sometimes physically abusing them) and is often comatose at his desk. Help comes in the lumpy shape of Manny Bianco, a hairy, bumbling individual who (almost by osmosis) becomes Bernard's assistant. Manny is not exactly great at the job either but he is a million times better than Bernard. Next door is Fran, an anxious, frustrated woman who runs a sort of new-age shop selling the most unlikely bits of arty junk. Fran is friends with Bernard and, through him, with Manny; together the trio become embroiled in escapades that are sometimes extreme or violent or fantastically ludicrous, and always bizarre.

10. Black Dynamite

    2012 · Comedy, Action · ended96% match

    Recommended for similar Action 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.