Ugly Americans

Series Similar to Ugly Americans

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

1. The PJs

   1999 · Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Follow the adventures of Thurgood Stubbs (Eddie Murphy) and the other tenants of the Hilton Jacobs housing project as they find themselves in and out of trouble.

2. Review

   2014 · Comedy · ended95% match

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

   Review with Forrest MacNeil is a half-hour comedy starring [Andrew] Daly as "Forrest MacNeil." Unlike typical critics who review boring things like films, food or art, MacNeil reviews the most intense experiences of life itself... by living them. He reviews anything his TV audience throws at him: the adrenaline rush of stealing, the trauma of divorce, the harrowing effects of murder, the wonder and joy of anonymous sex and stops at nothing to show us what any and every experience in life feels like. And, for our convenience, he rates every adventure on a scale of zero to five stars. MacNeil's unwavering commitment to his work means his answers to life's most challenging questions often come at the expense of his wife, his children, his co-workers and humanity in general.

3. Yonderland

   2013 · Comedy, Fantasy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, hidden gem.

   A 33-year old mum Debbie Maddox unexpectedly find herself in an extraordinary world inhabited by a collection of eccentric and usually idiotic characters - some of whom happen to be puppets - with only an Elf by her side.Fortunately most of the imagining for Sky 1 HD's comedy, Yonderland is done for you by those terribly clever people behind the Horrible Histories series.The story begins with Debbie dropping her five year old twins off for their first day of school. For the first time in five long years, she has her days entirely to herself, and by the time shes cleaned the house from top to bottom and become frighteningly-addicted to a daytime quiz show, she starts to think she may be going mad.And perhaps she is, as a wildly enthusiastic Elf appears from a kitchen cupboard, telling her that she is needed in another world. Apparently she is their unlikely saviour, prophesied to save the world from the dark forces that are gathering to subdue it.Debbie's convinced that there has been some kind of mistake. (Well you would, wouldn't you?) But nevertheless decides that whatever the Elf might need her to do cant be any worse than watching another episode of Whats in the Box?, so she lets him drag her through a portal to the other world.As she does her best to help incompetent knights, monks who are incapable of lying and a race of people intent on firing the cleverest among them into the sun, the big question is never far away: can she fulfil the prophecy? And will she make it back to the real world in time for the school pick up?

4. Brickleberry

   2012 · Comedy · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on Comedy Central.

   Brickleberry follows the hapless rangers at Brickleberry National Park as they do their worst to keep the park open. Having been through everything from "Steve's" invention of Squabbits to the birth of the anti-Christ, the rangers are back and ready for anything.

5. The Ricky Gervais Show

   2010 · Comedy · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Based on the series of podcasts that Gervais did with longtime partner Stephen Merchant, this comedy team convenes to bring HBO an animated series about their hilarious friend Karl Pilkington.

6. Dwight in Shining Armor

   2019 · Comedy, Fantasy · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, hidden gem.

   After Dwight, a 21st-century teen, falls into an ancient, underground chamber, he awakens a warrior princess, her court magician, and many medieval villains that have been sleeping for a thousand years! Consequently, Dwight is now spellbound to protect Princess Gretta as her unconventional champion while her enemies from the past invade his hometown of Woodside.

7. The Boondocks

   2005 · Comedy · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   In The Boondocks, Robert "Granddad" Freeman is the cantankerous legal guardian of his rambunctious grandkids Huey and Riley and has moved them from the south side of Chicago to the quiet and safety of "The Boondocks" (in this case, suburban Woodcrest), hoping that he can ignore them altogether and enjoy the golden years of his life in peace. But Huey, a 10-year-old left wing revolutionary, is determined not to enjoy the affluence of suburbia. This attitude is seconded by his 8-year-old brother, Riley, a proud product of contemporary rap culture. Although they torture each other and provoke the neighborhood, they are no match for Granddad, who is eccentric even by "crazy-ass-old-black-man" standards.

8. Metalocalypse

   2006 · Comedy · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Metalocalypse is an eleven-minute flash animated comedy airing on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha. The series follows the exploits of a fictitious half American/half Scandinavian death metal band known as Dethklok. The band and its members are huge the world over, but incredibly stupid - a death metal version of Spinal Tap. Watch as they leave a trail of destruction and mayhem in their wake with their ear-melting onslaught of metal!

9. Inside Job

   2021 · Comedy · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   In the Department of Homeland Conspiracy, every conspiracy theory is true -- and one woman struggles to keep it all under wraps. A workplace comedy.

10. Big Time in Hollywood, FL

    2015 · Comedy · ended93% match

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

    After their parents decide to kick them out, delusional brothers and self-proclaimed filmmakers Ben and Jack Dolfe stage an elaborate ruse to maintain their financial dependence on Mom and Dad. But when their plan takes a dark and dangerous turn, the brothers find themselves embroiled in an increasingly messy situation that threatens both their artistic ambitions and their lives.