Genuinely wholesome modern media

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Unironically, and before you cull me, hear me out. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I know, I know, the bronies really ruined this show but if you can ignore internet weirdos, it's genuinely a good time for everyone.
Lauren Faust had a really solid idea for the world she built, it's a damn shame that she didn't get to keep doing what she wanted to. Season 1-2 are brilliant and the later seasons, while under new management, aren't half-bad either. I will say that I haven't watched beyond season 4 and I haven't watched the MLP FIM movie, so YMMV, but if you have children in your family and you want something to distract them with that isn't too cringeworthy for yourself to enjoy I highly recommend it.
It is still a children's franchise so it's childish but for something that Hasbro just wanted to sell toys off of, there's a lot of heart and a lot of good writing.
 
Daddy's Little Kitten dijo:
The Joy of Painting.
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The Holy Trinity of Wholesome
Fred Rogers: "Be kind to others."
Steve Irwin: "Be kind to animals."
Bob Ross: "Be kind to yourself."


Cat tit bingo dijo:
One Cut Of The Dead is extremely wholesome and feel good. I won't explain how since the movie is best blind but trust me it's a fantastic breath of fresh air and I would recommend it to everyone, but seriously don't look up anything about it.
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One of the last movies I ever expected to get feels from, but I sure as shit did.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug dijo:
SMILING FRIENDS
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jeFZSnA7lLcI'm getting tired of writing this junk. You all already know this one. What I'll say is that this one (I'm parroting you all) contrasts well with Rick and Morty. Nihilism? Mocked relentlessly. Meanness? We love each other in this workplace. Bad vibes? Outlawed. Smiling Friends is great because it is the same kind of chaotic, edgy world as any other modern cartoon - chaos, killing, sex, all that kind of junk - but it depicts it in a way that somehow transcends it and becomes clean. Your whole premise is that this company exists to make people smile, and that goofy-ass premise bleeds into how the characters interact. These guys LIKE each other. Their boss is a GOOD boss instead of a bad boss. Every story gets its happy ending no matter how deranged stuff happens along the way.

Just be happy!
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IMO this is because the creators are former youtube animators that had to compete for years in a what used to be a lawless, creativity filled enviorment, they couldn't care less about the current western paradigm of edgy and inmature equals funny, and OneyG/Psychicpebbles were always top tier in their craft.
Also one of the creators has an underrated Adult Swim show called YOLO, which is just about 2 besties partying in a cartoonish even more deranged version of Australia, its sooo much better than it sounds.
 
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The repeated will-they-won't-they subplot of Andy Griffith and his girlfriend also is a bit annoying. If I were to believe in plot continuity, I imagine Sheriff Andy as a casanova of a widower despite being a single dad, which throws me off. It gets to a point that I'm wondering why he doesn't settle down with a wife to at least ward off his many pursuers.

I think Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C (Andy Griffith Show spin-off) and The Beverly Hillbillies are a bit wholesome. They both make for good family entertainment. Even if some of the plots or tropes employed are repetitive.
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They're fine. I've seen a bit of each. Any TV from that time is generally wholesome. I like Gomer Pyle as a character but the show could be really one note, same thing. Didn't find Goober a funny replacement for him, but Goober does have a kind of charm in that I feel like I can visualize that sort of serious-faced backwards/backwoods fool. Beverly Hillbillies is remarkably accurate with its accents. Not all TV from that era was. The Real McCoys, for example, tried to do the hillbillies thing, too, but it was badly acted, the one girl does a Plantation South accent.
 
I know you niggas will think I'm insane, but for me McCarthy's "The Road" has always been wholesome. Of course it's horrifying, terrible, it's unbelievably bleak, but it always filled me with a bit of hope- knowing that I'm not the only one who sees the world as disgusting realm of barely intelligent cannibals and that it's like McCarthy saying "find a reason, find a good reason to stay on the road, don't be like the rest, don't eat people and just go, one feet at the time and push your reason to live in front of you or tow it behind you".
 
My Name is Earl is definitely my pick for a wholesome modern show...despite it being old as dirt by now.

Malcolm in the Middle was often wholesome even if they were dysfunctional. In the end the family always gets together to help one another.
 
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Regular Show is the exact opposite of wholesome. It's the edgiest thing that ever aired on daytime Cartoon Network.

It is, however, an excellent show, despite the later seasons having a mixed reception.
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Agreed, though they managed to send it off in a very (and may Allah forgive me) comfy and wholesome note.

I'm pretty sure I have powerlevelled about this elsewhere on these fine farms, but here it goes again anyway: could have been the place and point I was (am?) in life when I watched it, but I'm not ashamed to admit there's prolly no other piece of media that has made me cry quite like the last few minutes of Regular Show's finale. Earlier, strictly episodic seasons are peak, and while I can see why the "drama" arcs of the later seasons weren't that well received, I rate it they managed to make up for it right at the ending.
 
Not to pull the "there's LAYERS to it" card, but it's true. Shows like King of the Hill and Young Sheldon have great writing where its humor comes from layers of the characters, situations and delivery.

Example:


Sheldon is a physicist; the professor is an engineer. They clash against each because 1) Sheldon is established to be a know-it-all 2) engineering requires practical application, not theory. Sheldon stubbornly fails to grasp the professor's learning technique or practicality of the course.
 
It's a murder detective show, but I don't remember Monk ever having had any obnoxious political stuff in it (even for its era) and is a rare glimpse into San Francisco back when it was somewhat normal (it never was, but it has been worse and it has been better).
 
The word wholesome makes me wince so much now. It’s more propping up someone’s “niceness” or anything not negative cause they’re scared of grey morals or something slightly bad. Totally Not anything to do with George Floyd world and successful bringing people out of jobs cause of it.
 
Just so Flow, that cat movie that won the Oscars.
Thoroughly recommend for all ages, simple story about a a group of animals surviving a flood.
Made by one Latvian autist in blender.
Very heavily christian inspired in my opinion, the flood seems to be the old testament flood, and I bunch of other stuff that i won't spoil,
Definitely recommended.
 
I'm probably pushing the meaning of "modern" to its absolute limits, but it's color TV so I'll just say that's good enough.
I really like this sitcom called Green Acres, it's about a man and his wife who live in NYC and the man decides to abandon his boring white-collar job to go start a farm. Obviously there's a lot of challenges associated with that and it's funny to see how they work through problems.

Also the old Full House episodes are fantastic too, I grew up watching those quite a bit.
 
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