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Yikes.

I'm not choosing between Prime Suspect and 2 Broke Girls. That's insane hat logic.

Also, "Reality Bites." The movie about a young woman who is held emotionally hostage by an epic dong.

Does Brazil count? As I recall, Sam doesn't kidnap Jill directly so much as he creates a scenario whereby they are both screwed, while telling her convincingly that she's being saved.

To be fair to the SNL writers, Serpico has already served as a topic for a televised comedy sketch:

I don't even know if it qualifies as good, but Gullah Gullah Island's theme is such an earworm, it has haunted me my whole life:

If Strindberg were alive today, he'd be writing for television like this.

I  don't know if they count as satires per se, but "Finding Bliss," "The Girl Next Door," "Porn n' Chicken," and "The Amateurs" are all ostensibly comedy films about porn-making.

Also— there is an episode of The Colbert Report where something like half the running time is taken up by him fighting a giant foam sports mascot/ thing, then being rewarded with a harem. Does anybody else know what I'm referring to? I remember watching it feeling weirdly embarrassed and offended— not only was it

Show: Cheers
Episode: "The Boys in the Bar"