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Scrubs is that same show for me. I saw it on Comedy Central and instantly fell in love. I've now seen every episode.

The same thing happened, to a lesser extent, with That 70s Show and FX reruns. I don't love that show like I do Scrubs, but I did "discover" it after it had already been on the air on FOX for 7 years.

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Arrested Development. I never saw any episode until they began showing reruns on G4. I missed out.

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The EXACT same thing happened to me. I put on a scrubs marathon while i was playing on the computer, and I wasn't even really paying attention to it. All of a sudden I was totally sucked in. This happened like 2 months ago, and now I tune in every week. I always thought it was just another medical show, but its unlike anything else on TV.

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Actually Scrubs is the only one thus far that I had this exact case. I just finished watching all the seasons so far and the show is hilarious. I had seen an episode here and there the past few years but it never caught my interest till just recently when i decided i would watch all of season one and see how i liked it...Well i found out i LOVED it.

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Never watched an episode of the West Wing while it was on. I picked up the first season on a whim, now the wife and I are hooked. We watched the first 5 seasons in a month and a half. I am currently holding off on the last two seasons, until the summer rerun doldrums set in.

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X-Files. Wasn't a Sci-fi fan. I didn't watch one episode the first four years it was on. Then it went into syndication, and I was entranced.

I've had a similar experience with House. I hate medical dramas, the only one I think I ever got into was St. Elsewhere back in the 80's. Missed the first two seasons. Then, last summer, my mom started watching the reruns on Fox. I had never seen a mainstream tv series that dealt with humanism and ethics on such high level before. I am a now a BIG fan and won't miss an episode.

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Malcolm in the Middle, now that it's in syndication.

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Scrubs is one for me. At the time I had seen too many medical shows (ER, Grey's Anatomy, etc) and gotten sick of them. Then my roommate forced me to watch an episode and was hooked. I work in a hospital, and people really do like G.A. and ER, but when I've tried to describe why I prefer Scrubs, I get the deer in the headlights look most of the time. Oh well.

The janitor is my hero though.

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Hell yeah, and it was Scrubs.
Saw it a few times, had to see every single season.
Absolute favorite show.

Scrubs > House > Grey's

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I just caught up with all 4 seasons of "The Shield" on DVD since I just ignored it all my life. A year ago the same thing happend with "Gilmore Girls". I always thought it was crap without seeing a single episode. But my a girl-friend of mine loved it and I thought I would get her the first season on DVD for her birthday. Before I wrapped it I just wanted to check what this show was about and I was instantly hooked. I saw 4 seasons in less than two weeks ;-)

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I've loved "Scrubs" since the beginning. A similar thing happened to me with "The West Wing" though. I joined Netflix, saw the show listed and thought I'd see what the big deal was. I now own every season on DVD. My fiancee also got me sucked into "Grey's Anatomy."

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Definitely Arrested Development for me. I heard that it was good but was kind of annoyed by all the praise. I tuned in for one episode and found it kind of weird- somewhat funny, but not deserving of all the hype. Then I watched a Friday night marathon of the second season, and was hooked by the end of the night. Unfortunately, it was cancelled a few months later. *sigh* It's definitely the funniest comedy in the history of television (in my opinion). RIP, Arrested...

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For me it was two shows. I some how managed to miss the first four seasons of both The X Files and The West Wing. Fortunately The X Files was rerunning constantly around that time so I was able to catch up. But talk about the wrong time to start watching The West Wing - right when Sorkin left. Fortunately I was able to watch the episodes from the pilot straight through so by the time I hit the less good seasons I was already invested in the show. Wait, is "fortunately" the word I want?

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Oh, and how could I forget NewsRadio. I never saw it until it went into syndacation. And then I saw a couple of episodes and went from being "enh, it's okay" to totally in love with the show.

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That show for me was Sports Night. I am not a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination so I thought that there would be nothing in that show that would interest me when I read about it in TV Guide when it was on ABC in '98 and '99. I didn't even give it a chance. When it started being on late nights on Comedy Central after a lot of shows like the Critic that I adored, I started watching it. Anything on Comedy Central I give a chance to. Well I ended up falling in love with it, got the whole series on DVD when it became available, and can't stop watching it. I watch the full run of the show all the way through about twice a year. It one of the only personal things, and the only DVD besides Eddie Izzard that I take with me when I travel long-term (like when I went abroad or when I did my externship from culinary school).

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West Wing. I knew that everyone said it was great and amazing but it just seemed like SUCH a boring premise! Political mumbo-jumbo? Congress battles? Puh-lease! Then I got Bravo. And I started to watch a few episodes. Then I started to watch EVERY episode (it was on like 10 times a day). I was sooooo hooked and I was traumatized to see it go.

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For me it was Buffy. I didn't see a single episode until after it went off the air (funnily, we watched Angel from the beginning - go figure). But then I caught in syndication, and was hooked. I watched the entire seven-year run in about five months on FX.

Also Arrested Development and House, both of which I didn't pick up on until the second season. But that's what DVDs are for!

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Mine was Charmed. I caught the season finales (The one where Chris sends Leo away)on TNT on Monday night, and was like "OMG! What the heck?" So I called a couple of people I knew who watched it religously, and got the scoop. I started watching it that next Sunday in re runs, and caught up on TNT.

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Arrested Development- my hubby and I usually have a list af potentials at the beginning of the season. We watched the first few minutes of the pilot and shrugged it off. A few weeks later I was babysitting, these folks didn't have cable, and the Canadian affiliate was showing a 2 hour block of AD, so I watched it out of boredom. I arrived home to discover Fox was starting to show the same thing in a few minutes. We gave it a second chance, got all of our friends hooked and agonized over Fox's jerking around of this comic gem. "sigh"

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Both The Office and Scrubs fall into the category of "Shows I should be watching."

I started watching the office this season and during christmas i watched the previous two seasons in like 2 days.

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