Karen Maruyama

Karen Maruyama

Karen Maruyama is an American actress and comedienne. She has appeared on television in supporting roles in a number of sitcoms, including recurring characters on The Jamie Foxx Show, Strip Mall, Suddenly Susan, and Arrested Development. Maruyama is well known as an improv performer and instructor, and was a featured guest on both the American and British versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as well as a member of The Groundlings. She also appeared as a parking lot attendant in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. She also played a nurse in The Bucket List (2007) and a housekeeper in the 2012 film The Campaign. She is part of the cast of The Jim Henson Company's live stage show "Puppet Up! - Uncensored" which has toured to Aspen, Las Vegas, Edinburgh, Sydney and Melbourne and is currently appearing monthly at Avalon Hollywood. In 2013, on the serie 2 Broke Girls (third season, seventh episode), she appears how Han's mother, under the name Su-Min. Karen was also featured as a fashion victim in an episode of the makeover show How Do I Look?. She also appeared as a non-celebrity contestant on the 1984 CBS game show, Body Language, under the name Karen Upshaw, saying she was from Perris, California. She was paired with celebrity players Ted Lange and Constance Towers. She was also on The New $25,000 Pyramid in 1983 with Audrey Landers and Michael McKean.

  • Title: Karen Maruyama
  • Popularity: 4.588
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1958-05-29
  • Place of Birth: U.S.A
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Karen Maruyama Movies

  • 1994
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    Pulp Fiction

    Pulp Fiction

    8.488 1994 HD

    A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime...

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  • 1995
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    Sawbones

    Sawbones

    5 1995 HD

    A former medical intern turned sadistic killer is on the loose... and only one woman knows his true identity. Can she stop him in time before she...

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  • 2012
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    The Campaign

    The Campaign

    5.826 2012 HD

    Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of...

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  • 2020
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    Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn

    Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn

    5.3 2020 HD

    It's the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival, and Chinese-American scratch DJ Logan Lee is poised to make his live debut at his best friend Beatrice...

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  • 2022
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    It's a Wonderful Binge

    It's a Wonderful Binge

    4.951 2022 HD

    Like the original film, the sequel is set in a near future where all drinking and drugs are banned except for on one glorious day known as The Binge....

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  • 2024
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    Self Reliance

    Self Reliance

    6 2024 HD

    When a man is offered a million dollars to play a game in which hunters try to kill him, he thinks he has found the perfect loophole: they can only...

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  • 2024
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    Kung Fu Panda 4

    Kung Fu Panda 4

    7.1 2024 HD

    Po is gearing up to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but also needs someone to take his place as Dragon Warrior. As such, he will...

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  • 2023
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    RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary

    RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary

    1 2023 HD

    A fully-improvised lockdown mockumentary following the cast and crew of a struggling theater (All Voice IS Theater) in Pigeon Valley, Tennessee. They...

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  • 2007
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    The Bucket List

    The Bucket List

    7.187 2007 HD

    Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital...

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  • 1999
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    The Thirteenth Year

    The Thirteenth Year

    6.578 1999 HD

    A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday.

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  • 2006
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    The Enigma with a Stigma

    The Enigma with a Stigma

    1 2006 HD

    The original intent of this documentary was to tell the story of a couple preparing for their wedding day. During the filming, things took a dramatic...

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  • 2018
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    Life of the Party

    Life of the Party

    6.1 2018 HD

    When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college... landing in the same...

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  • 1996
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    Dunston Checks In

    Dunston Checks In

    5.4 1996 HD

    Hotel manager Robert Grant is forced by his boss to postpone his family vacation when a hotel critic checks in. Trouble is, the critic is really a...

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  • 1995
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    The American President

    The American President

    6.535 1995 HD

    Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen...

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  • 2022
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    I'm Totally Fine

    I'm Totally Fine

    6.4 2022 HD

    A woman in mourning takes a solo trip to clear her head after the death of her friend. However, Vanessa’s self-care vacation plans change when...

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  • 2021
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    A Little Italian Vacation

    A Little Italian Vacation

    7 2021 HD

    A group of high school Seniors juggle between old loves and new flings on the shores of a beautiful Italian town.

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  • 2021
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    Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

    Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

    6 2021 HD

    The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small midwestern town for the first time to go on vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where...

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  • 2016
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    Pee-wee's Big Holiday

    Pee-wee's Big Holiday

    6.121 2016 HD

    A fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to take his first-ever holiday.

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  • 2000
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    Titus

    Titus

    7 2000 HD

    Titus is an American dark comedy sitcom that debuted on Fox in 2000. The series was created by its star, Christopher Titus, Jack Kenny, and Brian...

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  • 2005
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    American Dad!

    American Dad!

    6.954 2005 HD

    The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his...

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  • 2000
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    Static Shock

    Static Shock

    8.1 2000 HD

    An ordinary inner-city kid gains extraordinary powers and becomes an urban legend as the first teenage African-American superhero.

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  • 2005
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    Ghost Whisperer

    Ghost Whisperer

    8.083 2005 HD

    Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most...

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  • 2001
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    The Division

    The Division

    7 2001 HD

    The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and starring Bonnie Bedelia. The series focused on a team of...

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  • 1997
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    King of the Hill

    King of the Hill

    7.3 1997 HD

    Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher...

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  • 1996
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    The Jamie Foxx Show

    The Jamie Foxx Show

    6.8 1996 HD

    Texas native Jamie King is an aspiring actor who heads to Hollywood in hopes to find fame and fortune in the entertainment industry. To support...

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  • 2000
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    Even Stevens

    Even Stevens

    6.959 2000 HD

    The Stevens are a middle-class family living in Sacramento, CA. Husband and father Steve is a successful attorney. Wife and mother Eileen is a state...

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  • 2003
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    Nip/Tuck

    Nip/Tuck

    7.165 2003 HD

    Hotshot plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy experience full-blown midlife crises as they confront career, family and romance...

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  • 2000
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    Strip Mall

    Strip Mall

    3 2000 HD

    Tammi Tyler is an ex-child actress who, at 12, murdered her adult co-star after eating a PCP laced cupcake. Now, as an adult, Tammi works as a...

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  • 1996
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    Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys

    Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys

    5.8 1996 HD

    Lost in space during a NASA mission, a monkey encounters an alien race that gives him enhanced intelligence and tasks him with defeating an evil lord.

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  • 1987
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    Full House

    Full House

    7.549 1987 HD

    After the death of his wife, Danny enlists his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise his three daughters, D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle.

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  • 2005
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    Stacked

    Stacked

    7.188 2005 HD

    Stacked is an American television sitcom that premiered on Fox on April 13, 2005. On May 18, 2006, Stacked was canceled, leaving five episodes...

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  • 1998
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    Guys Like Us

    Guys Like Us

    3 1998 HD

    Guys Like Us is a short-lived American sitcom that aired on UPN from October 5, 1998 to January 18, 1999. The series starred Bumper Robinson, Maestro...

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  • 2003
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    Wanda at Large

    Wanda at Large

    7.2 2003 HD

    Wanda at Large is an American sitcom that ran for two seasons on the Fox network in 2003. The series was created by and stars comedian Wanda Sykes.

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  • 2001
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    Heavy Gear

    Heavy Gear

    7.5 2001 HD

    Coliseum-type gladiator battles on the planet Terra Nova in the year 6132 pit good robots against bad in this CGI animated series based on the...

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  • 1994
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    Viper

    Viper

    6 1994 HD

    Viper is an action-adventure TV series about a special task force set up by the federal government to fight crime in the fictional city of Metro...

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  • 2022
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    Dead End: Paranormal Park

    Dead End: Paranormal Park

    8.1 2022 HD

    Two teens and a talking pug team up to battle demons at a haunted theme park — and maybe even save the world from a supernatural apocalypse.

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  • 2001
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    Justice League

    Justice League

    8.1 2001 HD

    The long-awaited rebirth of the greatest superhero team of all time: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, and Martian...

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  • 2001
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    Justice League

    Justice League

    8.1 2001 HD

    The long-awaited rebirth of the greatest superhero team of all time: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, and Martian...

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  • 1998
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    The Wild Thornberrys

    The Wild Thornberrys

    6.8 1998 HD

    Travel the world with the Thornberrys and come face-to-face with blue sheep in Nepal, emus in Australia, marmots in Pakistan, flash floods in...

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  • 2011
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    2 Broke Girls

    2 Broke Girls

    7.2 2011 HD

    Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg,...

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  • 1992
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    Mad About You

    Mad About You

    6.7 1992 HD

    Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.

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  • 2014
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    Young & Hungry

    Young & Hungry

    6.891 2014 HD

    Two worlds collide when Josh, a wealthy young tech entrepreneur, meets Gabi, a feisty young food blogger, looking to be his personal chef. Gabi is...

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  • 2005
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    American Dad!

    American Dad!

    6.954 2005 HD

    The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his...

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  • 2000
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm

    Curb Your Enthusiasm

    8.008 2000 HD

    The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by...

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  • 2015
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    One Big Happy

    One Big Happy

    5.851 2015 HD

    Best friends Lizzy (gay and a bit type-A) and Luke (straight and more laid back) are like family. When they were kids and both of their parents were...

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  • 1971
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    Columbo

    Columbo

    8.1 1971 HD

    Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing...

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  • 2015
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    Bosch

    Bosch

    7.914 2015 HD

    Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch who pursues justice at all...

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  • 2015
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    Better Call Saul

    Better Call Saul

    8.7 2015 HD

    Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer...

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  • 1999
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    Futurama

    Futurama

    8.383 1999 HD

    The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one...

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  • 2003
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    Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

    Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

    7.1 2003 HD

    Bitten by an irradiated spider, teenager Peter Parker gains arachnid-like powers that make him both a hero to those in need and a vigilante wanted by...

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  • 2003
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    Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

    Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

    7.1 2003 HD

    Bitten by an irradiated spider, teenager Peter Parker gains arachnid-like powers that make him both a hero to those in need and a vigilante wanted by...

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  • 2012
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    Crash & Bernstein

    Crash & Bernstein

    7.763 2012 HD

    Wyatt Bernstein is a typical boy who lives n a household full of females. Wyatt desperately wishes for a brother he could do fun guy stuff with. When...

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  • 2001
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    The Proud Family

    The Proud Family

    7.8 2001 HD

    Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's doing her best to navigate through the early years of...

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  • 2001
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    The Proud Family

    The Proud Family

    7.8 2001 HD

    Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's doing her best to navigate through the early years of...

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  • 2001
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    The Proud Family

    The Proud Family

    7.8 2001 HD

    Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's doing her best to navigate through the early years of...

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  • 2005
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    Avatar: The Last Airbender

    Avatar: The Last Airbender

    8.7 2005 HD

    In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring...

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  • 2006
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    Hannah Montana

    Hannah Montana

    7.2 2006 HD

    At home and school, she's Miley Stewart, a typical teenager, but when the lights go down and the curtain goes up, she emerges as the glamorous and...

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  • 1998
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    The King of Queens

    The King of Queens

    7.1 1998 HD

    Life’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves in with him and his wife Carrie. Doug is no...

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  • 2003
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    Arrested Development

    Arrested Development

    7.954 2003 HD

    The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.

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  • 2019
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    Dead to Me

    Dead to Me

    7.2 2019 HD

    A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.

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  • 2007
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    Cory in the House

    Cory in the House

    6.8 2007 HD

    It's a brand new life for Cory Baxter when his dad, Victor, becomes the personal chef to the President of the United States. Cory's entrepreneurial...

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  • 2018
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    Heathers

    Heathers

    7.3 2018 HD

    A pitch-black comedy anthology set in the present day, as our heroine Veronica Sawyer deals with a very different but equally vicious group of...

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  • 2010
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    Good Luck Charlie

    Good Luck Charlie

    7.9 2010 HD

    Teens PJ and Teddy and tween brother Gabe are typical kids -- that is, until their mother has another baby. The arrival of their new sister...

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  • 1994
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    Ellen

    Ellen

    6.4 1994 HD

    Ellen is an American television sitcom that aired on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July 22, 1998, consisting of 109 episodes. The title role...

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  • 2023
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    Unstable

    Unstable

    7.098 2023 HD

    He's an eccentric biotech genius. His son's a pragmatist living in his shadow. To save the family business, they'll have to work through some issues.

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  • 1996
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    Suddenly Susan

    Suddenly Susan

    5.7 1996 HD

    Suddenly Susan is an American television sitcom. Shields plays Susan Keane, a glamorous San Francisco magazine writer who begins to adjust to being...

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  • 2014
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    Garfunkel and Oates

    Garfunkel and Oates

    6.953 2014 HD

    The comic/folk duo Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci hit prime time with their act in this scripted series for IFC. It follows hard-working underdogs...

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  • 1995
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    Caroline in the City

    Caroline in the City

    6.4 1995 HD

    Caroline in the City is an American situation comedy that ran on the NBC television network. It stars Lea Thompson as cartoonist Caroline Duffy, who...

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  • 2010
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    Shake It Up

    Shake It Up

    7.621 2010 HD

    Best pals CeCe and Rocky dream of dancing stardom. And they seem on the verge of realizing that goal when they win places as backup dancers on the...

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  • 2014
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    Go-Go Boy Interrupted

    Go-Go Boy Interrupted

    4.5 2014 HD

    Jimmy Fowlie (writer/actor) developed the concept for “Go-­Go Boy Interrupted” from his time as a go­-go dancer in LA. He was...

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  • 1988
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    Whose Line Is It Anyway?

    Whose Line Is It Anyway?

    7.642 1988 HD

    An un-scripted comedy show in which four guest performers improvise their way through a series of games, many of which rely on audience suggestions.

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  • 1998
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    Whose Line Is It Anyway?

    Whose Line Is It Anyway?

    7.783 1998 HD

    The show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. Not a talk show, not a sitcom, not a game show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? is a...

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  • 1997
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    Veronica's Closet

    Veronica's Closet

    5.1 1997 HD

    Veronica 'Ronnie' Chase is the 'Queen of Romance.' Founder of a successful lingerie empire, and best-selling author of self-help romance books,...

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  • 1989
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    The Simpsons

    The Simpsons

    8.018 1989 HD

    Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa...

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  • 1989
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    The Simpsons

    The Simpsons

    8.018 1989 HD

    Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa...

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  • 2011
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    Shameless

    Shameless

    8.161 2011 HD

    Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When...

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  • 2016
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    Baskets

    Baskets

    7 2016 HD

    Chip Baskets wants to follow his dream of being a French clown—however, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and...

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  • 1989
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    Snoops

    Snoops

    5 1989 HD

    Snoops is an American crime themed comedy-drama series which aired for one season from September 1989 to July 1990 on CBS. The series was created and...

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