Hot take: I was wrong about 'The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.' being just a silly western

I caught a random late-night rerun on a local Chicago station last month, and the episode where Brisco finds the Orb in a 19th-century saloon completely flipped my view. It's not just a western, it's a weird sci-fi comedy mashup that was way ahead of its time in 1993. Anyone else have a show they totally misjudged from the channel-surfing days?

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emma_morgan16d ago

Channel surfing was the best way to find hidden gems back then. You had to just let it play through the commercials. That's how you got the full weirdness of a show.

the_cora16d ago

Wait, you found Brisco County on a local Chicago channel? I thought that show only existed in fuzzy memories and Bruce Campbell convention stories. My big misjudgment was thinking "Sliders" was just a cheap "Quantum Leap" knockoff until I saw an episode where they slid into a world ruled by dinosaurs.