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3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)

3rd Rock from the Sun poster
Genre
sitcom, science fiction television series
Country
United States
Length
6 seasons, 139 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 569 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Four aliens take human forms to study Earth's inhabitants by posing as a family. They make many mistakes and find human behavior confusing and hilarious.

wackylightheartedcomedicfish-out-of-waterquirkysillyfast-paced

What happens

3rd Rock from the Sun is an American television sitcom created by Bonnie and Terry Turner, which originally aired from January 9, 1996, to May 22, 2001, on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, the third planet from the Sun, which they consider to be a very insignificant planet. The extraterrestrials pose as a human family to observe the behavior of human beings. The series was produced by The Carsey-Werner Company. The show premiered three years after the film Coneheads, which was also written by the Turners, and featured a similar premise of extraterrestrials arriving on Earth and assimilating into American society. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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