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Common Side Effects (2025)

Former high school lab partners Marshall and Frances begin to unravel a conspiracy involving big pharma and the federal government to suppress knowledge of a rare mushroom that may hold the key to curing all the world’s diseases.

Created byJoseph Bennett, Steve Hely

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    Smiling Friends

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    2020 · Animation · Comedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    Smiling Friends Inc. is a small company whose main purpose is to bring happiness and make people smile. The series follows the day-to-day lives and misadventures of its representatives, the lazy, cynical Charlie, and the cheerful, optimistic Pim, as they try to cheer up and comfort the troubled people who call their company's hotline. They receive seemingly simple requests but the jobs turn out to be more complicated than they seem, making it difficult to bring happiness to the world.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • similar audience response
    • shared network: Williams Street
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    Lazarus

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    2025 · 25 min · Action & Adventure · Animation · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    In 2052, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist develops a drug called Hapna — a cure-all that has the unexpected side-effect of causing death three years later. In response to this threat, a special force of agents—nicknamed "Lazarus"— is assembled to take on the malevolent Skinner.

    Why it connects

    • shared genre DNA
    • a closely matched era
    • shared network: Williams Street
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    Inside Job

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    2021 · 28 min · Animation · Comedy

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    For employees of the Deep State, conspiracies aren't just theories — they're fact. And keeping them a secret is a full-time job.

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    • substantial genre overlap
    • a principal cast member
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    Maniac

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    2018 · Comedy · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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    Haha, You Clowns

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    2025 · Animation · Comedy

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    Join the Campbell boys, three doting teenagers and their tenderhearted dad, as they live, laugh, love their way into your living rooms. They're big dudes with big feelings who are learning to navigate life in the wake of their mother's death, sensing her presence in everyday adventures.

    Why it connects

    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
    • shared network: Williams Street
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    Solar Opposites

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    2020 · Animation · Comedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    A family of aliens from a much better world must take refuge in middle America after the destruction of their planet. Their mission: protect the Pupa, a living super computer that will one day evolve into its true form, consume them and terraform the Earth.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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    President Curtis

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    2026 · Animation · Comedy

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    Follow the Commander-in-Chief and his eccentric staff as they tackle the kind of crises that Rick Sanchez could never be bothered with - from interdimensional diplomacy to paranormal investigations and unexplained phenomena.

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