I come to you fine people today with another of my possibly high variance television recommendations: Childrens Hospital.

I say high variance in the sense that I wouldn't be shocked to see comments from some saying they hated it and some saying it was their favourite ever show. A good rule of thumb would be if you've liked my previous recommendations you'll probably like it, if you've hated them you probably won't like it. Although if you hated all my previous tv recommendations and are still a devoted blog reader, you probably enjoy punishing yourself. And if that's the case, you should definitely watch this show in order to stimulate said 'sick' pleasure (it's not my place to judge).


Set in a children's hospital, Childrens Hospital (the lack of apostrophe is because the hospital was named in honour of its founder, Dr. Arthur Childrens) is a parody of all the medical dramas we've seen over the past decade. Its absurdist brand of humour means that some jokes won't resonate with all viewers. But if you're anything like me you'll find it rare to find a show capable of making you truly laugh out loud (I wish there was a short hand way of expressing that, I'm exhausted), and this is one of those chosen few. There is a particularly subtle background joke in the last episode of the first season that is one of my favourite things to date.

Childrens Hospital airs on Adult Swim and each episode is 11 minutes long, meaning if you do enjoy it you can polish off the existing 2 seasons in one glorious night. But if you hate the first episode I'm sure you'll hate them all, so giving it a chance will only take 11 minutes (plus whatever preferred method you use to acquire the show, but presumably your multi task skills extend to being able to do something else at the same time).

Thank me now, and then again later when you really enjoy it.