Need a cure for the rerun blues? Forget about network and don’t worry about repeats - if you’ve never seen the show, it’s not a rerun to you. Get acquainted with some of the shows you may not even know about…and in some cases, you might wonder how you ever got along without them.

Cable TV offers plenty of diversion, and sure a lot of shows get repeated. But in the middle of a writers strike while studios scramble to find anything to put on the tube, those obscure (and hilarious) cable shows may just become the saving grace of evening TV watching. Check out four relatively obscure, yet hysterical, cable shows and find out just how fun reruns can be.

MTV, which I believe has given up on music altogether, offers up a shout-out to the old days of Candid Camera with Boiling Points. Take one hidden camera and a few unsuspecting citizens and there’s a TV show - if this was still the 80s. But because it’s MTV, there’s a twist - the unsuspecting citizens are actually going to be pushed to the limit of how much crap they can take. As the clock slowly ticks (toward a predetermined “Boiling Point”) the hidden cameras record people as they are systematically driven crazy by the worker who’s in on the gag. If they make it to the boiling point without totally losing their cool, they win a cool hundred bucks. The show is funny even if it isn’t all that original, and it’s totally worth watching even when there’s no strike on.

Comedy Central is all about making people laugh, but nothing does it better than Reno 911. This little show is so good it made it all the way to the big screen (and amazingly, the movie is just as funny as the show). Featuring a crew of completely incompetent cops, Reno 911 takes a look at the lighter side of law enforcement to completely hilarious results.

A tribute to sketch comedy, Frank TV on TBS could easily have been a complete miss. A one-man show featuring a slightly tubby star who does voices? It doesn’t sound at all like success - but tune into Frank TV just once and you’ll wind up laughing. His impressions are generally spot-on and his audience interaction shows a truly warm, fun-to-watch personality.

E! is still offering up plenty of new reality, but Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood easily outshines it all. New episodes of this one are currently airing, and even if you don’t like rap, hip hop, or Snoop himself you’ll enjoy this clever reality series. It’s funny, it feels very real, and the segments where Snoop Dogg explains his own personal vernacular hold it all together. The best reality twist of all from a gangsta rapper - Snoop Dogg is a tried-and-true family man. Watch the show.  Seriously.