My friend from high school trained me that self-awareness is pretty much the greatest facet of any art form. As such, he loved TV shows that broke the fourth wall and the musical episode of Buffy and the Paris Hilton song "Stars Are Blind" (which was not autobiographical, incidentally). In retrospect, I half-heartedly disagree and tend to view "really unspeakably bleak things happening to the main characters, especially in so far as they make your life seem better by comparison" as a really key element, but maybe I'm just thinking that because we just finished Season 1 of Party Down.

I'm really not this abrasive.