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"9 Fresh YouTube Shows You'll Love\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Bite Me\n\n\nEveryone loves zombies, right? Bite Me is a comedy more in line with Shaun of the Dead than The Walking Dead. \nThe show features some gaming elements, which makes sense. Machinima, a video entertainment network for gamers that collectively has nearly 4 billion (with a \"b\") video views, produces Bite Me.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. THNKR\n\nTHNKR is not exactly a show; it's a channel that produces four shows -- Bookd, Prodigies, Podium and Epiphany -- all of which are absolutely brilliant. These are the types of videos you can't stop watching. They're inspiring, thought-provoking and extremely well-produced.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Krogzilla Gets a Job\n\nKrogzilla, a mild-mannered monster, was recently downsized. As a result, he lost his job as a city destroyer. This emotionally riveting 10-part series chronicles his quest to find a new career. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. OffBeat Spaces\n\n\nSimilar to MTV Cribs, OffBeat Spaces is less \"lifestyles of the rich and famous\" and more lifestyles of the quirky and interesting.\nThe most recent episode features Carleen Farabaugh, who lives in a house in Pennsylvania shaped like a shoe.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Discovering Religion\n\n\nWhether you're religious or not, this show will hook you from the very first second. You won't believe the show's host, Andy Zohoury, is not a professional. He will mesmerize you with his deep, mellifluous voice and continuous stream of poetic philosophizing -- loaded with esoteric facts. Zohoury, a medical student, has been producing the show in his free time since 2009. \nAt the end of the first episode, he states his goal for the program: \"If god is both the first-hand author of the universe and second-hand author of the scriptures, it is my hope in investigation of the two to provide an accurate and unbiased way to perceive reality, regardless of one's sense of spirituality or religious affiliation.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. MyMusic Sitcom\n\nMedia company MyMusic made a satirical mockumentary about itself. The show is an allegory in which \"Indie,\" the snobbish hipster boss, tries to manage a crack squad crew that includes \"Metal,\" \"Dubstep,\" \"Scene,\" \"Intern 2\" and more.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. After Hours\n\n\nThere's not much to the plot, but After Hours features the kind of witty back-and-forth dialogue the characters on The Newsroom wish they could pull off. \nIn this episode, the gang answers \"life's most important question:\" Which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle are you? They eventually come to the realization that the four turtles, along with many other TV and movie quartets, resemble the Hippocratic four humors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Doc Talk\n\nDoc Talk is a meta-documentary series with more than 100 episodes to date. The episodes are usually less than six minutes long and feature interviews with documentary producers. It's a great way to decide whether or not to check out a documentary you had considered watching.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. H+\n\nMembers of the human race sheepishly inject themselves with computers. The computers get a virus. Things get dramatic, very dramatic. If you like your technological, dsytopian drama in five-minute bursts, this is the show for you.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube probably isn't your number-one option when you're looking for an entertaining series. With the amount of professionally produced content available on Netflix and Hulu+, it doesn't make sense to pour through YouTube's seemingly endless archives in search of something resembling a TV show.\nAnd anyway, even if there are great indie shows out there somewhere, YouTube doesn't offer a really intuitive way to find them. Well, save the hugs for later \u2014 we did it for you.\nSEE ALSO: 10 Epic Office Pranks Caught on YouTube\n\nAfter much digging (aka, sitting on the couch, watching shows), we've produced a list of nine YouTube shows very worth checking out. Most have short, highly entertaining episodes that keep your attention. Just don't blame us when you get sucked into a marathon.\nBest of all, most of these shows are independently produced, giving them a sort of DIY charm you won't find on TV. \nScroll through the gallery above for a hand-selected intro episode to each of the shows. If any piques your interest, follow the link to the show's episode page. If we left out one of your favorites, let us know in the comment section.\nPhoto courtesy of Flickr, barrilete_el\u00E9ctrico"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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