Cross-media picks for Peter Farrelly fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share a comedy of embarrassment — characters caught between who they are and who they wish they were, navigating friendships, schemes, and romantic chaos with more heart than sense. There's a recurring warmth beneath the pratfalls: blue-collar dreamers, unlikely alliances, mismatched personalities stuck together by circumstance. Whether it's Cemetery Junction's working-class restlessness or Party Down's Hollywood also-rans, the tone stays consistent — funny because it's honest, and fond of its screw-ups.
Film
Old Dogs
Two lifelong friends face sudden parenthood chaos, mixing sweet sentiment with escalating comic disaster.
Film
Heartbreakers
A mother-daughter con duo targeting wealthy men delivers sharp, breezy romantic comedy built on gleeful deception.
Film
Cemetery Junction
Three blue-collar friends in 1970s England joke and brawl through a working-class world one wants to escape.
Film
The First Time
Three teenage boys spend a summer hilariously miscalculating their way toward manhood and self-discovery.
Film
Bringing Down the House
An uptight divorced lawyer's online date turns his orderly life upside down in this culture-clash comedy.
Film
Boys' Night Out
Middle-aged suburban men secretly scheme for something more exciting than TV dinners and routine marriages.
Film
Bounce
A self-absorbed ad exec's impulsive kindness triggers a guilt-ridden romance with real emotional stakes.
Film
Spin
Six hungover young people piece together a night of misadventures involving breakups, vets, and a mobster's cash.
Series
Mission Hill
An overqualified, underemployed aspiring cartoonist navigating arrested adulthood gets a rude lesson in responsibility.
Series
Hung
A down-on-his-luck middle-aged coach turns his one unusual asset into a desperately funny second act.
Series
Old Time Buddy
Two showbiz friends find fame divides them, blending nostalgia with the bittersweet comedy of missed chances.
Series
What's Happening!!
Childhood friends Raj, Rerun, and Dwayne stumble through mischief and get-rich-quick schemes in 1970s LA.
Series
Special
A gay man rewrites his own story on his own terms — funny, frank, and quietly courageous about wanting more.
Series
Party Down
Struggling actors serve hors d'oeuvres and nurse Hollywood dreams, finding absurd dignity in the gap between.
Series
Punk'd
Celebrities get publicly humiliated by elaborate pranks — broad, shameless, and unapologetically juvenile comedy.
Series
Cupid Stupid
A fishmonger chasing a horoscope prophecy stumbles into romantic chaos — lighthearted and sweetly goofy.
Game
Leisure Suit Larry
A lovable loser in a loud suit bumbles through romantic rejection with cheerful, politically incorrect absurdity.
Game
Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards
Beloved animated sitcom characters collide in a card game built for fans of irreverent, adult animated comedy.
Game
Sam & Max Hit the Road
A canine detective and his unhinged rabbit partner chase carnival fugitives in a gleefully weird buddy comedy.
Game
Lake
A woman trades her city career to deliver mail in her quiet hometown and rediscovers a slower life.
Game
Blues and Bullets
A retired lawman's diner peace is shattered by corruption — noir atmosphere with a reluctant-hero warmth.
Game
Meet the Robinsons
A kid races through time to fix a stolen time machine — family-friendly adventure with goofy comic energy.
Game
Bee Movie Game
A bee navigates a ridiculous action-comedy world built entirely around Jerry Seinfeld's deadpan sensibility.
Game
The Bouncer
Three nightclub bouncers brawl through a kidnapping rescue in a game modelled on stylish action cinema.
Book
The Motherfucker With the Hat
Addiction, love, and barely-adult life collide for an ex-con trying to stay clean and hold his world together.
Book
The death of sweet mister
A thirteen-year-old trapped in a brutal, broken home searches for escape — raw, unsentimental, and affecting.
Book
Falling for Him
A chaotic secretary and a buttoned-up boss clash in an Alaskan small-town romance full of warm comedic friction.
Book
Iron cast
Two best friends use illegal illusion powers to con Boston's elite — a roaring-twenties heist with real heart.
Book
Summer of '42
A teenage boy's summer infatuation with an older woman on Nantucket captures the ache of coming-of-age longing.
Book
Gable and Lombard
Hollywood's golden couple laid bare — a biography of two outsized personalities and one legendary romance.
Book
LBD
Three inseparable teenage girls scheme to crash a music festival over their parents' objections — feisty and fun.
Book
What? Dead again?
A big-city doctor stranded in a small Southern town finds culture-clash hilarity and unexpected belonging.
Start with Cemetery Junction for working-class heart and comic friendship dynamics, or Party Down if you enjoy ensemble comedy about people whose ambitions far exceed their circumstances.
Summer of '42 captures the same bittersweet coming-of-age mood, while Iron Cast offers a best-friends-against-the-world story with more genre flair. Both reward fans of warmth and wit.
Sam & Max Hit the Road delivers anarchic buddy-comedy energy in classic adventure form, and Lake offers a quieter, character-driven slice of small-town life with genuine warmth.