Season 3 was a charm for HBO's quirky stoner-comedy series, Bored to Death. Jonathan found his actual dad, George opened a restaurant and Ray stepped out with a really older woman. Oh, and they smoked plenty of pot.

Jonathan (Jason Schwartzman, left) is an author/private eye. His first case in Season 3 nearly gets him framed for a murder and winds up at the carousel in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Jonathan's search for his father (he was conceived from a sperm donation) leads him to Coney Island where he takes a romantic ferris-wheel ride with Rose (Isla Fisher), who's also looking for her dad. Turns out she's his sister!

No longer a magazine editor, George (Ted Danson, above center) directs his attention to food and the competitive world of restaurants in New York. His sober daughter arrives with her 60-year-old fiance, who's also an old acquaintance of George. He's obsessed by this for most of the season. Danson's hushed vocal mannerisms and tics are reminiscent of John Malkovich.