As ingenious an idea as Peep Showis, before the TV series premiered on Britain’s Channel 4 in 2003, it was hard to imagine how this idea could be translated into a successful sitcom. The show is premised on viewing the world from inside the heads of two 30-something single men who share an apartment and certain misanthropic perspectives on life, while each leads a generally disappointing existence and harbors their own respective neuroses about it. At the time, the British version of The Office had just become a sleeper hit, and sitcoms otherwise still promised warm and wholesome viewing.