Weekend Rentals

Overnight guests have arrived. Distract weary travelers with the always hysterical Arrested Development, which remains a touchstone for smart and sly comedy. Or how about the fun and frothy Sex and the City? Both you and your guests can pretend that you’re out on the town, sipping neon-colored Cosmopolitans with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker). Just be sure to avoid the gut-wrenching Season 3 episode “Running with Scissors,” in which Carrie and Big’s affair takes some hurtful turns. Guests whining about minutiae? The perfect antidote is Seinfeld, available in a 32-disc collection containing all 180 episodes and over 104 hours of bonus material, which might help you change their shrill complaints into little more than yada, yada, yada. And if you want to feel like people are worse off than you, watch Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s mordantly funny Extras, about the friendship between two struggling actors, or put on the Extra Special Series Finale if you want to truly laugh… and cry your eyes out.