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TV’s weirdest smash hit returns, an ‘80s classic gets honored by a long-running sitcom, and a legal drama says goodbye after nine seasons. Hello! Happy 20th anniversary to [Freaks and Geeks]( the show that made me realize that television is a cruel business and we can’t have nice things. The Judd Apatow-created high school comedy ran for one wonderful season on Fox during the 1999-2000 TV season before it was canceled due to Fox being a collection of morons, earned three Emmy nominations, is on any credible TV critic’s list of the best shows of all-time, and launched the careers of several major Hollywood stars including Seth Rogen, Linda Cardellini, James Franco, and more. The show is not currently available to stream – it left Netflix last year and never returned – but you can get your fill by streaming a documentary on the show through [Hulu]( or [Amazon](. Here are tonight’s TV picks. –Tim [Your Watch This Now! newsletter is created by Senior Recommendations and Reviews Editor Tim Surette and more show-obsessed editors at TV Guide!]( WATCH THIS NOW! [Stumptown]( [Stumptown, served fresh by Cobie Smulders]( Series premiere Wednesday at 10/9c on ABC [There’s one very charming reason to watch ABC’s new drama]( about a female private investigator: Cobie Smulders. The How I Met Your Mother star returns to network television a lot tougher as an Army vet who becomes a consultant for the Portland police, and she makes this otherwise plain female-fronted drama work through her sheer magnetism. She can play feisty, or she can play vulnerable, which she’ll do a lot as a character whose past haunts her, and responds to most situations with a nasty right hook. New Girl’s [Jake Johnson also stars as her bartending “friend,”]( so I guess he’s being typecast as a booze slinger, and Michael Ealy plays a local cop who becomes her love interest, or should I say, other love interest. WE ALL WEAR MASKS [The Masked Singer]( [The Masked Singer is TV’s weirdest smash hit, so you may as well watch it]( Season 2 premiere Wednesday at 8/7c on Fox Not counting anything that took place in Westeros or on a football field, the highest-rated show of last TV season was The Masked Singer (it tied This Is Us with a 3.8 rating in the 18-49 demo). Fox’s big gamble on an adaptation of the hit Korean reality show – in which celebrities of various caliber sing while their identities are hidden underneath elaborate costumes – paid off as the show’s madcap mystery made it the toast of network TV, and we can only assume that the singing celebrities will be bigger names this time around now that it’s a success. This season features more costumes, more celebrities, and more episodes, as Season 3 will start right after the Super Bowl. TV Guide’s Malcolm Venable became a fan of the show despite his prejudices going into it, and [stopped by the set to get a peek at what’s to come](. THIS IS CRAZY, THIS IS CRAZY, THIS IS CRAZY [The Goldbergs]( [The Goldbergs goes down the holiday road]( Season 7 premiere Wednesday at 8/7c on ABC Can you believe The Goldbergs has been on the air for seven seasons? Once [Modern Family calls it quits after the end of the season]( The Goldbergs will take over as network television’s longest-running live-action comedy (tied with CBS’s Mom). It’s easy to see why; it has a stellar cast, it feeds our ‘80s nostalgia, and it’s the type of comfort sitcom that doesn’t have an expiration date. The best things the show that’s set in 1980-something does are its tribute episodes, and Season 7 kicks off with an homage to one of the greatest ‘80s movies of all time: [National Lampoon’s Vacation](. The episode features re-creations of some of the Chevy Chase comedy’s best scenes, and features guest appearances from Vacation vets Anthony Michael Hall and Christie Brinkley (before she hurt herself training for [Dancing with the Stars](. Can you take a guess at who gets to hook up with her? QUIBI WHAT? [Cake]( [Get lit and munch on some Cake]( Series premieres Wednesday at 10:30/9:30c on FXX Jeffrey Katzenberg’s upcoming phone-only streaming service Quibi is trying to shake things up with short-form content, but FXX’s Cake is taking a slice of it early. The half-hour program consists of a mix of bite-sized live-action and animated comedic weirdness aimed at hip millennials, and the first episode is a whirlwind of curious quick hits about the ennui of existence in a world that lacks any real connection. It starts off with a white girl rap about the labors of going out on a Friday night, has a dog named Partytime, and also features Natasha Lyonne as an emotionless women who rips the head off a live pigeon and eats it. In other words, my kind of stuff, and if your mind is altered enough, yours too. THE FINAL VERDICT [Suits]( [Suits goes back into the wardrobe for good]( Series finale Wednesday at 9/8c on USA USA’s legal drama ends a nine-season run tonight with some big questions left to be answered. Will the team be able to take down the season’s big bad in Faye? Will Mike and Harvey make up after a rocky reunion? And most importantly, will Meghan Markle return to make a cameo? The answers are most certainly yes, yes, and a hard no, respectively, but Suits fans can dream. [Unsubscribe]( | [View online]( ©2019 CBS Interactive | All Rights Reserved. CBS Interactive - [235 2nd St., San Francisco, CA 94105](#) [Privacy Policy]( | [Terms and Conditions](