Shows that are supposed to be funny...but aren't.
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UGLI baby
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People thinking it's funnier I can deal with cuz whatevs, thats their opinion.
Buuuuuut, people thinking Big Bang Theory is a smarter show than Seinfeld because it uses big words and has nerds and stuff?? bahahaahaaahahahhaha
on the app. square bizness.
Julie Greengiant
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Frasier is the smartest sitcom of all time
BENTLEY
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Seinfeld is very good. I finally came around to it once it hit syndication - I'm slow. Comedy done well is great no matter how many times you see it. Seinfeld is masterfully done. Not dumb. Maybe you call it dumb because it's so effortless.
I've never been able to understand the adoration of Arrested Development. I like a lot of the people on it, but the comedy escapes me. Same with Modern Family - it seemed like everyone I know gushed about how hilarious it was. Meh. They seem to think they're hilarious - which sorta kills the comedy for me. I think I've seen one Parks and Rec episode and I like Amy Poeler so I thought it was ok (although I never watched another episode). My friend made me watch 2 or 3 episodes of Community. Ugh. Torture.
The Simpsons is comedy gold that only went dry after 17 or 18 seasons. Then it got crap and it was so sad. Someone told me it got good again at some point, but no one can tell me when. I don't want to suffer thru the crap episodes to get back to the good ones. Maybe if I looked up the writers for each season I could pinpoint when it got back on track. Anyone have any opinion on Simpsons - and when they got out of their crap phase?
I've never been able to understand the adoration of Arrested Development. I like a lot of the people on it, but the comedy escapes me. Same with Modern Family - it seemed like everyone I know gushed about how hilarious it was. Meh. They seem to think they're hilarious - which sorta kills the comedy for me. I think I've seen one Parks and Rec episode and I like Amy Poeler so I thought it was ok (although I never watched another episode). My friend made me watch 2 or 3 episodes of Community. Ugh. Torture.
The Simpsons is comedy gold that only went dry after 17 or 18 seasons. Then it got crap and it was so sad. Someone told me it got good again at some point, but no one can tell me when. I don't want to suffer thru the crap episodes to get back to the good ones. Maybe if I looked up the writers for each season I could pinpoint when it got back on track. Anyone have any opinion on Simpsons - and when they got out of their crap phase?
BENTLEY
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I think I might finally go back and catch the last season of 24. Even though after awhile it suffers from the law of diminishing returns (how many times can he save the world - within an hour?) but just suspend your disbelief and enjoy the melodrama. It's a fun format. And some crap acting just makes it even more fun. I'm talking about those ancillary characters. Well, and the leads too probably. I always find 24 both fun and unintentionally funny.
UGLI baby
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Unless you just really want to watch something and have no other shows to watch, I'd probly skip it.
I was a huge fan of 24, but the last season (especially the last 4 or 5 episodes) was really really bad.
Here's the deal: I felt EXACTLY the way you felt about two months ago. Almost to the letter. I grew up watching episodes on PBS when I was a kid, ran around the house with a laundry hamper on my head pretending I was a Dalek (I was very bad at pretending I was a hero as a child) and the whole deal. When the new series started up, the Dr. was some guy running around in a black leather jacket and seemed to take himself so damn seriously all the time. And that chick he was with just had too many teeth. She might as well have been a cartoon. I never made it more than about 10 minutes in, decided this was a childhood memory left best undisturbed and abandoned it for something like 7 years.
This Thanksgiving my family informed me that we were all going to the movie theater for the special 50th anniversary episode. I honestly didn't want to go, but it sold out and tickets were hard to come by so I felt like just not going after my parents shelled out for tickets was pretty rude. I was kind of annoyed when I got there because I found out that this was essentially an overlong episode that dealt with a number of themes that had been played out for an entire season. I figured I was destined to be lost and confused for two hours, since I was several years behind and the episode starred multiple iterations of the Dr. that I was unfamiliar with (although Tom Baker himself made a cameo, and was every bit as weird and delightful as I remembered).
To my surprise I not only was able to largely follow what was going on (although I still believe I would have been totally lost if I didn't have a basic familiarity with the premise and some conventions) but I enjoyed it immensely. I decided to stop being such a grump and give the new series and real shot with new eyes. Although I specifically asked my parents if it was a good idea to skip the one season starring the guy in the leather jacket, and they told me I'd be fine. I launched in with series two and haven't looked back. I've burned through about three seasons in two months and have generally enjoyed it immensely.
People who pretend that no one watches the show are immensely silly though. It's wildly popular by almost any measure, although not to the degree that it is successful in the UK.
The real problem Seinfeld has is that something like 70% of the plots are completely resolved by the existence of the cell phone.
I assume you're talking about Chevy Chase. Does anyone even like Chevy Chase?
Not particularly surprised. I suspect it's philosophically not for you.
I've watched some of the classic episodes again and my experience is that they vary in quality quite a bit (a criticism that is also true of the new show and is probably endemic to any show that swings for the fences on big concepts with virtually every storyline) but that the ones that aren't good are incredibly draggy because the pacing is significantly slower to fill out those four hours per story.
candrew
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but no where near the funniest
John Larroquette Show was arguably the smartest sitcom - which is why it lasted only 4 seasons.
Frasier just had buffoons posing as smart people.
candrew
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I gave up on The Simpsons about 3 or 4 years ago but just started watching it again - it's more hit or miss now but occassionally very funny. Even still, one of my local stations just started showing repeats from the early/mid 90's and I think even the most diehard Simpsons fan would concede the show is a shell of what it used to be.
