What TV shows are people watching?

Trollheart · 07-19-2012, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by anticipation

I mean that's not really an opinion. It's corny, two-bit comedy that relies on the "quirky, alternative attractiveness" and huge breasts of the title character. It's trash. American comedies that are actually funny = Eastbound & Down, Louie, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, and It's Always Sunny.

Every one of which I hate. You can't say it's not opinion: it is. Just cos you don't like, say, "Frasier" or "Scrubs" or god knows what all, doesn't make it unfunny. Just to you. Therefore, it IS an opinion, as no-one has a god-given right to say what is funny and what isn't.

Except "Friends". That's trash.

Trollheart · 07-19-2012, 08:21 PM

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Seinfeld is certainly great, but Married with Children was, hands down, the greatest sitcom ever. It took everything The Cosby Show did and turned it upside down. If your family is seriously dysfunctional, that show is god.

This.
The Simpsons before the Simpsons were ever known.
Favourite quote:
Peggy: Al, you never say you love me.
Al (bored): All right, Peg. (insincere face) I love you.
Peg (pouting): AL! You didn't say that like you mean it!
Al (shrugging): That's cos I don't!

also

(Kelly (woooo!) steps on Bud on her way out the door --- they're all sleeping on the floor, don't ask why)

Bud: Dad! Kelly stepped on me!
Al: Get used to it son: they do that all your life!

AL! AL! AL! AAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL! Yeah!

**Goofle** · 07-20-2012, 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Every one of which I hate. You can't say it's not opinion: it is. Just cos you don't like, say, "Frasier" or "Scrubs" or god knows what all, doesn't make it unfunny. Just to you. Therefore, it IS an opinion, as no-one has a god-given right to say what is funny and what isn't.

Except "Friends". That's trash.

You hate "Curb" and "Arrested Development"...? Ahh man, how can you love "Seinfeld" and not love those two?

**Janszoon** · 07-20-2012, 05:20 AM

I think the problem with Married with Children was that it was a great concept poorly executed. There's definitely a reason I only enjoyed that show when I was between the ages of ten and thirteen.

Trollheart · 07-20-2012, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Goofle11

You hate "Curb" and "Arrested Development"...? Ahh man, how can you love "Seinfeld" and not love those two?

Uh, I hate Seinfeld too. With a passion.

Trollheart · 07-20-2012, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I think the problem with Married with Children was that it was a great concept poorly executed. There's definitely a reason I only enjoyed that show when I was between the ages of ten and thirteen.

Jansz, LOVE the new avatar!!

**Goofle** · 07-20-2012, 06:06 AM

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Uh, I hate Seinfeld too. With a passion.

Ahh fair enough, although it is gob-smacking to me.

Trollheart · 07-20-2012, 07:38 AM

Yeah, no offence to you Americans but I find most US comedy very poor. There are a few --- Frasier/Cheers, Sledge Hammer, Better off Ted, Police Squad, and going back further, Family Ties, Married with children, Soap etc, plus if you stretch it to cartoon/animation, then there's South Park, Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy (at least up to the last few seasons, where they not only stopped bothering, but made jokes about how they had stopped bothering) --- but mostly my favourites are British comedy shows, like The Young Ones/Filthy Rich and Catflap/Bottom, Red Dwarf, One foot in the grave, Only fools and horses, Black Adder, The New Statesman, Mongrels, Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin, and of course the classics like Monty Python and Fawlty Towers. We've even had one or two of our own, like Father Ted. But most American comedy just leaves me cold.

**Janszoon** · 07-20-2012, 07:53 AM

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Jansz, LOVE the new avatar!!

Thanks!

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Yeah, no offence to you Americans but I find most US comedy very poor. There are a few --- Frasier/Cheers, Sledge Hammer, Better off Ted, Police Squad, and going back further, Family Ties, Married with children, Soap etc, plus if you stretch it to cartoon/animation, then there's South Park, Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy (at least up to the last few seasons, where they not only stopped bothering, but made jokes about how they had stopped bothering) --- but mostly my favourites are British comedy shows, like The Young Ones/Filthy Rich and Catflap/Bottom, Red Dwarf, One foot in the grave, Only fools and horses, Black Adder, The New Statesman, Mongrels, Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin, and of course the classics like Monty Python and Fawlty Towers. We've even had one or two of our own, like Father Ted. But most American comedy just leaves me cold.

Humor tends to be very culturally dependent for a lot of people. It's not surprising that you'd be more in tune with humor from a country that's just a hop, skip and a jump away than one that's on the other side of the ocean.

The Batlord · 07-20-2012, 10:28 AM

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This.
The Simpsons before the Simpsons were ever known.

Oh my god, we actually agree on something! I guess it had to happen sometime.

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Morena Baccarin, well, good to see her not as a baddy.

If you weren't a devil worshiper and didn't hate Firefly then there wouldn't be a problem.

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	Yeah, no offence to you Americans but I find most US comedy very poor. There are a few --- Frasier/Cheers, Sledge Hammer, Better off Ted, Police Squad, and going back further, Family Ties, Married with children, Soap etc, plus if you stretch it to cartoon/animation, then there's South Park, Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy (at least up to the last few seasons, where they not only stopped bothering, but made jokes about how they had stopped bothering) --- but mostly my favourites are British comedy shows, like The Young Ones/Filthy Rich and Catflap/Bottom, Red Dwarf, One foot in the grave, Only fools and horses, Black Adder, The New Statesman, Mongrels, Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin, and of course the classics like Monty Python and Fawlty Towers. We've even had one or two of our own, like Father Ted. But most American comedy just leaves me cold. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018