My face watching Big Bang Theory
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I liked Friends. It hasn’t aged particularly well, it’s not without its flaws, but it was popular for a reason.
More importantly, its success meant NBC continued to invest heavily in comedies, which gave us a golden age of much better shows. A golden age that eventually included Scrubs, 30 Rock, The Office, My Name is Earl, Parks and Rec, Community, etc.
My Name is Earl is one of my favorites. It just has so much feel-good to it.
Yeah exactly this. A lot of the humour feels very dated today, even occasionally crossing the line into offensive, but at the time it was essential viewing. There's a reason they were the most highly paid actors in TV comedy for a while (or TV in general?), later to be pipped by the cast of Frasier IIRC.
Speaking of Frasier, unlike its star, that has aged pretty well IMO, and I would still recommend it.
Me with Big Bang Theory.
I genuinely don't understand why anyone likes it. Every moment is pure torture to me. Humor is subjective, sure. But I just don't get it.
Anything with a laugh track in it is poison to my mind.
You remove the laugh track and it turns out it's all verbal abuse.
The tv show "Kevin can F**k himself" makes fun of this exact thing. Highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJB6VQ0his4
Then you should like friends. They played to live audience.
That's why I miss shows with a live studio audience. It always made it a little more enjoyable when lines hit so well the audience is laughing so much the actor is clearly pausing a little longer than they thought or stuttering a bit so they can have a clear moment to say their lines
I couldn't stand watching it because of that. The jokes themselves were passable.
I don't know about others, but I can tell you the main reason why I like it.
I've had to work with not one, but two guys who were exactly like Sheldon Cooper from the show, in terms of intelligence and character. They also quite looked like him. That was in different cities and different jobs. Both were absolutely self-righteous and 100% full of themselves. One of them seemed to think of himself as second only to God himself. It was brutal.
So, watching the series provided me with a lot of comic relief.
What, you don’t think it’s peak comedy when the joke is “this guy isn’t white”?
I thought it was okay. A lot of the humor relies on awkward social situations being funny which is a hit or miss.
@titty_wizard I didn't like Friends when it was on the air, and I've never liked it. There are millions of people who like it, and that's fine. But I don't relate to the characters, and the plot lines for the episodes sounded dumb to me.When I watched Friends, though, I didn't think that I looked like Imhotep.
Huh. I kind of liked it. I've only seen a few episodes, I don't watch a lot of TV, but Phoebe particularly cracked me up.
Phoebe is without a doubt the best part of FRIENDS. And one of the few characters who didn't punch down at some point as I recall. I feel like Joey probably comes second there, he's just horny.
I feel like David Schwimmers physical comedy is under-appreciated. Not saying every part of the show is killer but the man is Mr Bean at various points.
Me watching Seinfeld
Same, but funnily enough I love Curb Your Enthusiasm. Jerry Seinfeld just doesn't land with me while Larry David does.
Seinfeld has that absurdist edge that other sitcoms lack, it has aged particularly well apart from Jerry Seinfeld being a nonce.
Seinfeld and Friends was just the worst era. Fucking dumb ass work associates wanting to talk about vapid bullshit shows. So awful.
I don't like any of the US talk show comedy things, they're all just really weird. I don't understand this tendency to go off on a random tangent that has nothing to do with the main talking point, and then to just slam back to the main talking point once they've made their unfunny joke.
John Oliver does it all the time.
Me with American Dad et al. They're just soul-crushingly mean-spirited.
I've noticed that with Family Guy in particular, the writers of that really have it in for women.
Wait, WHAT. I thought the likes of Seth MacFarlane were pretty progressive. But I also live a sheltered life. ELI5 please lol
Louis Griffin in particular is pretty bad, but the female characters are very one dimensional, and often portrayed as being very shallow and annoying, whereas the male characters are much more fleshed out and three dimensional.
I'd bet money Seth Mcfarlane doesn't have a good relationship with his mother.
I mean if you understand that they're satire, then they can be funny.
That being said American dad past season 9 and Family Guy past season 7 have severely declined in quality to the point where they're not funny to me anymore.
Look, no one TOLD you life was gonna be this way...
It was sorta funny back then, at the time we didn't have nearly as much selection of niche stuff as we do now. If you stayed up late you could catch Beavis and Butthead and that was about it.
It was the thing you watched with your parents.
Now it just comes across like it's a cleaned up comment section of a mainstream social media site. The stuff they hope to portray themselves as.
It's one of those shows that you have to watch when it first came out.
I actually disagree. I've gone back to watch it and find it very cozy. It's like I'm flipping through cable in the 90s and, oh, a show I've not seen!
You mean when you are a child?
My face when someone asks if I have watched Game Of Thrones (which hearing about it is the extend of the knowledge I have).
I'm not a fantasy person, but I had a gf who was a HUGE GoT fan. She whined enough to the point I watched it with her.
I still don't like it.
I like tits and peter dinklage. It checked some boxes for me.
Same experience here, my wife was obsessed with it and badgered me mercilessly until I finally sat down and watched... I lasted about 5 minutes before I welped and slapped both my thighs as I got up to play games




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