The simpsons used to be, but now it sucks. Futurama would be my favorite.
but for the most part No I can't stand sitcoms, or TV shows for that matter, but I prefer the hour long genre westerns and LOST(I call them disaster dramas)
"Let justice be done though the heavens fall." - Jim Garrison
"Ask not your horse, if ye should ride into battle" - myself
Seinfeld, everything that came out after is so bad in comparison. Curb rocks too, but i don't think that counts as a sitcom.
Seinfeld sucked. An episode usually consisted of taking something mildly funny and reworking the joke for half an hour until you wanted to stab yourself in the eyes with something sharp.
On a positive note, Arrested Development was funny. Not surprising that it failed. Without a laugh track, most people are unsure when to laugh and refuse to watch the show.
The second season of The Office was pretty great, too. All in the Family was fucking hilarious. Political and cutting-edge, too.
I despise 99% of sitcoms.
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| rocketpig said: Seinfeld sucked. An episode usually consisted of taking something mildly funny and reworking the joke for half an hour until you wanted to stab yourself in the eyes with something sharp. On a positive note, Arrested Development was funny. Not surprising that it failed. Without a laugh track, most people are unsure when to laugh and refuse to watch the show. The second season of The Office was pretty great, too. All in the Family was fucking hilarious. Political and cutting-edge, too. I despise 99% of sitcoms. |
Right on! I'll take that with a Large side of fries!
"Let justice be done though the heavens fall." - Jim Garrison
"Ask not your horse, if ye should ride into battle" - myself
Scrubs, Malcolm in the Middle, The Fresh Prince, Frasier, Seinfeld.
Scrubs and Malcolm in the Middle are sitcoms. Sitcom is just a shortened form of Situation Comedy. They are both situation comedy. Just because they don't follow the usual formula of sitcoms (studio audiece, multiple camera setup) doesn't make it any less of a sitcom.
Kimi wa ne tashika ni ano toki watashi no soba ni ita
Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte
Sugu yoko de waratteita
Nakushitemo torimodosu kimi wo
I will never leave you
| rocketpig said: Seinfeld sucked. An episode usually consisted of taking something mildly funny and reworking the joke for half an hour until you wanted to stab yourself in the eyes with something sharp. On a positive note, Arrested Development was funny. Not surprising that it failed. Without a laugh track, most people are unsure when to laugh and refuse to watch the show. The second season of The Office was pretty great, too. All in the Family was fucking hilarious. Political and cutting-edge, too. I despise 99% of sitcoms. |
I actually 100% agree with Rocketpig for the first time ever!
As in go buy us some coffee.
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Also, I despise laugh tracks. If the laughs come from the audience, I am fine. If they use a laugh track, I want to scream.
One of the main reasons I hate about all sitcoms. No one has a studio audience anymore, yet even at mildly funny jokes, the laughter just comes out of nowhere.
Kimi wa ne tashika ni ano toki watashi no soba ni ita
Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte
Sugu yoko de waratteita
Nakushitemo torimodosu kimi wo
I will never leave you
| rocketpig said: Seinfeld sucked. An episode usually consisted of taking something mildly funny and reworking the joke for half an hour until you wanted to stab yourself in the eyes with something sharp. |
Blasphemy! Seinfeld is one of the most clever sitcoms to date and is so cynical and biting in its social commentary. Most people don't pick up on it because of the laugh track and the carefree nature of the show, but it is extremely cynical, and is very aware of the fact that every character on the show except Kramer are shallow, petty, and just all around terrible people. Some of the situations in the show are hysterical beyond belief too. Its such a perfect fusion of so many different levels of comedy, from slapstick to the socio-political.
I think everyone can agree that Arrested Development was totally underappreciated.
Do you like Curb Your Enthusiasm?
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
I absolutely despised Curb Your Enthusiasm. Not to say that it or Seinfeld didn't have funny parts or episodes, but Larry David's style is so self-indulgent and repetitive that it manages to take something that has clever elements and proceeds to drive it straight into the ground.
There isn't anything subtle about his work at all.
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