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TV 20 - Sorry no fancy title

Spartanforlife4 said:
Curb, but not Seinfeld? Did you just need the George storylines distilled into one show?
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Almost every character in that show could have been done in a single episode each over a 13-episode series run. It's the same joke over and over.

Jerry: what's the deal with ______?
kramer: hey Jerry guess what insane thing I did?
George: I'm an incel who occasionally gets laid
Elaine: ?????
Newman: NEWMAN!

There were like three episodes I liked. The parking garage, shrinkage, and the marine biologist.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
The Office I've seen in bits and pieces but never got into it. We'll get to that one eventually I'm sure.
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I never got into either version of The Office. Probably because it was too realistic, and the last thing I wanted to relive after getting home from work was the sh*t part of work.
 
Slap Shot said:
Maybe I'll give The Good Place another shot - I didn't stick with it past S1.

Also I would think based upon dx's list that he'd enjoy Scrubs and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
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Scrubs and 9-9 just never clicked with me. I do like Braugher so I really should give that another chance.
 
Holy **** was Michael Che brutal to Colin Jost this year on the joke exchange!

Also, Hozier performing Fairytale of New York was a pleasant surprise.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Parks and Rec may have saved network television for me. So I might give that a try.

I suspect we'll watch Veep next.
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My favorite thing about Parks and Rec is seeing the people who use various Ron Swanson quotes or images completely devoid of their satirical context.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Hated 30 rock. Like actually repulsed by it the few times I've seen it.

The Office I've seen in bits and pieces but never got into it. We'll get to that one eventually I'm sure.
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After the first season of The Office, they asked Steve Carrell to play Michael in a completely different way because the audience surveys showed him to be too much of a jerk. So…too much like the British show they were porting.
 
rufus said:
I think I'm avoiding Taylor Sheridan series just out of principal. No interest in what he does whatsoever.
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I have a love/hate relationship with Mayor of Kingstown. Ita good, but there are moments where it's frustrating. Mostly its the inaccuracies with the Michigan State Police and Michigan Corrections officers.

I'm two seasons behind.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Hated 30 rock. Like actually repulsed by it the few times I've seen it.
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Then it worked. :-) If there wasn't something in it to offend everybody it wasn't doing its job.

I cannot think of another show that was unsparing of everyone. Possibly Always Sunny or Ali G. There are always populations that are given a wide berth on the assumption they can't take a punch. I'm amazed they let it air, but loved every moment of it.
 
St. Clown said:
After the first season of The Office, they asked Steve Carrell to play Michael in a completely different way because the audience surveys showed him to be too much of a jerk. So…too much like the British show they were porting.
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That's interesting. I like when Michael is simultaneously awful and still sympathetic. It f-cks with expectations. I am firmly convinced Mrs. Maisel was supposed to do that but audiences are conditioned like trained seals and they literally could not make her too unattractive for the gen pop.

Veep is another great example. So was Killing Eve but again the audience was too dumb to get it.
 
Kepler said:
Then it worked. :-) If there wasn't something in it to offend everybody it wasn't doing its job.

I cannot think of another show that was unsparing of everyone. Possibly Always Sunny or Ali G. There are always populations that are given a wide berth on the assumption they can't take a punch. I'm amazed they let it air, but loved every moment of it.
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I didn't get offended. I just found it humorless and forced.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Finally watched Parks & Rec

Brilliant show. I now have to use two hands to count the number of live action comedies I thoroughly enjoyed.

frasier
Newsradio
That 70s Show
Married with Children
Curb
parks & Rec
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Just getting to this, but your list fails without Community or Cheers. Or Friends, too. Or going farther back, MASH, Mary Tyler Moore, and I Love Lucy.

For your deeper cuts, Chuck, Better off Ted (all 1.5 seasons of it), Wings, Psych, and Monk.
 
MASH, yes. MTM, yes. IIRC, Lucy is great until around the time they return from California and it gets rapidly dull and played out after that. The vast majority of the best and most classic episodes and scenes are in S1-S3. But IMO, if you aren't into physical comedy it's not a show for you at all.

I will standby my opinion that Friends was godawful then and is still godawful now.

Psych works because James Roday was so great at playing a smug, obnoxious doosh foiled by Timothy Omundson's stern, uptight, by-the-book cop and Corbin Bernsen's ship captain, no-BS, tough love father.
 
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