TV: Give Me That Remote!

[Kepler]

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The Dick van Dyke Show needs to appear on any list of best-ever television shows, it seems to me.

I was too young for DVD. In syndication I personally think it hasn't held up, as opposed to MTM which somehow is as fresh right now as it was then. Maybe it's because DVD is a formula comedy that is simply recast every generation (Happy Days, Friends) while MTM is a relationship comedy which can continue to work as long as people are curious about the quirkiness of people (Cheers, and as much as I loathe it, Seinfeld).

 

[Kepler]

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I'd put Barney Miller on a best ever list of tv shows.

I actually was going to but I thought "that's just me, I am the only person who thought that show was better than meh."

 

[SonofSouthie]

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I actually was going to but I thought "that's just me, I am the only person who thought that show was better than meh."

It's all subjective. I enjoyed it a lot, others not so much. One man's meat yada yada.

 

[MaizeRage]

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Seinfeld didn't innovate or do anything worth copying...

I get not liking the show; that's a subjective thing. But this is just laughable. A sitcom with generally unlikable characters. Weaving and tying together multiple plot lines within an episode. Both major innovations that have been coped many, many times since.

Towards the end of their run they also ushered in the era of single cam sitcoms, which technically wasn't an innovation, but it's an extremely short list of well-respected single cams before Seinfeld and well-respected multi-cams after Seinfeld.

 

[Handyman]

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I have not. It's been on my list for years though.

Skip season 1 it is pretty awful. (tries to be The Office and fails) Season 2 and onward is about as good as it gets!

 

[Handyman]

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And that is why you fail.

Band of Brothers and The Pacific are fantastic.

From The Earth To The Moon as well.

I try to watch From the Earth to the Moon every year if I can. So awesome

 

[French Rage]

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This being the TV thread, I suppose this is the best place to post this:

I will be on Jeopardy! a week from today, on Tuesday, March 7th! The episode was taped back in late November and we're just now getting to the air date. I can't tell you yet how I did, you'll have to tune in to watch!

 

[state of hockey]

Skip season 1 it is pretty awful. (tries to be The Office and fails) Season 2 and onward is about as good as it gets!

Agreed.

 

[St. Clown]

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This being the TV thread, I suppose this is the best place to post this:

I will be on Jeopardy! a week from today, on Tuesday, March 7th! The episode was taped back in late November and we're just now getting to the air date. I can't tell you yet how I did, you'll have to tune in to watch!

Based upon what you posted, I'm pretty sure your answer is either here or here.

 

[busterman62]

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Futurama is beyond reproach you heathen. Season 4, and I genuinely mean this, is some of the best writing in television history. It was almost perfect.

Read this and realized how much I really enjoyed this show. Found the complete series for $48 and picked it up. Thanks for the push

 

[Kepler]

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This being the TV thread, I suppose this is the best place to post this:

I will be on Jeopardy! a week from today, on Tuesday, March 7th! The episode was taped back in late November and we're just now getting to the air date. I can't tell you yet how I did, you'll have to tune in to watch!

Awesome. I hope you wore something hockeyish.

 

[St. Clown]

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Read this and realized how much I really enjoyed this show. Found the complete series for $48 and picked it up. Thanks for the push

Bimbobot: Oh Bender, you're the greatest!
Bender: Shut up, Baby, I know it.

 

[rufus]

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I should backtrack a little, too. Star Trek TNG was the only Trek I liked. Guarantee it was due to my generation, but one would think that at least one other version would tickle my fancy. Nope, and not even close.

Because Deep Space 9 was the best Trek series, evah.

 

[Kepler]

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Because Deep Space 9 was the best Trek series, evah.

TOS. TNG was adequate. The rest always seemed cut rate.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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TOS. TNG was adequate. The rest always seemed cut rate.

I will fight you on this.

 

[St. Clown]

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TOS. TNG was adequate. The rest always seemed cut rate.

TOS had the ideas, but too many lousy technical things. Essentially, it was an idea put into place before the world had the capability to actually execute it. And then there are things like the Gorn fight, which might be the slowest brawl that has ever existed - please give me five seconds to swing each power hit upon my opponent's body, very dramatic.

 

[Kepler]

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TOS had the ideas, but too many lousy technical things. Essentially, it was an idea put into place before the world had the capability to actually execute it. And then there are things like the Gorn fight, which might be the slowest brawl that has ever existed - please give me five seconds to swing each power hit upon my opponent's body, very dramatic.

The ideas are all that matter. Technical / special effects are typically garbage within the next decade, if not the same one, and they don't matter.

 

[Kepler]

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I will fight you on this.

And you will win because you're younger, but that will not help your argument.

I don't have any issue with people who like the flotsam that came to cash in on the Trek fan boys. I didn't see anything terrible in that baggage train (except Whoopie and Wesley*), and I'm fine if it hit your pleasure center. It just didn't do it for me.

B5 had a few moments, but it took all the way to BG / FF / Expanse for something worthwhile to come along, IMHO.

But hey. I liked Quark, and Quark was laughably horrific (5 episodes aired in the NYC market).

I liked the Brit** one about the Space Ark, too.


(* And Wheaton has since more than redeemed himself.)

(** Canadian.)

 

[Handyman]

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Because Deep Space 9 was the best Trek series, evah.

Deep Space 9 got good when Sisko gets the Defiant and the War with The Dominion gets going. Too bad it had to end so abruptly...

Stargate FTW though

 

[rufus]

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I will fight you on this.

As will I. DS9 was the most fleshed out and original of the Trek series. TNG was far too naval gazing and pseudo-intellectual kumbaya singing peace and love futuriatic utopian dream.


Although it did introduce the Borg.