TV Thread

[phranchk]

Holy crap you like some bad sitcoms.

I believe that's pretty subjective. I like 2 of the 3 sitcoms mentioned above. Though, I hate Two Broke Girls with a passion. As far as Modern Family, I love that show and I think the husband is pretty funny. I think with comedies, more than any other genre, tastes very so much.

 

[supraman]

Holy crap you like some bad sitcoms.

Different tastes in what is funny. I think you liked the Office (if wrong I apologize). I thought that show was very unfunny. I think most of the shows on comedy central are terrible. Most of the comedy shows on HBO, etc are terrible to me as well.

 

[supraman]

I believe that's pretty subjective. I like 2 of the 3 sitcoms mentioned above. Though, I hate Two Broke Girls with a passion. As far as Modern Family, I love that show and I think the husband is pretty funny. I think with comedies, more than any other genre, tastes very so much.

Really I watch Two Broke Girls to hear the Korean get made fun of and watch Kat Dennings Boobs. The blonde is whiny and annoying.

 

[TSD]

Really I watch Two Broke Girls to hear the Korean get made fun of and watch Kat Dennings Boobs. The blonde is whiny and annoying.

I hate the premise of the show. 2 broke girls yet they have an apartment in the city, that there is no way in hell two waitresses in a diner could even come close to affording. They do that in too many shows, people with jobs, that could in no way shape or form afford the lifestyle they live.

 

[MassHavoc]

I'm not a big fan of the Office, it was ok at first because it broke the mold, but most situational comedies are retreads, or patterened rinse and repeat and it's horrible to watch them because you already know what's going to happen ever time. Then they try to save it by writing in something outlandish. They just get super old really quick because they are one trick ponies. Always sunny was great for about 1 season. Modern Family, Office, ect.. They are playing to the laughtrack instead of trying to be actually smart. There are only so many nerd jokes you can do. There is no story, just this week, we do something outlandish because we didn't learn last week, then we all come together to over come, throw in tag line... viola. Episode.

 

[phranchk]

I'm not a big fan of the Office, it was ok at first because it broke the mold, but most situational comedies are retreads, or patterened rinse and repeat and it's horrible to watch them because you already know what's going to happen ever time. Then they try to save it by writing in something outlandish. They just get super old really quick because they are one trick ponies. Always sunny was great for about 1 season. Modern Family, Office, ect.. They are playing to the laughtrack instead of trying to be actually smart. There are only so many nerd jokes you can do. There is no story, just this week, we do something outlandish because we didn't learn last week, then we all come together to over come, throw in tag line... viola. Episode.

Playing to the laugh track? You just mentioned 3 shows with no laugh track. In fact, it seems to be the way they're going with most comedies now. No laugh track. I like it much better that way. I saw an episode of Big Bang Theory without the laugh track and it was so much better.

 

[MassHavoc]

Playing to the laugh track? You just mentioned 3 shows with no laugh track. In fact, it seems to be the way they're going with most comedies now. No laugh track. I like it much better that way. I saw an episode of Big Bang Theory without the laugh track and it was so much better.

Those were different thoughts, those were shows that were good but played out quickly. The ones like Big Bang, Two and a Half, Two broke chicks, ect... the laugh track ones even if it isn't there are just compartmentalized comedy of the same fart joke (Fart joke being whatever they're topic of comedy is for the show) over and over. Meaning, that they are so focused on the topic of the show it doesn't really evolve into anything funnier. So Two broke chicks is nothing but Woe is me, we're broke, but here is the zany situation we overcome despite it. (usually amounting in them getting money and then losing it somehow by the end, at least in the few episodes I tried to watch) Big Bang, is mostly just nerd stuff about how out of place they are and will never overcome their inadequacies even though they do every episode. Usually aludes to brilliant idea, mishaps, back to the drawing board. Two and a half men, well you get the picture, nothing really happens in that show, and it should have stayed dead. It gets old and tired very quickly. At least the simpsons still throw in unpredictable social commentary every now and then even if it's not as good as it was.

 

[The Mule]

2 Broke Girls has some funny lines, but it's too racist. It's crazy racist.



For comedies I watch 30 Rock and Parks and Rec and Community on NBC, but also like cable shows, like Louie (obviously, the greatest thing ever) and Portlandia and I do love Girls. Also, I watched Mindy Kaling's new show and really liked it and I watch New Girl.



Agreed on Julie Bowen. Not funny. I just feel like the writers are not trying hard any more.



I don't even know if I'm going to watch the new season of Dexter. Last season was so horrible that i can't imagine putting my brain through that trauma again.



Need to watch the new episode of Homeland. Love that show.

 

[supraman]

2 Broke Girls has some funny lines, but it's too racist. It's crazy racist.



For comedies I watch 30 Rock and Parks and Rec and Community on NBC, but also like cable shows, like Louie (obviously, the greatest thing ever) and Portlandia and I do love Girls. Also, I watched Mindy Kaling's new show and really liked it and I watch New Girl.



Agreed on Julie Bowen. Not funny. I just feel like the writers are not trying hard any more.



I don't even know if I'm going to watch the new season of Dexter. Last season was so horrible that i can't imagine putting my brain through that trauma again.



Need to watch the new episode of Homeland. Love that show.

Just to go with the theme of what is funny to you isn't funny to me. I tried to watch Louie CK's hbo comedy, it was terribly unfunny. I don't even think his stand up is that great. I think a lot of guys do the creep fat white loser guy schtick better.

 

[MassHavoc]

Louie is the best. Supra, you are just too low-bro for his poop jokes and honesty. hah.

 

[supraman]

Louie is the best. Supra, you are just too low-bro for his poop jokes and honesty. hah.

Jim Norton does the same schtick just funnier

 

[MassHavoc]

HAhahahaah wooooow... Jim Norton, funnier. I'm sure he's not even heard those words. I don't hate him either.

 

[jakobeast]

Jim Norton is is dirty in a different way the Louie. Louie is more about the awkward crap on his show. The kind of comedy that makes you not sure if you should laugh at it. Like the episode where he took his daughters to meet his i think old ass grandma or aunt, and she was terribly racist. She called some nuts "****** Toes".

 

[MassHavoc]

Yeah, but every situation in that show is just awkward enough to be very funny, but so relateable that you feel like it has really happened to people

 

[phranchk]

Yeah, but every situation in that show is just awkward enough to be very funny, but so relateable that you feel like it has really happened to people

I haven't seen his show, but at least from his standup it's very relatable, and just wait till you have your child. It becomes even more relatable.

 

[jakobeast]

Yeah, but every situation in that show is just awkward enough to be very funny, but so relateable that you feel like it has really happened to people

There are so many awkward and great situations.



How bout when his pregnant sister is at his place and she wakes up screaming and thinking she is gonna loose the baby? He has to trust in neighbors he's never really talked to before to watch his kids as he takes his sister to the hospital. What happens next is just fucking great.

 

[MassHavoc]

There are so many awkward and great situations.



How bout when his pregnant sister is at his place and she wakes up screaming and thinking she is gonna loose the baby? He has to trust in neighbors he's never really talked to before to watch his kids as he takes his sister to the hospital. What happens next is just fucking great.

Yeah, truly amazing, relateable, sometimes scary because of how honest it is, and just damn funny.

 

[the canadian dream]

I need to catch up on Louie after I am done with SOA. I have only seen 2 eps but I really liked it. I like the tone of the show. I'm a big fan of CK. He has amazing delivery and story telling ability. It's not just a guy standing up telling jokes and stretching his character. There is some real honesty in his stand up and it seems to come through in his show also from the eps I have seen.



Speaking of SOA. 1 episode left in season 4 then on to the new season. Season 4 got better after a slower start.

 

[MassHavoc]

I need to catch up on Louie after I am done with SOA. I have only seen 2 eps but I really liked it. I like the tone of the show. I'm a big fan of CK. He has amazing delivery and story telling ability. It's not just a guy standing up telling jokes and stretching his character. There is some real honesty in his stand up and it seems to come through in his show also from the eps I have seen.



Speaking of SOA. 1 episode left in season 4 then on to the new season. Season 4 got better after a slower start.

I wasn't even going to bother telling you to wait for it, I knew you'd get it eventually... hah.

 

[nana]

2 Broke Girls has some funny lines, but it's too racist. It's crazy racist.



For comedies I watch 30 Rock and Parks and Rec and Community on NBC, but also like cable shows, like Louie (obviously, the greatest thing ever) and Portlandia and I do love Girls. Also, I watched Mindy Kaling's new show and really liked it and I watch New Girl.



Agreed on Julie Bowen. Not funny. I just feel like the writers are not trying hard any more.



I don't even know if I'm going to watch the new season of Dexter. Last season was so horrible that i can't imagine putting my brain through that trauma again.



Need to watch the new episode of Homeland. Love that show.

Agreed on 2 Broke Girls... should be renamed 1 Trick Pony, because that's all it seems to be.



New Girl - YES. Portlandia - YES. 30 Rock - YES. Parks & Rec. - Yes, when I've seen it. Have never watched Community or Girls, need to give them both a shot. It's so hard to keep up with shows as it is; my schedule is egregious.



As for The Mindy Kaling Project - I really liked it as well. I lurved the conversation with her and her "jerk" fellow doctor when he was asking if her date was manly and then she says "Now you're just talking about yourself!" That was great. I think she's pretty brilliant, so I was happy I liked the show.