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BiggerBoat posted:True, but it'd be a novel idea anyway. Not sure it's ever been tried. Daria did it.
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Hell, KotH had the characters age...just much slower than real life. I think maybe about 3-4 years passes between the beginning and end of the series?
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Bobby starts at 11 and ends up 13 pretty early in the series and doesn't age from there. Now let me tell you why this means they're all in Hell. See, Bill represents Gluttony, Boomhauer is Lust, Hank is Wrath, and Dale is---
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Bobby I think just has that weird episode where he listens to Bill give advice about Connie that really brings him down. Outside of that I can't think of any episode where he's outright creepy towards a girl, but it's been a while since I've seen the later seasons. I always saw it as him and Hank would kinda switch roles. Sometimes Bobby would get into a fad that Hank knew would end badly and be the responsible one, and in others Bobby is doing something normal but different than Hank's view, and Hank has to adapt.
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Choco1980 posted:Hell, KotH had the characters age...just much slower than real life. I think maybe about 3-4 years passes between the beginning and end of the series? Listen to Joseph's voice at the beginning of the series, and compare it to the end. Apparently Brittany Murphy (who voiced Luanne  ) did his voice until it was time for him to go through puberty.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:I realized Seth MacFarlane was a complete rear end in a top hat when he did a standup special on Fox that had a backing orchestra and celebrity guests. Seth MacFarlane is also a complete rear end in a top hat because he thinks rape is a punchline. Saint Drogo posted:The big shock of Jimmy Saville, the incredibly creepy TV man who constantly made jokes about being a rapist, actually being a massive child abuser and rapist has meant a lot of British TV episodes can't be broadcast again. I was rewatching an episode of 8 out of 10 cats that must have aired not long after he died and one of Jimmy Carr's intro jokes was something like "Jim will fix star Jimmy Saville has died... I guess he finally got around to reading my letter" not a problem with the joke itself but the audience giving one of those disapproving "ooooOOOooo" type reactions just seems so wrong now.
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I added up all the "18 months later" "1 year later" "3 years later" between the seasons of 24, and the whole show takes place over a period of 25 years.
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BiggerBoat posted:One of the things I liked about King of the Hill was that it actually made an attempt at continuity for the most part, even though no one really aged. It'd be funny to see an animated show that actually aged the characters in real time.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Family Guy is a really unpleasant show That's the perfect word for it. That show really hasn't aged well, it felt like every season everything about it just got more and more unpleasant, although it's been years since I've watched it so maybe they started going in the other direction. I doubt it though.
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The only thing you need to know about 24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P52G4Kyq5M
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evobatman posted:I added up all the "18 months later" "1 year later" "3 years later" between the seasons of 24, and the whole show takes place over a period of 25 years.
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Lord Hydronium posted:And in that time they went through at least nine presidents (including the unseen one from Season 1, or ten if you include Palmer's VP as Acting President). The Presidency in 24's America is basically cursed. Also, you better pray that you are never captured by CTU and brought to their headquarters, because then you are hosed! Someone is guaranteed to grab a gun from someone elses holster and shoot you while you are being walked from your cell to the interrogation room or back the other way.
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evobatman posted:Also, you better pray that you are never captured by CTU and brought to their headquarters, because then you are hosed! Someone is guaranteed to grab a gun from someone elses holster and shoot you while you are being walked from your cell to the interrogation room or back the other way. Well, that's if CTU wasn't attacked in a more overt and bombastic fashion, for example with bombs, nerve gas, or hell, an all-out Chinese specops assault through the front loving door. 
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Lord Hydronium posted:And in that time they went through at least nine presidents (including the unseen one from Season 1, or ten if you include Palmer's VP as Acting President). The Presidency in 24's America is basically cursed.
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Pick posted:all too credible did voldermort try and become president and then curse the position when he lost
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Did Married With Children have any opinions that are really awful in retrospect? Way back in the thread because it's moving fast, but there was that episode where the punchline was that this really amazing sexy woman that they were going to build a whole brand on turned out to be transgender, which ruined one of their get-rich-quick schemes. Can't remember the episode title, but I have thought about it, as well as of Ace Ventura, as comedy that thankfully wouldn't be done today.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Way back in the thread because it's moving fast, but there was that episode where the punchline was that this really amazing sexy woman that they were going to build a whole brand on turned out to be transgender, which ruined one of their get-rich-quick schemes. Can't remember the episode title, but I have thought about it, as well as of Ace Ventura, as comedy that thankfully wouldn't be done today. I don't recall that one, but there was an episode where a customer in the shoe store mistook Marcy for Bruce Jenner.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I don't recall that one, but there was an episode where a customer in the shoe store mistook Marcy for Bruce Jenner.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADiq-EYObkM
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evobatman posted:I added up all the "18 months later" "1 year later" "3 years later" between the seasons of 24, and the whole show takes place over a period of 25 years. Similarly the Friday the 13th series has so many time jumps that by the time Jason Takes Manhattan, in a film that came out in 1989, it is at least 2001. Which obviously means Jason Voorhees did 9/11.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Similarly the Friday the 13th series has so many time jumps that by the time Jason Takes Manhattan, in a film that came out in 1989, it is at least 2001. Which obviously means Jason Voorhees did 9/11. Can a machete cut steel beams?
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The kids collapsed the wtc on top of him. Next film we see him climb out of the rubble.
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The Moon Monster posted:That's the perfect word for it. That show really hasn't aged well, it felt like every season everything about it just got more and more unpleasant, although it's been years since I've watched it so maybe they started going in the other direction. I doubt it though.
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oldpainless posted:Roadhouse More like oldexplainless
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Way back in the thread because it's moving fast, but there was that episode where the punchline was that this really amazing sexy woman that they were going to build a whole brand on turned out to be transgender, which ruined one of their get-rich-quick schemes. Can't remember the episode title, but I have thought about it, as well as of Ace Ventura, as comedy that thankfully wouldn't be done today. Oh yeah, I remember that: and the lady was banging Bud and then she admits to her sex change on television and leaves Bud there in stunned horror. Almost forgot about that one. Outside of the one I mentioned way, waaaay back in the beginning of the thread (the gay panic thanks to Al going to a hairdresser), it's hard to remember Married With Children episodes since it's been about twenty years. A lot of the sexual politics were really drat insulting for everybody involved: being a women means no work, being a man means being worked too much and used until you die like a horse, any change to that system results in Marcy and her own issues (which is doubly problematic since she's gay in real life), et cetera. The whole show was funny when it was brutal even if it wasn't fair at all, but it got weird in its later seasons. I still don't know what they were going for by having Seven or Amber in the show and both of them vanishing pretty much shows that the showrunners didn't know either.
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:Oh yeah, I remember that: and the lady was banging Bud and then she admits to her sex change on television and leaves Bud there in stunned horror. Almost forgot about that one. I suddenly remembered what the project was - a calendar. The episode is appropriately called Calendar Girl. Also, speaking of Amanda Bearse, don't forget the episode where she also played her lesbian identical cousin, Mandy, in Lez Be Friends. Al somehow manages to be the one getting Marcy to accept that, I remember him being a dick about it somehow, but vaguely. Absurd Alhazred has a new favorite as of 07:26 on Aug 13, 2017 |
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:Oh yeah, I remember that: and the lady was banging Bud and then she admits to her sex change on television and leaves Bud there in stunned horror. Almost forgot about that one. Oof, I forgot that part. I just remembered Al and his partner/rival just matter-of-factly going "welp, we're done", which at least is relatively tame.
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:Marcy and her own issues (which is doubly problematic since she's gay in real life), et cetera. The whole show was funny when it was brutal even if it wasn't fair at all, but it got weird in its later seasons. I still don't know what they were going for by having Seven or Amber in the show and both of them vanishing pretty much shows that the showrunners didn't know either. Amanda Bearse did an episode where she played Marcy's lesbian cousin. Who hits it off with Al. As for Seven, the writers quickly learned from that mistake after incurring the wrath of the fans. He went to stay with the D'arcys and never came back. He was referenced twice and never again:  
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The Drew Carey Show had Drew's brother, Steve, appearing as a transvestite. He got a job at the department store and they had Mr. Wick trying to figure out which of the employees was a man.
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joshtothemaxx posted:Yeah. Although it's not egregious because the gag is that Hank doesn't even realize crossdressing is a thing. It's more that Hank is totally ignorant to the concept than a bigot. Few pages ago but we've been rewatching and I felt the exact same with this line. Something I find funny in an older simpsons episode was homer clocking on of marges sisters at 160 pounds as if that's morbidly obese. According to google that's actually 10 lbs lower than the North American standard. I think Daria aged poorly for me because now as an adult I see a pretty rich teen and it just makes my eyes roll now. Loved it as a kid though 54 40 or fuck has a new favorite as of 17:59 on Aug 13, 2017 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:The Drew Carey Show had Drew's brother, Steve, appearing as a transvestite. He got a job at the department store and they had Mr. Wick trying to figure out which of the employees was a man. Steve was handled so strangely on that show. Like, some episodes he was gay, some he was straight, like the show had literally no idea how trans identity worked, but you could also tell at the same time that they rather progressively at least wanted it to feel okay and acceptable.
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Choco1980 posted:Steve was handled so strangely on that show. Like, some episodes he was gay, some he was straight, like the show had literally no idea how trans identity worked, but you could also tell at the same time that they rather progressively at least wanted it to feel okay and acceptable. Billy Crystal's gay character, Jody Dallas, was handled in a similar fashion on Soap. They had him as being very effeminate, wanting a sex change to please his his boyfriend, then becoming suicidal. Then they had him having sex with a woman and fathering a child (which ended with a nasty court case). And finally had him believing he was an old Jewish man.
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get that OUT of my face posted:Family Guy was decent in its pre-cancellation seasons and its first post-cancellation one when Fox had Seth MacFarlene on a very short leash. When they took him off that, it got really bad. It turned from a show about scattershot pop culture references to a show that's incredibly self-referential. Original Family Guy was unwatchable, derivative tripe and it was deservedly cancelled. The show actually gets funny when it lets its misogyny and mean-spiritedness run wild.
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Or if you're transgender you obviously had gender reassignment surgery. If not you're just a cross dresser. It's a complex subject so I can't really fault a sitcom that can't even manage multifaceted or realistic straight characters, but if you don't know a trans individual - learning about them on TV is very weird.
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Tv shows should never make fun of anyone or anything imo
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oldpainless posted:Tv shows should never make fun of anyone or anything imo More like Oldpoliticalcorrectness
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Krispy Kareem posted:Or if you're transgender you obviously had gender reassignment surgery. If not you're just a cross dresser. The whole trans is a place you go after you are super super gay is confusing as hell too.
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muscles like this! posted:The only thing you need to know about 24 I appreciated the video, not so much the way the music was several times louder than the presenter's voice. It was like I was watching actual TV! Edit: holy lol at my phone autocorrecting "voice" to "voicemail".
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muscles like this! posted:The only thing you need to know about 24 Actually, this is all you need to know. https://youtu.be/kfsITDhPAoE
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bobjr posted:Bobby I think just has that weird episode where he listens to Bill give advice about Connie that really brings him down. Outside of that I can't think of any episode where he's outright creepy towards a girl, but it's been a while since I've seen the later seasons. There's an episode where he dates an older girl and she's not into him. Because she's a vegetarian, he gets revenge by eating a giant steak in front of her. Always thought he was kind of an rear end in a top hat in that one and it seemed out of character.
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