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Galaxy Brain posted:What the show's dialogue says and what the show itself says are two very different stories. And I have no idea why you would drag that incredibly ugly, hateful opinion about a real human being who suffered real pain into this nice chat about TV shows. He mourned his wife wrong!!!
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The fake man grieved really good while the actual widowed person with a small child grieved real bad and wrong. Could have used more suttee though but hey nothings perfect.
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Feb 24, 2018 05:51
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Sarcopenia posted:The fake man grieved really good while the actual widowed person with a small child grieved real bad and wrong. Could have used more suttee though but hey nothings perfect. 2D grief is far superior to 3D grief.
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Feb 24, 2018 05:52
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Nutsngum posted:Ive only really seen snippets of that show. In what way is this shown? Like "you better not look at any other man/woman etc."? Marshall freaks the gently caress out when Lilly wants to explore her options and actually use the degree she went to college for instead of being stuck in a dead end job so he breaks up with her and then seasons later when presented with the same choice he hides it from her and she pretty much has to leverage a new child into making him not take the new job and it’s gross they’re both gross codependent people
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Feb 24, 2018 05:54
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Calaveron posted:Marshall freaks the gently caress out when Lilly wants to explore her options and actually use the degree she went to college for instead of being stuck in a dead end job so he breaks up with her and then seasons later when presented with the same choice he hides it from her and she pretty much has to leverage a new child into making him not take the new job and it’s gross they’re both gross codependent people I think you mean that they're IN LYOOOOOVEEE
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Feb 24, 2018 05:54
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I just finished watching HIMYM and Ted is the worst character on the show. I wish Bob Saget had played him in the final episode, at least...
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Feb 24, 2018 06:13
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Maxwell Lord posted:
I don't think this was a plan so much as a thing that was imposed from the top down on the show. Also like a lot of the people involved quit while the show was retooling. It was a good first season, though.
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Feb 24, 2018 06:31
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Been watching Hells Kitchen cause I never got around to it. The "storylines" are really obvious but at least they are fun to watch so the fake aspects don't matter to me as much but the one finalist who had that weird scene talking to the billboard definitely felt pre-written. I think the best dude on the show is Jean-Phillipe because he is a slow burn but when he does get mad it's hilarously understated. Especially with the finalist who after three months with the Maitre'D, still couldn't get his name right: "Hey, Jean-Pierre!" "It has been 12 weeks, If you call me 'Jean-Pierre' one more time I will... kill you."
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Feb 24, 2018 08:37
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Solice Kirsk posted:USA Up All Night was better. Bad movies with either Gilbert Gottfried or Rhonda Shear making fun of them/having big boobs was awesome. I think it's where I first saw Return of the Killer Tomatoes. And that movie is a comedy classic. One of the few sequels to surpass the original! While the best stuff on Up All Night was the comedy/horror stuff, I have fond memories of the absurd tv edits of boob comedies like The Bikini Car Wash Company and The Bikini Car Wash Company II. Whenever there'd be nudity during those films' numerous musical montages, they'd replace it with the same couple scenes of cars going through a car wash, so you'd see the same stock footage 10-20 times. Boob comedies and TV edits probably don't age well, but they were pretty great at the time.
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Feb 24, 2018 10:40
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Two guys, a girl and a pizza place had the decency to eventually cut out the pizza place.
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Feb 24, 2018 13:27
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HIMYM isn't too bad (aside from lasting too long) if you keep in mind it's all from a very unreliable narrartor
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Maxwell Lord posted:See this is an example of why having a plan and sticking to it is not always the best thing for a TV show. By the end of the series the showrunners should have realized "the mother is dead and it's really about getting Ted with Robin" no longer worked, for whatever reason. Don't forget the plan to switch from a single camera show filmed on location to a multi camera sitcom filmed in front of a studio audience. The show was cancelled before they could make those changes however.
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Feb 24, 2018 15:52
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BioEnchanted posted:Been watching Hells Kitchen cause I never got around to it. The "storylines" are really obvious but at least they are fun to watch so the fake aspects don't matter to me as much but the one finalist who had that weird scene talking to the billboard definitely felt pre-written. I think the best dude on the show is Jean-Phillipe because he is a slow burn but when he does get mad it's hilarously understated. Especially with the finalist who after three months with the Maitre'D, still couldn't get his name right: Yeah the show is amusing though it quickly becomes obvious that these people are incompetent at the basics of cooking and/or hilariously overplayed caricatures.
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Feb 24, 2018 18:21
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I couldn't watch How I met your mother at all. People can poo poo on Big Bang Theory all day but HIMYM had the straight up worst, most obvious fake laugh track I've ever heard. Maybe it got better over time but the first three episodes broke any goodwill I had towards the actors I had liked on other stuff. I love Neil Patrick Harris because the man is a natural entertainer, he's great. I don't begrudge a show for using canned laughter, not everything has to be comedy high art. But canned laughter implementation really should have been nailed down decades ago. Shows like Blackadder made in the 80's had jokes that the 'audience' didn't react to. MASH had dead silence when Hawkeye said something stupid and not funny.
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Feb 24, 2018 21:28
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Cheshire Puss posted:I couldn't watch How I met your mother at all. People can poo poo on Big Bang Theory all day but HIMYM had the straight up worst, most obvious fake laugh track I've ever heard. Otherwise intelligent friends of mine swore for it but I really didn't like it. It just seemed... bland. Uninteresting characters, boring premise. Not sufficiently obnoxious to hate-watch, like I do with TBBT.
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Cheshire Puss posted:I couldn't watch How I met your mother at all. People can poo poo on Big Bang Theory all day but HIMYM had the straight up worst, most obvious fake laugh track I've ever heard. Wait...are you comparing HIMYM's laugh track negatively to the famously-poo poo and overpowering laugh track of MASH? That's a bit like saying Jennifer Lawrence is a bit pudgy and she'd look better if she were more Trump's shape.
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Feb 24, 2018 23:33
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spog posted:Wait...are you comparing HIMYM's laugh track negatively to the famously-poo poo and overpowering laugh track of MASH? I watched just a few bits of BBT and the laugh track was way worse than MASH. can't speak to HIMYM
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Feb 25, 2018 00:22
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The laugh track in the first episode or two of HIMYM really is exceptionally grating...or maybe enough of my brain cells committed suicide after two episodes that I no longer consider it strange. But I watched the whole show eventually, and remember stopping after the first episode initially entirely because of the laugh track.
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Feb 25, 2018 00:31
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evobatman posted:Two guys, a girl and a pizza place had the decency to eventually cut out the pizza place. I find it weird that this mostly forgotten show introduced us (or at least me) to Ryan Reynolds and Nathan Fillion.
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Feb 25, 2018 01:08
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food court bailiff posted:The laugh track in the first episode or two of HIMYM really is exceptionally grating...or maybe enough of my brain cells committed suicide after two episodes that I no longer consider it strange. But I watched the whole show eventually, and remember stopping after the first episode initially entirely because of the laugh track. The first few episodes had awful laugh track and this really overpowering, inappropriate big band jazz incidental music
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Feb 25, 2018 01:34
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I'd believe a tv network flew an american audience to Korea into an active war zone to watch a sitcom be filmed on location before a real audience laughed hysterically during the first HIMYM episodes, basically. I havn't actually seen MASH in like 16 years though.
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MASH needed a laughtrack, though, so you could figure out what you were supposed to laugh at since it was painfully unfunny.
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Mammal Sauce posted:MASH needed a soundtrack, though, so you could figure out what you were supposed to laugh at since it was painfully unfunny. We have found him: the world’s dumbest man.
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Feb 25, 2018 02:52
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If M.A.S.H. was filmed before a live studio audience they would have whooped it up every time Hot Lips appeared and booooo'd whenever an Asian showed up (the 70's were surprisingly racist).
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Mammal Sauce posted:MASH needed a laughtrack, though, so you could figure out what you were supposed to laugh at since it was painfully unfunny. Mr. Bibbs go eat a hot dog or som- wait, the gently caress?
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Krispy Wafer posted:If M.A.S.H. was filmed before a live studio audience they would have whooped it up every time Hot Lips appeared and booooo'd whenever an Asian showed up (the 70's were surprisingly racist). Nah, that didn't start until the 80s, especially with Married With Children. (The whooping and booing, not the racism. That's been around since the late 30's or so.)
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Mammal Sauce posted:MASH needed a laughtrack, though, so you could figure out what you were supposed to laugh at since it was painfully unfunny. I'd there a doctor in the thread? I burned myself on this take
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I’m watching Rescue Me on Hulu right now. The first few seasons are well done, but dated by how recent 9/11 was. It’s a major part of how the characters relate to each other, but, nearly 2 decades later it’s... weird. I used to work right by where the towers were, and the Freedom Tower was going up then. It’s not in the skyline here. It all feels wrong. Gotta love the early 2000’s.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I’m watching Rescue Me on Hulu right now. The first few seasons are well done, but dated by how recent 9/11 was. It’s a major part of how the characters relate to each other, but, nearly 2 decades later it’s... weird. I used to work right by where the towers were, and the Freedom Tower was going up then. It’s not in the skyline here. It all feels wrong. Gotta love the early 2000’s. Rescue Me started sucking around the time he stopped seeing dead people.
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A recent cutaway gag on Family Guy I've probably mentioned in some other thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NtkPGzmfWI For all the things they could make fun of Netflix about, it seems like a joke that probably wasn't even all that accurate at the time the episode aired. edit: According to Instantwatcher, only 33 movies from 2003 on Netflix. JediTalentAgent has a new favorite as of 05:44 on Feb 25, 2018 |
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Feb 25, 2018 05:39
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Krispy Wafer posted:Rescue Me started sucking around the time he stopped seeing dead people. Yeah, that’s a fair assessment of when it crawled up it’s own rear end
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JediTalentAgent posted:A recent cutaway gag on Family Guy I've probably mentioned in some other thread: Yeah Netflix is weird but not for those reasons. I've barely seen the buffer issue. Though I have noticed over the years that the more they focus on original content, the less concerned they seem to be with retention of other companies' movies...
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The Bloop posted:I'd there a doctor in the thread? I burned myself on this take Man sexually assaults women and harasses minorities while a laugh track plays. Truly ground breaking television. The only time I laughed at MASH was when Alan Alda was trying to be serious.
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Feb 25, 2018 08:48
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They only finished FREEDOM TOWER in 2014.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Rescue Me started sucking around the time he stopped seeing dead people. Much like Denis Leary's stand-up act, then.
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Choco1980 posted:Yeah Netflix is weird but not for those reasons. I've barely seen the buffer issue. Though I have noticed over the years that the more they focus on original content, the less concerned they seem to be with retention of other companies' movies... I mean if this clip was from 2009 I would agree. Buffering issues like that were much worse and the selection was really bad. My dad is the only person I know who still gets disks because the things he wants (old and foreign movies) aren't streaming.
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Cheshire Puss posted:I don't begrudge a show for using canned laughter, not everything has to be comedy high art. But canned laughter implementation really should have been nailed down decades ago. Shows like Blackadder made in the 80's had jokes that the 'audience' didn't react to. MASH had dead silence when Hawkeye said something stupid and not funny.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:the Freedom Tower The fact that anyone can say that without a scoff and finger quotes is really strange
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Choco1980 posted:Yeah Netflix is weird but not for those reasons. I've barely seen the buffer issue. Though I have noticed over the years that the more they focus on original content, the less concerned they seem to be with retention of other companies' movies... Probably because everyone and their dog has a streaming service now, at least Netflix will still have a decent slew of original content as contracts expire etc (If this is incorrect please ignore my layman’s view and zero-research assumption)
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MrUnderbridge posted:Nah, that didn't start until the 80s, especially with Married With Children. The late 3030's BC Choco1980 posted:Yeah Netflix is weird but not for those reasons. I've barely seen the buffer issue. Though I have noticed over the years that the more they focus on original content, the less concerned they seem to be with retention of other companies' movies... The Great Burrito posted:Probably because everyone and their dog has a streaming service now, at least Netflix will still have a decent slew of original content as contracts expire etc That is, in fact, their business plan http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/netflix-50-percent-content-original-programming-cfo-1201865902/ https://marketrealist.com/2017/01/netflix-expects-continue-focus-original-content-2017 https://www.screendaily.com/news/original-content-drives-netflix-amazon-growth-in-uk/5125116.article
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