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Sarcopenia posted:Isn't Bob a huge creeper? Well he's a corpse so that's pretty creepy.
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Crypt creeper.
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Sarcopenia posted:Crypt creeper. "Actual screamtail price is.......!"
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King of Foolians posted:Creed also didn't get a happy ending but I'm amazed that literally everyone else got a super happy ending and it still didn't come off as too contrived. Curb Your Enthusiasm is my favorite comedy of all time and I find Scott's Tots too cringey to enjoy.
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I liked parks and rec but every clip I watch of the office tells me that it is cast with intensely unlikable characters in entirely unfunny situations
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Mar 8, 2018 01:31
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That's most of the fun!
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Mar 8, 2018 01:32
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Yeah they basically fixed the annoying parts of The Office by the time they got to the second season of Parks and Rec.
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Mu Zeta posted:Yeah they basically fixed the annoying parts of The Office by the time they got to the second season of Parks and Rec. Even Parks & Rec still did what I assume is The Office's schtick of intensely unlikable characters that get away with everything with April and Andy
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Mar 8, 2018 01:38
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The people on Parks and Rec are pretty much all genuinely good people except for Mark.
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Calaveron posted:Even Parks & Rec still did what I assume is The Office's schtick of intensely unlikable characters that get away with everything with April and Andy Oh gosh, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who dislikes April. Mostly because she was so insecure she basically bullied Ann for 6 seasons.
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April was terrible. And never funny. Post season 1 Andy and Anne would have been a much better couple.
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King of Foolians posted:Creed also didn't get a happy ending but I'm amazed that literally everyone else got a super happy ending and it still didn't come off as too contrived. Creed gets caught for whatever he did but shows up later in disguise and seems genuinely okay with things. Toby is miserable and alone, and when Pam asks if things are okay he just says no and starts crying. Weirdly enough Ryan and Kelly's ending involved abandoning a husband and baby and it still made sense.
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Mar 8, 2018 03:52
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There are some really outdated parts in Classic Simpsons. Like in A Fish Called Selma, Troy McClure has his career killed for sleeping with a fish instead of winning an Oscar for it.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:There are some really outdated parts in Classic Simpsons. Like in A Fish Called Selma, Troy McClure has his career killed for sleeping with a fish instead of winning an Oscar for it. Unironically though, that episode ends with a Murphy Brown refererence that no one will ever get now. edit: no actually, I got confused because Jub-Jub only shows up like twice ever. Though bringing back Jub-Jub for the episode was also apparently a reference that the writers though casual viewers wouldn’t get. LIVE AMMO COSPLAY has a new favorite as of 04:15 on Mar 8, 2018 |
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Mar 8, 2018 04:11
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big cummers ONLY posted:There's an episode where they don't have a manager and everyone just does their job on their own time and everything gets done. It's funny, everyone is a ridiculous caricature of a human being but they all do their jobs. yeah minus kevin and andy the show is pretty consistent in having the people working at dunder mifflin scranton be good at their actual jobs even michael who's terrible at managing workers is shown to have really good rapport with his clients
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Mar 8, 2018 04:15
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Pam was never good at anything she did besides receptionist. Well, that and being a mom. She was a good mom. Her mural sucked.
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she seemed alright at being office administrator!
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What do you guys think Angela did to her cats when she got caught on the webcam?
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Tumble posted:What do you guys think Angela did to her cats when she got caught on the webcam? She was licking them. They showed it and made a hairball joke and everything. That's not even half as bad as somehow convincing a doctor to lie to the biological father of her child....somehow. Dwight's raising other dude's kid.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Pam was never good at anything she did besides receptionist. Well, that and being a mom. She was a good mom. Her mural sucked. BEAR CLAW!! NOMNOMNOM Oh, wait, wrong Pam.
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Solice Kirsk posted:She was licking them. They showed it and made a hairball joke and everything. IIRC there was supposed to be some indication that he’d grabbed the wrong diaper or something that never made it into the final cut and that he was actually supposed to be the father.
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Solice Kirsk posted:She was licking them. They showed it and made a hairball joke and everything. No poo poo. I guess I missed that. I figured it was something like that, or eating their food with them or something.
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Koalas March posted:Oh gosh, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who dislikes April. April was a really weird character for me because I liked her as just kinda a lovely misanthrope surrounded by fairly nice if a bit dumb people who she can get away with being lovely to, and I even liked her with Andy with their dumb 'she's an rear end in a top hat but he's so dumb and genuine she lets her guard down with him' kinda dynamic. It was always really weirdly out of place she kept getting happy endings, though, like actual functioning people like Ann just chuckle and roll their eyes at her being an actual lovely person to them. At least Ron had the whole 'I literally don't care what kind of person you are you're very good at your job of making sure I never have to do work' thing going but yea she was just kinda weirdly harassing Ann the entire show for the sin of...dating Andy? Even after they broke up and she literally married the guy? It was a weirdly mean spirited running gag in a show that did stuff like quickly subvert the 'everyone hates Jerry' joke with 'but that's fine because Jerry has a lovely family and is just riding things out till his pension so as long as he has something to do he's fine being the office punchline'.
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Mar 8, 2018 05:33
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Have you seen Newsradio or Seinfeld? People being lovely to each other is funny in a sitcom.
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They really dragged out the Angela/Dwight kid thing. It was originally going to be early on when Angela's actress was pregnant but cut it during the Writers Strike, then when she did have a kid in show they made it kind of obvious it was Dwight's kid, but still didn't do anything about it til the final episode.
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Mar 8, 2018 07:02
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Sarcopenia posted:Crypt creeper. Even in death, I perv.
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Mar 8, 2018 07:54
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Inescapable Duck posted:Even in death, I perv. He isn't actually dead though.
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Thing with The Simpsons though is that, when your'e on the air for that loving long, with a show built around the basic premise of social satire, of course some poo poo's gonna be dated. The show's longevity alone is testament to how well it's aged and most of the struggles it's had mostly have to do with the writers forgetting to use the timeless characters in the context of common issues and neglecting to keep it simple. Wedging in guest stars, exaggerating the characters and being "zany" gently caress it up a hell of a lot. Of course, it's such an out of control cash cow by now that it's probably also a matter of too many writers and marketing types horning in on what was once an underground, hip, subversive cult cartoon show modeled after "Life in Hell" that eventually got too many eyes on it.
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Truly, the Simpsons was much more underground when it had only 27 million viewers per episode than nowadays when it has 3 million per episode. https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/04/20/30-years-on-and-the-simpsons-isnt-aging-well-infographic/#306896792696
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Calaveron posted:Even Parks & Rec still did what I assume is The Office's schtick of intensely unlikable characters that get away with everything with April and Andy Yeah, I really didn't like P&R during the first season and dropped it after a few episodes, I did come back in season 3 though.
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Iron Crowned posted:Yeah, I really didn't like P&R during the first season and dropped it after a few episodes, I did come back in season 3 though. No one liked P&R the first season. Most people didn't like it for the rest of the seasons too. It's amazing how many good shows on NBC barely hung on for the lack of anything else NBC had to broadcast. I haven't rewatched 30 Rock in awhile. I hope it's humor isn't as dated as SNL.
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Krispy Wafer posted:No one liked P&R the first season. Most people didn't like it for the rest of the seasons too.
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Only the last season got overly political with a who will win Obama the hope of the people or Mitchtron Romneybot 3000 who feeds on the poor for energy
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FactsAreUseless posted:30 Rock remains the best sitcom of all time, and its first two seasons are all gold episodes. Even if you don't stick with it through all 7, I strongly recommend everyone watch the first two. My favourite part of 30 Rock is the fake comedy sketches. Whatever else happens, those were written in such a way that they can never become dated.
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Calaveron posted:Only the last season got overly political with a who will win Obama the hope of the people or Mitchtron Romneybot 3000 who feeds on the poor for energy Yeah, but even that was balanced out with some great resolution to some of the characters. It was only 13 episodes, too, so it’s not like there’s THAT much filler.
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BiggerBoat posted:Wedging in guest stars, exaggerating the characters and being "zany" gently caress it up a hell of a lot. counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pGdzmx-7Wo The Simpsons juggled zaniness and having tons of guest stars for a while, and it led to some great episodes. I think the greater issue is simply that as the years went on, there was less that the Simpsons could do to break any new ground (since they've already done everything, as South Park pointed out eighteen years ago), and the writers and animators stopped killing themselves to cram every possible joke or flourish into each episode.
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gleebster posted:Truly, the Simpsons was much more underground when it had only 27 million viewers per episode than nowadays when it has 3 million per episode. Maybe "underground" was the wrong word, though I was referencing Groening's Life in Hell roots and the Tracey Ulman shorts.
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FactsAreUseless posted:30 Rock remains the best sitcom of all time, and its first two seasons are all gold episodes. Even if you don't stick with it through all 7, I strongly recommend everyone watch the first two. I second that. When I rewatch it it always amazes me that I missed several good jokes because there are just so many of them.I will also always love them for calling out Bill Cosby for being a rapist way before it got national attention. As for the Simpsons I think a big problem with the guest stars now is that it's always sucking up to them. I'm especially thinking about the Lady Gaga episode where the digs at her are basically the equivalent of the answers you give to "What are your worst qualities" in a job interview. I loved the Kim Bassinger/Alec Baldwin/Ron Howard episode because they also took the piss out of them. But to be fair if I remember correctly the Mel Gibson episode was also very nice to Mel Gibson but that was also before his freak out.
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Lexx has now aged ins anely well. https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/talking-robotic-head-will-join-astronauts-iss-ncna854821
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The only good simpsons episodes with guest stars are the ones where the guest star is playing a character rather than themselves. No exceptions. Okay, one or two exceptions, but seriously not many. And when I think about it, at least two of the exceptions feature a beatle.
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