Ziv Zulander posted:

There was an episode of Star Trek TOS where some guy fell in love with an alien gas cloud and Kirk said that a binary gender system was a universal constant, that got a WTF from me the first time I saw it.

e: this came up because the alien gas cloud turned out to be a woman

client posted:

lol everytime

RandomFerret posted:

Ross from Friends is such a lovely entitled Nice Guy™ stereotype that it's amazing audiences were ever expected to sympathize with him.

RobotDogPolice posted:

So many episodes of South Park. I definitely had my "South Park is the best satire" phase in high school bit the older I get the more I realize it's just Matt and Trey making a strawman out of whoever they don't like.

well why not posted:

The real bestworst is when Elliot & Stabler go to Europe to bust up a child smuggling ring. They're interrogating a dude and Stabler realises he's not subject to any NYPD rules and just beats the poo poo out of the guy. SVU is a weird show.

Guy Mann posted:

And then the kids who loved those theories grew up to make Adventure Time and for like a decade after every other cartoon had to have some needlessly complex tragic backstory dragging down their fun adventure shows.

Choco1980 posted:

As an adult, I've caught a few reruns of Matlock, and in a post Law and Order world, Matlock is the worst lawyer in the world. His main courtroom strategy consists of hearsay, non-relevant evidence, and constantly badgering witnesses/plaintiffs until they confess at random.

MisterBibs posted:

My Alan Moore story is that I disliked him ever since he bitched about DC's Blackest Night screwing with his one-shot take by expanding it into a thing that got me into reading Green Lantern (and comics in general).

Hell, this is (sorta) content, because Alan Moores take on it absolutely does not hold up for poo poo.

EmmyOk posted:

You do you etc. but I have found most open relationships I know about start as monogamous and then one person decides they want more sex with other people but like having someone to binge netflix with and the other is afraid of crippling loneliness.

I can't think of a good example of a show/film aging badly but I recently read a book on number theory and it both said number theory had no practical uses and we'd never have a proof for Fermat's last theorem lol.

fake edit: number theory underlies all cryptography basically and there was a proof for the theory in 1994 for all you sex havers

Mister Kingdom posted:

And he should twirl it when talking to the bad guys.

lemon-lyme disease posted:

It's hard for me to tell if certain episodes of that show have aged well or not because I often (or at least sometimes) disagree/d with their politics from the get-go. It's a well put-together program on the whole though.

TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:

Not tv, but in the original Meatballs (which is kind of dull overall) I remember somebody casually uses the term ‘jailbait’ or something similar and woah no thanks movie.

Krispy Wafer posted:

The reviews of the time called it the filthiest book ever written. I have to imagine a large number of people bought it because it was taboo, not because it shone a critical eye at how we sexualize youth. So it doesn't matter if the book is meant to disgust if the reader buys it to be turned on.

I went back and looked up some of the reviews and yes, they were pretty adamant it was terrible and should kill any lustful thought you might have even momentarily harbored. But the NYT's reviewer said on his first reading, an abbreviated version (that of course still had sexy 12 year olds) was the funniest book he ever read. It was only the uncut copy that turned it into one of the saddest books he's ever read. So it definitely hit on some undercurrent that landed uncomfortably close to the truth.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Just ran into an old SNL Weekend Update segment that has aspects which really did not age well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CvYBx0qEbk

Mister Kingdom posted:

It had to be a royalties issue not using the lyrics. The show hasn't been off the air since day one and that would have cost a small fortune.

Davros1 posted:

In the last season of the show "Til Death", the son-in-law of the main characters had a subplot where he began to realize that their whole existence was a sitcom.

StrangersInTheNight posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZx1W6cHw-g

Scholtz posted:

Somehow this BBC talk just reminded me that The Big Fat Quiz of the Year is only a couple of days away, oh boy.

Milo and POTUS posted:

It might be a volume thing since he only appears occasionally but I don't mind him on QI. Is there a good reason to dislike him or does he just rub you wrong?

El Gallinero Gros posted:

Noel's approach to humour can be kinda monkey cheese. I'm assuming that is the issue, although I find him quite charming sometimes

However, I may be biased as I loved Mighty Boosh.

BrigadierSensible posted:

This put me in mind of the series of Are You Being Served they did where they were all old people in, I think, the 90s.

Nutsngum posted:

Wow, I now pronounce you chuck and larry is really really bad. Even the "oh look at the opression gay people feel" is just hamfisted.

Nutsngum posted:

Yes. It was on in the background whilst playing my mother and sister in scrabble. I won despite the awful obnoxious gay jokes coming thick and fast.

The only thing worst then the ham fisted message was Rob Schneiders awful asian stereotype character. No Rob Schneider, being part Filipno does not give you an open ticket to impersonate Mickey Rooney.

hard counter posted:

we had that too, also if anyone started bleeding the cast would switch to black and white for the duration of the match

for quaint censorship that's probably become obsolete by now the transformers cgi cartoon we watched in canada was called beasties while in america it was called beast wars

Inescapable Duck posted:

Riker loving loves Klingon food, especially when it's still wriggling.

Pretty much every depiction of Vulcans outside of main characters has them be totally insufferable shitheads who are in their own way as blatantly, smugly supremacist as goddamn Cardassians.

SEX BURRITO posted:

I've been watching some random old South Parks and just saw the Paris Hilton one.

Obviously, its aged badly because every celebrity has a sex tape/nudes now, but drat are they horrible about her. The entire episode is her being called a slut and a whore, and generally being gross. It just feels out of proportion for someone who was a dumb reality TV star.

Not Operator posted:

BBT is full of weird low level sexism and racism

Sweevo posted:

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BioEnchanted posted:

One thing that I always like about when shows mix weirdly is when you get pairs of actors/celebs that find out they work well together and collaborate outside of the sphere they met in - like Joe Wilkinson, British comedian, and Rachel Riley the current Numbers Girl on Countdown - they first worked together on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, and now they've done a lottery advert together which is fairly cute. Unfortunately I can't find it on youtube but I've been seeing it on the 4id website attached to Kitchen Nightmares episodes.

SiKboy posted:

There's no way Dave was giving anyone 50 grand. I vaguely remember seeing the show, but I have to think it was less than that.

SEX BURRITO posted:

I also remember a reality show on British TV where they tricked a bunch of people into believing they'd gone into space. I think it started to fall apart when they could hear the crew whispering outside the simulator.

SEX BURRITO posted:

That’s the one! I remember it being quite entertaining because it was so stupid. A lot of their ‘training’ was done by terrible Russian stereotypes, and they explained the lack of weightlessness by saying they were still close to earth. It was a really elaborate hoax.

BioEnchanted posted:

I never got the bitching about Noel Fielding becoming a judge, it's not like he's Frankie Boyle. His humour is surreal, but suitable for all ages so I think he can be trusted with a family show like Bake Off. Let him eat cake!

Not Operator posted:

Ricky Gervais is amazing as David Brent on The Office (UK) but it later became evident that this was because he wasn't acting, he just was that insufferable.

Inescapable Duck posted:

It's funny that there's still Transformers fans who don't insist the first series was the best.

purple death ray posted: