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Iron Crowned posted:The only thing I can really remember about that show is that there was an episode where the Martians were filling up a big rear end jar with human brains. Don't they also have their hands come out of human stomachs or something?
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I love Quantum Leap and am now afraid of watching it again to see if any of the writing has aged poorly.
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Cox even says it in the first season, no one should be like him because HE can barely stand himself. JD was fine up until around Season 4 where they dropped the intelligence, seriousness, and humaness of the character and just made it lol JD so girly and dumb. When Season 8 came around they finally got him back on track (mostly). Oddly, the weirder think that didn't age well with JD is that all of a sudden he becomes awkwardly racist in the later seasons.
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Quote-Unquote posted:Coronation Street has 9,451 episodes as of today so I'm fairly sure it counts as the longest running TV show ever Meet the Press has been on since 1948, I think probably has the most episodes of anything ever but its a new show.
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May 13, 2018 00:11
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spog posted:https://twitter.com/batemanjason/status/999595574306459648 Meanwhile Brooklyn 99 tells people to cut the poo poo. quote:It may come as no surprise that “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” actress Stephanie Beatriz has no trouble speaking up when a man’s behavior crosses a line. In a recent interview with Vulture, the actress and LGBTQ advocate shared an anecdote that will sound all too familiar to many women in Hollywood, about an older male actor who was calling everyone “honey,” “babe,” and “baby” on set. (Beatriz did not share the actor’s name). Observing him interacting with the other women on set, Beatriz remembers wishing he would call her a name just so she would have a chance to respond.
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May 24, 2018 15:57
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:It worked, didn't it? I would say her character was better than most of the characters on the show and was kind of an interesting premise.
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May 27, 2018 02:01
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John Murdoch posted:
Because The Real Ghostbusters did it better.
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WescottF1 posted:
To be fair Stossel is pretty lovely.
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Rirse posted:Meanwhile TBS these days seems to air nothing but Big Bang Theory. How in the world that show gets four hours a day of airing on that channel. To be fair to Big Bang Theory, that's the reason it survived. Also, Law and Order has some amazing episodes but any episode having to do with technology or either classic or SVU early teen years don't stand up very well.
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Schmeichy posted:Speaking of Colbert and misplaced faith in things, has he made any jokes about the recent Catholic scandals? I know you probably didn't mean it this way but I don't think Colbert is loyal to the institution of the Catholic Church more so he is a believer in (most) of the teachings of Catholicism. It's not like he defends the church and its actions nor would he say that the institution isn't fallible, he just happens to really believe in the religion.
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Sep 1, 2018 22:28
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Leavemywife posted:90s cop show that seems like it's going to be a little rough around the edges. Probably but it is interesting to watch say Law and Order to see a few things: A) What were hot button issues at the time? B) Early law and order episodes weren't afraid to show the ways police can be real lovely. C) See how technology has progressed.
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Cleretic posted:I dunno, that's something you don't really get currently. I noticed this when I was back home for Christmas, there aren't really any good, inoffensive, 'put on in the background' sitcoms anymore. Chuck Lorre's stuff debatably, but even Big Bang Theory is ending soon, and that doesn't have the right 'pleasant white noise in the background without needing full attention' that stuff like Friends or apparently The Office does. Modern Family? The Goldbergs?
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Jan 6, 2019 15:27
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Krispy Wafer posted:Yeah, the ABC shows are a good choice. If you want to inject a little controversy you can always include Blackish. I don't know if I am becoming an old man but I laugh at Modern Family a lot. Sure its mostly in offensive but I guess not all humor has to be...
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muscles like this! posted:The EPA guy in Ghostbusters is definitely a weird thing because the only reason he's wrong is because he's against the main characters. Egon even mentions earlier in the movie that the stuff they're using is unlicensed and not thoroughly tested. MY sister and I were talking about Ghostbusters and that looking in a 2019 lens, it comes across as super conservative but in 1984 they saw it as counter-culture. I thought it was an interesting point but still somewhat problematic movie in 2019.
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:Is Forrest Gump secretly a satire? I remembered the nasty way the movie treats Jenny but I forgot that Forrest literally gets rich from a business idea he stole from a black guy. After Hours had a great look at this.
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Feb 17, 2019 16:36
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Mu Zeta posted:I never got the love for season 1 in the first place. It feels like a show designed by committee to be the most prestigious grimdark show ever designed to win Emmys. Almost like a parody of a prestige show except it's playing it straight. I knew the moment the intro started that I would hate it. I feel the same way about Westworld. I liked the long tracking shot scene though. The other problem someone once pointed out to me was that its essentially 5 episodes of exposition and then the last episode. I look back at it as amazing actors elevating some mediocre to good scripts. Going back to Scrubs real quick, the main characters were meant to be flawed but ultimately decent people but they didn't want to be like other sitcoms where everything resets after an episode or two. But Bill Lawerence said he flaw was letting the writers essentially go nuts with characters because they were always on the verge of being cancelled every season. Seasons 1 - 3 are completely different in tone and writing than seasons 4 - 7. Lawerence basically killed JD and Elliot after the 3rd season because he thought the writers were doing a disservice to the characters and when season 8 was going to be for reals last season the writers came back to him. And they said absolutely not unless they could have them be mature. Season 8s tone was way closer to the original season to the later seasons and it shows. I mentioned it earlier in the thread was the awkwardly racist things JD would say as the seasons got on despite the fact in early seasons he was way more smart about race issues. In fact JD's character was originally smart but a bit arrogant. Then it became JD is exaggerated Zach Braff.
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Brother Entropy posted:no, carla was enjoying having someone to go to art shows and whatnot with. the problem came when JD got all weird and insecure about her helping him out at work and giving him a cute nickname and he snaps at her, pulling the 'i'm the doctor, you're the nurse' card He got weird because Carla stood up for him and Cox made fun of him and didn't know how to handle it. but again season 1-3 JD while not the best person at least was relate-able as a person, who was trying to be a good person and then he just got weird.
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Mar 3, 2019 06:28
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Absurd Alhazred posted:The more I hear about Scrubs the happier I am I missed out on it. It has its problems but it was and still is a great show with a lot of heart. Its just as you are older you can see the issues it had as time went on. If you get a chance watch seasons 1-5 and Season 8, you won't regret it.
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At least on House the staff around him was somewhat competent including Cuddy and Wilson. The offender of smart assholes was American House of Cards. Frank Underwood wasn't so much smart as everyone had to be written as so loving dumb to make him the smartest man alive.
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Mar 3, 2019 21:38
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OutOfPrint posted:This right here. My wife put P&R on as her background noise show, and nowadays it carries that undercurrent of "If we leave things alone and not worry too much it'll all work out" that looks downright quaint these days. Plus the whole multiple sexpests thing. That...I... what? Leslie's whole character is that things need to change and she is willing to put the hard work despite an apathetic public and staff to make change.
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BioEnchanted posted:From what I saw of the character, mostly from compilation clips, he is partially falling into toxic masculinity but doesn't go all the way, for example there are lots of people he genuinely cares about like April and Andy, April because she has an attitude he respects and Andy because he's like a big stupid son to him. Also he doesn't hide his emotions well, he tries, but we all know his adorable giggle when the tiny horse shows up or when playing football with Andy after enjoying a Meat Tornado (a mexican food truck item he is initially sceptical abut but ends up loving the name so much he's like "OK, you got me."). Basically he tries for Toxic Manhood, but actually kind of fails at sticking the landing. He also tolerates dissent and doesn't push his world view on anyone. Plus he encourages academic learning and thinks women are equal to men. He's this weirdly contradictory character that works because he can be whatever the writers need him to be at that moment.
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Mar 24, 2019 16:23
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Sid Vicious posted:It actually has a pretty long running arch, at least with regards to character development, watch until JD starts driving you insane with his childish behaviour and then keep watching because of Ted and the Janitor Watch the following seasons of scrubs: Definite: 1-3, 8 Good: 4 and 5 Skip: 6, 7, and 9 The first three seasons are really good and actually acknowledge the complexity and toxicity of their characters. They are in fact very human, if flawed people.
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purple death ray posted:What was the series that was about a kid and his friend was the ghost of a kid his age who'd died in like the 1920s or something? Ghostwriter?
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Krispy Wafer posted:What is this? 1950? Baseball is more diverse than the population as a whole. And their union is super strong.
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christmas boots posted:If You Give A Moose A Motive So wait it's a Hatchet sequel and a sequel to If You Give A Moose a Muffin?
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CharlestheHammer posted:Ironically the best Punisher story is punisher Vs. the Marvel universe which is about Zombies but the main theme of the story is how much the punisher sucks Cause he causes it basically.
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Jaxts posted:Sev'ral Timez is overrated They're no 2ge+her.
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rodbeard posted:For some reason this fake band played a free concert at my highschool. The fat guy is Chris Farley's brother. The terminally ill one actually was terminally ill. I loved the show when it came on but I imagine would be such a time and place tv show that it wouldn't age well today.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I don't think it's so much that gen z doesn't hate the music industry so much as they're capable of simply bypassing it entirely and do so without a thought. Right. In the 80s and 90s and early 00s the radio or MTV (and sometimes VH1?) dominated what music was influencial and what bands made it. While to an extent radio has a huge influence now a days, streaming service bypasses the big structures that used to exist.
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mind the walrus posted:Because shocker-of-shocker it turns out that quite a few people are insecure, entitled rage-balls like Walt and emphasize way too hard with the fantasy that once "they" could get "out of the way" they would thrive and be badasses who exert power over others. In my experience the only thing that will keep people from latching on is if you're very careful to never frame said character as cool in any way. Even one small insert shot of the character posing and flexing can be enough. Or why people gravitate to Rick in Rick and Morty.
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AceOfFlames posted:Another low point was the penultimate season finale where Cuddy breaks up with House and he retaliates by driving a car through her loving living room window and then escapes to a tropical paradise. The final season premiere where he's in jail was clearly a response to the furious fan response accusing the show of promoting domestic abuse (he literally starts the episode by explaining to the cops that he made sure there was no one in the room and that Cuddy's daughter was not in the house, which was straight from an actual conversation the writers had in Twitter) I actually liked the show up until that point and then dropped off the final season. House's break up with Cuddy was handled so poorly it felt like the writers were trying to punish people for actually enjoying a show where House and Cuddy were working and happy together and then yah the whole driving the car through the home thing just made me walk away. The real cracks came after Season 4 when I should of realized that the show was in a bad spot when Cameron and Chase broke up because Hosue is a jerk and the writers had no way of writing an actual ok relationship. AceOfFlmaes posted:House as a whole didn't age well because it's whole point is glorifying the fantasy so many toxic people have of being able to treat everyone around them like poo poo and still be respected and beloved because they are so loving good at their jobs. It was the early 2000s Anti-Hero/toxic hero phase. I remember the whole Dr. Cox/Dr. House who would you be better at insulting you debate on the forums. Scrubs at least showed you that Dr. Cox was super destructive and his life sucked because he is a toxic rear end in a top hat.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The crazy thing was it was a procedural that was somehow appointment TV in 2006. I remember in college half the people in my dorm used to pack the TV lounge every week to watch it. I can’t imagine that happening with, say, Law and Order. Or House if it aired now, for that matter. Law and Order Classic/Vanilla was/is good though. I actually think Law and Order usually does a decent job of being like this is where we are as a society today with all the complications that go with it.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Original L&O, on the whole, was an excellent show. The interaction between the prosecutors and cops was great. They hosed up on the regular and lost a good number of cases. To be fair though, you have to take L&O of a product of its time because thats probably how an old school prosecutor would of talked about something like that.
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Arivia posted:
To be fair thought the twist in that episode is basically the last minute of the shower in which spoiler in case you are going to watch a 25 year old episode the judge basically says, you won on the emotional argument but failed to prove your legal case and overturns the jury decisions.
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May 7, 2020 23:20
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Arivia posted:I think if I was a criminal I’d want Stone trying me, not McCoy. Stone was a man of principles and very compassionate; McCoy is much more aggressive and vengeful. You can deal with Stone, you’ll have to do some time but he will let you plead it down. McCoy won’t take a plea at all. (This is also why Stone leaving feels so right: you can see him getting tired and worn down and just losing his faith in the work as a character, notwithstanding all the behind the scenes drama*.) McCoy essentially says that the law is a game, whoever plays it best win and a quote that sticks with me. Claire or Kincaid: What about justice? McCoy: A byproduct.
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TheKennedys posted:that scene is simultaneously the dumbest thing ever put on television and a perfect encapsulation of why NCIS owned (it didn't really bother taking itself seriously despite being a Very Serious Military Show). It is a very dumb show though. NCIS is way about analyzing the characters via murder. Too bad Weatherly turned out to be a creep.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Randy was the worst kid anyways. Brad ruled and had a girlfriend and then the younger one was a goth dude. Speaking of aging well...
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I wonder if there's thread material in what a piece of media might have been like if it was made ten years later. I've said that Animorphs could have ridden the YA wave if it came after Harry Potter showed kids can and will read novel-length books, it already had the content and tone. (Hella dark and violent) House MD became a formulaic parody of itself but kinda came off as a prototype for prestige television style serials. (At least with a charismatic rear end in a top hat protagonist and lots of well-off white people yelling at each other) The Critic would of been a perfect [AS] show had it premiered a few years later.
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Iron Crowned posted:1990 was squarely in that weird pocket decade between the releases of Appetite for Destruction, and The Chronic. It was neither the 80's or the 90's. 1990 to like 1994 was so much different than 1995 to 2000 and its amazing to see reflected in pop culture.
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Eclipse12 posted:But Rick is still godlike, always right, and never has any actual consequences unless it's just to show how "tortured" he is. So I don't buy it that they're showing that he's bad. The show is just right up its own rear end set this point. The last handful of episodes were awful. I watched the latest episode and something made me sort of uncomfortable watching it and having Jerry lead the undesirables and the type of people they described as the people who don't do anything for anyone. It reeks of the only thing that is worth anything is STEM people but even within the context of the show Rick hasn't produced anything to improve anyone else's life but his own. And oddly, the only person willing to defend Jerry is Morty. Its hard to describe but they need to have some of the characters to occasionally pull something over on Rick because we run into the problem you have now with Rick. Cartman was kinda similar except occasionally he would get completely owned by someone.
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