Stuart
Bending Unit
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« on: 05-26-2003 17:55 »
« Last Edit on: 05-27-2003 00:00 »
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Before you bury me and say I've got no sense of humour or I'm a crazed terrorist, I like most American comedy: the Simpsons, Futurama, Frasier (when it was good), Cheers, Scrubs, South Park, Friends (before I realised how irritating it is), [edit: how could I forget Beavis and Butthead?] and most of the others US comedies we see in Britain are decent. (although absolute piffle compared to our jolly good telly, eh what old chap?)
But, Seinfeld. I've just never laughed at it. I know it was immensely popular in America, and have never found anyone who said a bad word about it, but I'm pretty sure I get the jokes and they just aren't funny to me. Do I need to watch the whole series to appreciate the humour, or see a therapist, or (god forbid) does anyone agree with me?
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PCC Fred
Space Pope
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Originally posted by LAN.gnome: They called it "the show about nothing," but the fact was that it was more about real people and real life than other "shows about something," I guess, like Friends. I mean, come on, these struggling post-college folks can afford studio apartments and such? A college professor, an actor, a fairly major chef married to a guy who (until recently) worked in an office, and someone who works at Ralph Lauren. Yeah, total mystery that one. Seinfeld was funny, but I didn't think it was that special.
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MuscaDomestica
Professor
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I respect the show, it has really good writing and acting. Much better then the average sitcoms.
I agree on Daily Show...watch it every day!
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FishyJoe
Honorary German
Urban Legend
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I can't relate to anyone who likes Friends more than Seinfeld. Seinfeld was hilarious, and it got better and better(until the final episode). Some may argue that the final two seasons weren't as good...I disagree, but surely everyone can see that Seinfeld had the class to retire way earlier than it could have. Also, I think everyone should shut up about sitcoms being "realistic". Yeah, Friends isn't realistic...but neither was Seinfeld. Jerry George and Elaine's residences were more realistic, I guess, since they all had appropriate jobs. But what about Kramer? He doesn't do anything, and he lives in an apartment just as fancy as Jerry's. And the situations that they always got into were nowhere near realistic. By LAN.gnome Personally, my favorite TV comedy (live-action!) is The Daily Show, a news parody program on Comedy central. *high fives VF, Mark, and Greg*
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Strat
Bending Unit
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I don't believe he was calling it agonizing because she watches it alot, I think he merely meant to imply that he must suffer through the agony of it more often than he would like due to her watching it.
It is agonizing, like most show of that variety, because it is somewhat predictable, uncreative, and uses a laugh track for joks that aren't really funny.
Personally, I despise laugh tracks, it's as if they believe that in order to convince you that it's funny, other people must be laughing at it... it's like videos of a band where they show case all these people really digging the band, wow, they must be cool... grrr...
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Nixorbo
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by LAN.gnome: Forgive me, but I don't understand how what you said relates to the quote you used. What are you referring to? Just referring to a certain PEEL 4-some that's going to a live taping of the Daily Show on Monday.
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Tweek
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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I watched a bit of Seinfeld, but gave up as it wasn't at all funny.
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