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He is definitely the big name that helped it survive in the early going and joined specifically because his kids liked the show and asked him to be a part of it. In fact in one of his earliest scenes where he meets another elderly person for a date but then gropes and ogles his young waitress. That waitress is played by his daughter.
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Aug 29, 2017 13:46
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She was great in Deadbeat. That show was good.
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Always Sunny is still going? Good God! trickybiscuits posted:Recently I got the entire run of Reno 911! on dvd. Humor about incompetent cops abusing their authority has aged . . . weirdly. Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:I think the X-Files has a special case for it being outdated, and that's due to it being a real child of the '90s. Living through the 2000s where those types of conspiracy nuts to be emotionally-damaged bigots who need a superiority boost just takes the luster off of the show and my memories of it. If the X-Files wanted to really showcase what it was all about, it would have another season where everybody is a screaming bigot who is screaming for Trump to save them and then show them doing it for the cash as their mental illnesses go untreated and they start to lose control of their lives.
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Season 11 was where it started feeling off to me. Just a lot of recycled material and things getting too wacky. It's still a good show from what I've seen, but definitely not as good as it was.
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The second chardeemacdennis episode wasn't nearly as funny. It felt so stale in comparison
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Instant Sunrise posted:All I remember about ER was that they had an rear end in a top hat doctor being stalked by helicopters. Rocket Romano, who got his arm chopped off by a helicopter, and then next season was killed... by a helicopter falling off the roof and splattering him.
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54 40 or gently caress posted:The second chardeemacdennis episode wasn't nearly as funny. It felt so stale in comparison Really? I was never a huge fan of the first one so I groaned when the second started, but I feel like the last five or six minutes of the second one turn it around into one of my favorite episodes.
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eating only apples posted:Rocket Romano, who got his arm chopped off by a helicopter, and then next season was killed... by a helicopter falling off the roof and splattering him. The episode where he dies really hosed me up.
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Another homophobic Married with Children episode had Al's favorite barber dying forcing Al and his buddies to have to go to a *GASP* hair salon! Of course, the men working there were flaming and Al and his friends end up with effeminate haircuts and mannerisms.
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YeahTubaMike posted:The episode where he dies really hosed me up. I really liked that episode all the way around (and not because of the helicopter-death scene, although it was a fantastic "HOLKY poo poo!" moment). A TV station here has started rerunning ER again and I'll find myself binge-watching when it's on, and I still enjoy it. I think whoever it was upthread who said TV shows with interchangeable cast members tend to age better was right, if for no other reason than it's a pattern that mimics life. People quit or find better jobs or get squashed by helicopters, and the world just keeps right on turning.
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A lot of The Shield has aged pretty poorly because it tried so hard to show that this ain't your daddy's basic cable cop show in a way that looks hilarious to modern eyes, but nothing tops the end of the first episode: there's a huge dramatic moment that more or less the entire rest of the series hinges on and the entire scene is set to a loving Kid Rock song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUMedltaieg This is not edited in any way.
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trickybiscuits posted:Always Sunny is still going? Good God! The main plot episodes were always kind of terrible though. While having more serialized TV shows is cool, I do wish shows would still sometimes have stand alone episodes. Sometimes there are cool plots that don't really work if they are tied into a larger and longer narrative.
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Guy Mann posted:A lot of The Shield has aged pretty poorly because it tried so hard to show that this ain't your daddy's basic cable cop show in a way that looks hilarious to modern eyes, but nothing tops the end of the first episode: there's a huge dramatic moment that more or less the entire rest of the series hinges on and the entire scene is set to a loving Kid Rock song. I just saw The Shield for the first time this summer and I thought it was really effective, but yeah you have to take the time period into context. A time period where Kid Rock’s “Devil Without A Cause” album won a Grammy
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Arrested Development is a relatively recent show, but one of the later episodes has George doing a "scared straight" speech to what he thought were at risk youths but were in fact gay teens, and the teens were super tempted by how George described prison life. It was the old joke about how prison was nothing but gay sex and is really awkward.
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YeahTubaMike posted:The episode where he dies really hosed me up. It was the last ER episode I ever bothered with, mostly because the whole death scene was done on a level of Wile E. Coyote. While I appreciate the madness of it, it really seemed like the writers had just run out of things to do at that point and were going to see how far they could push NBC before the series ended. IShallRiseAgain posted:The main plot episodes were always kind of terrible though. While having more serialized TV shows is cool, I do wish shows would still sometimes have stand alone episodes. Sometimes there are cool plots that don't really work if they are tied into a larger and longer narrative. I should admit that right after I poo poo on the X-Files I almost bought the entire thing on blu-ray. So I'm a hypocrite on some level, but a nostalgic one. Oh well.
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Last Chance posted:I just saw The Shield for the first time this summer and I thought it was really effective, but yeah you have to take the time period into context. A time period where Kid Rock’s “Devil Without A Cause” album won a Grammy Nah, Kid Rock was only nominated.
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The T.V. series of My Brother My Brother and Me has an episode where the brothers try to connect with teenagers, which came out in February this year. On a recent episode of the My Brother My Brother and Me podcast they talk about how that episode is already dated, most notably due to the lack of fidget spinners when they're talking about kid's fads.
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Guy Mann posted:A lot of The Shield has aged pretty poorly because it tried so hard to show that this ain't your daddy's basic cable cop show in a way that looks hilarious to modern eyes, but nothing tops the end of the first episode: there's a huge dramatic moment that more or less the entire rest of the series hinges on and the entire scene is set to a loving Kid Rock song. That reminds me of the season 2 finale of The O.C.. Now, I haven't actually watched that show myself, but apparently it was a fairly dramatic moment complete with a character death and everything. And then they put it to this music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D46LisJJzBQ
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:I really liked that episode all the way around (and not because of the helicopter-death scene, although it was a fantastic "HOLKY poo poo!" moment). Helicopter episode is amazing. I think ER has dated pretty well, apart from some outdated medical stuff. Maybe it's because the show is so centred around the hospital. There's not much of the outside world shown, so it's pretty timeless. The stabbing episodes still make me cry.
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Perestroika posted:That reminds me of the season 2 finale of The O.C.. Now, I haven't actually watched that show myself, but apparently it was a fairly dramatic moment complete with a character death and everything. And then they put it to this music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D46LisJJzBQ The thing that's baffling about the song choice is that the dude she shoots is a super reprehensible bad guy and he doesn't even die. OF COURSE he falls into a coma.
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Devil without a cause was a great album
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oldpainless posted:Devil without a cause was a great album For a clown to listen to In the circus Idiot
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more like oldcauseless
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Perestroika posted:That reminds me of the season 2 finale of The O.C.. Now, I haven't actually watched that show myself, but apparently it was a fairly dramatic moment complete with a character death and everything. And then they put it to this music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D46LisJJzBQ Also it doesn't help that SNL parodied this with "Dear Sister."
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Wheat Loaf posted:Nah, Kid Rock was only nominated. Ohh yeah, somehow I had it lodged in my brain that he'd actually won, but still, what a different time.
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Last Chance posted:Ohh yeah, somehow I had it lodged in my brain that he'd actually won, but still, what a different time. I think he was nominated for Best Rock Album or Best Rock Song or somesuch, but only after he stopped rapping and started doing Lynyrd Skynyrd ripoffs. I believe he lost to Coldplay, curiously enough, who I've never really thought of as a rock band.
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Instant Sunrise posted:Also it doesn't help that SNL parodied this with "Dear Sister." Beat me to it, but here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmd1qMN5Yo0
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I always/only know that parody from the further parody of AMVHells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts2Lc_nsXsU
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JediTalentAgent posted:I always/only know that parody from the further parody of AMVHells What the gently caress is this?
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Perestroika posted:That reminds me of the season 2 finale of The O.C.. Now, I haven't actually watched that show myself, but apparently it was a fairly dramatic moment complete with a character death and everything. And then they put it to this music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D46LisJJzBQ Thing that didn't age well from that video, Ben McKenzie's hair.
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Remember in the early 2000s when every show had to use a cover of Hallelujah during emotional scenes? Not just teen dramas either. It'll be easy to date shows from the mid 2000s because they all used 'how to save a life' or 'chasing cars' at least once in their run.
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When you think about, the internet saved us from mediocre music.
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SEX BURRITO posted:Remember in the early 2000s when every show had to use a cover of Hallelujah during emotional scenes? Not just teen dramas either. Mostly because of Shrek, I believe.
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I like how All Star is more known because of Shrek than the movie it was made for, or at least the movie that featured in it's music video.
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Guy Mann posted:A lot of The Shield has aged pretty poorly because it tried so hard to show that this ain't your daddy's basic cable cop show in a way that looks hilarious to modern eyes, but nothing tops the end of the first episode: there's a huge dramatic moment that more or less the entire rest of the series hinges on and the entire scene is set to a loving Kid Rock song. Is there a better way to introduce the villains of a show than to show them trying to act hard and start their downfall to a kid rock song, though? The shield is awesome, and did the whole villain as a protagonist thing well before breaking bad did.
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Croccers posted:I like how All Star is more known because of Shrek than the movie it was made for, or at least the movie that featured in it's music video. Rat Race? The end of Rat Race is basically a Smash Mouth music video. There's a bunch of late 90s / early 00s conedy films where the band playing the soundtrack single shows up. I don't know if it was consciously emulating 1950s teen movies but it's not aged well, because it was almost always ska bands. The last shot of every movie should be accompanied by "All Star" kicking in. It would be much funnier.
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