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food court bailiff posted:lmao i just saw this episode for the very first time and was like "holy poo poo call the cops" and diane did not disappoint but she didn't, she pretended to, then bedded him later. 
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cool, a buncha new posts in the frasier thread oh its just goons demonstrating they're not psychologically built to watch sitcom television its like unfrozen cavemen in reverse. "how bout those 90s huh. strange times, wonder if that was really what it was like" 
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Mar 15, 2019 22:29
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I'm starting to think maybe this "frasier" guy isn't such a great psychiatrist after all!!! 
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Mar 15, 2019 22:31
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You're so much better at internalizing misogyny! So cool!
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this page is like if frasier were set in todays time and online instead of the radio, which is to say, bad
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Mar 15, 2019 22:42
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:You're so much better at internalizing misogyny! So cool! What the gently caress is this post
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Mar 15, 2019 22:56
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oldpainless posted:I must have been drunk as poo poo when I wrote this more like oldmemoryless
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Mar 15, 2019 22:59
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Are you really trolling the Frasier thread?
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Uh, you are with that nonsense projection? Where did that even come from? Is anyone genuinely surprised that a show from 30 years ago was not 30 years ahead of its time? Consider your answer. Jesus, I hope you never find out about a little show they did called F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
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I pressed the Take me to funny posts button and a bunch of poo poo came out instead and now I'm covered in thread poo poo, it was never going to be any other way
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Mar 15, 2019 23:05
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Le Cigar Volant!
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Laterite posted:Le Cigar Volant!
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:I pressed the Take me to funny posts button and a bunch of poo poo came out instead and now I'm covered in thread poo poo, it was never going to be any other way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3zWP3Mrbqs
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Mar 15, 2019 23:41
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"He was a detective you know!"
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Taxi is especially woke, you'll love it
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I went into watching Cheers thinking I’d hate Sam but it’s actually pretty self aware. His depiction as a recovering alcoholic is surprisingly accurate for the time.
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Ted Danson coming off as a nice guy made the whole thing work. See also Tom Selleck.
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Mar 16, 2019 07:43
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GokuGoesSSJ3 posted:I went into watching Cheers thinking I’d hate Sam but it’s actually pretty self aware. His depiction as a recovering alcoholic is surprisingly accurate for the time. That show is ridiculously well written for being an 80s sitcom.
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Bloodplay it again posted:Anthony LaPaglia's wikipedia page says he was only in 8 episodes of Frasier. No loving way it has only been 8 episodes. It feels like 8 seasons. You're telling me there's more Simon-esque garbage in this show? No wonder you all have been talking poo poo about the later seasons. I remember an episode where Frederick comes over and Niles gives his video game a shot, which is actually portrayed pretty well; ie, minimalistically. Also Niles is comically terrible at it and becomes determined to improve. Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There's plenty of real people in their 40's who barely work and are constantly drunk and loving people who they just met, but their lives are sad. Sounds like the life. Frasier is divorced, wealthy and has a fairly low-intensity job, and goes through periods where he's unemployed but clearly doesn't really need to work, not surprising he prefer to focus on his social life. Probably doesn't help that he keeps dating bimbos, possibly trying a change from Lillith. Most of the episodes with Frederick and Lillith seem actually pretty well done, a nice portrayal of divorced parents who make an effort to get along and make sure their child has a nice and stable life. (even if of course they mess up comically along the way) Using Frederick sparingly was a smart idea, most TV shows have no idea what to do with child characters so having an occasional visit works well for using about every plot you could with Frederick but not having to write around him the rest of the time.
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You know that's a great point, if anyone's earned the right to date bimbos for the rest of their life and not catch poo poo about it, it's him.
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Mar 16, 2019 21:09
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Still more woke than Friends! What was offensive about Friends? I never really watched any of it.
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tactlessbastard posted:What was offensive about Friends? I never really watched any of it. it was never explicitly shown but chandler definitely forwarded racist chain emails
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lol but seriously I posted:it was never explicitly shown but chandler definitely forwarded racist chain emails He gets them first from Ross. "It's anthropology! The skull shapes are different!!! You don't think that has any effect?"
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lol but seriously I posted:it was never explicitly shown but chandler definitely forwarded racist chain emails This made me laugh harder than anything on the couple seasons I saw with an ex.
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Laterite posted:Le Cigar Volant!
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F.R.I.E.N.D.S always struck me as total white noise. I just felt like every other show I could be watching had more substance than it did. I’ve seen maybe 4-5 episodes over my life and all of them were because it was on TV in a doctor’s Office or waiting room that I couldn’t change. It’s a “Crazy Pills” type situation where I don’t understand how this show competes with what else was on the air at the time (Jennifer Aniston like doesn’t wear a bra in a few episodes?).
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I've always thought it was odd how people said Frasier was "the smartest show on TV" but the funniest parts don't involve any wordplay: they're just wacky physical stuff that could be in a silent movie or total farce created by people specifically NOT talking to each other when they should have. Don't get me wrong the dialogue is great but still.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I've always thought it was odd how people said Frasier was "the smartest show on TV" but the funniest parts don't involve any wordplay: they're just wacky physical stuff that could be in a silent movie or total farce created by people specifically NOT talking to each other when they should have. There's still smart ways of doing physical comedy. In fact, I'd argue doing stuff with no dialogue that plays just as well is evidence of very clever writing. Like this scene has zero dialogue but is brilliant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpImet3Xwgw
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I've always thought it was odd how people said Frasier was "the smartest show on TV" but the funniest parts don't involve any wordplay: they're just wacky physical stuff that could be in a silent movie or total farce created by people specifically NOT talking to each other when they should have. It's the smartest show on TV but it's a low bar
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The thing about comedy is that you have to be pretty smart to write people being properly, entertainingly stupid.
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I thought it was considered the smartest show on television specifically because Frasier or Niles occasionally use a five dollar word. I'm not disagreeing with you all about the writing being smart.
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LIKE AN ASSASSINS BLADE
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I thought it was considered the smartest show on television specifically because Frasier or Niles occasionally use a five dollar word. I'm not disagreeing with you all about the writing being smart. The people who think of Frasier when they think of “smart” are the same people who think of Trump when they think of “rich”. Ghost Leviathan posted:The thing about comedy is that you have to be pretty smart to write people being properly, entertainingly stupid. It’s this. There’s a reason the first 8-9 seasons of The Simpsons are so beloved, it was a room of Harvard lit nerds writing for an obese buffoon.
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Bust Rodd posted:The people who think of Frasier when they think of “smart” are the same people who think of Trump when they think of “rich”. They think Trump is smart too. They're not very bright.
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tactlessbastard posted:It's the smartest show on TV but it's a low bar Basically. What was Frasier competing with? Everybody loves Raymond, king of queens, yes dear, Titus, that 70s show, home improvement, and reruns of the drew Carey show? I think that's somewhat accurate for the early 2000s but can't remember what all was airing when Frasier was new.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The thing about comedy is that you have to be pretty smart to write people being properly, entertainingly stupid. The show isn't smart, in the sense that it accomplishes anything other than Frasier as a constant pompous foil to laugh at. But it is well written and contrived, and it reaches an audience that thinks it is smart and wishes it were Frasier and lived in a penthouse, and an audience that thinks people like him are actually as stupid as he can be and deserve to be made fun of and don't deserve what they have. It's interesting, because it is also supremely soothing (if you can ignore the misogyny and shittiness) to immerse yourself in a predictable world with predictable outcomes that fashions entertainment over and over again within the confines of normative expectations in new ways. Niles is always snide, Dad is grumpy, Frasier muses and babbles, Roz is a disgusting slut, and the british chick is exasperated. Something something witty bon mot pun *Dad turns on the basketball game with a cheap beer*
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