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Guavanaut posted:Because nobody told them about how much better Seinfeld was (just don't check in on what any of the cast did later).
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I went in very skeptical of Seinfeld as the traditional laugh track sitcom has never really done much for me. Buuut. gently caress me, it's a funny and surprisingly dark show. It's so good I'm legit shocked it was actually a mainstream smash.
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Larry David had a lot of life experience that let him make the show work as well as it did.
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It's so obvious that pretty much every shameful situation George gets into is some version of Larry David's life
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I do not believe this for a moment and Mr Eton knew exactly what a bunch of shitcunts he was raising They are the exact product Eton wanted; privilege, entitlement and all
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Home Bargains is choc full of Friends paraphenalia, I can't understand why! Do today's kids (ie anyone under 30) even remember that show? As a teacher, I remember a few years back a bunch of students had or were wearing Friends merch because they'd all been binging it when it first went on Netflix. Not sure if it's endured since, but Friends was pretty big to teens a few years back.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:lol at people doing the "not getting" friends and seinfeld. er. ok There's nothing to get in Friends. A friend of mine inflicted an episode on me and there literally weren't any jokes in it. One of the male leads who isn't David Schwimmer opens the door and enters the apartment. The laugh track goes off. My friend laughs, a Pavlovian response. Repeat for 23 minutes. I can see why you evidently like it though.
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forkboy84 posted:People assure me that Seinfeld gets much better after the first 2 seasons but it'd have to, because Jerry Seinfeld doing stand-up at the beginning of episodes is the dirt worst. Observational comedy that makes Peter Kay bellowing about garlic bread seem like high art. "You ever notice how men, men are all from MARS? But women - WOMEN are from VENUS!" rinse repeat Danger - Octopus! posted:Poundland had a whole lot of Legally Blonde branded stuff the other week, which was equally baffling in a "why now?" way There was a musical adaptation fairly recently I think.
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Jedit posted:There's nothing to get in Friends. A friend of mine inflicted an episode on me and there literally weren't any jokes in it. One of the male leads who isn't David Schwimmer opens the door and enters the apartment. The laugh track goes off. My friend laughs, a Pavlovian response. Repeat for 23 minutes. Guessing it was Matt le Blanc aka Joey, who was meant to be the clown of the show.
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Jun 14, 2023 09:35
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It’s all just so loving stupid. If this had been exactly a year ago Keith would have been claiming the NHS could be saved via the possibilities of the blockchain and NFTs 
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Jedit posted:There's nothing to get in Friends. A friend of mine inflicted an episode on me and there literally weren't any jokes in it. One of the male leads who isn't David Schwimmer opens the door and enters the apartment. The laugh track goes off. My friend laughs, a Pavlovian response. Repeat for 23 minutes. this is surprisingly dour and joyless even for the UKMT
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Gorn Myson posted:Its pretty easy to explain why Friends resonated with a wider audience than Seinfeld did in the UK
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Jun 14, 2023 09:54
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:this is surprisingly dour and joyless even for the UKMT being performatively above pop culture things is par for the course
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Marmaduke! posted:Only the Kramer may elicit laughs by entering a doorway https://twitter.com/StolenDans/status/1564425398401867778
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AI will reduce waiting times the same way call center robots reduce waiting times, in that eventually everyone gets so frustrated they give up and just don't bother. Except this time it's not about getting charged £30 extra on a phone bill but it's about trying to get this strange bleeding mole looked at.
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*dialling 999* hello yes can you put me through to the ambulance service please AI voice: your cancer is terminal *click*
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smellmycheese posted:It’s all just so loving stupid. If this had been exactly a year ago Keith would have been claiming the NHS could be saved via the possibilities of the blockchain and NFTs FREE UP THE STAFF TO DO WHAT MOTHERFUCKER Jedit posted:There's nothing to get in Friends. A friend of mine inflicted an episode on me and there literally weren't any jokes in it. There are network minimums of one joke per script page, which translates to at least one every 15-30 seconds - if there was 'literally' not one you related to in the whole episode, seek medication. I can get deriding it for being lowbrow, or formulaic, or whatever, but come on man. Friends was at best average and a lot of average people liked it, the 'being baffled by thing lots of people seemed to enjoy' is a tired cliche.
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Jun 14, 2023 10:29
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I recall there being a lot of pretty open homophobia and transphobia in the show, which product of its time and all but can leave a bad taste in the mouth.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:[goose meme]free up the staff to do what save money By not being staff any more
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Jedit posted:There's nothing to get in Friends. A friend of mine inflicted an episode on me and there literally weren't any jokes in it. One of the male leads who isn't David Schwimmer opens the door and enters the apartment. The laugh track goes off. My friend laughs, a Pavlovian response. Repeat for 23 minutes. Friends was filmed in front of an audience iirc
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Jun 14, 2023 10:32
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Did they receive compensation? Friends without the laugh track vibes like it's about to turn into a syndicated crime drama at any moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BFSZ8XzWOM
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Oh this is vile https://twitter.com/GoldingBF/status/1668724230836330498 Gonna be honest Paul, don't think a young person with the surname Kumar would be down with your "gently caress the immigrants" rhetoric.
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Jun 14, 2023 10:36
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You never know, there are plenty of “our family came here the right way” cunts out there as well, having immigration in your heritage doesn’t make you immune to being a poo poo about immigrants. Still, ghoulish and gently caress that guy.
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Jedit posted:There's nothing to get in Friends. A friend of mine inflicted an episode on me and there literally weren't any jokes in it. One of the male leads who isn't David Schwimmer opens the door and enters the apartment. The laugh track goes off. My friend laughs, a Pavlovian response. Repeat for 23 minutes. you probably didn't see one of the ones with a monkey in it. you'd change your mind.
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Aren’t there quite a few Friends episodes where the central gag is “OMG you’re dating somebody who is trans / a different race / has a funny voice”? I seem to recall a lot of it aging quite badly for something that was extremely milquetoast comedy at the time.
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josh04 posted:
It was really good fun. I wonder if it also had a bit of a bump due to the Coolidgeenaissance after White Lotus as well.
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TACD posted:Aren’t there quite a few Friends episodes where the central gag is “OMG you’re dating somebody who is trans / a different race / has a funny voice”? No.
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Friends was funny (at the time at least) but New Girl is the far superior hangout comedy
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I enjoyed how I met your mother
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Also the show was good too
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Community is good imo. Has our boy John Oliver repeatedly occur.
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Skulker posted:No.
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I found Frasier a likeable show, Seinfeld & Friends did nothing for me at all. 
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Frasier is how Boris Johnson imagines himself, when he's actually a worse Archie Bunker.
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None of it's as good as Fawlty towers or only fools and horses anyway
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Humour is subjective. I don't personally find friends very funny on the whole. Its very bland and formulaic, it has the classic 90s homophobia, the 'we're cool and progressive unhateful people, now get ready for a full episode of gay panic' kind. It has some jokes though, the man put a turkey on his head for example. Part of the problem is that it was just on all the time, before like actually watching tv really died. Overexposure made me very cynical about the show i think. Had the same thing happen with Big Bang, where you couldn't glance a a tv without seeing half an episode you'd seen 5 times already. Even tho i liked it a lot at first theres only so many times you can watch it before you notice the main guy is the most joyless fucker in the world and the guy who plays him increasingly thinks that the way to seem like a nerd is to tilt his head back and squint a bit and loving sheldon is awful too i hate him i hate him i hate him and i hate the designated sexual harasment nerd the most
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Friends is pretty funny. Seinfeld’s funny. Curb Your Enthusiasm is really really loving funny.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:There is the entire arc with one of Chandler's parents, it's transphobic as gently caress. Yeah but a single transphobic character arc that comes up in a few episodes isn’t the same as a constant stream of transphobic/problematic dating storylines like the question asked. There was way more homophobia with people repeatedly assuming chandler was gay for comedic effect and that episode where two of the guys found out they liked spooning together. Show has aged terribly but some of it is probably still acceptably funny, they weren’t all punching down jokes. History Comes Inside! fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Jun 14, 2023 |
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