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30 rock and parks and rec are always held up as some of the greatest comedy shows of the past two decades, and they are good and everything but 30 rock is too limited in its scope and parks and rec is too utopian with its overarching narrative of "progressives and libertarians can meet in the middle, and joe biden is cool." i think a lot of the scenes look especially silly post 2016. it is still a fun show to watch but the optimism in many parts is eye rollingly bad enter superstore. rather than critiquing two perspectives from the middle, superstore critiques the system decidedly from the left (while focusing on workers.) spoilers for people who haven't seen it, but the season 4 plot arch where "progressive" jonah ends up siding with his manager girlfriend when the store tries to unionize is arguably marxist. and yet from what i've seen, far fewer people have ever seen superstore. for example, the youtube channel has less than half the youtube followers than the one for parks and rec so for people who have seen superstore, i'd like to know what you think. and for people who haven't seen superstore, and especially fans of parks and rec who found themselves cringing at times due to the liberalness of it, i'd highly recommend watching superstore. also it's funny
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30 Rock is a lot better than Superstore, its really on another level entirely, but Superstore is still a great under-celebrated sitcom. Dina is an absolute killer on there, just hilarious. I also enjoy the slide of Jonah going from the cool main character to being portrayed as a dumb pathetic loser, that's always satisfying. Its a lot better than Parks and Rec, it doesn't have that cloying sentimentality that the second half of Parks is just covered with.
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Sep 20, 2023 11:38
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How funny is it?
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personally, i think it is the funniest of the three. also it's probably the darkest
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Was Better off Ted any good? I liked it in like 2010.
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but like none of those comedies are actually all that funny or good, op?
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Beartaco posted:Was Better off Ted any good? I liked it in like 2010. It was really good, I watched it again recently. The episode about black people not activating the sensor doors is an all time banger.
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NoiseAnnoys posted:but like none of those comedies are actually all that funny or good, op?
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Sep 20, 2023 12:09
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forgot to put this in the op, but this thread is a "no trolling zone"
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Sep 20, 2023 12:12
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why'd you post it GBS then, OP
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Beartaco posted:Was Better off Ted any good? I liked it in like 2010. Better off ted was amazing
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The Offince
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Sep 20, 2023 15:14
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The best character is Bo and is the only character that is constantly quoted in my house.
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Beartaco posted:Was Better off Ted any good? I liked it in like 2010.
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Superstore is pretty drat good but not better than 30 Rock. I'm sorry but 30 has maybe the most comedically-dense scripts I've ever seen. It does have a fantastic cast and they are shown to be petty/stupid in fairly realistic ways, which I appreciate. I don't know why Mark McKinny is doing that voice but I love it.
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Inzombiac posted:I don't know why Mark McKinny is doing that voice but I love it. that's how all canadians sound.
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Sep 20, 2023 15:33
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This place? They've got some good deals.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:This place? They've got some good deals. Remember in the 90s when some of the employees would rollerblade around the store??
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:This place? They've got some good deals. this is what i thought of when i read the thread title. apparently its also a tv show. i was gonna say, uh, op, superstore is getting plenty of attention and gaylen weston has been getting brutally roasted lately
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Sep 20, 2023 16:06
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It's a good show op I like it
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Sep 20, 2023 16:10
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I'll be honest I have never heard of it. Apparently it came out in 2015 but I haven't really had TV since 2013 maybe.
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I really liked Superstore, but I rewatch the Office and 30 Rock annually. I've never rewatched Superstore. American Auto is, by far, the worst of these types of shows.
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I was worried that superstore was one of those ABC Family type shows with an impossibly unrealistic view of hourly employees written by moneyed people with no clue is it good then?
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Sep 20, 2023 16:23
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Have you guys seen this how I met your mother show ?? It is legen--wait for it -- DARY!!!!! XD
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Barbie did a lot to warm me up to America Ferrera, but she seems typecast as the stressed MILF who can't have fun while she manages everyone else's lives. As such I didn't really like how her romance with Jonah (also kind of annoying) took up so much oxygen in the room. The supporting characters are just the best, though. As mentioned in the OP Dina is great (I like her in Not Dead Yet, too, and will take Gina Rodriguez over Ferrera any day) but I think Glenn is the funniest. Also the scene transitions of random people acting bizarrely yet believably in the store as they shop often got me to laugh out loud. Also I will never be able to hear "Creep" again without thinking of the funeral they held for the Asian guy they thought died inside the walls. The show is unflinchingly sympathetic to minimum wage service workers caught in the gears of a system designed to crush them and extract all the value they can from them. Parks & Rec obviously has the political chops to please a coastal elite like myself but Superstore feels more honest and even loving, really. Of all the workplace comedies out there, though, I think 30 Rock will forever remain my favorite.
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Honestly I love this show, it's the only comedy show where I've rewatched the entire series.
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Gina wearing the cop costume with the insane cleavage every year for halloween was hilarious and also awesome.
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Nooner posted:Have you guys seen this how I met your mother show ?? It is legen--wait for it -- DARY!!!!! XD Bazinga!
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I'm watching it now OP. IT BETTER BE GOOD!! 
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Caesar Saladin posted:Gina wearing the cop costume with the insane cleavage every year for halloween was hilarious and also awesome. Don't you dare try to turn this into a horny thread
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Always love to judge my nbc sitcoms on how tbey evoke class war
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it’s a show about employees working together, and guys, you wouldn’t believe the wacky stuff they get up to
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I watched the last couple seasons with my brother & mother and it's aggressively fine. A broad, workplace sitcom, definitely not on the level of 30 Rock, Community, or even P&R and lol at OP's selling point being, "actually it's hecking communist when you think about it" and not whether it's funny or not.
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Triikan posted:Don't you dare try to turn this into a horny thread i'm being objective here, her bazongas are an important running joke in the show
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Beartaco posted:Was Better off Ted any good? I liked it in like 2010. Very good, one of the wittiest shows I've ever watched. 30 Rock is in my top five, though; Parks would be top five as well if it wasn't so cloyingly idealistic at all times, but when it's funny it's funny. It's top ten for sure. Someone please sell me on What We Do in the Shadows. Once Archer ends I'll need a new comedy to watch.
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what we do is good. sometimes the humor is a little repetitive and it has the occasional bad episode, but the main cast is great and can really sell it even when the writing is so-so
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Watch the movie first too.
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Caesar Saladin posted:Watch the movie first too. I'm bummed the werewolf movie plan got dropped
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