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Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants

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le nubian - Oct 01, 2011 6:20:07 am PDT #4416 of 8625
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Jesse,

I stopped watching sitcoms in the early 1990s. My main problem with most of them then was that the humor beats were too predictable (see "Two and a Half Men" for a today's example). It was so boring predicting all the laugh beats and the jokes. "Seinfeld", while generally a funny show, fell into this trap in the later seasons.

"Parks and Recreation", "Community" almost never fall into this trap for me. Even in episodes that don't really work, I don't find the humor all that predictable. A lot of what I find funny nowadays are things that take me by surprise ("Louie" at his high points).

beekaytee - Oct 01, 2011 7:53:30 am PDT #4417 of 8625
Compassionately intolerant

Earth 2

I'm probably the only one who either watched, or assumed the reference was to, you know, Earth 2.

What? It had Clancy Brown and Tim Curry. How could I pass that up?

Jesse - Oct 01, 2011 8:03:50 am PDT #4418 of 8625
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

"Parks and Recreation", "Community" almost never fall into this trap for me. Even in episodes that don't really work, I don't find the humor all that predictable. A lot of what I find funny nowadays are things that take me by surprise ("Louie" at his high points).

Yeah, I like Parks & Rec and Louie and Archer, can't get into Community, but I guess the "standard" sitcoms, no matter how good, just aren't for me.

Jesse - Oct 01, 2011 8:20:26 am PDT #4419 of 8625
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I realize this is a pretty stupid thing to post about, but it was surprising to me! I thought I was just out of the habit.

Morgana - Oct 01, 2011 12:35:17 pm PDT #4420 of 8625
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

I watch "Frasier" in reruns. (Not so much for Frasier himself, but for the ensemble, and for Niles. I adore Niles.) But on the whole sitcoms leave me cold. So you're not alone.

quester - Oct 01, 2011 1:14:49 pm PDT #4421 of 8625
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I'm probably the only one who either watched, or assumed the reference was to, you know, Earth 2.

Not the only one.

beekaytee - Oct 01, 2011 4:56:41 pm PDT #4422 of 8625
Compassionately intolerant

Phew.

Amy - Oct 01, 2011 5:15:11 pm PDT #4423 of 8625
Because books.

I used to love sitcoms. I watched them all -- Cosby, Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld, etc.

And then I just stopped, even though I still love reruns of Friends (it's a happy place). But Community got me back into sitcoms, and now I'm watching Big Bang and 30 Rock in reruns, and Raising Hope and New Girl in real time.

Rayne - Oct 01, 2011 6:34:19 pm PDT #4424 of 8625
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire

Amy, if you haven't tried Parks and Recreation, you should give it a try. It took me several eps to fall in love with it, but now it's far and away my favorite show on the air (and I'm normally not a comedy person)!

erin_obscure - Oct 01, 2011 9:09:19 pm PDT #4425 of 8625
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

I'm ok with sitcoms as long as there isn't a laugh track. I barely made it through the pilot of 2 broke girls due to that hideous laugh track *shudder* One of the many reasons I adore 30 Rock and Community: they let me laugh when i want to.

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