Me with Seinfeld.
the liquid hearty meal will not be given to you
Look, no one TOLD you life was gonna be this way…
Me with Big Bang Theory.
I genuinely don’t understand why anyone likes it. Every moment is pure torture to me. Humor is subjective, sure. But I just don’t get it.
Anything with a laugh track in it is poison to my mind.
Then you should like friends. They played to live audience.
You remove the laugh track and it turns out it’s all verbal abuse.
The tv show “Kevin can F**k himself” makes fun of this exact thing. Highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJB6VQ0his4
This show was really well done. I wish it went in a slightly different direction, but I enjoyed it. It was a very unique take on the sitcom.
It’s such a great show
But damn it’s painful to watch
I couldn’t stand watching it because of that. The jokes themselves were passable.
In the late 90’s UK it was a huge show, everyone really liked it, it was one of the first binge serials I can remember. I’ve not watched it for 25 years, maybe worth revisiting, although reading through the comments, seems it hasn’t aged well. It’s always sunny in Philadelphia is probably a better re-watch these days, it’s like extreme (anti) Friends on crack.
IASIP is more like Seinfeld on meth.
It was sorta funny back then, at the time we didn’t have nearly as much selection of niche stuff as we do now. If you stayed up late you could catch Beavis and Butthead and that was about it.
It was the thing you watched with your parents.
Now it just comes across like it’s a cleaned up comment section of a mainstream social media site. The stuff they hope to portray themselves as.
Honestly, I love friends, but I would never recommend it to younger audiences.
Humour is a very personal choice, and like colors, not everything being fun for the same people. On top of that, A TON of today’s humour descends from friends, so the jokes feel dated and simple, but they were the literal origin of many tropes, at the time it was perfection, like a chewing gum.
And most importantly, nowadays people (specially chronically online people) can’t just sit back and relax, they are always being judgemental little pricks to feel superior to everyone else, while not even trying to contextualise the time when what they are seeing was made.
Not to mention how sad it is that all the media, no matter the genre, have to pass their stupid moral compass (whether the progressive one or the conservative one). The whole sit back, relax and have a laugh is lost to them.
Is a very sad reality of hyper judgement they lived in, probably fueled by the cancer that is social media. I’m sad for them, they keep chasing the internet points thinking it will make them happy somehow, they don’t just watch something, they keep filling the checklist to then “have something to say”.
I’m so happy the internet was not a thing when I was growing up, what a brain worm I dodged, just in time to enjoy it as an adult as well. I’m really sorry for the young people today.
Very interesting take I never thought about that at all. What about just what you consider “good” or “bad”? You think it’s better to watch whatever is in front of you/ available and have no criticism for it ? I’m most critical of media I enjoy most but not in a judgement social media way you are picturing
as always there is nuanced to everything, if I see a comedy or horror I’m not going to hold it to the same standards as a drama that is trying to convey a message, there will be a limit if it goes against my values in a crazy way, and I’ll stop watching it, but my main mentality is not there, I don’t watch it from a “defensive” position, so my alarms don’t go off as easily as other people’s, and I assume more good intent by default, which allows me to enjoy more of them, even if they “make fun” of my way of thinking or morals.
Being able to laugh about yourself or your beliefs without thinking you are “helping the other side win” in some kind of imaginary online culture war is quite healthy actually.
If I can’t comment on, upvote, downvote, report, share, like and subscribe to and article or piece of art, then what’s the point of me experiencing it at all?
The emotions that it makes you feel are yours, they’re valid on their own even if you don’t share them with the world.
If you go in with the predisposition that it won’t be funny, then of course it won’t be. Go watch something else.
Most of the shows is just laughing sound in the back for comedy
@titty_wizard I didn’t like Friends when it was on the air, and I’ve never liked it. There are millions of people who like it, and that’s fine. But I don’t relate to the characters, and the plot lines for the episodes sounded dumb to me.
When I watched Friends, though, I didn’t think that I looked like Imhotep.
I Don’t like american humor i think
lack of pocs in NYC.
I don’t think it’s the funniest show on earth, I don’t think it’s even an amazing show, but it has its moments. Pretending otherwise for internet points is cringe.
It’s one of those shows that you have to watch when it first came out.
I actually disagree. I’ve gone back to watch it and find it very cozy. It’s like I’m flipping through cable in the 90s and, oh, a show I’ve not seen!
See Game of thrones
You mean when you are a child?
Deeply unfunny show full if unrelatable, unlikable characters.
