That's why I'll never understand the actual nerds I've met in real life who love this show.
Like, you realize the show is laughing AT you, not WITH you, right?
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What is a show that makes you think "How the fuck did this get so big?"
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That's why I'll never understand the actual nerds I've met in real life who love this show.
Like, you realize the show is laughing AT you, not WITH you, right?
And if you see pictures of the family before the show started they look totally different (generic middle class white dudes/ladies). They are 100% selling an image.
And apparently they didn't always look like a bunch of rednecks that feared a barber
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this was the first thing i thought of too.
i really don't get the appeal
i knew someone that was pretty into it and tried to get me to watch
and it ended up being a rape scene or something that i really didn't need to see
and i've hated it more ever since
Most shows if I am being honest, but then again I am out of step with the general American public. Any show I love gets canceled early and all the shows I don't last for over a decade.
Is wanting to spend all day doing whatever you want with unlimited money and a beautiful spouse really exclusive to white men?
Alan was a somewhat decent voice of reason who became the show's punching bag and he eventually devolved into a skeevy lowlife like his brother.
Doctor Who. I haven't watched it since the Matt Smith doctor, but it was kinda surprising to me how massive it seemed to get in popular culture. Maybe it was just a Reddit bubble, but it seems like for a handful of years there was an intense fervor for Doctor Who. Tardis jokes, constant quotes from the show like the "bowties are cool" one, etc. etc.
It's a show that I remember as being decent with cheesy writing that was sometimes great, and some goofy special effects and CGI. While I enjoyed it, I didn't quite understand how it got so massive.
It's a show that I remember as being decent with cheesy writing that was sometimes great, and some goofy special effects and CGI. While I enjoyed it, I didn't quite understand how it got so massive.
Uhhh...excuse me. Bowties ARE cool. But yeah. Even as I was first getting into Doctor Who, I was confused on the love for it. I disliked more than I liked, and only really fell in love when Matt Smith came along.
In all honesty, I'm not sure I've seen full episodes of american dad
I looked at their release date and bases on that I think what I saw (tried maybe like 5 episodes?) was family Guy. And since the other one has the same look and feel, I didn't bother to try.
But I'm pretty sure I catched snippets of it, and that didn't click with me.
I have the same reaction towards Rick and Morty. I saw another poster mentionned it and it made me realize this is also one of those show.
I dunno, to me it's like they try hard to be funny
There's a little of 'instant nostalgia' with doctor who.
Apart from some really great episode, it's pretty sub par. Writing is usually not too good, suspense meh, lots of techno babble and random ways to solve a situation.
But it's also sweet, naive enough, and somehow I look back at episodes and overall plot with fondness. It also helps that the actors who played the doctors are all amazing imo
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Gavin & Stacey (British sitcom). Didn't even crack a smile and it was unbelievably popular, it seemed to infest every single aspect of British Culture at one point, people going OHH, WHATS OCCURIN' all the fucking time and it had that irritating lump James Corden in it. Ugh.
Also Two and a Half men and Big Bang Theory.
Also Two and a Half men and Big Bang Theory.
I find most really popular comedies pretty terrible - stuff like Big Bang Theory (the laugh track puts me off so much), Two and a Half Men, and from the UK side shit like Not Going Out or Mrs Brown's Boys. I dislike any reality TV show which is just about someone's life, like the Kardashians or the Osbournes, and I don't like most talent shows either as they always add in fucking sob stories to manipulate the audience.
I never understood the appeal either. Horribly unfunny.
Every single reality show just about. The UK goes fucking mental for them and as one finishes the next one starts.
Love Island is really popular. Never got the appeal of judging other peoples love lives.
I've been watching Russell Howards Good News so watching SNL just doesn't make me laugh because I've seen funnier.
I've been watching Russell Howards Good News so watching SNL just doesn't make me laugh because I've seen funnier.
If you have Netflix check out The Toys That Made Us' TMNT episode. While focused more on the toy development, it's a deep dive to the road there and the toyline is intregal.
Afterwards check out the He-Man episode. Bunch of rogues.
Definitely Big Bang Theory. It's the most brain dead and unfunny shit I've ever seen.
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Yeah, seems to be. You can not like half the shows being mentioned but still see why they made an impact. Almost as if appealing to a wide audience gets you a wide audience or something.
It's "Dank Memes The TV Show". It's success doesn't really surprise me.
This is true, of course. But for me, with something like Big Bang, I've always been genuinely baffled by how anyone likes it or, worse, finds it funny. It gets so many things wrong and most of the "laughs" are cheap/easy. It just seems like a stereotype being shallowly mined for 12 years.
Total Drama Anything
I wish the entire series would just vanish altogether. It's the modern Johnny Test.
I wish the entire series would just vanish altogether. It's the modern Johnny Test.
Big Bang Theory
How I Met Your Mother
Any popular reality show
Walking Dead
And I don't know how "big" it got, but my wife has been watching the series 'Suits' and it might be the worst show I've ever seen. It's so fucking stupid and takes itself so seriously.
How I Met Your Mother
Any popular reality show
Walking Dead
And I don't know how "big" it got, but my wife has been watching the series 'Suits' and it might be the worst show I've ever seen. It's so fucking stupid and takes itself so seriously.
Any show on the CW. Holy shit that channel is bad. Also most every comedy on CBS. I assume those shows are aimed at old people given they all have a laugh track to let viewers know that something was supposed to be funny.
/shrug. I find it funny, or at least, the early seasons. It's a brainless sitcom.
Star Wars. Just...don't get it. They're great movies but all the fandom that came from it? Meh.
I like my weaboo shit so I can't talk.
I like my weaboo shit so I can't talk.
Maybe that's the thing - it went too long or something? I never saw it in the early days, but I'm sure it was sharper.
I think I have some animosity towards it, too, because people were always surprised I didn't like it because I'm a "geek."
Tosh slid under the door in the 11th hour before social media made his concept completely irrelevant.
Yeah. The earlier seasons had a bit more snap to them, and the characters didn't seem as complacent in their mannerisms. It was nice seeing things change, like Sheldon hooking up with Amy or whatever, but no one grows all that much, so by even the middle seasons, it begins to feel pretty static. I generally like the dynamic everyone has, though I never saw much of the last like three seasons. By then most of the jokes stopped landing.
The few episodes I have seen from the last season did have some good moments, but I saw them after not seeing the show for some time. I think it's one of those things where it's played so much that you get kind of numb to it, so if you quit and come back later, it feels a little bit more fresh. Or maybe just nostalgic given how long it's been going.
Invader Zim.
I didn't laugh, I found it to be trying too hard to be "edgy" bitter and mean-spirited, I didn't like the voice acting, and plenty others.
I didn't laugh, I found it to be trying too hard to be "edgy" bitter and mean-spirited, I didn't like the voice acting, and plenty others.