Chocolate Blades of Thunder

[IrkenInvader]

I hate lame puns!

[Darkside Ron Garvin]

Do I irk you?

I think Bear likes sitcoms because they are just kind of a release from real life in a humorous way... I don't know if it's a loyalty thing. I still like how I met your mother, I mean I would rather watch new episodes of ben and kate but HIMYM will do.

I fail to see

a) how they are a release and
b) how they are "humorous"


I guess I'm just not a "sitcom" kind of guy for what Hollywood is currently putting out, but I will admit to being a fan of some of the older sitcoms... Not because everything was "better back in the day" but because the writing seemed to be more interesting and you didn't need to look for the funny parts; they just came naturally.

[Iron Ape]

I've seen this. It's akin to the "Joss Whedon effect". That's where you get fans of a show who actually come to believe that it is somehow a part of them and they of it. They schedule their weekly viewing of it like some religious spectacle that's coupled with snacks and sodas instead of wafers and sodomy. (!) They get together with their friends ("You're Marshall! NO! YOU'RE Marshall!!!") for episode marathons and discuss at length overly derived meaning from each episode and put so much energy into understanding Ted Mosby.

Which is fine, if you have nothing else going on.

Also, with some people, more of what they've come to love is essentially enough. It's like, well, one piece of pizza is good, so surely two pieces must be better. As long as the formula is still in place and the characters they like are still there, everything is all gravy. It's more about comfort than it is art. They don't care about worthwhile story arcs and organic character development. They just want to see retreads of the things that made them laugh in previous episodes. The shows become like old friends that they can depend on to be there, forever unchanging.

[Robstar]

Fair point but I'd still give it to Kevin because Joss still makes good movies.

I was referring to his tv shows in actuality.

[Dennis]

I fail to see

a) how they are a release and
b) how they are "humorous"


I guess I'm just not a "sitcom" kind of guy for what Hollywood is currently putting out, but I will admit to being a fan of some of the older sitcoms... Not because everything was "better back in the day" but because the writing seemed to be more interesting and you didn't need to look for the funny parts; they just came naturally.

Have you watched episodes New Girl or Community? I have heard good things about Parks and Recs as well... Raising hope is a solid sitcom as well, all of these sitcoms seem to have organic humor.

[IrkenInvader]

[Iron Ape]

Do I irk you?

I think Bear likes sitcoms because they are just kind of a release from real life in a humorous way... I don't know if it's a loyalty thing. I still like how I met your mother, I mean I would rather watch new episodes of ben and kate but HIMYM will do.

I think all people like their preferred forms of entertainment because they offer some degree of escapism. But that's not really what we're talking about; it's when people refuse to acknowledge very objective flaws and/or down-turns in the things that they like to which we're referring.

[Darkside Ron Garvin]

Have you watched episodes New Girl or Community? I have heard good things about Parks and Recs as well... Raising hope is a solid sitcom as well, all of these sitcoms seem to have organic humor.

Wasn't a fan of New Girl but Community and Park & Recs were solid shows for the episodes I watched... Just couldn't hook me into watching weekly. Raising Hope was perhaps the closest (I watched the first season) but when I missed my first episode, I didn't find myself running to the On Demand section as if I missed something that I MUST watch in order to be satisfied with my television viewing experience for the day. I think that’s the biggest problem with them is that I don’t feel that I need to set a series recording option in order to watch them weekly, and that I am perfectly content with just catching them when flipping through channels.

[bearkg88]

Yeah, all of the award show are excruciating. Although, I'll confess to watching the Golden Globes with my girlfriend, but that's only because Amy Poehler and Tina Fey were hosting; those two could get me to watch just about anything (except for new episodes of How I Met Your Mother ).

*shakes head at last part*

[Robstar]

Also, with some people, more of what they've come to love is essentially enough. It's like, well, one piece of pizza is good, so surely two pieces must be better. As long as the formula is still in place and the characters they like are still there, everything is all gravy. It's more about comfort than it is art. They don't care about worthwhile story arcs and organic character development. They just want to see retreads of the things that made them laugh in previous episodes. The shows become like old friends that they can depend on to be there, forever unchanging.

Because that would be LEGEND----wait for it---------...........sorry nope, can't even finish that lamest of lame catch cries.

I still remember people losing their shit when shows like Friends and Sex & The City ended. It's like, come on guys, get real, it's just a show. It's not even close to anything like real life and while it's a nice distraction sometimes, that's all it ever is. You'd think that such devotion would be due to the idea that these actors are just as devoted to their respective work when really? It's all about the cold hard cash and that's why they snigger at you behind their hands at fanfests. True story.