yeah i don't know if america will ever get behind these shows in a major way, but shows that hit a niche are probably as likely to get a decent life somewhere on tv today (esp if the cougar town tbs shift works out) as they ever where.
― da croupier, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
i thought 30 Rock's overall ratings/cultural profile would raise after syndicated reruns started this past year, but if anything the opposite has happened.
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
a thousand points to the first web journalist to find a kid raised on 30 rock reruns who had no idea NBC was a real network
― da croupier, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
Here are some differences though: i) You can jump in and watch any episode of Seinfeld and understand it without needing the context of the rest of the series. This is not the case with at least this season of Community.ii) The humour in Seinfeld does not generally rely on layered cultural references. You don't need to know a bunch of other things to get the jokes on Seinfeld. I often think that e.g. as much as I love "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas", no one will find much of it funny in 20 years when Bjork, Tim Burton, and Lost are no longer current (or recent).
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, May 11, 2012 12:27 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM, at its base, seinfeld was about really primal human stuff - vanity, hate, boredom, pettiness, etc
tbh i sometimes see early 30 Rocks on syndication and some of the references are already starting to become incomprehensible
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 May 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
For all I know, Bjork and Tim Burton will be taught in schools 20 years from now
― da croupier, Friday, 11 May 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
like, yeah, there are alienating elements to these shows that make them less likely to achieve Wings-like ratings, but if these shows age like SCTV...I'm fine with that.
― da croupier, Friday, 11 May 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
wings was p dope overall
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 May 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't mean to suggest wings wasn't mad fresh
― da croupier, Friday, 11 May 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
church
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 May 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
i) You can jump in and watch any episode of Seinfeld and understand it without needing the context of the rest of the series. This is not the case with at least this season of Community.
I think Community is off-putting for new viewers, (Seinfeld probably was too--taking several episodes for viewers to figure out who you were supposed to be rooting for: no one) but it's not really any more of a serial comedy than most other sitcoms--certainly not like Parks and Rec with its season-long story arcs. What do you really need to know about the Community mythos to enjoy that Law & Order parody? These characters are wacky?
― President Keyes, Friday, 11 May 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
ooh a law and order parody i bet that was funney
― thommys got bendz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
dear community,
your arms are too short to box with god.
http://www.emcblue.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/law-nd-order-svu.jpg
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
Parks renewed for 13 episodes and slated for the fall, so a back 9 isn't out of the question. Up All Night also renewed. Not so much with the overhaul, then.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
ughhhhh fuckin Up All Night
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
ParkandRec has been renewed for 22 episodes, not 13!
Whitney also renewed.
― polyphonic, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
haha jesus christ
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
Outsourced aside, pretty much all the new comedies NBC has canceled in the past 2 years are far more tolerable than the ones that have been renewed
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
HAPPY ENDINGS will be back for a full season of 22 episodes.
― polyphonic, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
^^^Important news not to be slept on^^^^
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
Yay for P&R, Up All Night and Happy Endings!
Hope that The Office really does go away, but it probably won't.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
Parks renewed for 13 episodes and slated for the fall
Good news for Schur's proposed arc to have Ben working in D.C. through the first week of November.
― Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
glad for 'up all night' even though i've never watched it tbqf, a friend of mine is on that show.
― omar little, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
more interested in watching 'parks and rec' or 'community' at some point.
― omar little, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
are you friends with the baby
― max, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
is the baby ur friend on up all night
Up All Night has the same general feel as Modern Family to me, except there are fewer characters to follow and it's (thank goodness) not shot documentary style.
I do not watch Modern Family regularly, though, so I don't have the same sort of attachment to any of its characters as I do Up All Night.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
hooray for everyone!
― Nhex, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
max otm
― omar little, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
Up All Night has the same general feel as Baby Blues comic strips to me
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
lovin this tv analysis
― flopson, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
some dude, have you watched Up All Night at all since, say, December?
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
Really glad Parks & Rec got the full pickup. It's the least niche-y of the ones I watch, and I feel like it could really catch on with more people if, like, more people would watch the fuckin' thing. Plus this last season was so good. So yay. Also yay to Happy Endings, which I only really caught on to shortly before the season ended, so I have some catching up to do.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
probably, but not much -- i made some effort to give it time to improve, but obv once it starts to feel like a conscious effort to 'keep up' it becomes kind of a lost cause to do so (xpost)
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
so community is on for a fourth season reduced?
― flopson, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
yessssss, so glad parks and rec got the full 22!
― the minister of RAILWAYS (reddening), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Community is confirmed for 13 eps (although the possibility appears to still exist of more episodes being added or it suriviving past next season, not a firm "13 and that's it" thing as previously speculated).
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
the onion article speculates it's essentially coming back as a "new" show, competing with the other new sitcoms for the back 9. oh yeah, and Dan Harmon might be stepping down as showrunner.
― Nhex, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
very happy about P&R. figured Happy Endings had a good shot at renewal
wtf gr80
― flopson, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
dan tweeted that if he stepped down as showrunner, it wouldn't be just because chevy is dick. like that article reported. then again he didn't flat out say "no i'm not stepping down" so PANIC
― the minister of RAILWAYS (reddening), Friday, 11 May 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
― some dude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpYhGdrknlA
― markers, Friday, 11 May 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
lolololol
i tell markers what banks told me, go head switch ya style up
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 May 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
Amazing fact about NBC: Harry's Law, which they've just cancelled, was their most watched scripted show.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Friday, 11 May 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
Wow. Yeah, that just about sums them up, all right.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 11 May 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't even know that show existed until just now
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 May 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
That show was part of why they brought Spader in on The Office.
― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 11 May 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
Was it Harry the judge from Night Court?
― President Keyes, Friday, 11 May 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
n, Kathy Bates.
― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 11 May 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
It was a pretty stupid decision, calling a Kathy Bates Harry's Law. I mean, "that show with Kathy Bates" and "that Harry's Law show that I don't know what it is but which I assume is a courtroom drama about some dude named Harry" were two distinctly different entities in my head for most of the show's run. But I guess I'm not really the target demographic, so whatevs. Still, I feel like the networks aren't really thinking some of these show names through (wondering if GCB has really caught the public's imagination...bad sign when your brand new show's title is an acronym that's basically undecipherable out of context).
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 11 May 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link