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the entirety of Cheers has been on Netflix for several years

taxi is streaming on hulu btw

in the *third* episode of the show there's a subplot about a patron who's confused about what to do about his son's interracial relationship which also turns out to be a homosexual one

Third episode on DVD, second episode aired! It took all the way until the 16th episode (aired Jan 27 1983) before they did one about gay athletes coming out and mocking homophobia

is that the "Cheers is turning into a gay bar!" episode? Cuz that one's also surprisingly great.

yah, titled The Boys In The Bar. time capsule: Norm is terrified that if Sam allows homos in, the bar might get ferns next.

tbf in that episode the joke(s) are all on the homophobes

time capsule: Norm is terrified that if Sam allows homos in, the bar might get ferns next.

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, June 27, 2019 2:25 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol tho

watch a bunch of S1 and meet us in the Cheers thread Brad!

Frasier had some good characters but all of the running plot devices wore thin really quickly, imo

we get it, Frasier's brother has the hots for their dad's therapist but he's married, whatever

Frasier is built on a farce engine, so while a lot of its lols are built on putting characters who don't change into situations where we can predict their base reaction, it's not like other US '90s sitcoms where it's just maneuvering them to say their catchphrases each week. The individual gags and verbal zings are going to be bespoke each time, and much of the pleasure comes in admiring the plotting that moves the ppl into positions of embarrassment or hubris or getting caught fucking or w/e

I started casually watching Cheers from the start a while back and remember being impressed with how much of a non-bro Sam was. Which probably can be chalked up at least in part to Danson, who's always seemed like a mensch.

yeah, mostly. there was that whole blackface thing...

(which tbf did NOT occur on Cheers, just fyi Brad)

ha, just like, don't wait for the sam malone dating whoopi goldberg episode.

anyway fwiw Best CHEERS character

The Brady Bunch was similarly a "thing" with my generation I guess.

Is the relationship between Friends and "kids today" the same as with gen x and BB? I was under the impression gen z Friends lovers are preppy/basic people ie the same people who liked it when it 1st aired, and don't view it with layer of ironic detachment like was done w BB.

yeah no self-respecting Gen Xer unironically like the BB - it was all omg look at those ugly clothes and remember that time they tried to sing lol "Johnny Bravo"

https://sneakernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/nike-kyrie-5-friends-AQ2456_006-1.jpg

Nike just let Kyrie Irving make this

no I don't know either

would buy if i had money and maybe was 10 years or so younger

Lorre is only redeemed by having worked on Roseanne the TMNT cartoon theme.

Did nothing result from the Friends homophobia supercut created a few years back?

Aside from the Friends tag, those sneakers are A+

grumpy observation:

I want to skip ahead like 10 years or however long it takes to where this extreme nostalgia for Friends and Frasier is over and done with

they were decent shows at the time & i mildly enjoyed them but ffs living through it once was more than enough

yeah no self-respecting Gen Xer unironically like the BB - it was all omg look at those ugly clothes and remember that time they tried to sing lol "Johnny Bravo"

― Οὖτις, Thursday, June 27, 2019 3:06 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean Friends is a little bit "omg look at those ugly clothes and remember that time they got excited to go see Hootie and the Blowfish?"

one blessing in disguise is that E.R. seems to be left behind.

wait til the Game of Thrones nostalgia sets in in 2036

i mean Friends is a little bit "omg look at those ugly clothes and remember that time they got excited to go see Hootie and the Blowfish?"

― omar little, Thursday, June 27, 2019 7:20 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can get all of this through sabrina the teenage witch

ahah that 2 1/2 men article about the finale !
I didn't even know that show still existed.
How come they managed to go on so long after Sheen left ?
Whatever the quality of the show with Sheen, it completely relied on him so I don't understand why people who enjoyed the show kept watching it after he was kicked out...
aaah TV...

I am subtly trying to google what the anal sex jokes were on 2 and 1/2 Men while my spouse eats his cheerios next to me and I am by far only embarrassed that I am looking up 2 and 1/2 Men.

heh heh cheerios

that show was genuinely filthy

How come they managed to go on so long after Sheen left ?

I think it was a matter of realizing they still had the rest of the production, a timeslot, and eight bazillion prospective viewers that had been watching right before Sheen left. Once they made more episodes and realized people were watching -- although no one knows why -- they kept making the show, without any real understanding why other than viewers -> money -> more show

Spiderverse is on Netflix (USA) now. If you haven’t seen it yet, do it!

That and the tick have been the only superhero stuff I’ve been able to stomach and spiderverse is way better than the tick.

i just discovered imdb has a free streaming service. not much good stuff, but a couple of things that aren't streaming elsewhere that i'm interested in.

??!

yup, it is free with commercials and also shows up as a “channel” or as selections in the amazon apps since amazon owns imdb

is prime required?

No I don’t think so

I only discovered it because I was looking to rewatch It Follows, and that’s the only place it’s streaming for free

US only though (even though it used to be the cardiff internet movie database).

Good god, Hall in Safe. That British accent is major fail.

one blessing in disguise is that E.R. seems to be left behind

Isn't there a friends episode that crosses over with this, with George Clooney's character going on a date with Rachel or Monica?

Sort of. Some of the ER guys (Clooney, Wylie, and ?) played New York doctors who went on a triple date w/the Friends ladies.

Actually just Clooney & Wyle

https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/george-clooney_0.jpg?w=612

It's quite funny to see so much chat on my Twitter timeline about The Last Czars, as if it in some way compared to The Crown. In fact it's a pretty cheap dramatized documentary of the type that BBCs Two and Four have been slinging for years, complete with actors from Casualty, Corrie, and Still Game.

And a Rasputin who apparently spent a lot of his life living in Sheffield

i imagine pushing that docudrama thing by netflix was a delayed response to the Romanoffs on Prime which really didn't generate all that much buzz (I liked most of it)

I had to give it up after the second instance of Simon Geebag Montefiore voicing over Rasputin fingering someone.

Finally got around to a handful of I Think You Should Leave episodes. I love it! A bunch of it is obviously inspired by Tim & Eric and Mr. Show depending on the sketch in question, but I like the fact that they generally unfold in weird unpredictable ways. To the point that you wonder how they wrote it (unless there are varying degrees of improv), because otherwise there would probably have to be a lot of trust in Tim to make it work beyond the base premise/script.

i watched a couple of episodes of that too and was perplexed by the abundant usage of the term "mud pie"
wtf

That seems to dissipate after the first episode or two.

I Think You Should Leave made me seek out Detroiters which is maybe better and definitely...sweeter? for lack of a better word