hannah's lack of professional boundaries as a high school teacher, while predictable, is really angering me in a way nothing lena dunham has ever done has.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 00:05 (nine years ago) link
"thanks for ruining my day, raincloud!"
― Treeship, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link
"future of your cock" had me in stitches for a good two minutes. delivery was perfect.
― creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 01:11 (nine years ago) link
I hooowwwllled at that Shosh dirty talk scene
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 04:18 (nine years ago) link
agreed tbh. Was sure she would get sacked for the frenulum thing.
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 09:18 (nine years ago) link
starting with the abortion episode, this has kind of gotten good? (would still be better without Hannah and her parents)
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link
Hannah and her parents
"Get the Woodman on the phone--I smell PREQUEL!"
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
End of the Adam-Mimi Rose relationship was so dumb. I mean, typical for what this show is doing now, but nearly no explanation given. It's so hard to care about characters in a show as random as this though. Now I think I mostly watch for lulz, and schadenfreude at seeing Hannah and Marnie repeatedly sabotage their own lives.
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 02:39 (nine years ago) link
I loled at the Ace-Mimi dialogue there, though. I think I'd watch a mockumentary about those two as contemporary NY artists.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 02:42 (nine years ago) link
The opening sex scene set to an Ezra Koenig song about New York was none-more-Girls.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 09:59 (nine years ago) link
It's so hard to care about characters in a show as random as this though. Now I think I mostly watch for lulz
otm and the problem is the laffs are few and far between (limited to Shoshona and Elijah mainly)
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
Ray pining for Marnie is such contrived nonsense
And even Marnie wouldn't be so cartoonishly narcissistic as to announce her engagement at Ray's election party (in front of a group of strangers).
― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
lol no that part i totally believe
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
I have no problem believing either tbh
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
One narcissist I know announced her engagement at her fiance's best friend's wedding so, y'know…
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
Surprised that anyone thinks the laughs have dried up. I thought the last two episodes were hitting the sitcom beats harder than ever.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
Peter Scolari was the actor from Gay Dad
― creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
everything w Hannah & her "friendship" w her student was gold
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
I thought the last two episodes were hitting the sitcom beats harder than ever.
sitcoms aren't funny
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
sitcoms aren't funny? what do you find funny then?
― GGGOAT: greatest goat game of all time (Will M.), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
uh, other forms of comedy...? what a weird question
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 20:03 (nine years ago) link
"Sitcoms aren't funny" is a pretty broad statement!
― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
if we're talking yr standard three-camera 30-minute "situational comedy" with sets and a laugh track/audience... yeah I can't watch those, I just find them irritating
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
unless they are from the '70s or are The Dick Van Dyke Show
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
yeah there are some old ones I like, but the form's basically been dead/moribund/totally worthless for... 30 years? yeah fuck that, they aren't funny.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 20:37 (nine years ago) link
The 3-camera ones are pretty bad, though Seinfeld/Friends were pretty good, and I'm sure there are other examples of good ones here and there. But the single-camera ones are often awesome! I think what people mean by "sitcom beats" are the set-up/knock down rhythm of sitcoms. For example, Hannah getting lectured on boundaries early in the episode, and then giving the same lecture to her dad later on.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
Meant to say Most of the 3-camera ones...
― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
yeah I consider stuff like Larry Sanders Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, Broad City, Always Sunny, etc. as some other kind of tv comedy distinct from sitcoms. just the way they're paced, shot, written - they feel like a totally different beast from something like Everybody Loves Raymond or whatever.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
"She is SO not sorry to interrupt" had me str8 lolin
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
here's a situation we built for our characters! they have to deal with it! comedy ensues!― all sitcoms, (since Time Immemorial) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― all sitcoms, (since Time Immemorial) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Larry Sanders, Curb, 30 Rock, Broad City, Always Sunny, etc. <-- Sitcoms.
― GGGOAT: greatest goat game of all time (Will M.), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 02:29 (nine years ago) link
the form's basically been dead/moribund/totally worthless for... 30 years?
this is nonsense
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Thursday, 19 March 2015 09:51 (nine years ago) link
unless you define sitcoms as situation-based comedies you don't like
which appears to be what you're doing
Maybe Lex has hacked Shakey's login and is waging his war against comedy by stealth.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 19 March 2015 10:05 (nine years ago) link
my only issue with last night's episode is that ray's speech, staring at marnie, and marnie's entirely in-character hijacking of ray's party to announce her engagement both made me cringe so hard i forgot all the lines that made me genuinely lol
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Thursday, 19 March 2015 10:06 (nine years ago) link
also just to point out, trad sitcoms being shitty for 30 years would apparently include cheers, so please let me inform you, this means war
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Thursday, 19 March 2015 10:08 (nine years ago) link
Shelley Long left Cheers in 1987, so not by much
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:16 (nine years ago) link
cheers is a different show after shelly left, but still a funny-as-hell and often brilliant one
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:18 (nine years ago) link
can't argue, didn't watch the Kirstie Alley years
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:34 (nine years ago) link
you should! some of my favourite episodes are from that era!
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:44 (nine years ago) link
you guys can have you crap, I don't have to like it
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
your
you don't even have to post on this thread about it! but if you do we might engage with you about it, JUST A WARNING
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
you want to argue about what the definition of "trad sitcom" is, fine, I was pretty specific upthread - three-camera 30-minute "situational comedy" with sets and a laugh track/audience
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
and no idgaf about (most of) Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond or whatever. they don't make me laugh.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
The Nanny, King of Queens, Mike & Molly, Big Bang Theory
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
To get back on track though...
Now that you know everyone else isn't defining sitcoms as narrowly, maybe your point here needs clarification:
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, March 17, 2015 3:48 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Evan, Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
Personally, Hannah's mom's laughing fits were uncomfortable for me cause I feel like her character might kill herself or something.
― Evan, Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
As far as whether those scenes count as funny.