dave foley shoulda gone on to greater things than he has
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 June 2009 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
he looks really creepy and awful now tho like even cartoon child molesters are qn his facial hair
2 me the quintessential frasier episode is the one where they all go to a ski lodge w/ some hot friend of daphne's and a good looking french ski instructor dude and most of the episode is french farce + witty repartee and tryna sleep with someone that wants to sleep with someone else. i mean i havent really done it justice but frasier was on w/ that shit like basically no other show was or is but newsradio idk feel like its a good show but there are better wacky workplace jams out there
― Lamp, Friday, 12 June 2009 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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― xhuxkfactor (los blue jeans), Friday, 12 June 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
the only onscreen things that stress me out are certain episodes of frasier, where he has like 2 dates, one in the bedroom and one in the kitchen and he has to keep running around trying to fake his way through the whole thing....RUN FRASIER RUN THEY ARE ON TO YOU!!!!!!!
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:04 PM
Haha. I wonder how many Frasier episodes are different variations on this idea. Must hide this thing/person from these people/this person, frantic running around back and forth, etc. I found this show pretty entertaining when it was on, haven't seen it for a long time though. Never really watched Newsradio.
― circa1916, Friday, 12 June 2009 04:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder how many Frasier episodes are different variations on this idea.
MANY of them.
Sort of like how Three's Company was always driven by someone overhearing someone else and coming to an incorrect conclusion until they discovered the truth at the end. Basic premise, almost always funny.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 June 2009 04:11 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKlge0jfg48&feature=related
Newsradio, duh
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Friday, 12 June 2009 04:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw him recently in a guest spot on the Nickelodeon show iCarly, which my daughter watches. So, yeah. He deserves better.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 12 June 2009 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah the comedy of errors is a big part of what Frasier is all about. I have to say I wasnt a huge fan of the jolly farce ski lodge ep - I found it a bit exhausting!
― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Friday, 12 June 2009 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Larry David was on iCarly not too long ago!
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 12 June 2009 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to hate myself in the morning, but I voted Frasier. PLEASE PLEASE understand I LOVE NewsRadio and have it all on DVD, which I can't say for Frasier. But the writing for Frasier is just too good over too long a period of time for me not to think that it's one of the most consistent sitcoms ever, if not one of the funniest (and I think it's also that).
also, cheers>>>>>>>>>>>frasier, has to be said.
No it doesn't. Cheers has some great episodes, but it has some really bad ones, too. Hell it has some really bad seasons.
"NORM! How about a beer?"
"No thanks, Sammy. I just realized that I'll never get work again after this show ends. How about you kill me and then yourself?"
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The best of Cheers more than makes up for the worst of Cheers, though.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 June 2009 05:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Cheers at its best is best ensemble comedy ever on TV. Every character is a cultural touchstone, and every character someone you relate to and are secretly afraid makes up just a little too much of your own personality.
No, it's quality stuff.
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Seinfeld works like this, too.
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Cheers at its best is best ensemble comedy ever on TV.
Hard for me to rank between that, M*A*S*H and Roseanne. And Roseanne may take it for being the realest of the real and still riotously funny in both obvious and nuanced ways.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 June 2009 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm down with Roseanne.
M*A*S*H is hard for me to judge, because watching random reruns sometimes I get a great early or mid-period episode, but sometimes I get one of those creepy-serious later Alda episodes. Sometimes I'm afraid of M*A*S*H.
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think Radar leaving was what made M*A*S*H take its turn into the creepy/not-as-funny-as-before realm, but it's a good marker.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 June 2009 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Fair enough, yeah.
Getting way off topic. My fault. Carry on.
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 05:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i am actually a sort-of-embarrassed fan of celebrity poker showdown, but dave foley always seems like he's begging someone to please kill him. poor dude.
anyway, newsradio w/hartman >> good frasier >> newsradio post-hartman >>>>>>>> bad frasier.
although it is hard to watch hartman episodes now because of the weird sideways association of andy dick with his death.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 June 2009 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
(maura tierney had a very good run on celebrity poker showdown, btw.)
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 June 2009 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
HAHA I Know! She kicks ass at poker, apparently.
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 06:05 (fourteen years ago) link
And wouldn't she? It makes too much sense.
i am actually a sort-of-embarrassed fan of celebrity poker showdown, but dave foley always seems like he's begging someone to please kill him.
Or fix his teeth, at least.
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 06:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 18 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 19 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
This result seems right.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 19 June 2009 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Cheers at best and Seinfeld at best make me really sorry for people who think Arrested Development is the "teh best tv show evarrrr omg"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 19 June 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Watching Jeopardy day before yesterday: "Five People Who Have Never Been In My Kitchen" is now a category. (Even though Cliff only needed three.)
― all art is propaganda (kenan), Friday, 19 June 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
seinfeld vs. cheers would be a good poll imo but i guess its 2 obv one-sided
understand the results but i think frasiers bein underrated here
― ╠╦═╩╤╬╦╩══╦╦╬═╩╣ PIPE WORLD LVL 7 (Lamp), Saturday, 20 June 2009 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Frasier is one of the scariest sitcoms to watch stoned. it should win something for that.
― scott seward, Saturday, 20 June 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Roseanne is worse. I had a bad day with Roseanne once.
― all art is propaganda (kenan), Saturday, 20 June 2009 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
cool story bro
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 20 June 2009 01:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I left out the part about the tomato. You should thank me.
(No really, I could ramble on about how Roseanne broke my brain and suddenly became the most deeply strange thing in the world, but... I was stoned.)
― all art is propaganda (kenan), Saturday, 20 June 2009 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Was it this episode when you had a bad day with Roseanne once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCYPkPipMZE
Next time, try shrooms.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 20 June 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
This hasn't been proven, has it? I know Jon Lovitz smashed Andy Dick's head on a barstool, or something, because of the allegation.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 20 June 2009 13:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i voted frasier just cuz i think it's being undervalued...and also it's the last of its kind, the last old fashioned farce sit-com
― the relatively famous Cambridge psychologist Sug-Ban Cohen (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 20 June 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno, "Will & Grace" was pretty madcap at times.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 20 June 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but there was something so self aware and winky about will and grace
― the relatively famous Cambridge psychologist Sug-Ban Cohen (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 20 June 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
At least unlike Frasier, their characters were out of the closet.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 20 June 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
no way the frasier fussbudget stylee was the greatest! i liked them being in the closet
― attack! attack! "stick stickly" youtube video 2:48 nvr frgt (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 20 June 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been streaming Newsradio from Netflix (they have the first three seasons) and man, it's such a great show. The writing is consistently strong and the show was good starting from the pilot, doesn't really have a weak beginning like most sitcoms. Most of the cast is amazing (esp. Stephen Root, Phil Hartman, and Dave Foley but Maura Tierney and Vicki Lawrence too). I find Andy Dick and Joe Rogan repellent for different reasons but they're both great on this show too. Khandi Alexander is kind of a weak spot as Catherine but they don't really give her character much to do most of the time. For a show that wasn't really that popular and was almost canceled basically every season it was on, they seem to spend a lot on fancy sets and props that they only use once.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
a tidbit from IMDB: "The cast of NewsRadio was banned from the SAG Awards after one appearance because of their bad behavior. They took their shoes off, stole wine off of the other tables and Andy Dick allegedly asked for Helen Hunt's autograph on his penis."
hahaha awesome
― waka yoga flame (some dude), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
amazing
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
he should have offered an autograph on her penis in exchange
― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
"no, what i did was stick out my bare arm and say 'sign ME---Dick!'"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
This show also has the second-most slap-bassingest theme song of the 1990s.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
it's such a weird fusion-y theme to find yourself singing along to
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
what's the episode where beth makes a dress out of columbia house cds?
― abanana, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUWi0h5aRi8
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe it isn't that one.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
https://spaceba✧✧✧.ma✧✧✧.host/@tvaz✧✧✧@masto✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧/109946161141209118
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
oops
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 18:34 (one year ago) link
Damn, Mastodon...
Anyways, it was about this cursed set of images (which you probably shouldn't watch either):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAzbJXuzTFs
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link