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There was some show they aired on a local channel in the early 2000s that was from Australia about some teens living in a mall in a dystopian future and they were all fucking pregnant and it was like a soap opera for tweens.
Has anyone mentioned 2010s Nickelodeon live action sitcoms yet?
The amount of sheer cringe you get is unparalleled.
The amount of sheer cringe you get is unparalleled.
Bucket & Skinner, Marvin Marvin and Fred: The Show, especially.
Sorry, did you mean to say CN Real?
I caught a snippet of The Wendy Williams Show while I was at work in the break room.
On it, a fat-titted black woman with a New York accent so strong I at first thought it was affected somehow bloviated for 15 minutes about going to see Wicked with her supposedly famous friends (though I didn't recognize any of the names she was shamelessly dropping) when she was under the impression while she was getting ready that they were taking her to, and I quote, "da club".
All I could think was, "people pay this woman to go and see her talk about her life? That's it?".
American television is a shambles.
On it, a fat-titted black woman with a New York accent so strong I at first thought it was affected somehow bloviated for 15 minutes about going to see Wicked with her supposedly famous friends (though I didn't recognize any of the names she was shamelessly dropping) when she was under the impression while she was getting ready that they were taking her to, and I quote, "da club".
All I could think was, "people pay this woman to go and see her talk about her life? That's it?".
American television is a shambles.
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I see people baffled when they realize MMTC was a real show and not a parody of "high concept" '60s sitcoms.
Sixties comedies with zany premises often have bad jokes, with every last bit of humor in the dialogue smothered by the laugh track, but they can be profoundly comic at the level of character interaction. I Dream of Jeannie was always funnier than the sum of it's jokes, with it's levels of absurdist humor and the focus on extreme situations. My Favorite Martian was another one of these series which I found surprisingly humorous, a lot of it having to do with Ray Walston's dry, deadpan performance that frankly makes other "stranded alien on Earth" sitcoms look like garbage.
Two of the most well-remembered "zany concept" sitcoms of the 1960s, The Munsters (which was a more successful creation from MMTC's creators Allan Burns and Chris Hayward) and The Addams Family also still work, both due to the stellar performances by the entire casts. The Munsters' strong point being the firmly vaudevillian humor and The Addams Family's being its commitment to being weird.
MMTC, and some of the other "goofy high concept" sitcoms of the 1960s tended to hang a lot or absolutely everything on their 'novel' premise and that's not enough to prop up a show. For every zany sitcom that was successful there were plenty that barely lasted and sunk beneath the waters of obscurity, like the 1966, only aired once pilot for "Where's Everett?" starring Alan Alda as a father who adopts an invisible alien baby that was left in a basket his doorstep and his family must deal with it's antics.
Stab You in the Back
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Michael Shur is a cancer.
(this is not a Dreamworks face meme)
Michael Shur is the creator of Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Good Place. All of his shows tend to follow the same pattern: funny at the beginning, but quickly devolving into heartfelt and uplifting non-comedies. With each subsequent show, the devolution becomes more rapid. Parks and Rec took three seasons, B99 two seasons and The Good Place half a season. Abby's drops the pretense and is a turgent hug box for unlikable grotesques from the very beginning.
The Premise
"Set in San Diego, the series takes place at the home of Abby, a bisexual Latina ex-Marine sergeant, who turned her backyard into an unlicensed bar complete with her own set of rules, which the eclectic set of regulars have to follow."
So its basically Cheers, except not funny and with no likable characters.
What Was Wrong With It?
I alluded to it earlier, but Abby's was a show that tried to be uplifting and emotional way too quickly. In every episode, the "comedy" would come to a screeching halt while one character or another would dump all their emotional baggage on the audience. Not a fan of Ron Funches? Well, too fucking bad, here's 7 minutes of him crying about how hard life is for a fat man. Imagine P&R doing an episode about Jerry's home life in the first season. That's how out-of-place these heart touching confessions felt watching Abby's. If you want to do heartfelt, you need to first give the audience a reason to give a shit about the character and his problems. Otherwise, its just a burden on the audience.
Now, admittedly, Cheers did have its dramatic moments in the early years. Probably one of the more well-known ones are this conversation between Coach and his daughter.
The most brilliant thing about this scene is not that Coach says all the right things. In fact, he says all the wrong things and, in doing so, unwittingly forces his daughter to see herself through his eyes. His misunderstanding--their breakdown in communication--is what ultimately solves her problem. In the Abby's version of this, the Coach would acknowledge his daughter's feelings, but persuade her to change her mind with some pablum about inner strength.
The Marketing
There were two main marketing thrusts for Abby's: 1) Mike Shur is producing, and 2) its filmed outdoors in front of a live studio audience. When your second biggest selling point is that you forced your studio audience to sit outside in the California sun for 3+ hours, you know the network had no faith in the show. Why does this matter? Well, after the show was cancelled, its star, Natalie Morales had a massive meltdown about NBC betraying 'diversity.'
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“If I’m being honest, it’s bullshit to tout all of these firsts and all this inclusion and all this diversity and then not market the show whatsoever,” she says. She was told it was the first show in the history of NBC that got zero outdoor marketing. “So that tells you something,” she adds. “Not that I’m not thankful for the people that put it on the air. I just feel like, if you’re going to say that you’re about diversity, then actually walk the walk.”
"NBC doesn't support diversity because they didn't put up a billboard for my shitty little show, waaaaaaaaaaaahhhh."
Fuck Abby's and fuck that dumb bitch Natalie Morales.
(I would have put Abby's clips in this post, but the guy who had them on youtube privated all of his videos last night)
(this is not a Dreamworks face meme)
Michael Shur is the creator of Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Good Place. All of his shows tend to follow the same pattern: funny at the beginning, but quickly devolving into heartfelt and uplifting non-comedies. With each subsequent show, the devolution becomes more rapid. Parks and Rec took three seasons, B99 two seasons and The Good Place half a season. Abby's drops the pretense and is a turgent hug box for unlikable grotesques from the very beginning.
The Premise
"Set in San Diego, the series takes place at the home of Abby, a bisexual Latina ex-Marine sergeant, who turned her backyard into an unlicensed bar complete with her own set of rules, which the eclectic set of regulars have to follow."
So its basically Cheers, except not funny and with no likable characters.
What Was Wrong With It?
I alluded to it earlier, but Abby's was a show that tried to be uplifting and emotional way too quickly. In every episode, the "comedy" would come to a screeching halt while one character or another would dump all their emotional baggage on the audience. Not a fan of Ron Funches? Well, too fucking bad, here's 7 minutes of him crying about how hard life is for a fat man. Imagine P&R doing an episode about Jerry's home life in the first season. That's how out-of-place these heart touching confessions felt watching Abby's. If you want to do heartfelt, you need to first give the audience a reason to give a shit about the character and his problems. Otherwise, its just a burden on the audience.
Now, admittedly, Cheers did have its dramatic moments in the early years. Probably one of the more well-known ones are this conversation between Coach and his daughter.
The most brilliant thing about this scene is not that Coach says all the right things. In fact, he says all the wrong things and, in doing so, unwittingly forces his daughter to see herself through his eyes. His misunderstanding--their breakdown in communication--is what ultimately solves her problem. In the Abby's version of this, the Coach would acknowledge his daughter's feelings, but persuade her to change her mind with some pablum about inner strength.
The Marketing
There were two main marketing thrusts for Abby's: 1) Mike Shur is producing, and 2) its filmed outdoors in front of a live studio audience. When your second biggest selling point is that you forced your studio audience to sit outside in the California sun for 3+ hours, you know the network had no faith in the show. Why does this matter? Well, after the show was cancelled, its star, Natalie Morales had a massive meltdown about NBC betraying 'diversity.'
Natalie Morales Calls Out NBC: ‘So Much for Diversity!’
She played the first Latina bisexual lead character of a network sitcom. Now she’s calling “bullsh*t” on NBC for canceling it.
A lot of that is just the ramblings of a entitled Hollywood d-lister, but let me highlight this one paragraph:
“If I’m being honest, it’s bullshit to tout all of these firsts and all this inclusion and all this diversity and then not market the show whatsoever,” she says. She was told it was the first show in the history of NBC that got zero outdoor marketing. “So that tells you something,” she adds. “Not that I’m not thankful for the people that put it on the air. I just feel like, if you’re going to say that you’re about diversity, then actually walk the walk.”
"NBC doesn't support diversity because they didn't put up a billboard for my shitty little show, waaaaaaaaaaaahhhh."
Fuck Abby's and fuck that dumb bitch Natalie Morales.
(I would have put Abby's clips in this post, but the guy who had them on youtube privated all of his videos last night)
Here's another one for you, a 1966 sitcom called It's About Time, starring Imogene Coca and slobbiest man alive, Joe E. Ross:
The original idea was to have two astronauts somehow land in prehistoric times and have to adjust to living with a family of cavemen. That didn't work, so they retooled it and brought the cavemen back to then-modern times. That didn't work either, so it was cancelled.
Well, she's not wrong about that. lol.
It could have been a good show. Nelson Franklin and Neil Flynn are both pretty good in anything they're in.
I totally agree with:
Instead of having the lead character simply be bi (who the fuck cares, btw?), and maybe even play it for laffs, in one episode they tried to make this tiny insignificant detail into a meaningful after school special plot. Cringeworthy.
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"On My Block" on Netflix. It's so cliche, corny and forced. Teens living in the hood and dealing with hood problems. There is literally "buried treasure" in a football field that becomes a plot point. I'm astounded it has overwhelmingly good reviews. If you have POC and social issues you have a guaranteed success apparently. Oddly the main character who had never acted before is the best actress on the show.
Horrible spanish:
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Fun fact, Richard Donner directed an episode of this show. And it was made by Sherwood Schwarz, same guy who made Gilligan's Island (it used many of the same sets and props, even a similar theme song).
And Game Shakers and Ricky, Dickey, Mickey and Dawn.
Thats a rabbit hole on its own.
Yknow I feel like sharing with you a little something that those of you who dont speak spanish will be grateful you cant understand. Allow me to introduce you to one of the worst shows that has ever graced Latin American CN. I present you La CQ.
From left to right: Roque (the bully/rocker), Clara (sweetheart), Beto (NERD), Angel (a chad and stricker for a football team that used a varsity jacket), Monche (comic relief doofus), Adri (tomboy/skater), Jenny (little stacy cheerleader) and Dani (doofy minion to Jenny).
The show was produced by Pedro Ortiz de Pinedo (son of a bigger producer, Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo, who produced a lot of garbage and arguably the best programs that ever graced mexican television) and despite having an all mexican main cast was recorded in Venezuela with a venezuelan supporting cast... for reasons which is noticeable since the different accents. This one was one of the last remmanents of CN Real for LatAm long before the US was done with the block. It was a sitcom about a group of teenagers on middle school (CQ=Secundaria) which relied on slapstick, stereotypes and visual/sound gags to desperately made the audience laugh. Each character was based on a dead stereotype from some 90s sitcom and genuinely carried on the same brand of dead ass humor complete with a laughtrack. The dialog in down right cringe inducing and you can tell that most of the people on set didnt took their jobs seriousy or gave a shit.
THEY MADE A FUCKING MUSICAL TOUR.
The actors (specially Benny Emmanuel who was Beto) carried on to have respectable careers, at least for mexican t.v. standards. These days discussion about this show is usually about why this show was even made, why the cast was the way it was (everyone seems so miscast) and Mafer Urdapilleta (Jenny) being the source of several early awakenings. Without furtherados let me present you this shitfest.
CONTEXT: Chismografo is supposed to be a list of confessions passed around between classmates to get to know each other. You dont need to understand spanish to get how weird everything is.
I'd put post-SJW whinefest B99 here too.Michael Shur is a cancer.
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(this is not a Dreamworks face meme)
Michael Shur is the creator of Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Good Place. All of his shows tend to follow the same pattern: funny at the beginning, but quickly devolving into heartfelt and uplifting non-comedies. With each subsequent show, the devolution becomes more rapid. Parks and Rec took three seasons, B99 two seasons and The Good Place half a season. Abby's drops the pretense and is a turgent hug box for unlikable grotesques from the very beginning.
The Premise
"Set in San Diego, the series takes place at the home of Abby, a bisexual Latina ex-Marine sergeant, who turned her backyard into an unlicensed bar complete with her own set of rules, which the eclectic set of regulars have to follow."
So its basically Cheers, except not funny and with no likable characters.
What Was Wrong With It?
I alluded to it earlier, but Abby's was a show that tried to be uplifting and emotional way too quickly. In every episode, the "comedy" would come to a screeching halt while one character or another would dump all their emotional baggage on the audience. Not a fan of Ron Funches? Well, too fucking bad, here's 7 minutes of him crying about how hard life is for a fat man. Imagine P&R doing an episode about Jerry's home life in the first season. That's how out-of-place these heart touching confessions felt watching Abby's. If you want to do heartfelt, you need to first give the audience a reason to give a shit about the character and his problems. Otherwise, its just a burden on the audience.
Now, admittedly, Cheers did have its dramatic moments in the early years. Probably one of the more well-known ones are this conversation between Coach and his daughter.
The most brilliant thing about this scene is not that Coach says all the right things. In fact, he says all the wrong things and, in doing so, unwittingly forces his daughter to see herself through his eyes. His misunderstanding--their breakdown in communication--is what ultimately solves her problem. In the Abby's version of this, the Coach would acknowledge his daughter's feelings, but persuade her to change her mind with some pablum about inner strength.
The Marketing
There were two main marketing thrusts for Abby's: 1) Mike Shur is producing, and 2) its filmed outdoors in front of a live studio audience. When your second biggest selling point is that you forced your studio audience to sit outside in the California sun for 3+ hours, you know the network had no faith in the show. Why does this matter? Well, after the show was cancelled, its star, Natalie Morales had a massive meltdown about NBC betraying 'diversity.'
Natalie Morales Calls Out NBC: ‘So Much for Diversity!’
She played the first Latina bisexual lead character of a network sitcom. Now she’s calling “bullsh*t” on NBC for canceling it.
A lot of that is just the ramblings of a entitled Hollywood d-lister, but let me highlight this one paragraph:
“If I’m being honest, it’s bullshit to tout all of these firsts and all this inclusion and all this diversity and then not market the show whatsoever,” she says. She was told it was the first show in the history of NBC that got zero outdoor marketing. “So that tells you something,” she adds. “Not that I’m not thankful for the people that put it on the air. I just feel like, if you’re going to say that you’re about diversity, then actually walk the walk.”
"NBC doesn't support diversity because they didn't put up a billboard for my shitty little show, waaaaaaaaaaaahhhh."
Fuck Abby's and fuck that dumb bitch Natalie Morales.
(I would have put Abby's clips in this post, but the guy who had them on youtube privated all of his videos last night)
Wendy Williams is frequently featured on Crazy Days and Nights.
It has always been a complete mystery to me how the person behind the absolutely brilliant Ken Tremendous character on Fire Joe Morgan could turn around and create such completely unfunny shows like those listed above.
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The nutshack & Ren and Stimpy adult party cartoon. I hate them both, but for different reasons. everything in the nutshack from the animation to the voice acting gives me a god damn headache. While in adult party cartoon, its just unfunny gross out humor and the animation just makes me uncomfortable with how detailed they made the gore. Plus it had to ruin the reputation of one of my favorite nicktoons along with it. :/
As for live action stuff, Heil Honey I'm Home I guess. It doesn't offend me or anything like that, it's just some shitty sitcom about Hitler with bad jokes in it. Honestly, I feel like this one could of worked if the team behind it knew how to pull of the execution
As for live action stuff, Heil Honey I'm Home I guess. It doesn't offend me or anything like that, it's just some shitty sitcom about Hitler with bad jokes in it. Honestly, I feel like this one could of worked if the team behind it knew how to pull of the execution
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