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[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 49 points 7 hours ago

This is the show where simply acknowledging a character owns/owned a NES was the entire punchline of a joke.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 33 points 7 hours ago

Yeah if you turn off the laugh track this show is terrible, for so many reasons.

[-] daggermoon@piefed.world 2 points 1 hour ago

It's terrible with the laugh track as well.

[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

Well BBT, and every other that has a laugh track, is scripted and edited around it. Removing that will make even the best comedy suck.

The show sucks but removing the canned laughter doesn't prove anything.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 5 minutes ago

Not really. When the laughs are removed you just realize it’s racism, sexism, and juvenile jokes all in one.

[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 minutes ago

The one exception to this is probably MASH. If I recall correctly they didn't want the laugh track at all, and when it aired in Europe it didn't have the laugh track and was better for it.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 22 points 7 hours ago
[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Also, Friends just isn't funny. Every character except Phoebie is bland and unlikable.

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago

Phoebe is just annoying and unlikable

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

They're all unlikable.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 3 hours ago

I wonder if the big issue is tying their twin to the show Mad About You.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 hours ago

There's your problem. Just keep the laugh track on and it stays funny.

Same deal with Friends and also a fair amount of standup.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 5 points 2 hours ago

If your jokes aren’t funny without putting fake forced laughter behind them then they shouldn’t be said.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

This show had a character that physically could not speak to women without being intoxicated. I think they eventually created a pharmaceutical drug to resolve this.

EDIT: As for Friends, there was a lot of fat phobia and gay panic.

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

If I recall, they literally just dropped it one episode and acknowledged it with an "oh well."

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

He eventually got over it, but yeah it was forced and uncomfortable.

Friends I never understood. I didn't have a problem with most of it. It just... Sucked. It wasn't good. I had more of a problem with Seinfeld but accepted that it was superior.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 2 points 1 hour ago

I’d rethink any opinions you have of Jerry Seinfeld. He thinks the phrase “Free Palestine” is worse than the Holocaust.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Don't get me wrong, he sucks. But his show was better than friends.

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