GiveEmHellBill said:

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Yelnick McWawa said:

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GiveEmHellBill said:

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Yelnick McWawa said:

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Smokedraw01 said:

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I've tried and tried but I don't find *****ts Creek the least bit funny.

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Same. The little I watched was utterly terrible. I mean BAD.

How I Met Your Mother is another one. So trite, lazy, and condescending. It's "Big Bang" level bad.

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I just do not understand why they filmed HIMYM on a studio set that did not have a live audience.......but they would ADD the audience laugh track in post production. Why?????

It's that little thing that has kept me from ever wanting to watch that show. A fake live studio audience. WTF?

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What? Huh? That's how laugh tracks work.

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What? No.

Typical sitcoms film in front of a live audience. Now, the laughter is routinely manipulated in post production to be more boisterous, but a good deal of that laughter came from the audience. Some of it is fake, some real.

HIMYM is NOT filmed in front of a live audience and the laugh track is added to make it seem like it was. Which I find stupid.

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Do you like Seinfeld? Large portions of the show was total laugh track.

Bruce Almighty said:

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Mad Men. I've tried twice and gave up during the first season both times. Firefly is another. It's a decent little sci-fi show, but I don't understand why it's considered great.

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You hush now! I like Mad Men, but I can definitely see how most of the population could care less. I love historical and period series from before I was born. I absolutely love all the British period series the BBC puts out.

Firefly is a space cowboy series. It honestly was ahead if it's time, and it was cancelled. You are correct that today it is nothing special, remember this was 2002. Nathan Fillion is also young and nice to look at in the series.

I really don't like a lot what I would consider modern comedies, at least American ones. Anything from mid 1990's forward. I know a lot of my list is blasphemous.

I just never connected with the shows.

Sienfield
Friends
Big Bang Theory
Office (US & UK)
How I Met Your Mother
Fraiser
Will & Grace
Parks & Recreation
Scrubs
Family Guy

Barry

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Typical sitcoms film in front of a live audience. Now, the laughter is routinely manipulated in post production to be more boisterous, but a good deal of that laughter came from the audience. Some of it is fake, some real.

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Or shortened, ie. Friends.

If you like game shows where there is a cash or physical prize for the winner I can understand liking many of the reality competition shows. I don't watch them, but I understand.

The creepy one to me are the romance shows like Bachelor/Bachelorette. I can't imagine going though a game show to attract a mate.

The Office, I grew up with that type of humor and no one found it funny, but I get to college and everyone and their dog followed that show. I guess I grew out of it and because that show just makes me cringe now.

Any sports

For me it comes from a perspective of not being super social. In my older age, I can appreciate that many people are built that way and probably were nurtured that way as well as our entire evolution into a civilized species depended on it.

But I used to despise shows like those because I just could not find anything more annoying than people caring so much about gossip, what "Becky said about Monica", when "Chad is going to finally ask out Stephanie", ect.

I hated Real World, Big Brother, Survivor and any show that made entertainment out of social cliques and found anyone that liked them to be superficial and low intelligence.

Now I just accept that it's no different than me liking sports, video games, ect.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Altered Carbon

Powered through like 4 episodes over a few months hoping it would get good. Never did.

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Consider me STUNNED!

Big Bang Theory is like watching Nerdface comedy.
Reality shows ... unless they have some compelling historical element. i.e. Churchill's Spies
Talent shows ... though I do enjoy "blow me away" clips from them
We typically avoid Cop/Crime TV shows (60% of shows) unless the setting is interesting.
Tarantino movies.
Shows where you are cheering for the bad guys.

The greatness of survivor isn't in the challenges or the locale, it is a fascinating look at human psychology was watching people struggle to get around their built in we weaknesses and flaws _ some are sheep, some are self centered *******s and some are master manipulators who drive the narrative. Plus Jeff probst is hilarious in his ability to mock weak efforts in challenges

Grew out of it so what passes for funny for you now o ed enlightened one?

I just finished The Wire. I ride the train to work so I have that time to watch shows.

The plot is kind of repetitive. I would give it 3.5 out of 5 stars.

What I found most entertaining was the fascinating and sad revelation of the corruption, from top to bottom, in cities with a large ghetto population. The disregard for life. And the utter lack of family structure in the black community is totally visible--but people are too speak this truth.

LoudestWHOOP! said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Altered Carbon

Powered through like 4 episodes over a few months hoping it would get good. Never did.

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Consider me STUNNED!

Big Bang Theory is like watching Nerdface comedy.
Reality shows ... unless they have some compelling historical element. i.e. Churchill's Spies
Talent shows ... though I do enjoy "blow me away" clips from them
We typically avoid Cop/Crime TV shows (60% of shows) unless the setting is interesting.
Tarantino movies.
Shows where you are cheering for the bad guys.

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So you DO or you DON'T like Tarantino movies?

MuckRaker96 said:

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The greatness of survivor isn't in the challenges or the locale, it is a fascinating look at human psychology was watching people struggle to get around their built in we weaknesses and flaws _ some are sheep, some are self centered *******s and some are master manipulators who drive the narrative. Plus Jeff probst is hilarious in his ability to mock weak efforts in challenges

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I haven't watched the show since the end of the second season. If it's not scripted, then kudos to them for accomplishing that.

I just find it hard to believe that it's even 60% authentic.

Humorous Username said:

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MuckRaker96 said:

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The greatness of survivor isn't in the challenges or the locale, it is a fascinating look at human psychology was watching people struggle to get around their built in we weaknesses and flaws _ some are sheep, some are self centered *******s and some are master manipulators who drive the narrative. Plus Jeff probst is hilarious in his ability to mock weak efforts in challenges

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I haven't watched the show since the end of the second season. If it's not scripted, then kudos to them for accomplishing that.

I just find it hard to believe that it's even 60% authentic.

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I find it hard to believe you could accurately quantify your "authenticity" meter.

Hi princess.

Texaggie7nine said:

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Now I just accept that it's no different than me liking sports, video games, ect.

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exactly! It's just a means to escape. Everyone has different tastes which is great.

Survivor - it's just The Hunger Games, except the losers live. Why work with you now so I can kill you later? Even cows can figure out something is going on.

Dancing with the Stars. Can't imagine even trying to watch an episode.

Youtube channel where the dudes stay overnight in businesses. Unbelievably boring.

Humorous Username said:

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MuckRaker96 said:

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The greatness of survivor isn't in the challenges or the locale, it is a fascinating look at human psychology was watching people struggle to get around their built in we weaknesses and flaws _ some are sheep, some are self centered *******s and some are master manipulators who drive the narrative. Plus Jeff probst is hilarious in his ability to mock weak efforts in challenges

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I haven't watched the show since the end of the second season. If it's not scripted, then kudos to them for accomplishing that.

I just find it hard to believe that it's even 60% authentic.

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I think you're right about most reality shows. But everything I've ever heard about Survivor is that Probst and the other creators take it pretty seriously.

Letter Kenny. I can't understand 90% of what they're saying.

Exploitation shows like the ones where they exploit fatties and midgets.

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MyNameIsKyle said:

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Big Bang Theory. It always felt like a show written for the pseudo intelligent who think they're really clever.

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Agree 100%. Big Bang Theory is what people think it's like to be a nerd, and the IT Crowd (far superior show) is what it's really like.

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Ha! Gatekeeping on nerddom.

IT Crowd was exactly the same except they had British accents, which makes the "nerd gatekeepers" think it was so much better.

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One difference was that IT Crowd was funny. Episodes such as The Haunting of Bill Crouse, the dinner party, the smokers expulsion and the internet box were clever and very funny.

Yelnick McWawa said:

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LoudestWHOOP! said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Altered Carbon

Powered through like 4 episodes over a few months hoping it would get good. Never did.

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Consider me STUNNED!

Big Bang Theory is like watching Nerdface comedy.
Reality shows ... unless they have some compelling historical element. i.e. Churchill's Spies
Talent shows ... though I do enjoy "blow me away" clips from them
We typically avoid Cop/Crime TV shows (60% of shows) unless the setting is interesting.
Tarantino movies.
Shows where you are cheering for the bad guys.

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So you DO or you DON'T like Tarantino movies?

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Do not like Tarantino movies.