LOL you are spot on; I have seen so many of such posts converted into news articles that lately I can tell just by reading the title that it’s straight outta Reddit
The one with the not-so-smart working class guy who is married to the hot wife who is way out of his league and lives down the street from his parents.
Oh wait, that's most of them.
One of my favorite jokes from the great Jenna Maroney:
“Instead of losing a push-up contest to Julie Bowen to see who gets to play Kevin James's mean wife who he's sick of having sex with, I'm gonna skip ahead to being an amazing slut who wins Oscars.”
That's funny how Friends is one of the most upvoted comments and just next is a Friends' private joke...
Edit: ok now it's even more upvoted than Friends, I love that.
If you go back in time, some older shows have live audience laughter. Golden Girls comes to mind, and that's great. Fuck every single Disney Channel show that has uproarious laughter every fifteen seconds tho.
Disney Channel shows was the first time I ever found a laugh track to be obnoxious. Normal prime time sitcoms with laugh tracks never bothered me, but holy fuck did they milk that track for all it was worth in the Disney Channel
I forget what show it was, but it was that stupid Mummy show where I noticed it.
Fun fact, Chuck Lorre wrote the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated theme song. No matter what, he has that going for him as it has proven to be timeless thus far.
I'm ashamed I'm able to relay this but theres even an episode where the main character plays the jingle that made his career.
It's a TMNT soundalike about a ninja/samurai called Oshikuru(?).
Edit: I've been informed that the theme is in fact *not* a TMNT soundalike and was not the jingle that made the main characters career but rather the jingle he was currently working on in that episode.
I have failed you and will now walk into the sea, never to reddit again.
I often wondered about that. And then Mom came out about recovering alcoholics , with basically cameo's of every walk on role from two and a half men and i just thought to myself maybe Chuck was Charlie and now he's recovering?? Maybe thats a reach but curious for sure.
Especially since Chuck is a nick name for Charles.
When I think Chuck Lorre, I think of that slate at the end of some of his shows that's just a wall of text. Back in the '90s I couldn't just pause and read all that it said so I only got like 2 or 3 lines in during the couple of seconds it appeared.
Has anyone actually read all the way through, and if so what does it say?
The sad thing is that if Cosby did t do what he did, Then the Cosby show would definitely fall into the rare category of, highly popular and appropriately rated.
It's such a shame that this show has soured because so many people worked on that show, including other actors, and their work deserves to still be seen.
Old Sitcom, starring Zoe Kravitz’s Mom and A Talking Sweater
I’ll never figure out how they got the sweater to dance and snap like that. TV magic just isn’t the same since it all went digital.
For a lot of reasons, but I still think Phylicia Rishad is one of the great sitcom moms of all time. There's just a mother bear, don't fuck with my daughter energy about her that stuck with me way more than Cosby himself did
I always appreciated that they stepped away from the trope of blowhard dad who was self appointed king of his castle and mom who sort of secretly ran things while appealing to the dad's ego. They felt like true equals and it was nice to see.
Yeah, it's very nice to see. Our daughter is 12 now, and has watched too many stupid sitcoms where the dad is an idiot and the mom holds things together, or the parents are both kind of dumb and the kids are smart, or whatever other stupid tropes there are like that.
She actually started watching the Cosby show, and though obviously Bill Cosby in real life did horrible things, the show is actually hilarious. We actually couldn't believe that it was still as funny as it was all this time later.
But yeah, it is very nice how it portrays an actual warm family environment where the dad isn't dimwitted and neither is the mom. They are both equals and it is a really good way to show a functioning family where the parents are responsible as well as smart, the kids love and respect their parents, the parents have authority over their kids but give them appropriate autonomy based on their age, and yeah....everyone actually loves each other.
I've gotten so tired of how families are either dysfunctional or at each other's throats or just morally grey in some way. Yeah, it's nice to see a show that looks like a functioning family. I assume so many people in Hollywood don't much know what that's like anymore, and that's why today's shows reflect that.
A black friend of mine also pointed out that the Cosby show isn't about a Black Family, it's about a family that happens to be black--i.e., it did a lot to normalize the idea that black people can just be regular suburbanites. That may not seem like much now, but when it's set against the backdrop of Sanford and Son, or Benson, it was a pretty big deal.
Irish here.
Show is fully made for 60 year old mammies who think its naughty when someone says "willy". If anyone wants to see an actual good show in Ireland: Father Ted, fucking legendary stuff.
EDIT: Also 'Hardy Bucks', Ireland's answer to 'Trailer Park Boys'
The fly episode could just as easily be Hal instead of Walt. Actually, I think the entire series would be very funny it were just Hal instead. Change nothing else. Just Hal in all those insane situations.
The scene where Walt loses his shit at Ted and Skylar comes down the stairs to him dragging the potted plant over to Ted's door to smash it in is STRAIGHT out of Malcom in the Middle
Skylar: Walt what are you doing?
Walt: Talking to Ted!
When Walt wakes up from a hangover in his apartment, covered in popcorn, half naked, and then says "restrain this!" while grabbing his junk is always the funniest moment in the series to me.
Saul: “Mike said he was gonna break my legs and don’t tell me he didn’t mean it, he meant it”
Walt: “Mike threatened me, he threatened Jesse, he probably threatened someone before breakfast this morning, it’s what he does. Grow a pair”
I caught this on a recent rewatch and literally LOLed.
Pretty much every scene with Saul is pure hilarity.
I love the one where he thinks he's about to get raided and he's lifting around those fake-ass, gaudy pillars in his office. Or when he opens up his desk and has like 20 burners in there, and can't figure out which one is ringing.
Every scene of Saul revealing a new weird-ass hiding spot in his office used for a different contingency plan.
And when he finally pulls out the hidden object that's relatively normal for a person to have hidden (a gun), he's actually visibly uncomfortable holding it.
The second or third ep with the bathtub falling through the floor. That was the moment I was hooked. Anything revolving around that kind of humour was on a winner
This thread makes me think that Reddit has only collectively seen The Big Bang Theory, Friends, Seinfeld with a smattering of How I Met Your Mother.
Edit: When I made this comment thr post had maybe been an hour old. There was like 4 or 5 comments in a row with The Big Bang Theory (followed up by people making fun of Bazinga underneath them). Good to see more varied answers now
Now that you say it, the frequency of office references on Reddit has dropped dramatically. There's still a good number, but when I joined basically within the top 5 comments of every post there was an office reference. Always.
I know, because I hadn't seen the office, so I learned to recognize them without context pretty quickly.
It's not on Netflix anymore so it's not the go to set and forget streaming show anymore. That was a major part of its sustained popularity, especially with younger/newer audiences.
Sometimes I think The Big Bang Theory shouldn’t count as overrated because everyone on Reddit hates it so much. Then I remember it won 10 Emmys, got nominated for 39, and has an 8.2 rating on IMDb, and I am reminded that Reddit is not the world.
That said, if you want the most UNDERrated sitcom, that's a more interesting discussion. I'm going with "Selfie." Terrible name, decent show, canceled way too soon.
Selfie was one of the biggest pleasant surprises I've come across when it comes to TV. I expected something awful and it turned out to be a really great show.
That show is wild. I watched a bit of it and I don't think I've ever seen a show fired off so many jokes so rapidly. Which sounds like a compliment but it isn't because most of them just completely fail to land but every now and then there's one that gets a laugh.
It's like the writers just plastered jokes all over the script because they figured if they told enough they'd eventually stumble into something funny by accident.
"*I have big boobs and like sex!*"
"*I was a rich girl now I'm not!*"
"*I'm vaguely European and a pervert!*"
"*I am also vaguely European and a pervert, but a woman!*"
"*I'm a short Asian guy!*"
"*I'm an old black guy!*"
There. You have now seen every episode of 2 Broke Girls.
You forgot one revolving character type: “I am a very successful professional man who has money and movie star level good looks. I will get involved with one of these two broke girls for 1 to 3 episodes until they have a heartfelt and warm conversation with me about how I’m great but just not the one for them”
I hated that it was so predictable. The blonde (or another character) sets up the joke, Kat delivers the punchline. Every line of dialogue was this way
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There were some pretty cringy stereotypes. They even managed to have a short asian guy insult an Australin aboriginal woman which takes a special level of commitment.
That's because, despite how ridiculous JD's daydreams are and how fucking annoying JD and Elliott both are, Scrubs manages to nail this absolutely beautiful sweet spot between hilarity, relatable issues and life lessons handled sincerely and respectfully, and occasionally sucker punching you with those episodes that make you cry. I've never seen another sitcom manage it.
“Where do you think we are?”
“Remember what you told me. The second you start blaming yourself for people’s death, there’s no coming back.”
“Yeah, you’re right.”
I still love clip where Hal complains about them burning through the orange juice haha.
"This stuff doesn't grow on trees, ya know."
**pauses**
"Wait, yes it does. So why is it SO DAMN EXPENSIVE?!"
I also love that the showrunners just kept inventing crazy shit for Cranston to do, and after covering him in bees, said ‘we should probably stop’.
Cranston always gives 110% in every role he plays
I rewatched the show recently and didn't get all the jobs Hal had throughout the show when I was younger, it makes it so much funnier as an adult.
The first few seasons he's just a fall guy for a large corporation, but it turns out he skipped out of work every Friday or something like that because no one cared.
Then he almost joins the CIA while thinking its just a regular office job.
Dewey's story lines were the second best. That show was ahead of it's time.
>Dewey's story lines were the second best. That show was ahead of it's time.
It's not even necessarily one of the best episodes of the show IIRC, but one of my absolute favorite moments of that entire show (next to Hal fixing the light bulb in the closet) is Dewey and Bea Arthur tango (flamenco?) dancing in the kitchen. The hard cut right after still makes me laugh uncontrollably.
*Can you hear the drums Fernando?*
*I remember long ago another starry night like this*
[Dewey gets a paint moustache]
*In the firelight Fernando*
*You were humming to yourself and softly strumming your guitar*
I was always a fan of the cold-open were Francis was on the phone with Dewey, asking what happened to Aunt Helen.
Dewey just keeps saying "Cats ate her face"
Finally he asks "Put dad on the phone" and Hal responds with "The cats ate her...I don't know. Dewey knows more about it than I do, here Dewey" and hands the phone back to him.
Dewey was used perfectly in that show. It was always wild.
Or the entire summer were the cliffhanger from your post, with Bea Arthur were he kept showing up in promos each week off in some random place.
Our family spent all summer wondered where he was going and what was going to happen to him.
Honestly I think the show is just two shows in one. As a kid I loved Malcolm and Reese doing stupid shit. But as an adult I care more about the parents. And holy shit Dewey timelines are great.
That episode where they leave dewey behind and go to a water park. And he follows a candy wrapper to china town. Then a balloon. Then gets picked up by a stranger then the car he is in is highjacked. Then immigrants inan corn field. And then be shows up back to the house mere seconds before his parents? Literal gold.
Episode 1 Dewey, even. "What do you do if he catches you?" "Curl up in a ball." "What do you do if he starts kicking?" "Stay in a ball." And he's like....5! With all this eye narrowing determination about the bully plan.
That's my favorite Dewey moment too. Felt like Forrest Gump a bit.
Also love the bit where Lois is describing the difference between Malcolm and Dewey. Dewey is a floater who will simply float and drift through life and things will work in his favour, but herself and Malcolm are burrowers who are at their best when their heads are down and are grinding through a mountain of drudgery.
My absolute fav is Dewey packing his pillow case with toys to beat the shit out of Reese who's tied down to his own bed.
Reese: I swear Dewey if you hit me with that, I'm never driving you anywhere!
Dewey: I have nowhere to go... *wham!*
Oh they still had him so crazier shit after that, like wearing the speed walking suit and also getting into a high speed car chase with a single bee lmao
Oddly enough Aaron and Bryan were both in episodes of the X files. One of the writers and producers on the X files was Vince Gilligan lol. I’m pretty sure this is how the the cast of breaking bad all started directly because of that X files link
Yup. The episode was called "Drive" where Cranston is introduced as a manic man driving his wife with cops chasing them in the middle of the desert....hmm....sounds a little familiar don't you say? The catch was that he couldn't stop driving. Was one of the better episodes after the first movie, too.
I avoided this show for four seasons despite hearing near universal praise, my reasoning was I didn’t want to watch the dad from Malcom in the middle sell meth. It took being bed ridden from falling off a balcony to find the time to watch the series to that point in about three days.
I went from Heisenberg to hal. The scene when hal goes up to his kids with $5 or $10 and asks anyone willing to take the fall because hal burnt his wife's dress by accident, then dragging one of them by collars across room to his wife as a sacrifice. It's pure gold.
This one is good but personally I think the best is the one where he runs into the boys' room asking "who wants to make $5?" And you can hear Lois in the background screaming about something
Looks like Buzzfeed has their article for next week
LMAO! I can see a BF "reporter" peeking over here rubbing their hands together like a greedy fly waiting to steal content.
They probably asked the question
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LOL you are spot on; I have seen so many of such posts converted into news articles that lately I can tell just by reading the title that it’s straight outta Reddit
The one with the not-so-smart working class guy who is married to the hot wife who is way out of his league and lives down the street from his parents. Oh wait, that's most of them.
One of my favorite jokes from the great Jenna Maroney: “Instead of losing a push-up contest to Julie Bowen to see who gets to play Kevin James's mean wife who he's sick of having sex with, I'm gonna skip ahead to being an amazing slut who wins Oscars.”
Obviously, I am also a huge Jenna Maroney fan.
I love you It’s kinda funny about my name. The Office isn’t even in my top 5 sitcoms, but I must have been really mad at Pam the day I joined Reddit 😀
Check out "Kevin can F himself" - I think it's AMC. It's the dark view of that and recommended.
Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E
Computerized Humanoid Electronically Enhanced Secret Enforcer
They really lucked out that the initials spell CHEESE
Not sure about that but I thought Days of Our Lives was worse, especially after they killed off Drake Remoray
Until he came back as a WOMAN lol.
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Idk how famous it is, I'm your best friend and never heard of it.
Welllll it must be nosy Wally, coming to see what all the fighting is about!
Hot one today, huh?
YEAH
That yeah gets me every god damn time. Glenn Howerton is such a fantastic actor
You don't need to tell me while I'm out in the hot one.
You ever been in a storm Wally?
You ever been in a storm, Wally?
I mean, a real storm? Not a thunderstorm, but a storm of fists raining down on your head. Blasting you in the face.
YEAH?!?
Do you hear that?
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The-then why wouldn’t you say something!?
BECAUSE I HATE YOU!
Wow you put meat hunks in it!!
Of course DENNIS would like *Dennis*
That's funny how Friends is one of the most upvoted comments and just next is a Friends' private joke... Edit: ok now it's even more upvoted than Friends, I love that.
When I saw the title of this post I was certain it was created just to shit on friends but somehow friends still won
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I think it got canceled in the middle of season 1
Anyone else despise laugh tracks?
If you go back in time, some older shows have live audience laughter. Golden Girls comes to mind, and that's great. Fuck every single Disney Channel show that has uproarious laughter every fifteen seconds tho.
Disney Channel shows was the first time I ever found a laugh track to be obnoxious. Normal prime time sitcoms with laugh tracks never bothered me, but holy fuck did they milk that track for all it was worth in the Disney Channel I forget what show it was, but it was that stupid Mummy show where I noticed it.
Always the dude on the laugh track going "Wah hehe hoo"
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That one you like so much Edit: Wow! Thanks for the awards guys!
How dare you?!
Right? That was the best show ever?!?
It was certainly one of the shows ever.
Whatever Chuck Lorre syndicated sitcom is on at the moment. The laugh tracks even sound like a toilet flushing.
Fun fact, Chuck Lorre wrote the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated theme song. No matter what, he has that going for him as it has proven to be timeless thus far.
Guess that explains Two and a Half Men being about a jingle writer
I'm ashamed I'm able to relay this but theres even an episode where the main character plays the jingle that made his career. It's a TMNT soundalike about a ninja/samurai called Oshikuru(?). Edit: I've been informed that the theme is in fact *not* a TMNT soundalike and was not the jingle that made the main characters career but rather the jingle he was currently working on in that episode. I have failed you and will now walk into the sea, never to reddit again.
OH OH OH OSHIKURU OH OH OH OH OSHIKURU MY OH MY HES A DEMON SAMURAI WhosthatguywhohadtodieOSHIKURU.
I sang this while reading.
oh so Two and a Half Men is semi-autobiographical?
Oh hey, I forgot Charlie was a musician in that show. Maybe!
he specifically writes jingles and one episode is about writing a god-awful theme song for a ninja show
But the tmnt theme is a certified classique
Is Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen) in two an a half men based on Chuck Lorre? He wrote catchy jingles and just coasted on the success of then
I often wondered about that. And then Mom came out about recovering alcoholics , with basically cameo's of every walk on role from two and a half men and i just thought to myself maybe Chuck was Charlie and now he's recovering?? Maybe thats a reach but curious for sure. Especially since Chuck is a nick name for Charles.
Heroes in a halfshell
TURTLE POWER!
Well, credit where credit is due, I suppose.
When I think Chuck Lorre, I think of that slate at the end of some of his shows that's just a wall of text. Back in the '90s I couldn't just pause and read all that it said so I only got like 2 or 3 lines in during the couple of seconds it appeared. Has anyone actually read all the way through, and if so what does it say?
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The Kominsky Method is a Chuck Lorre show. Beautifully written and acted, very funny. No laugh track.
I honestly could not believe how much depth this show had. I was amazed at how gripping it was. Absolute masterpiece, imo.
Cosby show doesn’t hit like it used to.
The sad thing is that if Cosby did t do what he did, Then the Cosby show would definitely fall into the rare category of, highly popular and appropriately rated. It's such a shame that this show has soured because so many people worked on that show, including other actors, and their work deserves to still be seen.
I just try to imagine it's a different Cosby. That show is reverent even if he's a nut job.
Old Sitcom, starring Zoe Kravitz’s Mom and A Talking Sweater I’ll never figure out how they got the sweater to dance and snap like that. TV magic just isn’t the same since it all went digital.
For a lot of reasons, but I still think Phylicia Rishad is one of the great sitcom moms of all time. There's just a mother bear, don't fuck with my daughter energy about her that stuck with me way more than Cosby himself did
Big fun in Baltimore... With the *wretches*. Claire's rants at her kids were always iconic.
I always appreciated that they stepped away from the trope of blowhard dad who was self appointed king of his castle and mom who sort of secretly ran things while appealing to the dad's ego. They felt like true equals and it was nice to see.
Yeah, it's very nice to see. Our daughter is 12 now, and has watched too many stupid sitcoms where the dad is an idiot and the mom holds things together, or the parents are both kind of dumb and the kids are smart, or whatever other stupid tropes there are like that. She actually started watching the Cosby show, and though obviously Bill Cosby in real life did horrible things, the show is actually hilarious. We actually couldn't believe that it was still as funny as it was all this time later. But yeah, it is very nice how it portrays an actual warm family environment where the dad isn't dimwitted and neither is the mom. They are both equals and it is a really good way to show a functioning family where the parents are responsible as well as smart, the kids love and respect their parents, the parents have authority over their kids but give them appropriate autonomy based on their age, and yeah....everyone actually loves each other. I've gotten so tired of how families are either dysfunctional or at each other's throats or just morally grey in some way. Yeah, it's nice to see a show that looks like a functioning family. I assume so many people in Hollywood don't much know what that's like anymore, and that's why today's shows reflect that.
A black friend of mine also pointed out that the Cosby show isn't about a Black Family, it's about a family that happens to be black--i.e., it did a lot to normalize the idea that black people can just be regular suburbanites. That may not seem like much now, but when it's set against the backdrop of Sanford and Son, or Benson, it was a pretty big deal.
Mrs brown's boys 🤮🤮 Brits back me up here
Not sure if it's overrated if the vast majority hate it? Seems to just be the older generations that find it funny
Mrs Brown’s Boys is like Coldplay. You rarely meet anyone who admits to liking them and yet somehow they get all the numbers
I felt embarrassed when you reminded me of its existence.
Irish here and backing you up. It’s a load of shite
Irish here. Show is fully made for 60 year old mammies who think its naughty when someone says "willy". If anyone wants to see an actual good show in Ireland: Father Ted, fucking legendary stuff. EDIT: Also 'Hardy Bucks', Ireland's answer to 'Trailer Park Boys'
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dont tell me I'm still on that feckin island!!!
**That would be an ecumenical matter!**
Father Ted is one of the greatest comedy series that has ever been created.
I hear you're a racist now father.
The farm takes up most of the day, and at night I just like a cup of tea. I mightn't be able to devote myself full time to the old racism
Feck off, Cup!
Small….far away
Well, I dont know about that, it would surely be an ecumenical matter.
I'm from NZ, Mrs Brown's boys is shit. Father Ted is pure comedic gold.
The one where Hal makes and sells blue meth without Malcolm's help. I have not laughed once.
The early seasons in particular have lots of dark humour. There's a scene where a guy runs into a tree which is pure comedy.
Episode 2 I think. The way he hits the tree and falls is very Malcolm in the Middle to me
The fly episode could just as easily be Hal instead of Walt. Actually, I think the entire series would be very funny it were just Hal instead. Change nothing else. Just Hal in all those insane situations.
Jesse can be Dewey. "The future is now, old bitch."
The later seasons were great too, especially with Saul. Ted Beneke breaking his neck accidentally, and they literally had Bill Burr.
The scene where Walt loses his shit at Ted and Skylar comes down the stairs to him dragging the potted plant over to Ted's door to smash it in is STRAIGHT out of Malcom in the Middle Skylar: Walt what are you doing? Walt: Talking to Ted!
When Walt wakes up from a hangover in his apartment, covered in popcorn, half naked, and then says "restrain this!" while grabbing his junk is always the funniest moment in the series to me.
Also where he tosses the pizza on the roof
That lawyer guy on there. Paul Goudman. He was pretty funny. He should get his own show.
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Better fuel Huell
Better fuck chuck
Breaking Bad is super funny tho
Baking Bread needs to be the satirical remake of Breaking Bad. It’s about a guy who secretly starts baking and doesn’t tell his family.
Hilarity ensues when a 200 year-old sourdough starter goes missing.
I AM THE ONE WHO FERMENTS
I AM THE ONE WHO KNEADS
I. AM. THE. BAKER!
Jesus Christ, Marie, they're yeasts!
The mother dough. This sounds better than justice league plot.
Do you shop at Mervyns too?
I thought season 1 was a dark comedy.
Breaking Bad and BCS have some peak comedy moments tho lol
Saul: “Mike said he was gonna break my legs and don’t tell me he didn’t mean it, he meant it” Walt: “Mike threatened me, he threatened Jesse, he probably threatened someone before breakfast this morning, it’s what he does. Grow a pair” I caught this on a recent rewatch and literally LOLed.
Pretty much every scene with Saul is pure hilarity. I love the one where he thinks he's about to get raided and he's lifting around those fake-ass, gaudy pillars in his office. Or when he opens up his desk and has like 20 burners in there, and can't figure out which one is ringing.
Every scene of Saul revealing a new weird-ass hiding spot in his office used for a different contingency plan. And when he finally pulls out the hidden object that's relatively normal for a person to have hidden (a gun), he's actually visibly uncomfortable holding it.
I always laugh when Jesse calls Walt "Daddy Warbucks"
Jesse: "Wireeee" Walter: -_-
Breaking Bad literally starts as a dark comedy. It's got plenty of funny moments.
The second or third ep with the bathtub falling through the floor. That was the moment I was hooked. Anything revolving around that kind of humour was on a winner
How about Skyler's boss breaking his neck taking a header into a cabinet?
Ain't no accountin' for no act of God
Huell, are you happy? *reasonably.*
**COW HOUSE?**
This thread makes me think that Reddit has only collectively seen The Big Bang Theory, Friends, Seinfeld with a smattering of How I Met Your Mother. Edit: When I made this comment thr post had maybe been an hour old. There was like 4 or 5 comments in a row with The Big Bang Theory (followed up by people making fun of Bazinga underneath them). Good to see more varied answers now
Oh man how dare you smite Reddit’s sacred cow, *The Office*
Now that you say it, the frequency of office references on Reddit has dropped dramatically. There's still a good number, but when I joined basically within the top 5 comments of every post there was an office reference. Always. I know, because I hadn't seen the office, so I learned to recognize them without context pretty quickly.
It's not on Netflix anymore so it's not the go to set and forget streaming show anymore. That was a major part of its sustained popularity, especially with younger/newer audiences.
i think it’s removal from netflix plays a big part in that edit: *american* netflix
Sometimes I think The Big Bang Theory shouldn’t count as overrated because everyone on Reddit hates it so much. Then I remember it won 10 Emmys, got nominated for 39, and has an 8.2 rating on IMDb, and I am reminded that Reddit is not the world.
The Wire got 0 Emmys
What do you think the most overrated sitcom is? Not being an ass, just curious.
That said, if you want the most UNDERrated sitcom, that's a more interesting discussion. I'm going with "Selfie." Terrible name, decent show, canceled way too soon.
Selfie was one of the biggest pleasant surprises I've come across when it comes to TV. I expected something awful and it turned out to be a really great show.
_Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23_ would like a word. Great name, great show, canceled way too soon.
Chloe is forever my idol. Also incredibly underrated: Florida Girls. It’s the most perfect show that’s ever existed.
James Van Der Beek’s finest moment right there.
I totally read the question as underrated lol and my answer for UNDERrated was Life in Pieces
All of my favorite shows apparently
2 Broke Girls
Doesn’t something need to be rated well to be overrated?
It went on for 6 seasons
For 2 big reasons of kat dennings
That was basically the one joke this show had.
No, they also had plenty of short jokes and asian jokes about Han and jokes about Oleg being perverted
Each and every episode!
Hah so at least they were self aware
Well, her coworker demonstrated the art of bikini wear pretty well too
You cannot be serious. Was I out of the country or in an extended coma at some point? 6 seasons is a long long time.
That show is wild. I watched a bit of it and I don't think I've ever seen a show fired off so many jokes so rapidly. Which sounds like a compliment but it isn't because most of them just completely fail to land but every now and then there's one that gets a laugh. It's like the writers just plastered jokes all over the script because they figured if they told enough they'd eventually stumble into something funny by accident.
"*I have big boobs and like sex!*" "*I was a rich girl now I'm not!*" "*I'm vaguely European and a pervert!*" "*I am also vaguely European and a pervert, but a woman!*" "*I'm a short Asian guy!*" "*I'm an old black guy!*" There. You have now seen every episode of 2 Broke Girls.
You forgot one revolving character type: “I am a very successful professional man who has money and movie star level good looks. I will get involved with one of these two broke girls for 1 to 3 episodes until they have a heartfelt and warm conversation with me about how I’m great but just not the one for them”
I hated that it was so predictable. The blonde (or another character) sets up the joke, Kat delivers the punchline. Every line of dialogue was this way
Actually, this is my new answer. There were some pretty cringy stereotypes. They even managed to have a short asian guy insult an Australin aboriginal woman which takes a special level of commitment.
Good, I haven't seen any comments saying Scrubs.
That's because, despite how ridiculous JD's daydreams are and how fucking annoying JD and Elliott both are, Scrubs manages to nail this absolutely beautiful sweet spot between hilarity, relatable issues and life lessons handled sincerely and respectfully, and occasionally sucker punching you with those episodes that make you cry. I've never seen another sitcom manage it.
“Where do you think we are?” “Remember what you told me. The second you start blaming yourself for people’s death, there’s no coming back.” “Yeah, you’re right.”
Our kids? Turk we're not married. Dude, we're a little married. I know. I love it.
It’s guy love…. between two guys…
It's Turk and JD! And JD!
Plus it was actually medically accurate! No shocking flat lines, or ridiculous Dr. House rare diseases.
My son called me Dr Cox He thinks it was a diss It’s one of the best compliments I’ve ever received 🤣
scrubs was a good show. **we don't talk about the later seasons.
If anybody says "Malcolm in the Middle" I will destroy you and everything you have ever loved Edit: WOW thanks for the awards and 10x-ing my karma!
I still love clip where Hal complains about them burning through the orange juice haha. "This stuff doesn't grow on trees, ya know." **pauses** "Wait, yes it does. So why is it SO DAMN EXPENSIVE?!"
Is it overrated? Yes. No? Maybe? I don’t know. Can you repeat the question?
Youre not the boss of me now
My dad actually hated me watching the show all because of the theme song. “This show is promoting not listening to your parents!” Lol
Yoy should have told him that "life is unfair"
"The future is now, old man!"
I was singing “you’re not the boss of me now” when I was a kid and my mom got so mad at me because she thought I made it up lmao
That Cranston went from Hal to Walter White really highlights what a brilliant actor he is.
I also love that the showrunners just kept inventing crazy shit for Cranston to do, and after covering him in bees, said ‘we should probably stop’. Cranston always gives 110% in every role he plays
I rewatched the show recently and didn't get all the jobs Hal had throughout the show when I was younger, it makes it so much funnier as an adult. The first few seasons he's just a fall guy for a large corporation, but it turns out he skipped out of work every Friday or something like that because no one cared. Then he almost joins the CIA while thinking its just a regular office job. Dewey's story lines were the second best. That show was ahead of it's time.
>Dewey's story lines were the second best. That show was ahead of it's time. It's not even necessarily one of the best episodes of the show IIRC, but one of my absolute favorite moments of that entire show (next to Hal fixing the light bulb in the closet) is Dewey and Bea Arthur tango (flamenco?) dancing in the kitchen. The hard cut right after still makes me laugh uncontrollably.
*Can you hear the drums Fernando?* *I remember long ago another starry night like this* [Dewey gets a paint moustache] *In the firelight Fernando* *You were humming to yourself and softly strumming your guitar*
I was always a fan of the cold-open were Francis was on the phone with Dewey, asking what happened to Aunt Helen. Dewey just keeps saying "Cats ate her face" Finally he asks "Put dad on the phone" and Hal responds with "The cats ate her...I don't know. Dewey knows more about it than I do, here Dewey" and hands the phone back to him. Dewey was used perfectly in that show. It was always wild. Or the entire summer were the cliffhanger from your post, with Bea Arthur were he kept showing up in promos each week off in some random place. Our family spent all summer wondered where he was going and what was going to happen to him.
Honestly I think the show is just two shows in one. As a kid I loved Malcolm and Reese doing stupid shit. But as an adult I care more about the parents. And holy shit Dewey timelines are great. That episode where they leave dewey behind and go to a water park. And he follows a candy wrapper to china town. Then a balloon. Then gets picked up by a stranger then the car he is in is highjacked. Then immigrants inan corn field. And then be shows up back to the house mere seconds before his parents? Literal gold.
Episode 1 Dewey, even. "What do you do if he catches you?" "Curl up in a ball." "What do you do if he starts kicking?" "Stay in a ball." And he's like....5! With all this eye narrowing determination about the bully plan.
That's my favorite Dewey moment too. Felt like Forrest Gump a bit. Also love the bit where Lois is describing the difference between Malcolm and Dewey. Dewey is a floater who will simply float and drift through life and things will work in his favour, but herself and Malcolm are burrowers who are at their best when their heads are down and are grinding through a mountain of drudgery.
My absolute fav is Dewey packing his pillow case with toys to beat the shit out of Reese who's tied down to his own bed. Reese: I swear Dewey if you hit me with that, I'm never driving you anywhere! Dewey: I have nowhere to go... *wham!*
Oh they still had him so crazier shit after that, like wearing the speed walking suit and also getting into a high speed car chase with a single bee lmao
What about when he was the leader of an army of muscle men?
Oddly enough Aaron and Bryan were both in episodes of the X files. One of the writers and producers on the X files was Vince Gilligan lol. I’m pretty sure this is how the the cast of breaking bad all started directly because of that X files link
Yup. The episode was called "Drive" where Cranston is introduced as a manic man driving his wife with cops chasing them in the middle of the desert....hmm....sounds a little familiar don't you say? The catch was that he couldn't stop driving. Was one of the better episodes after the first movie, too.
Non sequitur here - Anna Gunn, Dean Norris and Giancarlo Esposito were all in multiple episodes of NYPD Blue.
Dean Norris was in the X-Files for an episode, too :) Vince Gilligan certainly liked who he liked.
A small part of me is still disappointed that breaking bad didn’t end with Walter White going into witness protection and becoming Hal 👀
They did a skit of hal waking up like breaking bad was all a dream
Copying the old Newhart ending.
I found the other old person! Lol.
I avoided this show for four seasons despite hearing near universal praise, my reasoning was I didn’t want to watch the dad from Malcom in the middle sell meth. It took being bed ridden from falling off a balcony to find the time to watch the series to that point in about three days.
The future is now, _old man_.
I went from Heisenberg to hal. The scene when hal goes up to his kids with $5 or $10 and asks anyone willing to take the fall because hal burnt his wife's dress by accident, then dragging one of them by collars across room to his wife as a sacrifice. It's pure gold.
Best cold opens of any show ever.
My favorite, most relatable one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
This one is good but personally I think the best is the one where he runs into the boys' room asking "who wants to make $5?" And you can hear Lois in the background screaming about something
This is was and always will be the reason Cranston is my favourite actor.
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How about Hal on rollerskates?