long-running sitcoms that were never the slightest bit funny, ever.

[shortylickens]

you said seinfeld and curb are funny.

then said a tyler perry show is funny.

it defies all logic. it's like saying your favorite flavor of ice cream is vanilla, and i'm like 'yeah, vanilla is great,' then you elaborate that your second favorite flavor is month-old baby diaper.

Ohhhhhhh, K?

 

[SP33Demon]

are you a single republican?

Nope, but nice try at the stereotype. Fail shows are still fail. Although, now that I think about it, the only guy that's bearable is Robert on ELRaymond. Ray is fcking annoying and I can't watch it.

 

[zinfamous]

Give him a break, he probably caught it here.

fair enough.

 

[zinfamous]

Shandling Show and Larry Sanders to an even greater degree, were both amazing shows.

KT

I loved the Gary Shandling Show.

never really watched Larry Sanders, though. :hmm:

 

[BrokenVisage]

Seinfeld had a few funny moments, but I'm convinced that it's the most overrated sitcom ever. I think a lot of the reason people think it's funny is that laughter is contagious. i.e. the artificial laugh track is played & people chuckle along with it. The reason I hated the show is that I'm apparently not susceptible to such simple manipulation, and in fact, found it annoying enough (I don't think they ever go 2 sentences without the laugh track) that I hated the show.

I think a cool experiment would be to not use the name of the show, remove the laugh track, and show it to people who had never seen Seinfeld & see how humorous they find it. I'm betting not very much.

*sigh* I guess I'll never understand this ridiculous unholy crusade against the laugh track. Not saying those against it have invalid opinions, but to demonize it as some do really aggravates me to no end. And now you come along with this I'm-immune-to-the-canned-laugher-ray-gun diatribe and my face finally meets palm.

First of all, if ever there was a show that had to be re-syndicated without a laugh track and still be considered funny to a select group of people, Seinfeld would be that show. The humor IS there and the acting/situations are funny without any "laugh coaxing" if you ask me. I doubt the show got to where it ended up because of over-influencing laughter. And yeah, Seinfeld didn't have any "artificial" laugh track, it used a studio audience.

By your rationale though the only reason a show would need a laugh track is to induce laughter to make up for sub-par humor. Now, I may be biased growing up on a bunch of shows that used laugh tracks (Married With Children, Cheers, etc..) but to me the laughter adds a sort of ambiance to the shows that use it. I don't know what it is, but some shows just seem to work better with laughter filling in certain gaps. Does the audience go overboard with laughter in some scenes? Sure they do, but humor is indeed subjective and what I find funny will more often then not differ from what you find funny. So on the flip side of that I'm wondering why an audience isn't laughing even more at some scenes.

So yeah, it's all subjective and I can see why people dislike it but the intolerance some people have for it just boggles my mind at times.

 

[zinfamous]

Ohhhhhhh, K?

c'mon shorty it's not that hard.

the second opinion about what is good shows that your judgment of quality is invalid.

Not that I agree with the thrust of brblx's argument, his examples make perfect sense.

 

[BudAshes]

Everybody loves raymond is probably the worst for me. We need a vote.

 

[KeithTalent]

I loved the Gary Shandling Show.

never really watched Larry Sanders, though. :hmm:

It's great, so underrated (NSFW language): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IgD32TVWaQ&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0QHw-3zZ4Q&fmt=18

KT

 

[tk149]

Different people like different things...and it's okay.

My unfunny list:
Full House (The target demographic was probably the beanie baby crowd)
The Gary Shandling Show (someone posted that Seinfeld ripped of this show, but I liked Seinfeld )
3rd Rock
Alf
Small Wonder
Rosanne
and many many more

My list of funny shows that others don't like:
Seinfeld
Family Guy
Simpsons
Frasier
Wings

<- 41/m

 

[Fritzo]

Oh geeze. Can I just summarize this entire thread?

ATOT: Everything on TV is not funny, especially past the 2nd season, because I'm too uptight and my sense of humor is much too sophisticated for anything a network would show. Plus, I have the attention span of a spastic puppy, so if a joke takes more than 3.2 seconds to deliver, I find it boring.

 

[cheezy321]

LOL. It only took 3 posts for someone to name the best sitcom of all time: Seinfeld.

Edit: I am 25

 

[QueBert]

LOL. It only took 3 posts for someone to name the best sitcom of all time: Sandford & Son.

fixed...

 

[zinfamous]

fixed...

definitely one of the most under-appreciated!

 

[eits]

Nope, but nice try at the stereotype. Fail shows are still fail. Although, now that I think about it, the only guy that's bearable is Robert on ELRaymond. Ray is fcking annoying and I can't watch it.

what about "american dad"?

do you have a wife and kids? if you did, you'd probably be more apt to relate to "everybody loves raymond"

 

[dpearson]

you've got to be messed up in the head if you seriously think that the "simpsons" and "seinfeld" sucked.


FOR EVERYONE WHO READS THIS:
seriously, if you're going to post shows that you think aren't funny, please at least do us all a favor and post your age in your post.

I am 23, good sir. And yes, Simpsons and Seinfeld aren't funny to me.

I watch very little TV so there may have been some Simpsons and Seinfeld jokes that could make me laugh. But what I have seen just doesn't do it for me. Hmm...maybe it's not fair to judge a sitcom unless I've seen each and every one of its episodes.

The Office, That '70s Show, and Big Bang Theory, have gotten a few laughs out of me. I'm not saying those series as a whole are good--just that I think some of their material is funny.

 

[CraigRT]

that just perpetuates the stereotype that George Lopez is funny.

Randy made a funny for sure, here.

 

[TwinsenTacquito]

yay, let's hate on something random. fuck this place never changes.

You sweared. Warn him!

 

[sportage]

Some shows were not meant to be laugh out loud funny, like bewitched.
More of the daily life of witch vs mortal.
However Agnes Morehead was a great talent and fun to watch.
The original Alice Pearce as Gladys Kravitz was very funny.
And Marion Lorne as Aunt Clara was such a talent too.
I always thought Dick York was a great actor. Much more than Jimmy Stewart.
If you substitute Dick York in the movie parts that Jimmy Stewart played, I think Dick York
would have outperformed old Jimmy.
Paul Lynde was great in guest spots on bewitched, but not so much when hired on to play Uncle Arthur.

And how Ray Romano ever made it in the business is a mystery to me. He's not only totally unfunny, he's very annoying to watch.

Dick Van *** was never hehe funny either, but the characters made the show enjoyable.

All in the family was kinda humorous except for Carroll O'Connor. Jean Stapleton was the true star of that show.

Happy Days was terrible. I never could watch it more than a few minutes.

I guess you'd have to say I Love Lucy was about the only laugh out loud tv sitcom.
And their humor was usually smart humor, not stupid silly humor. (usually)
Like when Lucy tricked Ricky into performing in her club show.
The episode where Ethel and Lucy both wore the same dress style and neither would switch to a different dress.
The part where they tricked Ricky into performing in the show was one of my favorite skits.

 

[Anubis]

I watched the Soup Nazi ep of Seinfeld last night and i really don't understand why people think the show isn't funny

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Watched a couple episodes and they bored the fuck out of me.

 

[SP33Demon]

what about "american dad"?

do you have a wife and kids? if you did, you'd probably be more apt to relate to "everybody loves raymond"

Nope, can't stand American Dad. Way too over the top and annoying. No wife and kids yet but I loved family based sitcoms: Home Improvement, Roseanne, and every now and then the Cosby Show.

Another to add to the list:
My Name is Earle (cancelled but reruns are still being played). WTF is that?

To the poster above me, also agree about Curb Your Enthusiasm. It bored the fck out of me. Loved Seinfeld though.

 

[brxndxn]

everybody loves raymond
two and a half men

EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND.. that show was so unfunny that it would piss me off.. The laugh track was so over the top that I am convinced that anyone that enjoyed that show in the slightest is a moron.

 

[Muse]

20-20? Face the Nation? The 6 O'Clock News? Barbara Walters?

Come on, I don't watch sitcoms. None are funny AFAIC. OK, I have a bunch of Seinfeld and Simpsons DVDs, a season or two of Arrested Development, but I've got a long way to go, a long way...