So I'm watching a little bit of friends tonite....

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rh71

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Friends isn't as funny as it used to be. I have all eps ever made on my machine. There's a definite decline in teh funnies.

Seinfeld... well I could never get past that annoying scene-transition music. That pisses me off to no end.
 

KarenMarie

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Originally posted by: hevnsnt
If you don't mind me asking.. People who hated seinfeld.. What ethnicity are you?

American. White. 41yrs old.

I just didn't think it was a funny show. Not everyone can like the same things, and I can dig that some ppl love it, but it is just not my taste in funny.

:)
 

Fausto

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FWIW- Friends used to be pretty funny, but now they're playing "wrap up the series with many heartfelt moments" so you get subjected to massive amounts of saccharine crap.

Turn to BBC America (if you get it) and watch "Coupling" instead. Same premise as Friends, but infinitely more vulgar and funny. :D
 

GoingUp

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Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Originally posted by: hevnsnt
If you don't mind me asking.. People who hated seinfeld.. What ethnicity are you?

American. White. 41yrs old.

I just didn't think it was a funny show. Not everyone can like the same things, and I can dig that some ppl love it, but it is just not my taste in funny.

:)

23 white male
 

geckojohn

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Nov 28, 2000
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WTF are you talking about??

Seinfeld is the best show ever... super funny.

Go back to your crappy shows.
 

rgwalt

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Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Cheers is funny.
Fraiser is funny.
Becker is funny.
RoseAnne is funny.
Most of the old sitcoms are the best... like
I dream of Jeannie
The Odd Couple
The Honeymooners

I don't find Seinfeld funny.
Sorry.

Cheers, I can agree with.
Fraiser isn't very good.
Becker sucks.
Roseanne is OK
I won't comment on the older sitcoms as I haven't really seen too many.

I like That 70's Show, though I think it is going down hill. There was an optimum they passed through, and now it is just the same routine.

Wings was pretty good back in the day, but they fell off in the final couple of seasons.

Drew Carry is good stuff. They tend to try some whacky material that other people don't like.

My new favorite sitcom right now is Scrubs. It is the right mix of seriousness and really nutty humor. Although, many of the characters are extremely predictable these days, there are still a lot of good lines and good humor.

R
 

IndieSnob

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Any comedy that has a bit about a fiance dying from licking stamps is completely unfunny. Why anyone liked Seinfeld is beyond me.
 

Wingznut

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Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Cheers is funny.
Fraiser is funny.
Becker is funny.
RoseAnne is funny.
Most of the old sitcoms are the best... like
I dream of Jeannie
The Odd Couple
The Honeymooners

I don't find Seinfeld funny.
Sorry.
Cheers rocks
Frasier was pretty good (until Niles got with Daphne.)
Becker is horrible.
Roseanne was pretty decent for the first two seasons... I didn't like it, mind you, but I can appreciate that others would.


I rarely watch sitcoms any more. But I do still like King of Queens occasionally, and I liked the first couple seasons of Raymond. George Lopez's show has its moments, but I would never go out of my way to see it.
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: Wingznut
Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Cheers is funny.
Fraiser is funny.
Becker is funny.
RoseAnne is funny.
Most of the old sitcoms are the best... like
I dream of Jeannie
The Odd Couple
The Honeymooners

I don't find Seinfeld funny.
Sorry.
Cheers rocks
Frasier was pretty good (until Niles got with Daphne.)
Becker is horrible.
Roseanne was pretty decent for the first two seasons... I didn't like it, mind you, but I can appreciate that others would.


I rarely watch sitcoms any more. But I do still like King of Queens occasionally, and I liked the first couple seasons of Raymond. George Lopez's show has its moments, but I would never go out of my way to see it.

damn you read my mind.


Except that friends was horrible
 

nageov3t

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I like Friends. It hasn't been really funny in a few years, but I still Tivo the new eps.

Scrubs is probably the funniest show that NBC has right now. Will and Grace is still good for a laugh, but a lot of the jokes are getting old and stale.

by far, the funniest show on network television right now is Arrested Development.
 

element

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Oct 9, 1999
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Seinfeld is funny. Friends is funny 1 minute out of every 500 hours.

Now the Simpsons.....they're just plain dumb, or funny only to kids or something.

I almost forgot: Futurama is funny.

South Park used to be funny but lately it's lost it.
 

Kelvrick

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Originally posted by: Fausto
FWIW- Friends used to be pretty funny, but now they're playing "wrap up the series with many heartfelt moments" so you get subjected to massive amounts of saccharine crap.

Turn to BBC America (if you get it) and watch "Coupling" instead. Same premise as Friends, but infinitely more vulgar and funny. :D

Everyone says that so I netflixed in a disc and it just didn't click. I guess it was more vulgar but it wasn't that funny.
 

nageov3t

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I found the BBC version of Coupling to be funny... but after watching an episode or two, the sex jokes got kinda boring.
 

ApacheXMD

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Originally posted by: IndieSnob
Any comedy that has a bit about a fiance dying from licking stamps is completely unfunny. Why anyone liked Seinfeld is beyond me.

it was from cheapass envelopes, not stamps!!!
And yes it was funny.

-patchy
 

rezinn

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Some of them are so contrived that they stink, however a lot of the things that happen on these shows are realistic and we can relate to them, so we enjoy laughing at ourselves. I think that about Seinfeld a lot. Never was much of a fan of friends, although I do enjoy it on occasion. I still say that one stupid sounding girl who plays guitar is a lesbian.
 

EpsiIon

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Hahahaha, for the first two years of college, a *bunch* of girls in my dorm would get together on Thursday night and watch Friends in the rec room. Anyway, one Thursday night my friends and I decided that Smash Bros (the original, not the crappy Gamecube version ;) ) was a better way to use the rec room on a Thursday night. I thought some of them might make some rude comments or even try to kick us out, but nothing ever came of it. In retrospect, I wish we'd done that more often...


BTW, I don't know what's wrong with you if you thnk Seinfeld isn't funny... I really should watch more of that show.
 

EpsiIon

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Originally posted by: isasir
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Who watches this garbage? It's as unfunny as Seinfeld. Thankfully pretty soon it will be gone, although well have another crappy spin off show, just like with Seinfeld.

Seinfeld and Friends are the most unfunny worthless shows EVAR.

You spelled 'EVER' wrong.

You're joking, right? I hate to be the one to tell you this, but if you're not joking, then you definitely suck at teh intarweb. ;)
 

datdamkid

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Originally posted by: Xiety
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Who watches this garbage? It's as unfunny as Seinfeld. Thankfully pretty soon it will be gone, although well have another crappy spin off show, just like with Seinfeld.

Seinfeld and Friends are the most unfunny worthless shows EVAR.

Just because you think you are more intellectual than 95% of the world doesn't mean you are. Calling Seinfeld unfunny doesn't make you cool. So shut up.

I Agree