Overrated/Underrated Sitcoms and the science of comedy

For my intensive French classes, we had to do animations. I could get whodunnit and how it was done dead quick from some (proudest of the Porte banane) . But a total flop for anything Tati style, I couldn’t ever relate to that style of French comedy, while loving others.

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Not sure if it’s traditionally a sitcom but Mr Inbetween is criminally underrated.
Some genuinely side splitting laugh moments and action in my book goes down as when on the best Australian shows out there

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Yep. And it was the friction and aggravation between many of them that drove it on.

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I’ve been meaning to watch that.

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It’s excellent.

Binge watched it across a weekend.

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Underrated: Essendon Football Club as a comedy act!

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Rake? Probably another show that went too long.

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As a kid, I loved 'Allo 'Allo . And if memory serves me correctly, some of the writing was actually quite gid…but I fear that it may not stand up to a rewatch :grimacing:

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Utopia (the Australian one), although it could easily
be classified as a documentary instead of a comedy.

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You stupid woman!

That’s why it’s not shown anymore.

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Listen very carefully, I will say this only once.

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Underrated: Get Smart

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The cracked vase with the big daisies?

No! The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies.

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A horror in the ‘Saw’ model more like it. Dismembered limb from limb. Eviscerated into a bloody pathetic pulp.

That got really good just as I was about to give up on it.

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Legend says these glasses were modelled on Marie Antoinette’s bosom.

They should have modelled them on Helga’s. We’d have got a bigger drink!

:rofl:. I wonder if that’d get passed these days.

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I understand that, but as I said originally, I wasn’t talking about changing social norms or political correctness with Friends, I was disputing that it was only watchable at the time.
LMW is 22 and she’s a massive fan.
I have 13 year-old nieces who Love the show.
It has longevity.
It has big, and more impressively New fans, thirty years later.

…was my point.

Edit: also, I think most new viewers understand that Friends was created in a different time, and doesn’t overly lean on jokes at the expense of minorities, and accept that it has a trans character at all is progressive for it’s time, even if there a few moments that make them go….oooooh, don’t like that.

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Cosby Show not getting a lot of love, considering how much love Bill gave others!

I still found the Accountant-Sea short film absolutrly brilliant on The Meaning of Life.

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Married With Childern

3rd Rock From The Sun

Home Improvement

Three shows i love

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