Hated |
“Oh Ross it’s okay.”
“No you just rolled over on the juice box.” My college roommates on the floor laughing harder than anything I’ve ever seen in my life. Honestly. Will never forget that moment. |
“ Echoing Latifah’s comments, Coles recently recalled to ET how the president of NBC said he wished he would have bought Living Single. “And strangely, a year later, Friends came on,” she says, adding “the big difference is the melanin.” https://www.etonline.com/how-living-single-in...s-to-insecure-151597 |
I don't like IASIP, but Brooklyn 99 is hilarious. It's often very silly and goofy. |
Also, laugh tracks were normal for sitcoms then. I remember watching Sports Night, and they started it out with a laugh track, but then dropped it partway through the first season. So much better, but we were more used to it back then. |
I remember how powerful it was to see a lesbian wedding on tv for the first time. |
90s aesthetics are trendy. Friends and Seinfeld just look perfectly vintage, with the benefit of good production, so they don't look too "classic".
I personally think Frasier is a much funnier and far sharper show than both. But Frasier looks a little older, production-wise, for some reason. And I wouldn't conflate popularity with genius. Big Bang Theory is one of the most popular shows of all time -- but it is pure cringe and unwatchable, to me. |
The laugh track is impossible to ignore. I tried to watch Friends and the laugh track was just so distracting! |
Yeah I actually disagree that all these couldn't be plot points now. Chandler could definitely have a trans dad - though it would be treated differently. Ross could absolutely have an ex wife married to another woman. The OCD cleaning is fine. Fun Bobby might even be fine. Being bad touched by a tailor might be ok, depending on how it's handled. I think the only one that really wouldn't fly is fat Monica. |
It always seemed like the show was so basic and unfunny compared to the other smarter sitcoms of the time. I never understood the appeal. This is a time when TV was covered with these.
Today, even the few basic sitcoms out there have smarter humor here and there. |
Yes! And she was famous before that for being the girl pulled out of the audience by Bruce Springsteen in the Dancing in the Dark video. |
+1 |
These actors were comedic geniuses and in particular, their physical comedy skills were outstanding.
The episode with Ross and the leather pants is physical comedy perfection. |
Chandler's trans dad was Morgan freakin' Fairchild! An icon of the 70s and 80s. |
It's not a recorded laugh track, it's filmed in front of an audience who is laughing. I know this kind of comedy has fallen out of favor but I miss them. Recently read James Burrows' memoir and it was interesting to hear about his work in sitcoms (including Friends-he directed the pilot and a lot of the episodes) and how he liked its similarity to theater in that they filmed in front of an audience, unlike a movie or today's single-camera comedies. https://www.amazon.com/Directed-James-Burrows...rector/dp/0593358244 |