Cosby Show - Classic or Dud?

oh dam

I don't really watch sitcoms; "Cosby" was an exception. Theo was hot!

get one new joke milo

(altho no I'm not into shoulderpads and feathered hair)

Yeah, we're talking about The Cosby Show here -- it's kind of transcendent.

Shakey in hating things people like shockah. *zzz*

I guess... when I see it now it looks just as boring as every other sitcom. I don't see what really makes it unique, apart from (debatably) the carefully honed comic chops of its lead actor.

Frank's Place was better.

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actually, you've articulated why sports disgust me, except sub "quarterback" for "actor."

well hey perhaps not so coincidentally I'm also one of those rare American males who does not give a single shit about any professional sports whatsoever

Sports "disgust" you? I mean, if not for lore and statistics, I'd find them pretty boring, too, but.

the only sports stories I enjoy are the ones involving guys pitching no-hitters while on acid

do ppl srsly get to be like adults while still thinking like me in 9th grade

how do people not grow out of hating on sports

It's one of the few fruitful, healthy antipathies.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/football/070202/f020219A.jpg
HOW CAN YOU HATE THAT FACE

I just didn't understand how Alfred went from Shakey saying "Sitcoms bore me" to being all "I know, just like how sports DISGUST me." Not that there aren't disgusting aspects of sports, it was just an odd leap.

Is there anything to parse? I was being glib, even if I meant it a little. With some exceptions a well-made sitcom has the same effect on me as an "exciting" football game.

I'm talking about your elision of boredom and disgust.

So, to clarify, you (a) dislike or (b) are entirely uneffected by sports?

B/c I know a ton of people who don't watch sports, but don't dislike them, or, alternatively, people who like some sports, but not others.

I know very few who, across the board, dislike all sports.

And I am not trying to hi-jack the thread. I am asking to see if I should start another one.

That was directed to Shakey and Alfred

I distrust most communal experiences, even concerts. Something about the expectations forced on me.

BUT LET'S GET BACK TO RUDY HUXTABLE LIPSYNCHING "I GOT THAT FEELIN'"

I distrust most communal experiences, even concerts. Something about the expectations forced on me.

I don't mean to be rude, but CRAZYPANTS

It doesn't stop me from going! But I enjoy music more than sports.

Unanymity of opinion disturbs me; hence my scowling when people whoop, cheer, and applaud loudly. Why is this so hard to understand?

Srsly, CRAZYPANTS

I don't like concerts or most activities where there's a crowd, but not because I feel I'm forced to feel or act any particular way. I just don't like a lot of people being that close to me.

http://www.colleenkenny.com/images/ignatius.jpg

I also wash my hands at the sink until they bleed.

I do actually dislike large concerts because the greater the distance from the stage, the more I have to concentrate to prevent the crowd around me from getting in the way of my connection with the music. They don't even have to be behaving a certain way, either, I just don't like them dominating my senses.

Unanymity of opinion disturbs me; hence my scowling when people whoop, cheer, and applaud loudly. Why is this so hard to understand?

b/c it's insanely contrarian?

Alright, so...you do acknowledge the fact that, typically, a sports contest has at least two factions, and often more, if its a multi-competitor sport?

Look, if your dislike of sport is just a general grinchness towards sports FOR WHATEVER REASON I'll back off. But a whole lot of people like sports. I am one of them. I am constantly curious as to why some people don't.

Even at my most anti-social times in my life, I still dug basketball. To the fullest.

Oh, I'm pretty social, but I accepted long ago that there are many other kinds of camaraderie in which I can find lasting pleasure. Last Thursday I sang loudly to "Inbetween Days" at a bar, so...whatevs.

I'm going to spend the rest of the evening cracking up over imagining these guys at funerals.

"They've asked me to say a few words, and here they are: good riddance to old Aunt Jane. The woman voted for Dole, for god's sake. Indulge in your pious weeping if you must, but the woman was a hidebound reactionary, and god knows I won't miss that cat-urine smell of hers a bit."

I come down more on the "boredom" side than "disgust" (although there's no shortage of disgusting things about professional sports, really). I'll go to ballgames with my dad or my coworkers if asked, I can sit through a game on TV if someone else wants to watch it, my wife makes me watch the Olympics, etc. But it just does not hold my interest at all, I find myself unable to assign any kind of importance to feats of physical acumen and as such my mind will just wander off.

I don't necessarily have Alfred's aversions to crowds but I do have an aversion to stadiums, which are pretty much invariably disgusting/uncomfortable/creepy.

(many x-posts)

- "It is always a tragedy when a child is taken from us so young ..."
- "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO THINK, PREACHERMAN."

(and btw I know there's other people here who may find it hard to believe - but I do actually respect the dead, provided they were worthy of respect while alive)

^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!

nabisco, that sounds more like you than me!

Fair enough. It sounds like you all can be categorized thusly:

1) Doesn't particularly like sports, but doesn't hate the sports themselves
2) Has serious problems with the cultures surrounding sports, from kids to pros
2a) This includes expressive sports fans
3) Finds other things that they enjoy to do, be it with other people or alone

That combo sounds totally understandable to me.

Its the "I hate ALL things about sports because I do" folks that strike me as wierd.

This concludes this test of the BLAM Trying to Understand Normative Behavior and Its Iterations. Back to the Cosby Show!

http://www.richardhellergallery.com/dynamic/images/display/44_19_ONSPORTS5P.jpg

^^^usually what I think about whenever I'm stuck watching pro-sports (esp the Ted Williams bit)

(hmm which seems to be cut off, oh well)

did i ever tell you that I love the episode in which Rudy plays a wide receiver?

Her endzone dance is great.

OTM. I would put Rudy on my fantasy football team.

I'm willing to be cap'n save-a-shakey here. People are allowed to dislike sports, for crying out loud. And it doesn't mean that they are by default stuck in some junior high school mentality, as ghost rider seemed to be implying upthread.

I enjoy watching some sports, but also feel that there is a certain obnoxiousness that goes with American sports which is hard for me to endure (I'll lazily call it "the John Madden factor). Curiously, though, I do enjoy what is arguably the most "American" of sports-- baseball.

I do feel uncomfortable sometimes in massive crowd or stadium situations. It brings to mind too much for my comfort the fact that I am an organism; makes me feel like I am a bacterium among a throng of countless others.

lazily enough, in fact, to leave the end quote off, whoo!

this fucking board needs a preview function...

Also, I have, at various points crushed on both Rachel Ray and Lisa Bonet, (as Denise Hux) so make of that what you will.

Her endzone dance is great

Wasn't her nickname Sweet Feet or Happy Feet?

This is the last time I'll raise the subject: I'm shocked that my admissions seemed so bizarre on, of all places, ILX. Of all the hundreds of thousands of things I've posted in the last three years, I suspect what I said tonight will follow me forever.