Good job, guys. You have invalidated all of his criticisms, and now he will surely enjoy the show.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, comedy is one of those things you can talk people into liking -- people either find something funny or they don't. xp
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
can = can't, argh
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes. I mean, look, some of you laugh at it. That is great! I really don't mind! I just completely cannot comprehend it!! Ultimately one cannot perhaps explain these things!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe i should list all of my criticisms of granny dainger so you guys can invalidate them and then i will surely enjoy his posts.
― estela, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
you clearly "get it", it just looks like youre too busy thinking to enjoy it
xp
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
zs/que otm
yes he's thinking "why don't I find this funny?"
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
OK OK here's my attempt to explain. I know it won't "work" as an explanation but I'm trying anyway. Why, who knows. And yes, I actually think I do get it. I am not asking for help here.
- Wacky "types" instead of characters- People acting totally fucking dumb all the time, almost as if they are mentally disabled.- Actual humor at the expense of mentally disabled people (i.e. Buster)- David fucking Cross. Oh yeah and his character has a really funny name, hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!- Abstract earnestness about the value of "family"- Every reaction shot narrated by Ron fucking Howard leaking out everywhere
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean! Ron Howard!!!!!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Buster is not mentally disabled
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I could totally see how someone could not enjoy Arrested Development. But a lot of that sounds like it could apply to plenty of shows. Say, Curb Your Enthusiasm.
― Quiet, I'm making my Youtube Star Wars Review (Z S), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Other shows Tracer likely won't enjoy:
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia30 Rock
― Mordy, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh yeah and his character has a really funny name, hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
One of the things I love about AD is that so much humor comes from language: puns, double entendres, silly wordplay, etc.
― Francis Ford Copacabana (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
a lot of it sounds like every comedy ever--Dickens had characters with funny names, we still read Dickens.
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i think this is the only thing i've liked david cross in
― tacoma chameleon (electricsound), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost to self Specifically the first three criticisms (wacky "types", everyone's an idiot, making jokes out of politically incorrect situations)
― Quiet, I'm making my Youtube Star Wars Review (Z S), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
- Actual humor at the expense of mentally disabled people (i.e. Buster)
what words do u stress in this sentence when u say it out loud
― reading this is making you dumber (Lamp), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
"I don't find this funny, so neither should you" vs. "I find this funny, so you should too" followed by excessively analytical discussion of comedy truisms and archetypes. Should be a productive discussion.
― Super Cub, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
the internet is amazing
― Quiet, I'm making my Youtube Star Wars Review (Z S), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
People acting totally fucking dumb all the time, almost as if mentally disabled is where the show most closely approximates life for me, and makes.me feel like, all in all, my problems aren't all that bad.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
this fall, the New Adventures of Fezziwig & Chuzzlewit
― velko, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Tracer Hand is a funny name
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
You know what Que, I think Dickens also said that family was like, real real important. You're right - this is just like Dickens!
Haha Mordy I have totally avoided those shows.
Z S I love Curb Your Enthusiasm (or least I did a few years ago, when I watched it last) but I guarantee I would not be around for that shit if Ron Howard was narrating every line like some kind of kindly scout troop leader.
Super Cub when did I ever say no one else should find this funny?? In fact I explicitly said, twice I think, that if you like it, great! I just can't understand why that would be!
I had no idea Buster wasn't supposed to be mentally disabled. They certainly make him seem that way in the first three episodes.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
please note, i did not say that the show, Arrested Development, was just like Dickens.
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I love AD for the characters and the writing and the acting and the premise.
Also, the second half of the second season was completely fascinating to watch as the show marched toward annihilation and the writers fully acknowledged that fact.
xpost, Tracer true, I was just describing a larger pattern of internet discourse. Apologies.
― Super Cub, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
xp to self: actually a big contributing factor to my enjoyment of most television/movies/novels.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.wearebored.com/gallery2/d/10728-2/Dickens+Energy+Cider.JPG
― velko, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Doesn't Buster have several college degrees?
― Francis Ford Copacabana (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
(This may not have been established until later, I don't remember.)
if you think Buster is wacky now, wait until he has no arm!
― Super Cub, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
no i think in the first episode it's suggested he has multiple degrees
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
NOT FUNNY - education is impt
― reading this is making you dumber (Lamp), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
What is impt? Is it a past tense of some verb to "imp"?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
like a more light-hearted, puckish version of "trolling"?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
It's true that Curb has plenty of people doing extremely dumb things that you cannot imagine a real person ever doing. But usually it's just out of carelessness. Which is pretty relatable. One of the things I like about Curb is that it feels loose. Though often plotted very tightly, each scene feels like it could careen off in any direction. The actors feel less like actors and more like improvisers. You can see them really aggravating each other, really making each other laugh. If a situation escalates it feels slightly out of control.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha it is hilarious to me how utterly futile my efforts to explain why I can't find this show funny are.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Who needs DVDs??
this whole exchange is why i try like hell not to post about shit i don't like
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i know, right?! (not that i try that hard on that front obv ; ))
― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe stick with it for a few more episodes? I didn't 'get' a lot of the greatness first off. (It's now my favourite US show).
That said if you're actually finding it hateful rather than just a bit bewildering/ unsure of it then perhaps there's no point.
I wonder if it makes a difference being familiar with the actors already - when I watched it I had no idea who David Cross, Will Arnett or M Cera were. I only knew Lindsay from being in Ally McBeal. So I'd not seen any of their 'schtick' before.
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't like this show at first but then gave it another chance and the rest is history
if you hate funny names then the scott baio appearance will leave you in stitches. from attempted suicide!
― voices from the manstep (brownie), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Though often plotted very tightly, each scene feels like it could careen off in any direction.
perhaps... larry will make a faux pas!
― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link
- People acting totally fucking dumb all the time, almost as if they are mentally disabled
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_development
However, in the Mental Health Act of 1983, the term "arrested development" was considered a form of mental disorder consisting of severe mental impairment, as a lack of intelligence.[1] Other researchers have objected to the notion that mental development can be "arrested" or stopped, preferring to consider the mental status as developing in other ways, rather than the notion of mental growth as arrested. Consequently, in psychological terminology, the term "arrested development" is no longer used by them in referring to a developmental disorder in mental health.
― ♖♘♗♔♕♗♘♖ (am0n), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 01:21 (fourteen years ago) link
- They put a spoiler in the title
― ♖♘♗♔♕♗♘♖ (am0n), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link
- Abstract earnestness about the value of "family"
in a show about a dysfunctional family. makes no sense. i mean boy that is silly
― ♖♘♗♔♕♗♘♖ (am0n), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link
the david cross/ron howard gripes i get but the former really is pretty good in this and the latter you get used to as the show progresses but obviously ymmv
― ♖♘♗♔♕♗♘♖ (am0n), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
So are you going to sell your box set Tracer or are you just going to have emotions at it as it sits unused on your shelf?
― I X Love (Abbott), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
he needs to write a one-page, single-spaced margin-less essay about why it's not funny first </mcm joke>
― sarahel, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
tracer will keep it so he can feel superior to it
― velko, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 01:36 (fourteen years ago) link