NOT FUNNY.

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!

Though often plotted very tightly, each scene feels like it could careen off in any direction.

perhaps... larry will make a faux pas!

- 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.

- They put a spoiler in the title

- Abstract earnestness about the value of "family"

in a show about a dysfunctional family. makes no sense. i mean boy that is silly

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

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?

he needs to write a one-page, single-spaced margin-less essay about why it's not funny first </mcm joke>

tracer will keep it so he can feel superior to it

I dunno. It's not like I can regift, what am I gonna say? "I thought this was pretty lame but it seems right up your alley!"

"I thought this was pretty lame but it seems right up your alley!"

"you may enjoy this popular comedy programme"

perhaps... larry will make a faux pas!

― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Tuesday, December 29, 2009 8:12 PM

haha

hang on weren't you meant to be pubbing with us rather than slagging off the funniest tv show ever Tracey boy

This might explain why he wasn't pubbing with you.

i'm slowly turning the goodfolk of freaky trigger off socialising one by one eh :D

just move to America, dude.

watched 15mins of AD once a couple years ago and really wasn't feeling it. david cross def. a factor. also generally do not like movies/shows where the action pauses and characters start talking to the camera. AD does this, right?

It doesn't do that latter thing, no.

i think tracer's reacting too much from the fanfrenzy but the criticisms are otm. after watching a few it was pretty evident that nailing that particular tone and pace and certain other unconventions were almost the whole point of it, but it was also something good enough to sit through if there was nothing else on. i could swear the style was borrowed from something else too can't remember what, maybe a movie?

30 rock is an interesting comparison, it seems similarly impressed with itself as far as having a tone and maybe acidity unique to television but they also barrel forward with a bunch of jokes which are just good enough to serve as an engine and make the other stuff less annoying

ZOMBIES

I've always thought david cross was a weak point in the show, but I derive enjoyment from snowballing of in-jokes that accumulate as the seasons go on

I recently tried to get into Always Sunny, but I just didn't feel it at all.

I've also sat through plenty of episodes of The Office (US) without cracking a smile, just wondering to myself why so many people I know love it (or loved it up until the last season or two).

I didn't like the almost forced zaniness of AD the first few times I saw it, but it eventually won me over mostly thanks to Bateman, Cera, and Tambor. It reminds me of The Simpsons more than any other show, in the way it tries to appeal to so many different types of humor. I don't care for wacky names or puns, but love stuff like the flashbacks of the stunts the dad pulls (using the one-armed guy) to teach his kids lessons they won't forget. By the way, I think referring to anyone in that show as 'mentally disabled' is kind of missing the point. Everyone in the show is fairly dumb, but I think they can all be split into two groups: Greedy, selfish, narcissistic parents, and the fucked up kid of these parents.

yeah this might work better if you think of it as live-action Simpsons

The "Hitler ranting with alternate subtitles" thread

Comics Unleashed

Autotuning anything

steve martin

the 'backin up' rmx being the exception that proves xp

fully terrible thread

just wanna post:

FAMILY GUY

in case no ones done it recently

Antoine Dodson = funny
Antoine Dodson remixes = not funny

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhremnxlrt1qcxcjfo1_500.jpg

actually the goat's head is verging on being so unfunny it's funny territory. it's liminal atm

Dave Spikey was on Daybreak, plugging his new show.

Apparently, it's themed around song lyrics, and how tenable or otherwise, they are.

e.g.

"Roy Orbison, right, "I drove all night?".. it goes "I drove all night, crept in your room, Woke you from your sleep to make love to you, is that all right?" "LET'S HOPE SO EH???"

Any road, he's registered blind, so it's probably not a good idea!"

Hmm, now what exactly is wrong with this particular unfunny?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tt5DE4hbYY

People who find Miranda funny. You're wrong.

ironic that this thread has led to me spending the last half hr or so laughing hysterically at limmy clips.

Watson and Oliver

NOT FUNNY

videos where characters from movies/tv shows are edited together to make the lyrics of a song

http://laughingsquid.com/mad-men-rickroll/

wow arrested development discussion upthread -- tracer if you're still listening and you still have that boxed set, I also found the show grating for some of the reasons you mention at first and later warmed up to it a lot. I think a lot of what I enjoyed about the show was not the "wackiness" per se, but the way it captures people's inability to escape their own delusions about themselves, and about the tendency to imagine we are making progress when we are actually trapped in the same dysfunctional pattern. I think this describes pretty much every character on the show, actually. Yes, they're mostly "wacky types" (excepting maybe Bateman and Cera), but their wackiness stems in large part from a failure of self-perception, and at times the show is even poignant in its insights into this, for example in the way Bateman repeatedly tries and fails to have an idealized father-son relationship with Cera.

gif tumblrs in this style:

http://nola-problems.tumblr.com/

yeah gettin p sick of those

http://www.reddit.com/r/standupshots

idk, i can get into those. ann friedman is awes.

er, to hurting. no reddit.

http://i.imgur.com/I9z1z.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/urbvq.jpg

that must be why someone broke both his elbows