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What joke, in otherwise great sitcoms, do you hate? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I don’t mean that the joke just isn’t funny, I want to know a joke that almost makes you want to fast-forward through the scene.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Another exception: Archer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Buffy the vampire slayer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Film spin-off

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

BTVS was a film first, so I'm claiming spin-off. But you are right, that show would be less without her.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good lord the trailer is amazing.

https://m.imdb.com/video/vi21805593/?playlistId=tt0103893&ref_=tt_pr_ov_vi

by which I mean, it's deliciously, ridiculously early 90s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Watching it now it almost seems like a parody.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

well thanks for the discovery anyway, It looks worth a watch to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you are a fan of the show, yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I have teenage memories of it. Not sure it was really any good...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No way !! a film ?? Is it any good ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bond spin-off?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Homage maybe, but not a spinoff :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah. I'm stretching my rule as much as possible. I'm basically trying to exclude all characters that have already been audience tested. Parody is sort of included in that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Ha ha, fair enough, I admire your determination to make this rule stick!

Another counterpoint though - Quincy ME. Oh course you could argue that it's not all that good even with Jack Klugman's crime solving coroner.

Oh, another one - Father Ted!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. I may have to exclude medical/investigative.

House, Sherlock, Columbo, Reacher, Lucifer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Veronica Mars, Ironside, Chuck...

Arguably Fawlty Towers too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nah. Fatty Owls is named after the hotel.

Chuck is all about Charles Carmichael. (Streeeeeeeetch).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ha ha, fair enough. I see I've met someone as stubborn as I am ;-)