Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on May 9, 2023 18:41:47 GMT -5
"Kitchen Nightmares" For all the cooking shows that came out during that era from the mid-2000s through the early-2010s, it's weirdly still quite popular. If you think about it, the show is nothing special. It's a caustic personality at the top of his profession trying to fix a middling brick-and-mortar before it goes out of business. We've seen that exact concept countless times, whether it's "Bar Rescue" or "Hotel Hell" or "Restaurant: Impossible." But "Kitchen Nightmares," which only ran from 2007 through 2014, still gets plenty of syndication, full-length episodes on YouTube have upwards of 5 million views, and its dedicated YouTube channel has nearly a million subscribers - and, again, they haven't produced new content in nearly a decade. I watch the first 30 minutes or so of episodes on YouTube. It’s fun. I dunno, man. |
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on May 10, 2023 5:38:17 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I'll go as far as classic, but it was certainly popular and everyone in the UK who grew up in the early 2000s knows it.
The Story of Tracy Beaker
While that show itself isn't going, the spinoffs are.
There was Tracy Beaker Returns, a few years later which was about Tracy returning to the care home this time as a carer. Then, The Dumping Ground spun off Tracy Beaker Returns following life at the care home with another bunch of kids and is still going strong. And there was a spinoff miniseries, My Mum Tracy Beaker following Tracy and her daughter.
I actually think it's pretty cool that the franchise is still going in various forms, over 20 years later.
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Post by Push R Truth on May 10, 2023 9:53:53 GMT -5
about Kitchen Nightmares... you get some episodes like Amy's Baking Company that are a purely timeless shitfest situation. The truth was more wild than any written sitcom could have produced. 30 years from now that episode will be just as relevant/sad/funny as it was the day it first aired.
That show managed to capture some unchanging human nature situations that will always be relevant. To me, that's the difference between a popular show with staying power and a popular show that fades away.
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Post by wildojinx on May 10, 2023 11:02:56 GMT -5
America's Funniest Home Videos is still around. You'd think that Youtube would have killed that show.
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Post by msc on May 10, 2023 11:56:52 GMT -5
At its core, Star Trek was really smart. Batman ran for mayor and was losing in the polls to the Penguin in that TV series That episode ended with Batman winning because he trusted the voters to be smart and vote for the most suitable candidate and not some loudmouth who kept showboating and lying to the people. Needless to say it's very surreal to watch these days. Going back 30 years, iirc, the joke was that the public were still flocking to Penguin for election and only turned on him at the 11th hour when it was publicly revealed Penguin was behind the wave of crime in Gotham (because series needs to keep status quo). When Batman says he trusts voters to be smart etc the joke is on him having a loftier view of the election than most in reality. Of classic TV surprisingly long staying, well, to be honest, when Doctor Who started, it was beset by problems, and most execs didn't see it lasting beyond its original 13 week contract, if it even got that far. Even most of the folk working on it didn't expect it to last, with one notable exception. William Hartnell, who told colleagues he was convinced the show was so promising, it could run for five years! Doctor Who is sixty this year. William Hartnell died 48 years ago, and left the show 57 years ago. Even the one person who thought "this silly idea has legs" back in 1963 would be beyond gobsmacked at the success it's had since. Hell, 90s kid me is still gobsmacked given the way the BBC treated it in the 90s! (And even then, it had regular TV repeats on UK Gold.) |
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Post by ANuclearError on May 10, 2023 13:27:05 GMT -5
In the UK you can always find Only Fools and Horses being shown at some point on Gold. The British sitcoms are a bit of a cheat in this question. Combine all the episodes of Fawlty Towers, Mr Bean and Father Ted together and you probably have less than every other show mentioned in the thread. |
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Post by Casey Jones on May 10, 2023 14:37:00 GMT -5
Full House and Boy Meets World have never been off the air. There's always been at least 1 channel playing them.
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on May 10, 2023 19:09:29 GMT -5
about Kitchen Nightmares... you get some episodes like Amy's Baking Company that are a purely timeless shitfest situation. The truth was more wild than any written sitcom could have produced. 30 years from now that episode will be just as relevant/sad/funny as it was the day it first aired. That show managed to capture some unchanging human nature situations that will always be relevant. To me, that's the difference between a popular show with staying power and a popular show that fades away. My favorite is always and I forget the name of it, like Old Mill or something. Owner makes a giant show of showing Ramsay his farm. Everything is fresh, he’s butchering himself and raising all his animals. Then freezes everything. Ramsay orders the elk, and when it sucks, says so. Owner takes a bite and proceeds to chew on it on it like Ace Ventura with the gum and says “That is a tender piece of elk!!!” He had that “carrots” about the size of your pinkie toe nail with a 2 foot long stalk and kept saying they’re from the White House. Unhinged morons marching towards failure is always fun to watch. |
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