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Post by Malcolm on Nov 14, 2009 20:40:54 GMT -5
I always found people blaming a different show because thier favorite show got cancelled quite petty. It's only acceptable when the show you're trying to blame is on the same time slot on a different channel.
I miss UPN and the WB when they were seperate channels. I'm not sure how unpopular this is but I'll say it anyway.
And I agree with some posts on this thread that King of the Hill was the best animated sitcom of our time. I loved how it didn't rely on toilet humor, shock value, and pandering to drunk, high frats and still managed to be entertaining.
The Batman was a very good show.
I don't care much for anime anymore unless it's an abridged series.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Nov 14, 2009 21:34:25 GMT -5
I cant fathom how 'Everybody Loves Raymond' stayed on the air as long as it did. Nor do I think the show was even close to funny
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Post by Vanilla Gorilla on Nov 14, 2009 22:03:18 GMT -5
Here's a random one that had bugged me for years now: Michael Ian Black should have been named the host of The Late Late Show, not Craig Ferguson. I like Ferguson, but Black was awesome when we auditioned for the spot. One critic said he looked like "young Johnny Carson."
Also, The Critic is the best animated show ever and is everything Family Guy wishes it could be.
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Post by jaymore on Nov 14, 2009 22:21:58 GMT -5
Reality TV shows aren't as despicable as some people claim them to be. I've heard many people state that it's ruining television, and that it's a waste of time. Sure, some are, but some forms of EVERY KIND OF SHOW is a waste of time. Some comedy's flat out suck, should all comedy's be criticised for that?
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Post by Milkman Norm on Nov 14, 2009 22:48:53 GMT -5
Anyone know why Black didn't get the Late Late Show? It really seemd like CBS was going with him and then Ferguson got it out of nowhere.
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Post by Goldenbane on Nov 14, 2009 22:56:13 GMT -5
Friends and Seinfeld were so stupid, that to this day I'm having trouble figuring out why they ever became mega hits.
All Lawyer, Hospital, and Cop shows need to go away for a long time and fresh ideas need to replace them.
Reality television sucks, traditional game shows are better.
Game shows need to go back to the old ways: bright colors, happy music, friendly charismatic hosts, fun challenges, ect. Who Wants To Be a Millionaire sucked and ruined all of that.
Good Eats is one of the funniest and most creative shows on television!
King of the Hill is NOT nor will it ever be one of the best animated shows ever.
Spectacular Spider-man is the best super hero cartoon since Justice League Unlimited.
South Park is still a funny good show.
Steve Colbert and Jon Stewart suck and aren't funny.
Who's Line Is It Anyway was one of the best shows Britain has ever given the United States.
The Avengers should really get a second chance with a cartoon show...and use the RIGHT Avengers this time.
The 90's Hulk cartoon was great until She-Hulk came around, and even then it was still really good.
The 90's Fantastic Four cartoon was good in it's first season...then was awesome in it's second season.
The vast majority of anime shows are really really stupid and don't deserve the praise and love they get from nerdy fanboys.
Spongebob needs to go away and never come back.
"You are a pirate" from Lazy Town is the catchiest song ever sung on a kids show!
Nickelodeon will never match it's glory days in the 80's and 90's.
Nick at Night and TV Land suck now that they don't have on any REAL classic television shows. (George Lopez is classic? Give me a f***ing break!)
Working was a great show, and much funnier than any crap that's on these days.
Star Trek: TNG is the best Star Trek series, and the original is no where near as good.
Cash Cab is a great game show!
The original TMNT cartoon was way better than the newer cartoon.
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Post by gamblore on Nov 14, 2009 23:19:23 GMT -5
As usual, there's a alot of Family Guy bashing on the WC Forum, so I might as well be the one to got to bat for Seth McFarlane.
Seth McFarlane is god (hey, it's an unpopular opinion, at least on the Internet if not in the real world).
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Post by Thrillho on Nov 14, 2009 23:42:58 GMT -5
The PJ's was better than The Simpsons.
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Post by toddpolt on Nov 15, 2009 0:31:14 GMT -5
His programs are just not funny or special enough for me to make the DVR time and day.
So yeah I guess I'm a Seth fan. He's obviously has terrific voice-acting talent, and hell FG can be quite funny too at its best.
Just not must-see quality wise like Simpsons was at its creative awe-inspiring peak.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Nov 15, 2009 0:39:14 GMT -5
I always found people blaming a different show because thier favorite show got cancelled quite petty. It's only acceptable when the show you're trying to blame is on the same time slot on a different channel Well, you can't really blame a show on the same network, but a lot of times that new show is a byproduct of the reasoning behind your favorite show getting canceled. Case in point: When Comedy Channel was preparing to launch South Park, they were in the midst of an "image change" and stopped promoting and supporting many of their other shows (namely Mystery Science Theater 3000). South Park was the kind of show they wanted to model the network after, and so they decided to purge all dissimilar programming. When the Sci-Fi Channel picked up Sliders, the same thing occurred with their other shows (namely Mystery Science Theater 3000). Ratings be damned, when an executive has a vision, you better hope your favorite show falls on the right side of it. Hell, that's what happened to WCW.
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Post by AriadosMan on Nov 15, 2009 1:30:40 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind if the entire NBC network died. The whole thing is the most cynical, rudderless excuse for a "broadcasting network" I've seen in my life. Its good shows would fit more on USA than in whatever its currently "aiming" at. Its bad shows are some of the worst I've ever seen (Knight Rider, Community, Trauma...I'm looking at you) and should have never seen the light of day.
70s sitcoms are funnier than 80s, 90s, and 00s sitcoms as a general rule.
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Post by Vampiro138 on Nov 15, 2009 3:12:02 GMT -5
its always sunny in phillidalphia was great in season one, good in season 2, and then took a downturn starting in season 3 and never looked back and over all the show had really stopped being underground and different and has become predictable where every archie andrews look alike loves the show but dosent know anything about dennis grandfather being a nazi...and only know of 'dayman' onward...
unhappily ever after was one of the best shows in the 90's and mr. floppy is one of the best characters ever...i dont care that it was a married with children rip-off as it was made by the same people.
how i met your mother is the best show going today, they remain consistantly awesome every episode.
also in terms of songs sang by a cast member during a show i cant believe 'you just got slapped' or 'lets go to the mall' havent gotten more love from people..
you just got slapped >>>>>>>>> dayman
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on Nov 15, 2009 11:31:16 GMT -5
Yay...I gets to bitch about the Lookity-Box!
- To whomever commented that Good Eats is the one of the most consistantly funny Shows on TV.....Seconded
- After Much contemplation, I'm mildly worried about the relaunch of Futurama. While they've managed to get the original voices, I just think that it won't have that spark it had before.
- I never thought I'd miss UPN as much as I do.
- Simpsons stopped being consistantly good about season 12 or so. Not to say it's a complete suckfest, but there have been longer dry spells insofar as quality is concerned
- Out of ALL of Adult Swim, I only watch 1 hour of it most weeks (Venture Bros. and Metalocolypse).
- Don't promote the hell out of any "Special Event" episode, then replay the hell out of it for the following weeks.
- I love Glee, I can't figure out why tho
- NBC has good shows, they just cancel them for no reason (My name is Earl), Finish them without bringing up a replacement (ER), or becasue of Leno, have to Shuffle them (everything)
- Has Leno's new 10'o'clock show been cancelled yet? I seriously think that has done more to Shoot NBC in the foot than anything.
- I like Batman:Brave and the Bold, yet again...I have no Idea why.
- The return of Looney Tunes to CN has filled with me with more glee than any announcement in the last 3 months.
- I also second the poster that enjoys Xavier:Renegade Angel, It's wonderfully bad, it reminds me of crappy fan-machinima.
- I don't "Hate" anime, it just seems any time I WANT tot watch a new anime, I end up in the middle of a large storyarc and can't tell what's going on, or I end up in a "Are they still on Namek" scenario where nothing happens.
- I miss Classic Kid's WB before Anime and 4Kids f***ed up everything.
- Corrolary to the previous: I miss when there were 3 distinct and seperate Cartoon Channels on Saturday morning.
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Post by Metalheadbanger Man on Nov 15, 2009 11:57:17 GMT -5
- 30 Rock isn't very funny at all. Tina Fey tries way to hard on that show, and I can't stand Tracy Morgan either. Baldwin has a few good moments, but its nowhere near enough.
- However, The Big Bang Theory is one of the worst sitcoms I've ever seen. Its depressingly unfunny.
- I used to enjoy Friends when it was on, but now I realise how bloody annoying these people are. Seinfeld was far, far superior.
- Having said that, I find Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia to be even funnier than Seinfeld. Practically every episode has moments which make me laugh uncontrollably.
- South Park is nowhere near as good as it was 10 years ago. I found the newest episodes to be very disappointing, particularly the dead celebrities and wrestling episodes.
- I hate all medical dramas, and the vast majority of cop shows. However, I really dig Lie To Me, probably because I'm a big Tim Roth fan.
- Little Britain was never funny.
- Spaced is the best UK TV comedy show I've ever seen. That includes Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, The Office etc. Its absoutely amazing, and still is every time I watch it 10 years or so since it first aired.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Nov 15, 2009 11:57:31 GMT -5
The PJ's was better than The Simpsons.
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Post by gamblore on Nov 15, 2009 13:59:13 GMT -5
As usual, there's a alot of Family Guy bashing on the WC Forum, so I might as well be the one to got to bat for Seth McFarlane. Seth McFarlane is god (hey, it's an unpopular opinion, at least on the Internet if not in the real world). And apparantly I'm the only person online who loves the fact he uses the show to mock, ridicule, and make fun of conservatives. I don't get the people who gripe about it, because it's the equivalent of saying that you like listening to Rush Limbaugh if only he'd lay off liberals, or that you like Woody Allen movies if it wasn't for that nervous fellow who's always in them. The political mocking isn't a problem. Besides, Simpsons have bashed the same people quite a few times in the day. I mean that good episode about Apu getting his citizenship, that referendum was a mocking of that California referendum in the 90s that the Supreme Court eventually ruled unconstitutional. His programs are just not funny or special enough for me to make the DVR time and day. So yeah I guess I'm a Seth fan. He's obviously has terrific voice-acting talent, and hell FG can be quite funny too at its best. Just not must-see quality wise like Simpsons was at its creative awe-inspiring peak. That's a good point about The Simpsons. They've always made fun of Republicans and while they've made fun of Democrats too, go read some Life in Hell comics and you'll see where Matt Groening's definitely a liberal. Even so, you never hear people criticizing him or the other writers for using Life in Hell or The Simpsons for their political soapbox, even though they made an entire episode during the show's so-called "glory years" that was dedicated to bashing a very thinly veiled caricature of Rush Limbaugh. You never hear people complaining about that episode for soapboxing. If anything, it's frequently hailed as one of their greatest shows ever. It's not that I have a problem with people criticizing Seth McFarlane and Family Guy for soapboxing, I just don't like the way that they get singled out for this criticism, when other shows like The Simpsons, South Park, and King of the Hill (although admittedly to a much lesser extent) do the same thing.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2009 14:11:00 GMT -5
I'm loving the Current Simpsons
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Post by King Boo on Nov 15, 2009 14:12:51 GMT -5
Reality TV shows aren't as despicable as some people claim them to be. I've heard many people state that it's ruining television, and that it's a waste of time. Sure, some are, but some forms of EVERY KIND OF SHOW is a waste of time. Some comedy's flat out suck, should all comedy's be criticised for that? Yes! It's not fair to paint Survivor with the same brush as Farmer Wants a Wife or whatever. Just like it's not cool assuming that because I watch The Amazing Race that CLEARLY I have to like ALL the reality shows ever invented, especially the bad ones. The problem isn't the reality show genre itself, it's the lack of people at the networks willing to use an editing eye and cut out the ones that are so clearly bad. We CAN co-exist with reality shows and scripted ones.
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Post by Error on Nov 15, 2009 14:15:56 GMT -5
Guys, drop the political talk.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Nov 15, 2009 14:24:27 GMT -5
Also, The Critic is the best animated show ever and is everything Family Guy wishes it could be. Actually, that's not really that unpopular of an opinion. In fact, quite the contrary. Family Guy has some episodes that are good, and some that suck. I can't think of one The Critic episode that wasn't funny in some way.
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