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Post by horsemen4ever on Jan 2, 2011 23:50:22 GMT -5
Maybe I am too old to see what passes for humor to the kids now a days. Is just me or are sketch show for kids humor is really dumbed down.
Example the sketch show within the show on Disney Channel So Random, a lot of juvinially humor like fart jokes.
Compare that to You Can't Do That On Television, it was brillant humor that as an adult I get. Most of the time it was better than Saturday Night Live at the time. Sure you had the Barth Burger sketch which was pretty juvinially.
It seems kid sketch or variety show of the last ten or so years really look down on their audiance and don't give them any credit of having any intelligence. You Can' Do That On Television gave the audiance credit, even the early seasons of All That gave the audiance credit.
I am not one to pretend to be from a superior generation, but I am glad I grow up in the 80's and 90's.
But when did they decide to be so juvinelle with humor towards kids? And why?
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Post by Cela on Jan 3, 2011 0:50:51 GMT -5
When the adult ones started going downhill.
Or more specifically, when All That became popular.
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Post by Orange on Jan 3, 2011 0:53:13 GMT -5
When the adult ones started going downhill. Or more specifically, when All That became popular. I LOVED All That back in the day, saw it a few years ago and it was just plain awful. Maybe it's a show you like more as a kid, but I didn't laugh once, kind of depressing actually. Seeing a show you used to love that you find out (IMO) isn't funny at all.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jan 3, 2011 1:00:37 GMT -5
I think the answer is what ever kids sketch show started after you were watching the adult sketch shows. For those of us that watched You Can't Do that on Television All That sucked. For those that watched All That what ever followed sucked.
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Post by corpen11 on Jan 3, 2011 1:14:17 GMT -5
I think the answer is what ever kids sketch show started after you were watching the adult sketch shows. For those of us that watched You Can't Do that on Television All That sucked. For those that watched All That what ever followed sucked. The reboot of All That in the 2000s was pure crap.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 3, 2011 1:19:23 GMT -5
I think the answer is what ever kids sketch show started after you were watching the adult sketch shows. For those of us that watched You Can't Do that on Television All That sucked. For those that watched All That what ever followed sucked. ding ding ding!
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Post by agent817 on Jan 3, 2011 1:20:07 GMT -5
I watched All That when I was a kid up until I think 2000 or 2001 or maybe it was earlier than that like 1999. After that came The Amanda Show, which spun off "Drake and Josh."
I did watch reruns of "You Can't Do That On Television" when I was a little kid. I still remember the Barth Burger sketches, as well as the slime sketches, also that family at the dinner table. Though it's been so long since I watched that show so I don't remember everything. I find it funny how I later realized that Alanis Morrisette was on that show when my sister used to listen to her, though the only album she ever had of hers was Jagged Little Pill.
Back to the main topic, there were some adult sketch shows that I liked, like In Living Color, the short lived House of Buggin'. I still even remember The Edge or even The Newz, which was syndicated and there were nights when I couldn't sleep and watched the show.
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Post by celticjobber on Jan 3, 2011 1:44:10 GMT -5
I have 2 young nieces and it seems like almost every kids show now is filled with fart humor and under-estimates kid's intelligence. Not just sketch shows.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jan 3, 2011 1:54:19 GMT -5
Sketch shows in general, not just kids sketch shows, seem to become better and better as time goes on. Everyone loves Monty Python now but objectively a lot of The Flying Circus was crappy. Ditto for shows that feauted future stars. I can barely remember the sketch show that featured Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris (to the point I can't remember the name, it was named after some road) but now that Colbert is big it would be huge. The same goes for kids shows.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Jan 3, 2011 2:08:27 GMT -5
I can barely remember the sketch show that featured Steven Cobert, Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris (to the point I can't remember the name, it was named after some road) but now that Colbert is big it would be huge. The same goes for kids shows. Exit 57? There is nothing worse than bad sketch comedy. As someone who is a fan of the genre it tears me up inside. On a semi related note, I bought the complete third season of SNL and good gravy is it a hard watch. Maybe just cause I don't grasp all of the topical references
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Post by Glitch on Jan 3, 2011 2:09:42 GMT -5
Pretty much around the time when almost non of the original cast of All That was there anymore. Made even worse when Britney's little sister joined the show.
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Post by Krimzon on Jan 3, 2011 2:12:21 GMT -5
All That's original run was f***ing epic. It was just awesome. I guess Nick decided to really get behind the show and they absolutely ruined it. The reboot of All That was just...Awful. Beyond afwul. Then came the Amanda Show...The less said about that, the better.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jan 3, 2011 2:21:50 GMT -5
I can barely remember the sketch show that featured Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris (to the point I can't remember the name, it was named after some road) but now that Colbert is big it would be huge. The same goes for kids shows. Exit 57? There is nothing worse than bad sketch comedy. As someone who is a fan of the genre it tears me up inside. On a semi related note, I bought the complete third season of SNL and good gravy is it a hard watch. Maybe just cause I don't grasp all of the topical references Yes
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Post by @TenaciousBe on Jan 3, 2011 2:29:22 GMT -5
Roundhouse > All That
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jan 3, 2011 2:41:13 GMT -5
Live action kids shows are bad now because it's the system trying to make shows that are vehicles to get stars over. Look at Pete and Pete. It was an Indie show made by people who might not know what they are doing but were creative and tried. Now it's all the network making pre packaged stuff. Animation is a bit different which is why you tend to find better kids cartoons rather then other kids shows
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Post by N E O G E O B O Y S on Jan 3, 2011 6:39:38 GMT -5
To be fair, Kids sketch shows had always been dumb, but our own revisionism because we loved the shows from our childhood don't make us see that
Pete and Pete was way more random than any show now, but I still enjoy it ''hey, let's fight against the ocean!''
The only thing that I truly believe is that back then kids shows had more variety, now it seems that every show tries to make his/her protagonist a pop singer
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jan 3, 2011 10:06:39 GMT -5
The only modern kids show I can actually watch now is ICarly which actually is a surprisingly funny show.
I thought Suite Life was okay too, when it was set in the Hotel.
But yeah, all kids shows seem to be identical now. It's like the producers have seen what's popular and try to make all shows like the popular ones so there's no variety.
Unlike the 90's where you had a variety of different kids shows like Kenan and Kel, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Are you Afraid of the Dark, Clarissa Explains it all etc. All completely different but all pretty decent shows.
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Post by Red Impact on Jan 3, 2011 10:11:04 GMT -5
What others have said. Kids sketch shows haven't really become worse as much as we remember them better. Let's face you, most of the jokes on You Can't Do That on Television were really, really dumb, if they were jokes at all. Same goes with All That. They were filled with gross-out humor and stupid stuff, only we think they were awesome if that's what we watched growing up.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 3, 2011 10:16:57 GMT -5
All That's original run was f***ing epic. It was just awesome. I guess Nick decided to really get behind the show and they absolutely ruined it. The reboot of All That was just...Awful. Beyond afwul. Then came the Amanda Show...The less said about that, the better. Co-signed. Original All That was fantastic
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2011 10:59:30 GMT -5
I can barely remember the sketch show that featured Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris (to the point I can't remember the name, it was named after some road) but now that Colbert is big it would be huge. The same goes for kids shows. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangers_with_Candy
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