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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Mar 23, 2020 5:14:26 GMT -5
I'd say Community still has a strong cult following
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 6:17:09 GMT -5
Season one of Heroes was gigantic and got a ton of love, season two while it fell off at least still had plenty of people watching and complaining about it, don't think anybody cares about anything that came after that and the revival fell flat on its face.
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Post by mike1287 on Mar 23, 2020 6:34:34 GMT -5
If we're going by gifs and memes, "Community" hasn't been forgotten. There's a ton of Professor Chang and "Remedial Chaos Theory" references out there on social media.
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Post by BorneAgain on Mar 23, 2020 6:43:13 GMT -5
I think certain HBO dramas can fall into this. Oz's legacy has been overshadowed by its later HBO contemporaries (Sopranos, The Wire, True Detective) and something like Girls fell out of relevance remarkably quickly; not helped by Lena's Dunham's antics and Adam Driver becoming a bigger star than essentially everyone else in the cast.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 8:43:09 GMT -5
CSI Miami was a huge deal. Hyped as the biggest show on TV for several seasons. (It never was, but it was almost always in the top 25-30). I remember an old message board I was on having a constant CSI Miami thread for years (meanwhile I gave up hoping for a Las Vegas thread).
Within a year of ITS CANCELLATION (there was never an official finale, CBS just cut the episode count for s10 and that was that) no one cared about it and I'm almost impressed I remembered it when I saw this thread.
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Post by SmashTV on Mar 23, 2020 8:56:35 GMT -5
A British centric one. In the mid nineties London's Burning was pulling 18 million viewers an episode and ran for over a decade, yet no modern goer could tell you a storyline, a character or an actor who appeared in it. I'd add in Solider, Soldier and Men Behaving Badly. Massive shows, Soldier Soldier got Robson and Jerome a number 1, that'll occasionally be played with no reference to where it came from. Men Behaving Badly was almost our Friends in being the defining mainstream sitcom about people in their 20s, but it never gets mentioned, not sure it even gets shown on repeat. Compare that with something like Spaced just a few years later which has held up a lot better and had far more impact when it was just some cheap little Channel 4 show at the time. As another Brit I’ll add The Bill. Ran for years, huge audiences, fizzled out in the early 2000s, barely mentioned since. With Men Behaving Badly, I think it helps - or doesn’t, depending on how you look at it - that both Martin Clunes and Neil Morrissey have had successful careers afterwards and don’t need to rely on the show as a calling card. Plus the ‘lad culture’ of the time isn’t as prominent or promoted, and so as society has changed so has some of the appreciation and impact of the show.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Mar 23, 2020 10:48:44 GMT -5
The Rosie O'Donnell Show was huge in the late 90's. Rosie was all over the place for 4-5 years at least.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Mar 23, 2020 11:12:09 GMT -5
it's bewildering how quickly Game of Thrones went from being the cultural zeitgeist to "oh yeah that was a thing" all because of the ending.
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Post by chrom on Mar 23, 2020 11:14:20 GMT -5
it's bewildering how quickly Game of Thrones went from being the cultural zeitgeist to "oh yeah that was a thing" all because of the ending. Terrible writing will do that to a series.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Mar 23, 2020 11:22:44 GMT -5
CSI Miami was a huge deal. Hyped as the biggest show on TV for several seasons. (It never was, but it was almost always in the top 25-30). I remember an old message board I was on having a constant CSI Miami thread for years (meanwhile I gave up hoping for a Las Vegas thread). Within a year of ITS CANCELLATION (there was never an official finale, CBS just cut the episode count for s10 and that was that) no one cared about it and I'm almost impressed I remembered it when I saw this thread. CSI Miami has to have the all-time record for a show being fueled well beyond its sell-by date entirely because of a meme
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Mar 23, 2020 11:29:03 GMT -5
From a British perspective, everything Harry Enfield did in the 80s and 90s. He was everywhere, and it's all aged terribly.
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Post by Venti on Mar 23, 2020 11:50:14 GMT -5
it's bewildering how quickly Game of Thrones went from being the cultural zeitgeist to "oh yeah that was a thing" all because of the ending. I never watched GoT, but I can almost see a comparison with the Attitude Era, where WWF was freaking everywhere, then after the Invasion nobody gave a shit. It felt like GoT was the biggest thing going on like months ago lmao.
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Post by fw91 on Mar 23, 2020 12:01:34 GMT -5
Do people still talk about Jersey Shore?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 12:11:08 GMT -5
CSI Miami was a huge deal. Hyped as the biggest show on TV for several seasons. (It never was, but it was almost always in the top 25-30). I remember an old message board I was on having a constant CSI Miami thread for years (meanwhile I gave up hoping for a Las Vegas thread). Within a year of ITS CANCELLATION (there was never an official finale, CBS just cut the episode count for s10 and that was that) no one cared about it and I'm almost impressed I remembered it when I saw this thread. CSI Miami has to have the all-time record for a show being fueled well beyond its sell-by date entirely because of a meme What are you.......... talking about ;p
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Post by SmashTV on Mar 23, 2020 12:24:31 GMT -5
From a British perspective, everything Harry Enfield did in the 80s and 90s. He was everywhere, and it's all aged terribly. Something happened circa 1997, it was literally like he became unfunny overnight. And so it remains!
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Mar 23, 2020 12:30:43 GMT -5
it's bewildering how quickly Game of Thrones went from being the cultural zeitgeist to "oh yeah that was a thing" all because of the ending. I never watched GoT, but I can almost see a comparison with the Attitude Era, where WWF was freaking everywhere, then after the Invasion nobody gave a shit. It felt like GoT was the biggest thing going on like months ago lmao. That's actually a pretty great comparison.
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Mar 23, 2020 12:43:24 GMT -5
Scrubs and Community. When they were on, they were beloved shows with cult followings that spawned tons of memes, gifs, and quotes. Now both of these shows seem sort of forgotten. Given the outrage it garnered every time it was canceled, delayed, or moved to a different time slot, you would have thought "Community" would have had this real staying power. But it was one of those chief examples of "the internet is not real life." It had a niche following online but it drew very little in the way of actual ratings. It was forgotten about the moment it left NBC and went to Yahoo! Video. And it has zero staying power, as it has none of those memorable moments or quotes that you see talked about in reaction talking points/gifs like you see from "The Office" or "30 Rock" or "Parks and Recreation."That's not true at all. I see "Ha, Gaaaaaaaay!", the gif of Troy walking into the burning apartment and people saying "darkest timeline" all the time, just to name three. And being posted by people who never even watched Community. I see Community references on social media a lot more than I see 30 Rock or Parks & Rec (except for maybe Ron Swanson quotes).
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Post by salz4life on Mar 23, 2020 12:44:08 GMT -5
Entourage for a while was *huge* with a large audience, and then it just kinda faded. I still love the show, but yeah, it kind of went out with a big of a wimper.
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Post by Spider2024 on Mar 23, 2020 12:47:38 GMT -5
Do people still talk about Jersey Shore? Not really, no. In fact, there's a sort of reunion season airing right now with the original cast, and pretty much only those who ever tune into MTV at all anymore seem to be aware of that.
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Post by salz4life on Mar 23, 2020 12:49:00 GMT -5
Sex and the City probably doesn't get talked about as much now because of how dreadful the second film was. First one had issues, too, but the second was almost parody. Wow, I just enacted the scenario of my own thread because I don't even remember there being a 2nd movie. Some of the replies have made me think about an even more confusing occurance: Popular media that has been around through even recent years, whether through revivals or just never really going away...they suffer the same fate. Example being Will and Grace. That show was huge and an important benchmark in tv history and from what I could tell, it came back with little fanfare not too long ago. It can't be just a "geek culture" thing because people still talk about Seinfeld for example to this day. Maybe not to the level of it's heyday, but certainly more than most popular media of yesteryear (then again, it was basically television's answer to Nirvana: everything changed). I don't want to derail the thread so I will list some examples of my own. -The OC -West Wing -Dharma and Greg (granted, it was like the Nickelback or Creed of sitcoms...so this makes sense) -Every MTV reality show I am both a 'The OC' and 'The West Wing' mark. I remember being sick and my wife and I binging the entire first season of The OC in one weekend. this was a few weeks before the second season started. I f'ing loved the show. I have a thing for teen angst shows. I watched it all the way until the end. The last season wasn't great, but I did like the finale. The West Wing is just tremendous, IMO. I never watched it while it was on. I remember hearing about it and when it was close to the end thinking I really should've given this a shot. When it finally came onto Netflix, I watched it and was totally engrossed. After that, I watched The Newsroom and love that as well, but The West Wing is my absolute favorite. I also went and bought the Sports Night series on DVD, but haven't gotten around to watching it. LOL. edit: For fans of The West Wing, if you are podcast people, there is a podcast that went through the entire series called The West Wing Weekly. Each week they when over an episode and I think a great majority (if not all) the major members of the case and writing crew were on various episodes. It is a fascinating listen and one of the hosts is Joshua Malina.
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