Do You Miss the Days of Sitcoms?
02-04-05 | 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Red Dog
I don't blame reality shows for the lack of good sitcoms. I blame bad writing for the lack of good sitcoms.
02-06-05 | 01:48 PM
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Sitcoms I've really enjoyed:
Arrested Development
Scrubs
Coupling
Sex and the City
Frasier (and Cheers with Diane)
Wings
Mash
The Black Adder
Not a lot, so, no, I don't miss the days of sitcoms. I watched a lot more sitcoms in the 70's and 80's, but seeing reruns makes me wonder why I liked them.
Arrested Development
Scrubs
Coupling
Sex and the City
Frasier (and Cheers with Diane)
Wings
Mash
The Black Adder
Not a lot, so, no, I don't miss the days of sitcoms. I watched a lot more sitcoms in the 70's and 80's, but seeing reruns makes me wonder why I liked them.
02-06-05 | 10:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Tommy Ceez
I noticed that alot of people her have Tivo's...and Tivo's are MUST HAVES for hour-long, storyline driven dramas.
Sitcoms however, are standalone events, which are not as important to record on Tivo, so you just "Will catch it whenever its on in reruns"
Is the Tivo mentality making us ignore sitcoms to the point that we never even START watching them in a season?
Sitcoms however, are standalone events, which are not as important to record on Tivo, so you just "Will catch it whenever its on in reruns"
Is the Tivo mentality making us ignore sitcoms to the point that we never even START watching them in a season?
The most popular shows like CSI and Law & Order are all like this, the kind of thing that you can tune into, and not need to know what happened in the previous episode, just drop in, watch the show, and be done with it. This is exactly what sitcoms are usually like. The problem is that there just aren't any really good sitcoms out there anymore.
