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Jerry Seinfeld's The Marriage Ref -- Debuts 2/28/10
Premieres after the Winter Olympics Closing Ceremonies tonight.
I'm not interested in this show, but I figured some of you might be since Jerry Seinfeld is producing it and is one of the panelists. This show will move to Thursday's at 10pm. Marv Albert is the show's announcer and Natalie Morales from NBC News sets up each couples problems. This is the best Jerry could come up with Post-Seinfeld?? Synopsis for premiere episode: Comic Tom Papa and an expert panel featuring Alec Baldwin, Kelly Ripa, and Jerry Seinfeld, preside over the quirky disputes of married couples from all over the country. Jerry explains the show: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/4b8a9bbde3b8ee3c/4741e3c5156499a7/df5f6087/-cpid/fdded7a072bc369d" id="W4727a250e66f97234b8a9bbde3b8ee3c" width="384" height="283"><param name="movie" value="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/4b8a9bbde3b8ee3c/4741e3c5156499a7/df5f6087/-cpid/fdded7a072bc369d" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></object> |
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I'll give it a shot, could be funny.
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I feel like I've already watched it thanks to the never-ending series of promos that run during the Olympics.
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This is the worst show I think I've ever seen.
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This host is horrible. His voice says hack comic without even listening to what he's saying.
How did they have a camera at the taxidermist? |
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The blatant laugh track during the opening stand-up bit was pretty bad. You could tell the audience wasn't laughing or barely perhaps when they cut to wide shots.
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:lol: at Alec Baldwin during the first couple.
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Man this show is pretty awful... The wife was hot though, but I guess if thats the best you can say it doesn't bode well.
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Boring. I just flip it off.
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This is like one of those fake shows that they film for a movie, like Yo Teach!
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Awful.
NBC continues its quality programming streak, I see. |
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HA! "Panel of experts"! Isn't Alec Baldwin in a bitter ongoing battle with his ex, Kim Basinger? And he's telling others how to run their marriage? Good God...
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Blah.
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Guess I'm the only one who liked it :lol:
I don't see this doing any better than Jay Leno's old show, though. And an hour seems like it will be too long. They do have a good lineup of talent though: Baldwin, Larry David, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Ricky Gervais. I'll give it a chance. |
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Originally Posted by DJariya
(Post 10022805)
Premieres during the Winter Olympics Closing Ceremonies tonight.
Watched the first half of the show. Terrible, I won't be back. |
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:lol: It hasn't even aired on the West coast yet and I'm not surprised to read here that it sucks.
^^ So they cut out of the Olympic Closing Ceremonies for this? |
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rather abruptly, I've read.
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This show looked like crap, but it went beyond that even before the first segment ended.
I can understand that the dude wanting his dog stuffed and a "shrine" was a bit much (even as a dog lover it seems over the top), but when he wife stood there and coldly said "he's just a dead dog" and they played that stupid laugh track over it, that was beyond tasteless. Then to have these idiots play it up like it is funny was flat out mean spirited. The only reason I got to witness this excrement was because the Olympics seem to have been cut off to show this. After that silly use of laugh track, the channel was quickly changed. |
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I didn't watch, but according to a thread in another forum, a critic accused them of forcing the audience to laugh at gunpoint.
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Originally Posted by Patman
(Post 10024019)
rather abruptly, I've read.
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Terrible show. :lol:
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Normally I would think this show would be yanked after one airing, but it's not like NBC has anything else to air at 10pm. :lol:
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What the fuck was that?
Clearly all of the 'marriage' stuff is staged or re-created, but what the fuck is this show trying to do? Play a stupid argument, have 3 people make jokes, and the retarded host makes a judgment that does not affect the outcome at all? I'll tune in for Larry David and Sarah Silverman, but that's it. Seinfeld, who has blackmail on you? |
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I agree that this was pretty bad. Don't think I'll be tuning in again.
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So bad that Jessica Seinfeld has to be the brains behind it. I hate that chick.
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I'm a big Seinfeld fan, but this show was pretty terrible. It felt VERY forced the entire time. There's no way this will last.
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Originally Posted by Double_Oh_7
(Post 10023936)
HA! "Panel of experts"! Isn't Alec Baldwin in a bitter ongoing battle with his ex, Kim Basinger? And he's telling others how to run their marriage? Good God...
There are countless reasons to criticize the show, but this turns out to be one of the only invalid criticisms I've read. Alec Baldwin was just about the only good thing on the episode. |
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We watched, thinking that NBC would air it's funniest episode after the Olympics, to hook the viewers. If that was even close to how funny this show will be on average, then NBC has a train wreck on it's hands!
I like many of the celebrities they've lined up, and I wanted to like this show. Seemed like something ideal to have on in the background. I guess I won't be tuning in again, except maybe for Ricky Gervais. Did that first wife remind anyone else of Stephanie from Survivor? |
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This is Jerry's punishment for marrying Jessica Seinfeld. It does prove that a lot of big celebrities are willing to take a bullet for Jerry though.
There were a couple of good lines/laughs, but the whole idea is pretty dumb and mercifully won't last long. |
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I'll watch for Larry David and Ricky Gervais, but this really was terrible. I expected no different after hearing it announced.
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If Jerry really wanted this to work he should have at least made himself the host, especially since his name seems to be the primary selling point.
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If i was married to that shrew, i would forget the dog and have myself stuffed. That horrid laugh, and those chola eyebrows? Her soon to sag juggs did not make up for the rest of her.
"The happiest day of my life was when that dog died" Seriously? |
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Truly awful. Makes "Cheaters" look like an Emmy-worthy show.
Seinfeld laughing like a horse's ass at every unfunny line the entire show only made it worse. |
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Horrible show. Even if it was decent I'd boycott after the bullshit they pulled with the Olympics. This network is going down in flames. Comcast ought to do the humane thing and just contract the network to cable...let the NBC affiliates have a fighting chance with the CW. As they have shown in the past year, the only thing people watch them for is sports...and even that's halfassed.
Since the Olympics were brought up, they not only abruptly cut away (and in the prior 10 minutes threw a 1/3 screen graphic advertising the crap on screen) from the Closing Ceremonies but when they came back you could tell it was heavily edited down...by appearances they cut out at least a half hour worth of stuff. They cut away with everyone in their seats. After the hour break they came back with the athletes on the floor listening to Nickleback. Then they filled over 1/3 of it up with commercials/closing credits. At one point they went to commercial with the stands still fairly full and came back 2 minutes later with them almost empty. At the end they went from the stadium floor full of Olympians to it almost empty as Costas/Michaels tried to sell us a line of bullshit and pat themselves on the pat for the great Olympics that we saw. (Of course failing to mention that 60% of it was tape delayed, 25% of it was rediculous fluff pieces, and the other 15% was mostly figure skating.) Summing it up, NBC found a way to take the one thing that they had going for them and screw up yet again. Maybe Dick(head) should have spent more time listening to what people wanted for coverage instead of ripping Conan. |
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Never mind that NBC decided that we needed commercials every 5-6 minutes.
I understand they blew their load paying to show this, but seriously? I hope someone else gets the Olympics next time, NBC can't do them without screwing it up. |
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The only show that would work with this kind of theme is the forthcoming Jerry & Jessica Seinfeld divorce ... LIVE ON NBC! Watch Jerry get taken to the cleaners by his gold-digging ex-wife to be! PRE-NUP BE DAMNED!
Let's not forget, Jessica bailed on her first marriage to a NIEDERLANDER after 2 WEEKS, because Jerry has more money in the bank, and knows far more famous people that she can leetch onto. |
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Just watched it, what an abomination of a show. Just everything from the animated intro to the end of it, start to finish. How things like this even make it to air, especially on a major network in a time slot like this, is beyond me. As mentioned before, it felt less like a real TV show and more like a show you would see in a movie that the characters are watching or something, and a low rent movie at that. It was obviously staged, had an awful laugh track (or they were legit FORCED to laugh), and the host has got to be one of the worst of all time. Not to mention that the show doesn't even have a "point". There is no contest, there are no real winners or losers. Ok, so what if that awful host says there is a "winner". It's not like that actually forces the couple to do what he says and there's no way to ever follow it up to make sure. It's like they're just giving a trip to these couples for "acting" themselves. And yeah, they were obviously acting. It couldn't be more obvious that the entire show, even the couples, is staged and scripted or the couples were at least given "jabs" to delivery to one another.
Don't even get me started on tossing the "fact girl" or whatever that was into the show for no reason and then the stupid "greatest hits" by Marv Albert, performed as if he just randomly wandered onto the set and started to ramble doing his best impression of himself. I'm shocked that something so horrible was promoted like this. Sure, they have bad shows now and then, but this was in an entirely different league of bad. Everyone in charge at NBC needs go go, but that goes without saying. Not only everything because of all of the screw ups they have done the past few years, but having the Conan/Tonight Show deal then the absolute mismanagement of the Olympics and then immediently this show, NBC is quickly going down the tubes. There is no way this lasts more than just a few episodes. And sure, it averaged 14.6-million viewers and a 4.8 rating among adults ages 18 to 49 for the debut episode, but that wont matter at all. The Olympics cut so abruptly that a lot of people possibly didn't even realize what was happening. This show is going to crash and burn harder and faster than most things before it. Just wait and see. Thank God for their Thursday 8-10 lineup. Just saw this review of the show, awesome: http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2010/0...rss-topstories Last night, NBC gave a demonstration of the difference between so-awful-it's-awesome and so-awful-it's-amazing awful. First came the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, which, after the usual nods to the next Olympic site, final benediction by Olympic officials and emotional performances, morphed into a bizarre comic parody of Canadiana that was like a hallucinogenic trip induced by maple syrup. There was a comic monologue by William Shatner. There was Michael Buble and sexy Mounties. There were dancing hockey pucks and giant beavers. (Someone call the Parents Television Council!) The only thing missing was Terrence and Phillip. And then, just as the ceremonies were reaching a brilliant crescendo of Canadian self-satire, NBC cut away—at least in the Eastern and Central time zones—to the premiere/preview of Jerry Seinfeld's The Marriage Ref, the most God-awful mishmash of a comedy-variety show to lead into local news on NBC since immediately before the Olympics. The first bad sign was the animated intro, in which Seinfeld explained the premise—giving couples a "ref" to adjudicate their arguments. It both gave the show corny, low-rent feel (Seinfeld and his wife looked like the work of a not-very-good sidewalk caricaturist) and ignored the fact that, as Monkey See blogger Linda Holmes pointed out, baseball does not have refs. From there it just got worse, as a studio audience coughed out forced laughter at a lame monologue by host Tom Papa, who brought out the celeb refs for the night: Seinfeld, Kelly Ripa and Alec Baldwin. (Because when you want to find harmony in your relationships, you ask the guy who left an abusive voicemail to his daughter.) Then came the video profiles of the squabbling couples, both of the my-husband-has-a-crazy-idea school: in the first, hubby had his beloved deceased dog stuffed, and in the second, the husband wanted to install a stripper pole in the bedroom. The couple each seemed camera-ready—very camera-ready, too camera-ready, either as if they were aspiring actors or had been coached, making the show seem phony even by reality standards. Then "reffing," which was basically the panel trying improv comedy riffs. (It's funny, ordinary Americans, because the celebrities are laughing at you! Because you're idiots!) Then the couple received their verdict, in an interview segment that had all the drama of watching NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me as a TV show. Then Natalie Morales tossed a few shovels of dirt on the casket of TV journalism by pulling up "fun facts" on how many Americans stuff their pets or install home stripper poles. Then veteran sports announcer Marv Albert recapped the "funniest" moments of the program you just watched. It was as if someone thought that, if you just piled more and more elements on, somehow they would magically turn into an entertaining show. It was, at least, an interesting object lesson in how TV works. It proved that, if you are Jerry Seinfeld, NBC will put any program you want on the air, and will give you no network notes. For the sake of my fond memories of the sitcom Seinfeld, I am going to make myself believe that Seinfeld knew this, and was deliberately punking the network. The big winner in all this: Jay Leno. The Marriage Ref may or may not give him a good lead-in on Thursday nights, but already The Jay Leno Show is looking better in comparison. Read more: http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2010/0...#ixzz0gxnXNncH |
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I had more fun debating who I would rather bang, Kelly Ripa or Natalie Morales.
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I would rather watch Dr. Phil referee a marriage dispute than watch this stupid, un-funny crap.
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Re: Jerry Seinfeld's The Marriage Ref -- Debuts 2/28/10
Originally Posted by Jadzia
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Normally I would think this show would be yanked after one airing, but it's not like NBC has anything else to air at 10pm. :lol:
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