Sulphur on 12/9/2019 at 05:26
It helps that Frasier wasn't particularly moored to its time or place. It also helps that, y'know, it's smarter than your average sitcom and puts a good deal of effort into its situations and the subsequent payoffs. 'Ham Radio' remains one of the funniest episodes of anything I've ever watched; I remember seeing it with my siblings and all of us roaring with laughter at the way it concluded what we thought was going to be a boring, trivial setup.
Renzatic on 12/9/2019 at 07:11
I'll go ahead and watch that one right fast. It's only 9 episodes ahead of where I'm at anyway.
Renzatic on 12/9/2019 at 07:36
Mubbuble mububurs
Sulphur on 12/9/2019 at 10:09
Look out, he's got a nug!
demagogue on 12/9/2019 at 11:00
Fraiser's great. More than anything, the writing is great. Me and some friends used to just read the scripts in character and that was fun by itself. (Ok, ok, it ended up just being me reading it to them with all the characters' voices, and they laughed along.) I mean they're really funny and clever. I can't think of another show off hand where you could do that and it works so well.
Renzatic on 12/9/2019 at 11:22
I wouldn't call it the best scene in the entire series, but it's still a good one.
[video=youtube_share;gC8GAsaXOio]https://youtu.be/gC8GAsaXOio[/video]
SubJeff on 15/9/2019 at 16:26
It's really great isn't it? Shame there is nothing quite like it anymore.
Gray on 16/9/2019 at 07:09
I quite liked Frasier at the time, but I can't be bothered with the repeats. It was funny and clever, granted, but I've seen it. Raymond I watched pretty much because there was nothing else on, not really my style. Too many cliches about a stupid husband and an implausibly hot wife who somehow tolerates him. Simpsons I've seen each episode 20, 30, 50 times depending on season and can watch any time and habitually quote like a moronic fanboy. Some stuff suits me, other stuff doesn't. For every situation in life, there is a Simpsons quote.
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was, and now what I'm with isn't "it", and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to YOU…" - Abraham J Simpson II
SubJeff on 16/9/2019 at 10:00
Raymond was real bottom tier stuff in my opinion. Like King of Queens or whatever it's called.
At the moment I'm into Rick and Morty.
Gray on 16/9/2019 at 10:07
Oh, sweet merciful Darwin...! King of Queens is a more extreme example of what I was just whining about, much worse than Raymond; the old sitcom cliché of the big fat stupid husband and the implausibly hot wife that for some yet unexplained reason hasn't divorced him yet. Like According to Jim. And a million others going back to the 1950s. Simpsons do that too, but at least they have the good sense to parody it.
Rick and Morty, I like and watch, for at least two reasons. It's reusing and deconstructing cliches. Also it has lasers.