Okay I was thinking about this one a bit this morning. What are some of the popular 90s sitcoms that you just didn't find funny or watch. My first pick would have to be: Home Improvement. Didn't think it was funny at all. Also I would have to say: The Nanny. For reasons that should be most obvious Fran Drescher's annoying voice.
Those are the two that stick out big time in my mind. Can you think of any others that you just thought were really stupid?
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
I hated MARRIED WITH CHILDREN and FRIENDS and as for now I dont "get" SCRUBS.
I will admitt I started out liking MARRIED WITH CHILDREN...but after the two season mark it just seemed like the same jokes over and over again FOR YEARS!!!!!!
FRIENDS...I just think when you actually disect it....it's not funny! (At least not to me). I remember being ****ed when I read in magazines that the people in FRIENDS kept demanding...and getting...more money! Have you ever sat through any of their movies???? Peee-yeeew!
SCRUBS either thinks its wittier than it is or is so witty it goes right over my head. I just sit there groaning for the first few minutes...and then I hit the clicker.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I don't like Friends either....I never ever thought they were funny, especially Lisa Kudrow...she and the whole "smelly cat" song, that was so idiotic.
There haven't been any sitcoms that I actually did "get". I never liked King of Queens either.
The Nanny was annoying beyond annoying.
I also HATE all the shows that are cartoons...but definately are not geared towards kids...like King of the Hill (I think is the name) and South Park....I only had to see a few pieces of some of that stuff, and I definately did not "get it".
I can not stand to even attempt to watch:
Wil and Grace (GAG!!!)- nothing but sex jokes...that aren't even funny
According to Jim (bigger GAG!)
How to date my Teenage Daughter ( Tripple Gag!!)
oh and the other ones that are on...that I couldn't get through 5 minutes of:
Sister Sister (the one with the twins)
and
That's so Raven...(that is so stupid)
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
I liked Friends the first few years it was on. I think after awhile it got boring and mundane. I didn't watch The Nanny then, but I do now. I think it has to grow on you.
I never got Will and Grace. I don't think it's funny; I don't understand why it was always nominated for awards. But the one 90s sitcom I hate more than anything else is Seinfeld. Some (a lot) of people may disagree with me. But I think it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen next to the movie "The Hunt for Red October." I don't know which one would come in as the stupidest if there were ever a contest for stupidest thing from the 90s.
Posted by Obscurus -Evil Dead- Lupa (Member # 2700) on :
I remember a long summer where I watched The Nanny every day and I thought it was cute. I'm glad Fran Drescher has at least a good sense of humor about her voice, but I wouldn't dare watch The Beautician and the Beast.
As for Friends, I never got into it (I really don't watch sitcoms . . . canned laughter, corny situations, I dunno), but I actually like a few of the actors on the show. I like Lisa Kudrow and Matthew Perry (I've watched Almost Heroes too much) and whoever plays Joey, ha. I never liked David Schwimmer or Jennifer Aniston much (David Schwimmer's character was kinda funny, though). I think it was sort of half the cast was funny and the other half you didn't care about.
I haven't watched too many sitcoms, really . . . Seinfeld was kind of funny, but I don't know why it did as well as it did.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Fran Drescher adds to that whole voice she does...cause she was in Saturday Night Fever...and she didn't sound anywhere near as bad as she did on the tv show...and I know someone who meet her and talked to her in person, and she doesn't talk anywhere near as bad as she does ...that is all an "act."
Posted by Jessie the Sunflower Goddess (Member # 1877) on :
Oh my gosh guy, Friends!!! I have to say I am a Friends addict. I love that sitcom so much, witty and very funny and genuine. Great chemistry for the cast.
I completely know what you mean about Scrubs to, I have never been able to sit through even one full episode of that one. I tried, but just couldn't do it, I couldnt' see what the appeal was at all.
Posted by Stitch (Member # 2895) on :
I'm a real sucker for a sitcom. I loved Friends and The Nanny, I like Will and Grace, Married with Children (well, most of it).
I could never get into Sienfeld. Only once have I ever laughed out loud when watching an episode with my friends. Nor did I like Cheers (tho I love Frasier), Everybody loves Raymond (I hate Raymond but think the rest are funny), or Rosanne.
Some of the sitcoms now are terrible - According to Jim, 2.5 men - how can these be successful? I thought we as a tv viewing public were becoming more demanding?
I guess others that I've liked in the past were - The Awful Truth (1st season), Suddenly Susan wasn't too bad to start with Jesse was sweet and harmless The Drew Carey Show was awesome Just Shoot Me was pretty good (Lemon Whacky Hello!) Mad about you Third Rock from the Sun Spin City (until Michael J Fox had to leave) Ellen (the first season or two with her original group of friends)
Posted by Jessie the Sunflower Goddess (Member # 1877) on :
I loved Ellen, she is just so funny. I have to admit that it hasn't been until the last year or so that I have begun to appreciate Seinfeld, now I watch it any time that it is on.
Loved Mad About You as well. Raymond is one that had to grow on me. Now I pretty much like it a lot!!
I liked Jesse to and was sad to see that one go as well.
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
I liked Jesse, too. I thought it was pretty good. I guess not enough people liked it though. It seems like that with every thing I watch...I like it, most others don't.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I use to be the travel agent for the executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond. I actually liked that show in the beginning...but then it got old hearing his brother whine and complain that Everybody Loves Raymond.
And I was also the Travel agent to one of the characters who was on Mad About You....his name was Jeff Garlin-(Jeff actually had a guest role on Raymond...he was in the grocery store, and Ray's wife was trying to flirt with him, and he got all freaked out on her..it was actually funny) ( he was just in Daddy Day Care with Eddie Murphy), he and Lew ( the producer of Everybody Loves Raymond) were with me and my friend Eddie, and some of my other friends at a college.....doing stand up comedy...for my 21st b-day.
I just thought about it...cause my birthday is coming up again very soon, and I have never ever topped my 21st birthday, on how cool it was.
Posted by Illnero (Member # 4286) on :
Jeff Garlin, Larry David's agent of Curb Your Enthusiam?
That's so cool.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
That would be the one and the same, and Lew is Lew Schneider...he had a tv series on the FOX channel in the early 90's called "Down the Shore", and they were all friends, with my friend..Eddie Brill- Eddie has been in several low budget 80's movies. You can look them all up on IMDB . They were hanging with me in 1989. They all sang me Happy Birthday at midnight at the college we were at, my mom , my room mate and another one of my friends was with me too, and it was so cool. Jeff had only really done 1 episode of Roseanne when I meet him. I got to meet quite a few stand up comedians back in the 80's...I met John Mendoza...and talked to Colin Quinn on the phone, it was pretty cool- that was back when he was hosting Remote Control on MTV. I went to New York City in 1989 and hung out at Caroline's Comedy Club with a bunch of comedians...I was only 20 then..but it was alot of fun.
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Part of Stitch's post:
quote:"The Drew Carey Show" was awesome.
I didn't always watch the show on the networks, but when I did see it, I thought it was a very inventive and risk-taking sitcom. One of the few that I actually liked during the 90's.
It's too bad that the show's network ratings on ABC-TV plummeted in the show's last three seasons. "The Drew Carey Show" deserved a much-ballyhooed "farewell" sendoff that "Friends", "Frasier", "Cheers", "M*A*S*H*", or "Seinfeld" did. But the network didn't publicize it enough, and the show ended quietly.
However, it still appears on syndicated reruns! Thank goodness! Posted by Jessie the Sunflower Goddess (Member # 1877) on :
The only thing about the Drew Carey show that I didn't like was that the quality of the show went down over the years. Whatever happened to MIMI anyway??? Anyone know?
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
How DID it end???
The last I remember Drew was dating a girl who might or might not get back together with her x-husband. And the last I saw of MiMi she was married to Drew's brother and had a baby (Dont remember if it was boy or girl or what it's name was). And with all that "Kate with Oswald", "Kate with Drew" who the Hell DID Kate end up with???
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
okay, I checked imdb. I guess Kate met a pilot and ran off and married him never to be seen again. Winford Lauder went bust and closed the store (opening an online store in its place). Steve cheated opn Mimi and Mimi and her son Gus moved in with Drew after Gus burnt the house down by accident. Drew ran into an old frined Kellie and she moved in with him cuz she was going through hard times, so she moved in with DSrew and Nikki (the girl who always went from thin to fat). Kellie got pregnant and had Drew's baby, who they named Drew Jr. The end. Yeah, not the best finale I could have thought up. Oh well. I have to agree with the person who said it started out a great show that declined over the years.
Posted by Duckie Dale Winton (Member # 3419) on :
Mamamia and Jessie.......How can you not like the genius that is Scrubs - it's the best thing on British TV at the moment!!
I laugh my *rse off like a loon from beginning to end. Every character is hilarious, and every bit of dialogue hits the spot.
.....and if Sarah Chalke, as Elliot, isn't just the FINEST looking woman on TV, then I dunno who is! Posted by stu1984 (Member # 3248) on :
I'm with you on that one Duckie. Absolute quality.
Which reminds me I must go and pick up series 2 tommorrow.
Stu
Posted by cindymancini (Member # 679) on :
Yes, I'm proud to admit I've never seen one full episode of Friends. I just couldn't stand it. It was so moronic.
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
Bwahahahaha! The sad thing is if you pitched s show like that "Moe, Joe and Curly live in wacky (unaffordable) New York loft with their sexy neighbors Holly, Molly and Dolly and chaos ensues" it would surely be put on the Fall line up. (As long as all the "actors" were good looking!)
Aniston's not too busy these days. Maybe she can play Dolly.
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on :
I love Scrubs!!! right there with ya Duckie and Stu!
it's brillant........the characters, JD's flashbacks and thoughts in his head are hillarious!!! I do wish there were more inventive sitcoms like this then reality TV.
Posted by rocksteadyflamethrower (Member # 1065) on :
I sort of had the feeling that I would have to be a Jewish liberal nihilist to enjoy "Seinfeld".
Even more odd, I don't mind watching "Curb Your Enthusiasm" despite the facts that it stars one of the co-creators of "Seinfeld" and has the same sense of humor about it that Seinfeld did.
Sincerely,
John Kilduff
Posted by Illnero (Member # 4286) on :
I'm a moody existential with no political preference of affiliation from a small town and I dig Seinfeld and Curb. I could really do without Friends though.
I watched an episode after the whole "million dollars and episode paycheck" news and I always thought it wasn't that great. When it comes to watching the trials and tribulations of young people in a big city, I'll stick to Bert and Ernie.
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
ERNIE AND BERT: THE QUEER AS FOLK YEARS!
Posted by happysunshine28 (Member # 4345) on :
Seinfeld, I never liked that one. All they did was complain about everything. I did like Cramer hes a riot.
Posted by raggedyman (Member # 4065) on :
quote:Originally posted by mamamiasweetpeaches: I hated MARRIED WITH CHILDREN and FRIENDS and as for now I dont "get" SCRUBS.
I will admitt I started out liking MARRIED WITH CHILDREN...but after the two season mark it just seemed like the same jokes over and over again FOR YEARS!!!!!!
FRIENDS...I just think when you actually disect it....it's not funny! (At least not to me). I remember being ****ed when I read in magazines that the people in FRIENDS kept demanding...and getting...more money! Have you ever sat through any of their movies???? Peee-yeeew!
SCRUBS either thinks its wittier than it is or is so witty it goes right over my head. I just sit there groaning for the first few minutes...and then I hit the clicker.
THANKS SO MUCH! I thought I was gonna get a grilling if I said that the 'almighty' FRIENDS was just NOT FUNNY! actually, I HATE THAT SHOW!!! IT MAKES ME PHYSICALLY SICK TO MY COLON!! what makes it worse is that almost every female I know (and I know too many! no offense ladies) thinks that this so-called 'comedy' series is the absolute business. I'd like to see a more 'real' version of this show - there'd be characters from different backgrounds i.e. not all caucasian, there'd be a smoker or two, an alchoholic, a junkie, one or two characters would be homosexual, there'd be punch-ups, money troubles.... actually wait, that's a bit like my life. oh well, I guess being an East end boy from London, my favourite sit-coms are BOTTOM, THE YOUNG ONES, PORRIDGE and of course ONLY FOOLS & HORSES. it's proper comedy.
Posted by Brandon777 (Member # 4014) on :
Wow, I can't believe that there are so many "Friends" haters. I thought that was a really good, well written show.
Posted by Illnero (Member # 4286) on :
I think it's a case of "I Can't Believe This Cast Got a Cool Million Dollars and Episode For This Trype" which makes people not like Friends. Not a case of jealousy, just wondering is that much money really worth it for this.
Posted by Jessie the Sunflower Goddess (Member # 1877) on :
I actually have so grown to love Seinfeld. It is one that I didn't appreciate as much when it was on. I am kind of glad now because it gives me a chance to watch something from 15 years ago that I didn't see much. So it is like seeing it all over again for the first time.
Posted by footloosefan92 (Member # 4498) on :
What do you guys think about Gilmore Girls. I liked it for a while but I want to get your opinions on it I have to admit I was crazy about it but not so crazy about it anymore Posted by Jessie the Sunflower Goddess (Member # 1877) on :
Never ever even seen one episode of Gilmore Girls! If I am remembering correctly didn't they like not speak on the show for a number of episodes?? Must have started on a night when I watched something else instead.
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
Friends made multi-millionaires out of a bunch of no-talent actors and actresses. That's reason enough to dislike the show. LOL. It just wasn't funny to me. I could comment on someone being shallow enough to get a "Rachel" hairdo but I know someone on here probably got one at sometime or the other...
Posted by Earth Angel (Member # 3301) on :
Oh I like friends, it's easy to watch, and yeah it makes me laugh. There's nothin wrong with brain candy comedy. I didn't like Seinfeld, I do like Scrubs....I also like Malcolm in the middle, but I dont like that Everybody loves Raymond crap...it's too cliched. I did love Married with children, but then I watched that when I was early teens, so I bet if I watched it now it would suck (like roseanne and the Cosby show).
I like stuff like the young ones and Bottom too, but I hated Rab C Nesbitt (Brit ref).
I really like the family guy, and the peep show....I could go on and this would turn in to the Earth Angel show......Mmmm now there's an idea Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
How was Friends brain candy? I considered it to be more like brain waste...
Posted by Earth Angel (Member # 3301) on :
Brain candy, is something you can watch that doesn't take any brain action, so you're brain can put it's feet up and drink a colourful c0cktail while you are swept along by the easiness of something....this also applies to chick flicks.
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