Where did the funny go?

Back in the eighties when I was watching this show on TV I thought it was the funniest thing ever. I would skip homework and avoid going out so I could sit home and watch it. It was that hysterical too me.

Now, 20 years later, the humor seems flat and it is embarassing to watch. I picked up the 2nd season and I keep on waiting to see all the funny stuff I watched back then and I am still waiting. I painfully went through all four DVDs and have not found whatever it was I saw back then.

The jokes are flat (Hammer recieves a badge from a security guard and says in a Mexican accent "We don't need no steenk'n badges." ...I know the joke, it was just terribly performed. And why would he suddenly have a Mexican accent? To see it done right, watch "Blazing Saddles.") the acting is terrible and the plots are barely there. You need at least two of the three for a successful comedy. This had zero.

At the end of one episode, the chief is handed a stuffed doll resembling Hammer which he starts strangling, then punching and then trying to rip the arms and legs off. It went on for a good half-a-minute before the episode ended. I kept thinking "where is the joke?" Funny would have been the doll inadvertenly fighting back (I remember Jackie Chan doing something hysterical on those lines where the dummy kept on kicking him whenever he punched it)or Hammer stepping in to correct the chief's attack stance or SOMETHING. It was very disturbing to watch.

When they transfered it to DVD, did someone suck the funny out of it?