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Textbook Bad Sitcom

posted 14 years ago by mail-2775
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Up and coming TV hacks study this one, it is textbook example of a bad sitcom. Lame jokes, roaring laugh track, hipsters, it's all there.

This is like any other bad sitcom in recent years, except it had one bit of quality that actually made the rest of it seem worse by comparison. The first half of the show was so bad that my fingers were twitching towards the off button, then the parents came in, and they were played by actors who actually have a lot of talent for comedy and anything else:

Debra Jo Rupp (the Mom from That 70s Show)

Kurt Fuller (Lindsay on Alias, Desperate Housewives, etc.)

Those two people really brought the show up to being decently good for their scenes, almost, but, as with Worst Week, throwing in good actors as the parents doesn't save this pig.

[–] Rune_Forumwalker 14 years ago

I have to disagree. This is moreso the textbook average sitcom. There are a couple sitcoms that had trailers on NBC's showcase for the fall that just look absolutely brutal. Now THOSE looked like textbook bad sitcoms by the trailers. I don't remember the names, but I remember one had Olivia Munn in it (Perfect Couples). *shudders* Remembering that trailer will give me nightmares, I swear.

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[–] Jesensky 14 years ago

Honestly, what they need to do is lose the laugh track, or at least have a more natural audience reaction. You can tell that although a live audience may be there and laughing, they greatly enhance it in postproduction.

The over the top laughter really calls attention to the jokes that fail, confusign viewers into thinking that ALL of the jokes fall flat when it's really not the case.

[–] drei85 14 years ago

Watch it after Shat My Dad Says. This suddenly becomes Textbook Average Sitcom like that other guy said. And Textbook Bad Sitcom gets reassigned.