I have a hard time watching this show
I wanted to watch this show because of John C. McGinley but The laugh track annoys me and I cannot get myself to watch more episodes.
Please give me reasons to continue watching it.
There's a laugh track?
Honestly, my mind just screens them out.
Okay, here's an idea--as the show starts, say out loud "Ground Floor was taped before a live studio audience."
No, of course it isn't true, and so what? You think the shows that are taped before live studio audiences don't have laugh tracks? Just a more recently taped laugh track, which is heavily edited to enhance the big punchlines.
Personally, I have a harder time watching sitcoms without laugh tracks. Because those have to actually be funny. And most of them aren't. For example, I could never watch Scrubs. Not even for John McGinley.
Scrubs was a different kind of funny, and to be honest, a laugh-track wouldn't have worked with it.
shareThey used quirky guitar music as the laugh track, and that actually bothers me more.
The Office did without any audio-enhancement, and at its best was very very funny.
I can't understand how anybody ever thought 30 Rock was funny.
Ground Floor is the first and so far only TBS sitcom to ever be the least bit funny.
I never watched 30 Rock because I can't stand Baldwin.
And, I never thought The Office was funny at all. I never liked the "uncomfortable" humor.
To each their own.
Indeed. Though anybody who doesn't think Seinfeld is funny is just WRONG.
shareI liked Seinfeld in the day, and I still enjoy some of the re-runs, but almost as nostalgia. I just don't think it's held up as well as other old shows.
But, that could also be due to over-exposure while it was on and shortly after it went off the air.
Off the air? It's on every damn day, from now until the end of time, probably. It's held up better in repeats than just about any show you can name.
Only sitcom that held up better is The Honeymooners, but so few episodes of that.
I meant off the air, as in its initial run.
I don't think its held up better than Cheers or Friends. Also, you have to remember that Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, MASH and a whole bunch of shows like that were on for decades. I think MASH was the first show to be on in it's original run and be in syndication, but I could be wrong. Either way, I remember that being on twice a day when I was growing up.
Been watching reruns of Cheers. It´s in my opinion, one of the sitcoms that´s been holding up best through the times
shareActually, you're wrong; it is taped in front of a live studio audience. (I know because I was IN the audience for the taping of the episode that aired at the end of January.) :-)
He carries illegal weapons, drives fast cars, and wears clothes obviously designed by a homosexual.
But.... John C McGinley.
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