It is great !!!! - The Detour (2016) Discussion

[–] Pedro_MGA 8 years ago

laughed so hard with this pilot! LOL...

Whatchu doing there?

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[–] CaymanAl 8 years ago

I watched it twice and laughed harder the second time because I caught all the stuff I missed from laughing at it the first time!
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[–] Pedro_MGA 8 years ago

lol i actually saw it twice to, that not "Normal" for me. neither for movies, i rarely see stuff twice. this was such a nice surprise!

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[–] m7m14 8 years ago

Three great things about this show.

1) No laugh track.
2) It's going to have some season-long arc. Not one off episodes with no continuity. There is actually something bigger at play planned for the end.
3) It's very risque, adult humor. Network TV can't pull that off and I'm glad that TBS has the balls to push the boundaries.

This show reminds me of that show "Still Standing" with the 'bad parents' trying to raise the kids the best way they can but are really just kids themselves.

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[–] Pedro_MGA 8 years ago

i know its weird but i never saw a show with laugh tracks... besides an episode of a random show on a tv while im eating :P
dunno why, it really turns me off the show completely...

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[–] Pedro_MGA 8 years ago

i still don´t get why it´s used.
made sense when it was live with a studio audience...

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[–] Pedro_MGA 8 years ago

errr, i said i HATE laugh traks, i don´t see show that have them....

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[–] Pedro_MGA 8 years ago

It´s ok, it happens =)

And i liked that comparison with the artificial society we live in today.
I´m not American, but i think show´s like "all in the family" were made before real life audience / laughs ?

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[–] Jaysjunkbox 8 years ago

Hey dave_buffalo, have you managed to catch an episode of The Ranch, the Ashton Kutcher experiment on Netflix? Talk about an inappropriate use of the laugh-track, and im not saying this just because Kutcher isnt funny.

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[–] TheUglyCasanova 8 years ago

Im only 1 1/2 episodes deep but I really like it. Main cast is all funny. I hope it keeps going.

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[–] koko-10 8 years ago

Why are you singling out Samantha Bee? Jason Jones, her husband, is the co-creator, -writer and -producer, along with some other folks.
And there's plenty of recreational drug use on TV.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

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[–] lavarocker 8 years ago

mostly junior high humor, but it is funny. I gotta say, though, that in episode 2 where the parents are giving the kids the sex talk, if my mom had told me she'd swallowed my dad's "seed", I think I would have wanted to kill myself right then and there.

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[–] tonosama0516 8 years ago

On the surface, the humor is sophomoric, but fans of The Daily Show might catch the clever writing of Jason Jones and Samantha Bee, while others won't notice it the first time. This show gets funnier with repeat viewings.

"The Talk" pays off near the end of the episode with a callback that had me laughing so much! This is the first new sitcom I've started to watch in many years.

It's great.

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[–] patiofurnitur 8 years ago

I 'thankfully' caught the first ep; had to work the 2nd; but I have it set for auto tune each week.

I'm actually surprised at the language....cable doesn't always mean 'free speech'.

This is slapstick for the adults, and mature for the kids.

I hope in the next seasonS, the kids (who will be a little older), will have more input.

I still don't know what's coming around each corner, which is unusual.

Love it!!!

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