On the other place I constantly saw memes of shows that I thought ‘well if they’re that popular they must be pretty good’
Shows like:
Avatar, The Office, Parks and Rec and IT Crowd
I’ve watched them and I just don’t get it. They aren’t so amazing that they are worth that level of adoration IMO. Avatar has its good spots and Parks and Rec is pretty enjoyable but I cringe at American office and IT crowd is forgettable.
However a show I actually really like, Community, only started getting the same type of treatment after the pandemic because people watched it on Netflix. Although it’s still not as popular as these others. Are people just really basic or am I out of touch?
Anyway, what show did you watch and think ‘I don’t get what the fuss is about’? Maybe it was Community?
People have different tastes.
Tom Segura joke that I’ll butcher real quick:
A stranger walks up to me
“Hey know any good restaurants?”
Yeah there’s this really good dim sum place over there
“Oh, I hate the Asian world”
Oh, I didn’t know that about you
I’d say. OP didn’t like ATLA. Everything from mid season 1 on is gold.
People like to discuss tastes to understand differences of opinion and potentially change their own.
I’ve known a fair lot who are Office fans and these people are nothing basic. It’s just different tastes. Sense of humor has a lot to do with cultural background too.
True. I’ve seen some episodes of the Office (American version, haven’t seen the British one) and found it occasionally funny but not legendary. I’m attributing it to the lack of cultural background. I’m not American and never had dealings with relevant kind of company culture.
The Office is parodying for the lack of better term “small town/regional American office culture from early 2000s”. If you ever worked in such an environment you’d probably find it hilarious.
The British version is the one that everyone talks about. I don’t know any office fans that liked the latter.
The British version is a genre-defining original which changed office behaviour across the country and finished exactly where it needed to.
The American version is a diluted on-the-nose soap opera that Gervais likes as he gets all the royalties for minimal effort.
Unfortunately, even in the UK, I’d say the USA version is now more widely known these days, especially amongst the younger generations.
The office is like the Star Wars of sitcoms. It’s a good show but the hoards of fans who incorporate it into their personality make you want to pretend you’re not a fan.
I cringe at American office
Isn’t that the entire point? I hate cringe comedy myself - you couldn’t pay me to watch The Office or IT Crowd, but “I dislike the show/genre” is pretty different from “the entire show/genre and everything in it sucks”.
Are people just really basic or am I out of touch?
Maybe just a tad edgy about this. “People are basic” is rarely a good look even if you’re right. In this case it’s completely subjective.
Anyway, GoT S1 was really good, S2-4 were still decent, S5-7 stank like bad pooooosey, and S8 was so god-awful it retroactively made the whole series unwatchable for me, and turned me off the books too. Which is actually a real stroke of luck, beats waiting for Godot-R.-R.-Martin over here.
Apart from that, I don’t remember watching a new show due to memes or popularity since Big Bang Theory, which was pitched as a “geek humor” thing but instead turned out to be… well, whatever BBT was.
GoT still amazes me. How the hell could they fuck it up so incredibly hard that it retroactively ruined the show and the fucking source material for almost anyone I know including myself? I mean, that shouldn’t be possible.
Are people just really basic
Says the guy making a thread from 2009
Morbius It wasn’t bad enough to finish or good enough to enjoy. Never said it was Morbin time. It had Dr. Who so there was that.
Did anyone actually like that though? I thought that was a meme because of how bad it was. I really don’t know, I never saw it.
The memes were making fun of the fact that no one had seen it, somehow Warner thought that re-releasing the film would make the memers go to see it, but that would have gone against the point of the meme
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That’s why the memes were made.
No one had asked for a Morbius movie, no one wanted a Morbius movie.
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It actually WAS Community for me. I tried it a few years back and it just didn’t click. I think because Joel and Pierce especially are such shitty people. Tried it again last year and loved it.
Same thing happened with The Orville. I didn’t even make it through the first episode the first time I tried it. Loved it the next time.
Sometimes it’s all about the timing in our lives or the experiences we’ve had.
Community is one of my all time favourite shows but lots of people just don’t get it. It was never a popular show when it originally aired.
I remember googling ‘community’ and the top result was the Wikipedia article for community it was that way going on season 3.
The Walking Dead. Mediocre acting and worse writing. Production was really all it had going for it, which is ultimately just money that could have been better spent elsewhere.
I agree somewhat, I never actually finished watching it, I was shocked when it just seemed to continue season after season. The show turned into a zombie.
Yeah, I didn’t make it past season 2. I’ve definitely watched more episodes of worse shows, but Walking Dead just did nothing for me. I am glad it helped popularize Steven Yeun though, he’s awesome.
I haven’t seen Morbius yet and I’m still disappointed.
Not a show, but a movie. I watched Napoleon Dynamite because of the memes and because several people I knew would quote it a lot. I found it to be slow paced and boring outside of the scenes with the memes.
It’s definitely one of those ‘slice of life’ / vibe movies. You either like the atmosphere, mood, and characters, or you don’t. Personally I love the movie but I can understand why it has mixed reception.
Similarly in my brain is Dazed and Confused. There is hardly a plot to be found in that movie but it makes me nostalgic for a time before I was born. Something about it just draws me.
That banana stand show was hella underwhelming. The memes were everwhere and are still popular now, it felt like everybody bsck then was raving about how sidesplittingly hilarious and clever this show was.
If it aired today I suspect most people would also find it underwhelming. The thing with Arrested Development is that it was truly unique and ahead of its time, enough that it couldn’t make it through three seasons on network tv. There was just nothing else like it, and audiences didn’t quite know what to do with it. People who loved it made a big deal about it because it could be (and turned out to be) the direction comedy was heading if only people would give it a chance.
Hard diagree 🤔 but I respect ur right to say it
Arrested Development? I tried to watch it recently and it came out as super cringey.
Narrator: It was.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine feels that way to me. Not that I think it’s a particularly bad show, but I definitely feel like the memes spawned from it already contain the funniest parts of the show. The actual content of each episode is kinda predictable with the protagonist learning stone sort of lesson.
Also I so desperately wanted to get into Bojack Horseman because I love animation, puns, and to cry while watching shows. The memes showed so many really deep and interesting moments, but by the end of the third season, I just couldn’t stand to watch Bojack learn a lesson only to revert to being a complete asshole an episode later. I get that’s kind of the point, but it was more infuriating than engaging.
What you describe about Bojack is frustrating but I think very realistic and kind of the core of the show. Bojack is flawed in so many ways and has a lot of baggage weighing on him. Him struggling to fix his flaws despite being entirely aware of them is very relatable.
If fixing flaws was as easy as someone holding up a mirror for you then no one would struggle with personal demons. But it’s not. It takes humility, self awareness, and constant self reflection to make progress. Bojack has an array of personality faults and trauma to overcome and it’s no surprise he struggles the way he does.
It’s the best depiction of mental health and addiction I’ve encountered.
Hah I also watched Bojack for the memes too.
I thought it was good, not the most amazing thing ever.
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I think the problem is that a lot of shows become overhyped once they reach a certain level of popularity. While you may have enjoyed it if you came across it naturally, the hype you’ve encountered around it makes you expect more. Avatar and Parks and Rec are great shows, but they’re definitely not the best shows of all time (although I do really love Parks and Rec) and you’d probably expect them to be these amazing shows if all you know about them is the hype from superfans.
I think there’s also an effect where shows get copied so much their original humour become cliche.
I think you should leave. Memes were great. Show was alright
I saw some memes with Good Omens templates and decided to give the show a watch.
Season 1 was pretty good, the kind of comedy that made me smile occasionally, which is fine.
On the other hand season 2 was mostly boring, 2 episode’s worth of story was stretched out to 6, and the ending ruined the friendship between the main characters, which was the cornerstone of the whole concept.
I agree so much.
Spice and wolf. I saw “a picture” of the main girl Holo and was “intrigued” but the show it’s was more about medival economics than what I expected.
Good show from what I heard, just not what 14 y/o me was interested in
