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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?

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago (3 children)

People have different tastes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I'd say. OP didn't like ATLA. Everything from mid season 1 on is gold.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

Are people just really basic

Says the guy making a thread from 2009

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No one liked it. But I only watched it because of all the memes.

Like there had to be something at least worth making fun of. Nope. It just kinda sucked till I turned it off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I first watched SpongeBob SquarePants as an adult and it’s shit. Maybe if I’d started watching when I was five it might have liked it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

U had to have been there

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

So you are not feeling it now, Mr. Krabs?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

This breaks my heart

[–] yata 6 points 10 months ago

Exactly my impression as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

That's unfortunate since there's a lot of genuinely good moments in the show that I didn't fully understand until I grew up.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I haven't seen Morbius yet and I'm still disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] twice_twotimes 9 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (10 children)

You know nothing John Snow ;)

It’s a an off brand of humor that is specific t for that time. Also, there’s a bit of Seinfeld effect going on.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Hard diagree 🤔 but I respect ur right to say it

[–] Justas 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Arrested Development? I tried to watch it recently and it came out as super cringey.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The prequels were memed because they were awful (except episode 3 which I will still maintain is better than episode 6) but somehow perception warped to make people think they were good or okay at best. The first 2 are terrible.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If the star wars universe debuted with episode one, we would not have a star wars universe. The sound track rocked, and uh, there were rocks on planets.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Out of curiosity, specify which Avatar

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure they're talking about TLA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Avatar: The Last Airbender.

I also watched The Legend of Korra, which was also ok but not as good as the first show.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Avatar is generally better if you watch it as a kid and come back to it. Can't say the same for Korra as I've never watched it tho

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] EmoDuck 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think you should leave. Memes were great. Show was alright

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

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