For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.
I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don’t think he was ever funny not even a little.
His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it’s so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.
Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.
Oh man. I really love the British version of the office and Gervais. It’s so much better than the american one. He’s done some shows too. After Life and Extras are great.
Woah surprised no one mentioned South Park yet, it quite common in discussions like this.
I don’t like it but I cut them some slack for their willingness to tackle some issues publicly and mock people who deserve it.
I never really liked South Park (with occasional exceptions where it shone) but I loved the movie.
Honestly one of the best musicals I’ve ever seen.
They absolutely deserved the Oscar for that movie (almost literally any of its songs) over fucking Tarzan
It would have been fun to see the accepting speech
I think out of all the Adult Swim type shows ( Family Guy, Robot Chicken, American Dad, South Park, etcetera ), I cannot stand any of them besides King of the Hill or Futurama. So definitely gonna agree with you.
I don’t think any of the shows you listed are Adult Swim shows
I distinctly remember at least Family Guy, American Dad, and Robot Chicken airing on AD where I lived, so maybe I might be misremembering, but I meant those shows as in the style of show I’d expect to see on there. If I wasn’t clear about that, my bad.
Family Guy and American dad are famously fox shows. Plenty of networks do reruns.
postal games.
VH1
Also known as “rich trashy people being rich and trashy.” Who the actual fuck watches that garbage?
TIL: VH1 is no longer a music channel :/
They used to play music videos on that channel you know.
Fuck I’m old.
Including Pop Up Video.
Pop Up Video was the best.
I’m curious if you’re from the UK, OP, because I think this colours your perception of the The Office very much. For the record I loathe both, but The Office UK is a typical British comedy of taking the absolute piss of the characters, who are irredeemable fools one and all. You re not supposed to find them funny, or like them. You’re supposed to laugh at them. That’s the usual expectation, with British comedy.
Americans seem to have great difficulty with that concept, and can’t seem to handle a protagonist that is made fun of.
Again, not defending the show itself. Just saying you need to be aware of this approach when you watch British comedy in general. The common language should not make you forget the ocean of cultural differences in between.
Now it makes sense why so few British comedies work in the US. The US only knows how to laugh at the hero’s jokes.
Your mom’s OnlyFans page.
The US version of The Office, LOL.
Watched 8 episodes and would rather watch paint dry for the rest of my life than watching the rest of the series.
American football. Fox turned it into a video game you can’t play.
Mens soccer. Stop with the fucking cry baby drama! Women’s soccer is better in this regards.
Forrest Gump, in my opinion one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.
Breaking Bad for me. I just can’t stand it and find the characters and the situations just unpleasant and undesireable to watch.
Mad Men. Everyone on that show is a fucking scumbag and not in a funny or interesting way.
Also Thor Ragnarok. I hate it for the reasons people say they hate the next one but it was the same people that said they liked Ragnarok so Idk what the fuck is going on there. I’m not watching the second one to find out.
Letterkenny. Absolutely zero laughs out of me and something about it just induces a headache. I wanted to like it, gave the entire first season a watch, but my god it was painful.
I have friends who are into jam bands and I’m glad they go to live music shows. However, I’m the type of person that likes movies that are a tight 90 minutes long, and one of my favorite songs of all time is less than 2 minutes long. My time is worth money, treat it like it is. I don’t need to listen to a 15 minute guitar solo.
I’m lead tou nderstand that drugs are often involved in developing appreciation for jam bands.
Are you currently on drugs? No disrespect if you are, but it took me awhile to unpack that sentence.
“I’m going to need you to write a concise sentence before I let you go.”–Cop about to perform the Strunk & White sobriety test
Sadly, no, stone cold sober.
the Strunk & White sobriety test
got me good
is there an AP style variant?
I’d imagine a devilishly complicated citation of a book by a married couple two-generations into hyphenated last names about their ancestors published by their parents’ eponymous publishing house.
You’re right and you should say it. Ricky Gervais has always been weird and off-putting and the idea that he was ever good has always baffled me. I never enjoyed The Office. When my dad tried to get me into Extras I just found all of Ricky’s parts annoying. When my sister told me how great Derek was, I just found the whole thing simultaneously tasteless and bland, like it couldn’t commit to being offensive but didn’t put the work into being real. His standup is often clever, but always the kind of clever that is let down by a complete lack of emotional intelligence. The man just does not understand people, but thinks he really does.
