I’ve actually been rewatching some episodes of All In The Family airing on Pluto TV. It’s remarkable (1) how little has changed and (2) how we’ve lost such great quality television over the past forty years.
Bob’s Burgers
I like how every single character is incredibly weird in at least one way, but their weirdness is usually a source of joy and hardly ever used as the butt of a joke.
It’s a gorram shame how few Firefly episodes there are.
Agree, but also think it might kind of be a part of what makes it great. Didn’t go so long to get ruined. Gave us just enough to love it and imagine what could have been. Everyone gets to have their own fantasies of where it might have gone next.
Didn’t go so long to get ruined
I think it’s safe to say they had plenty of rope left before that were danger of that happening
I love to turn on the 25-hr adult swim of venture bros and just drop into an episode.
Many good series mentioned, I want to add: Community
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I’d have to say Invader Zim.
Red Dwarf
Monty Pythons Flying Circus
IT Crowd
Mr. Robot
“It’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere” is stuck in my head forever.
…and the jumping off a plane, riding on a crocodile, killing a nazi scene.
I love that show, saw it plenty of times from start to finish…
“It’s the last thing they’ll be expecting - a daylight charge over the minefield.”
Craig Charles
Robot Wars.
Craig Charles
Mr. Bean
Arrested Development has such intricate humor that it takes multiple passes to absorb it all. For some jokes, the punchline for the set-up doesn’t come until some episodes—or even seasons—later. Just the first three seasons, though. Season 4 & 5 were made years later and aren’t the same.
+1 for arrested development. Took me until season 3 to realize the next episode previews were fake
I’ve definitely re-watched old Adult Swim stuff. Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021 in particular. (I need to include Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law in that mix)
Don’t sleep on Home Movies
12oz Mouse!
I watch a lot of cartoons, but when there’s a dry season I find myself just rewatching The Simpsons or American Dad.
Usually the earlier stuff of course, but you get some gems in the later stuff, and the later stuff gets funnier the more you memorize the writing.
I’m beginning to suspect that nostalgia is a form of brain rot.
I’m beginning to suspect that nostalgia is a form of brain rot.
I’ve struggled hard to do it, but in my forties I’m still listening to new music and watching new media. I want to go out like John Peel, listening to good new music until the day I die.
I still listen to and watch a lot of old stuff, but I really try not to make it my main entree.
I honestly think if you’re my age (mid forties) and you’re still listening to music exclusively from the 90’s it’s gotta count as some type of arrested development.
It’s just hard getting into new stuff without questioning whether it was sold to you through some kind of advert osmosis.
At least with the old stuff, there’s little chance that you were target audience
Surprised no one’s brought up Futurama yet.
I was just about to comment Futurama! Really not sure what to think of the newer episodes though…
I felt the same way about the Hulu episodes until Quids Game, which I just straight-up hated, at first. No real connection to the larger premise, just torture porn in the form of weird aliens playing with/killing off the familiar characters.
Later, it hit me: The episode is a meta-commentary on the Hulu seasons. The “quids” are self-insert characters for the writers, poking fun at themselves. They aren’t doing a coherent storyline with this reboot, they’re just playing with familiar characters in different scenarios, and wringing out a few new jokes in a way that they couldn’t do with the established canon. In a way, it’s Futurama fanfic by Futurama writers.
From that perspective, I’ve found the reboot a lot more enjoyable. The good parts are a bonus, and the duds are forgettable.
I think the last two seasons were very much hit or miss. Some really good eps but also some really awful ones.
To me it’s like seeing an old friend from younger years. You’ve both changed so things are different from the good ol’ days, but it’s still enjoyable to spend time with them.
Still better than most new adult animated shows
Unpopular Opinion: The endless reboots killed it for me.
I dont see them as endless reboots i see them as repeated assaination attempts.
This is a good analysis of the shows life cycle where its pretty clear the show was fucked over repeatedly by the networks hosting it and its just refused to die. A case of when fans love something by execs dont.Yup. Just the original series for me
My entire counterargument is the fast fashion episode. That one was brilliant.
yeah it’s so easy to watch Seinfeld when you know Kramer is a seething racist and Jerry is your run of the mill pedo and genocide promoter.
Thanks for the moral lession, PeeOnYou…
In love Seinfeld
