Plaidophile: TiVo Loves Lucy

January 28, 2008

TiVo Loves Lucy (media)

by fluffy at 10:43 PM

So, when I was a kid, my parents loved I Love Lucy but I never really understood what was so great about it. So when TiVo started recording it as a suggestion I decided to watch it, and... wow, it's actually pretty funny stuff.

Is this another sign that I'm a grownup now? I guess there's worse ways to come to realize that than by laughing at an old sitcom.

Comments

#10403 Neillparatzo 01/29/2008 05:26 am

I've been thinking of signing up for a grocery card as Ricky Ricardo, 623 E. 68th Street.

#10404 ucblockhead

01/29/2008 07:42 am

The good sitcom seems to be a dead art. I can't remember liking one since Seinfeld.

#10405 mkilly 01/29/2008 09:47 pm

to ucblockhead: ARRESTED. DEVELOPMENT.

#10407 fluffy

01/30/2008 09:59 am

Don't forget The Office.

Also, 30 Rock is pretty okay most of the time, at least if you ignore Tracy Morgan.

#10408 ucblockhead

01/30/2008 10:24 am

Oh, ok...there've been a couple.

#10409 HeuristicsInc 01/30/2008 02:46 pm

I like "How I Met Your Mother."
-bill

#10410 fluffy

01/30/2008 02:49 pm

Ugh, I just tried watching an episode of that (it came with my iPod) and I was actually just thinking of posting a comment here about how it is the epitome of TERRIBLE SITCOM.

#10412 fluffy

01/30/2008 10:27 pm

Oh yeah, Boston Legal is pretty good.

#10413 Duke of the Bump

01/31/2008 08:24 pm

fluffy:

Oh yeah, Boston Legal is pretty good.

Boston Legal's not really a sitcom, though... it's more of a... Dramady.

The only Sitcoms I ever really enjoyed were Seinfeld and Frasier, and the Frasier formula got old really quickly. I'd say MASH, but again, it's really more of a dramady.

#10414 fluffy

01/31/2008 10:53 pm

Dramedies have situations, and they have comedy, and much of the comedy is dependent on the situation.

Speaking of which, I'd like to make a TV show which starts with a disclaimer that it contains adult situations, and it's about people paying their bills and filing their taxes and such.

(Was that a Dave Barry joke or a Steven Wright joke?)

(Also, recall that MASH had a laugh track for most of its run, and actually started out entirely as a screwball comedy before Alan Alda convinced the producers to move towards a more dramatic route.)

#10415 fluffy

01/31/2008 10:56 pm

Oh, I also have something of a soft spot for 'Til Death. Brad Garrett is great.

#10426 HeuristicsInc 02/04/2008 11:40 am

fluffy:

Speaking of which, I'd like to make a TV show which starts with a disclaimer that it contains adult situations, and it's about people paying their bills and filing their taxes and such.

(Was that a Dave Barry joke or a Steven Wright joke?)

Calvin & Hobbes.
-bill

#10433 HeuristicsInc 02/05/2008 07:28 am

fluffy:

Ugh, I just tried watching an episode of that (it came with my iPod) and I was actually just thinking of posting a comment here about how it is the epitome of TERRIBLE SITCOM.

Is that reply to mine? Obviously we have different ideas of what a terrible sitcom is. That's okay, I don't like House.
-bill

#10434 fluffy

02/05/2008 09:18 am

It was in response to you, yes. To each their own, I guess. "How I Met Your Mother" was like a heterosexual version of Will and Grace.

#10435 HeuristicsInc 02/05/2008 02:04 pm

I never got into that show, so it must be different, haha.
-bill