It was when they became more concerned with tying the story up than the funny stuff, that's when I started to lose interest. Just as I loved the early Big Bangs, when they started marrying off and it became more about 'stuff' than making me laugh, that's when I stopped watching. The Simpsons may be well past its imperial phase, but it still understands that it's all about the jokes.
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I heard the cast all said that they wished the mother had been the cupcake/baking girlfriend who ended up marrying the German guy. That's very telling of the show going on too long and messing things up.
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I heard someone sum it up perfectly.....we watched 10 seasons just to end up watching the pilot episode again.
I really really enjoyed the first few seasons but the last 3 or 4 were a chore to get through. I only watched them because I had already watched 5 years of it and was hoping it would get back to its initial quality....which it didn't.
The only thing going for the ending was it wasnt as bad as the Seinfeld finale....
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I've been working out of town the last couple days and not able to check in on the Lounge compulsively during the day as is my normal habit. I have to say it has been so fun to get home in the afternoon and open this thread…
As far as stream of consciousness meandering goes, this is going to be a tough one to top!
As far as stream of consciousness meandering goes, this is going to be a tough one to top!
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Just finished the final season of MASH. The chopper pilot wears a cool G-1/22a.
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I loved every second of LOST including the end [emoji33]
I understand it wasn't for everyone but a LOT of people that told me they hated it misunderstood a lot of key points of the ending. Not saying that's you but there was a release by the writers or producer or someone that went into a lot of detail to explain it....interesting read or it was at the time when it was relevant.
I watched it religiously. Loved the show but felt the last season and particularly the finale was a cop out on the writers part. At points I felt they were just grasping at straws. It could be that I misunderstood some key points but I'm not sure the writers understood them either
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Yep, little cohesion w/McGoohan and the other cats directing it. It got more and more disjointed as the season progressed.
I loved the Prisoner but hated the ending too. It's such an easy cop out for a writer to dissolve a story into a meaningless farce just for the effect. It's why I've not enjoyed some of the David Lynch efforts. I never saw Lost but it sounds dire, whenever I hear about it.
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Lol true. Seinfeld's ending was even worse. Yeah, exactly. After season 4 or 5 it lost the magic. Those first few were incredible, though.I heard someone sum it up perfectly.....we watched 10 seasons just to end up watching the pilot episode again.
I really really enjoyed the first few seasons but the last 3 or 4 were a chore to get through. I only watched them because I had already watched 5 years of it and was hoping it would get back to its initial quality....which it didn't.
The only thing going for the ending was it wasnt as bad as the Seinfeld finale....
its hard if not impossible for me to pick a favorite moment but when Kramer takes to shaving with butter and Newman sees this:
I think I laughed for three years. George was my favorite tho. A George divided cannot stand!
Sadly, I remember more of The Simpsons and Seinfeld than I do the undergraduate degree I was pursuing at the time. I believe I could qualify for a doctorate if those shows were an educational track.
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Seinfeld just kept on getting better. It's insane, but each new episode was somehow better and more groundbreaking than the last. Something I won't ever forget, when the show ended, I was literally depressed for two weeks. Not even joking, I felt there's just no meaning to going thru the day anymore.
So many good moments in that show... I can't even pick my favorite. It's something else every day. Even early in the series, when George whines about how he's the lord of the idiots and then that woman yells out the window "You're all winners!!!". Didn't see the rest of that episode how hard I lol'd.
Then suddenly everyone was like "you gotta see How I Met Your Mother / Bing Bang Theory / whatever, it's as good as Seinfeld brah". Four episodes is probably the most I had seen of all these new sitcoms and completely forgot they existed by tomorrow. . .
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I finally am able to watch Seinfeld again. It's like 80's music - takes a good long time before it's appealing once more.
I used to LOL and now I still do - that show nailed it. JS deserves every penny he earned (and still does) for that show (as do the rest). Even just thinking about it now makes me laugh.
Wife and I used to love BBT, but it got so ridiculous about 2 seasons back that we no longer can. And "Sheldon" works best in small doses - I hear there's a spinoff - Young Sheldon or the like which makes my skin crawl...
Think about the lives of these people - you get on a hit show like that (or, one of my other faves - Married with Children) and you're set for life, unless you're a complete loser.
Oh to be reborn in a different carbon unit.
I used to LOL and now I still do - that show nailed it. JS deserves every penny he earned (and still does) for that show (as do the rest). Even just thinking about it now makes me laugh.
Wife and I used to love BBT, but it got so ridiculous about 2 seasons back that we no longer can. And "Sheldon" works best in small doses - I hear there's a spinoff - Young Sheldon or the like which makes my skin crawl...
Think about the lives of these people - you get on a hit show like that (or, one of my other faves - Married with Children) and you're set for life, unless you're a complete loser.
Oh to be reborn in a different carbon unit.
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My sentiment entirely, but I wouldn't ever criticise another's viewing pleasure. It could be that my wife and I view television with disdain because for the first thirty years of our marriage we never had a TV. Only when my late mother-in-law, who was growing old, came to visit did we buy a TV for her to watch. She was hooked on daytime soaps.
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The last TV series that I watched (meaning drama or comedy), and it's the first that I had watched in quite a while, was "Mad Men." I thought it was great!
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