another post complaining about television

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Freaks & Geeks: 15 episodes aired.
Wonderfalls: 4 episodes aired.
Everybody Loves Raymond: 200th episode airs Monday night.

There is a God, but he's written off television entirely.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Huh ...

Well, I, for one, think "Raymond" is a great show ... old-fashioned sitcom in the "Honeymooners"/"Dick Van Dyke" mode, which has never had to go into absurdity for laughs.

On the other hand, "According to Jim" is pushing the century mark, and it seems ot be easier to find syndicated reruns of "Becker" than it is to find "NewsRadio," so, yes, things suck.

Noah



Noah

[(Anonymous)]

(it's a name so nice, I signed it twice)

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I dunno, every time I've watched Raymond I get nothing but acrimony and arguing, and I've had to change the channel. I admit Peter Boyle is hilarious in whatever he does, but the overall tone of the episodes I've seen just rubs me the wrong way ("Raymond avoids his family who find him and torment him anyway; hilarity ensues.") Maybe I just didn't see enough, but I thought I did a good job statistically sampling it.

Oh, and they'll show Becker anywhere. It's the chicken parmesan of sitcoms. You can be anywhere and Becker can be on and you know exactly what you're going to get -- and if you actually watch it, you feel guilty cause you know something better is on as well, but noooooo, you hadda order the chicken parm. I saw a high-larious episode involving a big misunderstanding on a United flight, and United was supposed to be showing NBC stuff.