SeymourButz
8 months ago
Because apparently we need to clarify these things now, the joke is not the rape part.
The humor is in the fact that Dennis is completely unaware of how much of a terrible person he is and his failure to understand why Mac is uncomfortable.
Because that’s what the shows about…terrible people doing and saying terrible things…they take the worst traits of human beings and exaggerate them with humor…everyone who’s ever watched the show knows this. You’re not supposed to like them.

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I have never seen it, but it doesn't sound very funny.

Because rape jokes are funny?

I love Always Sunny in general but it's quite problematic and these scenes make me feel deeply uncomfortable.

Well, never having watched "Always sunny..." That was quite a useful link, thanks Russ!

At times it is horrendously dark.

Yep, doesn't mean I have to laugh at rape jokes though, ironic or not.

Although with Friends I think it wasn't the laughing so much as the whooping or the "awww" noises.

I *demand* this thread be renamed to A discussion of obsolete, lame American sitcoms and gender issues arising.

I thank you.

Two Broke Girls is painfully unfunny, sorry.

Two Broke Girls is painfully unfunny, sorry.

I've never watched It's Always Sunny, but if it's a Mali favourite it must be terrific. Are there any young women learning to dance? Is Julia Stiles in it?

It's also the longest running comedy TV show in American TV history, which is really unlikely given that it's this highly niche and very, very dark show about thoroughly unlikable people. I think it's very good indeed.

Since its debut on December 17, 1989, 604 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast. Its 28th season began on September 25, 2016. It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, and in 2009 it surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest-running American scripted primetime television series

It's also the longest running comedy TV show in American TV history, which is really unlikely given that it's this highly niche and very, very dark show about thoroughly unlikable people. I think it's very good indeed.

It's also the longest running comedy TV show in American TV history, which is really unlikely given that it's this highly niche and very, very dark show about thoroughly unlikable people. I think it's very good indeed.

Really? Wow, that doesn't sound right, I would have thought the Simpsons, or SNL, or Cheers, or even Friends, or MASH or something would have been longer.

With IAS I can only imagine enjoying myself if I was bludgeoning them to death with a pool cue.

Talk about being damned by faint praise, huh.



But seriously, this sounds like all new attained heights of awful... real matchsticks-in-eyeballs Clockwork Orange kind of awful.

It's often not easy watching, but incredibly clever, mostly funny and they still haven't run out of ideas.

And none of them are totally irredeemable.

Also, in all the interviews with Charlie I'be listened to he comes across as a really nice guy in real life.

That doesn't sound likely. It's about two waitresses with big boobs.

And he's married to The Waitress!

Mac and Sweet Dee are married too.

Only one has big boobs, but they are *very* big.

Getting back to car shows, Radio 4's 'Women talking about cars' last night was a surprisingly descriptive title for a radio programme. It passed the time, mostly because of Victoria Coren Mitchell, but probably not going to be the new money-spinner for the BBC.

Is any radio 4 comedy usually a money spinner?

When they break out to television, yes. I still prefer 'the Mitchell & Webb Sound' to the 'Mitchell & Webb Look'.

Getting back to car shows, Radio 4's 'Women talking about cars' last night was a surprisingly descriptive title for a radio programme. It passed the time, mostly because of Victoria Coren Mitchell, but probably not going to be the new money-spinner for the BBC.

Is any radio 4 comedy usually a money spinner?