Petition to bring back Crazy Harry

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You know, the best sitcoms, the best music, the best anything, tends to go unnoticed in this day and age, when mediocrity is so often rewarded by the masses and the corporations. So to find the gems you have to do your homework and shift and sort and use your discernment.

So I don't see any issues with modern comedy, you just have to look for it. Talent has never gone away. Of course if you look for it in How I met your whatever, you are going down the wrong path. But that's just my opinion.

Edit: Wow, you are downvoting me and I didn't even say that How I met your mother is just pure crap.

The protests from the parent groups were just dumb. It was three kids in a trench coat trying to look important. People had forgotten that there were racy jokes on the Muppet Show and even some stuff on Sesame Street that they used to throw in for the parents.

Modern sitcoms (especially those on streaming platforms) seem to lack filler episodes. Seasons are shorter, so every episode exists to move the plot forward. We don’t actually see the cast acting like a group of friends or family. I think it really hurts the dynamic of the cast. I watched season 1 of How I Met Your Father and it seemed like the big plot events and twists were too close together. Why do I care about a relationship between 2 characters if I only saw it developing for 2 episodes?

What is happening is that you are cherry picking the best 5 sitcoms out of 5 decades of sitcoms. You have hundreds of sitcoms to choose from, most of which failed to last a single season.

And you are comparing the top 1% of all sitcoms in the past with the few current sitcoms. And of course the current sitcoms look bad in comparison.

No, that is pretty standard for child actors.

The ones that turn out okay are the exceptions.

> For “Better Call Saul,” submissions besides Odenkirk include Jonathan Banks, Giancarlo Esposito and Pat Healy for supporting actor in a drama; AMC is still determining where to place Rhea Seehorn, who was nominated last year for supporting drama actress. Meanwhile, the legendary Carol Burnett will be submitted in supporting drama actress.

> In the guest categories, “Saul” is fronting “Breaking Bad” alum Betsy Brandt for drama guest actress, and more “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” alums for drama guest actor, including Bryan Cranston, Tony Dalton, Mark Margolis, Michael McKean and Aaron Paul.

God damn it nothing for Michael Mando. He was great in season 6.

Please, OP, if you like Nathan Fielder, watch Review with Andy Daly. It's brilliant. The "Pancakes, divorce, pancakes" episode is one of the most brilliant bits of comedic TV I've ever seen.

Not seeing the drama nor the comedy lol

I don’t think it’s supposed to be hilarious. It’s a dramedy.

It’s far too easy to get something on the air, not enough talent to support all the product.

Accotding to the article, the Emmy submissions of Better Call Saul Final Season:

>Drama Actor: Bob Odenkirk
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>Drama Supporting Actor: Jonathan Banks, Giancarlo Esposito, Pat Healy
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>Supporting Actress: Carol Burnett
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>Guest Actress: Betsy Brandt
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>Guest Actor: Bryan Cranston, Tony Dalton, Mark Margolis, Michael McKean, Aaron Paul.

Also, “AMC is still determining where to place Rhea Seehorn, who was nominated last year for supporting drama actress.”

Drama directing submissions include Michael Morris (609), Michelle MacLaren (610), Thomas Schnauz (611) and Peter Gould (613), while drama writing submissions are Gordon Smith (608), Ann Cherkis (609), Alison Tatlock (610), Thomas Schnauz (611) and Peter Gould (613).

AMC’s other drama submissions come from “Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire” and “Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches.”

I think we've largely outgrown sitcoms now, and what we do like, all the olders already have it.

You might be onto something there. The old Thursday night NBC lineup (30 Rock, Parks & Rec, The Office, Community) had insane lineups of writing talent that pretty much all went on to do great things. With more TV being produced, it might mean only a couple good to great writers for each show instead a great writers room top to bottom.

I feel like little-to-no lightning is being caught. The success rate was never high, but I think it was higher. Shows like King of Queens and even Two and a Half Men weren't considered the pinnacle of comedy, but I still think they're clearly better than other multi-cam sitcoms that have lasted multiple seasons today. And I wasn't even a fan of those shows when they were on.

Nice! I am just starting The Last Of Us.

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The cable company I worked at from 2014-2016 only serviced specific areas in Alabama. They serviced the city of Birmingham (which is just under 70% African-American) and rural Alabama (which is mostly white). A different cable company serviced the suburbs (though they are the same company now).

Almost all of our merch was Starz-focused and revolved around Power. That's what people called in for. That's what they wanted us to pitch.

If anyone was obsessed with a franchise at that point in time, it was The Walking Dead. You didn't call in for that because you had it as part of your cable package. I cannot stress enough how big of a deal that was regionally. Everyone I knew was obsessed with it. It was absolutely a communal experience. This completely fell off over the past few years.

100% agree there's no point at all. They are only hopeful because its Bob Odenkirk, that is the reason why anyone has watched it. He's not even that good in it (not his fault but the scripting).

For the love of Kermit, why isn't this called MUPPET MAYHEM?? Disney does not understand that the word Muppet is an adjective as well as a noun.

I'm really not seeing the point to LH. It's only somewhat funny.

>regardless, it never took the foot off the gas and it got me addicted

I think that was the real reason I just kept watching. There was always something happening that got me "interested" and overall I fairly enjoyed watching it. But yes there were a lot of flaws but I like to just think some stuff are able to happen because it's "motion picture".

I don’t know. I wonder if with there being so many competing networks and steaming services there just isn’t the concentration of talent that there used to be when all the sitcoms where concentrated within a few network television companies.

I also think a really good show is like catching lightening in a bottle. It’s hard for everything to come together. The success rate for shows was never high and I wonder when it does work how many of those shows now just never get a chance to find an audience before it ends up on the scrap heap because audiences are also very spread out now.

Well, most of our customers were African-American so not necessarily. However, if a lot of Starz's customer base is just there for Power, I don't think they're going to be interested in watching Party Down.

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