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But the current sitcoms I've pointed out are the ones that are getting renewed and have the highest ratings at the moment.

My main point is that there hasn't been an extremely funny new network sitcom in almost ten years.

just a serie of unfortunate events. If you believe in curses then sure, one might call it that

> They also knew most shows would not get cancelled after one season and didn't have commitment fears.

Most shows totally ended up cancelled after one season

They aren't given the chance to grow - a lot of shows take time to find their groove. Reboot was great, it was so close to finding its sweet spot - I bet if it had gotten a second season, it would ahve been great.

This is one of my biggest gripes on Reddit as a whole. I've seen way too many posts and comments griping about how X character is a narcissist, sociopath, bully, etc. for their actions as if they're real people and not characters purposefully written that way for comedic effect. Yeah it would probably be a little annoying if I had a friend as sarcastic as Chandler in real life...but it's a TV show.

I thought it was ok but the first episode gave me no sense of direction for the over-arching plot. Reading the description I thought it would be about a character’s descent into madness (maybe is?) but then watched the first episode and it seems like a dark comedy? My main takeaway from the first episode is that I feel bad for his wife lol

There have been many shows where there were talks of "curses" afterwards. Ie, the "Superman curse".

In reality, it's just a bi-product of the entertainment industry.

He was one of the stretching room portraits, and showed up a few times in the ballroom scene.

You’ll see it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself

I think maybe audiences in general are drifting away a little bit from the "joke-a-minute" style of sitcom writing. Maybe the current onslaught of prestige, character-driven dramas have whet our appetite for slower paced character-driven humor.

For example, one of my favorite comedies in recent years is Search Party, and even though the writing is still pretty damn solid, it's a series mostly carried by acting and characters as opposed to funny one-liners. Meredith Hagner and John Early in particular are AMAZING, and their performance and delivery is what makes the humor work, oftentimes more than the lines themselves. In the hands of lesser actors, it wouldn't have been as effective.

He was? I thought they removed him because it was enforcing a stereotype or something

Crazy Harry never left, he was most recently featured in Muppets Haunted Mansion.

idk, just because people don't talk about it on the internet doesn't mean people don't talk about the shows irl. it's funny some football and baseball teams will have a social media person interview the players for instagram and they'll ask random questions like "who do you want to see in concert?" or "what's your favorite tv show?" dexter is probably the most popular answer.

HIMYF is not great, but S2 is already leagues better than S1 because the characters and storylines are starting to gel more. I was dying at everything related to Flubber the musical.

It’s like if the show Vice Principles wasn’t funny at all and had dull acting

A recent show that has at sitcom-esque feeling to it that has had success with setting up a brilliant group of characters, and character dynamics, is Shrinking. At the end of the first season I feel it managed the set-up of a first season perfect, with some focus on plot, but not so much that it takes away from developing the characters and the group

Heck, for that matter we need them to put Muppets Tonight onto streaming. It was the classic format and I still felt like that worked well.

>Also, there was fewer competition, only a few networks, so people gave them time and patience because they didn't have 25 different choices.

One problem is dispersal of talent. it's always been that popular shows lost their creative people, but now there's fifty outlets throwing money at writers. it's tough to keep a team together.

Nothing “happened “ to the cast. They made bad choices and wound up reaping the consequences for them.

There's no such thing as curses, it's just an unfortunate almost by-product of what impact the entertainment lifestyle can have on child actors.

The genre really can lose its sense of humor. if you look at the late 60s, the funny sitcom almost died out, to be replaced by pleasant, unoffensive, but dull family fare. Even existing shows that had been funny early on, like My Three Sons and the Andy Griffith Show, just stopped trying to go for funniest. Then like a bolt from the blue, shows emerged again with broad characters who went for it - Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, The Odd Couple, Sanford and Son, MASH - it was an avalanche.

if you go into a sub for many shows, even older ones, it seems like at least the Reddit portion of the audience is quite humor impaired. Many posts express disapproval of acts, and even characters, as if the shows were somehow presented as exemplars of proper conduct. Comedy can't just run free if the writer has to keep that sort of audience in mind.

Im old enough that the "old" Thursday line up was Cosby, Family Ties, Cheers & Night Court

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Please all report back after watching 2nd episode.