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re: Mad About You. How underrated is this sitcom?
Posted on 5/10/17 at 7:59 am to TigerMyth36
Posted on 5/10/17 at 7:59 am to TigerMyth36
Paul Riser was pretty funny though. I'm just surprised he doesn't get much love.
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Posted on 5/10/17 at 8:14 am to theunknownknight
Horrible show. Horrible. One of the worst long running TV shows of all time
Posted on 5/10/17 at 8:38 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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90's were weird...a lot of TV shows and movies with don't get married messages
Nothing will ever top thirtysomething for that genre. God, what an awful show full of narcissistic whiners. Just awful.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 8:45 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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I think the target audience was miserable newlyweeds so they could commiserate.
Which is why it was hilarious when George was forced to stay at home and watch it with Susan instead of going out with Jerry. It was almost as if NBC was picking at their own show.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 8:46 am to TigerMyth36
I feel the same way about this show... it was good initially, then just fell off the cliff when the tone grew more dramatic.
It was like a new disaster every week in the final years. It was like the show was stressful. Not audience-friendly near the end.
It was like a new disaster every week in the final years. It was like the show was stressful. Not audience-friendly near the end.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 8:49 am to theunknownknight
And thus began my dislike of Helen Hunt.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 8:54 am to VoxDawg
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I loved the show. Until the baby. The baby was its jump the shark plot point.
I always thought that the last line of the last episode should've been Jamie saying, "I'm pregnant".
Keep it about young newlyweds.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 9:28 am to The Spleen
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Nothing will ever top thirtysomething for that genre. God, what an awful show full of narcissistic whiners. Just awful.
I was a kid when Thirtysomething was on, and it seemed like a very depressing show.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 12:45 pm to TigerMyth36
The episodes where Mel Brooks played "Uncle Phil" were pretty damn funny. Also the one when John Astin is living in the penthouse apartment in their building.
This post was edited on 5/10/17 at 6:25 pm
Posted on 5/10/17 at 1:21 pm to blueboy
quote:So, your observation is that, when the Simpsons satirizes another TV show, it portrays it in a "very flattering way"? Weird. Alt-world must be trippy to live in.
They didn't portray it in a very flattering way. It was a comment on how bland it was.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 1:39 pm to theunknownknight
i dont mind paul riser with a small or buddy part, but i can't take a lot of paul riser. He has an annoying dealio about him.
But the show, was good.
But the show, was good.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 1:41 pm to SeeeeK
He played the weasel perfectly in Aliens.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 1:41 pm to theunknownknight
I had a crush on Hunt when I was young, but I remember this show seemed to think a lot of itself.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 2:43 pm to Master of Sinanju
I was never able to really enjoy the show. I think it was really just designed to be a serious couple with relationship foibles show... And if you weren't a person in that kind of life situation it disn't offer very much. The writing, jokes, and characters just never seemed more than paper deep.
I will say that most people really hated the last episode - even though they seemed to reconcile - but I finally thought the characters were more real and showed some potential for growth. So even though it was uncomfortable to watch I thought it was finally television worth watching.
I will say that most people really hated the last episode - even though they seemed to reconcile - but I finally thought the characters were more real and showed some potential for growth. So even though it was uncomfortable to watch I thought it was finally television worth watching.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 2:45 pm to TigerMyth36
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He played the weasel perfectly in Aliens.
He was money in Diner, as an added character.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 9:32 pm to theunknownknight
Very underrated
Posted on 11/22/21 at 10:14 pm to Baloo
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but it was done in by stardom going to Helen Hunt's head and her becoming incapable of playing a likeable character.
Yeah, Jaime became horrible and you got the feeling it wasn’t just the writing. Helen Hunt’s personal unlikeableness seeped through the character. She just seemed to be a miserable person at that point in time. Maybe it was the writers. I don’t know. The first few seasons were good, but it got bad as it went on.
Posted on 11/23/21 at 12:42 am to VinegarStrokes
quote:The reveal that Kramer was subletting Paul Buckman’s old apartment from him was a nice twist.
Which is why it was hilarious when George was forced to stay at home and watch it with Susan instead of going out with Jerry. It was almost as if NBC was picking at their own show.
Posted on 11/23/21 at 7:24 am to theunknownknight
I don't think it held up as well as I recalled. It was my favorite sitcom of the 90s, but upon a rewatch of several episodes in the middle of its run a few years ago, it didn't strike me the same way, which is ironic since I'm now a married guy with no kids.
PS - Mabel killed the show's chemistry.
PS - Mabel killed the show's chemistry.
Posted on 11/23/21 at 8:15 am to VoxDawg
I really liked it when it was first on TV, but I don't think I'd be able to sit through an episode now. I do still like Paul Risor and enjoy the stuff he does these days.
The baby killed the show.
The baby killed the show.
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