#american sitcoms

[xipe-slayground]

Pouring one out for ol' Normie.

[keyki421]

Reba is probably the weirdest show I have ever watched. This show doesn't even try to be realistic. The show ran from 2001 to 2007 and I am shocked that it has 6 seasons.

I'm on season 5 and even though I dislike it, I feel like I should see this shit through and finish the show. I got annoyed around season 2.

Who lets their husband's mistress become their friend. It's funny how the other characters label Reba as being tough, while I believe she is a push over. Reba is more of a pushover than a bullied person in a Korean Drama.

PS: It annoys me how she simply allows them to walk inside her house without knocking. If I got the house in the divorce, then that means you no longer have access to it. You can wait your ass outside to get your kids. Oh and the same goes for the mistress turned wife. I be damned if I let that bitch just walk in my house.

This show annoys me so much because I can't understand it. Even the majority of white people in the 2000s, didn't act like this. So who exactly is this show for. What was the target audience.

[reareaotaku1]

Same show, different format

Religious, Country, 3 kids (2 sons and 1 daughter, youngest & oldest a boy and middle a daughter , 2/3 have a grandparent, overbearing parent (usually mother), smart (youngest) son, (oldest) son a ‘rebel’, overlooked/neglected middle child, neglectful father

[tuttle-did-it]

Norman Lear, the genius who completely revolutionised American comedy in the 1970s, has passed away at 101 years of age.

It is impossible to explain just how much Lear changed the face of television forever.

From Variety:

‘Lear’s shows were the first to address the serious political, cultural and social flashpoints of the day – racism, abortion, homosexuality, the Vietnam war — by working pointed new wrinkles into the standard domestic comedy formula. No subject was taboo: Two 1977 episodes of “All in the Family” revolved around the attempted rape of lead character Archie Bunker’s wife Edith.

Their fresh outrageousness turned them into huge ratings successes: For a time, “Family” and “Sanford,” based around a Los Angeles Black family, ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the country. “All in the Family” itself accounted for no less than six spin-offs. “Family” was also honored with four Emmys in 1971-73 and a 1977 Peabody Award for Lear, “for giving us comedy with a social conscience.” (He received a second Peabody in 2016 for his career achievements.)’

Norman Lear, thank you for everything you’ve done. RIP.

Norman Lear, TV Legend, Dies at 101

Norman Lear, who revolutionized American comedy with popular early-‘70s sitcoms “All in the Family” and “Sanford and Son,” has died. He was

[evilwigga]

One of the greatest scenes from one of the greatest shows.

[dovebuffy92]

My Top Ten Favorite Sitcoms

This list is made up of three American sitcoms, two Canadian sitcoms & five British sitcoms. Also this is not in any particular order.

1. The Thick Of It

2. Kim’s Convenience

3. Schitt’s Creek

4. Outnumbered

5. Derry Girls

6. The Royle Family

7. Ghosts (British One)

8. The Partridge Family

9. Abbott Elementary

10. Parks and Recreation

[sakuracreationz]

Last one tho lol

PS. I love such threads

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A5DStx2QWY&ab_channel=love%2Cebba

[leam1983]

On Bilingual Bonuses

"Blorbo from my shows" sounds like a typically secular, Tumblrite construct, but it happens to remind me of something my mother and grandmother used to employ in order to refer to their favourite audience hooks in the local sitcom dubs. "Les filles de mes programmes", or "The girls from my programs", where "program" refers to a TV show.

Think about it: you spend an afternoon hoovering in dubs for The Young and the Restless, Melrose Place, Beverley Hills 90210, Models Inc. 90210, Dynasty, Santa Barbara, with all of them using the same stylistic guide, all of them framing dialogues in the same way, all of them using similar dramatic stings to underline a reveal or a plot twist. How long is it before everything blends together and you start wondering if Stacey knows who RJ Ewing is and if Sarah is aware that Steve is banging her clone?

Mom and Grandma had their Blorbos when I was a kid, some of them sharing the same dub VA over several years apart. Add to that the fact that I was a barely-fluent French Canadian kid who only paid cursory attention to the whole thing, and the whole stretch between 3 and 6 PM seemed populated by a legion of Glup Shittos to me - one of which is wearing what I didn't know to be a ten-gallon hat at the time.

Seeing how often dramatic deaths shook things up, you can only assume that Eeby Deeby and Super Hell both fought for rights over Loving's Stacey Forbes...