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Frasier Reboot

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by Orange_and_Bluke, Aug 23, 2023.

  1. cocodrilo

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    Never watched the old Frazier. Never been a fan of sitcoms. Actually I'm living in one (we all are), and it isn't funny either. Even a laugh track wouldn't help.
     
  2. citygator

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    meh. Cheers was great. Frazier I caught sporadically and it was ok - It had super high ratings as I see below in a really good era for TV too.

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  3. cocodrilo

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    I faithfully watched I Love Lucy, but I was just a kid. I thought Lucy always making fun of Ricky's English was really funny. Some immigrant trying to use our language!
     
  4. Orange_and_Bluke

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  5. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Cheers was child’s play compared to Frasier.
    Someone told me the Brit’s seemed to enjoy frasier as well. The show and it’s dialogue was often very witty.
     
  6. StrangeGator

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    Loved sitcoms for most of my life but so much of the stuff I laughed at years ago seems insipid. TV comedy didn't really evolve with the times, except on late night shows. The edgy, pitch black comedy that's popular now is finally catching up with the reality of the world. What I'd like to see is a reboot of a really wholesome, really lame sit-com set in the present with profanity, nudity, sex and all manner of disfunction and debauchery, but each episode ends with a the family having a group hug.
     
  7. cocodrilo

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    I thought "The Andy Griffith Show" was pretty funny, but only because of Barney Fife, who should have had his own series.

    More recently, I thought the series "My Name Is Earl" was funny. The producers obviously agreed, choosing not to inflict its viewers with a laugh track. (Sitcom producers and actors must feel some contempt for their viewers. When filming an episode, the actors have to pause after every "funny" line, to allow for the insertion of canned laughter.)
     
  8. Orange_and_Bluke

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    IOW…You want to mix the new Bill Cosby with the old Cosby show?
     
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  9. wgbgator

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    The Cosby Show, but Bill Cosby IRL there's some dark comedy for ya

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  10. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Exactly. He wanted the debauchery of modern times with good wholesome family in a sitcom.
     
  11. wgbgator

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    They already did that anyways, it was called How I Met Your Mother, Bob Sagat even narrated

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  12. cocodrilo

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    I'd like to see them do a Gunsmoke reboot, with Kitty running a whorehouse, and Doc keeping Marshal Dillon high on drugs while trying to cure his syphilis.
     
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  13. gatorchamps960608

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    You'd be about the only one. The western genre is deader than a doornail.
     
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  14. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Frasier just might still have it.
     
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  15. wgbgator

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    He's more casually dressed, might be losing it or becoming his dad
     
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  16. Orange_and_Bluke

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    By it I meant acting. And also yea, he is probably going to resemble some of his pretentious side mixed with his dad Martins predilections.
    Drinking beer is weird for Frasier, in Seattle it was a rare occurrence.
    Looks decent at first glance.
     
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  17. wgbgator

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    I just noticed they had him in a lot of shirt jackets (and what looked like dress sneakers), much more LL Bean than Armani. Of course he was mad about his son wearing jeans too. Interesting choices all around.
     
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  18. tilly

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    Was. Was deader than a doornail.
    Yellowstone, 1883, 1923 etc are bringing it back.
     
  19. GatorGrowl

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    Sustainable I don't know but in the sixties Green acres. Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction shared a host of characters and roles, Sam Drucker, Pearl Bodine, Uncle Joe, and Arnold the pig.

    Mary Tyler Moore and Rhoda and Phyliss
     
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  20. dynogator

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    I loved Petticoat Junction! I had their coloring book.