Thread 211782725

What happened to all the comfy sitcoms like The Office, Scrubs, 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, Community.

Where'd they all go?

>>211782725 (OP)
Replaced by humorless unfunny garbage like b99, superstore, schitts creek, nora from queens, one day at a time and abott elementary.

>>211782762
Brooklyn Nine Nine reminds me of 90s diverse group of friends mascots.

>>211782725 (OP)
>Jenna Fischer

>>211782935
Downgrade.

>>211782847
Lel.
What a blast of nostalgia

>>211782957
Actually, I take it back.

>>211782935
These are hilarious but I wonder what it's like in real life. Krasinski has been in several big movies since, I haven't seen her in anything after the office finished.

>>211782725 (OP)
Normalfaggots realized that working in an Office environment actually sucks and so the illusion was shattered.

>>211782725 (OP)
They still exist, they're just deriative shit. Ripping off Brooklyn 99, which ripped off Parks and Rec which ripped off the Office.

>>211783014
You mean to tell me that Americans unironically thought office life was going to be like that?
What a bunch of retards.

>>211782991
She had cancer bro, I mean at least she isn't turbobogging by choice like Blunt is.

>>211783066
>Believes that's actually the reason why
>Calls anyone else a retard

Absolute burgerbrained moron.

>>211782725 (OP)
What's crazy the first episode of the office aired less than one year after the last episode of friends

Rashida was always the superior choice, but when you factor in her mother's amazing genes and her father's billions of dollars it's a no-brainer. She would just need a few beatings to get the feminism out of her and it would be golden having her as a wife.

Greg Daniels is making a new one right now

>>211782725 (OP)
>>211783066
all this office sitcom shit was made by snarky ivy league millennial theatre kids

>>211782935
Classic
I choose to believe

>>211783092
I didn't realise that's why she's like that in the pic, didn't mean to be an asshole.

>>211782725 (OP)
The Office (US) – 9 seasons (2005–2013)

Scrubs – 9 seasons (2001–2010) (Note: Season 9 is often considered a soft reboot or spinoff)

30 Rock – 7 seasons (2006–2013)

Parks and Recreation – 7 seasons (2009–2015)

Community – 6 seasons (2009–2015) (Last season aired on Yahoo! Screen)

>>211783256
>all these ended 10 or more years ago
>they all stopped being good over 10 years ago
Fucking hell.

>>211783252
It's all god bro, we're on 4chan being an asshole is pre requisite lel.

You need a monoculture to make comedy and that doesn't exist any more. I watched Norsemen and it shocked me how many of the jokes were simply centered around them BEING Norwegian and acting Norwegian. Americans do not have that.

>>211783222
It was made by tone-deaf Yankee retards who adapted a cynical UK office show by taking away all the cynicism because Yankees are manchildren who can't deal with harsh themes in media

They keep trying to recreate them, actually. There's some slop set in a hospital that's trying to be a nu-Office. I forget the name but it looks shitty.

I'm fine with rewatching 30 Rock forever instead of new stuff.

>>211783377
reminder that the UK show was very divisive in the UK itself for being genuinely dry and boring even by our standards and trying to reframe it like it was some perfect little hidden gem we all love is retarded revisionism

>>211783392
Abott elementary is basically the office but in LE SCHOOL

>>211782725 (OP)
They all fucking sucked so they disappeared.

>>211782725 (OP)
everything is catered to Indians and Mexicans audiences now.
that's why comedy movies disappeared.
then Hollywood only hired woke writers and they can't do offensive humor.
then women got into power in Hollywood and they don't like offensive comedy

>>211783377
your shitty boring UK office only got 2 seasons.
american office blew past that

>>211783451
never once have I ever watched an american show and ever felt it had an Indian audience in mind. This is just terminally online nonsense.

>>211783451
Possibly the dumbest post I've read on this shithole of a website

>>211782935
What a shit LARP. 99.9% of this is easily proven false, and the lazy faggot didn't even change his (actually it sounds like a woman writing her headcanon) writing style for the "can confirm" post. I make shit up about celebrities on here to troll you fucking retards all the time and I do it a thousand times better than this. If you fell for that rookie trash you're a total dumbass. Get good niggers. Disgusting, shameful display, take a lap.

>>211783222
It was made by gen x former-Simpsons writers

>>211783392
>30 Rock

That show is Cheers/Frasier tier rewatchable and funny. An absolute gem and it blows shows like Office and Parks, both of which I enjoyed as they aired, out of the water on rewatch. Multiple viewings of 30 Rock and you will still find new things you missed that make you laugh, and it's also good to play in the background while you do other things. That's rare.

>>211783512
Dude it's obviously fake and that's WHY it's funny. Genuinely lurk moar if you don't get the joke.

>>211783613
>I was only pretending to be retarded

Take your own advice. Low effort GARBAGE and it's not funny at all. Take five more laps, you sicken me.

>>211783653
I think it's funny because it starts off with an air of believability and then devolves into a hilariously complex comedy skit about stalking while keeping the framework.

>>211783605
30 Rock really is one of the best. I've been quoting it for years. Also as an insane woman enjoyer, Jenna is great.
The Office and Parks both always felt to me like if you took a regular sitcom and muted the studio audience. Characters saying or doing things kind of odd and then everyone sits in silence for a few seconds staring at them.

>>211783605
Oh, real-o? I meant to say 'really'. I misspoke. Continue.

>>211783412
Abbott Elementary is just bizarre. At times, it almost feels like it should be watchable, but there's just something so incredibly off about it. The way it actually falls short of ever being funny or getting any bit of outrageous with its concept.

Maybe it's because they're so committed to seemingly dipping their toes into the risque and illicit that you see in a lot of other shows of this format, but gladly choke-chains itself and stops right as things are about to build up, in order to have an otherwise very safe show. Like even something as addicted to being positive and quirky as later-seasons Parks and Rec still had more teeth than this shit.

I guess the IASIP episode really highlighted the weirdest bits, since the writers were so afraid of having The Gang actually act like themselves, and Quinta Brunson joked in interviews about how the kind of person that watches Abbott shouldn't watch IASIP, but at the same time, they wanted to show the cast of Abbott being both better people but also more hardcore than The Gang. Makes it all extra empty and fake

>>211783693
Did a rewatch last year and it's hard to believe what they got away with
>Liz: Wow, Avery Jessup. She's hot. She was on Maxim's 'I'd Rape That' 100."
>Jack: I know.

>>211783605
For me it's gotta be Black Frasier when it was airing on BET around 9 or 9:15.

>>211783741
>positive and quirky as later-seasons Parks and Rec
because the positivity was contrasted with how malicious Pawnee and some of the people in it were. Like Leslie getting her wedding ruined by Jamm or the city straight up recalling her and she ends up having a breakdown. They were willing to punish their characters

>>211783736
I love that shit. Tina Fey is an honorary male because she is funny as fuck.

>>211783854
She's mildly funny sometimes.

>>211783885
Your ability to hide your true feelings is part of your great strength!

>>211783772
Those ice cream saps'll rue the day they ever tangled with The Best Friends Gang.

>>211783785
Yeah yeah. That's what I'm referring to when I say that "it still had more teeth than this," because even a show like that would still allow the negative streaks that remained in it actually be as such. In Abbott, it's just all so hollow, especially since they want to push characters as being incredibly eccentric or having ties to the mob, and get into some out-there and illicit shit on the side, but never want anything actually negative to happen in the show even when leaving the school's campus.

>>211783767
Tracy talking about the Black Crusaders and how they meet in the Statue of Liberty's skull four times a year to decide which black famous person to take out and then having a bunch of the jokes actually be real stuff they knew because they were in the famous people circles is still one of the most ballsiest things ever aired on network TV. They made it just silly enough to not end in a gorillion dollar lawsuit or have NBC try to neuter their golden award winning goose, ratings notwithstanding. It feels good that the show got to run as long as it did even though the ratings weren't the best because they won so many awards and now it's super popular with people watching it for the first time. Last I knew it was second to only The Office on the scale of most watched sitcoms in the world on streaming.

>>211783772
Making a BPT joke on one of the big three networks during primetime must see TV NBC type hours took some major nuts and I think they only got away with it because the average person watching had no idea what it meant.

WEREWOLF BAR MITZVAH, SPOOKY SCARY, BOYS BECOMING MEN, MEN BECOMING WOLVES!

>>211784191
That's crazy, a man named Ilia. That's a giraffe's name.

>>211782762
The Rookie is funny...

>>211782725 (OP)
Community stunk
Parks and Rec crashed hard midway thru
Basically it was all Obama's fault

>>211784092
If most people weren't aware of what it was, it wouldn't have taken much nuts then to poke fun of it, right?

>people actually like mockumentary shit
things I'll never understand

>>211784374
Parks and Rec sucked Michelle Obama's dick.

>>211783451
It started getting bad earlier than Indians mattering, though that's a factor
Mainly it's "woke", you can't have a relaxing comedy TV show when all the writers are neurotic communists or walking on eggshells
Also I blame marijuana, a drug that makes unfunny things seem funny can only be bad for comedy

>>211784419
so did Barack, yet nobody complains

>>211784419
Parks and Rec was a great idea for a sitcom but as soon as they perfected it (season 3) they decided to turn it into Hilary Clinton fanfic

>>211783512
everyone knows it's fake and if you don't realize that, you're most definitely too low iq to write fake stories people actually enjoy. just some delusional midwit

>>211784454
>>211784439
good one

>>211784380
Nah, because the people that did get it could have very easily been turbo offended and complained. You can see it now with 30 Rock episodes being taken off streaming by NBC Universal due to absolute retarded reasons. Don't forget to download the full unedited seasons including both versions of the live episodes and watch them on your own private server or app like PLEX/Jellyfin and don't give Universal or any of the other companies that are trying to censor their old shows a cent folks.

>>211783767
>I turned down sex with Harvey Weinstein on no less than three occasions

>>211784460
Wrong. Morons here ate up the fake Jenna stories at that time and thought they were real newfaggot. You're too stupid to be in my dojo. Go outside and take ten laps. Also you will refer to me as Sensei from now on.

>>211784525
>Pete, a word? Jenna's dead.
>I don't feel anything. What's wrong with me?

>>211784460
>everyone knows it's fake
thats not true at all and you are either overestimating the average intelligence of people posting here or you're being willfully ignorant so either way rope faggot

>>211784593
Incredible levels of butthurt on display here. Typical retard who thought he was smarter than everyone else.

>>211784550
Ah, you're just shitposting too. Well carry on then

>>211782762
Never seen the last 3,but Brooklyn Nine Nine and Superstore are fucking hilarious and I loved watching both those shows with my sister. Great memories watching them and Parks and Rec with her

Schitts Creek was alright. Nothing special

>>211784419
To be fair Parks and Rec tried to at least generously caricaturize a right leaning person (Swanson) despite it being obviously a jab at libertarianism. No sitcom nowadays would give that benefit to the other side of the political spectrum anymore.

>>211784593
>overestimating intelligence
every pseud faggot like you gets really upset when people don't consider their basic bitch observations to be some profound intellectual feat

>>211784606
your terrible fanfiction was awful and you're a fat ugly whore who reposted it's own trash and you really should kill yourself because you are about as funny as a baby's funeral

This is what I'm talking about. Netflix could easily produce cheap content like sitcoms and pound out the episodes, drawing in huge subscribers and keeping them subscribed. Instead they make one season of a show that costs $200 million and then takes four years to make season two

>>211784621
1. Refer to me as Sensei or you will pay the price. 2. I'm only half shitposting and the mongoloids here actually believed that trash to the point they were contacting her on social media about it and a few of them got doxed for it because they used their zero opsec socials while she had no idea what any of them were talking about. If you don't believe me check the archive newfriend.

>>211784648
>Schitts Creek was alright.
I've tried to get into it because the concept sounds just up my alley. I liked Bless This Mess, for instance, and wish it had gotten more seasons. But with Schitt's Creek I just feel like they go full retard too often. And by that I mean the characters just aren't believably stupid, they're TOO stupid or socially inept. Does it get better beyond season 1?

I have the same problem with Wellington Paranormal. With What We Do In The Shadows it makes sense that the characters are idiots because the idiocy comes from them being vampires who have refused to move with the times. But in WP we're just following regular people who are so incredibly retarded that not even the police would hire them. They've gone full retard.

>>211784687
and every total retard like you gets butthurt as fuck when it's pointed out what a moron you really are

>>211783512
Ok boomer

>>211784776
I agree about Wellington Paranormal. I had such high hopes for that show when I heard who made it and it was just an absolute chore to watch even the first season and I deleted it.

Take ze Modern Family pill

>>211784694
Netflix can't make a show that goes on for more than three seasons because after three seasons the actors get to redo their contracts and if it's a successful sitcom they'd want too much money for all the hours spent shooting episodes. No one is getting invested in a sitcom that only lasts two or three seasons at most.

>>211784813
That's Sensei Boomer to you broccoli head.

>>211782725 (OP)
I can think of three reasons off the top of my head
1.) internet humor has taken over. Young people get their laughs from TikTok and Twitter. Older audiences rewatch old sitcoms on repeat.
2.) Woke culture may be dying, but networks are still afraid of making fun of someone in a protected group, which is now over 90% of the population.
3.) Shows are now made for a global audience and comedy is dependent on the norms of the country it was made in. What may be a funny faux-pas in one culture, is totally normal is another

>>211784776
>Does it get better beyond season 1?
I mean I don't even remember how the show ends for most characters

What We Do in the Shadows would have been a great show I could watch with my sister but we have different schedules now and haven't watched any shows with her in a couple of years. Getting older sucks bros

>>211784015
That’s also what the media did with the Q-Anon stuff. They took real things that were happening in Hollywood and Washington, and mixed it in with enough batshit conspiracy theory that nobody would believe any of it.
>OH WHAT, YOU THINK WE’RE ALL GETTING TOGETHER TO SACRIFICE CHILDREN AND DRINK THEIR BLOOD FROM A 2,000 YEAR OLD SKULL? IS THAT WHAT YOU THINK IS HAPENING?

>>211783156
That looks like a comfy cast, is the film any good?

>>211782725 (OP)
Comfy my ass faggot

Fuck you and your retard tv shows
This is the reason why no one ever likes you
You are retarted as fuck

>>211782725 (OP)
The predominance of streaming services has marginalized the episodic sitcom format.

>>211785188
At least you had a cool sister to watch shows with bro. I'm an only child and all of my friends are married and doing their own shit and when I do hang out with them and we watch something they're a wet blanket or their harpy cunt wife comes along with them and gets mad at making jokes about a total piece of shit movie and I have to act like I don't want to kill her with a knife while my downtrodden buddy looks at me apologetically because he doesn't want to lose half his shit.

>>211785346
>retarted

There was an attempt.

>>211784825
Even popular shows like Stranger Things only get 5 seasons because they’re so expensive and take so long to produce. We’re never going back to the days of 200 episode monster of the week shows like X-Files, Buffy or Supernatural. There’s no longer a syndication model so networks don’t want to fund them.

>>211785646
>xfiles
>117 episodes over 4 years

>stranger things
>34 episodes over 9 years

It's ridiculous. Everyone's obsessed with premium tv and we'll never get another Office or Simpsons or X-Files

>>211783487
>>211783475
sar good morning sar

>>211784575
As an aside, Pete just being casually suicidal was one of the funniest bits for me. I can't remember the context but there's a scene where I think Liz says something like "maybe we'll be dead tomorrow" and he just wistfully goes "that would be great"

>>211785841
It’s even worse because X-Files still had high production values on a weekly TV budget. Every episode used different sets and guest actors. There were stunts and explosions, complex makeup and camera work. And they still managed to keep the budget fair because it brought in massive ad revenue.

>>211782762
abbott elementary is just always sunny but in a school

>>211786013
>>211785841
The saddest part is we'll never get anything with the soul of X-Files simply because they'd never "waste time" by shooting outside like that again. So many times they're out somewhere and there's a drizzle or you can see rain clouds on the horizon but that's not part of the episode itself, it's just the natural state of things. Sometimes you're going to stand around and be wet and a little cold without it being a huge plot point. These days you only get rain if the episode calls for rain and most of the time they CGI it because they're shooting on a set instead of outside. If there's a storm cloud on the horizon then the episode is going to revolve around a big storm causing problems. It makes everything look and feel too sterile when the sky is always perfect and there's never a windy or drizzly day.

>>211786045
What the fuck is Abbot Elementary and why are you guys talking about it? I've legitimately never heard of it before this thread. I just googled it and it's looks very negro filled. I'm gonna pass on that shit I think, it seems like DEI garbage.

>>211786131
>here's your set, bro

>>211786236
It’s a workplace sitcom set in a Philadelphia school. The MC is basically black Leslie Knope. From what I’ve seen, it’s another example of Hollywood acknowledging a problem (schools are underfunded and teachers are overworked), without offering insight to the cause of the problem.

>>211784293
The rookie isn't a comedy. At least not intentionally.
>>211786045
Lol. Not at all. It's too sterile to be always sunny. It's more like the office but in a school.

>>211783407
It's better than a saccarine show filled with charicatures that retards flock to
>>211783470
>DURRRRR, my lowest common denominator dogshit is bettur becus...uh...it last longurrr
Tard

Whatever happened to predictability?

>>211782725 (OP)
Who the hell would chose that frumpy foid on the right instead of Rashida Jones??

>>211788200
Because he's a character in a shitty TV show.

>>211786552
>without offering insight to the cause of the problem.
what's the cause of the problem?

>>211788538
People of recent and predominant Sub-Saharan African descent, are intellectually deficient.

>>211786236
It's mockumentary slop. It's fucking terrible.

>>211789078
sure, but public schooling even in predominantly white areas are still underfunded and have pozzed curriculums. i didn't have a single black kid in my schools and teachers were still shit and having to pay for their own materials.

>>211782725 (OP)
1)move away from straight comedies to more dramedy/action comedy. While those have always existed within sitcoms they were never the main focus of the sitcoms
2)move to streaming has hurt in a couple of ways. Shorter seasons and binging. All the shows you listed are 20+ episodes a season (it’s considered a shortened season of less than 20). That’s half a year of watching an episode every week. Now you are lucky to get a 12 episode season that most people knock out in two weeks if they are busy. Even good comedies don’t have the staying power.
3)any broadcast comedies now are made for lowest common denominator. So little chance at a quality show making it to CBS/NBC/ABC/FOX

>>211782725 (OP)
Krasinski has never been good. Jewish "nice guy".

>>211786552
>schools are underfunded and teachers are overworked
Both of those things are false

>>211782991
I thought they made her look extra dowdy for the sake of the show as a girl next door thing, but it turns out that's just her natural style.

>>211782935
Sounds like bs but I'd believe it

>>211789278
Why pay the teachers more if they are shit?

>>211782725 (OP)
gotta have a LOT of diversity now adays and we know blacks don't work

>>211782725 (OP)
The Office and Parks and Rec destroyed the mockumentary forever

>Be Jenna Fischer
>have huge crush on Jim's actor
>stalk him all the time
>he starts dating some Stacey
>creep up to his trailer, hear them having sex
>Shes REALLY enjoying it, hear her moaning
>finally she starts getting vocal
>OI GOV'NAH ROGAH ME VITTALS GOOD INNINT?
>BANGERS ME MASH WILL YA? IM ABOUT TO GOZZLE DOWN!!!!

>>211783741
>the fat ugly negress is desired by the chad

>>211785841
>premium
IT'S SCHLOCK!

>>211786552
>>211786236
>teachers are overworked
They work 160-170 8 hour hour work days a year where the average person works 230-250

They aren't overworked, theres a reason most teachers are women - it's an easy job and they get to feel power over telling people what to do

>>211782725 (OP)
How americans grew racist having all those shows?
These days, people value more intense feeling than feeling comfy watching some comedy

>>211783470
This. Fuck UK Office. Nobody gives a shit about Ricky Gervais other than reddit atheists

>>211782725 (OP)
rashida > fischer > blunt

>>211782725 (OP)
Because Americans can't make funny shows without resorting to racism, sexism or homophobia

streaming killed it

rick and morty also contributed since everything now had to have "lore"

>>211793632
also he looked super gay and copied david bowie
https://youtu.be/ABjYSxyUD98?t=26

>>211794104
That's very antisemitic

>>211782725 (OP)
All of these titles are just mid filler content that you just happened to have watched at the right time of your early life so you have nostalgia for them truly none of them are special or different in any way.


I’m not saying they arnt funny. There are funny parts in all of them, some more some less.

But yeah the comfy bullshit is just your naustigia from highschool.

>>211782725 (OP)
Most sitcoms were generic formulaic filler. For every Office or Seinfeld you had forgettable dogshit like Becker or According to Jim or Yes Dear that ran for years to pad out the schedule.

>>211794640
those types of shows were comfy in their own way. they felt familiar and you could turn your brain off.

theres something nice about being able to just flip on the tv, zone out, watch something where theres no surprises, and have that laugh track as background noise

>>211792380
and has "several men in rotation"
really predicted modern women

>>211789891
yeah, listen to the expert on the matter you guys. I think he goes by 'Faggot from /tv/'

>>211794640
Kek i fucking hated Becker back in the day

>>211782725 (OP)
Night Court is my guilty pleasure. Requires absolutely zero concentration. Is moderately amusing. Never even saw the original

>>211794640
the generic sitcoms are actually the comfiest of all

>>211784694
Netflix do make cheap sitcoms. You just haven't heard of them because you don't have netflix and don't go looking for them

>>211795400
yeah becker was a bit different from the "fat retard dad hot wife" formula, it was more "misanthrope bitches about everything". he should have picked another example.

>>211782725 (OP)
Next to Seinfeld, I think office has to be the second best most-recognized sitcom in the world. The rest of those shows, scrubs for example, I know they were somewhat popular and are favorited here but idk why 30 rock P&R and Community are in the same sentence. that's for soccer moms and midwit stoner thinks the riffs in community are peak comedy.

>>211782725 (OP)
Nothing beats NewsRadio and Spin City when it comes to comfy kino

>>211782725 (OP)
hot take: they were all shit

>>211783092
She can't even afford to turbobog, shes a fucking loser

>>211783605
Ive been watching clips since YouTube suggested a 30 Rock clip of Jennifer Aniston posing with her feet out.

>>211784776
nah, Schitt's Creek never really gets better. But it's also not like offensively bad. It's a quintessential example of "heartwarming 'comedy'" where it's not really laugh-out-loud funny. The characters are put in mildly amusing situations, but nothing is truly hilarious, and everything generally works out positively by the end. I wouldn't recommend it but I also wouldn't recommend against it. It's just... there. The only truly bad thing about it was the forced fag shit with the son and the store owner in the later seasons

>>211795400
OK, Butters.

>>211796024
Friends is bigger than Seinfeld and Office globally
I live in France. Friends is much more relevant, Seinfeld is niche especially here. Too American and East Coast, Friends can be more universal

>>211788200
Pam is hotter, not a "career" women and White. You are spiritually brown if you preferred Karen.

>>211782725 (OP)
wasn't sexy enough for modern zoomer audiences

>>211797621
Yeah that's why Pam quits working at the office becomes a stay at home mom and not a salesman. Oh wait...

>>211798047
It's a cushy job working with her husband with normal hours, Karen was trying to latter climb in a shitty paper job.

>>211797841
real is better

>>211798727
which way young man? 4k fakes or 240p reals

>>211798874
blurry reals because the fakes never look quite right

>>211799021
my nigga that deepfried screenshot doesnt look quite right either. different generations w their visual biases maybe. assuming youre 35+

>>211798182
Being a salesman in a startup when you have a shit product and no personality or skills isnt cushy, it's retarded.

>>211799225
>assuming youre 35+
h-how did you know

>>211794640
Even generic sitcoms from back then are still better than the drek being produced today.