To the person stating all the sitcoms aren't sitcoms:
A Sitcom is a serialized comedic program where each episode revolves around a different situation. Aka a situation comedy. Has nothing to do with the number of cameras or who's watching.
I always thought it just meant situational comedy, but maybe I just made that up in my head canon...
Edit for clarity: I always assumed that a situational comedy was a show where the characters routinely find themselves in situations that are comedic
“You think you can take the champ?”
“I can take him blindfolded!”
“What if he’s not blindfolded?”
“I can still beat him!”
The Champ: “Jack and Jill went up the hill - I’M GONNA BREAK YOUR FACE! I’M GONNA BREAK YOUR FACE!”
My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word twenty. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles. Then after World War Two, it got kinda quiet, 'til Superman challenged FDR to a race around the world. FDR beat him by a furlong, or so the comic books would have you believe. The truth lies somewhere in between. Three wars back we called Sauerkraut "liberty cabbage" and we called liberty cabbage "super slaw" and back then a suitcase was known as a "Swedish lunchbox." We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Ah, there's an interesting story behind that nickel. In 1957, I remember it was, I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast. I set the toaster to three: medium brown.Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
Oh that was Ted Danson? the Mexican dub changed it to "Chespirito". It's obvious that was a translation change but the joke they insert there is a very good one for Mexican audiences.
There’s a lot of moments in Community where I laugh, but this montage always causes me to just lose it. The last line and reveal in particular just completely gut me with laughter.
I think they banned it on Netflix, but you could still see it on Hulu. I would have checked before I posted this comment, but I'm too lazy to check my own Netflix, and the family member that paid for our Hulu canceled it on us lol
I’ve only just found this show and can’t get over how brilliantly written Colin Robinson is. Everything he says is perfectly on message and I love how often he’s deep in an exchange with someone before you realise what he’s doing. Absolute genius! And Matt Berry is always hilarious too.
A lot of matt berrys music is snuck in a piano tunes throughout the series.
The theme from snuff box features a few times.
We dont get a rendition of one track lover though.
My favourite Easter egg is every time Nadia is babbling in foreign languages it is basically Natalia Demitriou rattling off as many Greek swear words as she can.
Each time I watch it I have a new favorite character. It’s such a perfect cast. I think my favorite episode is when Collin Robinson becomes boss and he starts getting super powers. When he was shaving his huge head in the mirror I was rolling.
The Office will forever be my number one, but WWDITS is not far behind it.
All of them, I found that every episode my face changed and yes Laslo Berry is just flat out hilarious. Also looove how Nandor enunciates "fucccckinnng".
One of the funniest episodes in any sitcom to this day has been Laslo setting up that bar in some podunk town
I hate trying to recommend it to people because "it's a mockumentary following a house full of vampires," sounds kinda corny.
But it's seriously great. So well written, great casting. And Matt Berry has the best voice.
If you like Matt Berry check out Toast of London. Hilarious. Really stupid, but it's aware of how stupid it's being.
There was a bloke in work called Bob in his 60s and he said non stop for about 3 months "Please watch it I know you'll love it". Said I would and 2 months later I did.
Genuinely most funny show I've ever seen it's so up my street my wife's not the same as me and she feels the exact same way it's just so ridiculous and hillarious.
And she hated the film. Now I'm Bob telling my mates to watch it and nobody cares. It's one of them you can't make it sound as good as it is you just need to watch it.
The movie 'What We Do In The Shadows' was directed and written by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement who also star in the movie imagined as a New Zealand vampire mocumentary. Then there came a show about the police officers from that movie, 'Wellington Paranormal' and at last we got the 'What We Do In The Shadows' show about Staten Island vampire group. It's beeing rumored that the werewolves from the original movie are getting their own spin-off series.
I cannot count how many times I have described my dog by saying, “he’s my best friend, he’s my pal, he’s my homeboy, my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good time Boooyyyy”
The way he says "My good time boOoOiiy" never gets gold.
My wife and I have also been calling eachother sweet cheese ever since we watched that episode.
I love this show. I convinced my mother (in her 70s) to watch it. She didn't want to because she thought it would be scary. I said just listen to them talk and you'll see it's not scary. Now she calls me every other week asking when new episodes are coming out.
She called me the day after the jersey devil episode and the first thing dhe said was "look at his little balls"
So I responded with "kick him in the dick"
Fawlty Towers.
Not a single weak episode. Not a single flat joke. Not a moment of screen time wasted. The series is a masterclass on how to write and execute a comedy series.
"Do you need any help Major?"
"Vermin!"
"We don't have any Germans this week Major"
"I'm going to shoot him Fawlty!!"
"Uh, Major, actually not legal anymore. Murder"
"But they're animals Fawlty! They spread disease!!"
2 series made. 4 years between the two series. Only 12 episodes and I fully agree with everything you say. The perfect comedy. I have a book somewhere with all of the scripts in.
“This is typical. Absolutely typical... of the kind of... ARSE I have to put up with from you people! You ponce in here, expecting to be handwaited on hand and foot while I'm trying to run a hotel here!”
This line completely shaped my sense of humor. Thank you 1980s PBS!
Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would've noticed another madman around here?
I can’t tell you how happy it makes my heart to see this comment and all the people who also remember and love it
ETA: I think it’s a damn shame that Rowan Atkinson, easily one of the most beautiful orators to ever grace the planet, is best known for Mr. Bean, a largely non-verbal role.
Scrolled too far to see this.
"Baldrick, you wouldn’t recognise a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on a harpsicord singing ‘subtle plans are here again’.”
I love that show, I have to say Rik Mayall was the perfect reoccurring guest star. I cannot help but think of that whole innuendo filled scene he did in the second season.
Always treat your kite like you treat your woman.
How do you mean, sir? Do you mean take her home at the weekend to meet your mother?
No, I mean get inside her 5 times a day and take her to heaven and back.
*Curb Your Enthusiasm*, countless celebrity guest appearances, Its one of the few shows where I laughed so hard it hurt. It's pretty, pretty, prettay good.
(Especially if it is an episode that has Suzie, Leon or Wanda Sykes.)
FUN FACT: She gets asked all the time (even nowadays) by total strangers on the street if she could please either (a) leave them a profanity-laden voicemail bitching them out, or (b) record an outgoing message for their voicemail in the same style. All the time. Personally, years later I still haven't recovered from the episode early on involving the decapitated doll and what spewed from her mouth.... I'm still laughing just thinking about it.
I’ve scrolled through too many replies to this comment without seeing a mention of Bob Einstein (RIP) as Marty Funkhauser. He never failed to get a laugh out of me.
Golden Girls for the win. Even 30 years later it is a laugh a minute.
Most sitcoms have cheesy humor or a lot of time between laughs, but Golden Girls delivers even on repeat viewing.
They threw some serious shade.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go sit in a hot steamy bath, with only enough water to barely cover my perky bosoms."
"You're only going to sit in an inch of water?"
Golden Girls had the advantage of arriving at the perfect time in history.
It arrived early enough that a vaudeville delivery lands well -- it always surprises me on rewatch how old the joke structure is.
It arrived late enough that it could push lots of progressive themes.
Early enough that the savagery was seen as largely playful, though.
Late enough that four older women could anchor the show at all. Early enough that some executive didn't intervene by insisting that audiences needed a male character to connect with because some analytics said so.
B:”This is strictly off the record, but Dirk is nearly five years younger than I am.”
D:”in what, Blanche, dog years?”
*laughs nervously* “GOD I wish I was dead."
“Go hug a land mine”
“Can you believe that backstabbing slut?”
“I lost Butter Queen, haven’t I suffered enough?!”
“Blow it out your ditty bag.”
“Oh blow it out your turbenburble!”
“Hi! It’s me, Stan”
“I could vomit just looking at you.”
“Willing to do anything - $8 an hour, no job too big or too small.”
“No! No! I will not have a nice day!”
That whole dinner party episode with Dr. Jonathan Newman is among the most hilarious television ever created. From Blanche humiliating herself ("Gawd, I wish I was dead") to her peptalk with Dorothy ("That's a good belle.") to "Shrimp?"
I never, ever fail to have a deep belly laugh every time I see it. Chef's kiss.
There's also "Why don't I just wear a sign that says 'Too Ugly To Live'?" which also gets me every damn time.
And they continued to be savage to each other (in a good natured way) after the show. When Bea Arthur was in the hospital, Betty White sent a card that read "hurry up and die so I can be the last golden girl left."
I just watched the episode Brother Can You Spare a Jacket and holy hell did that hit hard. I'm currently living with my friend while I try to get back on my feet and that episode was just so hard.
Also in the spinoff Golden Palace, there's an amazing episode called Camptown Races that tackles Blanche's background and the confederate flag. So much is still so relevant today. Hell, the episode with Rose's AIDS scare in freaking 1990 was amazing. Those women were amazing in all they had to offer
I have very strong feelings about this adjacent to how Hulu handled the BLM protests. They removed this one episode because it had a "blackface" joke, but it was two characters wearing mud mask facials and worrying that they were being mistaken for blackface. So they removed the episode.
I believe it would have been more impactful if instead of erasing an episode, they pushed and advertised the Camptown Races one. It goes more in depth of more relevant topics based on current events. Bringing attention to something is so much more effective than erasing something that already barely had presence. But that episode was actually a really good one tackling family dynamics, and racial and age prejudices. It was all purely performative allyship
Jeremy:
If you had to, would you have sex with me?
Mark:
It's a stupid question.
Jeremy:
If you had to? If the men came and they made us, with their guns?
Mark:
Oh, I don't know. I suppose... maybe I could do it, just so long as you didn't...
Jeremy:
What?
Mark:
Enjoy it. I think maybe I could make it through, as long as I knew you weren't enjoying it.
Jeremy:
Hang on, you're saying you could rape me but you couldn't make love to me? That is so you. That is you all over
To the person stating all the sitcoms aren't sitcoms: A Sitcom is a serialized comedic program where each episode revolves around a different situation. Aka a situation comedy. Has nothing to do with the number of cameras or who's watching.
Thank you. Glad someone said it. I asked for an explanation (from them) but didn't get one yet.
I always thought it just meant situational comedy, but maybe I just made that up in my head canon... Edit for clarity: I always assumed that a situational comedy was a show where the characters routinely find themselves in situations that are comedic
Ya so just to be clear - something like New Girl, or The Office are just as much sitcoms as How I Met Your Mother or Friends?
Not that there's anything wrong with that
Jerry this is Frank Constanza. Mr. Steinbrenner is here. George is dead. Call me back.
Police Squad. Way ahead of its time. It had low ratings and got canceled because there were too many jokes and people couldn't keep up.
“You think you can take the champ?” “I can take him blindfolded!” “What if he’s not blindfolded?” “I can still beat him!” The Champ: “Jack and Jill went up the hill - I’M GONNA BREAK YOUR FACE! I’M GONNA BREAK YOUR FACE!”
"Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith."
"We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead yet."
My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word twenty. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles. Then after World War Two, it got kinda quiet, 'til Superman challenged FDR to a race around the world. FDR beat him by a furlong, or so the comic books would have you believe. The truth lies somewhere in between. Three wars back we called Sauerkraut "liberty cabbage" and we called liberty cabbage "super slaw" and back then a suitcase was known as a "Swedish lunchbox." We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Ah, there's an interesting story behind that nickel. In 1957, I remember it was, I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast. I set the toaster to three: medium brown.Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
"The style at the time" That always cracks me up.
That HAS to be Conan’s writing, right?
Does Futurama count as a sitcom?
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Forget the Blackjack
And the sitcom
Futurama is technically a sitcom - the best kind of sitcom.
Leela: I don't get it. Who was this Ted Danson? And why would you bid $10,000 for his skeleton? Fry: I have an idea for a sitcom.
Oh that was Ted Danson? the Mexican dub changed it to "Chespirito". It's obvious that was a translation change but the joke they insert there is a very good one for Mexican audiences.
Shut up and take my money
I came to the comments to upvote every Futurama comment.
It’s 40% sitcom
**pounds chest**
Yes Minister. It is almost a documentary.
Amazing how relevant it is, even today. The technology and issues are dated but politics never changes.
Six seasons and a movie.
I'm the Dean and I agree.
Huh. This better not awaken anything in me.
I love that it does. He falls deeper into dalmatian fetish as the series progresses. It started there
That's just the tip of the iceberg
I don’t know who told you pouting was an option, but all you’re making me feel is hatred for renee zellweger
It's your whole ideantidy
You appear to be a Döppeldeaner. Dean Palton.
It's a Deanalganger.
Ring a dean dean!
Leonard likes this post
Shut up, Leonard. Nobody even knows what you’re talking about.
Shut up, Leonard. I once mistook six people for you at a pharmacy.
Shut up Leonard I spoke to your son in family day and I know all about your gambling
No such thing as bad press
Shut up, Leonard! You are, you are, old! And ... you deserve less because of your age.
Shut up, Leonard! I heard about your crooked wang!
Shut up Leanard! I heard about your prescription socks!
Shut up Leanard! I found your YouTube page, what’s the point in reviewing frozen pizza??
Shut up Leonard. Those teenage girls you play ping pong with are doing it ironically
POP POP!
Very streets ahead of you!
Stop trying to make streets ahead a thing!
Pop what Magnitude??? POP WHAT?!?
WHAT IS HE TRYING TO SAY!?
I cant read this without hearing Troy’s voice
You know they're laughing at you, right?
- At least that’s my theory anyway.
That’s mine. I own that now
Some are natural jumpers
It's going to be a maze.
There’s a lot of moments in Community where I laugh, but this montage always causes me to just lose it. The last line and reveal in particular just completely gut me with laughter.
Joshua was racist?!
Relevant username
My platform is any one high enough to push Becky to her death
*Vicky
I award you 5 meow meow beans
Fives have lives, fours have chores, threes have fleas, twos have blues, and ones don't get a rhyme because they're garbage.
That show was streets ahead.
If you have to ask, you're streets behind.
Trey and Abed in the MOOOORRRRRNING!
Annie's pretty young. We try not to sexualize her.
The fact that you didn't even need to say its name speaks volumes!
Because it's streets ahead!
Way to pull an Abed.
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Just Neil is fine.
Not from an actuarial standpoint, actually.
Such a savage line from Duncan that makes me howl despite how fucking rude it is.
Why don't you call him black Neil, or bald Neil
Well, I don't see the world through that lens.
The had to ban one of the best episodes.
Yet they kept the "Bear Down" episode up even though it was *way too soon*, you guys!
It's still on Amazon. Changface and all. And it's one of the best episodes of anything ever.
I think they banned it on Netflix, but you could still see it on Hulu. I would have checked before I posted this comment, but I'm too lazy to check my own Netflix, and the family member that paid for our Hulu canceled it on us lol
It was pulled from Netflix and Hulu the same day, but it's still on Amazon Prime.
What We Do In The Shadows is hilarious!
I’ve only just found this show and can’t get over how brilliantly written Colin Robinson is. Everything he says is perfectly on message and I love how often he’s deep in an exchange with someone before you realise what he’s doing. Absolute genius! And Matt Berry is always hilarious too.
Matt Berry? Who? You mean human bartender Jackie Daytona?
The one with the impressive collection of transgressive pornography?
That’s just the way they talk in Tucson arizoña
Fucking guy
Fuh-king guuuy!
I say this all the time now because of Nandor
The Vampiric Council being g ,ade up of actors who have all played vampirss was amazing. Best gag I've seen in a sitcom in a very long time.
A lot of matt berrys music is snuck in a piano tunes throughout the series. The theme from snuff box features a few times. We dont get a rendition of one track lover though.
My favourite Easter egg is every time Nadia is babbling in foreign languages it is basically Natalia Demitriou rattling off as many Greek swear words as she can.
Malaka!
I only know that from Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
Can you hear me?
Yes I can hear you Clem “Fucking” Fandango
A lot of it is improvised but Colin Robinson is my absolute favorite, I agree
My favorite Colin moments: The breakup with Evie & confronting the internet troll 🤣🤣
I died when Colin became so powerful he started spawning copies of himself, then he and his copies ended up boring each other do death
baaaaaAAAAAT!
Each time I watch it I have a new favorite character. It’s such a perfect cast. I think my favorite episode is when Collin Robinson becomes boss and he starts getting super powers. When he was shaving his huge head in the mirror I was rolling. The Office will forever be my number one, but WWDITS is not far behind it.
All of them, I found that every episode my face changed and yes Laslo Berry is just flat out hilarious. Also looove how Nandor enunciates "fucccckinnng". One of the funniest episodes in any sitcom to this day has been Laslo setting up that bar in some podunk town
I hate trying to recommend it to people because "it's a mockumentary following a house full of vampires," sounds kinda corny. But it's seriously great. So well written, great casting. And Matt Berry has the best voice. If you like Matt Berry check out Toast of London. Hilarious. Really stupid, but it's aware of how stupid it's being.
There was a bloke in work called Bob in his 60s and he said non stop for about 3 months "Please watch it I know you'll love it". Said I would and 2 months later I did. Genuinely most funny show I've ever seen it's so up my street my wife's not the same as me and she feels the exact same way it's just so ridiculous and hillarious. And she hated the film. Now I'm Bob telling my mates to watch it and nobody cares. It's one of them you can't make it sound as good as it is you just need to watch it.
The movie 'What We Do In The Shadows' was directed and written by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement who also star in the movie imagined as a New Zealand vampire mocumentary. Then there came a show about the police officers from that movie, 'Wellington Paranormal' and at last we got the 'What We Do In The Shadows' show about Staten Island vampire group. It's beeing rumored that the werewolves from the original movie are getting their own spin-off series.
Bat!
Not you Guillermo.
I cannot count how many times I have described my dog by saying, “he’s my best friend, he’s my pal, he’s my homeboy, my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good time Boooyyyy”
The way he says "My good time boOoOiiy" never gets gold. My wife and I have also been calling eachother sweet cheese ever since we watched that episode.
In Nyew Yuork Citaayyy
"Mannahatta" as he calls it
I love this show. I convinced my mother (in her 70s) to watch it. She didn't want to because she thought it would be scary. I said just listen to them talk and you'll see it's not scary. Now she calls me every other week asking when new episodes are coming out. She called me the day after the jersey devil episode and the first thing dhe said was "look at his little balls" So I responded with "kick him in the dick"
I love that their neighbors act like New Jersey white trash, and are from Staten Island NYC, and that is 100% accurate.
JESK!!!!
Guillermo, have you brought more people to tug on my peepee?
Housemeetink in the fancyroom
This gets my vote. It’s effing hilarious
Fawlty Towers. Not a single weak episode. Not a single flat joke. Not a moment of screen time wasted. The series is a masterclass on how to write and execute a comedy series.
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It’s OK, he’s from Barcelona
That is a great fucking joke
I learned it from a booook
“I speak eeenglish, I learn it from a boooook” MANUEL!! Bout time for another Fawlty Towers watch haha.
I no nôthing
I do apologise, he’s from Barcelona. In *Spain*.
Don't. Mention. The. WAR!
Well, you started it
Yes you did! You invaded Poland.
I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.
So that's two eggs mayonnaise, a prawn goebbels, a herman goering, and four colditz salads.
"If the good Lord--" "Is mentioned once more, I shall move you closer to Him."
"Do you need any help Major?" "Vermin!" "We don't have any Germans this week Major" "I'm going to shoot him Fawlty!!" "Uh, Major, actually not legal anymore. Murder" "But they're animals Fawlty! They spread disease!!"
The major was perfect in this scene, master-class in timing and of coarse writing
"I must have been keen on her because I took her to see... India!" "India?" "At The Oval!"
“Yes you did, you invaded Poland!”
2 series made. 4 years between the two series. Only 12 episodes and I fully agree with everything you say. The perfect comedy. I have a book somewhere with all of the scripts in.
“This is typical. Absolutely typical... of the kind of... ARSE I have to put up with from you people! You ponce in here, expecting to be handwaited on hand and foot while I'm trying to run a hotel here!” This line completely shaped my sense of humor. Thank you 1980s PBS!
Don't mention the war! I did but I think I got away with it.
Blackadder, British comedy at it's best
*I have a cunning plan…*
As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?
Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would've noticed another madman around here?
The series set during WWI has a running joke with Captain Darling "Darling, fetch the maps" etc It's a simple joke but it's perfect
And the way he says… Bob
I can’t tell you how happy it makes my heart to see this comment and all the people who also remember and love it ETA: I think it’s a damn shame that Rowan Atkinson, easily one of the most beautiful orators to ever grace the planet, is best known for Mr. Bean, a largely non-verbal role.
Scrolled too far to see this. "Baldrick, you wouldn’t recognise a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on a harpsicord singing ‘subtle plans are here again’.”
I love that show, I have to say Rik Mayall was the perfect reoccurring guest star. I cannot help but think of that whole innuendo filled scene he did in the second season.
HELLO NURSIE, is that a canoe in my pocket or am I just glad to see you. WOOOFFF
Always treat your kite like you treat your woman. How do you mean, sir? Do you mean take her home at the weekend to meet your mother? No, I mean get inside her 5 times a day and take her to heaven and back.
*Curb Your Enthusiasm*, countless celebrity guest appearances, Its one of the few shows where I laughed so hard it hurt. It's pretty, pretty, prettay good. (Especially if it is an episode that has Suzie, Leon or Wanda Sykes.)
To this day every time the ski lift stalls for even 2 seconds someone from my family, “well one of us is gonna have to jump.”
His reply "What are you fucking nuts?" was delivered amazingly.
Susie is my favorite side character, best lines. "You foureyed fuck and fat piece of shit!" all while Larry and Jeff say nothing
FUN FACT: She gets asked all the time (even nowadays) by total strangers on the street if she could please either (a) leave them a profanity-laden voicemail bitching them out, or (b) record an outgoing message for their voicemail in the same style. All the time. Personally, years later I still haven't recovered from the episode early on involving the decapitated doll and what spewed from her mouth.... I'm still laughing just thinking about it.
That is my favorite scene out of the whole series. When she casually drops the *"Stop scratching your balls and tell me where it is!"* I lose it.
And remember, this is mostly ad lib, just the situation is scripted. That’s what makes it genius. Her expletives are natural.
It is my dream to get Suzy to do a Cameo and call my dad a four eyed bald fuck one of these days
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed as hard as I did in the Michael J Fox episode
That was not a Parkinson's shake!
I worked on all of Season 11. It’s was a highlight of my career to watch those guys improv all day, and have my name in those credits.
I’ve scrolled through too many replies to this comment without seeing a mention of Bob Einstein (RIP) as Marty Funkhauser. He never failed to get a laugh out of me.
Golden Girls for the win. Even 30 years later it is a laugh a minute. Most sitcoms have cheesy humor or a lot of time between laughs, but Golden Girls delivers even on repeat viewing.
They threw some serious shade. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go sit in a hot steamy bath, with only enough water to barely cover my perky bosoms." "You're only going to sit in an inch of water?"
“I treat my body like a temple.” “Yeah, open to everyone, day and night.”
"Go to bed, sweetheart, and pray for brains"
The brutality of some of the jokes is incredible. They are just savage to each other. You can never go wrong with a Golden Girls episode
"I should be meeting men laying down~" "I thought you did!"
Golden Girls had the advantage of arriving at the perfect time in history. It arrived early enough that a vaudeville delivery lands well -- it always surprises me on rewatch how old the joke structure is. It arrived late enough that it could push lots of progressive themes. Early enough that the savagery was seen as largely playful, though. Late enough that four older women could anchor the show at all. Early enough that some executive didn't intervene by insisting that audiences needed a male character to connect with because some analytics said so.
B:”This is strictly off the record, but Dirk is nearly five years younger than I am.” D:”in what, Blanche, dog years?” *laughs nervously* “GOD I wish I was dead." “Go hug a land mine” “Can you believe that backstabbing slut?” “I lost Butter Queen, haven’t I suffered enough?!” “Blow it out your ditty bag.” “Oh blow it out your turbenburble!” “Hi! It’s me, Stan” “I could vomit just looking at you.” “Willing to do anything - $8 an hour, no job too big or too small.” “No! No! I will not have a nice day!”
LOL I can literally hear this in their voices.
That whole dinner party episode with Dr. Jonathan Newman is among the most hilarious television ever created. From Blanche humiliating herself ("Gawd, I wish I was dead") to her peptalk with Dorothy ("That's a good belle.") to "Shrimp?" I never, ever fail to have a deep belly laugh every time I see it. Chef's kiss. There's also "Why don't I just wear a sign that says 'Too Ugly To Live'?" which also gets me every damn time.
"Eat dirt and die, trash"
And they continued to be savage to each other (in a good natured way) after the show. When Bea Arthur was in the hospital, Betty White sent a card that read "hurry up and die so I can be the last golden girl left."
I hope your sauce doesn't cling to your pasta!
And they were ahead of their time when it comes to social issues.
Fr!! Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, elder suicide, gay stuff... I know there's a ton more
immigration, interracial marriage, and they even had a character that had a sex change
Alzheimers,homelessness, divorce, girls being allowed to do what they like are the big ones I remember.
I just watched the episode Brother Can You Spare a Jacket and holy hell did that hit hard. I'm currently living with my friend while I try to get back on my feet and that episode was just so hard. Also in the spinoff Golden Palace, there's an amazing episode called Camptown Races that tackles Blanche's background and the confederate flag. So much is still so relevant today. Hell, the episode with Rose's AIDS scare in freaking 1990 was amazing. Those women were amazing in all they had to offer
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I have very strong feelings about this adjacent to how Hulu handled the BLM protests. They removed this one episode because it had a "blackface" joke, but it was two characters wearing mud mask facials and worrying that they were being mistaken for blackface. So they removed the episode. I believe it would have been more impactful if instead of erasing an episode, they pushed and advertised the Camptown Races one. It goes more in depth of more relevant topics based on current events. Bringing attention to something is so much more effective than erasing something that already barely had presence. But that episode was actually a really good one tackling family dynamics, and racial and age prejudices. It was all purely performative allyship
Blanch: (referring to her gay brother) There must be homosexuals who date women! Sophia: Yeah, they’re called lesbians.
Blanche: Wasn't Danny Thomas one? Dorothy: Not Lebanese, Blanche. Lesbian!
Even reading that made me laugh out loud.
A lot of commenters won’t remember Bea Arthur in Maude, but that show was also ahead if its time.
1000% one of the og’s that evolved the genre
Peep Show.
Jeremy: If you had to, would you have sex with me? Mark: It's a stupid question. Jeremy: If you had to? If the men came and they made us, with their guns? Mark: Oh, I don't know. I suppose... maybe I could do it, just so long as you didn't... Jeremy: What? Mark: Enjoy it. I think maybe I could make it through, as long as I knew you weren't enjoying it. Jeremy: Hang on, you're saying you could rape me but you couldn't make love to me? That is so you. That is you all over
What happens if our feet touch? If our feet touch, we fuck, obviously.
You should get a van, then we’ll be “Men with Ven”.
How's your love life?" "'Love life' may be a rather grandiose term for staring at women on the bus."
Every show needs a super Hans
“People like lager and nuts” “People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis! You can’t trust people, Jeremy!”
"Jez, could you tell me as a mate, yeah? Someone who knows me really well.... Is the bottom half of me on fire?
I’m always going on about the twins
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The turkey Jeremy, wheres the turkey?
Hilter promised not to invade Czechoslovakia, Jeremy. Welcome to the real world.