No lessons, no hugs.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:57 (fourteen years ago)
Two shows that came close to that: Larry Sanders and (surprisingly) Cheers. People often behave creepily on Larry Sanders, and only on rare occasions would the show cross the line into pathos (sometimes brilliantly). Cheers had a habit of going right up to the line where things turn maudlin, then there'd be a joke to undercut everything. They crossed the line, too, but far less often than most pre-Seinfeld sitcoms; I thought of it almost as a precursor to Seinfeld in that regard.
― clemenza, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:07 (fourteen years ago)
there are lots of shows like that now - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, for one. but yeah it was original at the time.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:11 (fourteen years ago)
The structure/characters/feel of It's Always Sunny always make me think of Seinfeld if all the characters were even less empathetic and stupider
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:13 (fourteen years ago)
I just hope Always Sunny will never have to forever live in the shadow of Seinfeld, written off in pop-culture lit by nostalgia fetishist whom find it heresay that something so well liked could actually be not that good. See videogame phenomenon: Halo.
― heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)
I assumed this revive was due to the death of an actor who played some character Sid Fields on an episode, obv named after the character/actor/writer from David & Seinfeld's fave The Abbott & Costello Show. (Fields was their apoplectic landlord.)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:12 (fourteen years ago)
re: sunny, huh?1. popularity is a pretty good indicator of crap (see weekly TV ratings)2. Always Sunny isn't that popular (see weekly TV ratings)
Their getting short shrift from critical attention is more likely that it isn't popular enough, no matter how many dick towels they sold.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:16 (fourteen years ago)
Morbs, I don't remember that guy from Seinfeld, but I just watched a West Wing episode a few days ago that he was in. Dude got steady work.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:38 (fourteen years ago)
Looked at a picture of Fields and recognized him immediately as the ornery old guy who owned all the LPs that Kramer and Newman tried to sell.
― clemenza, Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:09 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE_WXM93WdU
― british sb power (dayo), Sunday, 12 June 2011 02:30 (fourteen years ago)
so
do beckham and posh watch Seinfeld?
― Ste, Monday, 11 July 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago)
yes
― my baby eats special k all day (Lamp), Monday, 11 July 2011 16:49 (thirteen years ago)
idgi
― Asamoah Nyan (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 July 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago)
its just a comical misunderstanding
― my baby eats special k all day (Lamp), Monday, 11 July 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago)
Oh god I thought our Hannah was joking about her being called 7???
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 July 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago)
Ohhh really? Seven?!
― Asamoah Nyan (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 July 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago)
harper seven
― Ste, Monday, 11 July 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago)
Hannah told me first thing this morning when I was half asleep and I thought the kid was called Harper and was 7 pounds something
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 July 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRUdaWZ4FN0
― Asamoah Nyan (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 July 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago)
Would've preferred Mug Beckham tbh
― Asamoah Nyan (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 July 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago)
Missed a chance to go with Mulva imo
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 July 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago)
^^^I always found it curious that Jerry never considered "Regina" as a plausible name in that episode
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 11 July 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago)
Posh and Becks were beaten to the name by Andre 3000 and Erykah Badu, anyway.
― jaymc, Monday, 11 July 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago)
god dammit Myonga i've wondered for years what the actual name was but i think you've cracked it
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 July 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago)
i think the actual name was 'dolores'
― # (Lamp), Monday, 11 July 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah, I was gonna say.
― jaymc, Monday, 11 July 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago)
don't remember that bit
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 July 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago)
does that rhyme in a New York accent?
it rhymes when i say it in my head?!
its the tag to that episode fwiw - he sticks his head out of his window and sorta ruefully shouts 'DOLORES!' at her after shes presumably stormed out
― # (Lamp), Monday, 11 July 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago)
oh god yeah now i remember
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 July 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago)
iirc they never had a name for her during the show, but as it was being taped they asked the audience what they thought it should be and some woman came up w/ Dolores
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 11 July 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago)
haha i didnt know that! i do think that dolores is a better joke than regina: sneakier and dirtier but still obvious enough once he shouts it
― # (Lamp), Monday, 11 July 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago)
yeh dolores is better really. impressed i cd forget something like that for years
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 July 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago)
Idgi
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Monday, 11 July 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago)
dolores/clitoris
― # (Lamp), Monday, 11 July 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago)
iirc, Jerry was with a girl and he couldn't remember her name, she told him it rhymed with a part of a woman's body, so he spent the episode trying to guess a female name that rhymed with a body part. at the end of the episode, after she storms out in disgust, he throws open his window and yells "Dolores"
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 11 July 2011 18:00 (thirteen years ago)
I never got that. They don't even approach rhyming in my head.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Monday, 11 July 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago)
It always kind of bugged me because it only rhymes if you pronounce clitoris a certain way which I think is the less common way of doing so. I don't pronounce it like that and that pronunciation sounds strange to me even though I think both are technically correct.
― my ponies hate you (ENBB), Monday, 11 July 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago)
Weird because I feel like 90% of the time I've heard someone say it, its the way that rhymes with Dolores.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 11 July 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago)
i think they took some "artistic license"
― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Monday, 11 July 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago)
still p funny if you ask me
― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Monday, 11 July 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago)
Wait, maybe not, maybe only like 65%. The more I keep trying out both in my head, the more confused I get as to which way I more often hear it.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 11 July 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, July 11, 2011 1:21 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark
Americans pronounce Regina as Regeena so that wouldn't have worked.
― my ponies hate you (ENBB), Monday, 11 July 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah, I've heard both. Webster's 11th has both as well, but CLIT-or-is is listed first.
I would argue that this is probably in large part due to the episode!
― jaymc, Monday, 11 July 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago)
yeah i've literally never heard anyone in my life say "regina" to rhyme w/ "vagina"
― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Monday, 11 July 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago)
Never been to Saskatchewan?
― jaymc, Monday, 11 July 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago)
one of the joys of sharing a small office is that theres no way of repeating 'dolores... clitoris...' under your breath in a questioning voice w/o getting some p disturbed looks
anyway it rhymes that way i would pronounce that two words but mb we need dr. whiney on this
― # (Lamp), Monday, 11 July 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago)
idk "cliTORis" (pronounced like Thor in the middle in order to rhyme wiht Delores) just sounds really really awkward. Like, that's how my mom probably says it or something.
― my ponies hate you (ENBB), Monday, 11 July 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago)
dolores
^^^ have experience cognitive dissonance
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 11 July 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago)