What popular franchise do you dislike or simply not "get" ?

[Goober]

2broke girls and KOQ are entertaining.
Ive tried Happy Endings but the wayans kid creeps me out since half his mannerisms and deliveries come from his dad and uncle. Ill give it another shot if it hits Netflix.

I wonder if you bizarre BBT haters dislike shows like 30 Rock or Modern Family as well. Seems like dislike for the sake of being a contrarian.

Modern Family is great, never watched 30 Rock.

 

[Palooza]

Modern Family is a shell of its former self, but it's still one of the best sitcoms on TV.

30 Rock is absolutely brilliant, got a little stale after a while but they really picked it up here at the end.

 

[NAHSTE]

2broke girls and KOQ are entertaining.
Ive tried Happy Endings but the wayans kid creeps me out since half his mannerisms and deliveries come from his dad and uncle. Ill give it another shot if it hits Netflix.

I wonder if you bizarre BBT haters dislike shows like 30 Rock or Modern Family as well. Seems like dislike for the sake of being a contrarian.

Not a regular viewer of either show but I recognize their quality based on what I've seen, and can see why both shows have appeal. I watch BBT and have no idea why any of the "jokes" amuse anybody. That's true of most network sitcoms I watch, but is especially true of the trash CBS offerings.

 

[Fappin Raptor]

I love TBBT. :lesmug:

 

[NAHSTE]

Hey but it's cool though, these things are subjective.

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

30 Rock is great, never watched Modern Family.

Modern Family is great, never watched 30 Rock.

 

[Standard Brotocol]

How I Met Your Mother. I never understood why people found it funny.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Not a regular viewer of either show but I recognize their quality based on what I've seen, and can see why both shows have appeal. I watch BBT and have no idea why any of the "jokes" amuse anybody. That's true of most network sitcoms I watch, but is especially true of the trash CBS offerings.

I think one of the good things (and it's also one of the worst things) is that they try and do so much with BBT. You have references to lots of board games, MMO's, other video games, etc, and how it's a show designed to get people to identify with someone on it. I think they try and do too much and spread the references too thin and don't involve the good ones in the storyline like they should.

I'm indifferent on it. Some episodes are great, others aren't, but after the fourth season the episodes don't stick out as much. With any show, you try and stretch it out too much and it gets stale. It gives me a greater appreciation for Battlestar Galactica, because they ended it when they started rehashing storylines from the first part of the series near the end of season 4. They could have gone on for more seasons, because it had a great fan base, but it would have cheapened the show.

 

[stevsta]

How I Met Your Mother. I never understood why people found it funny.

Your name is standard brotocol and you dont know why some people watch it????

 

[red33]

walking dead and true blood.

also alot of the sitcoms and sht on TV.

what I do like? Fucking the food channel shows, Top chef, restaurant impossible, diners dives and drive ins etc.

 

[Houston]

Rocky.

I'd rather watch Raging Bull on a continuous loop all day, than watch Rocky just once.

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Rocky.

I'd rather watch Raging Bull on a continuous loop all day, than watch Rocky just once.

What about Rocky 3 or 4 ?

 

[capt.krappy]

Franchises are always going to have people that don't understand them. Although I'm a fan of Indiana Jones,, I have some in my family that isn't and can't understand why a person could watch something and say it wasn't going to be any good and then turn around and watch it anyway. It's because, for whatever reason, there was something about the first that we want to see continue. Example: Evil Dead, the remake. There was a thread here about the movie and am I going to "like" the movie as much as I remember the original being??? No. But, that's not the point of me seeing it. For myself,,,any Soap Opera on daytime TV falls into this topic. Can't stand them. An ongoing quasi real life as entertainment ???? How boring is someone's life when they are living vicariously through that ???

 

[Villain]

For myself,,,any Soap Opera on daytime TV falls into this topic. Can't stand them. An ongoing quasi real life as entertainment ???? How boring is someone's life when they are living vicariously through that ???

My mother's life is pretty damn boring.

 

[Tailback U]

Most shows that aren't on HBO or Showtime, outside of Breaking Bad.

Even "cooler" shows like Sons of Anarchy, Rescue Me, and 24 couldn't hold my attention for more than a couple episodes even for whatever reason.

Zombies (Walking Dead) and vampires (True Blood) do not interest me whatsoever, even though a lot of my friends swear by the walking dead, I'll never watch it because I am so over the whole zombie storyline. Same with vampires. They were cool in 28 days Later and Interview With the Vampire, not so much now.

 

[Senser81]

But, when you compare it to shows such as Two and a half men, Everybody loves Raymond, Two Broke Girls, King of Queens... it's quite a bit better. It's continuity is better, it has a fairly large set of characters and for the most part has been able to avoid the nauseating tendency to get "serious."

This comment reminded me of the last couple seasons of Different Strokes, where every other episode would have a serious Conrad Bain voicing over "This is a very special episode...", meaning another episode of Arnold, Kimberly, or Sam getting abducted. YAWN!

 

[Senser81]

I like the Big Bang Theory, but I don't relate to Penny at all. I relate most to Sheldon, because he doesn't comply with social frivolities. People see him as annoying, but its him just doing what he wants to do. I can see why people wouldn't like the show...much of the humor is based on the characters, so if you don't buy into the characters themselves, the jokes alone aren't that funny.

I have a friend who is big into TV shows, and he's always giving me DVD sets to watch and recommending new shows. I never got into The Wire...started out too slow for me and just didn't have the patience. Another show he gave me was Deadwood (??), which was interesting by kind of unwatchable, like a Shakespearean Western. He also tried to get me into Happy Endings, but I thought every character was reprehensible and the humor was totally lost on me (kind of like a modern reworking of Friends, same pointless people but with blacks and gays). One of the girls on the show made me turn an episode off, and I never picked it up after that. Never got into Game of Thrones, either...I thought I'd like it, too.

I'll just list some other shows with comments:

30 Rock - very hit or miss with me. Basically Alec Baldwin is funny, Matt Damon's guest spots were gold, but everyone else on the show isn't funny.

Friends - wife made me watch this show. None of the characters have any redeemable qualities. Matthew Perry is not funny. The only character I found humorous was Matt LeBlanc's because it was just so stupid, yet he's the character everyone else hated. Go figure.

Sex in the City - another wife show. This POS corrupted females more than Oprah. Hate everything about this show...the cast sucks, the preachiness is overt. Possibly the worst show I've ever seen.

Seinfeld - Never really got into this. I really liked George. Didn't quite understand Kramer or why people thought he was funny. Not a bad show, but many people thought this was the greatest sitcom of all-time.

 

[dope]

The only character I found humorous was Matt LeBlanc's because it was just so stupid, yet he's the character everyone else hated.

I really liked George.

then you'd probably really like "episodes" and "curb your enthusiasm" if you only cared for those characters

 

[Senser81]

then you'd probably really like "episodes" and "curb your enthusiasm" if you only cared for those characters

I've watched some of the early Curb seasons. Some are incredibly funny. Others are just kind of "meh". A little like Seinfeld, where if you thought the premise was funny, it was great. But if you didn't really find the situation to be funny, the episode was kind of pointless. I thought Curb had too much humor based on Jewish stuff, so most of the jokes probably went over my head.

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

I relate most to Sheldon, because he doesn't comply with social frivolities. People see him as annoying, but its him just doing what he wants to do.

Seinfeld - Didn't quite understand Kramer or why people thought he was funny. Not a bad show, but many people thought this was the greatest sitcom of all-time.

Interesting as the way you described Sheldon is a pretty good way of describing the Kramer character.