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Offline CyranoAH

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« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2006, 01:24:45 PM »
Best comedy I've watched in a looong time. The in-jokes from last episode were hilarious! :D

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« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2006, 02:03:59 PM »
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Raising Arizon... can't stand cage
Fargo... disliked it
Ladykillers... very unusual, didn't know it was from them. not a bad movie
O' Brother Where Art Thou?... absolutely loved it. own it.


i think there is a very different "feeling" in each of those movies at least IMHO.

there is a kind of "eletist" comedy out there, and it is usually quite off the wall. i don't much care for that personally. give me a pauly shore movie instead :lol


but thats like most TV too... i have not watched "TV" except for packers football and family guy in literally over 6 months. nothing on is worth my time to sit there and watch it (at least network TV). i do enjoy mythbusters, and most of discoveries shows, but thats about it.
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« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2006, 03:41:38 PM »
Those damned elitists with their spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and highbrow humor!!!

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« Reply #18 on: January 04, 2006, 05:54:30 PM »
The whole western world is dumb.
As evidence I submit: The popularity of "reality" TV. The prosecution rests, M'lud.

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« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2006, 05:58:46 PM »
History channel is a pack of lies. Should be killed completly. :rolleyes:



On another note Family Guy was very funny. Think it jumped the shark real quick tho. Just a cruder version of the Simpsons. American Dad is crap I think.
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« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2006, 08:09:47 PM »
This just in.... Weekly World News outsells Nature and Scientific American combined.
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« Reply #21 on: January 04, 2006, 08:29:11 PM »
Well I dont watch many of the sitcoms things since I work a midshift (2pm to 10pm).  But back when Friends was winding down to their last episode, they were showing all of the behind the scenes and rehearsals.  Every line, phrase, quip and such are all but tweaked and tested for maximum laugh quality.  After seeing that, it was hard to ever enjoy the re-runs.

The last few sitcoms I've liked were shows like "Everybody Loves Raymond", "Frasier"  and a handful of others.  I'm still a big fan of Law & Order as well as CSI.  But not many of the comedies are right for me.  I just grow weary of this "tested" humor.

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« Reply #22 on: January 04, 2006, 08:42:43 PM »
"How does Nielsen Media Research know who is watching?

The way that Nielsen Media Research finds out about who is watching is to measure what a sample of television viewers are watching. For our national ratings estimates, we use a sample of more than 5,000 households, containing over 13,000 people who have agreed to participate. Since there are over 99 million households with TVs in the U.S., it might seem that a sample of 5,000 is just not big enough to represent the nation."

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How can a statement be made that The whole western world is dumb when samplings like This are used to define who watches shows?  Is that a poor attempt at a troll or have you been raised in a sound bite oriented world for so long that fact checking and miniscule amounts of research are too far out of reach to be looked at.  I mean, really, I have invested about 2.5 minutes finding that link, and presenting it.  "The whole western world is dumb" clearly took a great deal of effort to slather out.

Drawing a conclusion about a hemisphere based on the TV Habits of a few?  ....  dumb.

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« Reply #23 on: January 04, 2006, 10:56:51 PM »
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Drawing a conclusion about a hemisphere based on the TV Habits of a few?  ....  dumb.


Now you're talking statistics. In my limited stasticial education, one can't take the results of a non-random sample and apply them to the population... but DMF  knows far more about stats than anyone else here, I think. Ask him.
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« Reply #24 on: January 05, 2006, 02:00:59 PM »
Too bad, was a funny show. Reminded me a lot of Showtime's Sherman Oaks back in the 90s.