Please don’t ever do it again. It was extremely perverse to see just how sadly unfunny it became in a more conventional format. It was an odd meta-criticism of the state of the American sitcom at the same time it insisted that it was celebrating it. Yuck.
I too was horrified by that.
It would’ve been far funnier if it was just for a few seconds or so.
I get nervous that the network keeps dinking with the show to boost its ratings ie: lots of lame guest stars, etc.
I couldnt help but thinking that after watching that dumb Hapy Days retrospective on ABC and remembered how that show went downhill after it turned into a live taped show (as opposed to a single-camera comedy).
BTW, love your blog.
Keep it up.
I think the whole joke sunk in the last scene when the main guy (whatever his name is) was laying down after work and watching some stupid sitcom, enjoying it and saying how it’s good that something like this exists and ease a worried mind. Beofre I saw that I thought it was pretty cool that they’re making fun of all other sitcoms. Maybe we expect a little too much from just another sitcom.
in a way though, that ending felt like a last minute rewrite, to lessen the bitterness.
Howdy, Chardman. Glad that you like the blog. Funny to see that you’re covering a lot of the same ground on yours.
Koinkidinks are strange things indeed. Someone just suggested that I’d like ‘This Heat’ on the same week that I discovered your blog- and lo and behold, you had a This Heat song featured.
I only got into the MP3 blog thing recently, yet have been covering music off and on for a couple of years.
Yours seems to be closest to the kind of music that I’m into these days.