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What joke, in otherwise great sitcoms, do you hate? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 months ago by SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I don’t mean that the joke just isn’t funny, I want to know a joke that almost makes you want to fast-forward through the scene.

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[–] Geek_King@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I couldn't agree more. The idea seemed to have been "Hey, lets take a joke that was just luke warm at best to begin with, and then over use it in an attempt to wring every single spec of amusement out of it until our audience gets physically sick when they hear it"

Still a fun show though!

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It is kinda brilliant though, the way they set it up.

If you don’t like the joke, you can always fall back to the meta level: this is a 40-something dad recalling how dumb and cringe-worthy he and his friends were in their 20s.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago

Yeah it's not really supposed to be "funny". It's just Barney being corny because that's who the character is. (When he's not being a sociopath with women.)

[–] milkisklim@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Plus Old Ted is an unreliable narrator.

Tap for spoiler

Old Ted is trying to justify to his kids why he wants to bone one of his best friends' ex wife,

The show really should be renamed Why I Want To Sleep With My Old Crush.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes that can happen with a joke - like it's kind of mid when you first tell it, then you keep pushing it and everyone hates it, then at a certain point something breaks and it becomes the funniest thing ever for some inexplicable reason. Not saying that's what happened with with this joke necessarily, but it is possible! Old Family Guy used to do it quite well sometimes I think.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

"Did you do a little turn on the catwalk? Yeah, on the catwalk? Did you do a little turn on the catwalk, Lois?"

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What show is that from?

[–] salmoura 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How I Met Your Mother.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I tried, but I could not get into that show.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Same. Every episode I watched was trying too hard to make the guys relatable because "look at what dorks they are when it's just the guys! Haha! Isn't this funny?!"

Also it felt like a much worse version of Friends.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

None of the characters were particularly interesting or like able.

[–] Geek_King@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

How I Met your Mother