I have a hard time believing that ANYONE thinks Two Broke Girls is funny. Like how does it even get made in the first place, let alone get into syndication.
I’d give Superstore more of a chance if you enjoy ensemble comedies like Community and Brooklyn 99. There are a few things that are annoying but most of it is good.
Superstore on the whole I could take it or leave it, but it did give me a couple very pure laugh out loud rewind have to watch again moments, which is very rare
Superstore seems like it was an attempt to do The Office again. But they failed miserably like most shows that have tried to compare themselves to that.
Unpopular opinion - it's a way better show than the office.
I'll never understand how it's as popular and rewatched as it is. It had 2-3 good seasons tops then really nosedived past the point of being watchable.
Although I will say it makes a bit more sense as a binged show as you don't really notice the dip in quality bc you're not waiting a week for a mediocre new episode - if you're disappointed in how bad an episode is you just move on to the next.
Honestly I didn't know the two shows had creative overlap so when it was pointed out that the initial version of superstore had character archetype overlap with the office - Deanna as Dwight thr jim/pam dynamic etc I was like wow did not clock thst. It makes sense but to me superstore is such a warmer less cringey ludicrous show.
I watched the first episode of the American version of the office, and never watched it again. It was a sad version of the original. I heard it got better, but never could be bothered to watch it
After season 1 it gets it's own voice and is quite a different show, just with the same basic launch pad. The imitation British show episodes are not good.
Imitation? The British office came out years before. Ricky Gervais did the whole show. He started the American version, which I didn't care for, probably as it was complete repeat of a British episode using different actors.
however, if you are saying the re-dos are not good, then disregard.
They are incredibly different as the British office has two perfect seasons and the American office is more concerned with logevity and so is a lot more trite and cliche sitcomness
Imo the german version called Stromberg is the best one. He has contrary to the other versions absolutely no redeeming qualities and is a glorious asshole. Im not a big fan of Ricky Gervais because I have a hard time understanding his accent. I really liked that the british Jim is somewhat of a looser but still gets the girl
Yeah. Lots of shows have come out over the years trying to do what they did with The Office, but I haven't found one that really compares well even if they've tried to have some of the same personnel on the team and so on.
I think Max Bemis hit on it really well in the Say Anything song Yellow Cat. (of course the context is different, but same idea)
"All that he wants is to see someone
He respects without their clothes"
There's something that I feel is just human nature that's like "Well, I could look at pornstar name here, or I could go see if that celebrity who has always shown cleavage might have shown more in a movie I haven't heard of" I dunno, it just feels different.
LMAO, my wife would sometimes watch this show with headphones on in bed. I'd sometimes catch glimpses of the cleavage and it would catch my eye.
Then she noticed I was kind of watching and pulled her headphones out so we could both hear. The content of the dialogue combined with the girls voices INSTANTLY made me want to turn that shit off.
I remember in 2005-ish I watched a sitcom with Pamela Anderson working in a bookstore that was called Stacked. It was on after a show that I liked much more (google tells me it was That '70s Show but I'm not sure that's correct). I was big into sitcoms at the time so I was entertained even though it wasn't really that funny because I found the laugh track comforting and also I was 15 and wanted to see Pamela Anderson's compellingly short garment. She had the same unusual name as my sister and I had mixed feelings about that. Christopher Lloyd was in it and he was the only good character. I remember in the finale there was this big cliffhanger where the male lead tells Pamela Anderson under anesthesia that he loved her and I thought to myself "wow, normally I'd be really invested in something like this happening but I just do not care."
So the moral of the story is, white girls showing skin draws in tons of viewers even if the humor is garbage, and also in 2005 there was a sitcom starring Pamela Anderson in a Bookstore and they called it Stacked.
I took a the shower and had left the TV on in the other room. After I got out, that show had come on and I could hear it playing as I was toweling off and getting dressed. Just hearing it, the dialog was honestly non-stop:
<Ditzy blond goes out of her way to tee up incredibly transparent "innocent" comment begging for obvious innuendo>
<Edgy brunette grabs low hanging fruit and makes the most obvious "jab" telegraphed by said comment>
*Canned Laughter\*
*Inexplicably pause\*
*Repeat*
It just went on and on like that. It might as well have had every other line be "That's what she said!"
Yeah, it came on a few times when I turned on the tv for background noise. It was nonstop sexual innuendos or the one character making fun of the other’s sex life and I just thought, is this seriously the only thing they can talk about? This is getting lame.
You sure you weren't watching a security camera feed of my buddies and me at the garage after hours? No, probably not - we do make occasional references to local sports teams.
Thank you for pointing that out, it all makes sense now! I don't watch that show, but my in-laws do and I never understood why they talked about that show so much and keep trying to get us to watch it with them. They're racist, so this show must validate that for them.
You just described every scene from the show I've caught while waiting for our old TV to fully reboot so we can watch Netflix.
I watched the pilot because Kat Dennings is funny (and, yes, gorgeous) but it was painful and I've never sat down to watch it again.
A former coworker loved it (and Kat Dennings). She was surprised I didn't like it. She was a sweet person, but we did not align on entertainment at all.
If you're ever subjected to it again, listen for how much dead silence there is. There are whole seconds we're just like they're walking and nothing's happening. They stretch every single scene. The room tone is exhausting.
you forgot how they play the theme song over and over throughout the show. it's that Peter Bjorn and John song and they just keep playing those quick little cuts of it over and over throughout the show, between every goddamn scene i swear to god.
it's straight out of a 90's sitcom and there's a reason it got left behind but they brought it back
What's worse is that if I'm remembering this right the girls actually fulfill their goal TWICE but immediately after incur some massive expense that sets them back to zero. Like come on, the premise is thin but not that thin
Yeah I found myself watching for a minute to stare at Kat Denning's huge tits. I wouldn't be surprised if most of their viewership adds up to all channel surfing dudes getting dazed for a minute and moving on. After one leaves another takes it place.
I don't understand how that is still a draw on its own. Maybe it's because I'm not 14 anymore, maybe it's because I have a device in my pocket that can show me millions of unique naked titties anytime I want.
A lot of it just makes me so annoyed because it's so far from real life. It just feels like someone who never had to think twice about spending money wrote a show about poverty and working your way up.
I feel like most of the show is the characters whining about being poor and how terrible their life is while all I see is how incredibly privileged they are. I mean, they live in a really big apartment in Brooklyn, own a freaking horse, have a garden, wear nice clothes and high heels, have safe jobs, lots of support, the diner owner helps them grow their business by letting them sell their cupcakes and even letting them open their shop in the back. They constantly get enormous chances which they always blow because they are lazy, feel to good for it or act like children. They don't even bother showing up at work every day.
It just annoys me so much what whiny assholes the main characters are and that the show tries so hard to make me feel bad for them or sell me that they are have it so hard.
You can't afford toilet paper? Maybe you should at least show up at work in the next scene? Or idk not have a horse And a cat? Not only wear designer clothes?
Do they pitch their voices up? Or do they speed it up? It was on for three minutes the other night, and I could t believe how unbelievably shrill their voices were. It seemed impossibly high. Also the Asian guy was a stereotype of a stereotype.
Someone else commented that the reruns are shown on TBS. They apparently speed up reruns by like half a second (to fit in more commercial time) , so everyone ends up sounding off.
It’s a guilty pleasure of mine. <.< is so bad but it’s easy to just turn my mind off and decompress as o watch it. I am low key sad it was canceled. I would like one more season to wrap up the loose plot lines
That show was so god awful. I’m pretty sure the only reason it was at all popular & stayed on for a few seasons was because of horny young males. There was nothing funny about it. It’s rated the worst show ever that got more than 1 season by quite a few different sites. Every single episode was exactly the same garbage one liners.
At any given time my grandmother's TV will be on either TBS, Fox News, or AMC. I stayed with her for a while several years back and Two Broke Girls on TBS is one of the shows she never misses. I just don't get it.
I actually liked her better in the marvel movies she had a personality but then in WV they turned her into a super obvious plot device let's explain it for the audience character
She fits in way better in WandaVision than she does in the first two Thor movies. Probably because the first two Thor movies took themselves kinda seriously so her character sticks out especially since she wasn't a really a plot relevant character. She actually has a plot purpose in WandaVision.
She's a lot different from how her character was in the Thor movies. Darcy isn't as much a comic relief character now as she is a somewhat snarky straight man.
I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did with a laugh track + quite bad joke writing. They're either very predictable, not funny, or something like "haha you are [insert stereotype]"
As somebody who has lived paycheck to paycheck as soon as I knew they show their current cash on screen and it is based around surviving being broke, I was all in.
Then I watched the show... a few times actually to give it a few chances. God it wastes an interesting premise.
It’s television comfort food. I loved the first few seasons but I was totally aware that it is a fundamentally flawed show with problematic themes sprinkled throughout.
Don’t view it as a new show doing new things, but rather, a recently released show that is designed to exist next to syndicated canon.
The show is an answer to the question, “what if we found a box of scripts for a show that lost its budget in the early 80s before it was ever filmed and we decided to make it today?”
It’s not to be viewed now, it’s to be viewed years from now in an airport bar between reruns of Taxi, Seinfeld, MASH, Wings, Cheers, Fraiser, Laverne & Shirley, etc.
Yes! Exactly the same case for me as well. I remember watching it when I was 11 or 12 and thought it was hilarious. I decided to revisit the show for nostalgic purposes and was surprised to find it was incredibly unfunny to me now
I occasionally watch it when it’s on after another show I’m watching. Because it’s basically a string of one-liners start to finish with the occasional line to drive the story, there’s the odd really funny line. Seems to be a complete accident, though. Maybe one per episode, maybe every second episode.
That’s just the nature of one-liners, though. You say enough of them one will land.
It’s because it was on CBS, which specializes in boomer humor.
And I say that seriously - they are number one with that demographic and focus-group the shit out of all their shows to explicitly appeal to that age group.
My parents are boomers and think everything on CBS is hilarious (two and a half men, Big Bang theory) and watch it religiously.
It’s almost an art form in its own right. Sort of like writing children’s comedy.
Note that I don’t think any of those shows are bad per se, but they are definitely polished, produced and edited to appeal to certain demographics.
That’s why a lot of them feature very “middle of the road” comedy which tries to be mildly offensive without actually alienating or really offending anyone. Chuck Lorre was a genius at that.
I definitely agree with that. No one can say that Chuck Lorre isn't good at what he does.
My enjoyment of Two and a Half Men is probably half nostalgia and half the fact that Charlie Sheen was really talented before he lost his mind. A good comedic actor elevating what is average material at best.
So, funny story: A few years ago, before my mother died, I would watch TV with her. she was sick so I watched whatever she wanted without complaining, even if I didn't like it. We'd always watch Two Broke Girls. Eventually, one day, she said to me, "I only watch this because you like it. I really can't stand it." Then I say, "Wait, I don't like it. I thought you liked it."
Somehow, we both thought the other one liked it and were both watching it for that reason. Anyway, we never watched it again after that. As a result, I've watched probably about two seasons worth of that show for no reason. It's so freaking awful.
Easily. The basic premise of it isn't bad. Rich girl loses money, makes friends with poor girl who's a lot more street-wise, and they build a great friendship from there.
I was in Vegas in and we were asked to view a new TV show and give opinions. Two Broke Girls was the one that we saw. We said it was horrible, and was amazed that it made it to TV. Cleavage sells
I’ve watched the show a couple of times. The humor seems very, kind of hard to explain, it seems very forced. They’re trying to hard. It’s all random crap with boobs.
A good 50% of the population may as well be asleep. Or in their own personally curated carnival ride, gleefully clapping their hands and squealing at the pretty lights.
Sometimes I wonder if people who loves this show behaves like the two girls irl. A few episodes of the show was sufficient to make me NOPE the hell of it.
And this is coming from someone who usually just bear through shows even if they are kind of shit
It used to be on tv while I was eating breakfast, ~2 years ago. So I just let it play. Just recently, I was browsing prime video, came across it and couldn't stand watching even one episode.
Urgh, my ex boyfriend and his mum (we lived with her for a while) honestly thought it was the funniest show out there. It made me so uncomfortable to sit on the couch and see them snorting with laughter over the racist, sexist, homophobic jokes. I found the whole thing problematic.
That show is just a non-stop string of one-liners. I've pointed this out to people who liked the show and they just blew it off at first, but then later I'd get a text along the lines of "OMG you're right, thanks for ruining the show for me." I always feel really good about that.
I think they had potential in terms of the actors’ chemistry but the writing is terrible. You have Kat Dennings who’s a comedic highlight of the Thor movies and Wandavision and Jennifer frigging Coolidge but somehow they couldn’t make them say one intelligent thing throughout the whole show.
The snarky humor pulled me in for a season, and the ridiculous fact of keeping a horse in the garden of a rundown brownstone. I'm not particularly interested in the DDDs, so that didn't keep me interested once the humor got stale.
Ugh, my brother tried so hard to get me to watch that show but I had already tried watching a couple episodes and it was horrible. Too bad too because I like normally like Kat Dennings.
I watched half an episode once because I was curious and I generally like Kat Dennings. Lots of dead-on-arrival unfunny "jokes" where even the canned audience laugh track seemed forced and I switched channels.
I get home late from work and it’s usually the only thing on. I started putting it on just for background noise, but I have to admit Kat can be really funny with her dry sarcastic insults/sense of humor.
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I have a hard time believing that ANYONE thinks Two Broke Girls is funny. Like how does it even get made in the first place, let alone get into syndication.