Unfunny comedy tropes
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From the guys that brought you the 70-minute Star Wars reviews, here's a breakdown on why they think Sandler movies suck so bad.ForgottenPr0digy said:
They were reviewing Jack and Jill, and they went off on a tangent trying to figure out how a movie so awful could have been made.
http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag/jack-and-jill/
Oh, I forgot to mention these ones. I generally like Family Guy, despite how much it abuses cutaway gags and the fact that some of its gags just take too goddamn long (like that scene where Herbert?s fighting that Nazi) and weren?t even that funny in the first place?but one thing I?ve never gotten is how Meg being the butt-monkey of the show is meant to be funny.
I just don?t like it when a main character?s entire purpose is for everyone to seemingly hate them and constantly take the piss out of them. This happened to a lesser extent with Kenny in South Park?s earlier seasons, what with everything he said being muffled and getting killed off every other episode.
And I believe that, at least, the Eds got a happy ending in the series' end special.
I just don?t like it when a main character?s entire purpose is for everyone to seemingly hate them and constantly take the piss out of them. This happened to a lesser extent with Kenny in South Park?s earlier seasons, what with everything he said being muffled and getting killed off every other episode.
Isn't that intentional? I think the series' creator intended for Wile E. Coyote to be sympathetic, especially with the Road Runner and others like him (e.g. Tweety Bird) being such trolls.IamQ said:
And I believe that, at least, the Eds got a happy ending in the series' end special.
I've rarely seen that in any of the sitcoms that I've watched. The only example that comes to mind was in Two and a Half Men, when Charlie pretended that he was gay to get pally with a woman, and then failed to prove his heterosexuality when he couldn't get an erection over her. But that's a shit show anyway.Allthingsspectacular said:
Some music:
To chiggerwood and Vault101: Oh? you dont like meta jokes that are lame (like using the words character or plot over and over?) or over used star wars and start trek references? Well....search no further than the atrocious new anniversary video "To Bodly Flee".
You ALL have been warned.......
PS: I hate it when this kind of people that SHOULD know any better end up screwing up and make everything more hard for everyone who REALLY knows how it should be done, but have a hard time publishing this kind of meta ideas to the world because people now DESPICE those ideas because they are being overused by hacks.
Imagine trying to write or make a movie about a killer black mist of Lovecraftian origins (like Nyarlathotep) but cant do it because some hack made the same thing before in Rise of The Silver Surfer, and it sucked so hard that people HATE anything related to it, specially Galactus who was made into being a black cloud/myst.
Hell, even if you did a good movie/game before anyone fucks those concepts up, you can STILL be labeled as a hack just because some moron does so horribly or because the concept has been used as a dead horse. Case in point of this "Poison The Well" fallacy, Metroid Prime ends up being labeled as a bankrupt game just because the CoD FPS fest (wont you agree, Movie Bob?)
My point is, if you dont know how to pull it off properly then WHY are you even DOING this?
Not only that, the music starts to distort more often and even if OUR reality tries to fight back this thing by healing the fourth wall, it is broken even WORSE the more that monster displays his powers....
Can you present a similar example?
chiggerwood said:
To chiggerwood: Can you present a good example of meta humor to compare with Phelous?Vault101 said:
To chiggerwood and Vault101: Oh? you dont like meta jokes that are lame (like using the words character or plot over and over?) or over used star wars and start trek references? Well....search no further than the atrocious new anniversary video "To Bodly Flee".
You ALL have been warned.......
PS: I hate it when this kind of people that SHOULD know any better end up screwing up and make everything more hard for everyone who REALLY knows how it should be done, but have a hard time publishing this kind of meta ideas to the world because people now DESPICE those ideas because they are being overused by hacks.
Imagine trying to write or make a movie about a killer black mist of Lovecraftian origins (like Nyarlathotep) but cant do it because some hack made the same thing before in Rise of The Silver Surfer, and it sucked so hard that people HATE anything related to it, specially Galactus who was made into being a black cloud/myst.
Hell, even if you did a good movie/game before anyone fucks those concepts up, you can STILL be labeled as a hack just because some moron does so horribly or because the concept has been used as a dead horse. Case in point of this "Poison The Well" fallacy, Metroid Prime ends up being labeled as a bankrupt game just because the CoD FPS fest (wont you agree, Movie Bob?)
My point is, if you dont know how to pull it off properly then WHY are you even DOING this?
How about breaking it for terror without actually spelling out that the monster is out to get you? imagine a being so powerful that the glass of your monitor starts to break gradually during the plot (it may even last an entire episode with the cracks still there).Zyst said:
Not only that, the music starts to distort more often and even if OUR reality tries to fight back this thing by healing the fourth wall, it is broken even WORSE the more that monster displays his powers....
Can you present a similar example?
I heard that they ALSO watched "That is My Boy" because they want to get KILLED by a bad movie.Signa said:
True Story
How about "spiritual references" to a work? like how someone in MY story talks about a concept that is similar to another one that inspired this one but is actually relevant to the plot and not just to reference it like saying "i am taking my time to talk about this like in a fucking commercial, because you, little insignificant mortal that still lives with his mom, SHOULD read this other story. Because it good for your pathetic life to have something to brag about and here is one of them"Lumber Barber said:
Oh God. Sometimes when I'm bored, I watch 2 and a half men on CC whenever.Vault101 said:
Focusing on Alan for extended periods of time pretty much induces depression in me. It's mildly sadistic is what it is.
People in the show call him a freeloader, and a leech, and cheap, and stuff, but from what I've seen, if he didn't do that, he'd be financially worse off than people on the dole, despite having a perfectly decent career.
I remember when I bothered to watch an episode of the new season, and he thinks he's Charlie, and starts acting like him, and being good at it, and stuff. I think in the unlikely event that happened in reality, I'd just let him stay like that.
OT: Seth McFarlane's phoned in musical numbers.
We get it, you want to make it as a singer. Now fuck off.
I love Barney Stinson. They could have done him so wrong. I think it's that in his earlier point, he did sleep around quite successfully, but it was implied he isn't always successful. And there's just the sheer ridiculousness of his attempts, like faking being a surgeon, everything in the playbook, and the bit in the first episode where the security footage shows him coming out of a suitcase.Shax said:You brought up pain comedy from The Campaign, but didn't refer to the baby punching scene?Winthrop said:
OT: I hate the "lol, this guy sleeps with a lot of women, somehow that's funny, lol" type of character that shows always try to pass off as funny. The only character in that vein that I've actually liked is Barney Stinson, and that was mainly because they developed him more as a character as the series went on.
Plus his childishness, like the laser tag, and such. And the gags about him working for an evil organization.
And, as you said, they fleshed him out and gave him issues that he actually fixed, unlike some characters where it's just the same issue played for laughs. *cough*Charlie Harper*cough*
Husband/boyfriend is giant man-child,long suffering wife/girlfriend is mature one in relationship who's constantly cleaning up his messes
eh they do use the characters alcholism for jokes sometimes but yeah its just their characters, although i must admit that futurama was the only one to do something different with the alcoholic character by making bender function properly only when he consumes liquor and make him stupid when he is sober. or making him consume liquor to save the planet.Kinguendo said:
I watched that recently, too, actually. My expectations coming in were so low I actually rather enjoyed it. But that may indeed have been the worst part of the entire show.Zyst said:
There's like this...thing...in a lot of anime where side-characters who have no purpose whatsoever are occasionally cut to, and they say one line that embodies their one, single character trait.
Cardfight Vanguard, after every move in the game, Crappy Side Character #1 says something about how amazing Grade 3 Units (that is, the strongest kind of creature in the game) are or how the main character is so strong because of his training, Super-Mega-Awesome Side Character either points out that Crappy Side Character #1 is stupid and dumb and stupid or explains the last move in case you nodded off during it, Crappy Side Character #2 makes some comment about the current situation, and Crappy Side Character #3 takes the first letter of every important word in #2's sentence and says those. Yes, really.
I feel like I should disagree with you on principle, but it's...very difficult. All I can really think of is Lucky Star and Haruhi Suzumiya, both of which are very tired examples.Chemical Alia said:
...on the other hand, virtually every scene in Lucky Star is worthy of being turned into a gif.
I think Alans move from "guy down on his luck" to "freeloader" was part of the "evolution" that ocures in alot of long running showsBinnsyboy said:
like when jake stoped being a cute chubby kid they made him a dumbass, and charlie became more of a jerk ect
is the show even still running anyway? usually they don;t last long after a big "shake up"
TBH I don;t actually mind some of the "continuity" stuff that goes on in TGWTG it comes across as weird at first..but then you get over the fact "its a site filled with people making videos amatur style" (well by now its pretty much "pro")DioWallachia said:
but stuff like some crossovers and extra stuff...like the make over fairy from Nostalga chicks videos (or anything with Nostalga Chick..I think she's great)
NC's musical reveiw of moulon rouge was probably one of the most awsome videos ever...
it works great to spice up a reveiw..BUT on its own (like I'm assuming the aniversary thing is) would probably be a bit too much, I know there are peopel who like that stuff but I prefer reveiws
and by star wars..star wars references are fine..I mean in some show where the joke seems to be PEOPLE LIKE STAR WARS AND THATS FUCKING HILARIOUS.....liek the movie bench warmers