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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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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All sitcom dads being fat, slobbish and painfully stupid and unaware of anything to do with housework, children, or common sense but somehow they all have long-suffering yet weirdly hot wives who just roll their eyes and somehow don't file for divorce.

The Simpsons

King of Queens

George Lopez's show

According to Jim (Belushi)

Last man standing (Tim Allen)

Home improvement (Again Tim Allen)

Everybody loves Raymond

The entire premise of every one of these shows is HAHAHA DADS ARE IDIOTS HA HAHA

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You forgot Married with Children which was one of the first

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Absolutely, one of the first and best examples.

I have to admit though, I do actually love that show haha

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

the terrible transphobic storyline in arrested development

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Wait, which one?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I am completely done with the "male character says something chauvanistic, female character slaps, that's the joke."

Futurama did it quite a lot, Leela hit Fry a lot, Amy hit him a few times. I done with shows that do that. I see that joke happen again I'll stop the playback right then and there and cancel whatever service I'm watching it on.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

sue the showrunners & writers for all they have

[-] [email protected] 99 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Any sort of "my husband/wife/spouse is lazy/a nag/useless" or from the opposite perspective "I'm lazy/a nag/useless, I'm so lucky my husband/wife/spouse is a sucker and puts up with my bumbling incompetence".

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[-] [email protected] 79 points 3 days ago

Pretty much every segment of Jerry's stand up routine in Seinfeld. I have no idea how that man became a famous comedian.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Because that shit was actually funny 35 to 40 years ago. It just didn’t age well.

Tastes change.

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[-] [email protected] 76 points 3 days ago

How rude they are to Jerry in Parks & Rec. Doing a rewatch of it now and wow it is way worse than I remembered, and starts way earlier. It's not a flanderisation thing, there was a season 2 joke that made me have to pause and go online just to see how many other people felt the same way as me.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago

I find it funny because of the sheer absurdity of it. There's absolutely no reason to dislike Jerry. He affable and unassuming, a good family man and just generally a good guy. Yet everyone inexplicably hates him, even Chris. It's makes absolutely no sense and that disconnect is what makes it funny to me.

If they hated him for a reason it would be mean spirited. Instead, it's just over the top silly and fits in with the humor of the show.

The bit where Leslie throws his painting in the lake is one of my favorite moments. It's just so exorbitantly stupid that it makes me laugh.

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[-] [email protected] 60 points 3 days ago

It will be legen... wait for it... dary!

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Any kind of overt and heavily pushed version of their stereotyped personality is the joke.

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