For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.
I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don’t think he was ever funny not even a little.
His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it’s so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.
Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.
Harry Potter, even ignoring how much of a piece of shit the author is the books just aren’t particularly well thought out.
I’m just here to see if anyone has any wrong opinions about something I love.
Paying a subscription to watch sports.
Your mom’s OnlyFans page.
The US version of The Office, LOL.
Watched 8 episodes and would rather watch paint dry for the rest of my life than watching the rest of the series.
American football. Fox turned it into a video game you can’t play.
Mens soccer. Stop with the fucking cry baby drama! Women’s soccer is better in this regards.
Breaking Bad for me. I just can’t stand it and find the characters and the situations just unpleasant and undesireable to watch.
That and Prison Break was entertaining for the first couple seasons, then got tedious IMO.
I never saw the appeal of that show, but my former domestic abuser was a big fan.
What does your current domestic abuser think of it?
My entirely supportive and not at all abusive spouse isn’t a fan at all
Mad Men. Everyone on that show is a fucking scumbag and not in a funny or interesting way.
Also Thor Ragnarok. I hate it for the reasons people say they hate the next one but it was the same people that said they liked Ragnarok so Idk what the fuck is going on there. I’m not watching the second one to find out.
Forrest Gump, in my opinion one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.
In the book he goes to space. Yeah.
I appreciate the movie as the montage of that period in American history it is.
You’re right and you should say it. Ricky Gervais has always been weird and off-putting and the idea that he was ever good has always baffled me. I never enjoyed The Office. When my dad tried to get me into Extras I just found all of Ricky’s parts annoying. When my sister told me how great Derek was, I just found the whole thing simultaneously tasteless and bland, like it couldn’t commit to being offensive but didn’t put the work into being real. His standup is often clever, but always the kind of clever that is let down by a complete lack of emotional intelligence. The man just does not understand people, but thinks he really does.
The hbo animated Ricky Gervais show won me over. I would have agreed with you before that but it is actually hysterical.
https://youtu.be/luL5gdSsaig?is=U4I7KkIGsyqM1ImN
Pure gold lol
I’ve never seen this before, but the way that they make fun of him is quite mean, and like the way they dismiss him out of hand is kinda fuct. His movie idea is ridiculous but it’s kind of interesting too. Like the man with two brains but with lesbian sex, maybe a trans element too. It’s actually a bit like that Robert Heinlein book I will fear no evil.
I think I first encountered Ricky Gervais’ work in those YouTube videos which took clips of his podcast and animated them as cartoons. They were being passed around like the best thing ever for a minute or two back in the day, and I watched a bunch and didn’t get why it was supposed to be funny that two guys were being assholes at a third guy over and over.
Karl Pilkington was the funniest one out of them in my opinion. Derek went down in flames when he left the show.
Sports. I have little tolerance for it because every time a big event is on, people get incredibly obnoxious. They think they know better than the professional players, they keep making so much noise, it polarizes people into arbitrary bands and start talking shit like using that as an excuse to be a homophobic POS, sometimes they’ll even riot because their team lost/won (da fuk), and even kill people over their favorite fucking team, and so much more. If the game is on I’d rather steer clear because it really brings out the worst in people.
That’s mostly referring to football. Kind of generalizing.
Non-American football?
Big Bang Theory
Blackface for nerds
Yeah I hate fake nerds on TV. Big Bang Theory being the absolute worst.
Obligatory Portlandia Nerd PSA (invidious link)
I grew up with actual nerds in the 89s and 90s. No one was like Big Bang Theory. We were not cool.
I remember it was once described as “a show about smart people for stupid people”. Arrested Development being it’s antithesis in that regard, I guess.
The worst part is how it’s fans seem to think it’s a love letter to “nerd culture” (whatever the fuck that is) and endlessly bring it up if you dare mention any interest in comics, roleplaying games or anything in that vein. “Oh you’ll love this show, it’s all about that nerdy stuff.”
Was out with a girlfriend’s family and one of her mom’s friends once and my girlfriend mentioned she had been playing D&D with a group of people from her college. Her mom’s friend immediately started cackling and was like “It’s just like the big bang theory!”. No other context about what happened in her games or who she was playing with or anything. Just the simple fact that she was playing it at all was apparently hilarious.
Claymation. It is unnerving and creepy. Gives me the same vibes as nails on a chalkboard or HR Pufnstuf.
Even Wallace and Grommit? It has the best chase sequence captured on film
Wallace and Grommit is the main offender haha. Oddly enough, I liked Gumby as a kid.
I thought the American version of The Office wasn’t much better. Just constant cringe humor, it’s exhausting.
