Yep.
I watched Skytanic all those years ago and was hooked.
Unfortunately, the show after Season 3 has been unwatchable.
But Seasons 1, 2 & 3 are fantastic!
But this is just a generally silly comment. Just because I can’t laugh about everything doesn’t mean I laugh about nothing! Plus I think the operative words in that phrase are “good joke”. Subjective.
That being said, I have no problem if people want to make this into an Archer appreciation thread. See, I have no problem when other people like something I don’t.
That’s not what they said.
They said you can’t claim to have a “great sense of humor”, yet only laugh when something doesn’t have anything to do with you.
It’s not a direct response to what you said, just a related comment.
And I can claim I have a pretty good sense of humor. I don’t think I ever made the claim I have a great sense of humor. This kind of comment is always trotted out whenever someone doesn’t find something funny: “Oh, but if you had a sense of humor you’d like it!”
I admit, I am made uncomfortable when white people make jokes about my ethnicity. I don’t see why this is a problem.
Depends on the joke. A black person might be less inclined to laugh at “Boy, black folk sure do love watermelon, don’t they? MAMMY!” than at “You freaked out when I said quadroon!”
Anaamika’s complaint about the curry joke seemed to be not only “This is about my culture” but also that it was lazy and overdone.
Since people seemed to miss it the first time (I’m not even the one who said it!):
If an Indian makes a joke about Americans grilling smelly beef hamburgers on their patio every night should I be offended?
Or should I just recognize that humor is almost always at the expense of someone and much of humor is based on the differences between people?
OK, I understand that everyone here is trying to help, but if someone watches Skytanic without watching* Skorpio *first, they’re losing a huge chunk of the funny.
The recommendation should be to watch both and if you don’t like it, then give up.
I realize that some people may feel like I’m due change for my two cents, but there it is.
This would be the “punching up” versus “punching down” argument when making jokes.
Watch ‘Placebo Effect’ (Season 2, Episode 9).
If you don’t find that episode funny, then it’s just not for you.
I tried to watch Archer, but I can’t get past Ben Katz’s voice coming out of his mouth.
This! So much this!
The ethnic/racial/sexists jokes aren’t at the expense of those groups; it’s at the expense of the upper-crust privileged white people, like Sterling and Mallory Archer.
Basically, if you’re not an upper class New York/East Coast WASP like them, you’re in for it. And they’ve cracked on the Irish, English, French, Germans, and Italians just as much as any other non-white group of people.
I am more than a little offended by the term “East Indian.” I would appreciate it if the term was just shortened to the more acceptable “Indian.”
“East Indian” harks back to a hate-filled time when Native Americans were called “Indians.”
Most Native Americans I’ve known ( and I’ve known a fair few, we had an AI studies program at my university and I knew some Blackfoot folks growing up ) if they weren’t being referred to by their tribe, seemed to prefer being called Indians or American Indians over Native Americans. shrug I always rather liked the unambiguous Amerindian myself, but hardly anyone seems to have adopted that one.
As for Archer - love it, particularly for its use of the word crepuscular :D. But, yes - Archer the character is a monumental ass about virtually all things, though gradually humanizing by the tiniest baby-steps ever over the course of several seasons.
My husband generally has to watch “Archer” when I’m not in the room because I very quickly grew tired of the vomiting sound effects.
They still are, and many don’t mind. It’s not like anyone is clamoring to rename the Bureau of Indian Affairs like they are the Washington Redskins. And people from the West Indies consider themselves West Indians. In my area, you might be surprised how many times someone says they want Indian food and they mean West Indian, not East Indian, cuisine.
So be offended away all you want, but it can be a necessary clarification. Just because the bull is offended by the red shirt doesn’t mean I’ll stop wearing red shirts.* Some things a person or small group of people take offense too get to nitpicky to really care about.
P.S. I’m ~1/4 (a little less than that, but good enough for rounding purposes) Cherokee, on my mother’s side. My family has no beef with Indian. Or Native American. Or, at least among family and when one of us gets sunburned, Redskin.
*I’ll stop wearing them because it means I’ll die when I get sent on away missions
It must really suck to only have access to one tv show to watch. I guess I as an American of American descent am just too privileged to really understand.
Of course the creators of the show understand that. They’ve been spying on you since you were a child and you must have done something to annoy them for them to create this show just to piss you off.
Well now you know all those people who told you it was funny are racist assholes. That’s good to know.
To be honest, I didn’t like the show the first time I saw it, either. It took a few episodes for me to start appreciating it. And it can still be hit-or-miss with me sometimes.
Say what you will about Archer, but he was spot-on with his Margarita comment.
You seem really worried about people’s opinions on Archer, man.