What other shows do you get in Utah?
According to Jewish law, I think I was married to v.2 and v.3 religiously at the same time for a couple of months.
It’s funny, being such an unlikeable asshole myself, I didn’t notice that Greg House was supposed to be unsympathetic until it was pointed out to me. “Sure, he’s a depressive, drug-addicted, miserable egomaniac, who has no regard for the feelings of his colleagues or patients, and is unable to form meaningful human relationships… sounds fine to me, I can relate to that. Oh, wait, people don’t like him? Actually, that makes sense, people don’t like me either.”
Stating the premise as: “It’s Sherlock Holmes {In Space|On a Boat|In Ancient Rome}, only he’s an unlikable asshole” is flawed, since the original Sherlock Holmes was already an unlikable asshole.
You don’t need to include the “unlikable asshole” part is what I’m saying, that’s built into the “It’s Sherlock Holmes” part.
A neurotic, depressed man is asked by his neighbor to watch her dog during the afternoons. The dog, at least from his point of view, is a full-grown man in a bad costume.
I disagree. I don’t see Holmes, as Arthur Conan Doyle wrote him, as an unlikeable asshole. He was quirky and not always easy to get along with, but he was a genuinely good guy and Watson, at any rate, liked him; and I think I would have, too.
Now, on the other hand, Doyle’s other series character Professor Challenger…
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re really a talking dog.
Related to the OP, Happy Endings had a pretty terrible premise: “See what happens to a group of friends when two of them break-up.” Thankfully they realized that premise had no legs and abandoned it pretty quickly.
FWIW, Happy Endings was created by the same team that created Marry Me (the show mentioned in the OP)
Hence my disappointment with the show “Wife Swap.”
Get a bunch of guys with cameras to follow a bunch of police officers around and see what happens.
25 years later if I turn on COPS, it’ll probably 2 hours later before I finally say ‘geez, I’ve got to turn this off and go to bed’.
I remember being excited for the first episode of The Greatest American Hero. When I saw the instruction manual fall from his pocket, I turned the channel, never to watch TGAM again. I had a vision that the rest of the show would be about how he couldn’t control his powers, but would still end up saving the day… which bored me.
Let’s take three stereotypical nerds (one WASP, one India-Indian, and one Jewish, all stereotypically so), add a total stereotypical nerd nutjob and then toss a pretty stereotypically dumb blonde actress into the mix.
Like that show of stereotypical people could ever make a big enough bang to become the #1 comedy!
You’re both wrong. The show’s awful premise is that selfishness and glee in your friends’ misfortunes are actually attractive qualities. And that’s what made it brilliant.
No. Ned actually bought fresh fruit and let it rot in a secret room in the shop. It’s shown in the ep where a crooked health inspector visits.
Agreed.
The funniest portions of the series were the parts when the protagonists weren’t dressed in drag.