I never even tried to get into the show. It doesn’t air at a time I can watch it and I won’t bother recording it if I don’t already know I want to watch it. What group would I fall in? 
Damn you to hell for beating me to that one.
Yeah, that sucks.
But so did she!
Ba-da-boom!
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I think you’re confusing Tracy Lord (Hepburn’s character in The Philadelphia Story) with the former underage porn star Traci Lords.
I think that was kinda point of the joke. Which apparently you didn’t quite get.
What’s so “great” about sliced bread? I’ve had sliced bread. “Great” is not the first adjective that comes to mind. It’s bread. It’s sliced. Get over it.
:rolleyes: Obviously, you just don’t get it.
You know, it’s really dissapointing how little progress has been made in bread technology. It’s been hundreds of years since we invented the slice. Shouldn’t something new and better have come along by now? What are we paying all these scientists for anyway?
Better than sliced bread?! What could be better?
I’ll tell you, when I come home from a hard days work with a hankering for a sandwich, I can’t be bothered with all that time-consuming slicing. What I need is a quick two pieces of bread; none of this fooling around with a knife business.
And, did you know they actually have a special knife just for slicing bread? Incredible… it actually requires special tools!
They have added dried oats and other nuggety goodness to breads, but I’m afraid slicing it is about as far as we can realistically take it. Besides, “that’s better than cloned bread artificially flavored with lab-grown, genetically altered apples” just doesn’t have the same ring.
I got it. I just didn’t *like * it.
Unlike Tracy Lords, who did get it. A lot. As mentioned.
Tough crowd.
Finally beat all the other smartasses to the punch and I’m nitpicked. What’s this world coming to anyway?
You’re making a point, right? I get that these are common criticisms of the TV viewing public. But you don’t actually expect us to believe that people complained about it because it doesn’t have a laugh track, right? If there really are actually people who need help to figure out where the punchlines are, it’s safe to say they’re not self-aware enough to know that they don’t get it because it doesn’t have a laugh track. And no one ever mistook the show for a documentary either - obviously, that’s the look they’re going for, but it doesn’t take much more than a thirty second glance to see that it’s a sitcom.
And a bad sitcom. I’ve never understood the adulation for this show at all. I’ll accept that some people find it funny - and probably people with reasonably sophisticated taste at that. But I sure wasn’t one of them. Maybe it takes ten episodes before you “get” it, but the pilot sure didn’t grab me, and none of the other three or four episodes I ended up watching didn’t either. I feel perfectly entitled not to give a TV show any more chances than that. It just wasn’t funny. The voiceover gimmick got old really quick, and since essentially the entire plot of the show was done through voiceover, well, I didn’t like it much. It wasn’t all that clever - the humor usually revolved around crap like the aforementioned chicken dance and other “zany antics”, and I guess I’m not really into zany antics.
There’s plenty of successful comedies that don’t have laugh tracks. Hell, look at the Simpsons - it’s been on forever, and (this point may only be valid for the first ten years or so) the humor is pretty clever and depended a lot less on silliness like chicken dances and boys falling in love with their cousins.
Uck. I don’t like the show, but hey - de gustibus non est disputandum, eh? So please drop all references to this false idea that most people are just too dumb to get it. I’m not saying most TV is brilliant, but this show wasn’t exactly highbrow either. Its unpopularity is because it’s something interesting to a niche audience, not because most people just can’t understand it. That argument - whether you’re applying it to the SDMB or not - is both elitist and inherently obnoxious because it automatically belittles those who disagree with you. Knock it off.
Believe it or not, I have voluntarily switched from sliced bread to homemade non-sliced bread. Next year, I’m moving into a cave.
I never watched the show, but the impression I got from hearing people talk about it was that it had a lot of whiny characters. So perhaps it was a simple matter of, it attracted a lot of whiny viewers, and this reaction is only to be expected.
“I’ve got no idea what’s going on but here’s my stupid opinion anyway” Tee hee!
YOU CAN’T HANDLE SLICED BREAD!!! –
Jack Nicholson, A Few Good Loaves.
Yeah but Tracy Lord got it from Cary Grant. I don’t think Traci could beat that (whatever else she might have beaten).
I get sliced bread. Specially delivered. Then a team of carefully trained Hawaiian dancers move the bread, slice by slice, from the door to my bed, where I eat it with fresh caviar and rare cheeses.