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32391, For me, it's a sitcom. The only thing I require is for it to be funny
Posted by mrhood75, Tue Sep-27-05 01:21 PM
I have no idea where this obsession with "sentiment" and being "emotionally involved" with the characters is coming from. (I'm not singling you out, most of the show's detractors seem to be harping on this). The show is goofy, the character's do and say weird shit, it makes me laugh, I'm happy.
Sentiment and obvious efforts to pull at your heart-strings always seem tacked on in sitcoms. It's why I didn't watch Home Improvement or Everybody Loves Raymond or Will and Grace. Most of the time it's just phony and designed to win points with Emmy voters or something. That's why I like the Simpsons: Homer never gets any smarter, Bart's always a wise-ass and Burns is alway evil. I don't want life lessons or emotional development from sitcoms, I want comedy. And AD provides that in spades.
But maybe that's just my opinion.
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