What is a television show that you could never "get"?

[smahala1991]

personally, I never understood Seinfeld. I don't know why but I found it ot not really have a understandable plot or storyline.

[WhiteSteve]

Oh man, breaking my heart, Seinfeld is incredible! If you’re looking for plot, though, it might not be for you. That show is about the jokes and the interactions that make mundane things hilarious. Any plot line is loose and maybe just a season long arc that is only of minor importance, really only serving as a vehicle for jokes. Great, great characters, too, just outstanding comedic performances.

I’d say what I don’t get is a lot of reality TV. Why am I watching people live? I get that they’re weirdos and they do crazy shit, but that’s an ugly side of humanity I want to see LESS of, not more. My girlfriend is into a lot of it, Real Housewives Of Everywhere, Vanderpump Rules, the Bachelor/Bachelorette shows. The thing I keep coming back to is…. I don’t know these people personally, so I just have no interest in watching them act like idiots. People who I knew personally, if they acted like idiots, I would start the process of no longer knowing them personally upon seeing it. I can’t imagine being like “I NEED SEVERAL HOURS OF THIS PUMPED INTO MY VEINS!” I cannot stand interpersonal drama, and that’s what these shows are based around, so that’s the opposite of what I’m trying to watch, lmfao.

[DaveJord]

So, I got married at 20, so I never understood Steinfeld either. But once I divorced and started dating... dude the show is hilarious. I totally get the humor now. Steinfeld was literally a show about nothing, that was the joke. Just day to day stuff and situation, that happens all the time but is funny if you think about it.

BOSOM BUDDIES!

Like I never got this show. I was like 5 years old when it came out... but the premise of the show was that these two straight guys, dress like woman so they could live in a cheap apartment just for woman.

Like, who the hell would ever think these two men were woman. Like as a kid I could not understand it, like it's so obvious these are two guys with wigs on, dressed like woman.

I never got it honestly.

[provokeesmokee]

Friends.

I'm not white or rich, so it was never something relevant.

Watching it more recently, I realized the laugh track put me off. It runs at nearly every line, even when nothing funny is said. Or worse, it runs to make Ross' incel manchild behaviour "cute".

I never understood the show. It isn't funny. The people aren't good friends. You can't afford that kind of mansion in NYC on a server salary.

Just overall a terrible show. The only people I know who like it are middle aged middle-upperclass straight white women.

It is the Pumpkin spice of TV shows.

[Staximus]

Yeah friends sucks. Not really funny

[strateguy632]

the laugh track sounds draw some people to laugh that is ehy they enjoy series friends not the jokes.

[progboy]

Thank God I'm not the only one that didn't like Friends!

[DaveJord]

Friends, the apartment they lived in was rent controlled. Monica only got it from her grandmother through inheritance. Moncia moved to care for her grandmother, then her grandmother died, and she inherited the rent control that how she afforded it.

I appreciated the Jefferson's and the Fresh Prince of Belair, and I didn't have to be black to be relevant to me. They were good shows. Too back so see you so racially relevant about everything... you don't sound racists at all.

[DaveJord]

* Too bad you seem so racially relevant...

[ShesRad80]

it was the show about nothing- Seinfeld. hilarious!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_8PDZ0nS_C8

most anything on the WB network back in the day, like one tree hill, gossip girl etc

[molonski2]

I really liked Seinfeld , to me it was just about a group living in a big city , over thinking everything and I thought it was quick , punchy , funny , easy to watch , all in the writing.

Well for me Jerry Springer , being an Aussie that kind of Trash TV doesn't quite cut it , but I had a fascination , as to ' Were these people Real or Fake? " , still dont know.

[smahala1991]

It was pretty much stretching truth and embellishing it. They did get a free holiday I believe in exchange

[molonski2]

Do you know anybody who went on the show? And did they have to act in a certain way?

[molonski2]

I should have said " Friends " too , I never , ever understood how those fools got paid so much for that !

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

The office. It's just a show about a bunch of terrible people causing problems for each other for like... 9 seasons? It's ridiculous, I sat through every season just to try and see what the hype was about, hoping I would find that point where it was actually good, and I do not get it at all. Parks and Rec does a better job with the fake docu-series style sitcom than they do and their characters are much more likable.

[molonski2]

The British version was awesome , but it wouldn't have worked in USA , Ricky made it , loved that show , had bosses like Ricky hahahaha , smiling at how incorrect it was , but USA doesn't quite get " Irony " .
Agree the USA version was shite.

[rosemilk]

i sat through half an episode of the office because my coworker just kept raving about it. turned it off, i hated it. i don't get the hype. i can understand why my coworker likes it since she's immature and rude lol.

[molonski2]

@rosemilk As I said the original " Office " was not the USA version , written by Ricky G..
He sold the rights into the USA , Its about Irony ( Ironic ) and some of the things that happen with bosses , the original is VERY funny , but not for a USA audience , because Irony doesn't work in the USA. And far from " immature " it requires some considerable intelligence to understand the sub plots.

[rosemilk]

@molonski2 i was replying to @cupcakethedestroyer...

[molonski2]

@rosemilk fair enough Rose apologies.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

This is more of a cartoon but Beavis and Butthead. Just seems like 2 guys that love to hurt each other and think it's funny to bleed while being in excruciating pain.

[smahala1991]

Ironically it was made by the same guy as King of the Hill

[progboy]

A lot of people didn't like it and were put off by the constant sniggering but it was actually pretty clever. I was a big fan. when I first saw it on a trip to the US in the 90s.

[Anonymous]

To be fair, I did not watch it very often, but "Friends," was a show the appeal of which I never understood.

It had funny moments, to be sure. However, for the most part, it seemed like the same 6 people doing the same things over and over again only to end up about where they started.

This especially including the fact that they seemed to all fall in love with each other. Then break up and then fall in love with another one of the 6 in their group. Then break up and maybe see someone else and then break up and go back to the people they had started with, world without end.

It just did not work for me and I could rarely get interested in it.

P. S. By the way, have to admit I loved "Seinfeld."

[EmmaMary]

The Prisoner... A UK 1960's TV series, which has had many repeats over the years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner

[butterly248]

Never heard of that one!

[exitseven]

The Prisoner was such a great show. You really had to pay attention to it and it had many different levels. It also was created in the 1960s which was a post war environment when everyone was trying to figure out who they were. It was the individual VS. The group mind. It was a satire on government. It was also an attack on the lack of transparency in our society. Rhe theme music was amazing as well.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/vik-7MjKDa0https://www.youtube.com/embed/quzRzYQ5Xwo

A Show About NOTHING it is & it will & will always be a show that meant SOMETHING to me. Seinfeld was a show that I got & reality shows nowadays are shows that I could never get.

[clampfan101]

Most with rude humor. Some people are still laughing their butts of at The Office. I tried it and all I saw was a stupid annoying jerk.

[smahala1991]

i'm the same with Family Guy

[clampfan101]

Ugh! Those “adult” cartoons are so immature!

[slatyb]

"I found it [to] not really have a understandable plot or storyline." No, that's the point. Seinfeld himself said "It's a show about nothing". Really it's just about people's idiosyncrasies. In a way each episode was a comedy routine, except of someone standing on a stage and telling the story, it was acted out.

[Miah05]

I watched reruns of friends, and i was like. umm why are people obsessed with this. It had some decent jokes but it was like what's the point of any of this

[Anonymous]

Game of thrones. I mean all I got from it was a bunch of gay guys with flaccid weiners that were in good shape and a raggin chick with a bad dye job that could talk to dragons... did I miss anything? I never got the draw of it.

[menina]

For me it's "Friends". I don't understand how come some many people think it's funny. I don't get their jokes and I find it boring.

[menina]

*come so

[sheenagwapa]

Riverdale this is popular but i really don't like it

[Slingblade1126]

Unsolved Mysteries. I liked the show but always felt cheated. Like my brother said, "I just don't get this show. You watch it for an hour but there is never an ending".

[strateguy632]

seinfeld ALWAYS had some problem to overcome like why did the lady ask to stay at Jerry's apartment instead of hotel. but around the theme many unrelated situations of silliness

[CloudScraper]

I loved Seinfeld back in the day. I’ve tried to watch it again recently and I’m not even able to make it through an episode lol.

There are lots it shows I try but don’t get into. I block them out so fast I can’t think of an example lol.

[Drewtate]

Six feet under, brothers and sisters, fleabag, sex and the city, the real world, Rosanne, the office, 30 Rock, this is us, started discovery

[DarkWinterNights]

Most of the comedies of the last 10 years. Big Bang Theory was all right, but Friends was better in its day. A lot of the humor in these sit-comms just isn’t landing with me.

[progboy]

Peaky Blinders. I persevered with it for 3 or 4 series thinking I should like it and maybe it would grow on me but it never did. It got rave reviews and was very slickly made but I just really never warmed to it at all. I gave up eventually.

[HaveNoName]

Any American show that classifies itself as Comedy or part Comedy. I cannot laugh at American humor; I simply cannot. And neither do I find it moderately amusing. Normally, I find them borderline cringeworthy.

[AviatorTom]

I only saw a few episodes of GOT... never understood it

[AngryCarl2]

What's to understand? There were boobies.

[dolemite58]

amen so boring

[Nikki1989]

Seinfeld is the only comedy TV show I have ever found even slightly amusing.

[BoopBoopBeep]

Friends. Seinfeld too. They are why i stopped watching sitcoms.

[OddBeMe]

Mad men. I love that time period, and the nostalgia. I even know the famous ad campaigns they reference. But it’s soooo boring…. First season was alright, but it was just mindless cheating on wives and nothing really.

[rosemilk]

big bang theory. actually i find it quite annoying.

[DancingQueen16]

It would be that Disney Channel show Star vs The Forces of Evil I got confused after watching a few episodes in season 1

[whistlingwh0res]

friends.. it's all white and I don't understand at all. frasier - those people supposed to be funny but not me.. married with kids - I don't understand American family

[strateguy632]

i get your complaint but they included minorities, jews. similarly series big bang and phineas ferb had main characters minority

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Bewitch/ Addams Family Value

[Wonderingguyy]

Outer banks. It’s so bad! Don’t understand the hype at all

[jahaims]

Seinfeld is a show about nothing. It doesn't really follow a story. That was its big thing at the time. A show about nothing.

[strateguy632]

it always had a plot despite many unrelated situations.

[Shark_61695]

Jackass, Little Britain, pretty much any reality show, soap operas and many more

[MysticDevice]

The office. I can't stand Steve Carell and the show isn't at all funny.

[sheikalana]

Friends. Don't understand the hype.

[Grovermint]

Reality TV, seems really scripted despite supposedly happening.

[Christoff92]

Seinfeld. They're idiots. Went to jail for breaking some kinda law. Morons 🤣

[strateguy632]

in the last episodes, for not helping people.

[dolemite58]

Friends, it was such an unfunny, mediocre sitcom and people act like it was one of the greatest shows ever.

[Joshuabenitez]

The walking dead. Omg so boring.

[gothbxtch]

friends

[SpaceGalaxy]

The Kardashians

[Staximus]

Seinfeld is hilarious

[LiamJHayden]

Big Bang Theory.

[Snakeyes7]

The vast majority of them.

[MaxUsefull]

Seinfeld is a comedy masterpiece

[petitedollbabee]

Trailer park boys.

[Simslover92]

Seinfeld for me too.

[butterly248]

Friends

[butterly248]

And the Kardashians

[exitseven]

The Office

[orangecream]

The Office

[AngryCarl2]

Breaking Bad

[biggdaddyhawk1975]

Seinfeld
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