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What shows have aged horribly for you? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

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What shows have you grown out of, or has society grown out of? Were they popular in their time? Were they not so much? Why do you feel like they've aged? I'll leave mine below

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Over the last few years I did some stretches of a lot of 90's and early 2000's sitcoms.

In regards to the ones I now cant stand: Home Improvement, Everybody Loves Raymond and King of Queens tops my list. I adored those shows growing up, now I wouldnt watch bored flicking through the channels.

Was very surprised how much I ended up loving some I hated growing up. Seinfield, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and Frasier, just to name a few.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

I feel like everybody loves Raymond was bordering on aged when it premiered.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you'd like to see a version of King Of Queens/Everybody Loves Raymond done really well for the modern age, the show 'Kevin can Fuck Himself' does it amazingly. Its a single camera sitcom from the dopey husbands point of view, and a dark, moody drama from the wife's point of view. 10/10 television.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Such a great way to describe Kevin Can Fuck Himself, excellent show

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Third rock is on my to-watch list, I'll have to bump it up. I agree with you on the can't watches. You can tell Home Improvement just wanted to solidify male toxicity as a normal thing, albeit they goofed with it a bit, and at least Jill went on to get her doctorate - but there were still very much gender roles throughout the show. King of Queens is just... annoying now, the only positive is when Patton Oswalt is on screen. Everybody Loves Raymond I'll admit is a comfort show. Not for it's award winning acting or anything, but I still find it a chill veg-out tune-out show.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

3rd Rock is quite good. Definitely a product of its time, it has what appears at first to be all the same poorly-aged sentiments, but almost always with the purpose of parodying how backwards and savage that behavior is

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Third Rock absolutely slaps, to this day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Really? I haven’t watched older shows recently but last time I saw a snippet of Seinfeld, my reaction was why did we ever think that was funny

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

a lot of ’90s* and early 2000s* sitcoms