Quote: Aaron @ July 19 2008, 10:12 PM BSTWoah, woah! Now that is damning. Not as funny as Alexei Sayle? Daaaaaaaaamn.
Exactly.
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I think I am going to carry on watching this, because it still sort of feels like something funny might appear. I did like the scene where he was answering the questions, and he kept ticking racist. Quite funny. And the bit where he would distract the bloke by nudging the pictures crooked. But yes, mostly it was just nothing, most of the characters add nothing to the show and the bloke in the freezer was just about the worst thing in any sitcom for quite some time. But like I say, something is going to make me keep watching.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ July 19 2008, 11:01 PM BSTI think I am going to carry on watching this, because it still sort of feels like something funny might appear. I did like the scene where he was answering the questions, and he kept ticking racist. Quite funny. And the bit where he would distract the bloke by nudging the pictures crooked.
Yes! Those are the same bits I liked.
Quote: zooo @ July 19 2008, 11:14 PM BSTYes! Those are the same bits I liked.
Yes, there are a couple of good bits, beneath the mountains of 'what-the-crap?' bits. I still like to think something might come of this. I imagine it won't, but I'd like it to, it's nice to have good shows to look forward to, rather than bad ones to delight in running down! Just me?
Quote: Pete @ July 19 2008, 10:39 PM BSTIs that the same as "like a midget, only not as tall" ?
More or less, yeah.
I watched the second episode and I reckon it does exactly what it says on the tin. It's not Fawlty Towers or Seinfeld, but then nothing is.... well apart from Seinfeld and Fawlty Towers.
It has an old fashioned feel about it - and I like it enough to carry on watching. At least it isn't lazy.
Quote: Marc P @ July 20 2008, 10:44 AM BSTI watched the second episode and I reckon it does exactly what it says on the tin. It's not Fawlty Towers or Seinfeld, but then nothing is.... well apart from Seinfeld and Fawlty Towers.
It has an old fashioned feel about it - and I like it enough to carry on watching. At least it isn't lazy.
Agree, although do you think its just hit and miss or did they have some good jokes and got a bit lazy? Its just the difference between the good stuff and the bad is quite big.
I think any show that does silly runs the huge risk of it falling flat if the audience don't get it. People hated the big snail for example.. but I thought it was funny. Incredibly stupid, deliberately bad FX - but that was the idea, and I found it funny. Other people didn't. But calling it Bad is like someone who doesn't like indian food calling a curry bad. Bad is when something hasn't be thought through, crafted and worked. This show clearly has been that. The Hit and Miss factor is just personal preference I think. You can't really over intellectualise emotional response at a visceral level, and you don't get much more of an emotional response at a visceral level than comedy. Every so often you get a sitcom that comes along that hits all the right notes, casting, script, directing etc and it becomes a classic over time. Other times you get stuff that is perfectly fine just not brilliant. Which is okay by me actually - you don't want a roast beef dinner every day of the week after all - but you still have to eat.
Lab Rats is fish and chips to me. Great with a bottle of Corona and save the 16% Back Shed Shiraz for 'Parklife'.
Quote: ContainsNuts @ July 20 2008, 11:18 AM BSTAgree, although do you think its just hit and miss or did they have some good jokes and got a bit lazy?
There are great jokes in there. Many are just very hard to pick up on unless you're looking for them specifically.
Quote: Aaron @ July 20 2008, 11:46 AM BSTThere are great jokes in there. Many are just very hard to pick up on unless you're looking for them specifically.
Don't worry, I've not missed any of the jokes. I just rate them differently. I agree with Marc P that its just taste. By the way I'm one the positive people about this show. I'll be watching more as the good out-weighs the bad IMO.
Everyone who's serious about comedy - be it fan or writer - should watch it all, IMO.
Quote: Marc P @ July 20 2008, 11:33 AM BSTBut calling it Bad is like someone who doesn't like indian food calling a curry bad.
Not quite. I like curry but, from time to time, will have one that is bad.
I like comedy but, this was bad!
Pete, put that spade down.
Haven't read the thread but I understand from other comments this didn't go down very well. I only watched the first half of it on iplayer (because I had to go out) but I don't really have interest in catching the second half, very CBBC comedy.
Quote: Aaron @ July 20 2008, 1:54 PM BSTEveryone who's serious about comedy - be it fan or writer - should watch it all, IMO.
What is this, communist run Sitcom Land? Where you have to watch every single episode of every comedy, no matter how bad or indifferent? No, one episode is more than enough of any substandard show. Life's too short to waste on bad art.