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Pubic viewing parties for final episode of Big Bang Theory

landtuna said:
I agree with your assessment of the first few years of BBT however, several years in the writing got just silly and Jim Parsons whiny, childish character annoyed me to the extent I could no longer enjoy the show.

The same thing happened with Two and a Half Men when Charlie went off the rails (and especially after they "killed him off") and now with Last Man Standing (which is due mostly to character/actor changes).

Nothing lasts forever.
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I've never seen any declines in quality on any of these shows. They all remained among my favorites.

That includes with Ashton Kutcher taking Charlie Sheen's place. True, he was no Charlie Sheen, but he was no Michael Kelso either.
 
CTListener said:
"The Bob Newhart Show," another favorite of mine, managed to show a Chicago devoid of any other race or ethnicity, except when Bob and friends would talk about a Bulls game they'd seen.

As a kid, I watched shows like "Dick Van Dyke" and "Get Smart" and Bullwinkle cartoons. Maybe black kids were watching those shows, too, if only because network TV offered nonwhite or "ethnic" viewers very little that was any more culturally relevant back then. By the time the shows this thread has been discussing came along, network, independent and cable channels were offering much more relevant entertainment.
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I didn't watch Bob Newhart until he ran an inn in Vermont. I've watched every show he's done since, good or bad, and now I think I would have liked the other show. I saw the episode where Dr. Hartley told everyone about his dream. And a couple of others somewhere.

Dick Van Dyke I discovered when he did a series with Hope Lange and the great author Fannie Flagg. I feel certain I would have liked the series with Mary Tyler Moore but somehow never got around to it, except for the episodes CBS showed us in recent years. I have a channel but not the time, and since it's antenna only unless I spring for the deluxe package, I'm not willing to take chances.

"Get Smart" I watched, as well as Bullwinkle. I rediscovered him later but remembered nothing. Perhaps I wouldn't have gotten the jokes as a kid.
 
landtuna said:
Never watched Cosby either. He weren't my dad! Didn't like him in college and don't like him now.
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I never cared for his attitude about laziness and responsibility, even if he was right, but I thought he was funny a lot of the time. I never cared for the political correctness on that series and liked it better when he and Elvin and Buuuuud got away with stuff or tried to. When he was a bitter old man laid off from an airline and Madeline Kahn was his friend and Doug E. Doug was his Urkel, that was more fun.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I didn't watch Bob Newhart until he ran an inn in Vermont. I've watched every show he's done since, good or bad, and now I think I would have liked the other show. I saw the episode where Dr. Hartley told everyone about his dream. And a couple of others somewhere.

Dick Van Dyke I discovered when he did a series with Hope Lange and the great author Fannie Flagg. I feel certain I would have liked the series with Mary Tyler Moore but somehow never got around to it, except for the episodes CBS showed us in recent years. I have a channel but not the time, and since it's antenna only unless I spring for the deluxe package, I'm not willing to take chances.

"Get Smart" I watched, as well as Bullwinkle. I rediscovered him later but remembered nothing. Perhaps I wouldn't have gotten the jokes as a kid.
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DVD with MTM was pure 50's vanilla sitcom fluff even though it was broadcast mostly in the 60's. Leave it to Beaver stuff. Dick Van Dyke is a hilarious comedian, especially in slapstick environments but MTM was a somewhat whiny person who didn't add anything but cuteness to the show. Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie were the real vocal comedians. Just as Ted Knight was the real comic when MTM went to her TV gig in MN. Given what I know about you I think you'd like the original DVD show. You can probably buy the DVD's cheaper than subscribing to TVland (or wherever) or check with outlets like recycled video or Goodwill.
 
landtuna said:
DVD with MTM was pure 50's vanilla sitcom fluff even though it was broadcast mostly in the 60's. Leave it to Beaver stuff. Dick Van Dyke is a hilarious comedian, especially in slapstick environments but MTM was a somewhat whiny person who didn't add anything but cuteness to the show. Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie were the real vocal comedians. Just as Ted Knight was the real comic when MTM went to her TV gig in MN. Given what I know about you I think you'd like the original DVD show. You can probably buy the DVD's cheaper than subscribing to TVland (or wherever) or check with outlets like recycled video or Goodwill.
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This is why Married with Children gave Fox the start it needed. That show was nothing like a 50's sitcom.
 
I'm not going to watch the series finale as I didn't get into Big Bang I have seen a few EP's in reruns when nothing else was on TBS & every once in a while on CW7 that airs it for a full hour 7 days a week from 7PM to 8PM.
 
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