Site question: Why are stand up specials filed under TV when there is a comedy category?

People have different tastes and I can accept that, but “realistic” is not something I look for in my genre fiction. I want bad guys to be defeated and innocents to be saved. I didn’t love Barb’s death either.

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I can barely remember last year. Can somebody remind me what the “surgery” thing is?

I absolutely agree with you. I suppose some deaths of unnamed characters are “necessary” to establish the stakes, but explicitly making it a couple dozen townspeople including a kid was I think unnecessarily cruel.

Good point. I wouldn’t mind The Tick being canceled so much if they hadn’t teased an interesting story for season 3, aka the Iron Fist effect.

No. Please don’t.

I’d love to see more features like this with cost breakdowns and similar data driven analysis of the food industry.

Wait. 10 year old Spongebob is a prequel? How old is he supposed to be now? Just today I tweeted a joke about Spongebob going through puberty in the future. I’d hate to think that it was factually inaccurate.

I have the same problem from the exact opposite perspective: I wait desperately for the server/bartender to look away before lunging to put my money in the tip jar before they turn back around because tipping is an inherently socially awkward thing that is made a thousand times worse by eye contact, like farting or…

As long as they are reconsidering stuff, how about giving The Kids Are Alright another look? It had better ratings than some of the shows they did renew.

I had pretty much the exact opposite reaction than the review. I thought the plot elements were fine (mostly - see below), but the attempts at comedy were awful. People acting giggly and saying random outrageous things is rarely funny. And it might have been a good gag had the episode contrived a series of events to…

Yeah. My joke not withstanding, it doesn’t make a lot of sense based on his injuries that that should necessarily be completely closed off to him. I’d like to think that if the show were continuing that in a couple of years under Pod’s tutelage and possibly with the help of some sort of Tyrion-designed hoist King Bran…

I’m an only child so I don’t know, but may I assume that it is accurate that even when you’re being made king you can count on your big sister to tell everyone in the room how your balls don’t work?

I’m going to be Dennis here for a minute and say that weaksauce cold open actually made me kind of mad. It felt like it could have been a celebration of Trump’s successful malfeasance rather than a satire of it. Though, to be fair, maybe we are as fucked as we seem to be and SNL deserves some credit for acknowledging…

Making a light hearted comedy in a setting than includes crimes and criminals is a balancing act, and as much as I like B99, I find sometimes it stumbles. I want to like Caleb - it’s Tim Meadows FFS - but the “I ate children stuff” is just too much for me.

Yeah, I guess, though the movies haven’t done much to establish a multiverse outside of some ill-defined timeline talk in Endgame. I don’t spend a lot of time crying over it, but I actually kind of hate the multiverse concept in genre fiction, as it usually just gets used as a “Get Out of Canon Free” card.

There is of course the chance that there will be a pay off later, but I’m annoyed not to have even any lip service paid to Avengers continuity. I thought that was the whole point for delaying the premiere until after Endgame.

I agree except for the not getting greedy part. I want more The Kids Are Alright. Apparently the ratings took a dive after The Conners ended its short season. Seems like the thing to do would be bring it back and pair them again, but then I’m not a highly paid TV executive.

I loved that Phil actually accomplished all of his birthday goals; the obvious joke would have been for him to fail spectacularly. In particular, I loved how the scene with the asshole kid at the recital resolved. Phil deserved that win.