I've never watched that show, and probably never will just because everyone on 
is always like 
LE SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA? EPIC WIN, LET'S POST OUR FAVORITE QUOTES! 
back in the days when the only thing you could watch was broadcast television PBS used to play Monty Python reruns, so a few decades ago there was the archetype of a certain kind of nerdy kid desperate for social contact who would always quote Monty Python
I think this is a similar symptom of people desperate for connection in an even more totally atomized social landscape
Monty Python and the Holy Grail was so exhausting for pre-internet D&D sessions, and quoting it was the meme slop of its time and just as tiresome as anti-humor.
Always Sunny is great, but yeah I can't fucking stand redditors and their annoying habit of constantly shoving "le epic teebee show quote haha upvotes to the left" into the conversation no matter how irrelevant they are to the topic at hand due to their unending need to be seen as part of an in-group.
I realized I made a fatal mistake in the title and should've said "why are they so obsessed with quoting it", because posting a quote from a TV show is not funny even if the show itself is good.
I'm sure it is, but I am very bad at watching TV shows
One of the best technical differences between here and
is that you can edit titles.
IS THAT A $show REFERENCE? AN UPVOTE FOR YOU GOOD SIR
The predictable responses are somehow even more annoying than the predictable reference. There's been a lot of talk lately about bots taking over the internet, dead internet theory, AI - written comments, and so on. Bots rising to the intelligence of humans. But redditors are determined to dumb themselves down to the level of bots.
We're certainly at the point where someone could write a bot that behaves indistinguishably from redditors. Load it up with comments from forced pun threads, quotes from $popular_television_show, throw in a few "Hitler's not a bad guy, he killed Hitler" "but he killed the guy who killed Hitler" comments for good measure and let it loose.
There's an enormous swath of the population who believe the height of comedy is repeating a 15 year old joke out of context
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Edit: This blew up. RIP my inbox.
I know this is an amalgamation of many shitty pastas, but I still kind of want to hit you with a tire iron
You can tell this is outdated since there's nothing about social credit or Winnie the Pooh.
Those haven't been added to this list because they are still considered peak comedy
This comment makes me believe in power words and linguistic spell casting
commented in response to an article from free beacon or some shit
Add "you can't say that on TV these days thanks to cancel culture!" Fucking insufferable.
I'm going to get downvoted for this, but vomits out cryptofascist rant
Wow thanks for the gold kind stranger!
I mean 99% of the time it's shit, but Samuel L Jackson's "the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence" bit from the Boondocks still gets me every time lmao, no matter the context
Granddad, you can't tame the white supremacist power structure with cheese!
"I know about white people too. Like when they talk, they say t h e _ w h o l e _ w o r d, _ l i k e _ t h i s."
It's a funny show, and in the typical display of redditor creativity, they have nothing to add to the conversation but irrelevant jokes from said show.
Idk if this is a hot take and I won't deny it can definitely get a bit cringe, but I feel like referencing things is just kind of a thing that people like to do and have done for about as long as there have been things to reference. It's not like people don't do that here too. Whomst among us has not made an ultimately not that funny joke about a spectre haunting something, yards of linen, or something to that effect?
Referencing a thing to those that are also in the know
Driving a reference into the ground after years and years of repetition like TREE FIDDY and THE CAKE IS A LIE
Thanks for the reply kind 100 stranger, I see you're a man of culture as well
I hate it when people use this one and the thing they are replying to is wrong, but also long, dry, and agrees with the "get out of here" guy
I just played Portal for the first time this year, I finally get it now
I think it's just popular enough, and it is funny. It's good.
Teenagers on reddit do typical harmless teen-cringe shit
Hexers: So anyway I started blasting
If we were actually revolutionary, we would be doing this. Molding ourselves mind and body into the anti-Reddit. Our hatred is pure and our theory is ironclad.
I'm inviting you all to the compound when it's done.
A mod just gently DMed me to tell me compounds are a Reddit thing so I'm tearing it down. See you at the The Grand Hall.
it's one of the most popular millennial comedy shows of all time. if reddit had been around when Seinfeld or Cheers or whatever was on, people would be quoting those shows there instead.
They still do Seinfeld quotes. Don't think I've ever seen anyone quoting Cheers though, unless one counts the odd line from its spinoff Frasier.
I would be surprised since Cheers is so old but much like you could argue it's the comedy of the 80s, Seinfeld is the comedy of the 90s, It's Always Sunny is Arguably the comedy of the post-2000s eras. i think it might be the longest running live action sitcom. I'm not surprised people would reference it bc a ton of people who grew up on tv from mid 2000s to the present have heard of, if not watched the show.
i think it might be the longest running live action sitcom.
Always Sunny? AFAIK it is. Seinfeld only got 7 seasons IIRC, and most of the "classic" sitcoms got even less than that.
I just wanted to point out that even stuff from the 90s was still getting that treatment, even if it's more because Seinfeld reruns were a common part of the afternoon block on broadcast stations during the 2000s than because of people having seen them when they were new. In comparison Cheers was late night filler along with Married, With Children whenever I saw it show up somewhere.
It used to be impossible to criticize Seinfeld online without getting shouted at about how the show isn't funny anymore but is totally the basis of so many other shows that came after it (that in general to me aren't funny now, either).
I hated Seinfeld when it was new and learning that Seinfeld himself was a big time 
case was weirdly vindicating for me regarding that arrogant asshole.
Social media and fan culture have ruined comedy. It happens to just about every funny show the jokes get repeated so much, so quickly, with such intensity, the joke is burned away until it's just the signifier without the signal. Just about every genuinely funny show go through this comedy thresher, which is why I kinda respect that things like "Inside Job" didn't live long enough to see itself utterly decontextualized by keyboard dorks.
Social media and fan culture have ruined comedy. It happens to just about every funny show the jokes get repeated so much, so quickly, with such intensity, the joke is burned away until it's just the signifier without the signal.
Chappelle show and Anchorman pre-date social media and we quoted them shits ALOT when it came out.
True. However I think my point is that social media platforms can allow comedy to travel at such a speed a lot of it is burned away. I too watch a shitton of Chappelle show, I never saw Anchorman but I did see "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" (for the sake of rhetoric, it's pretty much the same as Anchorman) and quoted them quite bit. However I don't recall forums flooded with punchlines or remixes of punchlines or remixes of remixes of punchlines like I do on existing social media.
Media accessbility is way different. All the things we quote now can be streamed and downloaded multiple places. 20 years ago you had to get the DVD or see it in theaters. or catch it on TV the night is aired. Nostalgia has never been more accessible, which leads to IASIP and Seinfeld quotes. Someone can see an IASIP quote and then watch the show immediately. But maybe im just fighting against the leftist tendency to be mad about everything because in the long run who gives a fuck about quotes on reddit. That doesnt make something unfunny suddenly unless youre the Commander Curmudgeon.
But maybe im just fighting against the leftist tendency to be mad about everything because in the long run who gives a fuck about quotes on reddit.
You know what? You right bro, who does give a fuck about quotes on Reddit? The more I think about it, that's the right way of thinking about. Who the fuck cares some Reddit normies like a pretty solid TV show? You're right. I think my prior comments about comedy and the internet are still also true, but I think "im just fighting against the leftist tendency to be mad about everything..." is spot-on. My comments probably are true, but that sentiment is probably "more" true.
That doesnt make something unfunny suddenly unless youre the Commander Curmudgeon.
Commander Curmudgeon is the leader of the salty-hater-industrial complex.
I try to ask myself two questions when i get worked up: does this really matter? and can i do anything about it right now?
In my experience the answer is usually not yes to both questions.
Same here man. I thought it was just gonna be yet another “off-brand” Rick & Morty but they really has some pretty sharp writers and good performances. The artstyle was just a little too close too Rick & Morty so I didn’t give it a shot originally but I am glad my friend kinda forced me to watch it
Lower Decks was like that. It looked and kind of acted like Rick and Morty at first but then it became actually good by the end of the first season onward.
I say this all the time, but by far one of the things that just personally bugs me the most about
is the fucking interminable quote chains. One person makes an oblique reference to some piece of media, and then the next five hundred comments are just other quotes from the same media, or different iterations of exactly the same quote, or whatever. It goes on and on, and you have to scroll down forever to find anything that isn't just some over and over again. It's just so incredibly tedious.even before I became a communist, I had to unsubscribe from pretty much every big subreddit that wasn't about either socialism or esports just so I didn't have to see those fucking chains. Same thing with all the fucking pun-threads that just completely derailed anything going on in there.
literally WOOOOW someone else has watched the longest running liveaction sitcom!!!
I still like the show but obviously reddit is just obnoxious
Absolutely. I wouldn't really mind if one person quoted a TV show if it's a relevant quote, but it's never just one person, there's always someone who adds another, not so relevant, quote, and another, and another…
There is a tendancy amongst a surprisingly high amount of people to read "protagonist" as "good guy who should be emulated". IASIP is a good and largely well written show (although it doesn't pretend to be anything its not) BUT, since the main characters are shitty, shallow, selfish people who don't repent or improve, le epic redditor edgelords can just have a laugh and feel vindicated. We're meant to be laughing at the gang and sympathising with the bemused and disgusted people around them, whereas i think some people manage to miss the point completely, relating to the gang, and so instead end up viewing it as something like fucking south park.
iirc, the creators are not much fond of most of their fanbase.
There is a tendancy amongst a surprisingly high amount of people to read "protagonist" as "good guy who should be emulated".
This whole phenomenon has really been killing shows over the last decade. Even the big bang theory was passable before they turned the protagonists into good guys the audience is supposed to empathise with.
Contemporary writers should (but probably won't, or at least won't care either way because they get paid) realize that if they give a character cool quotable lines, lots of screen time, and present them with agency in the story, that they're going to have consumers quoting them, admiring them, and in many cases even imitating them no matter the writer's supposed intentions.
end up viewing it as something like fucking south park
Matt Stone and Trey Parker are rich white aging libertarian chuds, but even they apparently didn't originally intend Cartman to be some sort of role model or personality template for their fans, but here we are.
Redditors are generally obsessed with quoting TV shows and video games. One of them did some shitty office quote on their tinder profile, and when all the "normies" said it was creepy and weird, the very online redditors flipped out.
I was still on Always Sunny and wondered if they put, like, "It's the implication"
It was some Dwight quote, think it was this one:
"How would I describe myself? Three words. Hard-working, Alpha male. Jackhammer. Merciless. Insatiable."
I mean, it's kind of funny, except that each of those terms is beyond a red flag [other than hard-working, which is fine]. It's good to give people context before jokingly (?) insinuating that you're a rapist on a dating app.
It's good to give people context before jokingly (?) insinuating that you're a rapist on a dating app
Yeah that's it really. It's funny if you get the reference, but most won't, and will think it's creepy.
Well fine, I guess it's also a bit concerning, but not on the same order of magnitude as "merciless"
I saw a thread today where someone said shenanigans and there were no exaggeration SIX separate threads quoting super troopers, each like 2 or 3 comments deep.
Fuck I hate this shit just so fucking much. It makes it impossible to actually find anything interesting or useful on any
thread that gets even remotely popular.
