I don’t mean that the joke just isn’t funny, I want to know a joke that almost makes you want to fast-forward through the scene.
This is why I avoid watching all commercials in America which inevitably take this trope to the extreme every chance they get. Usually referring to the man who is a doddering incompetent who must be ordered out of his “man cave” to perform some sort of yard or mechanical chore to prove his worth.
I hate how in Disney family sitcoms as well as some cartoons, there's always the stock dumb kid that gives the majority of the humor, and it's humor that gets old.
The example I think that got me to dislike the trope was in Austin and Ally. The character Desmond was eating a muffin with the muffin wrapper on, and one of the characters mentioned you "have to remove the wrapper before eating it", so he removes the wrapper and throws the muffin away and starts eating the wrapper because that's how he interpreted their advice. And I'm thinking has there ever been a teenager who didn't have some instinct on how to eat a muffin.
I grow tired of how all the Pixar style movies use the same facial visual gags. They're all kinda samey.
This is in a lot of shows and not just sitcoms, but I hate contrived argumentative dialogue that's set up so that the protagonist always gets the last word with "witty" responses/comebacks. It's like watching a "I'm the attractive Chad and you are the ugly NPC" meme in real time.
Some of the Scrubs jokes aged badly. I can't remember any specifically, but there was some anti-gay humor and stuff like that. The show I still appreciated enough to get through a rewatch recently and still mostly enjoyed, but some of the individual jokes were hard to sit through. Wish I could remember one lol.
Same with Futurama. Kif repeatedly reacting disgusted at Zapp's more homoerotic antics or singing a pro-trans song, do not seem to sit right when watched with a modern eye.
Any kind of overt and heavily pushed version of their stereotyped personality is the joke.
My friend showed me IT crowd for the first time and I loved it, but then we got to That Episode
https://www.reddit.com/r/TransyTalk/comments/121tiz2/that_it_crowd_episode/
The one where Matt Berry's character freaks out and dumps his girlfriend after finding out she's trans, and we're meant to be sort of on his side
Ah yes. There's actually quite a lot of jokes that feel more controversial in retrospect but yeah that one's pretty bad
The episode may have aged badly, but I disagree we're supposed to be on his side. Absolutely everything he does is batshit insane...
