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why do dark comedy tv shows so often devolve into sentimental garbage over time?
| Aromatic Aquamarine Prole Whorehouse | 11/19/18 |
| cyan ungodly candlestick maker | 11/19/18 |
| Aromatic Aquamarine Prole Whorehouse | 11/19/18 |
| cyan ungodly candlestick maker | 11/19/18 |
| Light messiness | 11/19/18 |
| lemon sneaky criminal | 11/19/18 |
| sticky deranged clown brethren | 11/19/18 |
| thirsty crackhouse | 11/19/18 |
| Salmon exhilarant stain water buffalo | 11/19/18 |
| cyan ungodly candlestick maker | 11/19/18 |
| Salmon exhilarant stain water buffalo | 11/19/18 |
| lavender sadistic twinkling uncleanness | 11/19/18 |
| very tactful comical coldplay fan | 11/19/18 |
| Aromatic Aquamarine Prole Whorehouse | 11/19/18 |
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Date: November 19th, 2018 11:21 AM Author: Aromatic Aquamarine Prole Whorehouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4137148&forum_id=2#37262932) |
Date: November 19th, 2018 11:22 AM Author: cyan ungodly candlestick maker example? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4137148&forum_id=2#37262935) |
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Date: November 19th, 2018 11:27 AM Author: Aromatic Aquamarine Prole Whorehouse glee was dark and edgy for like the first half of the first season then did a complete about face and started being all shitlib and sentimental crazy ex girlfriend after the first season it's harder to think of shows that were trying to be edgy and DIDN'T start taking their characters too seriously. like arrested development and seinfeld. basically everyone else fails at dark sitcom comedy |
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Date: November 19th, 2018 11:30 AM Author: cyan ungodly candlestick maker Seinfeld was never sentimental, it actually got darker and more caustic as it went on. Arrested Development always had a kind of "importance of family" message under its exterior, but I wouldn't call it sentimental either.
Edit: nm, I misread. |
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Date: November 19th, 2018 11:33 AM Author: Light messiness the office's journey from a dark british show to a semi sentimental british show to a semi dark American show to a full schmaltz American show (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4137148&forum_id=2#37263005) |
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Date: November 19th, 2018 11:22 AM Author: lemon sneaky criminal example? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4137148&forum_id=2#37262936) |
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Date: November 19th, 2018 11:33 AM Author: sticky deranged clown brethren The Office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4137148&forum_id=2#37263008) |
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Date: November 19th, 2018 11:22 AM Author: thirsty crackhouse Same reason edgy comedians become sentimentalists. Age mellows and softens people, as does success. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4137148&forum_id=2#37262937) |
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Date: November 19th, 2018 11:23 AM Author: Salmon exhilarant stain water buffalo M*A*S*H*-- best example of this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4137148&forum_id=2#37262942) |
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Date: November 19th, 2018 11:24 AM Author: cyan ungodly candlestick maker The movie isn't sentimental at all, the show was trending that way from the beginning. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4137148&forum_id=2#37262953) |
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Date: November 19th, 2018 11:26 AM Author: Salmon exhilarant stain water buffalo First couple of seasons (with Henry Blake and Trapper) are great. A little sentimental but mostly it followed movie pretty well in spirit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4137148&forum_id=2#37262969) |
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Date: November 19th, 2018 11:31 AM Author: lavender sadistic twinkling uncleanness in American comedy, optimism always has to have the last word (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4137148&forum_id=2#37262996) |
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Date: November 19th, 2018 11:34 AM Author: very tactful comical coldplay fan This ruined the last season of Tim and Eric. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4137148&forum_id=2#37263018) |
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Date: November 19th, 2018 11:35 AM Author: Aromatic Aquamarine Prole Whorehouse im tired of this shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4137148&forum_id=2#37263024) |