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TVTropes refers to this as Crosses the Line Twice and the example even references a thought that if someone being in pain is funny, more pain would be more funny.pinback wrote:The other thing that Family Guy does the very very very best is the comedic concept of doing something funny, then repeating it until it stops being funny, then continuing to repeat it until it becomes funny once again!
Personally, I like Family Guy a lot more than The Simpsons, although I don't know if putting Cleveland in a spinoff of his own was justifiable, I didn't think he was that significant a character.
Let's take A Christmas Carol, and consider that we might have been able to do a spin-off of Jacob Marley: The Early Years to show how he was before he met Ebineezer Scrooge. I doubt we could do much with Bob Cratchitt or Tiny Tim unless it devolved into a pity party about how horrible things are. And there's nothing there to do a story about an Elizabethan England Pawn Broker (the guy who buys the curtains from the old woman). (Although some might have said the same thing about a current-day Las Vegas pawnbroker).
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Tdarcos
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The copyright date on the end credit scene with the red car driving down the street, indicates the show was made in 1965 (MCMLXV), I thought the show was (1) in black and white and (2) in the late 1950s or possibly 1960 or 1961.Flack wrote:I think the real crime here is that no one is talking about My Mother, The Car.
This tells me something about what people can pass on, I had the impression the show was basically horrible, like a video version of the Edsel (no pun intended). Wikipedia, in fact, reports it is either the worst show ever made or the second worst after Jerry Springer.
Also, it might be they didn't have them then, but I note the car had a standard (for then) California yellow on black license plate, (PZR 317) typically if you have a car over 20 years old - in the show, this car would have been nearly 40 years old - you can get historic or antique license plates for it.
One thing they did not do that LA Law got in trouble with, is the plate does not have year stickers on it. Someone wrote a note in TV Guide to note that the LA Law opening scene, where the guy slams the trunk on a car with that license plate, failed to update the opening because it was later than the year on the stickers and it meant those tags were expired.
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Tdarcos
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No shit, Sherlock. Care to tell us anything we didn't know, like Star Trek was a show about a trek out to the stars, or that Stargate SG-1 was about a military team identified as SG-1 that used a star gate to travel, or that Barney Miller is the story of a police captain named Book 'Em Dano, or that Meet the Press is a show about steaks being put in a compression grill, and so on?Bugs wrote:SPOILER ALERT
His mother is a car.
"All I know about history is that Columbus sailed to Ohio in 1776."
- Ricky Ricardo, I Love Lucy
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