One and a Half Men and a Kutcher, or, Oh dear God no why WHY

[Mondt]

Haters gonna hate on mindless TV. Two and a Half Men is at the top of my list when it comes to 'My Brain Is Fried, Couchlock' time. That and That 70's Show. Hopefully this will be like a beautiful marriage of the two...

But I know it won't. =(

[Art of Hilt]

“The ultimately interesting point in all this is debated in television and theater classes across America all the time,” says Fordham University communications professor Paul Levinson, author of “New New Media.” “Is it the overall characters or the overall story that is most compelling to audiences?”

Commenting on “Two and a Half Men,” he adds, “If Ashton Kutcher succeeds in the absence of Sheen, it will weigh in on the side that characters are less important than the overall story. If he doesn’t succeed, it will be evidence that overall, characters are more important.”

WHAT STORY

THERE
IS
NO
STORY

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Overcast

The rest of those shows either seem so separated from the typical sitcom that I don't think of them when the word sitcom comes up.

Overcast, thats not how words work, you dont just get to make up a definition. Of course you think they all suck when your personal definition requires them to suck, because according to you, if it doesnt' suck, then its not a sitcom.

According to the definition of sitcom, those shows are sitcoms. Media calls them sitcoms, audience calls them sitcoms, reviews call them sitcoms, they simply are sitcoms. If you dont like those shows ok, but dont remove them from the genre just because you'd be proven wrong otherwise.

Its like me saying all men are idiots, and when someone brings up Einstein I hit them with "he's so removed from what a typical man is I dont think of him as one"

[Overcast]

I already said I was proven wrong even so, and quite a few of those shows are called just comedies and not situational comedies. Regardless it isn't worth getting this huffed over.

[Bells]

Let me just drop my 2 cents:

They replace Sheen with Ashton and act like nothing ever happenned = Show dies out in 1 season

They kill Sheen's character (considering his lifestyle, plausible) his brother gets everything (would be a semi-decent twist) and now has to take care of another sponge (Ashton) = could work just enough to push to season 10.

May i remind you guys that some shows Flop or Float depending on MANY factors? Scrubs was great up to season 4/5 and then it just dragged on... and that show had Dr Cox from start to end!

[Magus]

My favorite sitcom until I exhausted all the re-runs was Curb Your Enthusiasm. I also liked, oh...Becker back when it was on. Bob's Burgers is pretty hilarious.

For a sitcom to appeal to me it has to try something different, it can't just retread all the old stuff.

[Bells]

And yet, The Big Bang Theory is hated for some reason...

...besides the constant product placement...

[Drownball-Champ]

Originally Posted by Bells

And yet, The Big Bang Theory is hated for some reason...

...besides the constant product placement...

BBT has grown on me. I didn't care for it the first few times I watched it.

I look forward to seeing what they do with Kutcher. I'm happy with him being in over the rumored John Stamos.

[Overcast]

I watched Big Bang Theory and realized that is what the world thought physics or math majors were like. And then I looked at all my friends that entered the field and realized it was a LIE, and every time I watched it the pathetic progression of the characters just made it seem more distasteful every episode.

[Magus]

Did they ever bang that chick, anyway? That was the entire point of the original reason for the double-entendre title, after all.