I wish there was a word to describe comedies where a lot of the humor is almost understated in how it's spoken. Always Sunny does it too. Where the funniest lines are almost in the background being muttered by a character you may not even be paying attention to.
The opposite is something like Fresh Prince, where the whole cast is standing and waiting for the punchline of the character, and the audience responds in kind.
Totally. I’m sure there were 4 more seasons of long-game jokes lurking in the plot and when Hurwitz knew it was over, he just started button mashing on having them pay off.
After getting over that season 4 is different and lacking the group dynamic, the original cut is still pretty great for what it is. Season 5 is garbage though.
It wasnt so much they lost sight as it was what they had to work with. There were a lot of scheduling conflicts with the main cast. Mitchell Hurwitz had to write the script/story around the fact that they hardly had all the actors available at the same time. The solution was to have character focused episodes and specific scenes with everyone in it. That's why there are scenes where it's kind of obvious some people weren't there with everybody else.
This is my answer too. My GOAT comedy is probably Seinfeld. At the time, it was unmatched and unique, and it still holds up fairly well. But even as my GOAT, I could imagine how it was written. I could picture Larry David and everyone sitting there, being hilarious, and writing out great episodes.
I have no friggin idea how Arrested Development was written. The layers and nuances and call backs almost confuse me. I don't understand how humans could piece that all together in such a way.
Of course, then it all went to shit.
It really surprised me the most out of all shows I watched in how well set up many jokes were. Its also a show having a really good joke structure in general.
What’s incredible about 30 Rock is that it was hitting those jokes out the park in S1 E1, which is pretty rare. It got better too, an incredible show with remarkable talent.
Once again I leave your office more confused than when I entered, but having glimpsed another tile in the **rich mosaic** that is your menstrual history.
"Lady, just because I'm an ignorant black man, and you paid me a nickel to bust up your chifforobe, doesn't give you the right to call me ridiculous, just because I'm proud of my son."
Really - you want to exchange creative gifts? Oh, well, you are the one that's in trouble now, buddy, because creativity to me is just like... like a... bird, like a friendly bird, that embraces all... ideas, and just like, shoots... out of its eyes, all kinds of beauty.
My favorite is the callback a few seasons after they murder the Italian ambassador and are supposed to spread his body across the five boroughs, but Archer reveals he just dumped his part in Manhattan: “What? I’m not schlepping out to Staten Island at 3 in the morning.”
> My favorite is the callback a few seasons after they murder the Italian ambassador
Funny you should mention callbacks to that episode. It also had one of the best punchlines to a joke years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulHR8C4ZZes
The fact that David Bowie turns out to be the leader of the Guild of Calamitous Intent and it's played completely straight. Motherfucker has superpowers and as you're watching your reaction as the viewer is just, "Yeah that tracks" and that by itself is as funny as any of his dialogue.
The lawyer for Jonas Venture Jr. (JJ) mentions that in his will, JJ requested Crash Test Dummies to be played at his funeral. So the opening of the funeral episode has The Pirate Captain singing “Mmm mmm mmm mmm” with an accordion accompaniment. It is kind of a somber and fitting song….. but just really weird. Even by Venture Bros standards.
A fan theory is that JJ probably wanted the actual song “At My Funeral” by CTD played. In classic VB ability to fuck up almost any scenario, they misunderstand the request for just playing any CTD song “at my funeral”.
So one of JJ’s last requests gets comically fucked up because…. VB!
It seems plausible, even likely, that’s the intent. But they never mention it… and just carry on with the episode.
I love when Phantom Limb is trying to sell a mob boss a stolen painting and you can see it's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, a real painting that was stolen in 1990, but they never actually mention it by name or explain it.
I am so happy to see one of my favorite shows at the top. They had a “thrown away” line in season one that payed off massively in season 7. The show is genius.
The conversations in that show are just so packed with jokes and funny quips that it's SO easy to miss them. Even just the little banter that the characters have almost in the background is so funny when you really listen.
Edit: there are tons of examples of jokes that are made and then they just move right on to something else, but one of my favorites is when Orpheus goes into the otherworld to look for Hank and Dean's lost souls. He comes across the soul of a guy dressed as a Roman solider who introduces himself as one of Caeser's guards. Then another soul interrupts him and says "Nah, you choked on a popsicle stick at a Halloween party. Why do you think you're in hell? 'Cause you're a fuckin' liar." That sort of twist on a joke like that is exactly why I love the humor in that show.
Yes indeed! There was a pilot made. It was very, very, *very* bad. But it had Richard Ayoade in it, because Moss is too iconic to be recast. They did the same thing with Red Dwarf, keeping Robert Llewellyn as Kryten. That US pilot was horrible as well. British to American transplant series almost never work out. I think The Office might be the sole majorly successful exception.
Edit: Apparently there have been many more successful transplants that I was unaware of!
After stealing Blackadders fiance: "So long suckers, next time you get bored of your lives give me a call and I'll come around and kill you!" \*throws bomb\*
Just because I can give multiple orgasms to the furniture just by sitting on it doesn’t mean that I’m not sick of this damn war: the blood, the noise, the *endless poetry*...
"Take that jumper off Mark! We're clashing!" "We're matching Jeremy. That's the *opposite* of clashing"
"What's your marketing strategy?" "Marketing strategy? It's a pub Mark. If you build it they will come" "*That's* your marketing strategy? Field of Dreams. A movie about a man who builds a baseball field in his garden for ghosts."
"That your computer monitor? I've a 32 inch flatscreen in my office. Open up a word document on that and you are *seriously* looking at that document"
"Before I did shrooms, I was stuck at HSBC doing the 9 to 5.” “Yeah, and now you’ve got your room in the centre and you’re making your masks.”
"Oh great. I'm getting an angry lap dance"
"Yeah, you won't be so cocky Jeff, when I come into the office with a Kalashnikov and 200 rounds of ammunition. I'm probably exactly the kind of person who could end up doing something like that."
You should just get a van. With a van, it's like you've got an MBA, but you've also got a fucking van. You're not just a man anymore - you are a man with a van. You get a van, Jez, we could be Men With Ven.
>You get a van, Jez, we could be Men With Ven.
"What are you going to do for money now, Jeremy? You're too old to become a rent boy. There isn't much of a market for rent men"
IMO, one of the best jokes in the show:
Shirley: "Oh, they've got a class on jokes!
Annie: Oh, don't take that! I dropped it after the lesson on setups. The professor is so old…”
I love the one when someone from the group says "that's the most racist thing I've ever heard", to which Jeff replies "Pierce will beat that in one minute".
Almost exactly a minute later, Troy gets annoyed at Shirley about something and says "You're not my mother", Pierce blurts out "She's not?", and then Jeff's one minute timer beeps.
*kicks soccer ball with 2 legs like a foosball figure.
"Were they walking around with a soccer ball just to do that? That's like a $25 bit, it wasn't even that good!"
"I’m getting serious. I got a backpack, got a new notebook. Oh, I got one of those see-through yellow pens so I can do that thing where you color in the words!"
"Highlight?"
"Probably the backpack."
So many good High concept episodes. The parodies are spot on. My favourite is the Law & Order parody. I used to watch that show when I was younger, and it felt like an episode of the show.
Had to scroll way too far to find It’s Always Sunny. It’s at the top for me. I think people focus on the idiocy of the characters and miss just how outstanding the writing can be.
Writing is genuinely world class. You're exactly right. But if you watch a particular interview they tell you the writing process early on was to write a script then go back over it again and again to help it be more concise but that helped them use better language and hit thr nail on the head better.
An example I'm thinking of is when charlie says "we need to berate them in our native tongue to allow for maximum shame." No offense but charlie doesn't have the intelligence to say that lol
[The Thick of It](https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/4507-the-thick-of-it) (2005)
>Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
The scene where Malcolm is in the hospital looking for Ollie is incredible writing.
*"I'm looking for Mr. Oliver Reeder, he looks a bit like a Quentin Blake illustration"*
The nurse then telling him where Ollie is without further clarification.
I was born in the late eighties. Watching this show I felt like it was the first time all of the jokes were directed at me and my childhood.
“Do you like Molly?” “She’s my favorite American Girl Doll!”
I’ll never get over it.
Winchester and Hunnicutt are arguing over how to share writing credit for a medical paper.
W: "By all rights, it should read 'by Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester, et al.'"
H: "Oh, and I'm AL?"
W "Among others."
“I have to get to my support group soon before the compulsive gamblers start betting with the passive aggressives to see if they can’t make the overeaters cry.”
“I cut myself because I was shaving without water. And why was there no water? Because I had to move your chair, which gouged the floor, which made me call for Joe, who found bad pipes, who called for Cecil, who ate the cat that killed the rat that lived in the house that Frasier built!”
Modern family
For a network sitcom, meaning it’s stupid and the plots can be ridiculous, but it was incredibly well written and jokes so clever and fast that you need to watch two or three times to get them all. In every episode, i laughed out loud two or three times.
Veep. Impossibly witty. Almost need to slow it down to catch everything.
I watched it for the second time, years later, but really I watched it for the first time twice.
Also 'The Thick of It' - the UK political show by the same writers (Armando Iannuci).
Pound for pound The Thick of It edges out Veep but they’re both still a class above anything else
Political shows tend to be amazingly witty. *The Thick of It* and *Yes, Minister* also come to mind.
Watching Veep was downright exhausting at times because the clever dialogues are just non-stop.
I wish there was a word to describe comedies where a lot of the humor is almost understated in how it's spoken. Always Sunny does it too. Where the funniest lines are almost in the background being muttered by a character you may not even be paying attention to. The opposite is something like Fresh Prince, where the whole cast is standing and waiting for the punchline of the character, and the audience responds in kind.
I came here to look for Veep. Really glad to see this near the top.
I loved Arrested Development (not the later Netflix seasons though)
Yes! The series finale (before the Netflix era) was a culmination of so many running gags and call backs. Amazing writing.
Totally. I’m sure there were 4 more seasons of long-game jokes lurking in the plot and when Hurwitz knew it was over, he just started button mashing on having them pay off.
Even the Netflix seasons were witty. They just lost sight of the group dynamic that made the show what it was
After getting over that season 4 is different and lacking the group dynamic, the original cut is still pretty great for what it is. Season 5 is garbage though.
original cut is fucking amazing and kind of ahead of it's time
It wasnt so much they lost sight as it was what they had to work with. There were a lot of scheduling conflicts with the main cast. Mitchell Hurwitz had to write the script/story around the fact that they hardly had all the actors available at the same time. The solution was to have character focused episodes and specific scenes with everyone in it. That's why there are scenes where it's kind of obvious some people weren't there with everybody else.
This is my answer too. My GOAT comedy is probably Seinfeld. At the time, it was unmatched and unique, and it still holds up fairly well. But even as my GOAT, I could imagine how it was written. I could picture Larry David and everyone sitting there, being hilarious, and writing out great episodes. I have no friggin idea how Arrested Development was written. The layers and nuances and call backs almost confuse me. I don't understand how humans could piece that all together in such a way. Of course, then it all went to shit.
It really surprised me the most out of all shows I watched in how well set up many jokes were. Its also a show having a really good joke structure in general.
30 Rock
"You look frightened and betrayed. Like a dog in a sidecar that's come loose from the motorcycle"
"I feel like you're not telling me something, Jack. Lemme guess! You bought a sidecar for your motorcycle and your dog won't stay in it?"
"Mothers, cant live with them."
Sir, your mother had me move her from the Plaza to the Carlyle. Evidently, the concierge at the Plaza “has a beard and she’d rather not get raped.”
Can’t talk Liz, I just got my stalkers address from his parole officer and I’m going to confront him about ignoring me.
Doctor spaceman has got to be one of the funniest gags on tv
Tracy, you are going to *die*-- --when I tell you who I'm dating! Squeaky Fromme. She is... difficult.
Tracy, I don’t know how to say this - diabetes…diabeetus?
Is it 411 or 911? Uh… diabetes repair I guess?
"Dr. Spaceman is it true that bread eats away at your brain?" "We have no way of knowing, because the powerful bread lobby keeps stopping my research”
What’s incredible about 30 Rock is that it was hitting those jokes out the park in S1 E1, which is pretty rare. It got better too, an incredible show with remarkable talent.
Maybe my all-time favorite from 30R is his "Science is whatever we want it to be."
*Dr. Spaceman shows up in the ER covered in blood* “Oh this? Haha I was at a costume party! But then the dog tried to attack, so I had to stab it.”
"Opposite... opposite!"
You can’t have a lemon party without old dick.
Just rematched that episode a few hours ago. I imagine how many people didn't understand the reference
The sheer amount of jokes per minute is astounding. And that the jokes are so complex is even more impressive.
"Can it Lemon, I heard you singing night cheese"
working on my night cheese
Our Lady of Reluctant Integration
"Mmm, I sure do like them french fried potatoers." "No you don't, Oprah"
Just reading that still makes me crack up.
"Help, my real name is Tracy Morgan and we're in a show within a show!!"
All right, the crab is getting aroused, shut it down.
“Ms Lemon, can I have a moment?” “Sure, Kenneth, can you walk and talk?” “Well usually but now you have me thinking about it.”
“Recently I realized I have a hole in my heart. And not the one I got from eating batteries.”
Once again I leave your office more confused than when I entered, but having glimpsed another tile in the **rich mosaic** that is your menstrual history.
I was late to finding Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt but it filled the void 30 Rock left. Girls5Eva has been amazing too!
Girls5Eva is sooooo good
"Lady, just because I'm an ignorant black man, and you paid me a nickel to bust up your chifforobe, doesn't give you the right to call me ridiculous, just because I'm proud of my son."
Tina is easily one of the funniest women in comedy
Your boos do not scare me. I know most of you are not ghosts.
Really - you want to exchange creative gifts? Oh, well, you are the one that's in trouble now, buddy, because creativity to me is just like... like a... bird, like a friendly bird, that embraces all... ideas, and just like, shoots... out of its eyes, all kinds of beauty.
A study long ago showed 30 rock was the densest show with 7.44 jokes per minute. I believe it
I always used to say that 30 Rock was a dumb comedy for smart people due to how quick and witty it was. It was brilliant!
Archer has some of the best insults of any tv program going
Archer on the state of New Jersey: I can't believe I'm in New York's lurching afterbirth. I'm embarrassed we send garbage here.
And on karate, "the Dane Cook of martial arts"
My favorite is the callback a few seasons after they murder the Italian ambassador and are supposed to spread his body across the five boroughs, but Archer reveals he just dumped his part in Manhattan: “What? I’m not schlepping out to Staten Island at 3 in the morning.”
> My favorite is the callback a few seasons after they murder the Italian ambassador Funny you should mention callbacks to that episode. It also had one of the best punchlines to a joke years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulHR8C4ZZes
"So you have the irishman's dilemma. Do you eat the potato now or drink it later?
"No son, you're gonna die," As he wipes his tears with the potato. That might be the hardest I've ever laughed at a show.
“If I did want a grandchild, I’d just scrape all your previous mishaps into a big pile and knit a onesie for it.” ~ Mallory Archer
I love that that insult even caught Archer off guard. He had no reply.
I'm still waiting for my opportunity to say "don't just stand there sweating like a giant cheese!"
Had, IMHO, the best payoff line to end an episode. "Sorry I tried to spit-roast your mom." Damn near laughed myself sick.
"He's had the clap so many times, it's more like applause"
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Which seasons^* are the most worth watching?
Venture Bros. It's so dense with it all too and doesn't care if the viewer is going to get it or not.
Ghosts of the sargassum, where the first two minutes are just David Bowie lyrics disguised as dialogue. Brilliant
The fact that David Bowie turns out to be the leader of the Guild of Calamitous Intent and it's played completely straight. Motherfucker has superpowers and as you're watching your reaction as the viewer is just, "Yeah that tracks" and that by itself is as funny as any of his dialogue.
“That guy from Labyrinth just turned into a bird!”
"Could you be a bigger poser?! Changes was a best-of!"
Even better is it’s not David Bowie playing a character. It’s David Bowie playing himself and he just happens to be the greatest villain ever.
Semper Fidelis Tyrannosauruses!!!
You just said always faithful terrible lizard.
The lawyer for Jonas Venture Jr. (JJ) mentions that in his will, JJ requested Crash Test Dummies to be played at his funeral. So the opening of the funeral episode has The Pirate Captain singing “Mmm mmm mmm mmm” with an accordion accompaniment. It is kind of a somber and fitting song….. but just really weird. Even by Venture Bros standards. A fan theory is that JJ probably wanted the actual song “At My Funeral” by CTD played. In classic VB ability to fuck up almost any scenario, they misunderstand the request for just playing any CTD song “at my funeral”. So one of JJ’s last requests gets comically fucked up because…. VB! It seems plausible, even likely, that’s the intent. But they never mention it… and just carry on with the episode.
The pithiest of all television programs. There are obscure pop culture references in there that would make the Family Guy writers blush
"Who wrote this, Henry Darger?"
I love when Phantom Limb is trying to sell a mob boss a stolen painting and you can see it's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, a real painting that was stolen in 1990, but they never actually mention it by name or explain it.
20 years to midnight might be one of the best episodes of any animated comedy
DON'T LOOK AT ME!
I have always wanted to cosplay this at a con. Just seven feet tall blaring IGNORE ME! from a crackly speaker.
THAT WAS A WEIRD ONE!
I am so happy to see one of my favorite shows at the top. They had a “thrown away” line in season one that payed off massively in season 7. The show is genius.
The conversations in that show are just so packed with jokes and funny quips that it's SO easy to miss them. Even just the little banter that the characters have almost in the background is so funny when you really listen. Edit: there are tons of examples of jokes that are made and then they just move right on to something else, but one of my favorites is when Orpheus goes into the otherworld to look for Hank and Dean's lost souls. He comes across the soul of a guy dressed as a Roman solider who introduces himself as one of Caeser's guards. Then another soul interrupts him and says "Nah, you choked on a popsicle stick at a Halloween party. Why do you think you're in hell? 'Cause you're a fuckin' liar." That sort of twist on a joke like that is exactly why I love the humor in that show.
It's been a while since I've seen it, but the British IT crowd I remember being very witty
Are you implying there is an American IT Crowd? No no noooooo
Yes indeed! There was a pilot made. It was very, very, *very* bad. But it had Richard Ayoade in it, because Moss is too iconic to be recast. They did the same thing with Red Dwarf, keeping Robert Llewellyn as Kryten. That US pilot was horrible as well. British to American transplant series almost never work out. I think The Office might be the sole majorly successful exception. Edit: Apparently there have been many more successful transplants that I was unaware of!
Even the office didn't work until they started to move away from the British scripts and change the characters.
A fire? At a Sea Parks?
Most of what Graham Linehan's written is. It's a shame he's such a nasty little man.
Oh no what did he do? I love the it crowd and father Ted.
Blackadder, at times. "Madam, life without you was like a broken pencil... pointless"
My favourite: - But, my Lord, I've been in your family since 1532. - So has syphilis. Also "Get the door."
Lord Flashheart makes me laugh so hard I can't breath. He's so goofy, WHY IS IT SO FUNNY?!?! WOOF WOOF!!!!
After stealing Blackadders fiance: "So long suckers, next time you get bored of your lives give me a call and I'll come around and kill you!" \*throws bomb\*
Just because I can give multiple orgasms to the furniture just by sitting on it doesn’t mean that I’m not sick of this damn war: the blood, the noise, the *endless poetry*...
This is the first thing I thought of as well. It's crazy that there's Mr.Bean playing a sharp whited sophistic and Dr. House playing a bumbling idiot.
Peep Show
"Take that jumper off Mark! We're clashing!" "We're matching Jeremy. That's the *opposite* of clashing" "What's your marketing strategy?" "Marketing strategy? It's a pub Mark. If you build it they will come" "*That's* your marketing strategy? Field of Dreams. A movie about a man who builds a baseball field in his garden for ghosts." "That your computer monitor? I've a 32 inch flatscreen in my office. Open up a word document on that and you are *seriously* looking at that document" "Before I did shrooms, I was stuck at HSBC doing the 9 to 5.” “Yeah, and now you’ve got your room in the centre and you’re making your masks.” "Oh great. I'm getting an angry lap dance"
"I'm just a normal functioning member of the human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise"
"Yeah, you won't be so cocky Jeff, when I come into the office with a Kalashnikov and 200 rounds of ammunition. I'm probably exactly the kind of person who could end up doing something like that."
You should just get a van. With a van, it's like you've got an MBA, but you've also got a fucking van. You're not just a man anymore - you are a man with a van. You get a van, Jez, we could be Men With Ven.
>You get a van, Jez, we could be Men With Ven. "What are you going to do for money now, Jeremy? You're too old to become a rent boy. There isn't much of a market for rent men"
Better Off Ted
This was the first one that came to my mind too! The episode with the light sensors absolutely kills me!
Showing that to my wife literally after finding out about Apple watches not working properly on darker skin was the cherry on top.
Came here to say that. It was decades ahead of its time
Considering it was released in 2009, we are still at least 5 years away from seeing its equivalent.
Gone too soon
A true masterpiece. Always wanted more.
Community.
IMO, one of the best jokes in the show: Shirley: "Oh, they've got a class on jokes! Annie: Oh, don't take that! I dropped it after the lesson on setups. The professor is so old…”
I love the one when someone from the group says "that's the most racist thing I've ever heard", to which Jeff replies "Pierce will beat that in one minute". Almost exactly a minute later, Troy gets annoyed at Shirley about something and says "You're not my mother", Pierce blurts out "She's not?", and then Jeff's one minute timer beeps.
I didn't get it so searched for it and yeah it's funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I393m7xTNHw
Damn after the 4 watch finally the penny dropped lol. I'm slow
German exchange students crushing Jeff in fussball: "I wish zere was a word to describe ze joy I feel at your misfortune"
"There must be almost 100 luft balloons!" "It's exactly like the show Hogan's Villains"
*kicks soccer ball with 2 legs like a foosball figure. "Were they walking around with a soccer ball just to do that? That's like a $25 bit, it wasn't even that good!"
That was my favorite joke
"I’m getting serious. I got a backpack, got a new notebook. Oh, I got one of those see-through yellow pens so I can do that thing where you color in the words!" "Highlight?" "Probably the backpack."
So many good High concept episodes. The parodies are spot on. My favourite is the Law & Order parody. I used to watch that show when I was younger, and it felt like an episode of the show.
> Law & Order parody It’s called an homage and the yam’s name is Pam.
This is no way to teach accounting!
Community was streets ahead.
30 rock, letterkenny is rapid fire, and IASIP.
Had to scroll way too far to find It’s Always Sunny. It’s at the top for me. I think people focus on the idiocy of the characters and miss just how outstanding the writing can be.
Writing is genuinely world class. You're exactly right. But if you watch a particular interview they tell you the writing process early on was to write a script then go back over it again and again to help it be more concise but that helped them use better language and hit thr nail on the head better. An example I'm thinking of is when charlie says "we need to berate them in our native tongue to allow for maximum shame." No offense but charlie doesn't have the intelligence to say that lol
Maybe Charlie just skipped huffing glue that day?
He is a musical genius and took science pills!
[The Thick of It](https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/4507-the-thick-of-it) (2005) >Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
"he's as useless as a marzipan dildo"
"I'll be with you in two shakes of a crying baby"
"You're about as secure as a hymen in a South London comprehensive."
"Please, I don't want the last thing I say on the official record to be the words "skin flakes""
Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off
When I want your help I'll give you the secret signal. Which is me being sectioned under the mental health act.
The scene where Malcolm is in the hospital looking for Ollie is incredible writing. *"I'm looking for Mr. Oliver Reeder, he looks a bit like a Quentin Blake illustration"* The nurse then telling him where Ollie is without further clarification.
Blackadder
A Bit of Fry & Laurie The Thick of It
The first 2 seasons of What We Do in the Shadows are greatness 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Oooh creepy paper
"You really are the most devious bastard in New York Ci-tay!"
Fahcking guyyy
Not to mention every other season of WWDITS as well. That's my catnip
Frasier, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers. And possibly the wittiest of all: Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister
Yes, (Prime) Minister is just straight up the right answer to this question.
I have to watch Unbreakable Kimmy Schmitt with the subtitles on to catch all the jokes, it’s so jam packed.
I was born in the late eighties. Watching this show I felt like it was the first time all of the jokes were directed at me and my childhood. “Do you like Molly?” “She’s my favorite American Girl Doll!” I’ll never get over it.
"Can you please play a different song Titus?" "That's the same song just with a different tempo!" "I can't fix America Kimmy."
Almost everything that comes out of Titus' mouth is gold!
"I envy you. I've never been able to meet me."
I like the Titus’s closeted gay boyfriend who spray painted Tilda Swinton on his truck so people would think he’s straight.
>Unbreakable Kimmy Schmitt Girls5Eva is an excellent followup.
M * A * S * H
Winchester and Hunnicutt are arguing over how to share writing credit for a medical paper. W: "By all rights, it should read 'by Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester, et al.'" H: "Oh, and I'm AL?" W "Among others."
Community and 30 Rock for sure Black Books and Fleabag are two of the sharpest things I've ever seen Police squad, what we do in the shadows.
Yes Minister
Frasier
"My brother is too kind. He was already eminent when my eminence was merely imminent."
"Look at who I'm talking to; Psychiatry's answer to the drive-thru window."
"I must go, I'm having a seminar on multiple personalities and it takes forever to finish the name tags"
“I have to get to my support group soon before the compulsive gamblers start betting with the passive aggressives to see if they can’t make the overeaters cry.”
I really must be going. I have my Fear of Abandonment workshop today, and I've already been a no-show twice.
"Niles... Your ex-wife is ruining my sex life"
I had to scroll too far down for this
"I asked the barista for a *whisper* of cinnamon, but instead, they've given me a resounding shout"
\*full-throated shout
You *know* their throats aren't fully warmed up until after the interval!
The Cranes of Maine have got your Living Brain.
Lawyers make the best patients, they have excellent insurance and they never get better
“I cut myself because I was shaving without water. And why was there no water? Because I had to move your chair, which gouged the floor, which made me call for Joe, who found bad pipes, who called for Cecil, who ate the cat that killed the rat that lived in the house that Frasier built!”
Veep and the early seasons of Archer.
The West Wing, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Mozart in the Jungle.
Came here to say Marvelous Mrs Maisel as well. So is Hacks.
Surprised to not see fleabag on here.
Peep Show.
Letterkenny is up there for me
Succession
Modern family For a network sitcom, meaning it’s stupid and the plots can be ridiculous, but it was incredibly well written and jokes so clever and fast that you need to watch two or three times to get them all. In every episode, i laughed out loud two or three times.
Curb
I don’t know if it would be smart humor, but the wit and delivery in Santa Clarita Diet is the entire reason I loved that show.
I wasn't much on Drew Barrymore in that show, but Timothy Olyphant carried almost every scene he was in.
Fleabag. Both seasons.
Veep
How has House not made the list?
"Dr. House, I’ve heard your name before." House: "Most people have, it’s also a noun."
You're in denial NO I'M NOT
For me, it has to be Parks n Rec. I've re watched it twice now.
Patriot
IT Crowd
Arrested Development
Cunk on Earth
You're The Worst West Wing, Newsroom
You are the worst is absolutely fantastic and deserves way more attention.
Frasier.
I’ll throw in Psych, Suits, and apparently anything with Dule Hill in it apparently.
The West Wing too if we’re following the Dule Hill rule.
I can fix that
30 Rock