[ SECRET POST #3167 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3167 ⌋

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Inspired by #9: "Updating" a 90's sitcom for today

[(Anonymous)]

So one of the major complaints (and rightfully so) about Friends is that it's too white and too unrealistic so far as living in NYC is concerned. And arguably the same could also be said for Seinfeld and other sitcoms of that era. If you need a list, here you go (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1990s_American_comedy_television_series).

FS, how would you adapt, update, or reboot a 90's sitcom for today's sensibilities? You can either play it completely serious, or be completely silly about it.

Re: Inspired by #9: "Updating" a 90's sitcom for today

[(Anonymous)]

In general I'm not a fan of complete reboots, but I'd certainly like more shows to take from older ones. For instance, I'd like to see a show like "FRIENDS", but with more diversity and with more realistic twenty-something situations. Happy Endings came close to that, with more diversity, but it also lacked a lot of the things that made FRIENDS work - their female characters were dismal, for instance. Also, like on FRIENDS they had the whole Rent Control thing going on.

Re: Inspired by #9: "Updating" a 90's sitcom for today

[(Anonymous)]

I loved Happy Endings. Granted, I already had a wee crush on Eliza Coupe.

But I actually like the female characters on that show. Even Alex.

Re: Inspired by #9: "Updating" a 90's sitcom for today

[morieris]

With maybe the exception of the technology, I find Frasier to be pretty timeless. I'd simply update the appearances of places.

Re: Inspired by #9: "Updating" a 90's sitcom for today

[(Anonymous)]

One of the Golden Girls would be gay/bi. I'm not sure who I'd want it to be.

Re: Inspired by #9: "Updating" a 90's sitcom for today

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT - Wasn't Dorothy's brother trans? IIRC that show was actually pretty progressive for it's time, at least in that area. (I remember it being pretty pasty white, still.)

Re: Inspired by #9: "Updating" a 90's sitcom for today

[(Anonymous)]

My Seinfeld reboot casting would have Hannibal Burress as Jerry, Mindy Kaling as George, Cecily Strong as Kramer, and Mercedes Masohn as Elaine

I may have thought about this before

(Also I know Masohn is not as big a name as the others but she's fantastic and I don't give a shit)

Re: Inspired by #9: "Updating" a 90's sitcom for today

[(Anonymous)]

Hold up. So would Hannibal Burress be playing a character named Jerry Seinfeld? Would the characters still be ambiguously Jewish? That would be something.

Or would it just be those dynamics in a multi-ethnic gang of friends?

Re: Inspired by #9: "Updating" a 90's sitcom for today

[(Anonymous)]

tbh I would be fine with either. My original idea was the same dynamics with a multi-ethnic gang of friends. But the idea of them playing ambiguously Jewish (or, in Mindy Kaling's case, specifically doing her best Woody Allen) is kind of delightful.

But honestly, I'm more interested in seeing what those actors (along with whatever writing team) would do with the parts. I want to see what they do given the structure of just being terrible people hanging around New York with no high-concept bullshit, and with some degree of freedom to just make whatever show they want and do what they want in terms of structure.

Re: Inspired by #9: "Updating" a 90's sitcom for today

[(Anonymous)]

I'd do the brilliant, underrated Drew Carey Show, but trim down the fat jokes a notch, make its subtextual body-positivity more textual, and put back in a lot of the jokes the network censors made them take out.