fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #2347 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2347 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

__________________________________________________

02.

[Jay from Red Letter Media]

__________________________________________________

03.

[Bob's Burgers]

__________________________________________________

04.

[CL from 2NE1]

__________________________________________________

05.

[Moriarty/Sherlock Holmes]

__________________________________________________

06.

[Of Monsters and Men and Glitch (game)]

__________________________________________________

07.

[After Man: A Zoology of the Future]

__________________________________________________

08.

[Hetalia]

__________________________________________________

09.

[Bubble Guppies]

__________________________________________________

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 010 secrets from Secret Submission Post #335.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I was watching a post-season-5 episode of How I Met Your Mother and was somewhat disturbed to realize how fucking upsetting and vaguely horrifying all the characters, their relationships, their life circumstances, and the general arc/development of the show was. Then I remembered why only seasons 1-4 are canon AFAIC.

I submit to you that once a show touches more than briefly on heartfelt emotional depths, it cannot then turn around and become a barrel of unsympathetic laughs that paint the characters as miserable, cruelly unlucky, or nasty people, unless it incorporates and admits to the awfulness of the characters' circumstances in canon, a la Malcolm in the Middle.

Any other shows that make you guys feel this way? Thoughts on my theory?

Supernatural. I hate how all their filler episodes are usually forcibly hilarious. Especially when it comes after a really depressing episode.

I have this same gripe with Avatar: The Last Airbender.

even when i kind of like them they seem really ooc to me

although iroh's part of the tales of ba sing se was at once adorable and heartbreaking and i cried :c

Not quite the same thing, but I was recently subjected to the movie Bride Wars and discovered that not only was it unfunny tripe, it was also one long "why be bitches so cray, bros are totes chill and nine thousand times more logical and generally better than those crazy womenfolks". I fell asleep before it ended and I think it was out of a sense of self-preservation.

Roseanne, Married... with Children, All in the Family

all of them hit too close to home on some issues, which makes the entire thing unfunny to me

It's not supposed to be funny, but this thread just reminded me of 'That Mitchell and Webb look'.

You know of what I speak. If you don't know, you can consider yourself blessed.

I am tearing up a bit now just typing this.

You bastard. Did you really have to bring it up?

i've only seen a few random episodes, what happened?

You sure you wanna know? it's affected me to this day.

Could you put it under a spoiler cut?

The episode of How I Met Your Mother where Marshall coaches a kindergarten boys basketball team and yells at them for pretty much the entire time. Not even remotely funny.

Looking back at this episode, I wonder how Lily lets him get away with it for so long into the episode.

I get that it's supposed to be bittersweet/kinda sad humor, but it always made me a bit bummed out how getting pregnant with Bart basically ruined Marge Simpson's life and how low her ambitions were in general ("Ever since I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being in a Broadway audience!")

I would probably agree with this more if it weren't for the fact that back in the old days, Marge used to get quietly involved in loads of understatedly badass/exciting things. Like in "Marge vs the Monorail."

She was a police officer! She was a commissioned portrait artist! She ran a business! Marge did all kinds of neat stuff.

ayrt

That's part of why it's so sad to me, she had so much badass hidden in her. Though I agree it got a lot worse in later seasons.

I'm completely with you here :( The newest the season, the worse Marge seems to have it.

Cougar Town, in particular Ellie's uncalled for cruelty and the gang's emphasis on Jules' kindness though she mostly fails at being empathetic.

Edited 2013-06-07 00:50 (UTC)

The only way I can watch HIMYM is by assuming everyone involved is a horrible person.

Also: The Office, Big Bang Theory, and Bob's Burgers

Nothing of what I've seen of any of these shows is actually humorous. Mostly it's just embarrassing at best, and downright offensive at worst.

Big Bang Theory, any time Sheldon's apparent lack of sexual desire or the more harmless of his quirks are made the butt of a joke. Which is to say, at least several times an episode.

[ SECRET POST #2347 ]

Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

+1

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing

Re: Moments (or entire shows) that are supposed to be funny but you just find depressing