This show obviously exists in.....

And all those things that *supposedly* happened to the writers, directors and producers in the aforementioned Real World that "inspired" them to write all these stories? Nope. Uh-uh. I'm calling bulls***. It's all completely impossible. People dont behave this way in TRW.

I have a bit more to say about this. Depending on who writes the episode, it will usually be a pretty good indicator of what it will be about. Jeniffer Crittenden for example. She was one of the head writers on Seinfeld and did a good job there for the most part, seeing as how that show OBVIOUSLY took place in a COMPLETELY different Universe than The Real World. Hell, you would have had to have been blind not to see that. All one had to do was to completely suspend disbelief and you'd be OK. But during Crittenden's stint on writing of ELR, I noticed that her episodes were the ones that were primarily anti-men and pro-women. And that troubled me. She had clearly become "one of them" in the meantime. A feminist/social justice warrior, if you will. You know, the kind of annoying obnoxious bitch that is always screaming about sexism and the "patriarchy" and for men to "stop oppressing women" so much all the time. And I dont know why she felt the need to mutate into one of those abominations, to be prefectly honest.

The other kind of eps I really hated were the ones written by Ray Romano or Phil Rosenthal, or both. Like "Bad Moon Rising" for example. The one episode of the entire series that did not have a funny or upbeat ending. And it was quite anti-woman too, I must say. I dont condone ANY episode of a sitcom where the themes are either anti-women OR anti-men. That's all there is to it. And the one ep written solely by Rosenthal that I thoroughly detest is "Separation". If Phil wanted to portray Ray as a complete insensitive uncaring rat bastard who had no sympathy for his wife's upsetting situation, well, he did exactly that in that POS ep. And the ending was really stupid as well. I honestly can't believe Phil didn't write in for Debra to slap Ray across the face in both the bedroom and kitchen scenes where he was being a real @$$hole to her. He obviously didnt care about her feelings, he actually found it funny. And THAT would have been the right time for Debra to knee Ray in the balls, as opposed to when it happened in "Jealous Robert". It would have been so much more appropriate for her to have done that when he laughed at her and made all those stupid jokes at her and her parents' expense. At least that's how I would have written it.

Did I mention that the Finale had TEN writers? And I didnt like that, either. Apparently these people have never heard of the expression "Too many cooks spoil the broth", huh? Idiots. And once again, Ray was being a complete whiny little bitch and once again he overreacted and made a big damn deal over nothing. Quintessential Ray, no doubt about it. And he made a period joke at Debra's expense, too. What an @$$hole. And the finale was a half-hour, as opposed to the hour that nearly every single other sitcom has had for the length of their finales. That was done in an attempt to not "jump the shark" is what I read somewhere. SO ELR thought they never had a JTS moment, huh? Hah. I'll leave it up to all of you to decide for yourselves when it was......

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Try to sit back and enjoy the show without nitpicking.

<“Every man of courage is a man of his word.” - Pierre Corneille>

This show is a SPOOF or a farce of REAL LIFE... It takes real life situations and exaggerates them.

Sorta like the National Lampoons Christmas Vacation movie, it was farcing and exaggerating REAL LIFE holliday get-togethers, even though, probably one that outrageous likely never happened.

Really most all TV shows do this. Our real lives are usually not dedicated to ONE single plot for a few days.

In real life ppl also do not talk the way the do on TV shows... in real life ppl interlap, interrupt, talk a mile a minute, change topics in mid sentence, everyone talks at once, ppl talk over each other, etc... in real life, when you're in a group, it's rare to be able to finish a complete thought without being interrupted and/or talked over by someone else. But on TV, ever character has "their moment" to complete their thought while everyone else stays quiet until they are finished.

But then again it's a HUGE world with 7 billion ppl! Just b/c you've never experienced these things doesn't mean NO ONE has. You could not meet every single person on earth in an average lifetime, so just b/c you nor anyone you know has a life like these characters, you can't say it would NEVER happen.


I'm just glad this was not another one of those threads about, "A woman like Debra would never be with a man like Ray!" Which is also BS b/c I've seen it happen.

I'm starting to think you're a troll.