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Why all the hate over such a harmless show

posted 8 years ago by lonnieanixt
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The show has only been on for a couple of weeks and the IMDB message board is full of flame and gasoline . It is just a harmless show, a few laughs , classic genre, domestic comedy. It doesnt have the bite and sex and filthiness of a Chuck Lorre production, but that is not a bad thing, shows like 'Big bang' which are naughty but offer no political or social realism are a con job. I think people are just expecting too much. It's just a bit of light entertainment fit for kids to watch, so mellow out.

[–] curtis0130 8 years ago

Because this show doesn't have the essence of a family show....THE FAMILY....I mean they focus on the couple more than they focus on any of the kids. It's seriously like "Mike and Molly" with kids...except it's not Mike and Molly and they need to focus on the family as a whole instead of the school....

[–] number1212 8 years ago

I think it's an okay show. I find it refreshing to see a sitcom that doesn't rely on sex jokes. Same goes for Kevin Can Wait.

[–] crankyerma1984 8 years ago

Because it's painfully unfunny. It belongs on Nickelodeon, where unfunny is what they are going for with sitcoms. Matt is too talented to be involved with this but not magic, so he cannot rise above the writing and tired premise. This is just about as disappointing and cruelly ironic as anything could be after he was on the truly stellar "Episodes" playing himself as the star of an incredibly bad sitcom. This sucks so bad I honestly looked for Aaron Kaplan's name in the EP credits.

"There's a little good inside everyone. Sometimes it just takes a scalpel to find it." - Me

[–] lonnieanixt 8 years ago

Because it's painfully unfunny. It belongs on Nickelodeon, where unfunny is what they are going for with sitcoms. Matt is too talented to be involved with this but not magic, so he cannot rise above the writing and tired premise. This is just about as disappointing and cruelly ironic as anything could be after he was on the truly stellar "Episodes" playing himself as the star of an incredibly bad sitcom. This sucks so bad I honestly looked for Aaron Kaplan's name in the EP credits.

This is network television, it has diffrent standards, comedy has to work clean which makes it a little tougher. There is nothing wrong with a harmless sitcom. Nothing about this show is groundbreaking, but that's okay. Give it a little time to grow.

[–] crankyerma1984 8 years ago

Thanks for explaining how a network sitcom works. I've written on two. This is just bad. Shows like this are the reason people hate multicam these days. They hear the audience track coming up for non-jokes and they feel insulted. A network multicam CAN be funny. Not being able to work blue is not an excuse to suck. Mary Tyler Moore, Cheers, Taxi, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, Cosby, Family Ties, 3rd Rock, Drew Carey, Rhoda, Barney Miller, All in the Family, Home Improvement, Roseanne, One Day at A Time, Alice, I Love Lucy, Mork & Mindy, The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart... the list goes on and on back to the days of radio comedy. I understand quite well what the "standards" are. This is just bad, hacky, paint-by-numbers writing. People seem to think that a family show doesn't need to be funny. That is not the case. It should be funny if it is in the comedy format. The show may not have "gelled" yet. That's fine. That is to be expected. But there should be three solid jokes per page MINIMUM. That's about six laughs per minute on the low end of the writing quality scale. It really is not too much to ask for a show to meet the bare minimum.

"There's a little good inside everyone. Sometimes it just takes a scalpel to find it." - Me

[–] lonnieanixt 8 years ago

Mary Tyler Moore, Cheers, Taxi, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, Cosby, Family Ties, 3rd Rock, Drew Carey, Rhoda, Barney Miller, All in the Family, Home Improvement, Roseanne, One Day at A Time, Alice, I Love Lucy, Mork & Mindy, The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart..

Comparing any new show to All in the Family or the Mary Tyler Moore show is like comparing a baseball team to the 1927 Yankees. It's a simple show about an Alpha Male dealing with post-Obama America. A political correct world full of kids glued to their smart phones and super-empowered women. It over does it in this department and the cast needs time to gel. Even the cast of All in the Family needed time to find the true voice of their characters. So give it a little time, it's well produced, the actors know their lines and the director knows where to point the camera, and every problem is solved before 30 minutes has evaporated. It's a poor mans version of "Everybody Loves Raymond" the difference in the two shows was that Raymond was based on a real life and a real family and was built on a solid foundation and was perfectly nuanced right down to the living room furniture, while 'Man' is based on nothing, totally made up from scratch and as so is built on sand which makes it feel phony in a way Nickelodian or Disney channel shows feel.

[–] kassandra227 8 years ago

Thanks for explaining how a network sitcom works. I've written on two.

On which two shows have you written? And, if you're that accomplished, why are you wasting time talking on imdb instead of attempting to get a job writing for a third?

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[–] stephaniebapmom 8 years ago

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[–] stephaniebapmom 8 years ago

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My stupid emojis didn't show. I concur.

[–] Farts_Upwind 8 years ago

I don't think it's that bad. There's some laughs there every week. Good enough for me.

[–] Magpie55 8 years ago

I have to say I enjoyed watching Matt Le Blanc in his new show, then when his brother showed up, the guy from Weeds, I thought it was even better, they play off each other well. It's just a nice programme that you can watch with your family without all the swearing and sexual innuendo. What is wrong with that?

[–] sasha_s19 8 years ago

The episode with Matt (Adam) trying to take a sexy photo was hilarious. And then texting it by mistake + texting the word "Salami". That was very funny!

[–] Farts_Upwind 8 years ago

Right on Sasha. lol funny

[–] liscarkat (18888) 7 years ago

LeBlanc just finished a truly great sitcom called "Episodes", in which he played a version of himself who was contractually stuck making a cliched, unfunny sitcom. "Man with a Plan" could easily be substituted for the fake bad sitcom in that show.