I managed to beat the cast of Friends a couple times but the Steve Ballmer boss level fucked me up every time

Not dead but definitely on life support. I really do miss old forums. Reddit / Discord / Fediverse don’t come close to the old community feel. Facebook groups aren’t so bad sometimes for that but then the content is organised terribly. Say what you will about forum search engines but I could always rely on being able to enter a keyword or two and get what I was looking for.

A lot of forums I frequented were actually pretty well organised with subforums. It just isn’t the same these days.

Also web forums were the absolute best for petty drama. I do miss that in a weird way. Always that one angry gatekeeper flaming everyone.

The way I look at it is that I’m more happy that we’ve progressed since than I’m upset about what people were laughing at back then. Regardless of who was on the receiving end the comedy was good and I will enjoy it without guilt. That being said if somebody made those jokes today it would be a different story

Oh yeah I watched a ton of 70s sitcoms a few years back. Mostly Norman Lear and MTM productions. Stuff like All In The Family, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, Mary Tyler Moore and its spin-offs. Watch a ton of Happy Days in anticipation of watching one or two of the 80s spinoffs, but never managed to finish it and lost my appetite for any more of that. Lol.

I never finished MASH just because its one of those shows you have to be in the mood for. but I enjoyed it and finished the first couple seasons. I need to finish it sometime.

The laugh track thing is weird - after watching so many 70s and 80s sitcoms I tune it out. I think its not so bad when the jokes are actually good and its a live audience, but some of those early 2000s shows were so obnoxious with it.

Interestingly I think they released some MASH episodes without the laugh track. You should look hat up if you go for a rewatch

Definitely need to watch a bit of Macgyver! I want to check out Miami Vice again sometime but my partner hated it. I do love the style and the music though.

I’m looking forward to MST3K for sure. Who’s The Boss got lost in the shuffle somehow. Looking back there was a lot of debuts in 1984 and I couldn’t watch everything. Definitely one I need to revisit though

I did watch a few movies this years too but haven’t been in the mood a lot of the time. I’d already seen a lot of the ‘good’ movies from 88 so went for the lighter side a lot of the time.

Crocodile Dundee 2 Short Circuit 2 18 Again! Willow Funny Farm Hot To Trot Vibes

Of those Funny Farm was the one I enjoyed most. Short Circuit 2 is good Sunday afternoon fun if you can get past the horrific indian stereotype. Hot To Trot is straight up weird and Vibes was a struggle to watch. The others were fine.

I never watched Akira. I am a bit of a hard sell on anime sometimes but I always hear good things about it. I’ll put it on the list

I powered through those old KTMA episodes years ago. I will probably try and watch them again but I know exactly what you mean. I still love Joel though and I like the way he comes across in the early episodes, and the skits were good if I remember correctly. My biggest complaint with those is the movies themselves - there’s way too many Kaiju and puppet movies for my liking. 5 Gamera movies back to back is tough to say the least.

I dunno, it’s up there with Knight Rider and Airwolf in that it’s cool as hell to start with, but an hour long episode every week is a drag. My opinion anyway, but I feel like once you’ve seen a handful of episodes it gets boring. Someone else said the best part of those shows is the theme song and I have to agree.

Yeah it was my absolute top number 1 favourite show for a very long time. It’s one of those shows I can just throw on any episode any time and enjoy it. Cheers, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart Show, Newhart and Golden Girls are top 5 for that vibe. Like a warm hug

Yeah I totally forgot to mention TNG but I did watch it. First season has its moments but isn’t the best.

Still good to see though. Punky Brewster I didn’t get past the first couple episodes. It was cool but think I was fatigued what with all the other similar shows. Same reason I didn’t really bother with Webster at the time.

I think I had a look for Tracey Ullman but I don’t know if there are many episodes available?

Small Wonder must have passed me by. It looks dreadful! Hopefully in a good way though? I’ll check it out but I just recently got through Out of this World and that was pretty terrible. Sounds kinda similar.

Oh man Mike Post is a legend for the Hill Street Blues theme alone. He did the Greatest American Hero too. The 80s had the best TV Themes of any decade in my opinion

I watched the first episode of Magnum PI and was impressed by the quality. Never picked it back up for some reason though. I never watched Simon and Simon - think I was overwhelmed with hour-long detective shows at the time and a lot of them got bumped from my schedule.

Good shout - I never watched Dallas or Dynasty but I feel like I’m ignoring a pop-culture touchstone with those 2. The amount JR is referenced in other shows I almost feel like I have seen it.

I did actually have V on my list but never got round to it. I wanted to see the TV movie first but my partner is a hard-sell on that sort of stuff. I’ll have to find some time for it. Buck Rogers sounds like fun! One thing I love about that era is that they could produce the silliest shows and keep a straight face.

Now you mention sci-fi I just realised I didn’t mention Star Trek TNG in my post…

I went back to 5 days a week in office in summer 2021. I hated it when I was told but now I’m glad it happened. I walk 2 miles each way to work. That walk is one of the nicest parts of my day. I get crazy paranoia when I can’t speak to people face-to-face, and I can maintain a routine. I appreciate I am lucky in my situation but I would take the 4 days and enjoy a long weekend where I can properly unwind

It’s worth watching again. I might be biased towards old sitcoms but I think it holds up better compared to other 80s shows. Apparently audiences didn’t enjoy the show because they found the character unlikeable… Which was kinda the whole point, and I thought they played it well. I think if it came out 10 or 15 years later it would have done much better