When comedy dries up.
I’ve been watching The Class since it launched in September based on the combined strength of the first three episodes, which I watched all at once. Since then, I’ve discovered that those three episodes had used just about all of the comedy allotted to this by-the-numbers sitcom from the Internation Joke Distribution Fund.
Today, while catching up on DVR’d content I was about 12 minutes into this weeks The Class, when I stopped, pressed pause and realized that, in fact, the show I was watching wasn’t funny. You might remember this phenomenon from comedy classics as The War at Home and According to Jim.
So I’m cutting the fat. The Class is no longer part of my regular viewing habbits.
It should probably be noted that one of the reasons I found this week’s The Class so glaringly unfunny was because right before I had watched this week’s How I Met Your Mother which made me laugh excessively. Didn’t it, Swarley?
November 10th, 2006 at 8:11 am
A. I LOVE how I met your mother! It’s the first sitcom I’ve actually watched where i’ve felt like . . . I could be friends with these people. Even when it gets cheesy or overly dramatic, there’s something so natural about the writing and the performances that moments that would seem contrived and melodramatic on other sitcoms kind of come off as just one of those awkward life moments. (There are exceptions of course, but “hook up” episodes are always nauseating even on good shows . . . think Ross coming in from the rain to kiss Rachel on Friends )
B. I still like the Class . . . there is something really endearing about it. I always find the Kat and Ethan story line amusing, and im glad that Andrea Anders (who I thought was rather good on Joey) was able to find another show.