Since I live alone I don’t always enjoy the luxury of humanoid company (my cat really doesn’t give two hoots about when or what I eat) when eating dinner. Being the borderline white trash that I am, I’ve thusly taken up the habit of watching shows when I eat in solitude. Mostly I follow the usual garbage such as Lost, V, Flashforward and all that jazz. I tend to prefer light-hearted entertainment though, stuff that doesn’t require me to think and doesn’t smack my head if I briefly let my attention focus on transporting nourishment from the plate to my mouth.
So for a while I plowed through things like Friends, Scrubs and similar. Right now I’m mowing through the 7th season of the Charlie Sheen hell-ride known as “2½ Men”.
Now, when this show first started appearing in this country a few years back I thought it was slightly better than most other fast-food type american sitcoms, and I occasionally did let a laugh or to slip out when watching it.
These days though I wonder why in the name of bejesus they keep producing the crap.
It’s just the same old stale sitcom-humor. There’s nothing original or funny about it, and while it serves it’s purpose as junkfood for my brain while I shove slightly more healthy food into my mouth, it just boggles my mind why this turd keeps rolling around on television.
The show is basically about Charlie Sheen playing himself. The humor (or lack thereof) is dated, american (not on a good way) and it’s staler and lamer than a week-old dead duck. Supposedly each episode costs a shitload of money to produce as well, since Charlie Sheen apparently won’t show up unless someone waves a fat wad of cash or a transsexual prostitute holding a bag of cocaine in front of him.
But, what do I find the most despicable about this elephant-dung of a sitcom? The opening sequence.
You know, where the two and a half men lip-sync to some loopy jazz-type bullshit for about twenty seconds before gazing into the camera like three zombies on crystal meth. Recently, since the half man is growing into his teens they’ve bolted on this god-awful cheesy morphing sequence where he for a second or two morphs from his preteeny self into the teeny self.
Why can’t they take some of the twohundred bazillion gajillion dollars each episode supposedly costs and simply reshoot the opening sequence with the current incarnation of Angus T. Jones rather than slapping some half-assed morphing into it?
It really grinds my gears.
Of course, I could go on pissing and moaning about this televised IQ-drowner. But I’m not going to, instead I’m simply going to do what I should’ve done before starting to watch it, and not watch it any more.
Strange to read all this hate towards the show when you have probably watched more episodes of this then most of the viewers.
But anyway, someone apperantly likes the show and is watching it – so why stop airing it (and they have apperantly given it lots of prices and nominations)?
I know you rather have another season of IT Crowd, but this is the world we live in where the masses choose what is good or not. And you Sir, have no reason to complain – just dont watch it, there is plenty of other things you can focus your anger and/or frustration on.
I like to watch the show sometimes, but i dont sit down and grind the episodes like you apperantly have done.
And why in gods name did it take you SEVEN seasons (approx 100 hours, you should have read a book or 10 instead, perhaps something by Alastair Reynolds or Peter F. Hamilton) before you sat down and wrote this..
It didn’t take me seven seasons. It took me about five episodes of the seventh season (plus whatever half-dozen shows I might’ve randomly watched in the years previous) to come to this conclusion.
And yes, the majority choose what airs on tv, and that’s the problem. Everything is distilled down to the lowest common denominator, and in the process it gets turned to the crap that most everything on TV today is.
Whenever I turn on the TV these days, I just see the process leading to the future society of “Idiocracy”. Everything is reduced to the base elements to provide entertainment for the unwashed masses, and in the process we forget wit, humor, style and substance. All of these sitcoms are the same thing, just a different label and a different cast but the same preprocessed non-offensive homogeneous crap.
And I hate that I get so riled up that I even write about them. And I hate that I still watch them. Because in doing so, I’m just a part of the problem.
I think you would do yourself a big favor and just write about stuff you LIKE instead of things you DISSLIKE.
If you keep writing long text about stuff you hate, you just keep focusing on the bad things and.. well, we all know how that ends up in the long run.
Make a writeup about IT Crowd or some other show you DO like. I personaly love House M.D. He was (sort of) my only company last year when i was sick. Luckily they had a maraton on TV (a 18″ TV situated in the roof 3 meters away, thats high-def!) and got me to plan for other then just waiting for more needles in the arm.
you are a great writer and should try and focus it on something better. Next time you feel about writing one of these types of texts, write something GOOD about the show (there has to be something.. Perhaps not 2½ specificly).
Btw, have you watched How i meet your mother? I was actually surprised how fun it was after i got into it.. to bad the last season is airing now.
Suit up!
Håller med Henka på en speciell punkt, fokuserar man på det dåliga så blir det oftast inte bättre än så.
(och sånt smittar oftast av sig på andra) 
Men fokuserar man på det bra/roliga så kan man till och med få sig ett gott skratt
Mohahahahha!! =)
Btw, Jag tycker 2 o en halv män är bland det roligaste som finns.. dock de äldre avsnitten när grabben inte är så gammal.
Sry att ja skrev på svenska.