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minus-squareSpaceballstheusername@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up100·1 年前You couldn’t make half of Seinfeld because with cell phone all the funny situations don’t occur.
minus-squareAnticorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down3·1 年前None of those situations were funny to actually live through. They’re only funny in a TV show.
minus-squareClent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down1·1 年前True of literally every sitcom.
minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 年前“Comedy is tragedy plus time”. I like to say it’s comedy plus distance.
minus-squareSnowclone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 年前A man gets a paper cut, that’s drama. They fall down an open manhole and die. That’s comedy. Mel Brooks
minus-squareSphks@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 年前24 (TV series) is like this if I remember well. The daughter would have had a cellphone now.
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 年前Eh, series today still use this trope. “Oh no, I’m out of battery” or the comedic “My battery is at 1%, let’s take a selfie!”
minus-squareNuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 年前That’s why so many tv shows are now written as period pieces or based in the 80s and 90s.
minus-squarebionicjoey@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 年前That scene where he calls the phone in his stolen car would still be funny
You couldn’t make half of Seinfeld because with cell phone all the funny situations don’t occur.
None of those situations were funny to actually live through. They’re only funny in a TV show.
True of literally every sitcom.
“Comedy is tragedy plus time”. I like to say it’s comedy plus distance.
I think both are true.
A man gets a paper cut, that’s drama. They fall down an open manhole and die. That’s comedy.
24 (TV series) is like this if I remember well. The daughter would have had a cellphone now.
Eh, series today still use this trope. “Oh no, I’m out of battery” or the comedic “My battery is at 1%, let’s take a selfie!”
That’s why so many tv shows are now written as period pieces or based in the 80s and 90s.
That scene where he calls the phone in his stolen car would still be funny