Catching up

[Murfreesboro]

My daughter wants nothing to do with that series, either.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

She's a smart young woman.

[Murfreesboro]

Yes, she is. And it puzzles both of us that the "creatives" in Hollywood would take a sure-fire winner like Scooby-Doo, with a built in fan base, and produce something that the devoted fans don't want to see. They did.the.same thing with the Star Wars franchise.

[Andybev01]

Let us not forget the horror that was Scrappy-Doo...

[Murfreesboro]

Lol. I don't think my daughter dislikes Scrappy-Doo, but she's very aware that many fans dislike him.

[Andybev01]

He is to scooby doo what cousin oliver was to the brady bunch.

[Murfreesboro]

I feel like I may be the only person breathing who never watched the Brady Bunch. I was a little too old for it. Truth be told, I was too old for Scooby-Doo, too. My husband, who is five years younger than I am, was not.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

I've been busy lately with various projects, and the kids going back to school. I hope that you have both been well.

I can't believe what I'm reading here, and in another thread, you guys are hilarious.

I could sit here and give you my opinion on Scrappy, but you would be here reading for a week. By the way, I like cousin Oliver.

Murf, you haven't watched Halloween 3, or the Brady Bunch, seriously? Man, I don't even know what to say about that, I think that you should at least watch A very Brady Christmas, and the Brady Bunch movies from the 90s. I think they are good movies. You should also try to watch Halloween 3 this year, it's not the best movie, but I think that everybody that loves Halloween should watch it at least once because it's a classic for the season.

Regarding American Horror Story, Mike was a big fan of the show, and I watched until the most recent season, but I don't think that you would like it, as there is some disturbing sexual content that you should probably avoid.

Andy, how the Hell have you not watched the Monster Squad until now? No wonder you didn't get my Wolfman's got nards joke. Well, better late than never. Welcome to the club!

[Murfreesboro]

I remember when the Brady movies were made because I think Shelley Long played the mom, and I was a Cheers fan back in the day (though I'll always maintain that Cheers was at its best during the first season, when nobody watched it, and before they made Sam stupid). I don't really regret not watching the TV series. There is enough cultural reference that I think I get the gist of it.

Same thing for me with Friends. I tried watching that one at first but just couldn't get into it. I mean, it had its moments. But it was basically about a bunch of 20 somethings living like they were in a college dorm, and I had never lived like that, so it just didn't connect with me. It was another one for which I was too old, I guess. During that era of my life, Frasier really hit me where I lived. Seinfeld was really funny but ultimately too dark for me. Its appeal was more intellectual, I think. Frasier had heart as well as brain.

I watched the series finale of all three of those shows. The Frasier finale was so perfect it almost hurt, the best finale I've ever seen for a sitcom. I doubt it will ever be surpassed. The Friends finale the same week was very imperfect, I thought, and forced Ross and Rachel together in a way that I found very unsatisfying. Seinfeld, a few years earlier, was interesting to me. At one level it was absurd, leaving the group of them, including the woman, in a jail cell together. But symbolically, I thought it was right. They started bickering with each other just as they had done in the diner, and it hit me all of a sudden that if the jail cell could be the diner, then the diner was also a jail cell. And that cast the whole series in a fascinating light for me. A series famously about nothing, a nihilistic comedy, and the people in that world were imprisoned, whether in jail or out of it. Food for thought.