Author Topic: The Bore Decides: What was the whitest sitcom of the 90s? (VICTOIRE) (Read 38409 times)

benjipwns · « **Reply #240 on:** September 10, 2014, 03:11:37 AM »

I think that was literally my votes except for one.

larrydavid · « **Reply #241 on:** September 10, 2014, 04:13:56 AM »

i know a strong case can be made for wings but please do not forget tony shalhamdullilahoub

but seriously blossom is a worthy vanquisher: the hats, her dad, "whoa."

pilonv1 · « **Reply #242 on:** September 10, 2014, 06:18:12 AM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on September 10, 2014, 03:16:08 AM

Fuckin' WINGS is out?!

this is the upset of the century right here

I don't know, Blossom was super white. Wings did have Tony Shaloub. I wouldn't say it was an upset, people are just apathetic about Wings.

That Friends/Mad About You/Blossom side of the bracket is looking ominous.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #243 on:** September 10, 2014, 08:14:44 AM »

I didn't know anything about Blossom, so I decided to look it up:

Momo · « **Reply #244 on:** September 10, 2014, 11:56:17 AM »

Yeah I'm riding that Blossom whiteness to the end

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #245 on:** September 10, 2014, 12:20:40 PM »

Never heard of Cybil

Momo · « **Reply #246 on:** September 10, 2014, 01:02:32 PM »

Quote from: Pineapple Sauce on September 10, 2014, 12:20:40 PM

Never heard of Cybil

Kara · « **Reply #247 on:** September 10, 2014, 03:14:19 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on September 10, 2014, 03:16:08 AM

Fuckin' WINGS is out?!

this is the upset of the century right here

It lost by one vote too.

BTW to whet everyone's inner

, Mayim Bialik is on the cover of this month's issue of Orange County Jewish Life Magazine. (Please don't ask me how I know this. No person who believes in the development and protection of a Jewish nation conspiracy.)

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #248 on:** September 10, 2014, 03:36:27 PM »

Point of order: Blossom should be disqualified due to the fact that Six grew up to be a PAWG

ish http://lmgtfy.com/?q=jenna+von+oy+ass

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #249 on:** September 10, 2014, 03:38:33 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on September 10, 2014, 04:20:24 AM

just a reminder for those voting in the next round:

(Image removed from quote.)

not even in the background

and that's supposed to be new york

I don't even know what show this is

am I even white

Steve Contra · « **Reply #250 on:** September 10, 2014, 03:46:04 PM »

Fun fact, I know lots of white New Yorkers who have approximately 0 black friends

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #251 on:** September 10, 2014, 03:48:01 PM »

The whitest show of all time was The Cosbys, duh.

larrydavid · « **Reply #252 on:** September 14, 2014, 02:33:16 AM »

trigger warning is appreciated oscar but until demi lets us turn off youtube embeds it's not very effective

when does elite eight voting start i am so ready for the tanners to take this

Kara · « **Reply #253 on:** September 14, 2014, 12:56:59 PM »

I'll try to set it up tonight.

This round gonna be brutal brehs.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #254 on:** September 14, 2014, 01:06:49 PM »

Mad About You isn't just white, it's obnoxiously Jewish. And not the funny, Larry David style of Jew comedy, it's that dumb awkward "nebbish" Woody Allen style Jewishness

Momo · « **Reply #255 on:** September 14, 2014, 01:32:16 PM »

Quote from: Mary Tyler Whore on September 14, 2014, 01:06:49 PM

Mad About You isn't just white, it's obnoxiously Jewish. And not the funny, Larry David style of Jew comedy, it's that dumb awkward "nebbish" Woody Allen style Jewishness

:israelcry

Kara · « **Reply #256 on:** September 14, 2014, 11:49:08 PM »

Elite 8 up.

http://www.VoteFair.org/cgi-bin/votefairgenballot.cgi/votingid=08256-56207-46435

We're almost at the end brehs.

jakefromstatefarm · « **Reply #257 on:** September 15, 2014, 12:05:57 AM »

looking at that bracket again, King of Queens over Frasier is the dumbest upset ever

the former had a supporting black character in just about every episode

Frasier went whole seasons w/o any contact with minorities

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #258 on:** September 15, 2014, 12:08:22 AM »

Quote from: jakefromstatefarm on September 15, 2014, 12:05:57 AM

looking at that bracket again, King of Queens over Frasier is the dumbest upset ever

the former had a supporting black character in just about every episode

Frasier went whole seasons w/o any contact with minorities

Seinfeld lost in the second round.

SEINFELD.

This thing is fucked.

lennedsay · « **Reply #259 on:** September 15, 2014, 12:12:17 AM »

I had my husband help me pick for this round. He convinced me to go with Home Improvement over Full House.

His reasoning was that its a house full of random family and friends living there, and the elders all just watch over the kids. He said that immediately knocks them out of the running based on this non-cactivity.

larrydavid · « **Reply #260 on:** September 15, 2014, 12:23:58 AM »

yeah ima be honest, full house is objectively the whitest, no question. but if reiser and co managed to make it to the finals it's possible there could be a debate, since only one of those two shows actually makes me suck my teeth in with irritation, the criterion which has been the undercurrent in all my voting beyond simple melanin inspection.

oscar's case convinced me to put them over the otherwise omnipresent shittiness of friends, but i think all it would take is a single ross gif to make me regret my decision.

jakefromstatefarm · « **Reply #261 on:** September 15, 2014, 12:34:56 AM »

Frasier struck this amazing balance between educated humor and pandering to the lowest common denominator. When it was bad, it was pretty much just a Chuck Lorre show with an MA from a liberal arts college. From the episode where Fraiser gets nominated for an award:

Quote

Frasier: You know, I've never really won anything before. Although back in prep school, the Existentialist Club once named me "Most Likely To Be."

If you're a writer, the only reason you put that in there is because you're an asshole.

Momo · « **Reply #262 on:** September 15, 2014, 01:56:32 AM »

Voted. Riding Blossom's ass to the end like nut on a hooker

nudemacusers · « **Reply #263 on:** September 15, 2014, 02:58:57 AM »

I don't feel the survey accurately captures how I would feel if someone gave me a calfskin wallet.

WanderingWind · « **Reply #264 on:** September 15, 2014, 03:51:31 AM »

Not going to lie, you guys have done remarkably well here. Mad about You, Friends and Full House are, without a doubt, the whitest shows in existence. Mad about You and Friends take place in NYC and there are never any minorities, like, at all. Frasier took place in Seattle in the 90s...pretty heavily white populated, so there was an excuse there. Seinfeld featured a minority as one of the four and always had black and Latino guest stars. Friends had like, none and they lived in NYC. Mad about You, same shit, though most of that show revolved around two people in their own house.

I think Full House edges out Friends though. 87 regular cast members and none of them with even a tan.

El Babua · « **Reply #265 on:** September 15, 2014, 04:00:46 AM »

That Urkel cameo though.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #266 on:** September 15, 2014, 06:58:27 AM »

Full House was all white in San Francisco as well. Friends did have Lauren Tom and Aisha Tyler in guest roles but that's about as diverse as it got.

I think the final 8 is pretty awesome except for Cybil making it through an easy bracket. Really Mad About You should win, it's everything perfect about 90s white sitcoms.

Are we doing most urban sitcom of the 90s tournament next?

Momo · « **Reply #267 on:** September 15, 2014, 07:18:14 AM »

Quote

Are we doing most urban sitcom of the 90s tournament next?

I'm all about Martin in this case

Momo · « **Reply #268 on:** September 15, 2014, 08:53:12 AM »

Roc should be close to the top too

Squiddy · « **Reply #269 on:** September 15, 2014, 08:59:28 AM »

Sex in the city has to win this.

king of the internet · « **Reply #270 on:** September 15, 2014, 11:21:55 AM »

Full House v Home Improvement is really tough. Went with the former due to the nauseating saccharine nature of it but HI is up there too...set in Detroit but I'm pretty sure not a single colored person ever made an appearance in the show's run of several years.

larrydavid · « **Reply #271 on:** September 15, 2014, 07:50:01 PM »

i have to say i've been very impressed by the encyclopedic sitcom knowledge on display from the many distinguished non-americans in this thread, i knew we export our movies to you guys but i didn't know you also got our d-tier television programming

nudemacusers · « **Reply #272 on:** September 15, 2014, 08:03:35 PM »

home improvement is too working class to be a finalist. full house is a bunch of dudes chillin in a ballin ass house in sanfran. livin the dream brehs.

Yeti · « **Reply #273 on:** September 15, 2014, 11:59:59 PM »

I had no idea that Home Improvement took place in Detroit until this thread.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #274 on:** September 16, 2014, 12:09:51 AM »

Does everybody know what time it is?

TOOL TIME

Kara · « **Reply #275 on:** September 16, 2014, 01:19:26 AM »

Quote from: Yeti on September 15, 2014, 11:59:59 PM

I had no idea that Home Improvement took place in Detroit until this thread.

I love how Tim would always rep directional Michigan universities in his casual around the house attire.

nachobro · « **Reply #276 on:** September 16, 2014, 06:23:37 PM »

Full House is pretty white but how do you set a sitcom in Detroit and have no black people on it?

I still voted Full House

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #277 on:** September 16, 2014, 08:26:29 PM »

Quote from: nachobro on September 16, 2014, 06:23:37 PM

Full House is pretty white but how do you set a sitcom in Detroit and have no black people on it?

Have it take place in the suburbs?

pilonv1 · « **Reply #278 on:** September 16, 2014, 10:42:15 PM »

Quote from: Death Ghidorah on September 16, 2014, 12:28:55 AM

Quote from: larrydavid on September 15, 2014, 07:50:01 PM
i have to say i've been very impressed by the encyclopedic sitcom knowledge on display from the many distinguished non-americans in this thread, i knew we export our movies to you guys but i didn't know you also got our d-tier television programming
All I watched on TV was sitcoms and cartoons, it's not that tough since I didn't have a life.

Same here. Not sure what started me but I had this unhealthy desire to watch any 90s sitcom that would come on TV when I was in high school or university since I had a lot of free time. I would watch anything once, even shit like Madman of the People or Union Square. Some things like Pearl or Jesse I couldn't handle for more than one episode though.

My favourite was probably M.U.S.C.L.E., which was one of the first shows on the WB. It was a whodunit sitcom set in a gym, and had some awesome people in it (like Michael Boatman and Alan Ruck), and there was an episode that Adam West guest starred. I can never find it anywhere, besides some promo clip on YouTube :'( I think it only lasted 6 episodes.

WanderingWind · « **Reply #279 on:** September 17, 2014, 06:31:15 AM »

I'm just saying, before things got beamed from space onto your iDroid phones, we had to watch TV to be entertained. Shows were shit, but it was either that or like, read or something. Full House would never ever be remembered if the internets were around back in those days, I tell you what.

Kara · « **Reply #280 on:** September 17, 2014, 07:18:10 PM »

Today I saw a huge truck on the freeway that had TOOL TIME written on it in proportionately huge lettering.

If I were of a Norse disposition I might think this an ominous sign.

Instead I just laugh at the FUCKING GHETTO art of Heidi that was on the side of the truck.

hampster · « **Reply #281 on:** September 17, 2014, 08:04:45 PM »

Tough choices this round

I didn't want to see Home Improvement go but really did I have a choice?

Kara · « **Reply #282 on:** September 17, 2014, 08:39:54 PM »

Whenever I can bring myself to do work for no pay.

Usually this has been around a week doe.

idk why I leave the polls open so long, y'all's ballot box stuffing has been whack.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #283 on:** September 18, 2014, 09:38:29 AM »

I only voted once each time

Kara · « **Reply #284 on:** September 20, 2014, 04:55:07 PM »

Closing the polls tonight.

Final 4 and championship aren't going to get a week each FYI. (I can't do anything stupid until this fucking albatross is no longer around my neck.)

larrydavid · « **Reply #285 on:** September 21, 2014, 12:54:48 AM »

i too have only voted once each round.

so excited to see which titans will face off in the finals~~~~

Kara · « **Reply #286 on:** September 21, 2014, 02:19:38 AM »

ELITE 8 RESULTS

Sex and the City OVER Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Full House OVER Home Improvement

Friends OVER Mad About You

Blossom OVER Cybil

spoiler (click to show/hide)

It’s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. How do you react?

OK I didn't recognize the reference at first.

OVER
I saw Blade Runner too. AND
No really, I did.

[close]

El Babua · « **Reply #287 on:** September 21, 2014, 02:28:41 AM »

What a round.

benjipwns · « **Reply #288 on:** September 21, 2014, 02:31:29 AM »

We messed up, this was supposed to be a march to Sex and the City vs. Mad About You.

Groogrux · « **Reply #289 on:** September 21, 2014, 08:49:27 AM »

Is this going to come down to Friends vs. Full House?

I don't know if I can handle the pressure of that vote...

nudemacusers · « **Reply #290 on:** September 21, 2014, 11:42:58 AM »

Friends has this. game over brehs.

El Babua · « **Reply #291 on:** September 21, 2014, 11:46:46 AM »

Caught a rerun of friends late last night.

Jennifer Anniston still getting the job after mistakenly believing she was sexually harassed by the interviewer, probably got it over better qualified minorities. The privilege dripping off each scene.

Yeti · « **Reply #292 on:** September 21, 2014, 12:15:38 PM »

Ross and Joey both dated Aisha Tyler, but were there ever any black people on Full House? I can't recall any.

Kara · « **Reply #293 on:** September 21, 2014, 09:50:24 PM »

Final 4

http://www.VoteFair.org/cgi-bin/votefairgenballot.cgi/votingid=27136-41538-08507

Closing the polls by 2359 Pacific time on 9/24, schedule permitting.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #294 on:** September 21, 2014, 10:05:03 PM »

Voted. (Once

)

El Babua · « **Reply #295 on:** September 22, 2014, 04:01:20 AM »

There can only be one final matchup.

Steve Contra · « **Reply #296 on:** September 22, 2014, 05:49:00 PM »

Thinking it over Friends should definitely win this. Full House at least had the family/kids element going for it that could at least make it a bit more universal. Friends was about being white and nothing more.

Kara · « **Reply #297 on:** September 22, 2014, 05:52:20 PM »

No voter fraud, but I feel like there's going to be a surprise upset in the Final 4.

Sex and the City over Full House maybe. One of the commune is watching that atm and it is gal darn white.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #298 on:** September 22, 2014, 06:06:09 PM »

Sex in the City vs. Blossom. Blossom to take it all in a Very Special Episode of Blossom.

This is a worthy final 4, although the absence of Seinfeld still grates.

Kara · « **Reply #299 on:** September 22, 2014, 06:34:48 PM »

I don't think the forum would accept a Blossom-Sex and the City final as legitimate, TBH.

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Author Topic: The Bore Decides: What was the whitest sitcom of the 90s? (VICTOIRE) (Read 38409 times)