http://www.watchmissedepisodes.com/shit-my-dad-says-season-1-episode-1-pilot/
Sadly nowhere near as funny as I expected/hoped it to be.
It’s just a typical tacky American sitcom like Friends or Two And A Half Men. Same tired style. I’m really disappointed with it. Canned studio laughter went out of fashion over here about 20 years ago and for an extremely good reason - it’s bad and cheapens the show. A show should be funny enough to make you laugh yourself, not have to listen to a crowd of other people’s laughter injected at random intervals to say ‘hahaha oh yes, by the way, just in case you didn’t get it yourself, he just told a joke’. Canned laughter has always been a real pet hate of mine. And to add injury to insult, William Shatner’s comedic timing is non-existent.
EPIC let down.
Which is a real shame because the posts on @shitmydadsays on twitter are absolutely hilarious and I really wanted the show to do well and to be brilliant. It’s just… really dated. You’d think that this had been filmed in the early 90s rather than 2010.
It’s not often I turn a TV show off half way through. And I was really looking forward to watching it too.
To compare, for a moment with two highly successful British family comedies One filmed within the past few years, and one filmed in the early 90s
1. Outnumbered
2. One Foot In The Grave (alas, with crowd laughter… *shudder*)
American comedy really needs to evolve a bit. Just to compare for a brief moment, the English ‘Office’ with the American ‘Office’…
1. UK Office
2. US Office
I think you get the point.
the US version is so stilted and glossed.. the whole point of it was to appear like a documentary.. really missed the mark because it is so obviously acted.
FYI just because you have wobbly camerawork, it doesn’t mean that it looks like a documentary. It’s how natural the delivery of lines is that determines the extent of the viewers ability to suspend their disbelief. Not your cameraman's ability to fake having Parkinsons.
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