View Full Version : The New Adventures of Old Christine (Pilot) - 03/13/2006
Donbadabon
03-13-2006, 09:24 PM
I couldn't make it through the first 5 minutes.
That laugh track was so distracting it made me turn it off.
It is 2006, why are they still using them?
SD493
03-13-2006, 09:51 PM
I couldn't make it through the first 5 minutes.
That laugh track was so distracting it made me turn it off.
It is 2006, why are they still using them?
I agree, why do they still have to use the laugh tracks? I guess one reason is that the majority of the sit coms aren't funny and the only way the networks figure they can get some laughs is to manufacture them. I'm going to take a pass on this series. I watch too much tv anyway. (Didn't mean to imply that there were no funny sitcoms on network TV, just few and far between--most just go for the cheap and predictable laughs or figure that if it's about sex it will be funny).
I'm going way off topic so I'll close.
ovr8ted
03-13-2006, 10:35 PM
Yeah, we agree. (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=291312)
rockislandmike
03-14-2006, 12:05 AM
Ugh. Extremely painful.
Idearat
03-14-2006, 12:38 AM
I like Julia Louis Dreyfus.
I miss Seinfeld.
I currently have no sitcom Season Passes.
So I'm going to hold on hoping for the best until it gets better or they kill it. I really want to like it.
NJChris
03-14-2006, 12:43 AM
Wow, I was watching this and the first minute was kinda dumb, but everything after that I thought was really funny. The Laugh track seemed more subtle than some other shows (2 and a half men - cant stand that show)..
Anyway, watched this and the 2nd one with a friend of mine and we both were laughing and thought it was pretty good.
There aren't too many sitcoms I like out there.. so,. for me, it's nice to see one I can enjoy.
gchance
03-14-2006, 01:36 AM
That first minute was unbearable, but I stuck with it to see how it went. Then they were obviously setting up the messages to herself as a recurring element to open every episode, to which the kid asked about... and I saw as a sign to stop watching. At the first commercial break I looked at my wife, and she shook her head. It's gone.
The Seinfeld curse continues.
BTW, what happened to the Jason Alexander show? Did it finally get axed?
Greg
appleye1
03-14-2006, 02:58 AM
I like Julia Louis Dreyfus.
I miss Seinfeld.
I currently have no sitcom Season Passes.
So I'm going to hold on hoping for the best until it gets better or they kill it. I really want to like it.
Same here, although I do currently have some SPs for sitcoms - Earl, Office, and HIMYM. And I have a WL for Seinfeld. I'm still watching 2 - 3 episodes of Seinfeld just about every day. (I know - hopeless Seinfeld addict. :o )
Sitcoms are always good to have around for fill-ins, when you've got a half-hour to kill.
TIVO_GUY_HERE
03-14-2006, 09:39 AM
Like other posts, I have to say it did get better. So I guess its normal time slot will be the 9:30?
EMoMoney
03-14-2006, 09:44 AM
Like other posts, I have to say it did get better. So I guess its normal time slot will be the 9:30?
What's that mean for Courting Alex?
JFriday
03-14-2006, 09:55 AM
The laugh track killed it for me too.
David Ortiz
03-14-2006, 09:57 AM
What's that mean for Courting Alex?
Courting Alex is moving to Wednesday night at 8:30. I'm not sure when the new time slot premiere is.
Bob Coxner
03-14-2006, 10:41 AM
I hate laugh tracks and almost gave up during the pilot (first episode). However, the second episode was actually very funny and I can see it might have a chance to work. I have a very simple judgement meter for sitcoms - do I laugh out loud? I smiled a few times but no audible laughs during the first one. I recall at least 4 or 5 true laughs in the second episode, which is not bad by modern standards. It was good enough that I'll make an SP and give it some more looks.
DaveBogart
03-14-2006, 10:46 AM
The Seinfeld curse continues.
It isn't the curse at work here. It's the terrible writing.
grant33
03-14-2006, 10:55 AM
Anyone know if the great Seinfeld had a laugh track? It just seems like there are many people who dismiss a show simply because it has a laugh track rather than basing it on the actual comedy. I am/was a huge Seinfeld fan and I know I heard laughter but without hearing it right now I can't say whether there was a laugh track involved. I Tivo'd "Christine", but I haven't watched it yet. After I watch it I might say it's a big pile of.......
MickeS
03-14-2006, 10:58 AM
BTW, what happened to the Jason Alexander show? Did it finally get axed?
Greg
If you're talking about "Listen Up!", it was not renewed for a second season. Too bad, I enjoyed it a lot.
I haven't seen "Old Christine", but I loved Dreyfus' previous attempt at a sitcom, "Watching Ellie", at least until they got rid of the "gimmick" of doing it realtime. I guess I was prtety much the only one who felt that way though.
Gonna have to check out "Old Christine".
I watched it and thought it was awful. I don't think we laughed at anything. A better title would be "Desperate Christine."
getbak
03-14-2006, 11:22 AM
Anyone know if the great Seinfeld had a laugh track? It just seems like there are many people who dismiss a show simply because it has a laugh track rather than basing it on the actual comedy. I am/was a huge Seinfeld fan and I know I heard laughter but without hearing it right now I can't say whether there was a laugh track involved. I Tivo'd "Christine", but I haven't watched it yet. After I watch it I might say it's a big pile of.......
Yes, it had a laugh track, which is to say it was shot in front of a live audience, like most sitcoms.
I remember at one point, they had to tell the people in the audience to stop cheering so much whenever Kramer entered a scene because it was getting out of hand.
Guindalf
03-14-2006, 11:50 AM
I thought it was terrible. Old Christine? Old regurgitated script, more like!
The only reason I watched was because I was stuck in a hotel and had to have something on in the background, otherwise I wouldn't even have made it through!
MickeS
03-14-2006, 12:12 PM
The only reason I watched was because I was stuck in a hotel and had to have something on in the background, otherwise I wouldn't even have made it through!
And the TV only had once channel? :D
Guindalf
03-14-2006, 02:33 PM
And the TV only had once channel? :D
Once channel???
Nope, it had more than twoce channels :rolleyes:
...but there was so much crap on last night I couldn't be bothered to change it - and the remote was on the other side of the room!!!!
digdug
03-14-2006, 02:36 PM
the laugh track was soooo annoying. In the first scene all she did was open up her eye and the laugh track went nuts. Overkill.
Kablemodem
03-14-2006, 05:31 PM
I wasn't aware the second episode had aired yet. Wasn't the pilot on just last night?
Anyway, I was going to suggest the pilot had a laugh track because it wasn't filmed in front of a live audience and that future episodes might not have the added laugh track.
Shows that do use the laughter of the live studio audience supplement the audience with canned laughter if its needed.
ClutchBrake
03-14-2006, 05:33 PM
I wasn't aware the second episode had aired yet. Wasn't the pilot on just last night?
The second episode aired after Two and a Half Men.
whitson77
03-14-2006, 05:44 PM
Pure dookie. Won't last 10 episdoes.
swinca
03-14-2006, 09:39 PM
I watched both episodes and I thought it was pretty funny. I'd watch it again.
yostmatt
03-14-2006, 10:34 PM
I still havent checked it out yet, since everyone is giving it a :down: I might wait till the weekend, by then the Tivo will be empty again.
NJChris
03-14-2006, 11:28 PM
I still havent checked it out yet, since everyone is giving it a :down: I might wait till the weekend, by then the Tivo will be empty again.Don't include me in that "everyone". Bah Humbug I say to the haters. :)
I wonder if people go into shows with any ex-Seinfeld cast, that they expect the same show.
appleye1
03-15-2006, 05:17 AM
The pilot sucked but the first episode was very funny. I'm keeping it.
DaveBogart
03-15-2006, 07:57 AM
Don't include me in that "everyone". Bah Humbug I say to the haters. :)
I wonder if people go into shows with any ex-Seinfeld cast, that they expect the same show.Not me. The last show she did I watched and liked and it wasn't anywhere near like Sienfeld.
ILoveCats&Tivo
03-15-2006, 08:13 AM
I finally watched both episodes last night, and thought it was cute. I will keep SP for a while. I like JLD and I think the interaction between her and her ex is very funny (so far).
Don't include me in that "everyone". Bah Humbug I say to the haters. :)
I wonder if people go into shows with any ex-Seinfeld cast, that they expect the same show.
I found the humor too much like Seinfeld, actually, and since I am one of seven people nationwide who thought that Seinfeld was painfully unfunny, I deleted this one halfway through the pilot, deleted the second episode and cancelled the season pass.
It was awful.
Hersheytx
03-15-2006, 08:20 AM
I liked the pilot. I liked the second episode. I try not to hear the canned laugh track. I thought Julia looked great. Almost had some Seinfeld moves in the second episode. That grocery store dance thing was drop dead Seinfeld to me.
I am keeping it. She deserves a chance. Not every sitcom finds a home right from the gate.....like Seinfeld or Cheers.....hmmmmm.
Bob Coxner
03-15-2006, 10:49 AM
No one has mentioned that Andy Richter had a big role in the second episode. ANY show that uses Andy well is a winner in my book. After all, he controls the universe.
I liked it. Best ex-Seinfeld sitcom effort thus far. I thought it was really funny, especially JLD's interactions with her kid.
My favorite line from the pilot was when JLD asked her ex why he was wearing that sweatshirt. "Because it's my day off...and I wanted everybody to know I went to Club Med."
TAsunder
03-15-2006, 12:28 PM
I liked the pilot more than the second, but was entertained by both. The second one was a bit too predictable for me. But I do live Andy Richter. A lot of the entertainment comes from her acting. I don't know how many episodes I will be able to be entertained just by the movement of her eyebrows when delivering lines, but surely at least another 2 or 3.
I also spent a good portion of time trying to figure out from where I know the brother. I'm too lazy to search.
I liked all the mockery of Curves, and the glass door buffoonery.
TIVOSciolist
03-15-2006, 03:57 PM
My favorite line from the pilot was when JLD asked her ex why he was wearing that sweatshirt. "Because it's my day off...and I wanted everybody to know I went to Club Med."
It was actually Lake Tahoe, of which we Californians claim half possession (sharing with Nevada). Our side is the side with the state income tax.
I liked the character of the husband, who seems like an easygoing, cool guy. I hope that they don't make the Young Christine look like an airhead. That would too easy (and a lazy way) to try to get laughs.
Overall, I liked the first two episodes.
yostmatt
03-15-2006, 10:16 PM
Don't include me in that "everyone". Bah Humbug I say to the haters. :)
I wonder if people go into shows with any ex-Seinfeld cast, that they expect the same show.
I checked it out tonight, and I thought it was funny. If they keep it around, I think it could get good
skinnyjm
03-16-2006, 12:05 AM
Finally watched it tonight (TiVo software makes me lazy :up: )
I actually laughed out loud several times.
The "laugh track"...is IRRITATING, but fortunately, I have learned to tune it out :D .
The twin airhead moms (Marly (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/old_christine/bios/tricia_okelley_bio.shtml) & Lindsay (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/old_christine/bios/alex_kapp_horner_bio.shtml) ) are classic !!!
At least I think so.
:eek:
cwoody222
03-16-2006, 11:29 AM
It was OK. The laugh track was horrible. I thought to myself "do I really want a 'sitcom' on my SP list?"
But I really love JLD so I'll stick with it... for now... It probably will get cancelled and then I won't care anyway.
MitchO
03-16-2006, 02:27 PM
What bugged me about it is that it so clearly formulaic of old (read in: pre-Seinfeld) sit-coms. Gee, the brother lives with her; the husband's new girlfriend is young and ditsy and the kid gets all the best lines. Combine it with the laugh track and it feels archaic.
I only watched the first episode, and did get a chuckle out of some scenes but I was still disappointed.
She does drive a 2006 Prius, at least :up:
Supfreak26
03-17-2006, 12:31 AM
I couldn't make it through the first 5 minutes.
That laugh track was so distracting it made me turn it off.
It is 2006, why are they still using them?
5 minutes??
You have now lost any right to complain about any network pulling your favorite new show after a handful of episodes.
You couldn't even make it through the opening credits?? :p
I liked it ok. Not stop-down TV but I'll SP it for a bit and see how it turns out. I definitely thought the 2nd episode was funnier than the first.
rawbi01
03-17-2006, 12:36 AM
Once channel???
Nope, it had more than twoce channels :rolleyes:
...but there was so much crap on last night I couldn't be bothered to change it - and the remote was on the other side of the room!!!!
Guindalf,, It might be time for you to pickup a Slingbox.. :)
Donbadabon
03-17-2006, 12:39 PM
5 minutes??
You have now lost any right to complain about any network pulling your favorite new show after a handful of episodes.
You couldn't even make it through the opening credits?? :p
lol.
I know it is bad to not give it more time. And actually, I don't think it was 5 whole minutes. :o
But with so many shows on, I tend to look at new ones like speed-dating. If they don't irritate me at the onset, I can usually stick with them.
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