What do you think of TV shows based on your city? (movie, Lost)

[j33]

Originally Posted by Colts

One show that I think reflected a typical Chicago family spot on was Married...With Children.

Right .... you think you are funny, don't you?

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by j33

Right .... you think you are funny, don't you?

I already nailed him for that comment.

[john_starks]

Manhattan was so hot with the whole 90's-era sit-coms:

Seinfeld
Sex in the City
Mad About You
Caroline In the City
The Nanny
Friends
NewsRadio
Spin City
Veronica's Closet
etc....

i'd have to say, for me, Seinfeld was the most realistic.

[K-Luv]

I think that the Mary Tyler More show is pretty actual in it's portrayal of Minneapolis. Fraiser also nails uppity rich snobs in Seattle.

[K-Luv]

Originally Posted by john_starks

Manhattan was so hot with the whole 90's-era sit-coms:

Seinfeld
Sex in the City
Mad About You
Caroline In the City
The Nanny
Friends
NewsRadio
Spin City
Veronica's Closet
etc....

i'd have to say, for me, Seinfeld was the most realistic.

I know that Seinfeld was a fictional comedy but I honestly don't see how Kramer could live there without a job (or any explanation of any sort of income), Newman living in Jerry's apartment on a Postal Carriers salary-yeah right! George seems to be unemployed too often but yet always has money. It definitely was a comedy!

[john_starks]

Originally Posted by K-Luv

I know that Seinfeld was a fictional comedy but I honestly don't see how Kramer could live there without a job (or any explanation of any sort of income), Newman living in Jerry's apartment on a Postal Carriers salary-yeah right! George seems to be unemployed too often but yet always has money. It definitely was a comedy!

well, not in that aspect. yeah, there was no way george dated that many attaractive women, having no $$ living with his parents.

it was more the neighborhood vibe. the interactions between people. how you tend to run into people (friends, acquiantances) so often for such a big city. also, the personality traits where people are almost caracatures of themselves (kramer, newman, popi, soup nazi, frank costanza, uncle leo, jack klompus). sure, there are exxagerations, but i felt a lot of the scenarios weren't that far-fetched. having lived there, there is craziness on a daily basis that can only be captured on a sitcom (ie, the name-tags for a buliding, the doorman scenario, shower head, the parking garage w/call girls etc...). oh, its real!

[j33]

Originally Posted by Steve-o

I already nailed him for that comment.

I just thought it was funny, having grown up in a mostly African American part of the Chicagoland area (I grew up in the S. Burbs by the Indiana border) that anyone would think Married With Children represented anything but the vision of the writer of the show. That show could have taken place anywhere, the only thing "Chicago" about it was the placement of Buckingham Fountain in the credits.

Shows like ER (that aren't even shot here) do a better job of capturing the city than shows like Married with Children

[normie]

Jerry's apartment always seemed more realistic than the ones for Friends or Mad About You. Two or maybe even three realistic NYC apartments could fit into that place on Mad About You.

What about that unizes bathroom in Ally McBeal. Something you'd find in Boston--or just on a tv show?

[normie]

You know, I think we oughta help Hollywood out, since they have a writer’s strike going on. Let’s come up with a sitcom about St. Louis.

Help me fill in the blanks:

This is a sitcom about a group of (blank—young? Hispanic? Recently divorced?) people who live in (what part of St. Louis?).

They know each other through their job at (what sort of a company?).

After work, they get together at (local St. Louis institution), where everybody likes to (blank—dance? Knit? Drink coffee? Etc.).

Wacky hijinks occur! To give it a regional flavor, some of these hijinks include: (blank).

There are a few really colorful characters, too. They are: (blank).

They have a regular ritual that involves the arch. It is: (blank)

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by DragonOfIllFaith

Well we had Miami Vice, Dexter and CSI-Miami, but I've never seen any of those shows so I cant really say



Haha yeah briefly.. my Sex and the City days made me think I wanted New York City.. but I got over it pretty quickly.

DEXTER!!! I love that show. It's the best.