Tough Room: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
m (revise quote template spacing) |
m (clean up) |
||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
If a character in any given show is constantly cracking wise and making wry observations, no matter how clever and funny they are, they never elicit so much as a smirk from any of the other characters. While in real life genuinely funny and charming people are social darlings, in TV land they're more seen as annoying losers. |
If a character in any given show is constantly cracking wise and making wry observations, no matter how clever and funny they are, they never elicit so much as a smirk from any of the other characters. While in real life genuinely funny and charming people are social darlings, in TV land they're more seen as annoying losers. |
||
The prime examples would have to be [[Friends|Chandler Bing]] and [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Xander Harris]], |
The prime examples would have to be [[Friends|Chandler Bing]] and [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Xander Harris]], who—in their early seasons, at least—were funnier than just about anyone in real life, yet got nothing back but eye-rolling and sighs. You wonder why they hang out with these people. |
||
Of course, it's all for the best. Constantly chuckling characters would drive viewers insane (a [[Laugh Track|constantly chuckling audience]] does nothing of the sort, [[Sarcasm Mode|of course]]), especially if they're [[Humor Dissonance|laughing at a joke the viewer doesn't find funny.]] |
Of course, it's all for the best. Constantly chuckling characters would drive viewers insane (a [[Laugh Track|constantly chuckling audience]] does nothing of the sort, [[Sarcasm Mode|of course]]), especially if they're [[Humor Dissonance|laughing at a joke the viewer doesn't find funny.]] |
||