Frasier looks like a much better show from an adult perspective - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 11-02-2019, 08:35 PM

https://www.thecut.com/2019/10/i-gue...t-frasier.html

"I’m not going to blow anyone’s mind here when I say that the TV show Frasier, which aired from 1993 to 2004 and won 37 Emmys, is great," says Katie Heaney. "Or at least I won’t blow anyone’s mind but my own. As a kid Frasier was a show my parents allowed us to watch with them, which meant it was boring. (I was not allowed to watch Friends, which made it the only thing I wanted to watch.) And it is, to a 12-year-old. The jokes flew right over my crabby little head. There were no cute boys on it. Everything was beige. These are things that make Frasier all the more enjoyable to me now. Its problems are distinctly adult, which doesn’t mean they aren’t funny (like all the wine snob jokes when Frasier and Niles both vie to be president of wine club). I laughed out loud so often through the show’s early seasons that I surprised myself. For years I’d maintained that Frasier was boring and unfunny, I guess because that was the decision 12-year-old me made, and apparently she knew everything. You don’t have to tell me that’s dumb. I know. That is the entire reason I’m here."

Latka Gravas · 11-02-2019, 11:36 PM

I'm older than the writer of the article; I was in my early 20's & in college when Frasier first came out in '93, and was in my early 30's when it ended in 2004. However, I can completely understand where the article is coming from because - now that I'm in my late 40's - I myself am watching & enjoying Frasier for the first time this year. And, I pretty much ignored the series back in the day, because it didn't hold my interest at the time - nor could I really relate to the character(s).

However, as time has gone on & I've gotten older, I do more appreciate the themes of divorce & dating after divorce, aging parents, being attracted to women in their 20's - (when you're in your 40's - LOL), getting established in your chosen career, etc.

TSMIV · 11-03-2019, 12:12 AM

Frasier was no more "family friendly" than Friends so why would her parents ban one and not the other?

11-02-2019, 08:35 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,210	Frasier looks like a much better show from an adult perspective https://www.thecut.com/2019/10/i-gue...t-frasier.html "I’m not going to blow anyone’s mind here when I say that the TV show Frasier, which aired from 1993 to 2004 and won 37 Emmys, is great," says Katie Heaney. "Or at least I won’t blow anyone’s mind but my own. As a kid Frasier was a show my parents allowed us to watch with them, which meant it was boring. (I was not allowed to watch Friends, which made it the only thing I wanted to watch.) And it is, to a 12-year-old. The jokes flew right over my crabby little head. There were no cute boys on it. Everything was beige. These are things that make Frasier all the more enjoyable to me now. Its problems are distinctly adult, which doesn’t mean they aren’t funny (like all the wine snob jokes when Frasier and Niles both vie to be president of wine club). I laughed out loud so often through the show’s early seasons that I surprised myself. For years I’d maintained that Frasier was boring and unfunny, I guess because that was the decision 12-year-old me made, and apparently she knew everything. You don’t have to tell me that’s dumb. I know. That is the entire reason I’m here."

11-02-2019, 11:36 PM	#2
Latka Gravas Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Apr 27, 2019 Location: United States Posts: 396	I'm older than the writer of the article; I was in my early 20's & in college when Frasier first came out in '93, and was in my early 30's when it ended in 2004. However, I can completely understand where the article is coming from because - now that I'm in my late 40's - I myself am watching & enjoying Frasier for the first time this year. And, I pretty much ignored the series back in the day, because it didn't hold my interest at the time - nor could I really relate to the character(s). However, as time has gone on & I've gotten older, I do more appreciate the themes of divorce & dating after divorce, aging parents, being attracted to women in their 20's - (when you're in your 40's - LOL), getting established in your chosen career, etc.

11-03-2019, 12:12 AM	#3
TSMIV Member Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 29, 2018 Location: Arkansas Posts: 696	Frasier was no more "family friendly" than Friends so why would her parents ban one and not the other?