The lottery episode.......

For real! Those two going at it, hilarious. Oh yes, lmao. That line had me rolling when he told her to calm down.

The funny part is while Pam is reading the gift certificate, Gina is telling him how nice it was for Him to do that and he's like yeah well, "it's for her, it's for her." Lol!

@Monkey

But you responded also. So what does that say for you?

@Cqldbakc

Your thread was stupid for not one, but four reasons.

The first is that it was stupid to point out something so amazingly obvious as the show is outdated.

The show ended almost 20 years ago, and began almost a quarter of a century ago. So it's stupid to point out something so blatantly apparent as the show is outdated.

Secondly, your thread was stupid because it makes it look like you don't understand that this is a fictional T.V. show that is trying to entertain. If they did it the way you suggest, there would have been no interesting plot to entertain us.

How boring would it be if Martin simply checked the internet and realized that he would not be getting all that money. The entire plot and all the hilarity and interest that ensued would have been destroyed.

He only bought all that stuff because he thought he was getting all that money. He only gave his friends gifts because he thought he was getting all that money. All the wacky stuff that happened at the check announcement would not have happened if he had simply checked the internet and realized he would be getting next to nothing.

Your comment displays a significant level of obtuseness as far as story writing, to not realize that being a fictional sit-com, it needs some type of device to entertain, rather than regular life mundanity.

Thirdly, your comment betrays a lack of understanding that even when an invention is around, it doesn't mean people are going to use it. People still get bitten by mosquitoes even when there are sprays to prevent that very thing.

And fourth, your comment was obtuse, as it doesn't take into account that even in America there are many without internet access at home. And of course getting internet access away from home is very difficult because you have to heel to their time schedule and a lot of times, they have some or all of the internet save special websites, restricted as far as access. Like a library might not let you access anything but the library's website, to browse titles.

According to a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 20% of American households have no home Internet access.

So even if the internet was around, and even if it did track that type of lottery data, there is no guarantee they would have even had access to the internet to avail themselves of that information.

That was dumb of Martin to be buying all sorts of stupid things on credit/writing checks before he even knew how many people had those exact winning numbers as he did. To add more salt to the wounds, he mentioned that even if he did return all of the stupid things, he was still in debt by $1,000(because he gave Tommy a $2,000 check and Tommy most likely used it for living expenses) He also got an in home mani/pedi, he cannot return that). He gave Pam a check to a wax center, LOL. She could give him that check back as she was offended by it.