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WHY DID THE CREATORS RUIN THIS SHOW?

posted 15 years ago by WAKEnSHAKE
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The first four seasons were absolute perfection. Every single episode was funny and was worthy of watching in rereuns over and over again.

Season 5 was not as good as the first four, but it was still pretty damn good and two thirds of the episodes were on par with the first 4 seasons.

Season 6 was ok-- Not great at all and for the first time the show went from hysterical without any gimmicks to lots of shock value *beep* and cartoonish violence to compensate for mediocre writing.

Season 7 is absolutely unwatchable. Not even remotely funny at all. It's still early so i am willing to give it a shot, but the downhill trend is likely to continue.

My question is WHY!?!?!

Is there some unwritten rule among the creators of TV shows that once the show is great, it's time to totally destroy it?

I would honestly prefer the show be taken off the air and forced into re-reuns than be dumbed down to the painfully unfunny bs it's putting out now.

[–] satersatersater 15 years ago

I agree completely!

Although Last nights episode "Monster" was pretty hilarious the first 7 minutes.

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[–] TheGreatAnonymous 15 years ago

Just wanted to say that I agree completely. The first 4 seasons had such memorable characters and premises. From Rabbot to Carl, I can't name one bad episode (except for maybe Hypno-Germ). I'll always watch the show, but I think that the writers have simply run out of ideas.

[–] Diestro_Consone 15 years ago

I agree. I hope the writers can come up with same qualities that the first five seasons had.

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[–] Moviefan45 15 years ago

I think the new episodes are a bit too improvised. I realize improvization and ad libbing have always played a big part in the show, but with these latest episodes it feels like they're making up the entire thing as they go, which makes the episodes feel a lot more sloppy and less funny. You can EASILY tell when you get to the 1 or 2 jokes *Written* for the episode. Everything else feels like it was improvised in 1 take.

[–] beaverman225798 15 years ago

Yeah they all decided to make their show suck on purpose. maybe they ran out of ideas and are now trying to bank a few bux before they move on to their next auto-decided FAILURE.

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[–] elorasabine 15 years ago

I am yet another person who agrees with you. The show has gone steeply downhill, which is a shame because I used to love this show.

In my opinion, the biggest killer of the show is its sudden jump in graphic violence. The show has always had some blood n' guts, but it got to the point where it went from funny gore to mean-spirited and just plain gross. The "guest star" characters have also become less funny and more strange and violent.

I haven't caught any of the newest season yet so I'm not sure what's going on now, but for a while there, it got very weird when the Aqua Teens didn't even live in their own house anymore and were barely on the show at all.

[–] NecroNikolai13 15 years ago

Yeah those episodes sucked, the ones that centered on Carl and the vampire land lord. I've seen 3 of the new seasons episodes, the PE Christmas wasn't funny, Rabbot Redux was great except the changed intro, didn't care for that. And just saw the Wongburger hamburger episode, that was meh.

[–] WAKEnSHAKE 15 years ago

So, I watched the last two episodes from this season.

The drop off between a relatively weak season 6 and a so far almost unwatchable season 7 is extremely pronounced. Season 6 was so-so, but at least some episodes were pretty good and most episodes were decent. This season has been nothing short of painfull. I was willing to give it a chance, but I think I am pulling the plug on my fandom with the show.

Maybe they just have run out of ideas. Outside of an occasionally funny joke, idiotic guest appearences and mindless violence, the show has absolutely no entertainment value anymore.

The biggest problem in my opinion is Shake. I feel like they are over-writing and underthinking his lines on the show. If you compare Shake from the first few seasons to now, he isn't even the same character anymore. The creators have attempted to make him too human and have turned him from a hysterical sociopath into a complete douchebag who is simply not funny. His selfish antics, delusions of grandeur and constant abuse of Meatwad are what made him (next to Carl) the best character on the show. Now he's whiny, emotional, corny and last but not least hella unfunny. Dana Synders talent is being completely wasted imo.

Are the equally unfunny tools from Tim and Eric writing for ATHF now?

[–] worldofbong 15 years ago

Maybe they run out of ideas?

..or maybe not, lol - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbIm8m8qBgk

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[–] TheeMortyToad 15 years ago

I thought that Fry Legs and Rubberman were great episodes.

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[–] bentstrider 15 years ago

I miss the Dr Weird/Steve cold-openings.

[–] Grey_Waddle_Doo 15 years ago

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