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minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71·6 days agoUmmmm, the whole point of the show was that the people were horrible. The show ended with them jailed after they made fun of a guy who was getting mugged.
minus-squareLumidaub@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·6 days agoThe gang on It’s Always Sunny is worse but they are obviously not people we’re supposed to empathise with. It’s quite a bit less obvious on Seinfeld.
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·6 days agoAlways Sunny was taking the idea of Seinfeld and dialing it up to 11.
minus-squaredylanmorgan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·6 days agoI feel like the distinction is that on Sunny the gang is “punished” for their shitty behavior, and on Seinfeld they basically never were. (I don’t include the season finale because that was just a cop-out to give the show an ending.)
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoI feel like Seinfeld reveled in the naughty pleasure of schadenfreude
minus-squareHobbitFoot @thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 days agoThe show is still a very 90s show with 90s sensibilities. There is a lot of media from that time that hasn’t aged well.
Ummmm, the whole point of the show was that the people were horrible.
The show ended with them jailed after they made fun of a guy who was getting mugged.
The gang on It’s Always Sunny is worse but they are obviously not people we’re supposed to empathise with. It’s quite a bit less obvious on Seinfeld.
Always Sunny was taking the idea of Seinfeld and dialing it up to 11.
I feel like the distinction is that on Sunny the gang is “punished” for their shitty behavior, and on Seinfeld they basically never were. (I don’t include the season finale because that was just a cop-out to give the show an ending.)
I feel like Seinfeld reveled in the naughty pleasure of schadenfreude
The show is still a very 90s show with 90s sensibilities. There is a lot of media from that time that hasn’t aged well.