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One would think you would out grow this kind of comedy...never happened. Like aged wine...Felix and Oscar get better with time. Each episode is a classic. I just received season 3...can't wait to start that one.
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thank goodness for jack klugman . never realized how much of this show i do not like.forced humor all over the place,mindless over the top plot points and grating and annoying laugh track(so much for the live audience). good points include funny one liners and did i mention jack klugman.
this show never was and never will be in the same class as 'all in the family ' or 'the mary tyler moore show'. that said, i look forward to seasons 3,4 and 5.
ps
gary marshall stinks
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So gratifying to know there are other fans out there as enthusiastic as I. Loved these episodes. The one where Felix gets his nose fixed and has his eyes covered post-op. Oscar, who just had foot surgery, flicks his cigar ashes on the rug. "I *heard* that Oscar." Felix the Calypso Singer..."Once there was a man named Oscar. Oscar, Oscar, Oscar! And Oscar turned on his best friend. Oscar, Oscar, Oscar!" I defy you not to smile.
Anyone know what season the roll-reversal episode, my personal favorite, is on? I can't wait. "Murray, bring your nose in here you're breathing up all the air in the hall." Ah, how I love this show. Enjoy!
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What can I say? For all you avid fans such as myself, no words are nessesary. Pop it in, kick back and enjoy probably the greatest sit-com of our time. It's waiting for you.
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Actually, let me change that to: this show sucks after Year One. Yes, I know that the OC community -- a group more rabid and protective than a pitbull on crack -- has always believed the opposite. I've been watching "The Odd Couple" for a couple decades now, always looking forward to it on WPIX-NY. And I have always preferred the opening season, but never as strongly as after watching the beautifully reproduced episodes on the Year One release, and then Year Two. (With Year Three just around the corner.)
The reasons have nothing to do with the magnificent Tony Randall or Jack Klugman(both of whom get better with every viewing). And certainly not the writing. For me, the reasons are: 1) the 3-camera set-up instituted beginning with Year Two, as opposed to Year One's "movie" style; 2) the always obnoxious influence of Garry Marshall, who really did take complete creative control of OC starting with Year Two.
I understand the advantages of 3-cameras and a live audience: 1) it's much cheaper than the dozens of set-ups required by the movie approach; 2) it's cheap; and 3) it's cheap. Yes, it's also much easier to rehearse, probably more fun for the actors, and it's cheap. But even on those terms, this show(and many, many others) lose something: the back-and-forth "energy" between the TV comedy actors and the audience often leads to major campiness, self-referential nonsense, and loss of timing(while waiting for the yahoos to stop cheering or whatever). Obviously, the heart of comedy is timing. But not just the actors' timing. One classic example would be "The Jury Story": both the hotel room scenes and the jury room scenes(all of them hysterical) would be impossible to repeat in 3-camera set-up because the "punchlines" almost all depend on cutting and camera placement: Felix moving the ashtray, Oscar holding up the cut-up newspaper, Oscar dumping ketchup on his steak, etc. The beautiful timing of all that -- and so much of Year One -- is lost with the stage-bound 3-cameras. And speaking of stage-bound: what the heck happened to New York City? Another one of the great things about Year One is that the camera became part of New York, showed us Lindsey-Era New York. Season One very much feels like New York(even 'though it was filmed mostly in LA). The rest of the series feels as canned and locationless as almost all sitcoms do.
Especially if they are under the control of Garry Marshall. Let's face it: the campiness, the obviousness, the playing to the immediate audience's most obvious expectations of the show, the "characters," and the actors are not just part of the stupidity of "Happy Days," "Joanie Loves Chacchi" and "Laverne and Shirley". It's here too, folks. Very much so. And one other Marshallization of this series really leaves me cold: the endless celebrity appearances. And what celebrities!: Monty Hall, Richard Dawson, Bobby Riggs, JAYE P. MORGAN! (Couldn't they get John Davidson or Bobby Sherman?) How stupid.
Well, at least we have the magnificent Year One.
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