What shows have you grown out of, or has society grown out of? Were they popular in their time? Were they not so much? Why do you feel like they’ve aged? I’ll leave mine below

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    That show is one of two I gave up on due to egregious product placement. The other being Eureka!

    “The bones are at the crime scene, let’s get in my all new 2014 Toyota Prius and go look at them.” And this was a show that once knew how to do product placement. In an early episode Brennan’s book money came in and there’s a scene where she has like a Mercedes sports car, and there’s an exchange like “New car?” “Decided to splurge.” “Nice.” And they didn’t tape over the badges. We didn’t get “My new Mercedes Fuck Class has dual side fuckbags and adapive fuck control, handy when I’m on the go.”

    Some folks tried to play off making an entire episode of Eureka about Degree For Men as being tongue in check fun. No, a couple episodes earlier when the new corporate boss lady mentions “New funding from corporate sponsors” and uses a TV remote to turn on the Degree For Men logo on the back of a lab coat, that’s tongue in cheek fun. Though if I’m honest I was basically already out. That show had a major problem with continuity. Sets would change, characters came and went, Carter was seeing the dry cleaning girl, they were going on a vacation, never heard from her again. I thought “the writers don’t care about this show, why should I?”