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I recently picked up a box set of Frasier and it's immediately weirdly relatable as an adult. I remember when I was very young not really understanding any of the humor but having lived a lot of the scenarios of the episodes as an adult it feels really clever.

One thing I didn't like though is the episode the Crucible where Frasier accidentally buys a fake painting and the gallery he bought it from refuses to give him a refund. And the police won't do shit. And it's pointed out to him that suing will cost more than the painting did. Frasier points out he could just shittalk him on his radio show but Niles tells him "no that's slander, he'll sue you for everything you got".

But no it isn't, slander is when something is a lie. In-order to sue him he'd have to prove the painting was real. And gl doing that. He'd almost certainly refund if he just threatened to do it. It's why Disney doesn't refund you at all if you got shitty park service, but if you're an influencer™ on twitter and shittalk them they'll refund you immediately.
 
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"No civilization in history has ever considered Chief Hydrological engineer a calling."

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"Yes, yes, the Cappadocians, fine."
 
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There was some pretty accurate radio stuff in it, the wall of carts (the big 8track-looking things behind Roz) for all the station elements, also the call screening program they used was a real one.
It was an ancient dos thing that worked on monochrome monitors. You could control the phones with it too, like, number to pick the line, enter to change the text about callername and question, f1 put the caller up, f3 dropped them, I forget exactly.
 
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Dr. Henry Armitage said:
love me some Frasier. My favorite quote from the show is “A vulnerable woman and an unstable man in a gothic mansion on a rainy night - the only thing missing is someone shouting “Heathcliff” across the moors!” I laughed my ass off.

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Also the part when Daphne says one of Niles and Maris' passions is laughing at white people, not wearing white after Labor Day.
 
Mettaur said:
One thing I didn't like though is the episode the Crucible where Frasier accidentally buys a fake painting and the gallery he bought it from refuses to give him a refund. And the police won't do shit. And it's pointed out to him that suing will cost more than the painting did. Frasier points out he could just shittalk him on his radio show but Niles tells him "no that's slander, he'll sue you for everything you got".
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One of the things streaming services and binge-watching has allowed me to notice is that sitcoms are not meant to be binged. When you marathon That 70's Show from start to finish you start to pick up on the logical inconsistencies that you wouldn't notice or give a shit about if you just came home from work or school and flipped the TV on to watch it.
 
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WarJams said:
The whodiewhatsit? When the fuck did this happen?

...oh, it's on one of these stupid shitty streaming services, no wonder I've never heard of it.
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Yeah thats the unfortunate bit, but i just use those grey area streaming sites. Not worth downloading but funny enough to watch in the background while i work.
 
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When you marathon That 70's Show from start to finish you start to pick up on the logical inconsistencies that you wouldn't notice or give a shit about if you just came home from work or school and flipped the TV on to watch it.
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It's actually because when That '70s Show was first launched, neither Fox nor the creators had any faith in the show having any real longevity beyond the first season. Because of this, the first season had a lot of inconsistencies with the timeline. The episodes would start off by telling you what date it occurred in the 1970s: there were numerous times where the dates and events were out of order. For example, there was an early episode about the main characters seeing Star Wars in the theater for the first time, which was obviously in 1977. But there was a subsequent episode about the Bicentennial, which of course was 1976! Those are just a few I can think of off the top of my head.

When you binge TV shows that spanned numerous seasons, there's always strange continuity errors, since again, those shows weren't always expected to survive as long as they did, so sometimes they have outlandish plot elements or even retcon the shows' own lore. Remember in King of the Hill how there were multiple non-consecutive episodes about Peggy getting a job at the local newspaper!? For a casual normie just randomly tuning into KotH on network television, they probably couldn't have cared less about Peggy's job constantly being retconned – but binging the entire series start to finish, it's very jarring and down-right ridiculous.
 
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Standardized Profile said:
I don't know about the Cappadocians, but the Sumerians probably would have considered it a calling.
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I know pointing to aqueducts and the Romans is incredibly low brow but when the starting point is no civilisation in historian and an English primary school student would be able to correct the preceding poster *snort, sneer, nasal noises*
 
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