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[–] [email protected] 102 points 2 months ago (5 children)

You couldn't make half of Seinfeld because with cell phone all the funny situations don't occur.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)

None of those situations were funny to actually live through. They're only funny in a TV show.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

True of literally every sitcom.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“Comedy is tragedy plus time”. I like to say it’s comedy plus distance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I think both are true.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

A man gets a paper cut, that's drama. They fall down an open manhole and die. That's comedy.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

24 (TV series) is like this if I remember well. The daughter would have had a cellphone now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Eh, series today still use this trope. "Oh no, I'm out of battery" or the comedic "My battery is at 1%, let's take a selfie!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

That's why so many tv shows are now written as period pieces or based in the 80s and 90s.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That scene where he calls the phone in his stolen car would still be funny