That’s why It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is my favorite show. 100% idiot plots all the way down. They represent some of the worst human beings on Earth, and it’s more fun to laugh at the morons than think about how much they’re fucking up life for the rest of us…
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areakode@riskeratspizza.com 8 hours ago
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Seinfeld is also like that. The best ones are where all their individual idiocy ends up making a spectacular fireball of stupidity.
Though I hope Earth gets a better finale.
myrmidex@belgae.social 6 hours ago
Wouldn’t Arrested Development fit in here too?
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
I remember the first season or two that it was out, it was too stressful for me to watch. I had just never seen any fiction until that point which had that level of consistent, nonstop manic trainwreck quality to it.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
No, they’re not just idiots, and not just “bad people” like in Seinfeld, but powerfully stupid and actively hateful. I just can’t stomach that show.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
The only episode I’ve seen is the crossover with Abbott Elementary
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I can only watch it in small doses
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
I recently watched a miniseries called A Teacher, in which a highschool teacher has an affair with her student and there are actual consequences. With all the people in the epstein files that are escaping justice, it was kind of cathartic to watch a sexual predator be punished for her actions
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
So… the majority of popular sitcoms and movies.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I immediately thought of the Cohen brothers
miraclerandy@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Does this include the plot points where there’s a misunderstanding in a relationship? Like where a girl sees her boyfriend hug another girl but doesn’t know it’s his cousin or something and instead of talking about it just ignores him and so he ignores her and it’s just dumb and entirely avoidable?
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
“wait! I can explain!”
No waiting or explaining ensues
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The real idiots are the audience who finds that compelling instead of engaging
leagman1@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Ah that’s end of season 2 or beginning of season 3 of every series that has a couple in it, right?
Canconda@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Only if 3rd parties who witnessed the context of such misunderstanding re-enforce the stupid. Otherwise that’s just your average contrived romance drama.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
They already said idiot plot
ratel@mander.xyz 6 hours ago
I feel like there are so many plots that stem from simple miscommunications or a lack of communication between two charatcers which would easily resolve the whole situation.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
I think idiot plot is supposed to be so stupid that it’s essentially not possible to happen irl
The example you outlined could happen in real life if one person completely blocks the other or something
Would be an idiot plot if everyone involved is fully able to communicate to the other parties, everyone has plenty of information, and they decide to go through with whatever stupid shit they think they need to do, that would be completely unavoidable and anyone with half a brain would understand that they don’t need to do what they think they need to do.
Like a movie where there’s a killer on the loose and nobody thinks of even trying to call the police. No “oh there’s no signal here”, just straight up nobody even tries.
saltesc@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
That’s similar to the one where they couple breaks up over a misunderstanding and all it takes is one of them explaining in like 10s. But instead someone storms off while the other pleas, and deep down you’re like, “That motherfucker so wanted it to end anyway.” But then we deal with post-break up scenes and you realise they’re just idiots that still haven’t even thought to clear up the misunderstanding via a single text, call, or friend like that afternoon.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
The entirety of American history, or at least since Jan 6, 2021, when Trump would have been immediately arrested and tried for treason in a sane and efficient society
xtools@programming.dev 5 hours ago
just like all the news coming from the US nowadays
desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
What do we call it when it happens in real life? The News… Do I put the /s?
ClownStatue@piefed.social 3 hours ago
The current state of affairs in the US.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Isn’t this the plot of C-SPAN?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah, I don’t think I’ve seen another TV show jump the shark so quickly. Still, it’s kinda on brand if you read the series it was based on.
scytale@piefed.zip 6 hours ago
See: Alien Earth.
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
it’s also known as life
ramble81@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Isn’t this most horror movies? “Oh I’m going off alone”, “let’s check this really dark and creepy area”, “let’s go find the source of that errie noise!” As that all drop one by one.
sik0fewl@piefed.ca 5 hours ago
They obviously wouldn’t do that if they knew they were in a horror movie, though.
db2@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
In
literary criticismworld politicsThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The plot of Lucy could have been avoided with a set of bolt cutters
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
LUCY!!! YOU GOT SOME SPLAININS TO DOOOOO!!!
WAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Snatch
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Hitchhikers Guide? I feel like I’ve read that somewhere…?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That’s the one.