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Anybody else besides Banks watch It's Always Sunny In Philladelphia? Last week's episode was complete genius.
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Liked the premiere a lot, wouldn't call it complete genius. I'm thinking this week's episode will be better. "EATING your drinks? Frank, that's genius."

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I thought it was good, but not like phenomenal. Its such a great show that its tough to make a pantheon episode at this point. But I loved that they brought back "Donovan McNabb"
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Watched 2 Broke Girls last night. It was good, not quite as good as New Girl though. It's sort of a modern Laverne and Shirley.

I've also started watching That 70s Show on Netflix and i have to say that the first season has been hilarious so far, from all the episodes i've watched so far, i've only seen one of them.

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The first season is the only one worth watching. The rest of the series is basically "Ashton Kutcher becomes the star and a million pointless side characters". No wonder why Topher Grace left.
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Don't listen to boush. That 70's Show was great for many years.
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I was never a huge fan, but I'm certain it remained above average beyond the first season. That said, a distinct downward trend began at some point. Not sure when, though. Was it when Donna became a blonde?
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That's a pretty good starting point actually. She wen't blonde and it did seem to start a slow roll downhill.
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That 70's show topped my list of 25 favorite TV shows. And yeah, after she turns blonde it starts waning. That's not for something like 150 episodes, beginning of season 7.

It steps down when they get a new Laurie too. She's awful... And high school 70's show is much better than graduated 70's show, but still very good. But the last season is nearly unwatchable compared to the rest of the show. It really doesn't completely jump the shark until then.

And I believe that starting to focus more one characters that the audience loves (Kelso, Hyde, Fes) is a good thing. It made it more of an ensemble comedy than a family comedy.
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Tragic that her transformation into a blonde would go hand-in-hand with the show's decline. I thought she looked better blonde.
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Meh, I'm more on Boush's side here although I'll give it maybe 2 seasons.
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The decline began with Laurie. She was a pointless one-dimensional dumb blonde character and yet they put her in a bunch of episodes and tried to make the audience care about her. It would have been more interesting to have Eric be an only child and make the other characters surrogate siblings to him.
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Laurie #1 was great. She just gave it to Eric and the her/Kelso/Jackie love triangle was pretty freaking funny, especially on the way to Vanstock.
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For a cops and crims crime show, i dont think u can beat The Wire. But id like to know your thoughts ,on what is possibly better or whether or not u all have seen it?
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Watched the new Zoey deschanel show "New Girl" last night. It was alright. I'm on the fence. Will give it another go.
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