Sentences with phrase «expected of any sitcom»

Atlanta goes heavy on the callbacks, which is to be expected of any sitcom that strives to build its own alternate reality.

Not exact matches

Hide a stapler in jelly Popularized by a certain sitcom television program, this office «prank» is sure to crack - up the rest of your colleagues — just don't be expecting the recipient to eat his or her way out of the jelly.

Movies and television sitcoms lead us to have a false sense of what to expect when labor begins.

Such fears may be based on cartoons and sitcoms and our culture's way of making fun of men, but two things became clear: The men all expected it, but it almost never happens.

It plays out more sitcom than as a rehash of the film that inspired it, so expectations should be tempered to expect nothing more than formula romantic comedy antics.

It's a thoughtful movie that recreates the 1950s TV sitcom in the form of a fictional such program called Pleasantville - a black and white town à la Leave to Beaver and Father Knows Best where everything that happens is expected and pleasant.

From the title alone, you have a decent idea of what to expect from 17 Again, a silly sitcom about a miserable, middle - aged man who gets a new lease on life when he is miraculously turned back into a teenager after accidentally falling into a river.

A seminal moment in New York's musical counterculture gets the biopic it certainly didn't deserve in «CBGB,» which transforms the glory days of Hilly Kristal's Bowery punk / No Wave club into exactly the sort of moldy sitcom one might expect from writer - director Randall Miller (a veteran of the middling, mid - «90s Disney comedies «Houseguest» and «The Sixth Man»).

Director Lucas Reiner (Carl's son) tries to imbue the movie with a satirical edge, but fails miserably; these are the kind of jokes one expects out of a third - rate sitcom.

One week ago ABC launched what is clearly the best new sitcom of the season in «Modern Family,» which airs at 9 p.m., and followed that at 9:30 with Courteney Cox's new series, «Cougar Town,» which was better than expected and has some potential to build on.

As Veronica, it's good to see de Rossi working in a sitcom again, though I expect Better Off Ted to be another one of those shows that quickly gain critical acclaim but only a cult following.

Being familiar with the music of Miley Cyrus or the half - baked but popular sitcom that showcases it isn't quite required for knowing what to expect here.

More of an old - fashioned sitcom than you'd expect from Greg Garcia («Raising Hope).

Picture and sound quality are about as good as can be expected of frugal mid -»90s Saturday morning television, which is a far cry from most of today's programming (but a lot more pleasing than garish Disney Channel sitcoms circa 2005).