Yeah the good place omission looms large, season 3 of lasso makes it ok to leave out. Seems like a lot of the premier network shows like Silicon Valley were left off or insanely low rated like Veep.
*** Cyclone Fanatic Sitcom Tournament: Selection Show ***
- Thread starter CycloneRulzzz
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My Final Four:
NY: 8 Sunny
Scranton: 1 Office
Korea: 2 Mary Tyler Moore
Boston: 4 Curb
Best matchup: 1 Cheers vs Schitts in the 32 round
NY: 8 Sunny
Scranton: 1 Office
Korea: 2 Mary Tyler Moore
Boston: 4 Curb
Best matchup: 1 Cheers vs Schitts in the 32 round
So you just informed me that an alternative ending exist, and it it substantially better than the original!
100% appreciate the work that was involved, absolutely zero criticism is directed towards the people who spent the time putting this together because the concept is awesome! Everyone has their bias when it comes to stuff like this.
Wait you didn’t know that? It’s a million times better and you will hate that it was the alternate. HIMYM is one of my favorite shows of all time.
I would have loved to be a part of the selection committee, but I just don’t have knowledge of sitcoms before the early 90s so I didn’t think I could offer too much direction on what to seed. I also understand that you aren’t going to make everyone happy with something like this, but I do appreciate including more of the older sitcoms.
Here is my final 4
Seinfeld (1)
Roseanne (6)
Married With Children (5)
Home Improvement (6)
Seinfeld (1)
Roseanne (6)
Married With Children (5)
Home Improvement (6)
Yeah, that whole original ending pissed me off too. And they try to cop out with "that was the original ending we had in mind at the beginning". Well great, that'd work if the show got cancelled after a couple seasons but they wrote themselves away from that over 9 seasons and their characters grew past where that ending made sense. Barney grew to be a better person for Robin. Ted literally let Robin float away like a balloon, and they developed a wonderful, platonic, friendship. So if they did want to keep their original ending, they shouldn'tve written themselves away from it so hard. Instead they decided torching several seasons of character development was a great plan.
For future brackets a proper nomination thread will be made for future brackets for both material for future brackets and to ask for help in building a bigger committee. The genesis of this began in a thread I made for a twitter sitcom bracket that only focused on late 80 through today.
The idea was formed in that thread and discussion of a cf sitcom bracket was mixed with people debating the twitter bracket.
This is definitely a bracket that would of benefited from a bigger sized committee.
I would have zero problem taking out "teen seeds" like The Middle or Boy Meets World and replacing with Baskets.
Freaking loved that show.
Freaking loved that show.
What annoyed me, is the last season is so focused on Barney’s and Robin’s wedding only for them to end up divorce like five years later.
Swap the Middle, but Boy Meets World deserves to be on there (much higher in my opinion)
I can’t believe you would disrespect the Janitor from Scrubs just like that, but I also understand doing Debra from Everybody Loves Raymond dirty.
Not speaking on behalf of committee (and we didn’t assess it this way during selection), but for me a sort of parallel to actual NCAAT, Freaks and Geeks is like a team with marginal strength of schedule, a solid NET ranking, no bad losses and performed well against top opponents.
I've warmed to it over time, but I still don't like it. Just felt like a giant cop out and the literal titular character spent about 5 seconds on screen.
You now are an official member of the studio panel!
In addition to debates about seedings & inclusion, it's cool to see projections for Final Four and predictions of upset specials.