Got Smart?
by Jason Thomas Kocher July 3rd, 2008 - Reviews » Film and TV »
This movie…is not as good as I think it is.
But my thoughts will not change on the matter. I was raised by my parents. When they weren’t looking, I was raised by Nick at Nite, on such shows as Gilligan’s Island, F Troop, The Addams Family and, most of all, Get Smart.
These were ridiculous, escapist comedies that had their own unique worlds and rules. For me, this feeling was markedly intensified 20 to 30 years after their original airing, like a lost signal of a parallel universe providing a black and white static to lose oneself from the modern world.
Watching these shows helped me, at a such a young age, to so quickly become such an old and crotchety man, denigrating modern TV comedy for its lack of imagination…no longer providing an absurdist or [...]
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