To play Devil's Advocate here for a sec the first two episodes were the worse so far, the ones after did get a bit better I feel. A bit, its still modern TV comedy meh and doesn't hold a candle to the original Night Court or actually good shows but RLM watched the worst episode of this show so far.
I don't know....Mr. Plinkett is kind a smart. To ensure the illusion, Jay should have shaved his head and worn a bailiff outfit. Mike should have put on Black Face, and played Marsha Warfield, no uniform, just nude. That would have made it all perfect.......right?
Good job. If you knew it without reference, which I think you did. Know it without imdb I mean. I new that one too. Are you a trivia maven, like myself? I should really get Jeopardy for my PS5 :) Cheers from Canada, the land that's even colder than Wisconsin. RLM for the WIN (c)
Better to ask who signed off on it than ask who wanted it. People want stupid stuff all the time, most of it gets filed away or burned. But someone actually decided this was worth doing.
"What the Hell is Night Court?" is the best possible punchline there could have been for a joke that's been going since literally the first season of HITB
@@Uncanny_Mountain yeah, and its mirror image idiocy referred to by the other side as "BlueAnon" (a thousand ridiculous stories that the media reported based on "anonymous sources" that turned out to be outright fabricated, but which tens of millions of people still believe). Interestingly, I know many people on both sides of the aisle all across the country and I've never encountered a single person on the right who believed that QAnon was real... but many on the left believed that those on the right commonly believe it.
@@miketeeveedub5779 That's a bit of a misdiagnosis imo. If I removed the laughter from the funniest stand-up specials, you'd get something incredibly awkward to watch.
I legitimately cannot believe that someone actually went and made a show like this in the present day. These clips look like parody skits making fun of 90s comedy programmes!
That's legitimately what I thought when they showed first clip. "...is this a parody? An amateur skit? Is the joke that they are watching some fan parody instead of the reboot?" "..." "...oh no, it's real"
@@jmcmike4407 Oh dear oh dear. I live in the UK and most of the sitcoms that you see on broadcast TV nowadays are just repeats of 'classic' programmes from the 20th century, some of which are quite good and some of which are Last of the Summer Wine. When the big channels bother to make new comedy, it's usually single-camera stuff that feels far more modern, although that doesn't make up for shit writing...
the added kicker is, usually you find out the people who write this shite have their own movie podcast (as if there went enough of those) and they are giving movies like the original ghostbusters or jurassic park like a 5 out of 10.
Makes sense that they're wrapping up all these long-running storylines to prepare for the great RedLetterMedia Cinematic Universe reset, now that James Gunn is in charge.
I thought laugh tracks were actually dead. Wasn't there a time, relatively recently, where no currently in production shows were using laugh tracks? What happened?
Multi-cam sitcoms with laugh tracks just feel like the uncanny valley now. Whatever cheerful, simple, hopeful, cheesy world spawned them, brother, we ain't livin' there anymore.
I don't know, I thought they went a bit overboard with how grotesque and disgusting they made it look. You can only go so far before it becomes obvious it's just a gross puppet.
@@r0bw00d - Sequel. Reboot. Does it even matter?? To me, Night Court 2023 is a reboot. Proof: Judge's last name is Stone. Bailiff looks like a Roz knock off. Larraquette, the only returning cast, is not a prosecutor by a defender. If Night Court 2023 was truly a sequel as the producers & NBC claims. John Larraquette's Dan Fielding would of been this court room's Judge. Then Night Court 2023 can separate itself from the original show. A truly be a sequel as Fielding moved on from being a Prosecutor to become a Judge. Only to be assigned as a Night Court Judge.
@@r0bw00d Yeah but it's complete dogshit so honestly I don't blame the guy for refusing to associate the idea of a sequel with a singular thought put into it with whatever you wanna call the sludge that was released instead.
Between this and the conclusion of the Nukie saga, it really feels like the RedLetterMedia Cinematic Universe has finally reached its "Endgame". Looking forward to whatever stories come next and take another decade plus to pay off.
What? None of this is real! They're all actors pretending to be characters. Mr. Plinkett is played by a guy named Rich Evans. The other two guys are Jay Bauman and Mike Stoklestein...Stoklowski...Stoklarsky...Mike S. They're not really VCR repairmen, they're just pretending to be for the series. Seriously, you thought this was real? O-KAY! O-KAY! Earth to you, uhh...this is all make believe. I mean, come on!
Well, one positive in this reboot is that John Laroquette looks healthy at 75 and he still has good timing even though he has to mutter his way through a garbage script and painfully unfunny jokes.
"Why does she need him so bad?" Because his acting skill is so visibly above everyone else on the show that it has no chance without him. I really wanted John to be able to elevate all the failings of the rest of the show, but that's too much heavy lifting for an old man.
@@Belgand Because he's the only reason why anyone would watch this thing. The network know that this is a bad show, so they hired One guy with actual talent to see if he can help the ratings.
I was sick with covid last March and my dad found the original Nightcourt on a streaming app so we re-watched it together. Miserable and sick as a dog, that show made me literally lol. The first season was a bit rough, but it was a genuinely funny show with legitimate heart and it more than stands the test of time.
I love the irony that the funniest thing to come out of this show is that "revive Night Court with some of the original cast" as a 30 Rock joke has aged like fine wine 😂
The non-reaction shots of Rich-as-Plinkett in that fucken oversized suit in a chair that makes him look like he's the size of a child are consistently funnier than everything in Night Court.
Well remember any joke that "punches down" isn't allowed so you must sterilize all humor and pretend that the over abundance of SNL style "awkward quirky" comedy is still funny even though every mainstream comedy show on the air has the exact same mood, tone and humor now. It is an endless wasteland of ideology and writing; every show is identical. You could mix and match several characters from several different "comedies" today and still have the same boring safe show that all toe the same ideological line.
@@mattk7184 I think the fundamental problem isn't that, at all. Those tired old jokes are already used up, nothing anyone does today could top or match what we already had in the 80's. Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, etc. They had their time, and their time has passed. The problem is comedy must be founded on a kernel of truth, and the truth of our reality is a bleak Black Mirror type of world, and that's the OPTIMISTIC take. The realistic take, is we're looking toward material collapse once the oil runs out and the finance speculation scams all implode. A second great depression, maybe after the apocalypse we'll be left with an awful Postman hellworld to occupy. So the issue is: none of the wealthy elite feel any of that, as they're all better off than ever. The pandemic only increased their share of the pie by huge gobs. And of course, for the very few of them who are intelligent enough to be aware of all this, the LAST thing they want to do is help educate people how bad things are getting. That wouldn't help their bank accounts at all. I don't really find many comedians funny these days. Few outside of Bill Burr. Really doesn't help that Norm died. So yeah, bleak hellworld where everyone is facing the end of their lives and nothing is funny in this grimdark world. How do you top the circus that is collapse in the real world? You can't. You can only escape into a fantasy world, like The Orville or something I guess. And that's why New Nightcourt is fantastic. Original Nightcourt wasn't funny either, but the new one takes it to another level. It is the perfect prop for us to stare at and wonder to ourselves "this really is the end of all things, isn't it?"
Hearing a laugh track in this day and age honestly is so painful and shows how disconnected the producers of this are. People born when the office aired are now able to vote, you'd think that laughtracks would be long gone by now
The laugh track only works in a show that's written like a traditional sitcom. The last thing I know of that was written properly was Last Man Standing. "Sitcoms" anymore do not have standalone situations, and lack any comedy, so the laugh track is out of place.
Doing The Office documentary-style has possibly been one of the greatest decisions ever in television. Awkward silence? Unfunny joke or situation? Just look at the camera!
@@Riley_Mundt you nailed it. I'd argue, and the numbers support it, that big bang was last successful show to correctly use laugh track. Love or hate it, it was a very traditional sitcom structured show and therefore laughter fits it. But it's own spinoff, young Sheldon knew enough to know it wasn't telling sitcom stories so it does not use it
I feel like this is the closest we've ever gotten to a non-scripted live-watching NOT on the BotW set. This is great. Rich is acting beyond acting, reacting as his character Mr. Plinkett. Check Mike and Jay's faces - these are their BotW reactions.
The fact that your horrified, bored faces were both more entertaining and hilarious than anything in the show really does say a lot. They could have probably gotten away with putting this script in a museum with the rest of the dinosaurs.
@@BamfIamone Roiland did voices in one of their videos recently. The one they refer to in this one where the timeline was altered and caused Mr. Plinkett to like Newhart rather than Night Court.
I walked by the living room as my parents were watching this and I asked how this reboot was compared to the original show and my dad said that watching this was more depressing than when he met an old friend from the high school football team who he really looked up to as a teenager and saw that the very same man was now a depressed burnout. That’s how fun this tv show was to watch.
Thursday evenings were set aside for television in those years Night Court was on. A Night Court reboot or sequel should not have been done. It is too depressing. Nothing is light-hearted or fun today like Night Court was in the 80s. Today, all is cringe, especially comedy.
As an 80s kid, i concur with your dad. After watching it, i put on the original and watched the first few episodes trying my hardest to imagine that what has been crapped out with the new show was just a bad fever dream. It worked.
Just because your mother has terrible taste doesn't except for the shit that they just dumped on the world. It's a disgraceful and unfunny show, from this assessment.
Judging on what I'm seeing: They're replicating the Chuck Lorre style. Simple plots, simpler characters, non-stop...'jokes', bright colors and a laugh track. If you don't pay attention to how low effort and high production it is, it's great! It blows me away that they allow this trash on TV, but stuff like Final Space gets cancelled (Final Space got cancelled three times, once after every season, eventually the showrunner ran out of options)
I can’t believe I googled and read that this is the most watched new sitcom in years and it’s already been renewed for season 2. This gonna be the new Two and a Half men isn’t it lol.
Mike waking up with a hostage laugh at 3:08 was triggering. I know that laugh; I've been in live studio audiences of bad sitcoms. Jay's consternation at the laugh was the reaction of a guy who never sat through a 5-hour taping of an episode of Ted Danson's Ink.
@@themorrigan7224 I don't think the show is very good but TBF you can make *literally anything* look bad by having a bored expression and mumbling "that's it?" after every single line of dialogue. I dunno, it's like -- yeah this show is bad, but could RLM honestly do any better? We've seen Space Cop
I keep coming back to this video. Night Court is my #1 favorite sitcom of all time. The guys' reaction is exactly the same as mine. JUST LET THINGS I LOVE DIE!!! Why do I have to keep being punished?
I'm getting kinda concerned about the show's future with all these conclusions lately. First watching Nukie now this... don't stop just yet, we need you!
It feels like most sitcoms today are intentionally made to be canceled before the 1st season is over. Like they had absolutely no faith in it, but they went ahead and made a few episodes anyway to hopefully catch an audience that no longer exists... It's practically like burning money. So awful.
Imagine some intern of some executive manager at peacock or whatever watches RLM and convinced them a few years ago to reboot Nightcourt as a present for Mr. Plinkett, only to for it all to be in vain as we have changed timelines...
Like when studio heads saw all the memes making fun of Morbius, so they re-released it thinking people would watch it ironically, and it flopped for a second time.
@@DeflatingAtheism Or when they tried to reboot Full House, but couldn't get the twins because they're scarred for life being exposed to celebrity culture at such a young age.
Mr. Plinkett here in the suit reminded me of Beetlejuice after the guy shrunk his head for taking his Now Serving #4 ticket. That memory was far more amusing than anything in that Night Court episode.
Mike, Jay and Mr Plinkett sitting in chairs reacting to Night Court is funnier than any clip shown from Night Court. Why don't we have a hit sitcom about those three yet?
