Okay, let's get the bias out of the way... I REALLY CAN'T STAND THIS SHOW, so I have to admit there could be some instant viewer bias here, and I actually mistyped the title at first on for some reason wrote "Mrs. Brown's Eye" which yeah is pretty fitting when it comes to my opinion of this show. Anyway I would say I find the jokes tired and worn out and hate that every other character seems to find Mrs. Brown so feckin' hilarious (helps that he - as in Brendan O'Carroll, the man in very bad drag - wrote it).
The people I know who seem to like this show are over 50, I'm sure you might be younger and like it or know people younger then that who like but in my life there is nobody I know who is a fan of this who was born after 1975. So I chose to watch Mrs. Brown's Boys because so far on this blog I've been doing television episodes I actually watch and wanted to watch something that would challenge me and try and watch it with an open mind.
At this point want I want to say I have no problem with broad comedy and I've laughed plenty at broad humour in the past it's just Mrs. Brown's Boys does absolutely nothing for me.
The plot centres around Agnes (as in Mrs. Agnes Brown) not having a date for valentine, there's internet dating involved, the exact situtations you expect will arise and at one point Mammy turns on the laptop and is told to press "any key" and she searches for any key, haha... wait didn't Homer query where the any key was back in the feckin' 90s! - but to be fair that is probably the episodes freshest joke, take another joke for example...
"What do you call the useless thing at the end of a willy?" --- "a man"
That is a legit joke in the episode, are you kidding me??? I think I heard that for the first time in the 1990s and I would wager it was a few decades old by that point.
There was probably gold to mine from the episodes premise but O'Carroll goes for the most predictable jokes imaginable and it doesn't help that most of the cast aren't really performeners (I believe many are relatives or the like), I was also not a fan of when things went wrong and they kept I in mainly because it didn't feel particularly natural.
In fairness I did laugh at one bit, when Mrs. Brown cried when she got stood up, but I don't think that was mean't to be funny, but it was played so sincere that is just verged on the ridiculous
There was probably gold to mine from the episodes premise but O'Carroll goes for the most predictable jokes imaginable and it doesn't help that most of the cast aren't really performeners (I believe many are relatives or the like), I was also not a fan of when things went wrong and they kept I in mainly because it didn't feel particularly natural.
In fairness I did laugh at one bit, when Mrs. Brown cried when she got stood up, but I don't think that was mean't to be funny, but it was played so sincere that is just verged on the ridiculous
I really did give this a chance but it's not for me, if you do find it funny and I do mean it in a none sarcastic way - but good for you, not all shows are mean't for everyone, I'm sure I could put say Spaced on for somebody who might like this and they'll call it awful and unfunny so I have to say no new fan here and probably never will be.
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