also curb is pretty formulaic in some ways when it comes to its plotlines but you can essentially make even a good show sound like shit that way.
well yeah okay i see your point but i can't think of a single episode of curb your enthusiasm that hasn't totally revolved around larry doing something unthinkably dumb and everyone hating him for it, but being really unreasonable about the whole issue just so the plot works. it's just tired, how many times am i supposed to go "oh that larry!!!" and that's the joke?
who else is even close to being as dumb a character as frank? also these people get like no airtime
well the more developed the characters are the more attributes they've got you won't find that the main characters are so stupidity written, at least not consistently. tracy CAN be really funny, but he usually isn't and didn't get funny for a while. liz and jack are probably funny most of the time but even they have their crappy aspects (liz got baby fever HA HA jack making references to rich celebrities he knows HA HA). ryan was right about that "i'm on meds and bugging out!!!" stuff in that one episode - there's a lot of tracy stuff like that that just isn't funny. and the whole show is just prone to cheap shots, telegraphed or really old jokes and i'm saying it's about on the level of an episode of scrubs but with some actual wit thrown in there.
i'm not saying i hate 30 rock or anything, i still watch it, but it's not really amazing and i wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless we were bored and had nothing to do.
but i really, really hate frank. like i would punch that guy.