Ah yes, you decided to use the Bard, one of the greatest writers the world has known, but to fully experience his writings, you don't read what he said (although in Secondary School I read A Midsummers Nights Dream (which has a particularly subtle and infamous dick joke concerning Bottom) and Macbeth) but to watch it, be immersed in it and to fully experience it that way which I have done watching films and at the Globe in London.
But anyway. you seriously think that growing up in the American Mid-West is the same as growing up the English South-West? Growing up in reasonably poor location and family is the same as growing up in a reasonably affluent location and family? Or the big one, growing up in a location where you worry about not being able to afford to see a doctor and get a prescription compared with ringing a doctor first thing in the morning and getting a prescription that day for all the many hundreds of pounds worth of medication one needs free of charge? That's not even going into the difference in the types of Television programmes we're exposed to, or the political systems and the relationship of the state and church or the education system of both countries. So yes, it might be down to my own personal tastes, but then again, those individual tastes have been influenced by my upbringing and the exposures I've had, same as your's have influenced you.- Or to put it more simply, our cultures growing up.
Not in the slightest, you're the one putting quotes around American, not I, nor am I being condescending (and I certainly didn't say all American humour was crass, I found Arrested Development and Parks and Recreation (to name two programmes) hysterical when I watched them) I literally said one word to your particularly crap joke. I was going to leave it there, but then you decided to write dozens, if not hundreds of words in reply.
As I said, I enjoy many forms of humour, but whether it's crass American (given that Orville is written by Americans, made by Americans and Broadcast on American television, it fits the bill of being crass American Humour), British (for example, even though I think Rick Myle was brilliant, I can't stand Bottom) or some other form, that is not (normally) my cup of tea. For the most part I prefer my humour to be dark and twisted and often, suitable.
Just to sum things up though, I found the episode of Orville not particularly good (it felt like leftover and recooked Voyager, which given who wrote it and directed it, makes sense why it felt like that), and as for the Glory Hole joke (and the episode in general) I understand (and accept) that others will have a difference of opinion, often counter what to I think.
If we all had the same opinion about everything, life would be as boring as this conversation has become for me.
