”Comedy” episodes

[DS9forever]

Magnificent Ferengi was great.

 

[Greg Cox]

Which one you think could be better?
Ferengi heavy episode with silly one liners or something about the war, for example a mission with our crew and admiral Ross infiltrating a Dominion base...

That depends. How funny are the one-liners?

Seriously, I don't remember feeling that we weren't getting enough eps about the Dominion War. And there's no guarantee that yet another ep about a top-secret military mission would be more entertaining than, say, "Little Green Men" or "Our Man Bashir"

I tend to resist the idea that "serious" is innately superior to "silly." Comedy and drama have equal value in my book.

 

[diankra]

Watch old movies from the 1940s. Even with a devastating global war going on, you still got silly service comedies featuring Abbott & Costello, the Andrews Sisters, skirt-chasing sailors on shore leave, and zany hi-jinks at the USO . . . .

People don't stop getting into funny situations now and then, even during war time.

You Nahtzi Spy and its sequels. Not a Stooges fan generally, but...

 

[Timewalker]

The comedy episodes were the only things that made those seasons of DS9 tolerable.

 

[JesterFace]

That depends. How funny are the one-liners?

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I like Magnificent Ferengi and Who Mourns For Morn, but I agree some of the Ferengi comedy episodes are just plain terrible. In comedy episodes the Ferengi often get written like cartoon characters and it often crosses the line of being insulting to the viewer.

But why shouldn't there be comic relief? After a series of heavy war episodes, a change of pace is totally welcome.