This is the show where simply acknowledging a character owns/owned a NES was the entire punchline of a joke.

Yeah if you turn off the laugh track this show is terrible, for so many reasons.

There’s your problem. Just keep the laugh track on and it stays funny.

Same deal with Friends and also a fair amount of standup.

This show had a character that physically could not speak to women without being intoxicated. I think they eventually created a pharmaceutical drug to resolve this.

EDIT: As for Friends, there was a lot of fat phobia and gay panic.