What joke, in otherwise great sitcoms, do you hate?

Pretty much every segment of Jerry's stand up routine in Seinfeld. I have no idea how that man became a famous comedian.

Because that shit was actually funny 35 to 40 years ago. It just didn’t age well.

Tastes change.
- His stand-up was bad back then too
- 40 years ago in the UK it was shown at 8am as a filler program when nobody was watching, because it was so painfully contrived
- No I watched it back then as a kid and though maybe you need to be 35 to like this.
  
  Recently age 35 not my thing still.
I don't find Jerry funny, like at all. I like Costanza but I adore Kramer
- Yeah Jerry was such a whiney twat.
- Jerry was a straight guy in the show, is funny because he is not funny. He's just a normal guy with a few good observations
  
  He's there to anchor the show
- All tv shows named after the main character are better without that character (spin-offs excluded obvs).
  
  Seinfeld
  
  Dawsons creek
  
  Rosanne
  
  Ellen
  
  Exception that proves the rule
  
  Columbo
Was it supposed to be funny? I thought the joke was that he was a terrible hackneyed comedian.
- he’s always been a pretty successful standup…
Product placements in it are terrible too

"Drake's coffee cakes ..."

The show has brought a lot of cringey memories to my life 🤢

How rude they are to Jerry in Parks & Rec. Doing a rewatch of it now and wow it is way worse than I remembered, and starts way earlier. It's not a flanderisation thing, there was a season 2 joke that made me have to pause and go online just to see how many other people felt the same way as me.

I find it funny because of the sheer absurdity of it. There's absolutely no reason to dislike Jerry. He affable and unassuming, a good family man and just generally a good guy. Yet everyone inexplicably hates him, even Chris. It's makes absolutely no sense and that disconnect is what makes it funny to me.

If they hated him for a reason it would be mean spirited. Instead, it's just over the top silly and fits in with the humor of the show.

The bit where Leslie throws his painting in the lake is one of my favorite moments. It's just so exorbitantly stupid that it makes me laugh.
- Personally I don't have as much of an issue with when they're poking fun at him per se, but when they denegrate or damage things he has clearly worked hard on and put a lot of passion into, that's crossing a line for me. It becomes incredibly mean-spirited.
  
  There are two examples in this compilation video. One at the linked time, and another at 6:33. Especially with how happy he is to see Leslie in the second clip until she destroys his art. It's honestly heart-breaking. The pie to the face that came a little bit before that was also hard to watch and really felt mean. Dunno if that's because of how cold and calculated it was (vs the more usual off-the-cuff comments), or because it was a physical act rather than verbal, or something else. But I didn't like it.
- It feels cringe (to me) cause these type of people are often bullied in real life work places, again with no real reason.
- It's the opposite of the Lil' Sebastian thing, where there's that horse that everyone idolizes for no discernible reason. Although with that, there's the one character who doesn't understand why they do that, so maybe that's what the Jerry thing needed? Or perhaps that would have made it even sadder lol.
Agreed. The only redeeming thing I can give the writers credit for is that they gave him an amazing family life. Even though he is the office punching bag, he is much more fulfilled outside of work than any other character is. That, and he also does love his job.
Definitely agree. I know it's supposed to be a joke "he's such a great guy we hate him" but it's physically hard to watch.
I was kinda uncomfortable with his interactions with Chris. Chris was my favorite in the show and even his meanness towards Jerry was off-putting.
This sorta works for Tobi Flenderson in The Office tho
- I think it works there because it's just Michael Scott that despises him, everyone else sees him as fairly normal from what I recall.
Watching Parks & Rec for the first time, and I also noticed this. IMO it's missing something, maybe if only one of the characters acted that way towards him or something it would be better. He's pretty much Meg from Family Guy, and I never really cared for that dynamic either.

It will be legen... wait for it... dary!

I couldn't agree more. The idea seemed to have been "Hey, lets take a joke that was just luke warm at best to begin with, and then over use it in an attempt to wring every single spec of amusement out of it until our audience gets physically sick when they hear it"

Still a fun show though!
- It is kinda brilliant though, the way they set it up.
  
  If you don’t like the joke, you can always fall back to the meta level: this is a 40-something dad recalling how dumb and cringe-worthy he and his friends were in their 20s.
- Sometimes that can happen with a joke - like it's kind of mid when you first tell it, then you keep pushing it and everyone hates it, then at a certain point something breaks and it becomes the funniest thing ever for some inexplicable reason. Not saying that's what happened with with this joke necessarily, but it is possible! Old Family Guy used to do it quite well sometimes I think.
- What show is that from?

I hate how in Disney family sitcoms as well as some cartoons, there's always the stock dumb kid that gives the majority of the humor, and it's humor that gets old.

And they get dumber and dumber by every season
- The example I think that got me to dislike the trope was in Austin and Ally. The character Desmond was eating a muffin with the muffin wrapper on, and one of the characters mentioned you "have to remove the wrapper before eating it", so he removes the wrapper and throws the muffin away and starts eating the wrapper because that's how he interpreted their advice. And I'm thinking has there ever been a teenager who didn't have some instinct on how to eat a muffin.
- Art imitates life
- One character I actually really like because he makes fun of the trope (at least in one episode), is Barry from American Dad!
I grow tired of how all the Pixar style movies use the same facial visual gags. They're all kinda samey.
- Better than Dreamworks, though

Here's the opposite; a joke that I love from a sitcom I hate: "Secret elixir, huh? Well, I'm usually more of a bourbon guy, but when push comes to shove I don't know what the hell's in that either." - Charlie Harper, "Two and a Half Men"

That's one good joke from one insufferable show.
A mix of grains consisting of not less than 51% corn, water, yeast and oak. That's what you need to make bourbon.

On arrested development I skip the story arc of episodes related to Maeby tricking people in to thinking her mom is trans so they can be awful to her.

There is a lot of casual transphobia that was common at the time, but I just can't fucking stand those scenes.

Isn't she just doing that to try and stop Steve Holt from being attracted to her mum instead of to her?

I don't think she was trying to get people to be nasty to her particularly, just trying to distract Steve.
- Maeby: And the worst part is he thinks he’s passing.
  
  Yes, her motivation was make Steve Holt not interested but fundamentally the joke is that Steve wouldn't be attracted to trans woman, which is what happens. Which honestly makes the whole joke worse.
  
  And even if you don't care about that, Maeby's motivation doesn't matter because she still uses transphobia as a way to harass Lindsey behind her back.
  
  I honestly find the whole thing so upsetting and not even remotely funny.

Some of the Scrubs jokes aged badly. I can't remember any specifically, but there was some anti-gay humor and stuff like that. The show I still appreciated enough to get through a rewatch recently and still mostly enjoyed, but some of the individual jokes were hard to sit through. Wish I could remember one lol.

Ha! gaaaaaaaay
Aged badly as well.
Same with Futurama. Kif repeatedly reacting disgusted at Zapp's more homoerotic antics or singing a pro-trans song, do not seem to sit right when watched with a modern eye.
- I never saw those moments as Kif being homophobic. I read it as a subordinate being repulsed by the idea of seeing his commanding officer naked.

Hawk Tua

Not a sitcom joke (yet...) but wow yeah. A moderately funny joke for about a day, but the memes have been tiresome since.

The poor girl allegedly lost her job as a preschool teacher over it, too.
- https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/hawk-tuah-girl
  
  Know Your Meme says the firing is a false rumor. I don't even know that she works at a preschool... because I have not and will not research that... because I am lazy.
- She's apparently making a small fortune selling merch.
- The poor girl allegedly lost her job as a preschool teacher over it, too.
  
  I genuinely don't know what I'm supposed to do with that information. It was an outlandish thing to say and arguably funny. Plus, she knew she was being recorded and maybe even signed a release.
  
  Am I supposed to be angry at the person interviewing people on the street? Other people for sharing it? Her former employer? Myself for laughing?

Any kind of overt and heavily pushed version of their stereotyped personality is the joke.

the terrible transphobic storyline in arrested development

Wait, which one?

All sitcom dads being fat, slobbish and painfully stupid and unaware of anything to do with housework, children, or common sense but somehow they all have long-suffering yet weirdly hot wives who just roll their eyes and somehow don't file for divorce.

The Simpsons

King of Queens

George Lopez's show

According to Jim (Belushi)

Last man standing (Tim Allen)

Home improvement (Again Tim Allen)

Everybody loves Raymond

The entire premise of every one of these shows is HAHAHA DADS ARE IDIOTS HA HAHA

You forgot Married with Children which was one of the first
- Absolutely, one of the first and best examples.
  
  I have to admit though, I do actually love that show haha

I am completely done with the "male character says something chauvanistic, female character slaps, that's the joke."

Futurama did it quite a lot, Leela hit Fry a lot, Amy hit him a few times. I done with shows that do that. I see that joke happen again I'll stop the playback right then and there and cancel whatever service I'm watching it on.

sue the showrunners & writers for all they have