To play Devil's Advocate here for a sec the first two episodes were the worse so far, the ones after did get a bit better I feel. A bit, its still modern TV comedy meh and doesn't hold a candle to the original Night Court or actually good shows but RLM watched the worst episode of this show so far.
Better to ask who signed off on it than ask who wanted it. People want stupid stuff all the time, most of it gets filed away or burned. But someone actually decided this was worth doing.
I don't know....Mr. Plinkett is kind a smart. To ensure the illusion, Jay should have shaved his head and worn a bailiff outfit. Mike should have put on Black Face, and played Marsha Warfield, no uniform, just nude. That would have made it all perfect.......right?
Good job. If you knew it without reference, which I think you did. Know it without imdb I mean. I new that one too. Are you a trivia maven, like myself? I should really get Jeopardy for my PS5 :) Cheers from Canada, the land that's even colder than Wisconsin. RLM for the WIN (c)
"What the Hell is Night Court?" is the best possible punchline there could have been for a joke that's been going since literally the first season of HITB
I don't know, I thought they went a bit overboard with how grotesque and disgusting they made it look. You can only go so far before it becomes obvious it's just a gross puppet.
@@miketeeveedub5779 That's a bit of a misdiagnosis imo. If I removed the laughter from the funniest stand-up specials, you'd get something incredibly awkward to watch.
@@Uncanny_Mountain yeah, and its mirror image idiocy referred to by the other side as "BlueAnon" (a thousand ridiculous stories that the media reported based on "anonymous sources" that turned out to be outright fabricated, but which tens of millions of people still believe). Interestingly, I know many people on both sides of the aisle all across the country and I've never encountered a single person on the right who believed that QAnon was real... but many on the left believed that those on the right commonly believe it.
I thought laugh tracks were actually dead. Wasn't there a time, relatively recently, where no currently in production shows were using laugh tracks? What happened?
I legitimately cannot believe that someone actually went and made a show like this in the present day. These clips look like parody skits making fun of 90s comedy programmes!
That's legitimately what I thought when they showed first clip. "...is this a parody? An amateur skit? Is the joke that they are watching some fan parody instead of the reboot?" "..." "...oh no, it's real"
@@jmcmike4407 Oh dear oh dear. I live in the UK and most of the sitcoms that you see on broadcast TV nowadays are just repeats of 'classic' programmes from the 20th century, some of which are quite good and some of which are Last of the Summer Wine. When the big channels bother to make new comedy, it's usually single-camera stuff that feels far more modern, although that doesn't make up for shit writing...
the added kicker is, usually you find out the people who write this shite have their own movie podcast (as if there went enough of those) and they are giving movies like the original ghostbusters or jurassic park like a 5 out of 10.
Makes sense that they're wrapping up all these long-running storylines to prepare for the great RedLetterMedia Cinematic Universe reset, now that James Gunn is in charge.
What? None of this is real! They're all actors pretending to be characters. Mr. Plinkett is played by a guy named Rich Evans. The other two guys are Jay Bauman and Mike Stoklestein...Stoklowski...Stoklarsky...Mike S. They're not really VCR repairmen, they're just pretending to be for the series. Seriously, you thought this was real? O-KAY! O-KAY! Earth to you, uhh...this is all make believe. I mean, come on!
@@r0bw00d - Sequel. Reboot. Does it even matter?? To me, Night Court 2023 is a reboot. Proof: Judge's last name is Stone. Bailiff looks like a Roz knock off. Larraquette, the only returning cast, is not a prosecutor by a defender. If Night Court 2023 was truly a sequel as the producers & NBC claims. John Larraquette's Dan Fielding would of been this court room's Judge. Then Night Court 2023 can separate itself from the original show. A truly be a sequel as Fielding moved on from being a Prosecutor to become a Judge. Only to be assigned as a Night Court Judge.
@@r0bw00d Yeah but it's complete dogshit so honestly I don't blame the guy for refusing to associate the idea of a sequel with a singular thought put into it with whatever you wanna call the sludge that was released instead.
Multi-cam sitcoms with laugh tracks just feel like the uncanny valley now. Whatever cheerful, simple, hopeful, cheesy world spawned them, brother, we ain't livin' there anymore.
I was sick with covid last March and my dad found the original Nightcourt on a streaming app so we re-watched it together. Miserable and sick as a dog, that show made me literally lol. The first season was a bit rough, but it was a genuinely funny show with legitimate heart and it more than stands the test of time.
I love the irony that the funniest thing to come out of this show is that "revive Night Court with some of the original cast" as a 30 Rock joke has aged like fine wine 😂
Between this and the conclusion of the Nukie saga, it really feels like the RedLetterMedia Cinematic Universe has finally reached its "Endgame". Looking forward to whatever stories come next and take another decade plus to pay off.
Well remember any joke that "punches down" isn't allowed so you must sterilize all humor and pretend that the over abundance of SNL style "awkward quirky" comedy is still funny even though every mainstream comedy show on the air has the exact same mood, tone and humor now. It is an endless wasteland of ideology and writing; every show is identical. You could mix and match several characters from several different "comedies" today and still have the same boring safe show that all toe the same ideological line.
@@mattk7184 I think the fundamental problem isn't that, at all. Those tired old jokes are already used up, nothing anyone does today could top or match what we already had in the 80's. Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, etc. They had their time, and their time has passed. The problem is comedy must be founded on a kernel of truth, and the truth of our reality is a bleak Black Mirror type of world, and that's the OPTIMISTIC take. The realistic take, is we're looking toward material collapse once the oil runs out and the finance speculation scams all implode. A second great depression, maybe after the apocalypse we'll be left with an awful Postman hellworld to occupy. So the issue is: none of the wealthy elite feel any of that, as they're all better off than ever. The pandemic only increased their share of the pie by huge gobs. And of course, for the very few of them who are intelligent enough to be aware of all this, the LAST thing they want to do is help educate people how bad things are getting. That wouldn't help their bank accounts at all. I don't really find many comedians funny these days. Few outside of Bill Burr. Really doesn't help that Norm died. So yeah, bleak hellworld where everyone is facing the end of their lives and nothing is funny in this grimdark world. How do you top the circus that is collapse in the real world? You can't. You can only escape into a fantasy world, like The Orville or something I guess. And that's why New Nightcourt is fantastic. Original Nightcourt wasn't funny either, but the new one takes it to another level. It is the perfect prop for us to stare at and wonder to ourselves "this really is the end of all things, isn't it?"
The fact that your horrified, bored faces were both more entertaining and hilarious than anything in the show really does say a lot. They could have probably gotten away with putting this script in a museum with the rest of the dinosaurs.
Well, one positive in this reboot is that John Laroquette looks healthy at 75 and he still has good timing even though he has to mutter his way through a garbage script and painfully unfunny jokes.
I feel like this is the closest we've ever gotten to a non-scripted live-watching NOT on the BotW set. This is great. Rich is acting beyond acting, reacting as his character Mr. Plinkett. Check Mike and Jay's faces - these are their BotW reactions.
"Why does she need him so bad?" Because his acting skill is so visibly above everyone else on the show that it has no chance without him. I really wanted John to be able to elevate all the failings of the rest of the show, but that's too much heavy lifting for an old man.
@@Belgand Because he's the only reason why anyone would watch this thing. The network know that this is a bad show, so they hired One guy with actual talent to see if he can help the ratings.
Hearing a laugh track in this day and age honestly is so painful and shows how disconnected the producers of this are. People born when the office aired are now able to vote, you'd think that laughtracks would be long gone by now
The laugh track only works in a show that's written like a traditional sitcom. The last thing I know of that was written properly was Last Man Standing. "Sitcoms" anymore do not have standalone situations, and lack any comedy, so the laugh track is out of place.
Doing The Office documentary-style has possibly been one of the greatest decisions ever in television. Awkward silence? Unfunny joke or situation? Just look at the camera!
@@Riley_Mundt you nailed it. I'd argue, and the numbers support it, that big bang was last successful show to correctly use laugh track. Love or hate it, it was a very traditional sitcom structured show and therefore laughter fits it. But it's own spinoff, young Sheldon knew enough to know it wasn't telling sitcom stories so it does not use it
@@BamfIamone Roiland did voices in one of their videos recently. The one they refer to in this one where the timeline was altered and caused Mr. Plinkett to like Newhart rather than Night Court.
Mike waking up with a hostage laugh at 3:08 was triggering. I know that laugh; I've been in live studio audiences of bad sitcoms. Jay's consternation at the laugh was the reaction of a guy who never sat through a 5-hour taping of an episode of Ted Danson's Ink.
I can’t believe I googled and read that this is the most watched new sitcom in years and it’s already been renewed for season 2. This gonna be the new Two and a Half men isn’t it lol.
Just because your mother has terrible taste doesn't except for the shit that they just dumped on the world. It's a disgraceful and unfunny show, from this assessment.
Judging on what I'm seeing: They're replicating the Chuck Lorre style. Simple plots, simpler characters, non-stop...'jokes', bright colors and a laugh track. If you don't pay attention to how low effort and high production it is, it's great! It blows me away that they allow this trash on TV, but stuff like Final Space gets cancelled (Final Space got cancelled three times, once after every season, eventually the showrunner ran out of options)
@@themorrigan7224 I don't think the show is very good but TBF you can make *literally anything* look bad by having a bored expression and mumbling "that's it?" after every single line of dialogue. I dunno, it's like -- yeah this show is bad, but could RLM honestly do any better? We've seen Space Cop
I keep coming back to this video. Night Court is my #1 favorite sitcom of all time. The guys' reaction is exactly the same as mine. JUST LET THINGS I LOVE DIE!!! Why do I have to keep being punished?
I'm getting kinda concerned about the show's future with all these conclusions lately. First watching Nukie now this... don't stop just yet, we need you!
Imagine some intern of some executive manager at peacock or whatever watches RLM and convinced them a few years ago to reboot Nightcourt as a present for Mr. Plinkett, only to for it all to be in vain as we have changed timelines...
Like when studio heads saw all the memes making fun of Morbius, so they re-released it thinking people would watch it ironically, and it flopped for a second time.
@@DeflatingAtheism Or when they tried to reboot Full House, but couldn't get the twins because they're scarred for life being exposed to celebrity culture at such a young age.
I wonder if its possible that RLM's throwaway joke of Mr.Plinkett and Night Court over the past decade may have in some roundabout way contributed to keeping people aware of it all these years and helped with its resurrection. I mean...its Night Court. Out of all the old sitcoms out there, that is the one to bring back?? They even cancelled Save by the Bell to make room for it which was like Shakespeare compared to NC. Who or what thought out of the blue "that's a good idea!" when it comes to Night Court?? How much coke was involved? Perhaps its like the situation with Star Wars, like how the spectre of JJ Abrams haunts the old Plinkett review from long ago that may have led us all to the horror of Rise of Skinwalker. I'm sure its all just a coincidence........right?
At first I thought that can't be true but then I remembered how Rich Evans ended up on the Ellen Show. Who knows how many sarcastic niche RLM-referencing comments are floating around on the internet for some lazy researcher to go "boy, the kids are really into Night Court!".
It feels like most sitcoms today are intentionally made to be canceled before the 1st season is over. Like they had absolutely no faith in it, but they went ahead and made a few episodes anyway to hopefully catch an audience that no longer exists... It's practically like burning money. So awful.
The non-reaction shots of Rich-as-Plinkett in that fucken oversized suit in a chair that makes him look like he's the size of a child are consistently funnier than everything in Night Court.
Mike, Jay and Mr Plinkett sitting in chairs reacting to Night Court is funnier than any clip shown from Night Court. Why don't we have a hit sitcom about those three yet?
This is the kind of show that plays in a nursing home common area at 3am.
To play Devil's Advocate here for a sec the first two episodes were the worse so far, the ones after did get a bit better I feel. A bit, its still modern TV comedy meh and doesn't hold a candle to the original Night Court or actually good shows but RLM watched the worst episode of this show so far.
That's Elder abuse. Mike should like it just for that.
Was the origin story of this a pitch from Peacock for a show that would make people ask "Could I watch Picard instead?"
The algorithm showed that it had the backing of millions of subscribers
This was just as depressing as the show itself...
Who on God's green earth desperately asked NBC for a Night Court reboot?
Besides Red Letter Media fans of course
Better to ask who signed off on it than ask who wanted it. People want stupid stuff all the time, most of it gets filed away or burned.
But someone actually decided this was worth doing.
Wait did we Morbius NBC?!
Dark wing Duck
are we the baddies?
Now convince RLM fans to demand a new NBA Jam.
Its been 10 years and like millions dollars, and he is finally able to watch it. Good job Lightning Fast VCR repair.
The fastest in the business! (which hasnt existed since the final VHS release which was A History of Violence)
Lightning Fast? More like Molasses Slow VCR, amirite?
A and it’s the wrong FUCKING TIMELINE FUCK IT ALL.
I don't know....Mr. Plinkett is kind a smart.
To ensure the illusion, Jay should have shaved his head and worn a bailiff outfit.
Mike should have put on Black Face, and played Marsha Warfield, no uniform, just nude.
That would have made it all perfect.......right?
Good job. If you knew it without reference, which I think you did. Know it without imdb I mean.
I new that one too. Are you a trivia maven, like myself?
I should really get Jeopardy for my PS5 :)
Cheers from Canada, the land that's even colder than Wisconsin.
RLM for the WIN (c)
Rich saying “1994?” was genuinely way more funny than anything written in this show
"What the Hell is Night Court?" is the best possible punchline there could have been for a joke that's been going since literally the first season of HITB
"It's funny"
"Well that's a lie"
Never change, Jay
The comment about "I'm already regretting this" being an outtake and hence a comment about the show itself was also good
Jay's off-the-cuff response to the closing logo got the biggest laugh out of me for the whole video.
I mean, how bad must something be to not be able make even Jay laugh.
I was impressed with the animatronics RLM was able to do with Rich's corpse in this episode
That's just Mike
I liked the part with the millennium falcon.
The animatronics do get a bit quirky at night
That was Bob Newhart.
I'm impressed that Mike got through this entire video without mentioning Star Trek III.
You haven't seen the outtakes yet.
John Larroquette! Who was also on Boston Legal with James Ultron California Spader and William Boomer Astronaut Shatner! Yay!
The video was originally about 2 hours originally, but they wisely decided to cut out all the Star Trek references.
It's in the outtakes.
Literal LOL
This feels like the perfect punchline for a joke that’s been building for several years
...And was dropped as badly as the reboot itself.
I never realized how much the color of Mike and Jay's shirts affected the way I perceive their ages
"I can't believe how poorly that aged already" had me laughing hard
What?
@@billhart3728 The timeline resetting hinged on a Rick & Morty joke, and Rick and Morty and Justin Roiland are doing so well right now.
believe*
@@zechwheeler5939 What does the timeline resetting have to do with Rick and Morty?
@@wanderingrandomer Justin Roiland voiced alternate timeline Jay and Mike
The animatronic Mr. Plinkett is so life-like.
RIP Stan Winston
Yeah, they cobbled him together using parts from the recently shuttered Splash Mountain.
I don't know, I thought they went a bit overboard with how grotesque and disgusting they made it look. You can only go so far before it becomes obvious it's just a gross puppet.
The greatest criticism of modern comedy is to show people watching it silently
Well... any comedy.
Only laughter you can hear is from the long dead.
The greatest criticism of modern comedy is to remove the laugh track and see if it's still funny. - FTFY
@@miketeeveedub5779 That's a bit of a misdiagnosis imo. If I removed the laughter from the funniest stand-up specials, you'd get something incredibly awkward to watch.
@@destructiveblade7446 Stand up special do not have laugh tracks. They have a live audience.
Watching noted thespian Rich 'Richard' Evans disappear into a role never fails to astonish. Pure masterclass.
This show feels like it’s from an alternate universe where 9/11 never happened and the 90s just sorta continued forever.
That sounds like a special type of hell
It probably would have still ended during the 2008 recession.
@@stevealford230😂
You mean like QAnon?
@@Uncanny_Mountain yeah, and its mirror image idiocy referred to by the other side as "BlueAnon" (a thousand ridiculous stories that the media reported based on "anonymous sources" that turned out to be outright fabricated, but which tens of millions of people still believe). Interestingly, I know many people on both sides of the aisle all across the country and I've never encountered a single person on the right who believed that QAnon was real... but many on the left believed that those on the right commonly believe it.
wasn't it an 80s show?
The incessant use of the laugh track was the funniest joke in the episode
After watching Kevin can F%*K himself every time I hear a laugh track I cringe a little.
I feel like everything that uses a laugh track now feels incredibly dated. . .
I wish shows would stop using them. I much prefer comedies like Young Sheldon, Ghosts, The Middle, and others that don't use that tool.
I thought laugh tracks were actually dead. Wasn't there a time, relatively recently, where no currently in production shows were using laugh tracks? What happened?
@@jnnx At least a live studio audience would have sounded less fake.
Jay and Mike being sincerely nice to Mr. Plinkett for once is as wholesome as it is unusual
Forcing him to watch this was NICE?
@@Thanatos2k well, he did want to watch night court at some point in the hitb multiverse
This (badly aged) alternate timeline sure is weird.
Rich staying in character throughout. God bless him.
Truthfully, he was more entertained by After Last Season.
A thespian for the ages.
Mr Plinkett staying in character as "Rich" for BOTW is way more impressive
He has really upped his game lately. But we all know it's Jay's terrible direction that's holding him back.
Fortunately for Rich, it was very easy to not laugh through all of this.
I LOVE how rich couldn’t hold on his laugh during the “why are you staring at my wall”
I still can't tell when Rich has been freeze framed and when he's just sitting still
he's really good at it
I legitimately cannot believe that someone actually went and made a show like this in the present day. These clips look like parody skits making fun of 90s comedy programmes!
Most of the biggest network sitcoms are about as bad as this. Lowest common denominator and all that.
That's legitimately what I thought when they showed first clip.
"...is this a parody? An amateur skit? Is the joke that they are watching some fan parody instead of the reboot?"
"..."
"...oh no, it's real"
@@jmcmike4407 Oh dear oh dear. I live in the UK and most of the sitcoms that you see on broadcast TV nowadays are just repeats of 'classic' programmes from the 20th century, some of which are quite good and some of which are Last of the Summer Wine.
When the big channels bother to make new comedy, it's usually single-camera stuff that feels far more modern, although that doesn't make up for shit writing...
the added kicker is, usually you find out the people who write this shite have their own movie podcast (as if there went enough of those) and they are giving movies like the original ghostbusters or jurassic park like a 5 out of 10.
I'm still not sure that those clips are not made by RLM
Makes sense that they're wrapping up all these long-running storylines to prepare for the great RedLetterMedia Cinematic Universe reset, now that James Gunn is in charge.
Totally makes sense
James Gunn should direct the RLM CU phase two and Mike should be directing people to their seats
Kevin James as Mike, Chris Pratt as Jay, and an aging Jason Alexander to play the role of Mr. Plinkett. You're welcome!
@@PatrickCraig-lh5is no, your forgetting to keep on the most problematic actor in the new cast for no good reason
Gunn will just use Tom King storylines with Jay and Mike being rainbow haired she-twinks who are nothing like the Jay and Mike we all know and seen.
This was a bigger 10 year payoff than the Kodak printer challenge
Mr Plinkett would have saved just about as much if they were still in the same timeline
I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!!
WHAT? THAT’S ALL I SAVED? AFTER TEN YEARS?
Let me check my creepy notebook...
Which WAS impressive
So nice of them to finally watch Mr. Plinkett's Night Court tapes. Mike truly cares about the elderly. Such a wonderful person he is.
What? None of this is real! They're all actors pretending to be characters. Mr. Plinkett is played by a guy named Rich Evans. The other two guys are Jay Bauman and Mike Stoklestein...Stoklowski...Stoklarsky...Mike S. They're not really VCR repairmen, they're just pretending to be for the series. Seriously, you thought this was real? O-KAY! O-KAY! Earth to you, uhh...this is all make believe. I mean, come on!
@@Tom_Van_Zandt I don't believe you for a second.
@@seijuruhiko Really? Not even for one single second? But I even emphasized "O-Kay".
First they did something with all those Nukie tapes, and now Plinkett has watched Night Court. Feels like the end of an era.
every end begins the next thing
After this, I never want to hear Mike make fun of Rich for calling himself an actor ever again. He’s mastered that role.
Before I saw this I had no idea that a Night Court reboot happened. I can now immediately forget about it and go on with my life
It didn't. The new show is a sequel.
@@r0bw00d - Sequel. Reboot. Does it even matter?? To me, Night Court 2023 is a reboot.
Proof:
Judge's last name is Stone.
Bailiff looks like a Roz knock off.
Larraquette, the only returning cast, is not a prosecutor by a defender.
If Night Court 2023 was truly a sequel as the producers & NBC claims. John Larraquette's Dan Fielding would of been this court room's Judge. Then Night Court 2023 can separate itself from the original show. A truly be a sequel as Fielding moved on from being a Prosecutor to become a Judge. Only to be assigned as a Night Court Judge.
@@kevinthetruckdriver353 We can banter semantics all day; it takes place in the future of the original series, so it's a sequel, plain and simple.
@@r0bw00d Yeah but it's complete dogshit so honestly I don't blame the guy for refusing to associate the idea of a sequel with a singular thought put into it with whatever you wanna call the sludge that was released instead.
@@r0bw00d You’re the only person who cares enough about this show to correct someone calling it a reboot .
Finally, what we have been waiting for. It’s taken 12 years to make them sit through a reboot of a more than 30 year old show.
It's like the Boyhood of sitcoms!
It is a new version of the show. ...shudder
i think the world is ending
@@CyanideSublime Zatanic birthing.
A reboot of a show I've literally never heard of
Endgame Captain America, Mr. Plinkett, and Watto reviewing TV shows is something that I never knew I needed this badly!
Multi-cam sitcoms with laugh tracks just feel like the uncanny valley now. Whatever cheerful, simple, hopeful, cheesy world spawned them, brother, we ain't livin' there anymore.
Unfortunately with laugh tracks, good writing and actually funny comedies went away too
You are so right!
It’s crazy how everything has gone to shit in only a few years
@@mannhouse8014everything after the early 2010s has pretty much felt like some bad future darkest timeline shit.
@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 2012 was really the end, wasnt it?
I've never felt so much sympathy for someone. I am sorry Mr. Pilnkett.
They rebooted the timeline, he doesn't care about Night Court in this one. Probably for the best, judging by the quality of this show.
@@ethicalcheeze1407 Except they rebooted the reboot by acknowledging how dumb that was, even though Mr. Plinkett now is a Newhart fan.
John Larroquette looks like he absorbed the life of all the dead cast mates lol. Dude has aged pretty well.
He looks like an elderly Freddie Williams III
he has looked like that since he was 30. i guss thats the secret, age rapidly and spend 2/3 of your life old
After he walks off set he morphs into Shang Tsung.
Stealing their souls for his phylactery, for sure.
I thought you meant cuz he looks like he wishes he was dead
I've been waiting 80 years for this. I hope it doesn't disappoint.
It took 80 years to make.
2:17 the way rich just casually says "94?" and smiles to himself was hilarious
I was sick with covid last March and my dad found the original Nightcourt on a streaming app so we re-watched it together.
Miserable and sick as a dog, that show made me literally lol. The first season was a bit rough, but it was a genuinely funny show with legitimate heart and it more than stands the test of time.
Is Plinket smaller than Jay? Looks like a little child with a bit jacket
It’s the alternate timeline Plinkett.
real recognize real señor
It's a force perspective trick.
Jay and Mike are closer to the camera to fit the entirety of Mr. Plinket in frame.
The elderly shrivel up as they get old. Imagine a grape wasting away to become a raisin.
I want a Rich with a short Plinkett and a biiiig jacket
I love the irony that the funniest thing to come out of this show is that "revive Night Court with some of the original cast" as a 30 Rock joke has aged like fine wine 😂
I love how the framing makes Rich look like Mike and Jay's small child, forced by his parents to watch their crappy program.
I want an episode by episode review of Night Court since it is clearly the new Picard show.
Bad idea like Night Court 2023. The object is too keep viewers coming back for more. Not chasing them away.
the boys need to do more commentary style videos. definitely the stuff I go back to the most
Between this and the conclusion of the Nukie saga, it really feels like the RedLetterMedia Cinematic Universe has finally reached its "Endgame". Looking forward to whatever stories come next and take another decade plus to pay off.
I was thinking the same thing! The old storylines are all coming to a close.
It's time for a time travel arc. Reboot everything.
waiting on the dark knight review
There’s also a “for sale” sign in the mr. plinkett houses window….
@@_PatrickO they're in a new timeline tho
My favorite joke was when the end credits said "it's funny" and Jay said "well that's a lie".
My only actual laugh.
The dead silence with slow zoom in on Plinkett makes this a masterpiece.
It's so heartwarming watching these boys reconnect with their grandpa :)
This video was almost perfect. Should have ended on a freeze frame of them looking depressed while the Night Court theme played.
It’s wonderful all of us being here together for what is RLM’s last act of Return of the King.
Love you guys!
Jay's "girth" joke was funnier than anything the writers of this show will ever conceive.
The "well, that's a lie" quip at the end title soundbite was terrific.
I thought she said "girth" also.
Well remember any joke that "punches down" isn't allowed so you must sterilize all humor and pretend that the over abundance of SNL style "awkward quirky" comedy is still funny even though every mainstream comedy show on the air has the exact same mood, tone and humor now.
It is an endless wasteland of ideology and writing; every show is identical. You could mix and match several characters from several different "comedies" today and still have the same boring safe show that all toe the same ideological line.
"I'm already regretting this."
"That was an outtake."
@@mattk7184 I think the fundamental problem isn't that, at all. Those tired old jokes are already used up, nothing anyone does today could top or match what we already had in the 80's. Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, etc. They had their time, and their time has passed.
The problem is comedy must be founded on a kernel of truth, and the truth of our reality is a bleak Black Mirror type of world, and that's the OPTIMISTIC take. The realistic take, is we're looking toward material collapse once the oil runs out and the finance speculation scams all implode. A second great depression, maybe after the apocalypse we'll be left with an awful Postman hellworld to occupy.
So the issue is: none of the wealthy elite feel any of that, as they're all better off than ever. The pandemic only increased their share of the pie by huge gobs. And of course, for the very few of them who are intelligent enough to be aware of all this, the LAST thing they want to do is help educate people how bad things are getting. That wouldn't help their bank accounts at all.
I don't really find many comedians funny these days. Few outside of Bill Burr. Really doesn't help that Norm died.
So yeah, bleak hellworld where everyone is facing the end of their lives and nothing is funny in this grimdark world. How do you top the circus that is collapse in the real world? You can't. You can only escape into a fantasy world, like The Orville or something I guess.
And that's why New Nightcourt is fantastic. Original Nightcourt wasn't funny either, but the new one takes it to another level. It is the perfect prop for us to stare at and wonder to ourselves "this really is the end of all things, isn't it?"
I honestly expected this to end with Rich sobbing in a really convincing manner while Jay and Mike sat silently
Plinkett doesn't sob. He goes Ohhhhhh......
I actually thought that was happening at one point.
I thought they'd give him a graceful death. Come full circle and all that
Thanks for delivering on this. Was a joy to see Plinkett's face light up in such excitement. Bless that sweet old man.
The fact that your horrified, bored faces were both more entertaining and hilarious than anything in the show really does say a lot. They could have probably gotten away with putting this script in a museum with the rest of the dinosaurs.
Rich is way too good at looking like a frail old man. Him sitting ridiculously low in that chair looking around confused... Too real
It's Rich Evans playing the role of Rich Evans.
Rich is the guy on the right, right? If so i agree.
He wasn’t acting.
he's a method actor, he knows his stuff
I'm starting to get scared by RLM spoiling us with all this long awaited content lately. Murder-suicide incoming?
If they do a Batman review I'm interpreting that as a cry for help and having them committed to a mental health facility.
The resolution of HITB's story, Nukie, Wheel of the Worst, After Last Season, and now Night Court... something bad is about to happen
Yeah as a long-time fan… I’m getting the impression they’re looking to the end 😢
its all fun and games until the rise of skywalker plinkett review drops
Finally.
Well, one positive in this reboot is that John Laroquette looks healthy at 75 and he still has good timing even though he has to mutter his way through a garbage script and painfully unfunny jokes.
For me, he will always be the voice-over at the beginning of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
@@stephenbarone4053 i know what you mean! I kept hoping the RedLetter guys might make a joke out of it!
@@stephenbarone4053 thx, i didn't know
He use to be a disgusting pervert. Guess that doesn't fly today so instead they make the disgusting pervert the heart of the story. Eh.....
@@stephenbarone4053 and the guy trying to kill vic morrow with the kkk in the twilight zone movie.
I howled at the “This is as funny as Gummo” line. Thank you for your service.
WE DON"T LIKE NO JOKES AROUND HERE!!??
I don’t even know what gummo is about, and i almost died when he said that.
@@joshshrum2764 The crazy-ass pic that appears on screen when they mention it probably helped
Jay laughing behind his coffee cup was a nice moment.
I feel like this is the closest we've ever gotten to a non-scripted live-watching NOT on the BotW set. This is great. Rich is acting beyond acting, reacting as his character Mr. Plinkett. Check Mike and Jay's faces - these are their BotW reactions.
also fuck that shot of all of them looking at the tv is so funny. It's like forced perspective and they're making Mr. Plinkett to be like a hobbit
I thought you were referring to Breath of the Wild at first l😂😂😂😂
"Why does she need him so bad?" Because his acting skill is so visibly above everyone else on the show that it has no chance without him. I really wanted John to be able to elevate all the failings of the rest of the show, but that's too much heavy lifting for an old man.
Why even have a good actor when the material is so bad?
@@Belgand So they can have the assumption of quality despite it being entirely destitute.
@@Belgand Because he's the only reason why anyone would watch this thing. The network know that this is a bad show, so they hired One guy with actual talent to see if he can help the ratings.
I don't think his age has anything to do with it - even 30 years ago he wouldn't have been able to work against a boring script ...
@@Belgand You can't have nostaligia without the last remaining cast member involved.
Can't believe that got Rich Evans to play Mike while Mike stands in for Mr. Plinkett
You noticed that too?
This is the only RUclips arc that has ever truly mattered
6:58 "I'm already regretting this"
"That was an outtake"
CERTIFIED GOLD
Jay’s constant pleading for jokes, interaction of a human level, or a freedom from his personal hell that is Night Court now streaming on Peacock.
Jays “well thats a lie” was the funniest thing from this.
I think the Gummo line tops it.
Hearing a laugh track in this day and age honestly is so painful and shows how disconnected the producers of this are. People born when the office aired are now able to vote, you'd think that laughtracks would be long gone by now
One would hope. Imagine Malcom in the Middle with a laugh track.
The laugh track only works in a show that's written like a traditional sitcom. The last thing I know of that was written properly was Last Man Standing. "Sitcoms" anymore do not have standalone situations, and lack any comedy, so the laugh track is out of place.
Doing The Office documentary-style has possibly been one of the greatest decisions ever in television. Awkward silence? Unfunny joke or situation? Just look at the camera!
@@Riley_Mundt you nailed it. I'd argue, and the numbers support it, that big bang was last successful show to correctly use laugh track. Love or hate it, it was a very traditional sitcom structured show and therefore laughter fits it. But it's own spinoff, young Sheldon knew enough to know it wasn't telling sitcom stories so it does not use it
Couldn't get through 3 seconds of this or That 90s Show with that laugh track.
“Can’t believe how poorly that’s aged already” funniest way to address what happened with justin roiland hahaha
oh did they do some kind of collab?
@@BamfIamone No.
@@BamfIamone yes
@@BamfIamone Roiland did voices in one of their videos recently. The one they refer to in this one where the timeline was altered and caused Mr. Plinkett to like Newhart rather than Night Court.
I love when all of you are together.
That one part where Mr. Plinkett is just sitting there and then the laughter starts is funnier than any of the jokes on the show.
"Mike, how does it feel to live long enough to see your favorite franchises go down in flames?" .... "Feels great"
Mike waking up with a hostage laugh at 3:08 was triggering. I know that laugh; I've been in live studio audiences of bad sitcoms. Jay's consternation at the laugh was the reaction of a guy who never sat through a 5-hour taping of an episode of Ted Danson's Ink.
The reverb of Mike's laugh piercing the silence of the RLM studio is perfect comedy.
I sat through a failed Kelsey Grahmer sitcom. Unbearable.
5 hours? Holy shit. Do that at least provide food and allow toilet breaks?
Holy fucking shit, that sounds like a nightmare.
I can't imagine surviving being anywhere near Ted Danson for even close to that long.
This is very true. You have to just keep laughing. It’s definitely an experience.
We have waited so many years for this!!!
That awkward silence at the end was funnier than the entire Night Court episode.
I can’t believe I googled and read that this is the most watched new sitcom in years and it’s already been renewed for season 2. This gonna be the new Two and a Half men isn’t it lol.
7:49 Jays immediate annoyance is so funny. How dare they say such a thing
Mike looks so... Defeated. I felt anxious for some reason
If this show went to Night Court, it would get sentenced to the electric chair.
I’m giving it a lethal rejection as we speak
I'll have you know that my 60 year old mother who adored Big Bang Theory absolutely loves this reboot.
Just because your mother has terrible taste doesn't except for the shit that they just dumped on the world. It's a disgraceful and unfunny show, from this assessment.
Judging on what I'm seeing: They're replicating the Chuck Lorre style. Simple plots, simpler characters, non-stop...'jokes', bright colors and a laugh track.
If you don't pay attention to how low effort and high production it is, it's great!
It blows me away that they allow this trash on TV, but stuff like Final Space gets cancelled (Final Space got cancelled three times, once after every season, eventually the showrunner ran out of options)
@@Batmannerz Final Space was rubbish tbh.
It really was
Makes perfect sense to me....
This is a historical event. So glad I am alive at a time like this.
Mr. Plunkett chilling with the boys is faaaaantastic
This will be in their acting reel for decades.
This is the most brutal, blunt and savage RLM have ever been.
And all they did was play clips of a professionally written and produced show
@@themorrigan7224 I don't think the show is very good but TBF you can make *literally anything* look bad by having a bored expression and mumbling "that's it?" after every single line of dialogue.
I dunno, it's like -- yeah this show is bad, but could RLM honestly do any better? We've seen Space Cop
"I can't believe how bad that's already aged." *stares miserably at signed Justin Roiland artwork hanging on wall*
*stares at Mike*
*depressing slide whistle sound*
Yeah...winces at Joss Whedon and Bryan Singer signed movie posters.
the value of that picture has dropped dramatically...but that one-of-a-kind Dick The Birthday Boy Polaroid...
Tagline in the credits: "it's fun-ny."
Jay: "well that's a lie."
absolutely brilliant.
I keep coming back to this video. Night Court is my #1 favorite sitcom of all time. The guys' reaction is exactly the same as mine. JUST LET THINGS I LOVE DIE!!! Why do I have to keep being punished?
The Harry Potter series disappearing from HBO and moving onto Peacock recently suddenly makes sense: Peacock is desperate to stay afloat.
I have literally been waiting for this
Eyyyyyy!! I love your work!
I'm getting kinda concerned about the show's future with all these conclusions lately. First watching Nukie now this... don't stop just yet, we need you!
0:37 This made me laugh mid-swallow, I didn't think that would be brought up so early
Can you guys do more commentary tracks please? I use them to go to sleep and I’ve listened to all of them so many times now it’s getting ridiculous.
Yes. I miss the movie commentary on Bandcamp. Please do another soon!
They did a full commentary track for a movie called Demon Wind for a recent video game you can find on youtube
@@cubescast Yes. I have that as well. More of that plez?
Imagine some intern of some executive manager at peacock or whatever watches RLM and convinced them a few years ago to reboot Nightcourt as a present for Mr. Plinkett, only to for it all to be in vain as we have changed timelines...
Like when studio heads saw all the memes making fun of Morbius, so they re-released it thinking people would watch it ironically, and it flopped for a second time.
@@DeflatingAtheism Or when they tried to reboot Full House, but couldn't get the twins because they're scarred for life being exposed to celebrity culture at such a young age.
yes , it seems hollywood has a list of every show ever and they just pull stuff out of the trash when they need something "new"
What really struck me is the deep and complex characters. I can really see the Better Call Saul influence in this show
I wonder if its possible that RLM's throwaway joke of Mr.Plinkett and Night Court over the past decade may have in some roundabout way contributed to keeping people aware of it all these years and helped with its resurrection. I mean...its Night Court. Out of all the old sitcoms out there, that is the one to bring back?? They even cancelled Save by the Bell to make room for it which was like Shakespeare compared to NC. Who or what thought out of the blue "that's a good idea!" when it comes to Night Court?? How much coke was involved?
Perhaps its like the situation with Star Wars, like how the spectre of JJ Abrams haunts the old Plinkett review from long ago that may have led us all to the horror of Rise of Skinwalker. I'm sure its all just a coincidence........right?
At first I thought that can't be true but then I remembered how Rich Evans ended up on the Ellen Show. Who knows how many sarcastic niche RLM-referencing comments are floating around on the internet for some lazy researcher to go "boy, the kids are really into Night Court!".
I like this format. Keep doing it, guys.
I jazz handed so hard after seeing this, near brought me to tears. Finally!!!
My legless Metaverse avatar throws confetti into the air in agreement.
"well, that's a lie" is the truest statement that's ever been trued.
It feels like most sitcoms today are intentionally made to be canceled before the 1st season is over. Like they had absolutely no faith in it, but they went ahead and made a few episodes anyway to hopefully catch an audience that no longer exists... It's practically like burning money. So awful.
Sitcoms being money-laundering schemes would actually be rather funny
Maybe the producers are pulling a "The Producers."
And then there are the rare decent one (e.g. "Reboot") that everyone seemed to love and get cancelled anyway.
@@DanArnets1492 A sitcom about sitcoms being money-laundering schemes is something I'd actually watch with artistic curiosity
hollywood is a money laundering scam
The non-reaction shots of Rich-as-Plinkett in that fucken oversized suit in a chair that makes him look like he's the size of a child are consistently funnier than everything in Night Court.
PLEASE DO EPISODE 2!!!!! THIS IS LIFE 🙏🏽
Mike, Jay and Mr Plinkett sitting in chairs reacting to Night Court is funnier than any clip shown from Night Court. Why don't we have a hit sitcom about those three yet?
We do, it's called, "Red Letter Media".
2:51 that is the most OBVIOUS backdrop I've ever seen in a TV show. It looks like a picture ON the window.
If only someone had the original series on tape so they didn't have to watch this
Thanks for inserting the laugh track, it's helpful to know when I'm supposed to laugh
that was inserted? lol
loving this more plinkett lore-based episode type format!!!! You guys are awesome
“Can’t believe how poorly thats aged already”
Oooooooooooooo weeeeeeeeeee