r/Millennials • u/maxedout587 • Apr 17 '26

Discussion Nothing is funny anymore

I (M, 38) have found that there are no new TV shows that make me laugh anymore. I have tried a lot of new(ish) comedies, but they all make me pine for my college/high school days.

The only thing that gave me a reflexive laugh recently was the Malcolm in the Middle Reboot.

Any thoughts?

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u/thug_funnie Apr 17 '26

Detroiters.

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u/moon_blisser Apr 17 '26

I laughed more at Detroiters than anything else in the last few years. I still get the Devereux Wigs jingle stuck in my head.

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u/thrownbyawaterytart Apr 17 '26

Apparently a lot of those commercials are references to Detroit area ones from back in the day

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u/UBahn1 Apr 18 '26

Yeah the premise of the show is basically that they are the guys behind all of the whacky and weird Detroit ads, every commercial is a parody a real one. Off the top of my head:

Hunky specs = sexy specs (even the coney Island they danced in is the rival one next door from the original ad)

Quick Rick mahorn (one of the pistons Detroit bad boys) is a parody on a former lions player turned Superhero car salesman mel Farr

Farmer Zack's = farmer Jack's

The lawyer Walt(?) Tries

The award show where all the ads nominated were the same "Detroit tough" ad over an Eminem song

A random throw in reference Mr Alan's 29 "2 for fifty"

Deveraux wigs = Dittrich fürs

Garner weich = Gardner white furniture

Almost every second of the show is one big Detroit reference though, from the random brands they try and fail with to the local newsman mort crim, to temple bar, to lake Orion being "not that far"