I don't know if this was deliberate, or if the show simply wasn't funny after season 1.
They did a PHENOMONAL job of aging Katherine Helmond. Her IMDB birth date makes her 48 when this series started, but she was made up to look like she was in her late 60s.
Perhaps the writers confused "silly" with "funny" after season 1. The show was quite silly, with bizarre plots, but not actually funny.
It is kind of surreal watching the characters converse, and then hearing the laugh track, even though nothing they have said was funny.
It's a shame, as the first season was pretty funny. Susan Harris is credited as one of the writers for the entire series run, so not sure why it stopped being funny.
They did a PHENOMONAL job of aging Katherine Helmond. Her IMDB birth date makes her 48 when this series started, but she was made up to look like she was in her late 60s.
Perhaps the writers confused "silly" with "funny" after season 1. The show was quite silly, with bizarre plots, but not actually funny.
It is kind of surreal watching the characters converse, and then hearing the laugh track, even though nothing they have said was funny.
It's a shame, as the first season was pretty funny. Susan Harris is credited as one of the writers for the entire series run, so not sure why it stopped being funny.