10th May 2004, 3:05 PM
No, the effects were bad THEN. That movie, and that show, were INTENDED to be funny. It was a comedy! No laugh track needed, or direct joke, it was just constantly making fun of itself by being so absurd. It WAS intentional though, remember that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)