I'm not surprized by this.
Raju Odedara used to write the scripts initially and they were damn funny. (just see the old episodes on weekends!) He left the show because of some tension with Asit Modi, and Asit Modi now writes the scripts by himself, and hence they lack the kind of spark Mr.Raju used to have. Jetha and Tappu sena are paid actors, they'll do whatever is given in the script. Not their fault.
If you're careful with your timings, you can get the gist of every episode just during the pre-cap and recap and the precap between the advertizements. because the best-funny lines of each episode are shown during those precap and recaps. Whatever remaining is shown, is mostly filler stuff (Tappu ki shetaani, cliched lines of Bagha/Anjali/,Phone calls of Daya etc) and too loud background music. Quoting an old member kkk "they put loud background music in every line of Aiiyer like a cheap b grade movie"
Did you notice, now they show only one ad-break during the episode. Earlier it used to be two breaks- each after about 10 minutes. I think they did it (hoping) to fix the TRP problem.
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