The thing that annoyed me the most about Great News, is the show’s reliance on the tired idea of older people being completely out of touch with whatever modern world they find themselves living in.
Instead, Carol has no idea that the toner you put in a copy machine isn’t the same as the toner you use to clean your face (even though copy machines have been around since 1959), and Chuck thinks Snapchat is the name of one of the Minions, who must also be Pokemon, right?
Sure, once most of us hit our late 50s or 60s we’ll probably be stubbornly in the dark with regards to a lot of technology or what fuels pop culture, but I think Great News would have actually been funnier if everyone around Chuck and Carol (who is referred to by Greg as “the old”) assumed they were out of touch, but they both knew way more than they let on, just so they could be underestimated.