Frank's Place! Max Headroom! Wizards And Warriors! Mr. Terrific!
I'm not evil again. Why does everyone think that?
Angel ,'Sleeper'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Betsy HP - Aug 04, 2005 1:58:26 pm PDT #2231 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Cass - Aug 04, 2005 2:03:33 pm PDT #2232 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Huh. I have no idea why I knew that.
I was going to cut and paste the list in but I don't think I want to format it.
Largo - Aug 04, 2005 2:05:41 pm PDT #2233 of 10001
I'm pretty sure that, based on my Situation: Comedy viewing, funny is optional.
That show is a disaster, isn’t it? Ten finalists, and not a halfway decent one amongst them. I was kind to “Baked Alaska” and “Strings,” and maybe “Retailers”; but in the cold light of day, I realize, my kindness was misdirected.
I didn't pitch. It was about them explaining to me why I want to bring my next two things to them and not, um, someplace else.
Minear on the Peacock. Well, I guess it would depend on which night the network would air one of your shows. Ideally, if you had a show there, “Medium” on Monday nights would be the best lead-in for you…
Then again, NBC would probably throw your show on Friday nights, and expect you to out-perform Jennifer Love Hewitt’s breasts on CBS (should her show live that long, god forbid).
What's trendy is being a housewife acting like a queen.
Or, “There’s something in the water/sky/Air Force!” quasi-“Lost” knockoffs.
I can pitch a comedy about a Krav instructor with a constant cold.
And I can pitch a comedy…which sounds (and looks, and feels) an awful lot like “The John Larroquette Show”…which also aired on NBC…and which NBC also treated badly.
Yes, NBC cancelled Freaks & Geeks. But that's the only thing I can come up with that warrants a vendetta.
IMO, that’s more than enough.
I still miss that show something awful.
P'shaw. I'll see your Buffalo Bill, Boomtown, and Freaks and Geeks, and raise you Action, Tick, Profit, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Firefly, Wonderfalls, The Inside, Family Guy (re-upped), Greg the Bunny, and The Ben Stiller Show.
Frank's Place! Max Headroom! Wizards And Warriors! Mr. Terrific!
Slap Maxwell! Molly Dodd! Famous Teddy Z!!!
(Okay, so “Molly Dodd” ended up on Lifetime, but…come on, Lifetime?)
Wolfram - Aug 04, 2005 2:05:55 pm PDT #2234 of 10001
Visilurking
I can't believe I left out Keen Eddie.
Largo - Aug 04, 2005 2:08:43 pm PDT #2235 of 10001
And I can't believe you left out "Get a Life."
ETA: I would've said "Duet," but who are we kidding, huh?
§ ita § - Aug 04, 2005 2:08:51 pm PDT #2236 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Keen Eddie! With Rhind Tutt!
Ginger - Aug 04, 2005 2:12:56 pm PDT #2237 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'll never forgive the cancellation of Max Headroom. ABC is the villain there.
Kristen - Aug 04, 2005 2:13:40 pm PDT #2238 of 10001
Ten finalists, and not a halfway decent one amongst them.
I called Allyson in a rage after the 50th time they complained about the script they picked being so badly written and not funny.
They should have called this show Situation: Irony.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 04, 2005 2:14:43 pm PDT #2239 of 10001
What is even happening?
Famous Teddy Z!!!Oh, I liked that show. It had that Winter Hill Gangster, from Somerville on it--Alex Rocco.
I can't believe I left out Keen Eddie.Oh, thanks for the segue back to DOOL, Wolf. Mark Valley was one of the actors to play Jack Devereaux.
I gave up on DOOL 10 years ago but, now you are all making me want to start TIVOing. Damn!
I hear ya, Tamara. It hasn't been 10 years for me, but it must be at least 5. I was cleaning up after supper and I realized I had Neneh Cherry's song Buffalo Stance stuck in my head. I wondered where that came from, and then realized I always associated it with Days, because of the use of "sweetness", which made me think of Steve (Patch).
I gave up DOOL and GH at the same time. I paid attention to DOOL for about 30 minutes today, and I'm ready to watch, just because I have to see how Reilly and Satan make an ever worse clustermuck of the Roman/John Black storyline. Of course, I don't have ANY TV shows to watch until 24 comes back in January, because I hate everything.
Narrator - Aug 04, 2005 2:15:04 pm PDT #2240 of 10001
The evil is this way?
DOOL: Your recap of recents events: that's just freaky, people. Even for a soap.