I think they're utterly different, too. I just don't think the US version is lacking in heart.
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
Experimental TV: Comedy
This thread is part of an experiment to determine Buffistas' interest in television discussion. It will close on June 1st, 2007, after which there will be a brief skirmish to sort out what we want to do next. This thread is for discussion of all comedy, regardless of airing station. [NAFDA]
Topic!Cindy - Apr 20, 2007 12:13:27 pm PDT #90 of 447
What is even happening?
Glamcookie - Apr 20, 2007 12:36:21 pm PDT #91 of 447
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
t pulls out BBC Office DVDs
erikaj - Apr 20, 2007 12:41:48 pm PDT #92 of 447
Always Anti-fascist!
Like I said, was completely expecting Jim to let party-crasher Michael finish the Parton part, and possibly make some smart-ass applause...when he bailed him out, somehow that touched me. And I don't really mean porn, though I'm beginning to crush on him.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 20, 2007 12:49:04 pm PDT #93 of 447
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
30 Rock just lost me thanks to the Alec Baldwin voicemail rant at his daughter. I'm never going to be able to watch one of his goofy moments on this show or SNL and smile again.
JenP - Apr 20, 2007 12:50:02 pm PDT #94 of 447
when he bailed him out, somehow that touched me
I'm with you, erika. That was a sweet moment. One of the ones I meant when I said the touching moments are that much better because they sort of sneak up on you.
And, yeah, Cindy, lots of heart.
I don't expect to be comparing the two series when I watch the British Office anyway. I figured they'd just be... different. Top of my Netflix queue now.
erikaj - Apr 20, 2007 1:04:13 pm PDT #95 of 447
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, somehow it meant a lot to me that Jim Halpert couldn't let another human being, no matter how embarrassing, just hang there, feeling awful.(and he didn't even know how awfully improv went, which we all did.) Lucky thing I'm not a vidder or there'd be a "Whatta Man" Jim video.(There probably still is, but I don't have the credit/blame for it; it's not a chicating joint, as it were.)
Kate P. - Apr 20, 2007 5:32:42 pm PDT #96 of 447
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Yes! That karaoke bit is possibly my favorite Jim moment ever. Totally agree that the US series is full of heart.
And I'm all psyched to give the UK series another try now. I picked up the whole run from my awesome local rental place today (they almost never have all the discs in! it was kismet!) and will report back when I have finished it.
sj - Apr 20, 2007 5:43:20 pm PDT #97 of 447
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
30 Rock just lost me thanks to the Alec Baldwin voicemail rant at his daughter. I'm never going to be able to watch one of his goofy moments on this show or SNL and smile again.
I just heard the whole thing on CNN, and I don't think I can watch anything with Baldwin in it again.
-t - Apr 20, 2007 5:45:34 pm PDT #98 of 447
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I will have to give th UK Office anotehr try. Whatever episode I tried to watch, Gervais's character was too much like a boss I've had for me to enjoy it at all. With a little more distance and the knowledge that there is a big old 'ship, maybe I'll be able to soon.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 20, 2007 5:52:02 pm PDT #99 of 447
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
HMOG, did no one see the COLBERT REPORT with Sean Penn and the metaphor-off?
Not only was it a massive show of Sean being an "it getter", but it was a pretty nice "fuck you sideways with a chainsaw" to the South Park guys (implicitly - given how they brag about their derision of anybody in Hollywood who expresses any political viewpoints and how they are so humorless). I seriously hope the promised hyperbole-off with George Clooney happens, because I think George and Stephen interacting would be a thing of beauty.