I liked it, but am not getting the over the top love that I'm seeing.
Mal: You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you here looking at me like I owe him something? Jayne: Wishing I could, Captain.
'Jaynestown'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
This thread is for comedy TV, including network and cable shows. [NAFDA]
Vortex - May 26, 2009 6:59:35 pm PDT #1446 of 8624
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Laga - May 26, 2009 8:42:52 pm PDT #1447 of 8624
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
rats, I missed it.
Ailleann - May 27, 2009 3:16:55 am PDT #1448 of 8624
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
I enjoyed it quite a bit! I'm interested in seeing where they go with it.
JenP - May 27, 2009 3:57:46 am PDT #1449 of 8624
It's on hulu/fancast, Laga.
It made me smile a lot, and I have high hopes. Goofily happy is a perfect description.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 27, 2009 5:36:30 am PDT #1450 of 8624
"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
I credit about 90% of the enjoyment to the musical numbers... While I didn't grow super fond of any of the characters in the regular dialogue scenes, when they bust out with "You're the One that I Want" or "Don't Stop Believing" I go to the same happy place I occupied for most of Mama Mia!
It doesn't hurt that the pilot included three songs I have on iTunes.
Kathy A - May 27, 2009 6:16:53 am PDT #1451 of 8624
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Jane Lynch totally cracked me up as the cheerleading coach! I also liked the principal, especially when he said that the AA group would pay him "ten bucks a head!" in that delighted tone. The kids were fine, the glee club coach was sweetly naive, but it's the secondary adult characters that are making the show for me after the fun of the musical numbers.
Vortex - May 27, 2009 6:20:35 am PDT #1452 of 8624
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Yes, and some of the acting is bad. Which annoys me, because I could maybe get over it for a spectacular voice (looking at you, Jennifer Hudson)
-t - May 27, 2009 7:05:08 am PDT #1453 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My favorite parts are the a cappella Beethoven bits in the soundtrack.
beekaytee - May 27, 2009 7:21:41 am PDT #1454 of 8624
Compassionately intolerant
I credit about 90% of the enjoyment to the musical numbers... While I didn't grow super fond of any of the characters in the regular dialogue scenes
Matt is me. And I agree that the acting isn't all that great...except for Lynch, who plays the same character over and over, but in a way I enjoy.
Sadly, a lot of the adult characters are less interesting than the teachers on Sit Down, Shut Up which I don't even like.
And the kids? Well. I did a lot of musical theater in high school. Lived it...not so much entertained by it.
But the Journey song? LOVED.
le nubian - May 27, 2009 8:03:47 am PDT #1455 of 8624
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I have mixed feelings about Glee. I enjoyed the pilot, but I felt that the character portrayals were not all that compelling. I thought the bits of humor were just fine, but the teacher's struggle (will he/won't he/harpy wife) were at once not at all clear and somewhat cliched.
Do they really lock up kids in wheelchairs in the portapotty? Really? They didn't even do that in the '70s in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (the book). Did we need it to get that bad for the footballer to make the choice that he did?