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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]


Aims - Sep 24, 2009 7:52:36 am PDT #1548 of 8624
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I haven't seen it yet!! I missed it due to grocery shopping. Goofy family needing food and shit. I NEEDED MY SCHUSTER!!


Vortex - Sep 24, 2009 8:36:15 am PDT #1549 of 8624
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I am annoyed at Glee's complete suspension of logic. Disbelief, sure, but there has to be some sense involved. It is stupid to build up the situation between Kurt and his dad only to have the complete anticlimactic "I've always known and I love you for who you are" speech. If that was true, he wouldn't have taken the car away when he found the tiara collection. And I don't mean to be classist, but why did they go to the trouble of making Kurt's dad look like a blue collar galoot, but there's clearly money for Escalades and Marc Jacobs sweaters? And then they threw in the bit about Kurt's mom being dead, where did that come from?

Just ugh.


Kathy A - Sep 24, 2009 9:01:24 am PDT #1550 of 8624
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Had to change my tagline after seeing last night's ep. I really thought that Stephen Toblobowsky would be a one-time guest star in the pilot--nice to see he's got a regular spot in the cast now!


erin_obscure - Sep 24, 2009 2:31:27 pm PDT #1551 of 8624
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

It was all worth it for the entire football team dancing to the most inappropriate song possible. Um, is cheerleader girlfriend really preggers? I totally thought that was a ploy until mohawk dude came into the picture.


Liese S. - Sep 24, 2009 4:16:35 pm PDT #1552 of 8624
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, but preggers from mohawk dude, right?

I'm thinking I need to regard the whole show as wildly implausible but I'm going to roll with it. Dancing football players! Also, making the dad think, huh, guess he was practicing for football. Hee.

But yeah, not too sure why they went some of the directions they did with characterizations. Also! The blushing insecure stammering Asian girl does not seem consistent with her audition. I'm just saying, that was not a performance that lacked confidence.

Still having problems with the diversity issues; I hope they go where I want them too, but it's requiring a lot of patience and faith for a show I don't know.


Vortex - Sep 24, 2009 9:21:17 pm PDT #1553 of 8624
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Also! The blushing insecure stammering Asian girl does not seem consistent with her audition. I'm just saying, that was not a performance that lacked confidence.

I think that the anvil that we're trying not to be hit by is that when she sings, she has confidence, but not in "real life"


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 25, 2009 12:39:14 am PDT #1554 of 8624
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

I continue to love The Big Bang Theory.

Sheldon's mother: as weird and forthright a woman as ever.

"You know, at our church, we have a woman who's an amazing healer. Mostly she does crutch and wheelchair people, but I bet she'd be willing to take a shot at whatever third world demon is running around inside of you."


Laga - Sep 25, 2009 12:52:07 am PDT #1555 of 8624
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Sheldon's mother: as weird and forthright a woman as ever.

that's Laurie Metcalf! Has she been on the show before? I love her.


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 25, 2009 1:21:27 am PDT #1556 of 8624
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

Has she been on the show before?

Just once before, I think. She's fab.


Vortex - Sep 25, 2009 5:46:56 am PDT #1557 of 8624
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Oh, I forgot the other logical fallacy of Glee that annoyed me: The offense can't hold the line long enough to keep the quarterback from being sacked, but they can hold it long enough for Kirk to do his whole dance?