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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]
Kevin - Oct 17, 2007 10:28:00 am PDT #224 of 8624
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Scrappy - Oct 17, 2007 10:31:03 am PDT #225 of 8624
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I don't think funny, supportive, pretty-but-real girls are portrayed a lot on TV these days. Lots of sultry femme fatales and clueless bimbos, but not more well-rounded women.
If women are funny, supportive, etc, they are often moms and wives, so not available.
Kevin - Oct 17, 2007 10:36:29 am PDT #226 of 8624
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Definitely, Robin. Also -- and this may just be me being dense, but I can't think of many examples of characters like Jim. Ie a bloke who isn't The Lead, who isn't A Dick, who is Basically A Good Guy, who struggles with the relationship with his Best Friend yada.
The whole thing, for me, works because it feels like I've actually seen these characters form a relationship on screen over a number of years. Not because it was That Plot Time. Not because it was unlikely Shake Up The Relationships Time. I may be babbling.
Vonnie K - Oct 17, 2007 10:39:02 am PDT #227 of 8624
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
What P-C said! Pam makes me want to snatch her out of the TV so that we could elope to Massachusetts and get married. Just ignore the pesky details about both of us being straight and Pam being fictional, and we're all set.
I get TV crushes all the time, but most of the time, it's "Oh, you poor fucked-up yet hot-like-burning woobie! Let me console your deep, deep angst with my lovin'," YET I'd run screeeeaming to the other direction if Tom Quinn, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce or Logan Echolls came knocking at my door, because I don't want them contaminating my placid life with their fucked-up-edness (not to mention the high mortality rate of whoever happens to be around them.)
Not so with Pam. I want her to be my best friend so that we could go shopping or talk about boys *and* I also want to marry her, circumstances permitting.
Kate P. - Oct 17, 2007 1:31:09 pm PDT #228 of 8624
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
In total agreement with Vonnie et al. One of the things I love best about Pam is that she calls her mom for advice and leans on her for support. I feel like that's pretty rare for adult women on TV, and it just makes her all the more real to me.
beekaytee - Oct 17, 2007 4:53:09 pm PDT #229 of 8624
Compassionately intolerant
Speaking of comedy featuring real, lovable, approachable female characters, I'm watching the Vicar of Dibly.
It epitomizes what I adore about British tv, where the ethic is generally that the characters should be interesting, dimensional and mostly normal in appearance. Bless 'em.
Vortex - Oct 17, 2007 7:01:39 pm PDT #230 of 8624
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Speaking of comedy featuring real, lovable, approachable female characters, I'm watching the Vicar of Dibly.
really terrific series.
Steph L. - Oct 18, 2007 3:10:36 pm PDT #231 of 8624
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Ugly Betty:
Eeeee! John Cho!
(Man, I miss Kitchen Confidential.)
Daisy Jane - Oct 18, 2007 4:30:55 pm PDT #232 of 8624
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
John Cho, the Beek, SpyDaddy! All awesome!
Funny how much better the Beek is when he's not playing all earnest and shit.
d - Oct 18, 2007 4:31:54 pm PDT #233 of 8624
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
Sure did seem like Ugly Betty was all Spot The Celebrity this episode.
I loved Betty's look with Emo Boy, before she started to tell her real story. Although I do hope she edited her paper some, to be more than just an ok story with a few funny lines.