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Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants

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This thread is for comedy TV, including network and cable shows. [NAFDA]

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Atropa - Feb 11, 2011 1:57:22 pm PST #3645 of 8624
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Hmm. I just poked around YouTube some more, and watched some clips. Dammit, Glee SHOULD be the sort of thing I love. But I think the production choices for all the songs will cause me to roll my eyes or grind my teeth.

(And yet, I love the Buffy musical episode, and the episodes of Pushing Daisies when Olive sang? Delightful. Now I want to try and figure out what it is about Glee that doesn't work for me.)

smonster - Feb 11, 2011 4:03:46 pm PST #3646 of 8624
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

the version of MCR's Sing that is going to be on the show. [link]

I like their versions of some songs, but that is just WRONG. It's got no grit, no soul. IMHO. But then I've stopped watching Glee.

Frankenbuddha - Feb 11, 2011 4:54:49 pm PST #3647 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Ugh. They turned it into the kind of power ballad that I think Sing transcended. No. Just...no.

smonster - Feb 12, 2011 7:13:49 am PST #3648 of 8624
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

In the context of the album, it's darkly defiant. And not really about singing.

Frankenbuddha - Feb 12, 2011 12:36:11 pm PST #3649 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

In the context of the album, it's darkly defiant. And not really about singing.

Agreed. You could have had "yell", "shout", "scream" or even "fight" instead of "sing" and the song would have meant the same thing. However, in the context of an album about music as rebellion it really did have to be "sing".

Jesse - Feb 13, 2011 2:32:06 pm PST #3650 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OK, I only just started watching it, but Mr. Sunshine won me over with the theme music.

Hil R. - Feb 15, 2011 3:38:07 pm PST #3651 of 8624
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Wow. That is a really out-of-context "Take Me Or Leave Me."

quester - Feb 15, 2011 3:41:57 pm PST #3652 of 8624
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Yeah, it took me awhile to even identify the song and the show.

Hil R. - Feb 15, 2011 3:43:25 pm PST #3653 of 8624
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I knew the song immediately, but the staging and the switching around of who sang which lines seemed designed to un-lesbianize it, and I couldn't figure out what sense it was supposed to make this way.

Fred Pete - Feb 16, 2011 4:50:59 am PST #3654 of 8624
Ann, that's a ferret.

Nice to see the nod to New Wave with "I Know What Boys Like," even if Lauren sold the song better than she sang it. I especially like Lauren's comfort within her own skin.

"Sing" seemed to cover the same thematic ground as the Carpenters' song of the same name, or Mama Cass Elliott's "Make Your Own Kind of Music." Not so much defiant as out and proud. Or at least out and nonchalant about it.

I wouldn't have expected Sue to stop at forcing a diva-off. I'm not familiar with the show, so I can't comment on the context of "Take Me or Leave Me." But vocally, it seemed to be one of those duets where each singer inspired the other to go further and further.

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