I didn't even give it a shot, although some of the previews looked amusing.
Reynolds, I'm a dangerous-minded man on a ship loaded with hurt. Now, why you got me chatting with your peons?
Womack ,'The Message'
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 - Apr 15, 2011 6:07:20 am PDT #3807 of 8625
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Vortex - Apr 15, 2011 6:50:18 am PDT #3808 of 8625
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I caught the Paul Reiser show. The ads and the opening monologue played shamelessly on my nostagia for Mad About You and I fell victim. It was pretty funny. I will try to check it out again. It's got a good lead in with Community.
erikaj - Apr 15, 2011 6:55:58 am PDT #3809 of 8625
Always Anti-fascist!
Cool. glad to hear it.
EpicTangent - Apr 15, 2011 6:57:14 am PDT #3810 of 8625
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Anyone else watch Happy Endings on ABC? I was pleasantly surprised.
I did. And ditto.
§ ita § - Apr 15, 2011 11:07:59 am PDT #3811 of 8625
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Did anyone think last night's Community had a pat moral message? I think Troy and Red Dragon being rewarded for their lying really erases any after-school specialness of the whole thing--it was mocking the vapidity of the acting process and of Pierce in general.
Lee - Apr 15, 2011 11:35:19 am PDT #3812 of 8625
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I didn't think it had a pat moral message--I just didn't think it was very funny.
§ ita § - Apr 15, 2011 11:38:26 am PDT #3813 of 8625
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I liked it, I didn't love it. And the tag was very disappointing. I want quality Troy+Abed hijinx, thanks, not a song that went on too long and didn't do anything interesting.
Lee - Apr 15, 2011 11:48:25 am PDT #3814 of 8625
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I didn't hate it, but it was Pierce heavy, and it was the first one I watched in almost real time after mainlining the entire run, so it had a lot of expectations to live up to.
le nubian - Apr 15, 2011 11:50:35 am PDT #3815 of 8625
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Vortex,
re: Reiser show:
Either driven away by early critical drubbings or their lingering hostilities over The Thing About My Folks, audiences rejected en masse the debut of NBC’s The Paul Reiser Show. The sitcom—a Curb Your Enthusiasm Lite that actually brought in Larry David for a cameo in hopes of driving that connection home—ended up being the network’s lowest-rated in-season comedy premiere ever, finishing well behind a rerun of Rules Of Engagement and The CW’s The Vampire Diaries with a tiny 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic and pulling in only 3.3 million viewers. Even reruns of Family Guy on TBS scored higher 18-49 numbers, which has to be embarrassing for the network. Still, while the show could definitely use some improvement (cutting Reiser’s entourage down to just one wacky sitcom archetype maybe?), it probably didn’t help that its lead-in was also the lowest-rated episode of Community ever, or the fact that NBC did almost nothing to promote it. But, ah, now it probably won’t have to bother.
§ ita § - Apr 15, 2011 12:36:39 pm PDT #3816 of 8625
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Someone elsewhere was complaining that everyone learnt a lesson. Abed doesn't learn a lesson. Abed doesn't change. I think that's a show premise, from the commentaries. Pierce doesn't learn a lesson-his bad behaviour is essentially rewarded. Troy is rewarded equally for bad behaviour as for good, and pays precisely no penalty. There's no indication that Britta won't make the same mistake again.
Jeff learns a lesson. But...Jeff learning lessons is pretty much what he's been doing since day one.