Also, while I bow to years of stratospheric ratings and water cooler talk for Seinfeld at #1 despite not liking it much, no way in hell do Community, Parks and Recreation, and 30 Rock belong higher on the list than Frasier.
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
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Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 22, 2011 7:02:20 am PDT #3843 of 8625
"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
Vonnie K - Apr 22, 2011 7:04:23 am PDT #3844 of 8625
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
That Jeff/Annie parody shipper montage is actually riffing off a specific fan video. The same song, same exact LOLtastic editing style, everything: [link]
This show is so ridiculous and brilliant, and so freakin' meta, it breaks my brain.
This episode actually made me a bit sad that I never gave The Cape a chance. Oh, Abed.
erikaj - Apr 22, 2011 7:10:33 am PDT #3845 of 8625
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm with you, Matt. It's not "Frasier's" fault that list guy wasn't smart enough to get it.
Lee - Apr 22, 2011 7:14:25 am PDT #3846 of 8625
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
That Jeff/Annie parody shipper montage is actually riffing off a specific fan video. The same song, same exact LOLtastic editing style, everything: [link]
That's even better! I will have to go back and rewatch that part now that I have seen the vid.
le nubian - Apr 22, 2011 7:27:05 am PDT #3847 of 8625
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Vonnie,
OMG. thank you for that link. HILARIOUS.
-t - Apr 22, 2011 7:34:05 am PDT #3848 of 8625
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My main takeaway from that Must See TV list is that the author was 13 in 2002, and so 22 now. Not that that invalidates his opinion, but youth has a limited perspective.
Vonnie K - Apr 22, 2011 7:37:17 am PDT #3849 of 8625
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Apparently Dan Harmon tweeted the vidder to let her know what to expect. The complete disappearance of the fourth wall made me laugh and laugh and also facepalm a little. Can you imagine being that vidder? Talk about equal-parts awesomeness and mortification.
As an avid vid-watcher, a part of me reveled in the meta of it all, while another part was all, "OH GOD, there are so much better vids out there; WE ARE NOT ALL THIS EMBARRASSING." (I'm very fond of this Annie-centric vid by sisabet: [link] )
Fred Pete - Apr 22, 2011 7:40:24 am PDT #3850 of 8625
Ann, that's a ferret.
Frasier was great farce. In one Valentine's Day episode, Niles is cooking dinner for a date with a woman with very exacting standards. After everyone else has left the apartment, he notices a tiny flaw in his outfit. From there, things spin further and further (and more and more hilariously) out of control.
10 minutes of classic television. With one character and not one word of dialogue.
erikaj - Apr 22, 2011 7:40:44 am PDT #3851 of 8625
Always Anti-fascist!
It would make him think differently about the shows earlier in the range AND give him true perspective on what's truly terrible. My earliest TV memories include the actual Happy Days shark jump. Maybe that made me kinder to "Good Morning Miami"(which, okay, was nothing special) but it doesn't make me cringe or anything.
DawnK - Apr 22, 2011 7:41:01 am PDT #3852 of 8625
giraffe mode
Community was fabulous last night. A diorama of a diorama! Monkey! Troy and Abed mug (the kids are getting them in their Easter baskets!) My spoon! The monkey hitting Chang on the head over and over, Jeff trying to pull his hair down over his forehead, the tag at the end! My daughter and I cracked up over the Annie/Jeff montage, because she'd just showen me the vid (she's a Annie/Jeff shipper).