I'm laughing a lot more at Parks and Rec. This week's episode felt a little more like the show, and it had its moments, but so far it's not living up to the last two seasons.
I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.
Xander ,'Showtime'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
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Polter-Cow - Sep 30, 2011 5:09:21 pm PDT #4407 of 8625
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
le nubian - Sep 30, 2011 5:22:11 pm PDT #4408 of 8625
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Perkins,
it has been uneven. Apparently this week was a nod to Fringe, but not wildly funny.
Polter-Cow - Sep 30, 2011 5:31:29 pm PDT #4409 of 8625
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
A nod to Fringe ? Oooh, okay. Huh.
billytea - Sep 30, 2011 5:42:16 pm PDT #4410 of 8625
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Speaking of Community, I've just started watching Season 2, and holy hell, Betty White! How funny was that?
§ ita § - Sep 30, 2011 6:20:27 pm PDT #4411 of 8625
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A nod to Fringe? I thought the Earth 1/Earth 2 stuff was comics geekery.
I've been liking it just fine.
Polter-Cow - Sep 30, 2011 7:32:47 pm PDT #4412 of 8625
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Redverse, Blueverse!
§ ita § - Sep 30, 2011 7:49:24 pm PDT #4413 of 8625
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But they called it Earth 1 and Earth 2, didn't they? Or at least Abed did.
Polter-Cow - Sep 30, 2011 8:25:00 pm PDT #4414 of 8625
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, which is a standard thing. Hell, I thought it was a reference to Another Earth.
Jesse - Oct 01, 2011 5:48:16 am PDT #4415 of 8625
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, I think the reason I haven't typically watched many sitcoms is that....I don't really like sitcoms. Weird! I'm watching Up All Night, and I can tell it's good and funny, but I just don't care. But I do think all parents should watch it and laugh.
le nubian - Oct 01, 2011 6:20:07 am PDT #4416 of 8625
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jesse,
I stopped watching sitcoms in the early 1990s. My main problem with most of them then was that the humor beats were too predictable (see "Two and a Half Men" for a today's example). It was so boring predicting all the laugh beats and the jokes. "Seinfeld", while generally a funny show, fell into this trap in the later seasons.
"Parks and Recreation", "Community" almost never fall into this trap for me. Even in episodes that don't really work, I don't find the humor all that predictable. A lot of what I find funny nowadays are things that take me by surprise ("Louie" at his high points).