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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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billytea - Nov 05, 2011 6:48:11 am PDT #4552 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.

Oh, good. I am jumping in. And if I can ever manage to watch a few DVDs, Season 1 is up next in the Netflix queue.

I've just finished watching seasons 1 and 2 on DVD (the paintball episodes!). It really is superb comedy. I've had some success intriducing it to Wallybee too, which was not a given. It's thick with pop culture references, and not from her culture.

§ ita § - Nov 05, 2011 6:57:46 am PDT #4553 of 8625

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Though, this season, it looks like you might need to know:

Inspector Spacetime is a Doctor Who analog that Abed and Troy are obsessed with that was given to Abed to placate him after the cancellation of the British Cougartown (did I get that right?). References are flying thick.
Evil Abed and Troy from the multiverse episode might make an appearance. They had an episode where they explored the multiple possibilities of what would happen if various people went to get the pizza, and one resulted in...I can't even say. You need to see that shit for yourself. But there was evil Abed and Troy, and they made an oath.

-t - Nov 05, 2011 7:02:27 am PDT #4554 of 8625

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The multiverse is the recent one with the die roll for pizza getting? That's on Hulu so I saw that. Hearing about that episode tipped me over into actually watching rather than just planning on watching sometime in the ill-defined future. Pretty incredible.

Lee - Nov 05, 2011 7:15:42 am PDT #4555 of 8625

The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Now I want to go back and watch the whole run again.

§ ita § - Nov 05, 2011 7:19:59 am PDT #4556 of 8625

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, good, I'm glad you've seen it. It was pretty remarkable. I will be disappointed if there are no callbacks to it.

-t - Nov 05, 2011 7:52:15 am PDT #4557 of 8625

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That was an amazing bit of storytelling.

Perkins, I would be up for some Community and sushi or similar some lazy weekend...

Lee - Nov 05, 2011 7:55:26 am PDT #4558 of 8625

The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

OOH! That would be cool, though I would have to get S1 back from Juliana first.

§ ita § - Nov 05, 2011 7:58:02 am PDT #4559 of 8625

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That was an amazing bit of storytelling.

They compressed so many stories and so many commentaries on character into 22 minutes. It was some of the most efficient use of screentime I've seen. So tight.

-t - Nov 05, 2011 8:17:17 am PDT #4560 of 8625

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I was actually getting kind of antsy every time Abed's "different timeline" line came up because how can they get through them all if they say the whole line every time? But they did, and didn't feel rushed. And, going into it basically not knowing any of these characters, I came out feeling like they were people I want to see more of. Impressive!

Steph L. - Nov 05, 2011 8:34:52 am PDT #4561 of 8625

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Okay, I'm going to have to get these DVDs, huh?

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