You guys had a riot? On account of me? A real riot?

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


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]


erikaj - Jan 10, 2012 9:01:20 am PST #4909 of 8624
Always Anti-fascist!

wrod. but real bakers hate mixes.


sj - Jan 10, 2012 9:07:35 am PST #4910 of 8624
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Why am I disproportionately bothered by Max using boxed cupcake mix? It's not even a good show.

I was really upset by the episode too, especially since it doesn't match up with the episode where Max teachers the blonde how to cook and they need a new mixer. Why would you need an expensive stand mixer to make cupcakes from a box. If they really needed to do the coupon episode, I wish they had been for some super fancy flour.


§ ita § - Jan 10, 2012 9:48:43 am PST #4911 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

And do the flavours she offers (with the fabulous or amazing or whatever palette) exist in the brand of mixes she listed?

Why am I supposed to care about some woman making cupcakes from a box?


erikaj - Jan 10, 2012 9:55:49 am PST #4912 of 8624
Always Anti-fascist!

maybe it's a time-saving cheat, but then it would be funny if she could be all "Cake mix...I feel dirty. And not in a fun way."


Gris - Jan 10, 2012 9:57:40 am PST #4913 of 8624
Hey. New board.

Maybe she expands upon the boxed ingredients. In which case she's just buying more-expensive-than-necessary sugar, flour, etc. (Signed, recently used a gluten-free brownie mix as a starting point for otherwise much-more-delicious brownies than the mix would have created alone, just because it was the easiest way to not buy 2 pounds of rice flour that I didn't need for anything else.)


askye - Jan 10, 2012 9:58:36 am PST #4914 of 8624
Thrive to spite them

What show are you talking about?


Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2012 10:00:23 am PST #4915 of 8624
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

2 Broke Girls.


Amy - Jan 10, 2012 10:04:37 am PST #4916 of 8624
Because books.

I tried 2 Broke Girls last week (the one with the tampon machine) and I couldn't make it past the bathroom with the owner cringing. Is it usually pretty funny?


§ ita § - Jan 10, 2012 10:15:14 am PST #4917 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Maybe she expands upon the boxed ingredients

Then they should say. But they didn't. So I'm just going on information as disclosed--she's making box mix cupcakes.

Is it usually pretty funny?

No. I like how blunt it is about some stuff, but it cheerfully falls prey to all sorts of ethnic stereotyping and has long stretches where I can't even work out where the laughs are supposed to be.

However, I find her painfully attractive.


sj - Jan 10, 2012 10:23:54 am PST #4918 of 8624
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Is it usually pretty funny?

It has some really good moments, but it is inconsistent. Also, like ita ! said, they really need to get rid of all of the ethnic stereotyping.