First thing is to work out my favourite invention.
The non-cow beef
Mal: Hell, this job I would pull for free. Zoe: Can I have your share? Mal: No. Zoe: If you die, can I have your share? Mal: Yes.
'The Train Job'
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]
Lee - Sep 18, 2012 5:26:22 pm PDT #5988 of 8624
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Rayne - Sep 19, 2012 12:14:50 am PDT #5989 of 8624
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Do the subtitles have a grey background? I usually love watching everything with subtitles on, but I can't stand it when they have a background color. It blocks too much of the screen or something. Too distracting.
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2012 5:09:02 am PDT #5990 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They had black, actually, which I blame on the DVD player. and could take up to a 1/4 of the screen's height.
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2012 6:30:27 pm PDT #5991 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, I just read this article about the rise of multiple camera sitcoms: [link] and it made me feel like a snobby hipster for disagreeing with everything they have to say, even including their singling out (ha ha pun) of New Girl as breaking the formula. I mean, the article is just 180 for me.
I want community¹ (no pun this time) and I want the single camera things, and I don't actually want them to do reshoots based on the studio audience. Good lord.
eta ¹: I'm not sure what the position on community is--it would seem it's a multi-camera artefact, but the placement in the article confuses me.
-t - Sep 20, 2012 8:06:02 pm PDT #5992 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Parks and Rec is back, hooray!
I don't really have anything to say about tonight's episode, but it was delightful.
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2012 6:11:41 am PDT #5993 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't know if anyone is interested in the Troy and Abed mugs, but they're back on sale in the NBC Universal store. They were unavailable for a fairly long while after I got mine.
Right. I need to see if Parks & Rec is on Netflix Instant.
Lee - Sep 22, 2012 8:50:15 pm PDT #5994 of 8624
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Somehow I don't think of P&R as an ita ! show.
On a different topic, which do you think are better--the 3 Community Halloween eps, or the 3 Christmas eps?
I think the s2 Halloween is my favorite of all of them, but the Christmas eps as a group have been stronger.
le nubian - Sep 22, 2012 8:55:24 pm PDT #5995 of 8624
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I think the Halloween eps are funnier. I think the Xmas eps are good but I haven't found them funny.
-t - Sep 22, 2012 10:09:55 pm PDT #5996 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think the s2 Halloween is my favorite of all of them, but the Christmas eps as a group have been stronger.
Yeah, I can't argue with that.
Parks and Rec is single-camera, so it stands a chance! I don't think it has the joke density of Arrested Development or Better Off Ted. What it mostly has going for it is that the comedy and the plots are strongly rooted in character. It did take a while to find its feet that first season iirc, but then it just kept building - this last season was great. In a totally different way from how this last season of. Community was great, but they kind if complemented each other well, somehow. I'm a little sad they aren't on back-to-back anymore.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2012 3:12:37 pm PDT #5997 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My sister is having a "Hey! AD!"-gasm over Community, so I sent her my confusion shortly after watching AD myself, and she's using it as a checklist as she goes.