Lorne: Back in Pylea they used to call me "sweet potato." Connor: Really. Lorne: Yeah, well, the exact translation was "fragrant tuber" but…

'Conviction (1)'


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]


-t - Jan 20, 2013 8:30:33 pm PST #6251 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

HOLY SHIT, that Law & Order episode was genius. GENIUS

Truly. So many little details absolutely exactly right.


§ ita § - Jan 21, 2013 10:51:44 am PST #6252 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does anyone watch Happily Divorced? Colin's episode aired last week, and I totally missed it. I'm obtaining it, though.

The original role was intended to be written out, but..he's a charismatic bugger (uh, no pun intended) and he'll be filming another one in a sec.

I've never watched the show--I have no idea of its character or quality.


Nora Deirdre - Jan 21, 2013 7:13:53 pm PST #6253 of 8624
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

I have finished Season Three of Community, finished reading several thousand posts in this thread, and have already started re-watching Season One. Little thing I noticed in the pilot, when Jeff does his shit stirring and he comes back when everyone's yelling, Abed is making that noise he makes when changing the clocks and when Cougartown is put on hiatus.

EVERYTHING IS PERFECT FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.


Dana - Jan 21, 2013 7:15:07 pm PST #6254 of 8624
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Glee! It's the feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants...


§ ita § - Jan 21, 2013 7:24:08 pm PST #6255 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

And, now I've watched an episode of Happily Divorced, and that voice has no off switch, no volume control, and yet it's still probably a crime to stuff your socks in her mouth.

Oh--he was good, the script was utterly predictable, and the guy he's acting against is also way better than the material. At least 50% of them are. Rita Moreno, for fuck's sake.

Watched last week's Raising Hope. I would rather have Community and Raising Hope, but at least there is some odd single camera spaghetti-through-line comedy for me to watch right now.

I like how they observed the Sitcom Law of Conservation of Wealth. The ins and the outs and the pawns and the steals and the lies--I was barely holding on there at the end...

It's not so much a show about, you know, raising Hope, but she's still adorable, and the adorablest dressed up as a cherub. I like it when a show earns its sugar-coated ending, even if everyone's testicles aren't okay.

I love-loved the Martha Plimpton reaction shot when she's outside her bedroom--she's cycling through thoughts and emotions, and they're all on her face, but she's out of focus until Dillahunt has finished taking his character through whatever combination of boogers and socks that was that was relatively irrelevant to the week's plot.


-t - Jan 21, 2013 7:41:57 pm PST #6256 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah, Raising Hope hits the sap just right for me. That was a very sitcom-y plot when I stop and think about it, but really well done.

Glee is the answer when questions are wrong.

Nora, it s kind of shocking to me when I watch the first few episodes again how much was already there, especially after listening to the commentaries going on about how they hadn't figured stuff out yet.


DavidS - Jan 21, 2013 7:59:44 pm PST #6257 of 8624
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I love-loved the Martha Plimpton reaction shot when she's outside her bedroom--she's cycling through thoughts and emotions, and they're all on her face

I kind of want to show Emmett the movie version of Parenthood just to mess with his sense of her.


beekaytee - Jan 22, 2013 5:06:14 am PST #6258 of 8624
Compassionately intolerant

Parenthood is one of my all-time favorites.

I'm still shocked when I hear Martha say, "He said he loved me" and Diane Weist replies, "They all do. And then..."

Whether it was the quality of the actors, the dialogue or the direction, or what, but that movie makes me laugh harder and squirm more emotionally than any other.


Tom Scola - Jan 22, 2013 8:27:55 am PST #6259 of 8624
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Community S4 trailer: [link]


JZ - Jan 22, 2013 1:50:43 pm PST #6260 of 8624
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Damn, Community!

Co-worker has a Pandora 80s-90s station going all the damn time, every day, and the Police's "Roxane" just finished playing. It's always been my least favorite Police song, the only one I could take or leave with no feeling at all, but now it's all imbued with the end of... okay, so lots of Buffistas are still getting caught up, so, just, the end of an episode. Thanks to which I'm sitting here at my desk trying not to cry with warm sentimental happiness, because that show has apparently successfully rewired that song into a personal crypoint. THANKS A LOT, SHOW.