I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.

Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'


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]


Nora Deirdre - Mar 16, 2013 4:12:15 am PDT #6519 of 8624
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Sorry, y'all, I was a bit tipsy last night and having drunk fierce Community love. Also, thank you all for pimping the show, it makes me happy like not much else. (besides Tom and beer, of course)


-t - Mar 16, 2013 6:07:13 am PDT #6520 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Also, continue to love Archer which continues to be so incredibly, incredibly wrong in the funniest ways.

It was, by definition, a farce.


JenP - Mar 16, 2013 8:46:10 am PDT #6521 of 8624

Nora, I often watch a random episode or three as my bedtime story. It's comforting!


§ ita § - Mar 16, 2013 12:03:22 pm PDT #6522 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

God, I want to go out with Pam. I wouldn't let her use my bathroom, but she is seriously the most fun.


KernelM - Mar 18, 2013 5:34:27 am PDT #6523 of 8624
Ankh-Morpork Watchman, Dreamer, Scooby, Minister of Grace, Still Flyin' in a Zoo2 World

I actually saw Abed on "Cougar Town" last week.(Cougar Town is a lot less smarmy then its title might indicate...I'm actually kind of a fan.)

Wait, was he on the show again? Or was it a rerun. I haven't had a chance to watch last week's CT yet, would definitely be excited for an Abed reappearance!

And yeah, Cougar Town's name is its biggest anchor, though it does at least lead to those usually pretty funny title tags.


erikaj - Mar 18, 2013 7:38:46 am PDT #6524 of 8624
Always Anti-fascist!

I've been catching up watching over the past few months... so I saw it last week but it was toward the end of Season 2. He was just there while Jules and Grayson(?) had coffee. It was just extra funny because I thought that was a joke about something we'd never see, and now that I've seen the show I get why a guy like Abed would like it. I was picturing something more like "Desperate Housewives". Buffy used to get a lot of sitcom shout-outs because the title is funny too. But you could tell that most of those writers have never watched it.(Given Bill Lawrence's meta- Scrubs-gasm, I would not be completely surprised to see Abed again, though.) Sometimes, I wonder if they were initially planning some other sort of show, or if "Cougar Town" came up in the pitch and some hack executive(played in my head by Garry Marshall, as all hack TV executives should be, like on Murphy Brown) seized on it early while Lawrence and his partner were all "Wait, you don't understand..." in which case maybe he should have sent Christa Miller in character to handle them.


KernelM - Mar 18, 2013 8:32:09 am PDT #6525 of 8624
Ankh-Morpork Watchman, Dreamer, Scooby, Minister of Grace, Still Flyin' in a Zoo2 World

Ah ok, yeah, they had mutual background cameos that year and it was awesome.

My understanding is that the show was initially pitched as something closer to the title. (You can tell by the first few eps they had, which had Jules actually dating a much younger guy.) Honestly if I didn't know it was Bill Lawrence I wouldn't have watched at all with that title. And I almost dropped it at the beginning too.

It's now one of my favorite shows, though it's had its share of missteps, especially one really gross ep this season. (Hint to sitcom writers, and I'm looking at you too, 30 Rock: Jokes about having sex with a sleeping person are not OK! Ugh.)


Jesse - Mar 19, 2013 9:52:28 am PDT #6526 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

This is amazing: The Office auditions sign-in sheet.


Steph L. - Mar 21, 2013 4:03:50 pm PDT #6527 of 8624
I look more rad than Lutheranism

POP POP, y'all.

Also, I could watch Donald Glover be funny FOREVER.


-t - Mar 22, 2013 12:43:38 pm PDT #6528 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Man, Magnitude was kind of heart-breaking.

I'm going to have to dedicate some rewatches to reading the blackboard.