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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]


Java cat - Apr 22, 2008 4:07:54 pm PDT #710 of 8624
Not javachik

Late coast: AIIIIYIII!!! Robin and BARNEY?? Loved the Robin Sparkles. I have to go look up who was the slacker ex-boyfriend. I think he might have been one of the guys from Dawson's Creek, but I've never seen an ep of it, so off to check.

Side note en route: the writer was Kourtney Kang, Born in Hawaii. [2000] Carnegie Mellon University's School Of Drama, MFA in Playwrighting.

Robin Sparkles has a MySpace page. Of course! [link]

Another side note: The producers don’t plan on stopping with Robin Sparkles, “We’d like to get to the point,” Bays said, “where people will know that if they hear in the narration, ‘but I can’t tell you that part of the story,’ then they’ll know they should go looking for it online.” - from search engine journal.

Okay, the actor is Michael Kagan and he was also in the episode Return of the Shirt, where Ted breaks up with Natalie by leaving a message on her ans. machine, and Robin says crazy stuff on air that Barney dared her to say.


tiggy - Apr 22, 2008 4:10:27 pm PDT #711 of 8624
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

the slacker ex-boyfriend is James Van Der Beek of Dawson's Creek fame.


Kate P. - Apr 22, 2008 4:13:58 pm PDT #712 of 8624
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

the actor is Michael Kagan

Which actor? The one who played slimy ex-boyfriend Simon? That was James Van Der Beek, formerly of Dawson's Creek. edit: x-posty

Heh, I hadn't seen the Robin Sparkles MySpace page yet. It's so... sparkly!


Java cat - Apr 22, 2008 4:22:48 pm PDT #713 of 8624
Not javachik

That was James Van Der Beek, formerly of Dawson's Creek.

Oh he was that guy? Sorry, he's not listed on the cast on IMDB for that ep and I couldn't remember the character's name. Kagan is listed as the character Joel Adams in that ep. (Who was he, or is IMDB completely messed up w/r/t this ep?)


Kate P. - Apr 22, 2008 4:32:20 pm PDT #714 of 8624
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Hmm, I don't remember a Joel Adams in this episode.


tiggy - Apr 22, 2008 4:38:24 pm PDT #715 of 8624
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

me neither, but i'm not all that surprised that something on imdb is screwy.


Java cat - Apr 22, 2008 5:37:06 pm PDT #716 of 8624
Not javachik

And here I always thought IMDB was more reliable than other sources. Live and learn.

I am sad that I have missed the new Office episodes.

Back to HIMYM:

These amused me at the time but the allusions went by me until now:

Barney: Tell me more. Tell me more. Like did he have a car?

This is a reference to the lines of a song from the musical Grease called "Summer Nights". With the song, Sandy and Danny, the lead characters in the play, describe to their friends how their brief summer love affair went.

Barney: Finish Him!!

This is an allusion to the video game "Mortal Kombat". When you KOed (knocked out) your opponent, he stood once again to receive the coup de grace while those words were showed on the screen.

eta: the pilot script [link]


sumi - Apr 24, 2008 5:09:12 am PDT #717 of 8624
Art Crawl!!!

I thought that JJ's Canadian accent was good (it reminded me a bit of Michael Hogan as Col. Tigh) but people at TWOP (or some people at TWOP) thought he sounded more Irish - what did you guys think? Because I didn't think he sounded at all Irish.


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 24, 2008 5:37:29 am PDT #718 of 8624
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

It sounded vaguely Scottish to me, though he did tone it down to a more typically Canadian/Minnesotan dialect by the end.


sumi - Apr 24, 2008 5:45:57 am PDT #719 of 8624
Art Crawl!!!

But I think that there are Canadian accents that do sound vaguely Scottish.