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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]


DavidS - Sep 25, 2007 2:21:28 pm PDT #96 of 8624
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Huh. I didn't realize that Alexis was in the video for George Harrison's "I Got My Mind Set On You".


Kate P. - Sep 25, 2007 4:12:48 pm PDT #97 of 8624
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

The episode where Marc came out to his bitch of a mom made me just cry and cry.

Oh yeah, that scene was wrenching. (Although as a friend commented, "I highly doubt Patti LuPone has a hard time recognizing a gay man when she sees one.")

"I was hoping you'd come to my wedding, so you could be my 'something old'."

Ha! That was fantastic.

Ugly Betty is sometimes a bit OTT for me, but when it works, it works great.

Totally. And I even love the OTT-ness, because to me that makes it truer to its telenovela roots. Also, I've realized, the show really appeals to my inner (or not-so-inner) fag hag, and so the OTT-ness works in that context too.


Java cat - Sep 25, 2007 7:03:48 pm PDT #98 of 8624
Not javachik

HIMYM's ratings were down a bit. Wah.

HIMYM is up against Chuck.

I wish the networks would learn from the upstart cable companies and start putting reruns in the middle of the night so we single-Tivo people can capture them later.

At least HIMYM does summer reruns.


Aims - Sep 26, 2007 4:18:34 am PDT #99 of 8624
Shit's all sorts of different now.

The Office

I'm rewatching S3 and I noticed something: When Jim came back from Stamford, he stopped calling Pam "Beasley" and started calling her Pam, and when he started dating whatsherface, he stopped calling her whatsherface and started calling her "Fillipilli" or whatever.

Interesting switch, I think. Now I need for disc 4 to hurry and get to my house so I can watch the remainder of the season and see if he switches back.


Jesse - Sep 26, 2007 4:39:19 am PDT #100 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The plot with Gael was slightly distracting as it pings pretty close to the latin rebound lover for Rachel on Friends (Paolo?) that caused Ross to have big pangs of resentment and jealousy.

That's funny, because I didn't even think of that, but I was comparing it to middle-era Friends with the heavy guest stars.


Aims - Sep 27, 2007 3:11:44 am PDT #101 of 8624
Shit's all sorts of different now.

does pee-pee dance

Is it 9pm EST yet?? Huh huh? Is it, is it??

bounce bounce bounce


Kevin - Sep 27, 2007 3:20:50 am PDT #102 of 8624
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

Joins in the *bouncing*

HIMYM is up against Chuck.

Chuck also didn't do great. If it falls next week it'll be gone pretty quick, methinks (Chuck that is, not HIMYM).

Apparently the US version of The IT Crowd for NBC may have been killed off before it went into full production. The second series of the UK version has been pretty good, IMHO.


lisah - Sep 27, 2007 4:47:56 am PDT #103 of 8624
Punishingly Intricate

Is it 9pm EST yet?? Huh huh? Is it, is it??

Man, I woke up yesterday thinking it was Thursday and then was all disappointed (although last night was ANTM with my bitches and Top Chef).

anyway, it's only 9:45 AM??? That's not right at all.


erikaj - Sep 27, 2007 10:39:36 am PDT #104 of 8624
Always Anti-fascist!

I know...it just makes me want to smirk in a camera thinking about it.


lisah - Sep 27, 2007 11:30:49 am PDT #105 of 8624
Punishingly Intricate

I know...it just makes me want to smirk in a camera thinking about it.

AND having to sit in an office (even worse, cubicle) all day waiting for the time to pass is like salt in the freakin' wound...of waiting for my show to come on.