I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.

Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Daisy Jane - Mar 21, 2011 8:03:41 am PDT #29434 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I know "white trash" is highly exploited for sitcoms, and I'm totally out of the loop so I wouldn't know if it's rehashing material, but it's laugh-out-loud for me every week.

Yes, and you know, usually I get bothered with it, but RH seems to come from a place of love for the...is culture the word I'm looking for? that I just can't get mad. Also, it's not using it for cheap laughs, they're all earned, so that helps.

I think I had other things to say but my sinuses are EXPLODING. I need to go home.


DavidS - Mar 21, 2011 8:07:10 am PDT #29435 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I've caught a few episodes of Raising Hope after Glee and it's so freakin' funny. I need to add it to the Season Pass list.


Jesse - Mar 21, 2011 8:09:18 am PDT #29436 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It can only be done at certain locations which may not be easily accessible for someone who does not have a car.

And takes time that you may or may not have.

I just asked someone to postpone a meeting, but I didn't realize how many other people were invited! Oops. Now I feel a little bad, but still happy not to have the meeting this afternoon.

Also, maybe I'm going to take off Friday? Because I'm over everything.


le nubian - Mar 21, 2011 8:19:22 am PDT #29437 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I pretty much was anti-sitcom for just about a decade, but 30 Rock sucked me in. Then, I got sucked into "The Office", almost 100% due to the Oscar character.

Then, I saw the "Modern Warfare" ep of "Community" and I was hooked. Period. I've seen every ep of season 2, and I'm moving through Season 1 by scattershot.

I highly recommend anyone contemplating watching "Community" to start with "Modern Warfare." If you like it, then start back at the beginning. If you don't like it, the show is not your thing. I didn't like the pilot of the show much and gave up on it. Then I saw that ep and the whole world changed.


le nubian - Mar 21, 2011 8:24:37 am PDT #29438 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

ABC doing a Titanic mini-series.

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Polter-Cow - Mar 21, 2011 8:25:09 am PDT #29439 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

le nubian, that's the only episode I've seen, and it was so amazing I knew I HAD to mainline the show eventually. I bought the first-season DVDs a couple weeks ago, so the time has finally come.


DavidS - Mar 21, 2011 8:27:51 am PDT #29440 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Our exciting but expected news of the week is that Matilda was placed at Grattan in the school lottery. So she'll be going to kindergarten next year at the school where she's currently in pre-K.

One of the biggest trends in SF schools has been language immersion programs - mostly Spanish and Chinese (Cantonese), though there are also French, Japanese and Mandarin programs.

A nearby neighborhood school on Haight Street that had been allowed to close has been rebooted as a Chinese Immersion program. The upshot of this is that there are no Chinese Americans in Matilda's incoming class at Grattan because (apparently) most local (Haight) Chinese Americans all opted to go the Chinese Immersion program. Weird. We're smack in the middle of the Haight and Grattan is going to be one of the whitest (76%) schools in the entire district.

The neighborhood has changed a lot over the years but it's not that white.


§ ita § - Mar 21, 2011 8:30:21 am PDT #29441 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Bon, I've taken steps to acquire S1.

30 Rock was when I realised I'd given up on sitcoms, I think. I could appreciate it, but Tracy Morgan. Then I tried HIMYM, and it was like an allergic reaction.

Coupling UK was probably the last sitcom I watched before the great half hour purge.


Jesse - Mar 21, 2011 8:32:53 am PDT #29442 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm watching a surprising (for me) number of sitcoms right now, including Modern Family and Mr. Sunshine (yay.), but not Community or Raising Hope.


Amy - Mar 21, 2011 8:34:29 am PDT #29443 of 30001
Because books.

I think the last time I really watched sitcoms was Friends. I have loved the episodes of Modern Family I've seen, and the first Mr. Sunshine was suprisingly fun, but I just don't remember to watch them.

If Raising Hope didn't come on right after Glee, I probably never would have seen it.