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One of the best pieces of news about the sixth and final season of Lost, premiering February 2nd, 2010, is that it’s going to air on Tuesdays. I know that I talk about this as if it was something that was interesting when in fact it is very boring, but there is too much TV on Thursday nights. Spread it out, Doc Hollywood! Last night I set my DVR to record a new MTV show (it could have been anything, probably) and the recording conflicted with, like, four other shows. C’mon, son! Anyway, I am just saying that I think some consideration should be given towards not making the other days of the week feel so bad about themselves for being so boring TV-wise, because what is most important is pretending that days have feelings (what is going ON here?) and also making sure that you never have a single night where you don’t feel compelled to abandon actual human interaction in order to passively sit in front of the television. Sometimes you have to stop and watch the roses. Sorry, not sometimes. Every time. (HUHHHH?)
ANYHOW. Let’s talk about last night!
Community: good. I am still just vibing on this show (“vibing” is a term I picked up from this new MTV show I watched last night, who even knows what it was though). I do think that they could tweak Jeff’s character to make him a little less ham-fistedly sarcastic all the time, and I don’t even know where to begin with Britta, but these are just criticisms from someone who probably doesn’t even know what he’s talking about. But Troy and Abed are great together, and Chevy Chase is basically making every comedian under 80 (that’s how old he is, right?) look bad right now. WE BETTER DRUMLINE!
The Office was as painful as The Office has ever been. Is it just me, or is that show becoming borderline unwatchable? I love cringe-comedy as much as the next guy who really loves cringe-comedy a lot, but yikes. “Where am I supposed to get a Xanax prescription at this time of night?!” Obviously, the Scott’s Tots storyline was just too-too, but even Jim these days has become impossibly unlikable, and it’s like, I get it, DOWN WITH THE MAN, but is there anyone left to root for on this show besides Andy? Go Andy!
But the real winner of the evening (Winner! Thursday Sitcomolympics!) was definitely 30 Rock. It is true that sometimes I gush about this show in a manner that is more reliant on the over-arching quality of the series than in the specifics of a particular episode, but last night’s episode was Top of the Rock! Easily the best of the season so far. FACT. Wall-to-wall-laffs. This guy knows what I’m talking about:
And don’t forget the Easter egg for the superfans during Parks and Recreation! Doctor Richard Dunn!
Hi, Richard Dunn!
I haven’t watched The league yet (DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TIME THERE IS IN A DAY? NOT THAT MUCH OF IT!) but I have really been enjoying that show. Was it good? I’m just going to assume it was good. Great show last night, The League!
OK, your turn.
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Best sight gag of ’09, Liz Lemon crying from her mouth
Runner up entire Green screen promo montage
Don’t Eat the Crab Dip.
I got so excited about the Dunn cameo that I squealed, reached for the remote to rewind it, and then realized it was on live TV and we have no digital cable/DVR box to allow that to happen. I looked the fool.
The Smell of Penetration made me LOSE IT. I would hang that poster on my wall if someone made it.
“He nose who did it.”
“What is the one major thing missing from all action movies these days?…. Full penetration!!
It’s Always Sunny was really bad last night… Shyamalan twist! It was actually awesome. Also, I feel like Troy’s struggle to come up with a topical and humorous STD related joke on Community last night reflected my plight as a Videogum commenter. However, his misguided self-satisfaction upon finally delivering his joke is reflected in the fact that I’m probably going to upvote myself later today. 30 Rock was fantastic too.
“That slumdog bastard twisted all of us!” Kaitlin Olson
“That slumdog bastard twisted all of us!”
“Treat me like the New York Times treats its readers.” – Me, on handling double posting
I downvoted you the instant u said sunny was bad… I MISSED THE TWIST! im too hastey, i dezerv to rot for this…
I’m voting you up for Shyamalan twist.
Good Office laffs are becoming harder to come by.
Best use of the aside interview this season has seen.
Dwight: “In a perfect world, my left hand would have ten fingers and my right would just be a fist for punching.”
As The Office gets very close to shark-jumping, Dwight continues to contribute to my LOL(k).
Am I the only one who loves the receptionist? She needs a plot!
My night started out great as I watched everything, but then I wound up channel-surfing over to some show on mtv that all but ruined my night.
The kids singing to Michael almost made me cry. That was a horrible story, I don’t know what the writers were thinking. The only part funny part of the episode was Dwight’s impressions.
He was making it Rainn, for sure. Especially Kevin’s.
I love that I can now imagine “Dunngeon” being filmed for Pawnee Public Access.
I The League is the best amongst the Thursday night crew, and yeah, I couldn’t watch The Office when Michael had to tell the Scott’s Tots the bad news.
Three penis wine!
“I got to go get my hair did….” Tracy’s wife
“Maybe we can undid these handcuffs.” – Liz
“Racist!” – Tracy and Tracy’s wife in vocal harmony
Racist!”-Tracy & “Cracker!” -Angie in vocal harmony. Makes it even better.
Actual, Sherri spit out “Cracker!” which made it even better.
In defense of The Office or something, even though the characters are in much different positions in their 6th season, but I feel with this looming threat of the company going bankrupt and everyone losing their job and the amount of uncomfortableness just emanating from every pore of the show, well, it really has a lot more in common with the British Office right now than it has over the past 2.5 seasons.
…except it’s not very funny. I kept thinking what The Brentmeister would do in that classroom and those thoughts were funnier than the reality of what Micheal Scott actually did do. And I don’t even write for tv.
Whoa whoa whoa!
Slow down whoa!
Funny? Writing for tv? Classroom?!
Every show can’t hit comedy notes as high as the pitch of Ricky Gervais’ laugh!
Lower your bar, Nielson!
Srsly.
But yes, it wasn’t exceptionally funny at all.
*SIGH*
You’re right.
You’ve seen how I react to people, make them feel good, make them think that anything’s possible. If I make them laugh along the way, sue me. And I don’t do it so they turn round and go ‘Thankyou [Whoa!] for the opportunity, thankyou for the wisdom, thankyou for the laughs.’ I do it so, one day, someone will go ‘There goes [Whoa!]. I must remember to thank him.’
Holy fuck a tv audience member who thinks he can write a show better than the people who actually do it? You sir are one in a million.
Never thought about it like that, but I guess you’re right: I probably could write a better show than some of the shows that are currently written. I think I’ll start by writing a better Knight Rider revival. That was terrible! Thanks for the support!
i continue to love community but when parks and rec comes on i tend to forget what i’m watching. the office WAS excruciating, though dwight’s impressions were fabulous. 30 rock (duh-mazing), and the league was great! all around: APPROVED
Dwight’s impressions made me Elle. Oh. Elle. He kind of made Toby the star of the episode for me (SPOILER: Toby wasn’t in it!).
All the impressions brought a note of hilarity.
“Thank you, thank you alot.” Michael doing Elvis
Everyone seems to like the impressions, but I was pretty meh about them. Would have been funnier if Jim hadn’t done the same Stanley impression a few seasons ago.
The degree to which Dwight got “in character” to be Toby was LOLworthy though.
I missed all of the television last night because I was at a sports bar (at the mall) watching the Bills and the Jets play sports in Canada and making cheap Dirty Mark Sanchez jokes. I will revisit this thread late tonight after I watch all of these shows and make some jokes that everyone’s already made by then. See you later!
Reverse Porkys. So good.
Ron F’ing Swanson!
true! this was VERY funny- great gif
Ron shielding his plate from the glitter explosion made me die laughing!
That and the fact that he wasn’t facing the stage and he was doing a crossword puzzle.
That and the fact that he wasn’t facing the stage and he was doing a crossword puzzle did it for me.
Whoops, looks like I lost the Ron Swanson Gif race.
Well hello, beautiful!
Ron Swanson is the best! Especially when he asked Tom if he could have a go at his (ex) wife.
The Office was just a horrible, horrible story line.
“Pull up a mouth. This buffet is unstoppable.”
A giant thumb in a turtle-neck. Whoop-dee-doo!!
Pretty much the best description I’ve ever heard.
Strippers do nothing for me. I like a strong, salt of the Earth, self-possessed woman at the top of her field. Your Steffi Grafs, your Sheryl Swoopeses, but I will take a free breakfast buffet anytime, anyplace.
Great Minds! You and ambarella should make large craniumed super babies (to rule us all)
Aziz Ansari tweeted earlier today about how he really wanted someone to make a gif of Ron going to down on the breakfast buffet!
Did you send it to him? He’d totally hook you up with “Human Giant” DVDs, I just know it.
I really liked watching Frank turn into Liz over the episode, it gave him a chance to act differently than just Frank. Don’t get me wrong I love Frank but last night he was at the top of his game. The other two big stand out moments were when everyone walked by the HD screen, especially Kenneth as his muppet self! Also watching Liz fight with herself in the mirror only to end in more mouth tears.
Pete: “now wave to the camera.
LIKE A HUMAN BEING!”
“Smile, with your mouth!”
“Do you remember waving?”
“Racist!”-Tracy & “Cracker!” -Angie in vocal harmony. Makes it even better.
Touche. My listening skills could use some work.
You are all wrong. Sheri said, “Cracker,” but Angie said, “Cracker,” which makes it better.
The Office’s biggest problem is that Jim and his co-workers have lost that wonderful acid discontentment from seasons 1 and 2. So much of the show was once about the ways in which people carve out personalities and happiness amidst corporate drear. Now it’s become plain old stunty, constantly trying to up the ante. I still laugh, but the angst that drew me into the US/UK versions of the show has evaporated.
So many good Tom quotes.
?At least we lasted longer than Avril Lavigne and that guy from Sum 41. ?
?I like pretending to be sad. I now know why girls do it. ?
?There?s a girl here who also works at Quiznos. She?s really nice to me here, but really mean to me at Quiznos?
I like Andy okay, but my new favorite/ crushworthy character on The Office has to be Erin. It’s great to see her get more screen time, and that scene with Michael in the car at the end made up a little for the awfulness of the rest of the ep. Had no idea she was “Blowjob Girl” until someone pointed it out to me last week. Was this already common knowledge?
Also, Andy and Erin would make a great couple and make up for Pam & Jim becoming more boring/ unlikable with each subsequent season.
I did enjoy Creed’s “?Guys, I?m starting to think Pam isn?t even pregnant,? line. You can always count on Creed to throw in at least one funny and/or creepy line each episode.
You guys, this was soooooooooooooo the best:
And this too:
Man, the HD just slayed me. I want Kenneth’s perpetual muppet vision to get its own spinoff. And I’m already WAY too attracted to the crazy hot mess that is Alec Baldwin (my other old man crush is Bill Murray, because I am clearly attracted to depression and insanity in men thirty years older than me), but then 30 rock has to go and pull something like THIS??
Kenneth the Muppet, all the way. The whole HD sequence could be the hardest I’ve laughed at TV all year.
Does anyone know what movie that young Alec Baldwin is from?
My roommate was hoping it was from The Shadow (it’s not).
My roommate crosses his fingers every week for a Shadow reference in 30 Rock. I keep telling him the only funny thing about a Shadow reference is how badly he wants it to happen. There’s nothing funny about that film and to bring it up in 30 Rock would do nothing but confuse the viewers. He respectfully disagrees.
It’s from The Hunt for Red October (in the end credits, there’s a thanks to Paramount for use of the footage).
Between the 30 Rock promo shoot and Sunny’s movie cut-ins, I really couldn’t control myself last night. best night evar
“I’m a star, I’m on top, somebody bring me some ham!” should be a contender for the EGOT.
Last night’s Office was actually my favorite of the season. Which isn’t saying much.
I might have had a sex dream about Abed last night. Don’t worry about it.
“Don’t worry about it” – Tommy Wiseau’s tombstone
Just so you know Gabe, last night’s “The League” happened to be the best episode so far. But the others are good too, so catch up!
I certainly enjoyed “30 Rock” a great deal, adding that my friend and I were completely unable to breathe during the entirety of Liz’s ‘Dealbreakers’ promo shoot because we were mired in bouts of uncontrollable laughter. The waving and cleavage lines/actions put me over the “haha” line, right into TBS Very Funny territory.
“Community” was sadly disappointing (probably the least funniest one this season), “Parks and Recreation” had some solid laughs (and a huge moment of OMG it’s Richard Dunn awesome!” moment) and to echo all the other Monsters, “The Office” felt uncomfortable to watch when I was anticipating Michael having to tell Scott’s Tots they had to pay their own way through school. Also: it was the first episode of “The Office” I’d watched all season. The More You Know!
Where is the Liz mouth crying GIF??!!!
Ryan: Ok. So, um. Listen. I know about your diabolical plan.
Dwight Schrute: What?! “Diabolical plan?” I wouldn’t even know how to begin a– [Ryan holds up a report: My Diabolical Plan by Dwight K. Schrute]
Ryan: I found a copy of it in the copier tray.
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Dwight Schrute: [checks watch] Five minutes ahead of schedule… Right on schedule.
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This last episode fits perfectly with the direction they’re taking the show (which i actually like). Michael seems to be a good guy after all, especially his solution for paying one student’s books, one check at a time. I’m not concerned about this show being 100% funny all the time. It all seems pretty clever to me.
Also, I’m pretty excited to see where Erin is going:
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Michael Scott: What do you want from this job, provided the company doesn’t go out of business.
Erin: I’ve always wondered what it might be to be an accountant.
Michael Scott: Really.
Erin: Yes, but I’m terrible at math. So. [giggles]
Michael Scott: You know when I hired Kevin, he was actually applying for a job in the warehouse.
Erin: Seriously?
Michael Scott: Yeah. I just sort of had a feeling about him. [pause] I have a feeling about you too.
Maybe “Glengarry Glen Ross”?
UGH! My local NBC affiliate keeps interrupting my Thursday Night lineup for some bullshit locally produced medical journal (which is actually just one big advertisement for the Henry Ford Hospital) called “Minds of Medicine.” They keep choosing to replace Parks and Recreation which means I have to wait until the next day to watch it on Hulu. It’s pissing me off, especially since this has been one of the best Thurs night shows this season.
That’s really REALLY fucked up!