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Do you remember how Community was such a promising show last season? Well guess what. PROMISE DELIVERED. Community is so good now! It was good before, but it is Spider-Man 3 Pie now. Last week’s premiere? Great. Last night’s episode? Great. Is it the best show on Thursday nights now? No. 30 Rock is the best show on Thursday nights now (still). Sorry. Is it the second best show on Thursday nights now? PROBABLY! (Let me know if these declarations are getting TOO definitive.) Also, The Office should really start a spin-off show called Michael and Toby in a Shitty Room where for a half-hour every week, Michael and Toby just sit in a shitty room and yell at each other (at the end of each episode, they almost get along for a few minutes, and there is a moral). Also: other shows! Is it just me, or does anyone else have a brief ping of existential panic every Thursday night now when they look at their DVR list. Too many shows to watch! Each more delightful than the last! These guys definitely know what I’m talking about.
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Thursday is a mind-blowing assault of awesomeness. Proof? Jack: I was voted “Most”. Indeed. Community was great, 30 Rock was great, but I missed The Office because I was watching…
cue up Prof. Chang’s “gaaaaaaaayyyy!” gif.
NEVER!
I GIVE UP, BF! I am now adding Community to my Netflix queue… position #1.
I don’t know if you mean Bones or Community, but either way you can mark it down as a WIN on the big scoreboard of life.
(You should probably be aware that Bones is ridiculous and hilarious and that’s all part of the fun. Shoot, now I hope you like it!)
Actually, you know what? Any female person should by all rights love that show, because of this:
I think my heart actually skipped a beat.
I’m sorry BF, but all I see is an adulterer.
I try to think of the character, who is quite morally upstanding…and equally hot without a shirt.
Speak for yourself. I watch for this:
Cindi–YES! Sweets!! I want to put him in my pocket.
I always preface my love of Bones with “It’s totally ridiculous.” Can we agree though that the romantic Bones/Booth plot is getting annoying now? I used to like it, but now it’s getting a little heavy handed, which is a lot coming from me.
I still kind of like it…but I’m also kind of ridiculous. (see also: Super Teacher costume from yesterday)
Did you see the preview for next weeks Bones? Its a Jersey Shore themed/ Benny fist pumping/ aspergers delight!
I can’t wait! The promo for it was hilarious.
“We gotta wicked situation heya!” But it was the normal voiceover guy doing a silly voice.
I gave Bones a try after hearing great things about it. The first (and only) episode I watched involved a plot by an Afghan terrorist to blow stuff up. *Sidenote: I’m Afghan.* Aside from the questionable way the show dealt with the politics of terror, one thing annoyed me to no end. And that one thing: the Afghans were speaking Arabic. Now, I’m not expecting my primetime TV dramas to pay attention to detail like a Ken Burns documentary but it’s not too much to ask to google “Afghanistan+language.”
While I’m at it (I’m looking at you Community & Lost) stop having Indians playing Arabs. Abed, his (falafal selling) father and Sayid look about as Arabic as I look Swedish (I don’t look Swedish). Continuing pooping on parties (parties stay pooped), Community’s Family Day episode was more offensive than anything Outsource has done yet. Blam!
I know how you feel. I’m the same way whenever someone is supposed to be brazilian and they are OBVIOUSLY portuguese, not even speaking brazilian portuguese, and being all “oh, I’m totally brazilian”. It just makes me so mad, because I’ve seen about zero movies/tv shows with people saying they are american and having a scottish accent or whatever.
Caralho!
I did not watch all of Thursday’s shows until yesterday, so I could not read this thread until now. I would not want to spoiler alert myself (TWSS). I have also not watched last week’s Bones yet, so I squinted through most of the posts here.
Anyway. For a second I was all excited because I thought Bones got moved to Wednesday, and I was going to say “Hey! Move to Canada! Our potato chips come in novel flavours and Bones is on Wednesday!”
Except it turns out I am suffering from a case of the olds (or, as I like to call them, the Gabes), and Bones did not get moved at all.
My new quandry is the fact that I did not watch Buffy when it first came out, so now I am catching up (I am only on season 5. No spoilers! Don’t make me keep squinting!), but my brain cannot handle the fact that the same dude is on both shows. I keep thinking “Why is Angel a FBI agent?” or “Why is Booth so pale?” I may have issues separating TV from reality. In addition to the olds, I suffer from a case of the Abeds.
Sorry Gabe, they took my mood ring and now I don’t know how I feel about these Thursday night shows.
Concert_addict, I need to see some Community gifs. What do you have for me?
special request for Troy telling Annie to stop with the chloroform.
HOORAYYY!!!
You’re the best!
You’re truly doing the Lord’s work, concert_addict.
explainer guy just realized you meant this one:
The wife and I were watching last night and when this moment happened we were both so excited because we knew it would show up as a gif the next day. So, what I’m saying is, thanks for making my dreams come true!
Oh please please please let it be Troy jumping over the chloroformed janitor and then them all just jumping around in panic.
This is the one I had in mind!
Also can we get one where Troy trips over the chloroformed janitor as they are all running out the door? He cracks me up.
Or Annie jumping around and Abed and Troy just staring at her boobs.
Yaaay! You just made my day, concert_addict.
Uhhhh…what was I thinking about?
It was then I realized Donald Glover is quite the fox.
Concert_Addict = My new favorite person! Thanks for the amazing GIFs
Favorite lines from last night, you guys?
Mine were as follows:
Community – “I quit doing blow, not being rad”
30 Rock – “”I don’t get why people like brunch. What’s the benefit of combining break dancing and lunch?”
The Office – “I talk alot, so I’ve learned to tune myself out.”
30 Rock – “You got sauce on me. You know neighbors who wear my exact size don’t die everyday!”
All my favorite lines were from “30 Rock”:
“I’m werewolfin’ myself.” — Tracy
“No realo.” — Liz
“In Heaven, I will have special powers — sending messages through animals, for instance.” — Jack
“My mom and Ron would get in bed and take their grunting nap.” — Kenneth
“Death to Lincoln!” — Rich
Dr. Spaceman: “Disclosure: most of my experience is putting babies IN women.”
because everything about this is DISGUSTING!
“Put chips on your sandwich!”
“I wanted to see some green boobies.”
Always Sunny: “….because of the implications….”
30 Rock – “The secret to having strong and healthy hair is using Dove…blood.”
I almost spit out my Ochocinco O’s last night when he said that.
community: “She’s a stripper. Life sued her, and she lost.”
30 Rock – Tracy’s entire dialog within the Cash Cab.
I rarely find myself impressed by or pondering the intricacies of things like airplanes or Avatar, but I spent like hours trying to figure out how they made it look like a quarter went through a hole in Drew Carey’s hand. Special effects are cool!
speaking of Drew Carey….HOLY SHIT I’M SCARED OF HIM NOW
Agreed. My husband jumped when he came on screen.
WHY ARE HIS EYES SO BIG???
They’re full of secrets!
Last night I was giggling over Liz Lemon’s spaghetti sauce Kiss FM cowboy hat until I got a text from my aunt that said “Did ne1 ever tell u u r tina fey or she is u?” And then I didn’t know what to feel.
I have a couple of friends who fervently and vocally identify with Liz Lemon, and I don’t get it! So…you’re super slovenly and you never have an orgasm? Noooooo!
Yeah. But then Liz Lemon recommends wearing bathing suits as underwear on laundry day, and I don’t know, you know? I’ve been there.
Me too.
I feel you, khrushchev. After all, I have been known to sing Bob Seger’s “Night Moves” to my cheese plate, but with the words altered to be about cheese. “Night Cheese”. There’s nothing wrong with it.
Also, it’s healthy to have rules about weeknight sex. Some people have work in the morning.
Um…. I just want to say…. I can totally see myself dressing up like Pricness Leia to get out of jury duty, getting on an adoption list and then knocking out my adoption agency agent, or sitting in a wedding dress and eating on the floor. And not just because of my avatar.
But if you’re going to eat in a wedding dress…shouldn’t it be Hamm?
(See what I did there? The double entendre doesn’t really work, but just go with it.)
Somebody bring me som Hamm!
(sorry)
I feel most like Liz Lemon when I can’t get my dress zipped all the way up in the back. Remember when Liz uses her treadmill to zip her dress? I have to say I identify with Liz in many ways…but thats top of the list.
I always have lettuce in my hair.
When Paul Giamatti isn’t even the best part of something, although he was pretty damn great, you know it’s a good episode
the song you’re so vain was in fact written by me
She is a orca, Benjamin. And FYI, they’re very difficult to keep in a home aquarium.
All of Jack’s video message to his son was genius. His handsomest scholarship, his being voted “Most”, his goblin ancestry… I watched it 3 times last night.
After I’m gone, your mother may meet someone else. I want her to be happy so his death must appear to be accidental.
The video messages were the best. And Jack is the best. I still feel funny inside after watching him flirt with the interior decorator last week.
Tracy in the Cash Cab was one of the best 30 Rock moments ever. He was Slumdog Millionairing it up in there.
Brian Williams had a great little cameo too. They use those NBC anchors so well on 30 Rock.
Brian Williams is amazingly funny.
There’s something sexy about a man that can deliver comedy lines with the best of the 30 Rock crew and SNL cast and also make you feel safe during a hurricane or disease epidemic.
BriWi is awesome.
Since I’m all about posting pictures of eye candy today (Friday, yay!)
The League’s discussion about race and sport casters was the highlight of the night for me.
You sound like a class act, panda bear.
You haven’t seen my browser history.
Can Tracy Jordan Cash Cab please be the mid-season replacement for Outsourced?
“I have to answer trivia questions despite having gone to school in an Exxon station?”
“i remember wanting to go to that b/c i heard she was gunna get naked and and i wanted to see some green boobies and i knew the mets won the world series b/c i remember throwing bottles at a guy in a mets hat for making fun of the yankees. And a centenial is 100 years because ‘centapeeding’ is doing it with a hundred chicks at the same time. It was 1986…so 1886!”
High five, Tracy!
Is the “starving_children.jpg a still from last night’s OUTSOURCED? Help me out, I’m new here.
no, sometimes Gabe just likes to starving_children.jpeg roll us.
How about that Manmeet and his behavior? Pretty stereotypical and hilarious, eh?
Also, The Big Bang Theory. Those nerds sure do like their comics and science! (I didn’t actually watch the episode, but I’m pretty sure I nailed it)
I watched my first episode of BBT ever last night and holy shit is it terrible. Like I had no idea how terrible it was going in. I thought it had to be better than two and a half men, but holy shit only by the thinnest of margins.
After the Office went off, I went upstairs to get ready for bed before I started watching Project Runway. My husband stayed on the couch and watched the beginning of Outsourced, and when I came back he said, “In case you were wondering, Outsourced is still not funny.”
I’m not watching the shows my wife enjoys while she’s out of town as a courtesy to her, so I actually watched half of Outsourced last night. I would have been better off just getting drunk instead. Lesson learned.
Yeah, you should have taken a cue from Jimmy Kafka a few posts down!
I tried to watch it again last night (I didn’t like the first episode of Community and that ended up being awesome), I couldn’t do it. That show is awful.
I LOL’d pretty hard last night, especially when Abed did the cartoon tunnel thing and was like “Troy, you have to belieeeeve”.
30 Rock was pretty great, too. I haven’t seen the rest yet, though.
The Tracy Morgan line “She is an orca, Benjamin. FYI, they are very hard to keep in a home aquarium.” had me laughing the hardest I’ve ever laughed sober (which is rare because I’m not sober very often because 2012 and stuff). Pretty much the whole Cash Cab sequence. I think there was about three minutes of funny stuff on the Office, and then there was a bunch of a grown man yelling mean things at another grown man, and that’s not really something I find funny ever. And then Outsourced came on and I drank myself to sleep, a beautiful drunken sleep, where I forgot that anything as terrible as Outsourced even exists. Oh, and Community was great!
I was just kidding, guys. Me and Jeff Durham were cracking up all through that episode of Outsourced. FUNNY SHIT!
Erin’s disposable camera thing? THE BEST. Also, THE CUTEST.
Community definitely needs more scenes with only Troy, Abed and Annie, because they are all great together.
I had very good reasons for missing the birth of my two children
1) Baking a french bread pizza
2) Forgot
Also, charlie finding all the antique stuff in the water was hilarious
Community’s chloroform x 2 combo was the best moment of the night
I loved Community’s end with Abed painting the cartoon tunnel & Troy just looking heart-broken when he found it was just a joke. So funny
“I may have done some damage there”
Definitely one of the best Troy and Abed Tags — or “Trabags” — yet.
“…hearts are shaped like hearts…”
Tug Coker is a real person’s name?!
Did anyone think the janitor looked like Dan Harmon a little bit?
it’s Speed Weed’s ‘nom de plume’
Ummm the Janitor was the fiancee from ‘My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancee’? I think?
Also, and more importantly, the bartender on Grey’s Anatomy. DUH.
I would say 30 Rock is second to It’s Always Sunny… but it is still great.
Also, what’s up with Thursday being Must See Crapfest on ABC?
Grey’s Anatomy is awful. The writers should go back to college and take a drama class. I mean really, how come every single person on that show speaks in the exact same voice. They always have the same stuttery way of trying to communicate their crises, which for some reason, they have every day. Who the hell has a crisis everyday any ways? But really, every single character on that show is the same exact character played by a different actor. And the writing is so atrocious, you can’t even blame it on the actors as much as I’d like to because they annoy me. If this show was a person, it would be a whiney, needy, girlfriend who you don’t care about, but are only dating for the sex, but now you’re even beginning to have doubts about whether that’s worth it or not.
Also, My Generation sucks too. I mean NO ONE ACTS LIKE THAT IN REAL LIFE. The moments that they make all dramatic and deep are never treated that dramatically and deeply when it really happens. Someone asks you about a family tragedy, you don’t actually get all quiet and show that it bothers you, you gloss right over it and think about it privately…unless you’re insane, which apparently everyone on this show is.
Finally, Private Practice is awful and I wish it was dead.
Oh my god, Gray’s Anatomy. That show is horrible. I guess I never really noticed them all being written in the same voice, but I have noticed that they’re all horrible, selfish assholes. It is impossible to like anyone on that show. It’s fine to have flawed characters and yada yada, but I just can’t get behind a show whose characters are all flaws and no positives. I stopped watching it 3 years ago and my quality of life has been so much better since then.
Can we start a WTSOAT (Worst Television Show of All Time)? I would like to nominate My Generation.
I watched it on Hulu the other day. That show is so very bad. First of all I hate when a show (or movie or even a book for that matter) will base a character’s development on major historical events. I was an overachiever going to Yale until the Enron scandal happened now I’m a bartending surfer in Hawaii. I was a star college basketball player until 9/11, now TEN YEARS later I’m doing a tour of duty in Afghanistan. I was a chemistry major until the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bush and that just made me have to major in Law. People definitely change from high school but the changes usually come from personal experience not because of some external event. Secondly, it’s a mockumentary? What? Then on top of it being a mockumentary the characters are written to hate being on a mockumentary and when something that could be real drama happens they put their hands in the camera and walk away. HUH? Third, the characters are all flat. The rock star is cool, into alcohol, and makes weird avante garde YouTube videos no one gets. The wife of the rich guy is unhappy because she failed at being an actress (outside of crying on The Bachelor? What?) so she is chasing old high school tail. The rich guy fills the hole in his heart government employee left with wine and exotic salamis. Government employee is making big progressive changes in Washington. Surfer gets laid a lot. American hero has been without sex for too long. Pregnant soldier’s wife is brave for the sake of her unborn child. Fourth, how is it that the woman who kept a secret for ten year about having a CHILD with the surfer has done nothing wrong but when the surfer doesn’t immediately call her when he gets into town he is treated as the bad guy? No, she is clearly the bad guy. Fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth: The teacher is still a virgin? His sperm is no good? He blames the surfer? His father killed himself? What is this? I mean really… I could go on.
WTSOAT.
Thanks for these “MY Generation” posts you guys. I live in LA, where billboards mostly advertise movies and shows, and for 5 or 6 weeks now my commute has been plagued by “MY Generation” ads. They all feature the face of a character you suspect you want nothing to do with, plus a quote that pretty much seals the deal. Ex.: TV-styled hipster saying “I never lied to you. Except that one night.” Or pearl-wearing TV wife saying, “You know this ring comes off, right?” I guess we are supposed to think, “Wow, that really speaks to me!” Or, “Wow, these people are going to be horrible–how could I not watch?” But really I just want all those billboards to burn down, fall over, and sink into a swamp, and I don’t even want to imagine the audience they appeal to.
So, thanks for watching for me, and recapping it! If Gabe adds a “MY Generation” column, I’ll read that religiously.
hate to be a debbie down here, and i never thought i’d say this but holy shit Project Runway [girlfriend watches it, dont judge] made me feel feelings last night.
It was sooooooooooo good! Mondo is awesome and I want to be best friends with him.
I beg your pardon?
touche, Baby Friday. touche.
Fantastic picture, really.
YES! Mondo Guerra, American Hero.
http://www.poptower.com/pic-29338/mondo-guerra-project-runway.jpg?w=450&h=450
Thanks thisismynightmare! I want to be friends with Mondo too.
I’m just chilling, scrolling scrolling til I see Mondo. Hey Mondo! Looking sharp, looking sharp…down the shirt, hit the belt, still good. No problems here, sir…scrolling, scrolling….WHOA GUY THIGH, GUY THIGH! BABY GUY THIGH!
That said, I do love Mondo. From the middle of his baby guy thigh up.
Is this the new sexy priest costume for Halloween? I don’t think it works
I think Community’s crown was already secured after the Paintball episode. That was quite possibly the best single episode of any show, ever… I would find a gif, but really, by now no animated image can do justice to its awesomeness.
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Ain’t no party like a Liz Lemon party ’cause a Liz Lemon party is MANDATORY.
THAT IS MY CATCHPHRASE.
you do not cross a Sugarbaker woman!
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People are fine with opinions around here–but they just want to see that little red number beside the ones they don’t like.
Oh what, excuse me, is that Patti LuPone the magnificent magnificently slapping Jack Donaghey? When did this air?! Oh I KNEW I shouldn’t have listened to that fortune teller and stopped watching 30 Rock!
It is Patti Lupone! She plays Frank’s mom! I love her! She’s been in like… two episodes, I think? One in season three, and then the mother’s day one in s4.
Fair enough, my girlfriend has fairly good taste in comedy I think and she just cannot get into 30 Rock at all and it saddens me. But its not for everybody I spose.
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ditto
How did you get 8 upvotes for that and I got 12 downvotes? I don’t understand the world sometimes.
I like how conveniently NBC but outsourced at the end, so we don’t have to switch away and then back to catch the other shows. We can just neatly ignore it at 930
“put outsourced’ not “but” Damn
The chloroform scene on Community was my favorite scene of any show last night.
Um, Chang is obviously the best. His recent turn isn’t great, like “I have a mountain to shred” great, yet, but it won’t be long before he is a bester best than he has been already. I hope he keeps being denied study group privileges forever. I also know how TV works, so I’d like to petition NBC to keep season 2 of Community going forever. Did you know there are like 200 episodes of Wheel of Fortune every year? GET IT TOGETHER NBC!
I plan to use that in conversation with my friends. “Did you know there are like 200 episodes of Wheel of Fortune every year? GET IT TOGETHER NBC!” Awesome.
“You coming downstairs?”
“And stand outside in a crowd like some Italian?”
Can we please have a GIF of Dee dancing next to the inflatable man?
also anyone catch the Steve Winwood reference last night? They’re on to us
They’d already talked about Steve Winwood on that show (way back before Winwood was even a character on Videogum) in “Sweet Dee Has A Heart Attack” in season 4, when Dennis asks the spin instructor to play “Higher Love.”
The more you know. And what you know now is that Dennis is a really hardcore Steve Winwood Fan.
Though I guess what Dennis did was less “ask the spin instructor” than it was “pop ‘Higher Love’ into the cd player and walk away while Dee says, “Enjoy that, Coach Dick-n-Balls.”
Thanks, Ian!!
30 Rock was great in general, and Jack’s video was gold all the way through, but I have to give special points for the Amory Blaine Handsomeness Scholarship to Princeton. It takes serious writing balls to throw a non-Great Gatsby Fitzgerald joke into primetime television.
Yeah Jack’s video was the highlight of the episode for me as well. So many great one liners.
I almost cried when Liz said (with so much aggravation):
“OH REALLO. I MEANT TO SAY REALLY. I MISPOKE. CONTINUE.”
Very Kenny Powers-esque in my opinion.
“You’ve got something in your teeth.”
“CORN!”
By the way, is Gabe or anyone else still watching Fringe? Because I am and I am really enjoying it in a completely sincere way!
I’m watching it, although I haven’t seen last night’s yet. It helps fill the whole the X-Files left in my teenage heart.
Biggest LOL of the night was Tracy’s emphatic, immediate, “Explain the rules,” when he entered the Cash Cab.
Anybody watching The League? Everything seems to be in order and then these song and dance routines from the stoner dude make me ashamed for watching the previous 20 minutes.
I’m glad you brought that up. I watched it for the first time last week and some of it was kind of ‘meh’, but there was definitely a couple of really funny/well-done moments, and the acting is a little better than it probably gets credit for….This week was kind of the same thing….not really enough to get me hooked though…but definitely not bad.
i think this week was my least fave episode for about that reason.. and just the very strange ending.
Everything (Community, 30 Rock) was so good last night, and Always Sunny… why hasn’t someone commented on all the (real) Steve Winwood references yet!? I don’t know if it was especially funny because of Videogum, but I loved that part.
Oh someone did, good!
Did any see Tina Fey on “Watch What Happens Live” on Bravo last night? Andy Cohen asked her who the worst host of SNL was and she mouthed out an answer. I can’t read lips, but I think she said Adrien Brody. Anyone know?
Two candidates: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/12/tina_fey_confirms_our_suspicio.html
I was just thrilled that there was a Frank Zappa joke on Community, even if it was rather an obscure insult.
Did anyone else notice the further evidence that Kenneth is an immortal?!
good eye! did you see that dharma initiative logo on his underbelly?