Zach Braff: Voice of our Generation

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ugh, 'that 70s show'

‘•’u (gear), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess i'm 'ugh' over the last 3-4 seasons. the first 3 were pretty solid.

‘•’u (gear), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

fez went from being likable to being a prick, which probably coincided with wilmer starting to score with every barely-legal young hollywood party girl around. and i think laura prepon is a terrible actress.

‘•’u (gear), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

scrubs, directed by Terrance Mallick

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Best thing about 70's Show: the parents.

there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

jackie has been my role model for years.

here, jackie wearing jackie:

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/941/jackiege8.jpg

sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

that last 30 rock sorta sucked tho, compared to the usual standards.

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link

"laura prepon is a terrible actress."

She's the poor man's ScarJo!

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

(also totally hotter than ScarJo - at least back when she was a redhead - but maybe that's just me)

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I just realized who Dr. Cox is, and let me tell you something: besides the ever-repellent Zach Barff, Dr. Cox is a *major* reason that I hate this show. Also, Turk. 3 actors/characters that I simply can not stand. Dr. Cox and Braff run neck-and-neck for biggest turn-off.

("Well, why do you watch it," You ask? I try not to, but sometimes we have to put friendship above taste in TV. However, I do reserve the right groan and grimace when it's on.)

a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Not liking Donald Faison = being a bad person.

nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

donald faison made clueless the film that it was

max (maxreax), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Dr. Cox was okay in Platoon. Nabisco OTM about all these shows' annoying formulas tho.

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i think nabisco's point was how their annoying formulae made them so watchable!

s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

But from my point of view the Jedi are evil

A B C (sparklecock), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I might be agnostic on the annoying formula, but yeah, leaning toward favoring them. I mean, it's a sitcom, that reassuring structure is part of the point. And while laying out the themes always seems sophomoric, it's like a total of thirty seconds of voice-over -- just a tiny formulaic tic that kinda goes with the territory.

Also I wanted to point out that Turk is kind of the best-developed black character I know of on network television! Or at least he's not slotted into a black-character "type" or just totally racially ignored. He's a recognizable type of person who is just about never protrayed on television or in film, which I totally appreciate.

(Also I remembered the root-level parallel with That 70s Show, which is that the humor always comes back to every character being lame or geeky, as opposed to the old sitcom model where characters are blowhards or straight-men or toughs or whatever -- this is part of why it can read as too precious or cutesy sometimes, sure, but I think mostly it comes off actually lovable.)

nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Scrubs is one of my favourite shows on TV... it's total bubblebath.

There.

(Runs away.)

Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Dr. Cox is a *major* reason that I hate this show

But but... he's such a witty asshole! He's the only reason I LIKE the show, most of the time. You don't like House, either... I'm sensing a trend. You don't like characters who are big fat jerks. I, on the other hand, love them. I wonder what that means. Hmmm.

there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe it's that I secretly wish I could get away with being such a jerk (though in real life, no one can), and you see jerks on TV as just jerks without the necessary element of detachment.

there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno, I have enjoyed patterning myself after Lucille/Dr. Cox's Wife for a while now...

Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

Jordan. Jordan is great.

there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

But surely when you pattern yourself after such a character, it's the wit that you want to emulate, and not the more indefensible characteristics.

there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

What, like being a jerk?

Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I'm fine with that, as long as you're a witty jerk. But the jerk always learns his lesson in one way or another.

This is why I love the movie Groundhog Day. He stops being a jerk, but he doesn't lose the wit.

there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG, WE'VE FINALLY FOUND HIS MUSE

Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - I LOVE characters who are assholes! Lucillle Bluth, Ricky Gervais, Ab-Fab women, etc. I just hate House b/c the show (the few times I have seen it) seems to rely way too heavily on his asshole-dom (same with Monk and the OCD).

a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

He says, "To have millions of people go, 'I watched your movie and related' was the ultimate affirmation that I'm not a freak."

How out of touch with the world around you do you have to be to think that mild depression would make you a freak?

there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 07:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Mild depression is a blessing, 'round my social circles. Mr. Braff, have you ever gone days without bathing or getting out of bed? No? Then you're fine. Shut up.

there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 07:23 (seventeen years ago) link

He doesn't play the image game! That's why he's so inconsistent and we can't stereotype him, because he doesn't have a well-tuned image.

mh. (mike h.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, maybe I'm just a sucker for singing and dancing, but the Scrubs musical was pretty cute.

Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link

an alum from elmo.oxygen + my high school directed it

ewe never broke yr treo 4ever (ex machina), Friday, 19 January 2007 06:54 (seventeen years ago) link

seven months pass...

wow 'the last kiss' was really annoying and dumb and derivative and zach braff's face is made for slapping
ugh
i liked the gf's parents though, sort of

rrrobyn, Friday, 24 August 2007 02:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Madison, Wisc. has a good role.

Eazy, Friday, 24 August 2007 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

RIP

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRH4gG5LmZ0

this still kills me

and what, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link

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What a d-bag for ruining a steller movie.

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That was a childish attempt to add a bit of originality to an amazing movie

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the real music is way better than that bull shit c RAP. this movie kicks ass squarecnix u can suck a donky cock fucking pussy.

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you ruined an amazing movie, dumbass

and what, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link

1.
- voice-over introduces episode's thematic topic ("in a hospital you depend on your coworkers" / "in New York we like men and shoes")
- scenes establish each character's activities

2.
- conflicts arise in each storyline
- voice-over points out thematic questions uniting them all ("sometimes you realize your friends aren't there for you ... or your relationship isn't as strong as you thought" / "I couldn't help but wonder ... were men the new shoes?")

3.
- conflicts resolve
- voice-over unites all resolutions under one banner ("maybe the person you least expect is looking out for you ... or maybe you realize your girlfriend cares about you more than you thought" / "but it was summer in New York, and I had some fabulous shoes")

-- which, as above, is lame, but if you're the sort of person who can enjoy watching a Sex and the City episode and betting on whether Carrie will say "I couldn't help but wonder," "I had to ask," or "OTHER," then you can probably forgive the rigid blocks in there and just wait for Donald Faison to be awesome again.

-- nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 12 January 2007

the pinefox, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link

wiki says

Braff dated Bonnie Somerville around the same time he worked on Garden State. He specifically requested a song from her for the film's soundtrack. Braff started dating pop singer and actress Mandy Moore in the summer of 2004. One of their first public sightings as a couple was when they arrived together at a fundraising event for the Democratic Party prior to the November 2004 election. In early 2006, unnamed sources told In Touch Weekly magazine that the couple were engaged.[17] Braff called this a "total Internet rumor." Moore's representative denied the engagement.[18] Mandy Moore's song "Looking Forward to Looking Back" is rumored to be about Braff. In response to tabloids now linking him to singer Jessica Simpson, he joked: "I wish I was leading a fraction of the life that the tabloids have me leading!"[1] In June 2007, he began dating actress Shiri Appleby.

the pinefox, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link

I looked up cos it said RIP

he's been fortunate

the pinefox, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link

http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/22ebb76bf4.jpg

M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 16 May 2008 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Leave Zach Braff alone!

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 August 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link

i thought the ny mag guy's response was weak, and showed a guy getting beat in the exact way the original letter had accused him of being off, until the PS. which i guess was the point.

(oboe interlude) (schlump), Thursday, 4 August 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link

i still like zach braff

J0rdan S., Thursday, 4 August 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link

well he's prob actually an asshole irl but i don't mind his work

loved scrubs

J0rdan S., Thursday, 4 August 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link

scrubs unwatchable

conrad, Thursday, 4 August 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link

John C. McGinley caveat

saint dominic's p4k review (Eazy), Thursday, 4 August 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

Jeff, hey Jeff, Zach Braff started a Kickstarter to fund a sequel to Garden State.

carl agatha, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link

6 years later, I still hate Zach Braff. More than ever.

Jeff, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link

We can ill afford another Garden State

mackleless (latebloomer), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link


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