ABC's hangout comedy Happy Endings, starring Coupe, Cuthbert, Casey, and Wayans the Younger

I still need to watch the first season of HE in full; I didn't really get into the show until season 2

I still marvel at how it morphed from being a show about relatively normal Dave and Alex and their zany friends into Dave and Alex arguably being the craziest people in the group

Dave is clearly unstable.

xps - k, i'll have to give it a shot

Mindy Project's funny in that it can't decide whether its a wacky ensemble comedy about a ob-gyn clinic (pally's great but OMG who thought they needed another goofball?) or a show about the romantic life of the titular character from her pov. It rarely succeeds in seamlessly melding the two directions, but I find both worlds so enjoyable that the friction doesn't keep me from watching or anything.

^^^ OTM

xp i agree with the first part of your assessment, but it's kind of left me indifferent more often than not. it's got some good jokes, i'll give it, but i still feels like it's "finding its footing" as a show

that's the thing - as they never stop bringing in boyfriends or wacky new employees, i don't think it ever will! But I love the goofballs (even if they're scrambling to fit them all in an episode) and find Mindy & Michael to be really rich, novel leads for the romantic angle. If one of the parts didn't work for me (which seems to be the case for a lot of people), the chafing prob would keep me from watching.

mindy project exceptionally funny tnite

The creator of Happy Endings has a new show that's gonna be on NBC, so this won't last long: http://tvline.com/2014/01/08/marry-me-nbc-pilot-happy-endings-david-caspe/

too bad Wayans Jr is already on New Girl, otherwise they could just cast him and Coupe

Oh, I knew Casey Wilson got engaged, but I didn't realize it was to the guy who created Happy Endings. Anyway, as inferred in the article, I hope she winds up on the show.

otherwise they could just cast him and Coupe

That would be perfect.

Wayans is only guest starring on New Girl this season though, right?

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Maebe-Funke-Marry-Me.gif

xp He's got some kind of single dad pilot in the works iirc.

i can't remember if he's in the credits (new girl barely has credits right?) but he's in the promo stuff w/ the other cast members. i think he's a recurring guest star or whatever heather locklear was on melrose place and whether he's on the show next year depends on whether his pilot gets picked up. i hope he stays tbh, he works well on the show and there's something quietly radical about having more than one 'black guy' in the gang.

Hey guys, every ep is now streaming on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/HappyEndingsFull/videos

Wish it was Netflix so I could bug someone to watch it - don't think YouTube's gonna cut it. But cool anyways

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thanks so much for this! I missed a bunch of earlier eps

it was on netflix a few months ago, i know because rewatched every episode

how i laughed

not on OUR netflix it aint

shit this cast was so good together

I just watched the pilot for the first time, it's weeeeird
pilots are always nothing like what they eventually turn into tho

Coach is getting more & more Brad-esque on New Girl - totally killed it this week.

xp agreed. I just rewatched it too. My initial instinct on watching the pilot was that show was OK but not particularly special, which is still true - it really got a lot better w/season 2. Still, I might go through S1 for kicks, I wasn't watching too keenly back then

I don't remember exactly when S1 stepped up, but it was somewhere in there. Otherwise I wouldn't have been so hyped about S2 when it finally got on tv. I have the dvds. I should watch it again.

i think it goes pretty fast. only the first one or two are a touch wacky-post-friends-sitcomy.

but s1 is short too.

it feels so weird that they were trying to have genuine gravitas back then, knowing how excellent it would get when they finally ditched that business

I guess this is...good-ish news...?

http://www.avclub.com/article/its-happy-ending-writers-happy-endings-comedy-cent-203036

Cuz-Bros??

good news imo. i can see a show with a Happy Endings-ish sensibility doing better in Comedy Central's current primetime climate than on the networks.

But where's Eliza

good fucking question tbh

Eliza & Elisha need to stay on TV in perpetuity. maybe they can get the Letterman gig.

Otm, i'd watch them do a tag team talk show host as the sisters from Happy Endings. That would rule.

I'm happy Pally's ended up on The Mindy Project, he's pretty good there. It's a shame the New Girl writers have no clue what to do with Wayans.

nah Wayans is great on New Girl. imo one of the most inspiring stories in the recent history of network casting is how they went from having one token black guy in the pilot to having a different one in the series and then bringing back the original and having GASP two funny and distinct black guy characters in a network sitcom cast.

I don't think he's been awful by any means and I'm glad he's there, it just feels like the writers aren't sure what to do with him, which is why they keep going back to the well with his Cece storyline. Feel like he just kinda gets wasted in some episodes.

yeah but that's the case with everybody on that show whenever they decide to refocus on Jess/Nick/Schmidt, before that they gave him a lot of screen time/plots

Yeah, that ties into my larger problem with this recent season in that the Jess/Nick stuff was eating up way too much unfunny time and giving all of the other characters short shrift.

http://www.usanetwork.com/benched/cast/benched

pilot for the new eliza coupe vehicle on usa, a law/career woman comedy

COUPE!

And with Michaela Watkins writing! Should be good.

the Happy Endings cast member sitcom diaspora and the Women Lorne Michaels Did Not Like As Much As Kristen Wiig sitcom diaspora keep overlapping and doing good work

lol

Coupe was best thing about this show

The best thing about this show was everyone

Except Dave. I know Dave had to be there in order for the show to function, but I never liked him.

that's so Dave!

Dave won me over sometime around when the show started being consistently great... probably just after the beginning of season 2